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- British billionaire Mike Lynch was reported dead in a superyacht sinking off Sicily's coast.
- Lynch, founder of Autonomy, was recently acquitted in a decadelong fraud case with HP.
- Italian authorities are investigating the sinking.
British billionaire and tech tycoon Mike Lynch was named among the dead in the sinking of the superyacht he was vacationing near Sicily.
Lynch was among the bodies taken from the yacht, numerous news outlets reported Thursday morning.