Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting $14 recording device in company office
By Jowi Morales, Tom's Hardware
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An OpenAI employee has been arrested for allegedly planting a listening device in an executive meeting room. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, allegedly installed a covert listening device in the back of a television used in the meeting room and covered it with toilet paper on or about Sept. 28, which was discovered a couple of days later. The FBI’s criminal complaint listed the device as a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense, which is available on the seeedstudio.com website for $14 and listed for $24 on Amazon. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers The data center cooling state of play The custom AI ASIC state of play America’s AI chip rules keep changing — and…
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