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French Prosecutors Want Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to Face Preliminary Charges (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-07 | get Legal Defense for Elon Musk → | tags: elon musk, linda yaccarino, french prosecutors

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EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-30 | by Sean O'Kane | get Faraday Future Hoodie → | tags: faraday future, jia yueting, ev startup

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A Supreme Court case could decide whether your phone can be used to find you first and suspect you later (techspot.com)

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OpenAI faces criminal investigation after murder suspect asked ChatGPT: "What happens if a human is put in a garbage bag?" (techspot.com)

2026-04-28 | tags: openai, chatgpt, attorney general james uthmeier

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Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals (slashdot.org)

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Cosmetics giant Rituals discloses data breach affecting customers (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting (futurism.com)

2026-04-22 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Safety Awareness Kit → | tags: openai, chatgpt, florida state university

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Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into ChatGPT Over School Shooting (slashdot.org)

2026-04-21 | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: openai, chatgpt, florida

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Florida AG opens criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT (engadget.com)

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NASA Breaks Silence on Deaths and Disappearances of Scientists With Ties to Space Tech (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | tags: nasa, space tech, scientists

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OpenAI boss Sam Altman's home targeted with Molotov cocktail (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

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Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

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Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-06 | by Zack Whittaker | get Spyware Detection Software → | tags: spyware, pctattletale, u.s. department of justice

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ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-02 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: paragon solutions, ice, homeland security investigations

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Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-30 | get Polymarket Prediction Platform → | tags: polymarket, insider trading, federal investigation

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An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin – Markov, 1913 [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

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Was This Really the First Humanoid Robot at the White House? An Investigation (gizmodo.com)

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The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-22 | by Sean O'Kane | get Faraday Future Model → | tags: sec, faraday future, ev startup

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That ‘Oldest Site in the Americas’ Claim Just Took a Massive Hit (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-19 | tags: monte verde, americas, archaeological site

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Galaxy AI's New Photo Editing Features Will Amplify Social Media's Inauthenticity Problem (cnet.com)

2026-02-27 | by See Full Bio | get Adobe Photoshop → | tags: galaxy ai, photo assist, samsung galaxy

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Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Hyatt Executive Chairman Thomas Pritzker steps down over Epstein ties (feeds.feedburner.com)

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Store worker allegedly gave himself a 99% discount on $118k’s worth of MacBooks and more (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-17 | by Ben Lovejoy | get MacBooks → | tags: best, best buy, employee

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EU launches second investigation into Grok's nonconsensual image generation (engadget.com)

2026-02-17 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: children, grok, images

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Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-02-17 | tags: data protection, grok, investigation

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The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-13 | by Sean O'Kane | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: closed, fisker, founder

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Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says "fake news" will be punished (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-09 | get Streaming service → | tags: equal, investigation, source

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AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-08 | by Matthew Hansen | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: code, context, hard

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DOJ is investigating if Netflix used anticompetitive tactics as part of its merger probe (engadget.com)

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TikTok’s infinite scroll is too addictive, say EU regulators (theverge.com)

2026-02-06 | by Dominic Preston | get Instagram → | tags: commission, design, features