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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · 2d

The SEC has been probing AppLovin over its data-collection practices, according to people familiar with the matter

My latest for @bloomberg.com

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AppLovin Has Been Probed By SEC Over Data-Collection Practices

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The company’s...

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Kari Haakana @karihaakana.net · 20d

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · 20d

Propping up AI data center providers keeps them buying Nvidia chips instead of going bust and flooding the market with second hand Nvidia chips, which is not good for sales of new Nvidia chips.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · 20d

AI infrastructure ouroboros:

Microsoft funds OpenAI, which pays for Microsoft & other cloud/data center companies for compute, and those cloud companies buy Nvidia GPUs, and Nvidia props those companies up with investment and guarantees to buy unused compute capacity.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Gift link to read story here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Evolution Games Ran in Banned Markets, Execs Say in Secret Tapes

Current and former executives at Stockholm-based online gambling company Evolution AB were secretly filmed describing how its casino games made their way illegally to countries such as Iran, Sudan and...

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Evolution declined to comment on the statements made by current and former execs, and said it has "no interest" in serving sanctioned markets.

It also notes that the New Jersey gaming regulator previously closed an investigation into the allegations without taking any action

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

In another video, shot in 2021, another exec says Evolution has players in Syria and he is “sure that Assad’s family are playing. 100%

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

In one video, shot last year, Evolution’s former US commercial director says it “absolutely shocked me” when he joined the company and learned how it served customers in sanctioned and unregulated markets.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Black Cube also secretly recorded meetings with current and former Evolution executives in which they describe how the companies knowingly supplies its games to black markets, according to the filing.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

This week, more evidence showing how Evolution games could be played from Iran as recently as May 2025 has been filed to the court by private intelligence firm Black Cube.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 13

In 2021, a report alleged that Evolution’s casino games could be played in sanctioned markets. The company denied the allegations, saying this wasn’t possible without “sophisticated technical manipulation.” It also sued the law firm that submitted the report to a regulator.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Aug 8

Devastated to learn that the Ibiza club Bezos and Sanchez went to was DC10. Stick to Ushuaia!

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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Big Parma is watching you

www.theguardian.com/food/2023/au...

Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders

Counterfeits are the bane of the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, which is now trialling tech in the rind

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jul 23

A series of short-seller reports about AppLovin have exposed the ugly underbelly of mobile ad tech

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AppLovin Short Sellers Discover Mobile Ad Tech’s Ugly Underbelly

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Olivia Solon addresses the spate of reports alleging one of Google and M...

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jul 14

I like how hyperscalers shifted from using shell companies to develop data centers as quietly as possible to avoid community pitchforks to calling them things like Gigazilla and bragging about how they will consume all of Spain’s power and water

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Jul 3

New by @oliviasolon.bsky.social ( @bloomberg.com) and @tomasstatius.bsky.social ( @lighthousereports.com): a EU border control system - with biometric info on 1.7 million people - has extremely serious cybersecurity issues.
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This is why these stories are important:

Cybersecurity Flaws Plagued EU Border Control System, Audit Shows

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · Jul 2

This reporting by @tomasstatius.bsky.social @oliviasolon.bsky.social follows our previous exposé of a related EU biometric border system fiasco involving French industrial group Atos bsky.app/profile/ligh...

Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · Dec 9

It’s 5yrs and waiting since the EU boasted that a €142mn “smart borders” system would see it biometrically track people in/out of the bloc. Atos, a French IT firm cosy with Brussels, was supposed to do the bulk of the job.

Documents obtained by @lhreports.bsky.social @bloomberg.com reveal a fiasco

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hmm. Not sure what’s going on there. Does this work?

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EU Border Software Vulnerable to Hacks, Confidential Reports Warn

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jul 2

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EU Border Software Vulnerable to Hacks, Confidential Reports Warn

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...

www.bloomberg.com

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jul 2

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software & security vulnerabilities, according to confidential documents seen by @bloomberg.com and @lighthousereports.com

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EU Border Software Vulnerable to Hacks, Confidential Reports Warn

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software and security vulnerabilities, according to emails and conf...

www.bloomberg.com

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jun 27

Journalists in movies are usually depicted as highly unethical -- sleeping with sources, making covert recordings, breaking into places to steal documents.

But really we're spending 6 hours trawling LinkedIn for current and former employees.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jun 23

The absolute entitlement with which my kids demand water. They cannot wait 5 minutes for their thirst to be quenched.

In the 80s we never had access to water. No water bottles. We survived as desiccated husks, lucky to get the occasional cup of orange squash.

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jun 19

“Imagine bunnies getting married”

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Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social · Jun 19

What's with these natalist/god complex billionaires?

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he has fathered 6 kids with three partners as well as more than 100 other kids via his sperm donations.

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Telegram’s Durov to Leave Fortune to 100 Children He’s Fathered

Telegram billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov plans to leave his vast fortune to the more than 100 children he’s fathered, according to an interview with France’s Le Point magaz...

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