A Bloomberg report citing Pentagon investigators found that the February 28 double-tap strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school, which killed over 150 people including at least 123 children, resulted from outdated intelligence compounded by heavy reliance on an AI targeting system. Investigators described the tragedy as a cascade of small errors rather than a single mistake, involving technology similar to systems used to fast-track thousands of strikes earlier in the war.
Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott have asked the FTC to investigate whether Amazon's Alexa and Walmart's Sparky shopping chatbots adequately surface information about domestically made products. The request cites a Columbia University Center for Law and the Economy study finding both assistants initially struggled or declined to confirm US-origin claims, though they could answer questions about foreign-made goods and eventually provided US-made results after prompts were reworded.
The US International Trade Commission has launched a Section 337 investigation into Apple, Samsung, and Google following a complaint from BoomCloud 360, a California audio tech firm. BoomCloud 360 alleges the three companies' spatial audio features infringe three of its patents covering gain adjustment, speaker asymmetry compensation, and crosstalk correction.
Two child sex abuse survivors have filed a proposed class action against Jeffrey Epstein's estate, alleging the Justice Department failed to notify dozens of victims whose images were found among Epstein's massive cache of child sexual abuse material. The FBI reportedly reviewed tens of thousands of videos after Epstein's arrest and confirmed a large volume of images depicted likely minors, some unrelated to Epstein's known trafficking ring. The lawsuit targets the estate's co-executors, seeking court-ordered notification and remedies for survivors who may never have met Epstein but whose abuse images he possessed.
Aesto LLC, which runs Aesto Health's data migration and archiving service for healthcare providers, revealed that an unauthorized actor accessed its AWS infrastructure between December 2 and 18, 2025. The breach, confirmed internally on May 26 after forensic review, exposed sensitive records for over 9.5 million people including Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and medical information tied to 29 healthcare clients such as VillageMD and Together Women's Health.
Public records show former Alpharetta, Georgia patrolman Dustin Bozzo ran 56 unauthorized searches on a fellow officer's license plate—his ex, whom he had been secretly dating in violation of department policy—between March and May, then tracked a second officer's car 29 times after noticing it near hers. He was placed on leave in July and resigned in August as the department opened an internal probe that has since become a criminal investigation.
The ATF acknowledged that a standalone system separate from its main network was compromised, calling it a 'major incident' after the Qilin ransomware gang listed the agency on its dark web leak site. The agency said the affected system does not connect to its enterprise network or eForms platform, and is now working with the Department of Justice to investigate the breach.
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found that three Savannah police officers and one community service specialist improperly used the city's Flock automatic license plate reader system to track personal acquaintances and family members. All four were arrested last week, and two other employees had already been fired for similar conduct. Mayor Van Johnson publicly condemned the abuse, calling it a breach of public trust.
Alabama has launched a state investigation examining how OpenAI obtained or used data connected to Hugging Face's model repository. Details of the alleged breach or improper access remain limited, but the inquiry signals regulatory scrutiny of how leading AI firms acquire training resources.
Georgia's GBI arrested three former Savannah Police Department officers and one former civilian staffer for improperly accessing Flock Safety's license plate reader network for non-law-enforcement purposes. The officers face two counts of misuse of a license plate reader system plus a violation of oath of office charge, while the civilian employee faces two misuse counts. Savannah PD uncovered the abuse through an internal audit, fired the individuals, and referred the case to state investigators.