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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping: unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.

Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits to prevent game cloning — users report Opus 5.5 is also actively blocking reverse engineering tasks My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.

The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hike

One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet

New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser

Intel Stock Is Cratering After Trump Poured Taxpayer Money Into the Chipmaker: Did the Trump administration get some bad Intel?

Hackers claim to have stolen 23TB of data from Russian statistics body, including Ukraine war casualty figures — Russian Federal State Statistics Service admits its servers were hit by cyberattacks.

Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit With Another Cyberattack

Proton users cancel subscriptions following CEO Andy Yen’s “loser thinking” remarks

Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes: It's going to "optimize placement of incarcerated individuals."

iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity

At A Worker-Run Game Studio, Employees Voted To Lose Their Jobs

Starlink Reportedly Tried to Sell Ukraine a More Expensive Internet Plan After Musk Cut Service

French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval.

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Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time: Talk about a new kind of filter.

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows: Search advertising growth continued to decelerate, and Alphabet shares fell 8% following the results.

AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy: It is hoped game testing can provide insight into recent AI.

Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case