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Legend Cricket League Manager Indicted For Match-Fixing In Sri Lanka

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Image for representative use© AFP Cricket team manager of the Legend Cricket League 2024, Yoni Patel has been indicted before the Colombo High Court over match-fixing charges, the Attorney General informed the court. Patel was charged over match-fixing allegations during the Legend Cricket League 2024 on complaints by former New Zealand legend Neil Broom, who represented the team Punjab Royals and Sri Lankan cricketer Upul Tharanga, who represents the Kandy Samp Army team. The two former cricket stars had alleged that they were pressurised into engaging in match-fixing deals by Patel. According to the initial investigations, one of the alleged match-fixers had approached players with offers of money to under-perform and fix the result of the matches. When the magisterial inquiry against Yoni Patel was taken up before the Colombo Magistrate on Monday, the State Counsel representing Sri Lanka’s Attorney General informed that an indictment for a criminal trial before the High Court had already been filed. Earlier, Colombo Magistrate also issued a travel ban on Patel and another team manager P. Akash of the …

Google engineer indicted over allegedly stealing AI trade secrets for China

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A federal grand jury has indicted a Google engineer, Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets around Google’s AI chip software and hardware on March 5th, before he was arrested Wednesday morning in Newark, California. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement that Ding “stole from Google over 500 confidential files containing AI trade secrets while covertly working for China-based companies seeking an edge in the AI technology race.”  Much of the stolen data allegedly revolves around Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) chips. Google’s TPU chips power many of its AI workloads and, in conjunction with Nvidia GPUs, can train and run AI models like Gemini. The company has also offered access to the chips through partner platforms like Hugging Face.  Image: Justice Department Software designs for both the v4 and v6 TPU chips, hardware and software specifications for GPUs used in Google’s data center, and designs for Google’s machine learning workloads in data centers are among the allegedly stolen files.  The government accuses Ding of transferring those files to a …

Alec Baldwin again indicted for involuntary manslaughter charge in Rust case | Hollywood

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Alec Baldwin, the actor and co-producer of the movie Rust, is facing a new criminal charge over the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set. A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)(AP) A grand jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, indicted Baldwin on Friday for involuntary manslaughter, after prosecutors had dropped the same charge against him last April. They said they needed more forensic analysis of the gun that fired the fatal shot. Stay tuned for all the latest updates on Ram Mandir! Click here Baldwin has claimed he did not pull the trigger, but only pulled back the hammer of the gun during a rehearsal in October 2021. The gun also wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza. Baldwin denied that he pulled the trigger However, a report from ballistic experts hired by the …

Alec Baldwin indicted in fatal shooting of cinematographer on Rust set | Hollywood

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A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the actor. (Also Read | Alec Baldwin, Rust producers can’t prevent civil lawsuit to proceed against them over fatal on-set shooting) Alec Baldwin fatally shot a crew member by accident on the sets of his movie.(REUTERS) Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this week, months after receiving a new analysis of the gun that was used. They declined to answer questions after spending about a day and a half presenting their case to the grand jury. Stay tuned for all the latest updates on Ram Mandir! Click here Defence attorneys for Alec indicated they’ll fight the charge. “We look forward to our day in court,” said Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro, defence attorneys for Baldwin, in an email. While the proceeding is shrouded in secrecy, two of the witnesses seen at the courthouse included crew members …