An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53976600

the homemade bug, featuring seeed studio hardware:

Abdulrahman Alfozan coming back to check on it, after it had been discovered:

Photo of him the NY Post says is from instagram:

https://nypost.com/2026/10/13/tech/saudi-openai-engineer-secretly-bugged-meetings-feds/

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-room/ (part-paywalled)

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077703