SINGAPORE — A teenager was arrested for causing public nuisance after allegedly assaulting 27-year-old convicted child sex offender Amos Yee outside the Doujin Market anime convention at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre on Saturday, police said. Videos circulating on social media showed the incident, which occurred around 2.15pm on May 9, with the 18-year-old cosplayer seen repeatedly striking Yee as he crouched on the floor.

Officers from the Singapore Police Force responded quickly to a call for assistance and established that a 27-year-old man had sustained minor injuries after being assaulted by the teenager. The 18-year-old was arrested at the scene. Police investigations are ongoing, and no further details about the motive or any prior interaction between the two have been released.

Yee, who gained notoriety as a controversial YouTuber and blogger before his conviction, had reportedly been banned from the Doujin Market event due to safety concerns raised by attendees regarding his presence near minors. Organizers of the anime convention confirmed they had cancelled his tickets and prohibited him from entering. Despite this, Yee appeared at the venue, leading to the confrontation outside the convention hall.

Videos of the incident spread rapidly online, showing the cosplayer — dressed as a character from the popular anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” — raining punches, kicks and elbows on Yee while he was on the ground. Yee did not appear to fight back and was heard saying “What are you doing?” as the assault continued. Onlookers largely watched without intervening, though some shouted for the attacker to stop. Yee sustained a bloodied lip and other minor injuries but reportedly declined immediate medical treatment, stating he could not afford it.

Background on Amos Yee

Amos Yee Pang Sang first rose to prominence in Singapore as a teenager known for provocative online videos criticizing religion and government figures. He was convicted multiple times for offenses including wounding religious feelings and failing to report for national service. In 2015, he was sentenced to jail for posting content deemed offensive. Yee later fled to the United States, where he was granted asylum but faced further legal troubles, including convictions for child sex offenses. He was deported back to Singapore in March 2026 and arrested upon arrival for enlistment-related offenses. He was released on $10,000 bail shortly after.

His presence at the anime convention, despite being banned, sparked immediate backlash from attendees concerned about child safety. The Doujin Market is a popular event for anime and manga enthusiasts, attracting families and young fans, which made Yee’s attendance particularly controversial.

Police Action and Legal Proceedings

The arrested teenager faces charges for causing public nuisance. Under Singapore law, this offense can carry fines or short jail terms depending on the circumstances. Police have not released the suspect’s identity, consistent with standard practice for juveniles or young offenders in minor cases. Investigations are continuing to determine if any other offenses, such as voluntarily causing hurt, apply.

Yee has not made any public statement following the incident beyond a brief social media post showing his injuries. His legal team has not commented on whether they plan to pursue any action against the attacker.

Public Reaction and Online Debate

The incident has sparked intense discussion online, with opinions sharply divided. Many users condemned the violence, arguing that even controversial figures deserve protection from physical assault. Others expressed little sympathy for Yee due to his past convictions, with some suggesting the attack was a form of vigilante justice. Several comments highlighted the failure of bystanders to intervene promptly.

Anime convention organizers issued a statement emphasizing their commitment to creating a safe space for all attendees, particularly minors. They reiterated that Yee had been banned and said they are cooperating fully with police. The broader Singaporean online community has been debating issues of free speech, accountability and the limits of public confrontation.

Broader Context of the Case

Amos Yee’s return to Singapore in March 2026 after deportation from the United States renewed public interest in his story. His history of provocative content, legal troubles and convictions for sexual offenses have made him a polarizing figure. The latest incident at Suntec City adds another layer to his controversial public life and raises questions about how society handles individuals with such backgrounds in public spaces.

The assault also highlights ongoing concerns about safety at public events, particularly those attracting young audiences. Convention organizers across Singapore may review their security protocols and banning procedures in light of this event.

As police investigations continue, authorities have appealed for witnesses to come forward with any additional footage or information. The case remains active, and further updates are expected as forensic and witness statements are reviewed.

For now, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the deep divisions and strong emotions surrounding high-profile controversial figures in Singapore. Whether the teenager’s actions were spontaneous or stemmed from prior grievances may become clearer as the investigation unfolds. In the meantime, the public continues to debate the boundaries of acceptable response to individuals like Amos Yee in shared community spaces.

The Singapore Police Force has reminded the public that vigilante actions are unacceptable and that all disputes should be handled through legal channels. As the investigation proceeds, both the victim and the suspect will be subject to due process under the law.

Operator

Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the nLIGHT, Inc. First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]

I will now hand the conference over to John Marchetti, Vice President of Corporate Development and Head of Investor Relations. John, please go ahead.

John Marchetti
Vice President of Corporate Development & Investor Relations

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss nLIGHT’s first quarter 2026 Earnings Results. I’m John Marchetti, nLIGHT’s VP of Corporate Development and the Head of Investor Relations. With me on the call today are Scott Keeney, nLIGHTs Chairman and CEO; and Joe Corso, nLIGHT’s CFO.

