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Testifying in Oakland in the multistate lawsuit against Meta, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said he does not instruct employees to conceal information from him that could create legal exposure. He was questioned about whether Meta lawyers restricted internal sharing of research on child safety and teen mental health, and acknowledged the company had narrowed access to some internal studies.
Maiao, a command-line tool that recreates Gerrit's stacked-commit review workflow on modern git hosts, has been picked up by community maintainers under runetes/maiao after Adevinta's original team stopped maintaining it. The tool's 'git review' command turns each commit in a branch into its own linked pull or merge request, automatically managing parent-child dependencies and rebasing the stack as changes get merged. It now supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and the beta Cursor Origin platform, auto-detecting the provider from the repository's remote URL.
Lego Skylines was revealed during Gamescom's Opening Night Live as a new city-building game coming to Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2, though no release date was announced. It's developed by Iceflake Studios, the team currently handling Cities: Skylines II after Paradox Interactive took the sequel away from original creator Colossal Order, and published by Paradox.
SpaceX has flown its last Starlink mission on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral for the foreseeable future, according to company launch VP Kiko Dontchev. Going forward, Starlink launches from Florida will be handled by the still-developing Starship rocket, dropping the site's monthly launch count from roughly eight or nine to about two. SpaceX will instead lean more heavily on its Vandenberg pad in California to keep deploying Starlink satellites.
Sony sent PlayStation account holders a reminder email outlining its full Terms of Service, Code of Conduct, EULA and Privacy Policy, emphasizing that digital games are licensed rather than owned. The timing coincided with widespread anger over Sony's plan to drop physical disc drives from the PlayStation 6 and end disc production by January 2028, following an earlier removal of purchased digital movies from user accounts. A player-led boycott of PlayStation logins and purchases began shortly after the email went out.
A developer released TeXbrain, a free open-source LaTeX editor that runs a WebAssembly port of pdfTeX (via SwiftLaTeX) so documents compile to PDF directly in the browser with no server involved. It also supports opening local project folders, syncing with git, and pushing to GitHub, all within a single browser tab. Packages beyond the common ones bundled with the app are fetched on demand from a TeX Live mirror and cached for offline reuse.
The EPA has proposed amending the 1970 Clean Air Act to remove the 30-day public comment window required before construction begins on facilities classified as 'minor sources' of industrial pollution. The change would allow projects, including many AI data centers, to move forward with less advance public scrutiny.
Indian farmer Paleram Chauhan was assassinated outside Delhi after a decade spent fighting a local gang that illegally mined sand from his village. His family and neighbors say the attack was ordered by the same criminal network profiting from the resource, which fuels the region's booming construction industry. The killing is one of many linked to violent, unregulated sand extraction operations across the country.
New Zealand's government has proposed legislation that would prohibit children under 16 from using social media platforms and AI companion apps. The move mirrors similar restrictions enacted or debated elsewhere, aiming to shield minors from harms tied to online engagement and AI-driven interactions.
Life360 has added Care and Connection tools that let families log and share recurring pet tasks like feeding, walking and medication, plus weekly activity roundups and 'Zoomies Alerts' for bursts of dog energy. The company also introduced a $7.99 stainless-steel Pet Tag with a scannable QR code for lost pets, and a cheaper $99 Silver Bundle pairing its Pet GPS tracker with a lower-tier subscription.
Governor Josh Shapiro has pursued a strategy aimed at attracting artificial intelligence investment and jobs to Pennsylvania while simultaneously working to shield electricity ratepayers and nearby communities from the costs and disruptions data centers can bring. The approach seeks to balance economic development ambitions with consumer protection and local concerns as AI infrastructure expands rapidly across the country.
At a San Diego City Council budget meeting, DJ and activist Anthony Ralphs appeared as Darth Vader to satirize the city's renewed contract with surveillance firm Flock Safety, delivering a mock endorsement praising the technology's ability to track 'rebel scum.' The stunt, filmed and shared online, went viral across TikTok and Instagram, reaching millions of viewers. Ralphs, who has spent roughly a year opposing the San Diego Police Department's use of Flock's tools, later revealed his identity behind the mask to take credit for the performance.