Law enforcement authorities arrested at least 276 individuals following an international crackdown that targeted scam centers engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes. In a statement, the US Justice Department says that a cooperation between the FBI, Dubai Police Department and Chinese Ministry of Public Security led to the dismantling of at least nine crypto scam […]
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Two perpetrators of a fraudulent genetic testing and illegal kickback scheme that siphoned more than half a billion dollars have just been sentenced to spend time behind bars. The US Justice Department says that Reyad Salahaldeen and Mohamad Mustafa, both from Georgia, submitted over $522 million in claims for medically unnecessary genetic tests that were […]
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Americans reported nearly $21 billion in cyber crime losses in 2025, and within that, more than 22,000 complaints were tied to artificial intelligence, totaling about $893 million in losses.
Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issue
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The US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI challenging a Colorado law aimed at regulating artificial intelligence systems.
In its intervention, the justice department said the law violates the 14th amendment’s equal protection guarantee by requiring companies to guard against unintended discriminatory effects while allowing some discrimination aimed at promoting diversity.
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IBM has agreed to settle a complaint from the US Justice Department around its initiatives to diversify its workforce and to encourage hiring of underrepresented groups, contrary to a presidential directive. The federal contractor also agreed to pay the government roughly $17 million.
The pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate workforce diversification efforts, typically known as DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs, has persuaded many companies, including Meta, Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Intel, OpenAI, Tesla and Zoom, to publicly back away from those diversification efforts. A few companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle, have held firm in favor of DEI, for the most part.
The government’s official position states that age, race, sexual preference, and gender should have zero impact on hiring decisions. Diversification proponents counter that workforce composition will stay stagnant unless explicit efforts are made to diversify.
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