Today’s discussion will contain forward-looking statements, including financial projections and plans for our business, some of which are beyond our control, including the risks and uncertainties described from time to time in our SEC filings. Our results may differ materially from those projected on today’s call, and we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.

During the call, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures. We have provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in our earnings release and in our earnings presentation, both of which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our

SEATTLE — Amazon.com and its cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services faced significant disruptions Thursday as a lingering data center overheating problem in Northern Virginia continued to affect customers, with many users reporting difficulties accessing the retail website, placing orders and using AWS-powered applications. While core shopping functionality has largely recovered for most users, the outage — now entering its second day — has highlighted the far-reaching impact of AWS when even a single region encounters technical difficulties.

The issues originated from elevated temperatures in a key US-East-1 data center, forcing Amazon to throttle certain services and prioritize recovery efforts. As of late Thursday, the company reported that recovery was progressing but acknowledged that full restoration could take several more hours. The outage has affected a wide range of services and third-party websites that rely on AWS infrastructure, including streaming platforms, financial apps and major online retailers.

Downdetector showed sustained spikes in user reports for both Amazon.com and AWS, with many customers complaining about slow loading times, failed checkouts and error messages when trying to access their accounts or complete purchases. While the main retail website has been partially operational, some features like personalized recommendations and rapid delivery options have been inconsistent.

Widespread Impact on Businesses and Consumers

The outage has ripple effects across the internet. Popular services hosted on AWS, including parts of Coinbase, FanDuel and various analytics platforms, experienced intermittent problems. Smaller e-commerce businesses that rely on Amazon’s infrastructure for hosting and payment processing reported lost sales and frustrated customers. For individual shoppers, the timing — during a busy pre-weekend period — added inconvenience as many tried to complete online orders.

Amazon has not released an official estimate of the financial impact, but analysts suggest the disruption could cost millions in lost revenue and damaged customer trust. This marks the latest in a series of high-profile cloud outages that have raised questions about over-reliance on single providers for critical internet infrastructure.

Amazon’s Response and Recovery Efforts

Amazon Web Services updated its Service Health Dashboard regularly, noting that engineers were working to restore normal cooling capacity and bring affected systems back online. The company emphasized that no customer data was compromised and that the issue was isolated to environmental factors within one facility. Customers with critical workloads were advised to use multi-region architectures or activate backup systems where available.

In a statement, an AWS spokesperson said, “We are making progress toward resolving the impaired instances and degraded volumes. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate our customers’ patience as we work to restore full service.” Service credits for affected accounts are expected, though formal details have not yet been announced.

Broader Context for Cloud Reliability

The incident underscores ongoing debates about cloud concentration risks. US-East-1 in Northern Virginia remains one of the most heavily used AWS regions globally, powering a significant portion of the internet’s infrastructure. While AWS offers multiple availability zones for redundancy, many customers still concentrate workloads in this popular region for latency and cost reasons.

Competitors Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have used the opportunity to highlight their own multi-region capabilities, though all major providers have experienced similar regional outages in the past. The event may prompt more organizations to review their disaster recovery and business continuity plans, especially those running mission-critical applications.

Advice for Affected Users

For shoppers facing issues on Amazon.com:

• Try refreshing the page or using a different browser/device.
• Clear cache and cookies or attempt an incognito window.
• Check the Amazon app separately, as mobile and desktop experiences can vary.
• Use alternative retailers temporarily if urgent purchases are needed.
• Monitor the official AWS Health Dashboard for updates.

Business customers using AWS services should activate failover protocols, monitor dashboards closely and document any business impact for potential compensation claims.

Long-Term Implications

As Amazon works toward full restoration, attention will turn to any post-incident review and potential infrastructure improvements. The company has a strong track record of learning from such events to enhance overall resilience. However, repeated high-profile outages could push some enterprise customers toward multi-cloud strategies or increased investment in on-premises backups.

For individual consumers, the outage serves as a reminder of how central Amazon has become to daily life — from shopping and streaming to cloud services that power countless websites and apps. While disruptions are relatively rare given the scale of AWS operations, even brief outages can cause significant inconvenience in our increasingly digital world.

As of Thursday evening, partial functionality had returned for most users, though some lingering issues persisted in specific services. Amazon is expected to provide a more detailed update once systems fully stabilize. In the meantime, customers are advised to remain patient and use alternative options where necessary.

The Amazon outage, while disruptive, highlights both the platform’s massive popularity and the challenges of maintaining perfect uptime at global scale. As demand for cloud services and online shopping continues to grow, reliability will remain a critical factor determining which providers earn long-term customer loyalty.

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Genco Shipping & Trading Limited First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call and Presentation. Before we begin, please note that there will be a slide presentation accompanying today’s conference call. That presentation can be obtained from Genco’s website at www.gencoshipping.com.

To inform everyone, today’s conference is being recorded and is now being webcast at the company’s website, www.gencoshipping.com [Operator Instructions]. A webcast replay will also be available via link provided in today’s press release as well as on the company’s website.

