Mohammed Bin Salman

April 26th 2024

Saudi Arabia’s Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn’t Going Well

The hugely ambitious sci-fi-tinged dreams that have animated the project seem to be dying while being replaced with more realistic plans.

Tech News Lucas Ropek Apr 26

March 28th 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

The founder of FTX and Alameda Research is going to jail for his crypto crimes.

Cryptocurrencies Maxwell Zeff Mar 28

November 2nd 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty in Crypto Trial

A verdict from twelve jurors found SBF guilty of defrauding FTX customers out of $10 billion with his crypto empire.

Cryptocurrencies Maxwell Zeff Nov 2

October 21st 2023

The Biggest Moments of the SBF Trial So Far

There are three weeks to go in crypto's most defining court case yet involving FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Let's recap.

Cryptocurrencies Maxwell Zeff Oct 21

October 11th 2023

SBF Considered Raising Emergency Capital From a Saudi Crown Prince, Caroline Ellison Testifies

Former Alameda Research CEO drops numerous bombshells in damning testimony on FTX fraud.

Cryptocurrencies Maxwell Zeff Oct 11

December 9th 2022

Satellite Image Shows Saudi Arabia’s Sci-Fi Megacity ‘The Line’ Is Actually Being Built

Saudi Arabia says The Line will be completed in 2030, though construction began this autumn.

Tech News Kevin Hurler Dec 9

October 24th 2022

Saudi Arabia Breaks Ground on Massive Sci-Fi Megacity

The Line is an 105 mile-long city that emphasizes an integration with nature while trapping humans inside a pair of mirrors.

Tech News Kevin Hurler Oct 24

August 23rd 2022

Twitter Misled Regulators About Deleting Users’ Data When They Nixed Their Accounts, Ex-Exec Says

Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, an ex-head of security at Twitter, further claimed that Twitter had knowingly hired an Indian government agent.

Social Media Kyle Barr Aug 23

August 10th 2022

Former Twitter Employee Convicted as Saudi Spy

Feds alleged U.S. citizen Ahmad Abouammo used his public relations position at Twitter to funnel information to MBS about Saudi dissidents.

Crime Kyle Barr Aug 10

July 26th 2022

Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed ‘The Line’

The ambitious project sounds like something from a dystopian sci-fi movie about the death of the planet.

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 26

December 21st 2021

NSO Spyware Was Used to Target Jamal Khashoggi’s Wife, Digital Forensics Confirm

The spyware giant has denied that it played a role in the Saudi dissident's death.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Dec 21

October 8th 2021

A Notorious Spyware Firm Claims It Won’t Help Hack UK Phones Anymore

The NSO Group, a well-known malware merchant, claims that it won't let its clients hack British phone numbers anymore.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Oct 8

January 12th 2021

Saudi Crown Prince Asks, Answers What if a City, But It’s a 105-Mile Line

Vicious Saudi autocrat Mohamed bin Salman has a new vision for Neom, his plan for a massive, $500 billion, AI-powered, nominally legally independent city-state of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan. When we last left the crown prince, he had reportedly commissioned 2,300-pages’ worth of proposals from Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey &…

Earther Tom McKay Jan 12

January 26th 2020

Facebook Gives Unintelligible Response to Jeff Bezos Hack, Deciding to Blame iOS

The news that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally sent malware to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, which led to the compromise of massive amounts of data from Bezos’ phone, has taken the tech world by storm. While the spotlight has been focused on the plot’s outlandishness, in recent days the attention has shifted to…

Social Media Jody Serrano Jan 26

January 22nd 2020

All These Extremely Powerful People May Want to Double Check They Weren’t Hacked by a Saudi Prince

In early 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took a sweeping tour of the U.S. as part of a strategy to rebrand Saudi Arabia’s ruling monarchy as a modernizing force and pull off his “Vision 2030” plan—hobnobbing with a list of corporate execs and politicians that reads like a who’s who list of the…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jan 22

January 21st 2020

Report: Saudi Crown Prince Personally Sent Malware to Jeff Bezos, Possibly to Steal Those Dick Pics

Here’s another twist in the mystery of just how pictures of Amazon CEO and billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezo’s dick, along with sexts to his then-mistress Lauren Sanchez, ended up in the hands of the National Enquirer last year: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have personally infected his phone with malware in…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jan 21

November 7th 2019

Netflix CEO: We’re Not Trying to Do ‘Truth to Power’

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings defended the streamer’s decision earlier this year to censor an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj,” during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Conference on Wednesday. The episode, which criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi investment in Silicon Valley, was pulled for users in Saudi Arabia…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 7

November 6th 2019

Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced charges against two former Twitter employees, accusing them of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, the Washington Post reports. The former employees, Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen, and Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen, allegedly accessed the private information of Twitter users at the request of a Saudi…

Tech News Dell Cameron Nov 6

September 21st 2019

Twitter Bans Saudi Official Implicated in Khashoggi Murder, Hundreds of Other Pro-Saudi Accounts

Twitter on Friday said it had “removed or suspended thousands of accounts with ties to governments in the Middle East,” including a former close media adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who reportedly ran a pro-regime online troll army and was implicated as involved in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 21

July 27th 2019

Report: Saudi Prince’s Plan for Flying Taxi Robot City With ‘Giant Artificial Moon’ May Be Unrealistic

Sounds like notorious human rights abuser Saudi Arabia’s plan to build a massive new city of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan is going just swell: According to a report this week in the Wall Street Journal, consultants hired to work on the Neom project built a list of ridiculous recommendations including “hologram…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 27

Mohammed Bin Salman

Saudi Arabia’s Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn’t Going Well

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty in Crypto Trial

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SBF Considered Raising Emergency Capital From a Saudi Crown Prince, Caroline Ellison Testifies

Satellite Image Shows Saudi Arabia’s Sci-Fi Megacity ‘The Line’ Is Actually Being Built

Saudi Arabia Breaks Ground on Massive Sci-Fi Megacity

Twitter Misled Regulators About Deleting Users’ Data When They Nixed Their Accounts, Ex-Exec Says

Former Twitter Employee Convicted as Saudi Spy

Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed ‘The Line’

NSO Spyware Was Used to Target Jamal Khashoggi’s Wife, Digital Forensics Confirm

A Notorious Spyware Firm Claims It Won’t Help Hack UK Phones Anymore

Saudi Crown Prince Asks, Answers What if a City, But It’s a 105-Mile Line

Facebook Gives Unintelligible Response to Jeff Bezos Hack, Deciding to Blame iOS

All These Extremely Powerful People May Want to Double Check They Weren’t Hacked by a Saudi Prince

Report: Saudi Crown Prince Personally Sent Malware to Jeff Bezos, Possibly to Steal Those Dick Pics

Netflix CEO: We’re Not Trying to Do ‘Truth to Power’

Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia

Twitter Bans Saudi Official Implicated in Khashoggi Murder, Hundreds of Other Pro-Saudi Accounts

Report: Saudi Prince’s Plan for Flying Taxi Robot City With ‘Giant Artificial Moon’ May Be Unrealistic

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