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In a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing conflict between Elon Musk and Brazilian authorities, Musk’s social network X briefly resumed operations in Brazil despite a Supreme Court-imposed stay. The resumption followed a clever change in the network’s Internet traffic routing, effectively bypassing barriers previously imposed by local Internet service providers. The unexpected return of the network Wednesday came after a three-week blackout attributed to a strategic shift in the way X's data traffic was routed through the internet infrastructure. The move temporarily broke through the digital barriers that had kept the service offline, according to reports inside the…

Caroline Ellison, once a key figure in Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency network, could receive a lenient sentence due to her extensive cooperation with federal authorities, the latest indictment documents indicate. Ellison, a former executive at the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 24, following her guilty plea to fraud charges related to the exchange’s dramatic collapse. Ellison’s legal team asked Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to impose a sentence of three years’ probation with no prison time, demonstrating his substantial assistance to the prosecution. Although prosecutors declined to suggest a specific sentence, they acknowledged his cooperation as…