🪦 Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the nation's biggest investment fraud, dies at 82
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Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the nation's biggest investment fraud, dies at 82. Bernard Madoff, mastermind of the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history, ripping off tens of thousands of clients of as much as $65 billion, died Wednesday. He was 82. (Martin Steinberg via CNBC)
A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would. Two and a half months before extremists invaded the U.S. Capitol, the far-right wing of the internet suffered a brief collapse. (William Turton via Bloomberg)
How Amazon Strong-Arms Partners Using Its Power Across Multiple Businesses. Amazon.com Inc. last year told smart-thermostat maker Ecobee it had to give the tech giant data from its voice-enabled devices even when customers weren’t using them. The Canadian company said no. (Dana Mattioli via Wall Street Journal)
Ireland opens GDPR investigation into Facebook leak. Facebook’s lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month. (Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch)
You can now run Windows 10 on Arm on Apple's M1 Macs. Parallels is releasing an update to its Desktop virtual machine software that allows M1 Mac owners to install Windows 10 on Arm. Parallels Desktop 16.5 now includes the necessary native support to run the Arm version of Windows on M1 chips, following Apple’s decision not to support Boot Camp on M1 Macs. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
How Initialized Investor Garry Tan Turned A $300,000 Bet On Coinbase Into $680 Million. In March 2012, Garry Tan received an email from the founder of a new startup called Bitbank, Brian Armstrong. Armstrong was familiar to Tan, a former entrepreneur himself turned venture partner at the famed startup accelerator, because he held a key role at Airbnb, the buzzy home rental company that was already one of YC’s most prominent alumni companies. (Alex Konrad via Forbes)
We spoke with 21 of Matt Gaetz's high-school classmates. Some say they could have predicted the congressman's sex scandal. Some of Matt Gaetz's former classmates spoke exclusively with Insider about his high school days. Gaetz, now 38, had a reputation as a know-it-all who talked over his classmates and teachers. (Robin Bravender via Business Insider)
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