BOSTON– A Massachusetts man was found guilty Monday of conspiring to illegally export electronic components to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, who worked at global electronics company Analog Devices, was accused of helping an Iranian business partner circumvent U.S. export control laws. U.S. prosecutors say the Tehran-based business partner’s company makes
GUNNISON, Colorado.- A plane helping fight a wildfire in Colorado crashed into a reservoir, killing the pilot, authorities said. The plane reportedly went down Sunday in Silver Jack Reservoir and divers recovered the pilot’s body, the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office posted online. The pilot, believed to be the only person on board, was assisting firefighters
Angelo Martino, a Florida man, has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to deploy ransomware during his work as a ransomware negotiator for a US cybersecurity company. The US Department of Justice confirmed the ruling on Thursday, noting that the government seized more than $10 million in cryptocurrencies
A former judge who was convicted of obstruction last year for helping an immigrant evade a federal agent in Wisconsin will not serve prison time, a court ruled. In imposing the sentence, the court determined that a jail term was not necessary for former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, but ordered her to pay a
If you create a data set and no one can find it, is it useful? Not as much as it could be. With trust in science under siege from partisan actors and impartial pathogens, the accessibility and transparency of (and trust in) scientific information must be improved. Have people stopped trusting science? The data tells