At this time, I will now turn the conference over to the company. Please go ahead.

Peter Allen
Chief Financial Officer

Good morning. Before we begin our presentation, I note that in this conference call, we will be making certain forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements use words such as anticipate, budget, estimate, expect, project, intend, plan, believe and other words in terms of similar meaning in connection with the discussion of potential future events, circumstances or future operating or financial performance.

These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and observations. For a discussion of factors that could cause results to differ, please see the company’s press release that was issued yesterday, the materials relating to this call posted

For seven years, Barry Honig’s name was dragged through the mud by short sellers who called the companies he backed frauds, scams, and stock schemes.

The media repeated those claims without question. Now the U.S. government has confirmed what Honig always said: it was a coordinated lie.

 What Is a ‘Short-and-Distort’ Scheme?

Most people have heard of ‘pump and dump’ — where someone hypes a stock to drive the price up, then sells. A ‘short-and-distort’ is the opposite. Short sellers bet that a stock will fall, then deliberately spread false negative information to make that happen. It’s illegal. And it’s exactly what the SEC and DOJ found was happening.

 What Exactly Did the Government Find?

In June 2024, the SEC charged Anson Funds Management — a $2.9 billion hedge fund — with running a secret scheme from 2018 to 2023. Here’s how it worked, in plain terms:

1. Anson would quietly ‘short’ a company’s stock — meaning they placed bets that the stock would fall.
2. They then paid Andrew Left of Citron Research to publish false, alarming reports about those same companies.
3. Left would blast these reports out to hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, CNBC, and his website — calling companies ‘fraud,’ ‘scam,’ or ‘dead.’
4. Investors panicked, sold their shares, the stock crashed, and Anson collected its profits.
5. To hide the payments to Left, Anson funneled the money through a third party called Falcon Research, using fake invoices for ‘research services’ that were never actually performed.

PolarityTE: A Real Company Destroyed by Lies

One of the targets was PolarityTE — a biotech company that had developed SkinTE, a revolutionary product that used a patient’s own skin to heal wounds. Barry Honig and his family entities were the second-largest shareholders, owning nearly 10% of the company.

In June 2018, Citron Research published a report with a headline screaming ‘FRAUD’ in all capitals. The report claimed PolarityTE’s patent was dead — that the USPTO had permanently rejected it and the company had hidden the news.

Both claims were false.

A USPTO ‘final rejection’ is a technical term — it’s a step in the process, not the end of the road. Applicants who continue forward receive a patent roughly 70% of the time. PolarityTE did exactly that, and in February 2021, the USPTO granted the patent. The company was never hiding anything — the patent process simply wasn’t over.

The false narrative about PolarityTE’s patents was demonstrably false — demonstrated by the USPTO allowing its patent, and the class action lawsuit ultimately was dismissed. — Honig v. Anson Funds, First Amended Complaint

But the damage was already done. The stock crashed over 40% on the day of the first attack. Institutional investors fled. PolarityTE lost its financing, declared bankruptcy in 2023, and its shares went to zero. Honig and his family lost millions.

 7 Years of Fake News — Now Confirmed

For years, Barry Honig’s name appeared in articles that treated short-seller reports as gospel truth. Those reports called him a ‘stock promoter’ for ‘failed companies’ — language Citron used to smear anyone connected to its targets. The media amplified the attacks without checking whether the underlying claims were true.

As the new lawsuit filed in May 2026 states, the defendants ‘made false and disparaging statements about PolarityTE and Plaintiffs’ business… with knowledge that they were false or with no reasonable grounds for believing them to be true.’

Honig’s RIOT Blockchain investment — another Citron target — was cleared by the SEC in 2020. RIOT Platforms today is worth billions. MARA Holdings, another company Honig helped build, is also a multi-billion dollar enterprise. The ‘frauds’ turned out to be real companies.

Now It’s Left Who Faces Justice

In July 2024, the Department of Justice indicted Andrew Left on 19 criminal counts — including securities fraud and lying to federal investigators. He faces up to 365 years in prison. His trial is currently scheduled for 2026.

The indictment describes the scheme in detail, including a ‘Hedge Fund A’ that secretly paid Left through a third-party intermediary — matching precisely what the SEC found about Anson Funds.

Ryan Choi, Left’s partner who executed trades at Citron Capital, settled with the SEC and paid over $1.8 million. Anson itself paid $2.25 million in penalties. Hindenburg Research — another short seller connected to the broader network — shut down while investigations were ongoing.

The Bottom Line

Barry Honig didn’t need to wait for a trial to be vindicated. The SEC already confirmed the scheme was real. The DOJ already confirmed PolarityTE was a named target. The patent was already granted. The class action lawsuit was already dismissed.

What took seven years wasn’t the truth — it was the government catching up to it.

The Andrew Left trial may finally put a face and a prison sentence on what was done. But the record is already clear: Barry Honig was the victim of a coordinated, government-confirmed fake news campaign — and the perpetrators are now the ones facing accountability.