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Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.

Pour one out for Roku City

By this time next year, Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch intends to have added Roku to his already expansive media empire. Should the acquisition g…

Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media ban for kids

The state of Florida is suing TikTok over claims the company isn't complying with the state's child safety law, which bans kids under 14 from creating…

Happy birthday to the Trump phone

From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, …

Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines

Did chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?

Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO

Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern I…

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."

Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets

The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Googl…

Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI

If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it r…

Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases

Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.

Netflix trying to "poison regulators" about WBD merger, Paramount lawyer claims

Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies…

S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade.

Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. Thi…

Nintendo confirms it will sell a new Switch 2 with replaceable battery in the EU

Nintendo is planning to launch versions of Switch 2 hardware in the EU that will let users easily replace the battery. To meet its obligations from a …

Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week

Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes jus…

AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impac…

Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The ne…

Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says

Lawsuit: Ring cameras scan guests and passersby and use AI to identify faces.

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

Altman has an "utter disregard" for human lives, Florida AG says.

Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target

Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a…

SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites

The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Golden Dome" d…

Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling

Border security czar Tom Homan keeps threatening to "flood" New York City with ICE agents. But a new investigation shows that ICE has been quietly ram…

Trump Mobile’s website still says the T1 Phone is ‘American-made’

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As …

CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup's AI tools generate "verbatim" copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. T…

A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket

Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2…

California defeats Tesla's attempt to throw out racial discrimination lawsuit

California civil rights agency hails win over Tesla, anticipates trial in July.

Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules

Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.

Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good

“Social engineering” sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller, charged with totalitarian control and fringe paranoia. More mundanely, it’s c…