Almost weekly, Brian Levine, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is asked the same question by his 14-year-old daughter: Can I download this app?Mr. Levine responds by […]
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Back to news homeLeon Black Agreed to Pay $62.5 Million to Settle Epstein-Related Claims
The billionaire investor Leon Black agreed to pay $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands in January to be released from any potential claims arising out of the territory’s three-year […]
The Race to Prevent ‘the Worst Case Scenario for Machine Learning’
Dave Willner has had a front-row seat to the evolution of the worst things on the internet.He started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making […]
Jeffrey Epstein Acted Like an Adviser to JPMorgan Executive
The NewsJames E. Staley, the former top JPMorgan Chase executive who was closest to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein at the bank, relied on him for many years as almost […]
JPMorgan Reaches $290 Million Settlement With Epstein’s Victims
JPMorgan Chase reached a tentative settlement with sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier, after weeks of embarrassing disclosures about the bank’s longstanding relationship with him, the bank […]
A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began.
One drizzly Saturday in May last year, a slender man in a blue raincoat approached a house in the Boston suburb of Melrose. It was just before 6 a.m., and […]
Jamie Dimon to Be Deposed as JPMorgan Faces Reckoning for Epstein Ties
Jeffrey Epstein was many things: a sexual predator, a friend to the rich and powerful and, for many years, a lucrative customer of the nation’s largest bank.Now the bank, JPMorgan […]
Epstein Estate Agrees to Pay U.S. Virgin Islands More Than $105 Million
The estate of Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to pay what could amount to more than $105 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle claims that the disgraced financier used […]
Silicon Valley County Battles With Uber Over Reporting of Sexual Assault
In February, Terry Harman, an assistant district attorney for Santa Clara County in California, wrote a memo detailing her concerns about sexual assaults on Uber rides.The memo she sent to […]
Jeffrey Epstein, a Rare Cello and an Enduring Mystery
At first Mr. DeRosa didn’t take Mr. Epstein’s command seriously. But Mr. Epstein kept calling, as did members of his staff, asking if he’d made any progress. Mr. DeRosa got […]