Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Piracy

Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity (arstechnica.com)
A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at the Department of Justice (DOJ)—was reportedly caught bragging about hacking and distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats.
VMware says Siemens pirated "thousands" of copies of its software (arstechnica.com)
VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license.