How crypto helped users buy horrific child abuse images on Dark Scandals, whose founder was sentenced to 10 years by a Dutch court, often aided by exchanges (Reuters)

Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Ex-Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo is sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, after being found guilty in August 2022 of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data  —  A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in U.S. prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Former eBay executives Jim Baugh and David Harville are sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison for their roles in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign against critics  —  Two former eBay Inc (EBAY.O) security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass …

CNBC:
Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering  —  – Sam Bankman-Fried is set to fly to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal charges tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX.

Financial Times:
A look at Europe’s chip self-sufficiency plans, aided by ASML and others; SEMI estimates 10 new facilities in Europe by 2025, compared to 21 in Taiwan  —  On the edge of a tranquil forest an hour’s drive from Stuttgart, where hiking trails snake through the trees and across gently rolling hills …

William Turton / Bloomberg:
The US DOJ says it has started seizing 48 websites and charged 6 people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks  —  The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network …

Reuters:
A US judge dismisses an indictment against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained US-China relations  —  A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] …