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Simone Bassett
5 stories
The Hitman She Met on Tinder Was a Confidential Informant
Jaclyn Diiorio has been indicted federally over an alleged plot to have a Philadelphia police officer and his 19-year-old daughter killed, more than…
Simone Bassett·3 min
Enterprise Data Rules Assume a Human Makes the Final Call, and That Assumption Has Broken
AI agents are already drafting communications, updating customer records and approving transactions inside large organisations, under governance…
Simone Bassett·3 min
HBO Has Committed a Decade to Hogwarts, and That Is the Real Story
The streamer has released an extended teaser for its Harry Potter series, but the number that matters is not the view count, it is the ten years the…
Simone Bassett·3 min
SEC censures OTC Link and fines it $575,000 over policies it never finished writing
The Securities and Exchange Commission censured the operator of OTC Link ATS on 22 September, finding that an access control policy first flagged as…
Simone Bassett·5 min
Federal Trade Commission proposes to treat undisclosed personalized pricing as likely unlawful under Section 5
The agency concedes it has no power to ban the practice and argues instead that setting a price from a shopper's own data, without saying so, is…
Simone Bassett·5 min