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new: hackers behind a cyberattack against the drug distributor Cencora Inc. received a total of $75 million, the largest known cyber extortion payment ever made, Katrina Manson reports bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

News: Palantir is due to announce a $100M US contract for AI tech that IDs battlefield targets, Katrina Manson learned. That's on the same day a UN group urged militaries to back off AI over human rights concerns. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ryan was chronicling Sandvine's deals with autocratic governments long before the Commerce blacklist. It's just a killer body of investigative work.

Telegram will start providing user IP addresses and phone numbers in exchange for govt requests, Durov says. Russian politicians said in 2022 that Telegram was helping them “monitor all dangerous subjects” under Russian law. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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NEW for Bloomberg: German software developer SAP SE, product reseller Carahsoft Technology Corp. and other companies are being probed by US officials for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies over a decade. W/Christina Kyriasoglou, @MargiMurphy bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨🚨 SAP and Carahsoft -- raided Tuesday by the FBI -- are under US investigation for potential price-fixing 🚨🚨 big Jake Bleiberg scoop, live on Bloomberg --> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A woman who plotted with a neo-Nazi to knock out power in Baltimore was just sentenced to 18 years in prison She continued calling white supremacists from behind bars and admitted to holding the same beliefs seattletimes.com/nation-world/n… More on that plot: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Four years ago, an SAP executive introduced Carahsoft Technology Corp. founder Craig P. Abod on stage at a sales awards event. This week, the companies were again in the limelight, this time as subjects of a yearslong DOJ investigation. W/jeff stone bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel. They were in town to play the New Jersey Devils. He invited me to the game but I was performing that night.

NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ Natalie Lung Aaron W. Gordon ಠ_ಠ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

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NEW: We analyzed more than 53,000 posts over more than a decade sent by Elon Musk on X, and found that immigration and voter fraud has become — by far — his favorite and most popular policy topic online. bloom.bg/3UiUOJy

New: Tech distributor Carahsoft placed an order with CrowdStrike for $32 million of software intended for the US Internal Revenue Service. But the tax agency didn’t end up buying it.  Why is Carahsoft paying CrowdStrike anyway? W/ Charles Gorrivan bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New from The Atavist Magazine: Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus, aka Hammer, tried to build a neo-Nazi training compound in Maine. His neighbors had other plans. magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of-t…

Conspiracy theorists in Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and elsewhere have created communities on the messaging app Telegram to monitor and film polling places -- > jeff stone for Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

why a cybersecurity prodigy carried out a hacking spree during his off hours. the latest Ryan Gallagher tale is another gripping read bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

US cyber chief Jen Easterly is in the hot seat at a fraught political moment. She’s worked to win the trust of fellow government agencies and private sector companies. Now, she must do the same with an even more volatile constituency: American voters. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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