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from the quite-a-pickle dept I’ll let you all in on a little secret: I love pickles. Yes, let that statement…
In brief A lawsuit filed in California state court claims ChatGPT advised a teenager on mixing drugs before his fatal…
From Rice v. Schell, decided two weeks ago by Judge Matthew McFarland (S.D. Ohio), but just posted on Westlaw a…
In brief MARA Holdings sold 20,880 Bitcoin for $1.5 billion in Q1 2026 to fund strategic initiatives. The firm used…
Xi and DeepSeek: Chinese artificial intelligence giant DeepSeek has now been optimized to run on Huawei-produced chips, reducing any possible…
In brief A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter model reached #1 trending on the platform. The malware…
An Alabama construction worker who is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after he was arrested twice last year,…
In brief Exodus (EXOD) is expanding into the full payments stack with its Exodus Pay platform and new stablecoin. The…
from the found-the-vote-fraud dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling…
A week ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) made by…
In brief Microsoft said attackers compromised a Mistral AI software download used by developers. The malware allegedly stole credentials and…
Last week, Instagram ended its opt-in, and therefore rarely used, end-to-end encryption feature. Years after publicly promising to provide the…