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A top adviser to Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, Ms. Ellison pleaded guilty to conspiring with him to steal $8 billion and became a crucial witness for the prosecution. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/caroline-ellison-ftx-sentence.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

He was once a backer of liberal causes. Then everyone seemed to turn on him. Now he wants to stay away from politics — if that’s possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ahead of November’s election, Meta has de-emphasized political content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and doesn’t want to talk about candidates or campaigns. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/meta-election-politics.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Mr. Musk described Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as “authentic, honest and thoughtful.” She used her Atlantic Council spotlight to defend Western values. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/business/elon-musk-giorgia-meloni.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/technology/ai-jim-covello-goldman-sachs.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Federal officials acknowledged that few Chinese vehicles were on U.S. roads now, but said that the administration wanted to take proactive measures to strengthen national security. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/us/politics/chinese-software-ban-cars-biden.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/climate/oceans-rivers-carbon-removal.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/climate/theyve-got-a-plan-to-fight-global-warming-it-could-alter-the-oceans.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salvaged car parts and with no blueprint. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/technology/diy-hovercraft-alberta-canada.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Social media companies may try to ban RT, the Russian state media broadcaster. But the network has proved in the past to be a wily adversary when confronted with efforts to silence it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/russia-rt-social-media.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Five years after leaving Apple, the iPhone designer is forging a new life in San Francisco, one imaginative building at a time. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/technology/jony-ive-apple-lovefrom.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

While Intel has struggled in recent years, other chipmakers are thriving because of a boom in demand. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/technology/qualcomm-intel-talks-sale.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As the government wraps up its case, it has built a picture of how Google has become dominant among companies that buy and sell ads online. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/technology/google-ad-antitrust-trial-arguments.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The week of their debate, Kamala Harris outspent Donald Trump by 20 to 1 on Facebook and Instagram. It was just one sign of how uneven their online advertising battle has become. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/politics/kamala-harris-trump-campaign-spending.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/technology/ftc-meta-tiktok-privacy-surveillance.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah phones that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Elon Musk’s social media platform used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it. Blocking it again would be difficult, experts said. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/americas/brazil-musk-x-ban.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

New devices from Motorola and Google prove that phones with bendable screens keep getting better — and some are even becoming cheaper. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/technology/personaltech/foldable-smartphones.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The state joins dozens of others in regulating the A.I. fakery in ways that could impact this year’s presidential race. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/technology/california-deepfakes-law-social-media-newsom.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ms. Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend and a top executive in his empire, is set to be sentenced on Sept. 24 for her role in the collapse of the crypto exchange. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/technology/caroline-ellison-ftx-sentence.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger