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"Japanese Police Officer Faces Salary Deduction for 17-Hour Nintendo Switch Gaming on Duty"
A Japanese police officer at the Tenri Police Station has been reprimanded for playing Nintendo Switch games while on duty, spending a total of 17 hours over 10 instances from November 2023 to February 2024. He was caught during an unannounced inspection and confessed to his actions, expressing regret. The Nara prefectural police department issued a caution and will deduct the time spent gaming from his salary.
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Former Google Engineer Arrested for Alleged Theft of AI Trade Secrets
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Former Google Engineer Arrested for Transferring AI Secrets to Chinese Startups
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Hacker News
A former Google engineer, Linwei Ding, has been arrested and charged with stealing over 500 confidential files containing artificial intelligence (AI) trade secrets from Google with the intention of passing them on to two Chinese tech companies. He allegedly transferred the sensitive information to his personal account while secretly affiliating himself with the Chinese companies. Additionally, a U.S. Air Force employee, David Franklin Slater, has been indicted for transmitting classified information to a person posing as a Ukrainian woman on a foreign online dating platform.
"Ex-Google AI Engineer Indicted for Stealing Trade Secrets for Chinese Firm"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Washington Post
Former Google AI engineer, Leon Ding, has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets related to advanced technologies for the purpose of setting up his own company in China. The Justice Department sees this as a warning against illicit technology transfer to China, amid a technological arms race between the U.S. and China. If convicted, Ding faces up to 10 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The stolen information includes chip architecture and software design specifications for supercomputing centers. The investigation was carried out by the Justice and Commerce departments’ Disruptive Technology Strike Force, aimed at securing U.S. technologies from being acquired by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states.
Former Google Engineer Indicted for Stealing AI Trade Secrets for Chinese Firms
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Verge
A Google engineer, Linwei Ding, has been indicted for allegedly stealing over 500 confidential files containing AI trade secrets and transferring them to a personal Google Cloud account before covertly working for China-based companies. The stolen data includes designs for Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) chips and hardware and software specifications for GPUs used in Google’s data center. The engineer faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the four counts of theft of trade secrets if convicted.
"Former Google Engineer Accused of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firms"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Associated Press
A former Google software engineer, Linwei Ding, has been charged with stealing AI technology from the company while secretly collaborating with two Chinese companies. The Justice Department announced the arrest, emphasizing the threat of Chinese economic espionage and national security concerns related to advancements in artificial intelligence. The indictment alleges that Ding uploaded confidential files to his personal Google Cloud account, then accepted a position at a Chinese technology company and founded a startup without disclosing these affiliations to Google. The case highlights the ongoing concerns about foreign adversaries exploiting AI technologies and the potential impact on the United States.
"Driverless Car Vandalized and Set Ablaze During San Francisco Celebrations"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Newsweek
During Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco's Chinatown, a crowd vandalized and set ablaze a self-driving Waymo car, with videos showing people drawing graffiti on the vehicle and smashing its windows before throwing a lit firework inside. The San Francisco Fire Department extinguished the blaze, and there were no reported injuries. The incident is under investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, and Waymo stated that the vehicle was not transporting any passengers at the time. This comes after previous concerns about the safety of driverless technology in the city.