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A New Mexico Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Facebook Users

The number in the headlines: $25 billion, the largest fine Meta has ever been handed. The number the judgment starts from: $219,498,600,000, which it then reduces…

A New Mexico Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Facebook Users

Two Critical PHP Flaws Can Let Strangers Run Code on Web Servers. Wikipedia and the BBC Took Pages Offline.

Elon Musk, Whom the WSJ Says Throttled Ukraine’s Military Satellites, Vows to “Come For” the Democrats Planning to Probe Him

Helmet and Headset as One System: How Head Protection Changed for Modern Soldiers

Ternus Era: Apple Shifts Back to Hardware and Creativity

Seven Days of Prompts on His Wife’s ChatGPT Account Are Evidence Against the OpenAI Engineer Accused of Bugging Executives

Hackers Forced Freezers to 122 Degrees at Hundreds of French Supermarkets. The Pentagon Still Has Not Said Why Its Commissary Freezers Defrosted in August.

ProxyCoupons: The Best Place to Get Cheaper Proxies

Toyota Wakes The Industry Up With A Battery That Lasts 40 Years

Before You Buy Your Next Phone, Check These Five Connectivity Features

100-Plus Companies Back Nvidia’s New Tool to Stop AI Agents From Going Rogue

Xiaomi’s 18 Fold Beat Apple’s iPhone Duo to Market by Two Days. Is It Worth Buying?

The Role of AI in Building Smarter Cybersecurity

iPhone 18: What to Expect from Apple’s Next-Generation iPhone

ShinyHunters, the Hacking Group the FBI Warned About in May, Says It Stole Data on Nearly Every FBI Agent

Google Says Gemini Broke Into Three Outside Systems in May, and It Said Nothing Until a Reporter Asked

After the Hugging Face Hack, Researchers Tie OpenAI’s Rogue Agents to 2,000 Malicious Packages on a Public Code Library

62 Million Subscribers Everyone Is Calling Cable TV Include 21 Million Who Already Cut the Cord

The House Voted 417 to 3 to Make Data Centers Pay for Their Own Power, and the Bill Requires Nobody to Pay Anything

Florida Ordered Flock Cameras Off State Roads Because That Is Where Its Authority Ends

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for an AI Slowdown, a Plan Whose Only Firm Commitment Is Letting Outside Evaluators In

Sam Altman Ruled Out an IPO on Safety Grounds, the One Move That Would Force OpenAI to Open Its Books

Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Says the Company Has No Plan to Control Superintelligence

The PS5’s 100 Free Channels Are an Advertising Business, Not a Perk

Meta’s Toughest Child-Safety Term, a One-Hour Daily Cap, Only Applies if TikTok and YouTube Settle Too

SpaceX Flew Its 100th Falcon 9 of 2026 This Morning. Most of Them Carried Starlink.

Dolly Parton Is Building an Avatar, a Museum and a Broadway Show While Her Doctor Keeps Her Home

Why Credit Monitoring Cannot Fix the Baylor Genetics Breach

The Duskbloods Leaked Because FromSoftware Guarded the Wrong Door

Phia Said It Learned About Cookie Stuffing in 24 Hours. Its Own Slack Goes Back Seven Months.