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Tech Titans & Tax Trials: Gates Denies, IRS Gets a CEO

Frank Bisignano, the newly confirmed Social Security commissioner and a former protégé of Jamie Dimon, was appointed as the first CEO of the IRS, according to Fortune. The appointment came after a recommendation from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to the president, who then tasked Bisignano with making the IRS "great again."

Bisignano, who was in his 40th-floor office in Manhattan's Tribeca, received the call from the president in early October. He accepted the role, stating, "Yes, I'll do whatever you want." Bisignano, who grew up in Brooklyn, comes from a blue-collar background; his father was a customs agent for 44 years, and his mother ran a stevedoring outfit, according to Fortune. He faces a $5 trillion test this tax season.

In other news, Bill Gates responded to accusations contained in recently released Epstein files, calling them "absolutely absurd," according to The Verge. The documents included emails that allegedly suggested Gates contracted an STD and wanted to secretly give Melinda antibiotics. Terrence O'Brien of The Verge reported that the reports of Gates' connections with Jeffrey Epstein have grown more lurid with each release of documents from the Department of Justice.

Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins saw an unexpected turn when Mamoon Hamid joined in the summer of 2017, according to Fortune. Hamid had previously helped build Social Capital, a buzzy new VC firm, and led investments in companies like Box and Slack. His move to Kleiner Perkins surprised many in the venture capital world. "I got calls from friends in the venture business, other GPs general partners, asking: Are you sure this is happening? Is this real?" Hamid recounted, according to Fortune.

Separately, Apple's documentation for the MacBook Pro DFU (device firmware update) port was reported to be incorrect, according to Hacker News. The Apple support document stated that the DFU port location for 14-inch MacBook Pro models with M4 or M5 chips is the rightmost USB-C port when facing the left side of the Mac, while all other models use the leftmost USB-C port. However, one user discovered that for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip, the DFU port was actually on the right side, not the left.

Finally, Hacker News also reported on leaked chats exposing the daily life of an enslaved workforce within a Southeast Asian scam compound. The compound was a criminal operation designed to carry out scams promising romance and riches from crypto investments. According to the report, these scams often defrauded victims out of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

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