Jul 4, 2022

FBI's Most Wanted 'Bitcoin Billionaire' and Code-Stealing AI

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When OneCoin was at its peak in 2017, its owner, Dr. Ruja Ignatova, disappeared, scamming thousands of investors who had pumped billions of dollars into her crypto coin. Now with cryptocurrencies in meltdown, she could be one of the biggest losers in the market.

Plus: The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit community of open-source advocates, accused GitHub of monetizing open-source code through Copilot and removing the ability of users to cite sources of the code they use.

All this and more in this week’s edition of Last Week in Plain English.

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GitHub Copilot Works So Well Because It Steals Open-Source Code and Strips Credit

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