A parent in Hawaii has filed a lawsuit, Jane Doe v. OpenAI Foundation, on behalf of her 12-year-old and 16-year-old children, alleging OpenAI collects data from minors who use ChatGPT without verified parental consent. The suit claims OpenAI's conversational design encourages children to share deeply personal details, which the company then uses to train its AI models, and seeks class-action status plus compensation tied to each child's data contribution.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-14
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park contains an 8-mile fissure known as the Great Crack, located in Kilauea's southwest rift zone, which measures up to 50 feet wide and 66 feet deep. A writer attempting to hike to the site found that multiple park employees and rangers had never visited it themselves, with no official trail leading there and little documentation available.
sfgate.com
· 2026-10-14
Researchers at the US Geological Survey report detailed observations of lava fountaining episodes at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, gathered using 35 monitoring stations tracking seismic activity, gas emissions, and thermal imagery. The study notes that since a 2018 eruption drained a reservoir, inflation rates accelerated from 22 cm a year starting in 2019 to 57 cm a year by 2023, spreading to a nearby caldera.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-09
Franklin "Frank" Kuo, who helped build the University of Hawaii's ALOHAnet system in 1971, has died at age 91. ALOHAnet was the first public wireless packet data network and served as a direct influence on Robert Metcalfe's later creation of Ethernet.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-09-10
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