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🎯 Appeals court reverses judge's ruling, orders appointment of independent examiner in FTX bankruptcy. Lawyers for the trustee argued that FTX’s financial affairs and fraud should be reviewed by a disinterested person, not left to an internal investigation. AP
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🚩 A 123-Year Old Company Director? That’s a Red Flag for Moody’s. While new regulations across the world are looking to improve transparency at shell companies, $1.6 trillion is laundered annually. Bloomberg
🌎 How Biden’s Menthol Cigarette Ban Could Line Terrorists' Pockets. The proposal would create a booming black market for Hamas and Hezbollah. Free Beacon
🌎 Iran-backed narco-terrorists are making billions and widening the war in the Middle East. Jordan’s narco-battles have received scant attention but are part and parcel of Iran’s multifront offensive against the United States and its allies across the region. NYP
🚀 US, Australia, and UK Sanction Russian Cyber Actor Responsible for Medibank Hack U.S. Treasury
🌎 New sanctions on Russian diamonds will change the global trade in gems. After close to two years of conflict, the global diamond market is set to feel the full consequences of the war in Ukraine. CNN
🌎 Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs. Type confusion vulnerabilities could be weaponized to perform out-of-bounds memory access, or lead to a crash and arbitrary code execution. Hacker News
🌎 Rocket-powered Corruption: Why the missile industry became target of Xi’s purge. Large, politically salient, yet rarely tested systems like nuclear missiles are magnets of bad behavior. War on the Rocks
🌎 Venezuela arrests 32 in alleged plot to assassinate President Maduro. All suspects have "confessed and revealed information about the plans," Attorney General Tarek William Saab told reporters in Caracas. AFP
🌎 Mother of All Breaches: Massive 26 Billion Record Leak: Dropbox, LinkedIn, Twitter All Named. Worryingly, the researchers also say that records from an assortment of U.S. and other government organizations can be found. Forbes
🌎 Fake Joe Biden robocall urges New Hampshire voters not to vote in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The call uses spoofing, a common practice in fraudulent robocalling which manipulates caller ID information to display a false phone number. CNN
🌎 ADM Plunges Most on Record After Probe, CFO Placed on Leave. The US agricultural trading giant suspended its chief financial officer pending an investigation into its accounting practices. Bloomberg
🔑 Insider Q&A: Small federal agency crafts standards for making AI safe, secure and trustworthy. NIST’s tools and measures define products and services from atomic clocks to election security tech and nanomaterials. AP
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