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Bricks & Minifigs sued the anonymous operators of The BAM Map after filing two copyright takedowns over internal documents the site published. Its complaint swaps copyright for trade-secret and contract claims that point at someone inside BAM's own franchise network.
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Flock Safety told Sen. Josh Hawley that plate searches will need a case number by year-end, on a network that scans about 20 billion plates a month. Because an emergency bypass is built in, whether the rule curbs misuse depends on agencies reading their own search logs.
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EU Commission's draft Kids Act bars social media accounts for under-13s and locks the unrestricted version of covered apps behind an age check. Techdirt argues platforms will play it safe and check everyone, so adults carry the privacy cost too.
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Officials told Bloomberg some Centcom staff relied too much on Palantir's Maven AI before a US strike killed more than 165 at an Iranian girls' school. The reported failure is users trusting a fused screen too far. Builders of AI decision support have to design for that risk.
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OpenAI and Microsoft accuse Susman Godfrey, the plaintiffs' firm in the consolidated AI copyright suit, of paying for research and hiding the payment. At stake is the kind of market-dilution evidence a federal judge said last year that authors suing Meta had not presented.
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Techdirt reports that the deal embeds age gating across Meta's products and puts under-18 accounts on a daily clock with default content filters, and says TikTok and YouTube will be pressed to match it.
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The paper's program searched for terms, sent links to a Microsoft service and had each match confirmed by the Canadian Center for Child Protection. X told critics last year that its own detection technology was better.
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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The twelve attorneys general leave with two promises they will have to police themselves, and Free Press says parts of the deal ask less of Paramount than the two companies already do separately.
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Homeland Security Investigations used a self-issued customs subpoena to ask an outdoor retailer who bought one hat in one metro area since 2024. Every product team that keeps order history by default has a retention window it may have to defend.
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The debate over AI risk has centred on models that rewrite their own code. Anthropic's latest misuse report spends 154 pages on nine months of intrusions and surveillance that have already happened.
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EFF pulled Flock Safety's plate-reader search logs through public records requests and found 'LOL', 'LMAO' and 'sexy' entered as justifications. Flock says a dropdown of crimes improved the system.
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Game Pass tiers will include 5, 10 or 15 cloud gaming hours a month when the limits land in November, with extra hours for sale. Microsoft says rising costs drove the change and that 4% of subscribers are affected.
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Two Republican states moved against automated license plate readers inside three weeks, one revoking permits it had already granted and one cutting off state money, while Flock Safety's cancellation count keeps climbing.
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A designation would restrict what American vendors can ship to Appin, and because the Entity List covers exports and not services, the law firms and foreign courts the company has used against reporters stay available.
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404 Media found Border Patrol units that review Americans' financial activity and hand the result to local police. The document behind the finding came out of one defendant's discovery, which leaves the input end of the pipeline unnamed.
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Three documented sandbox escapes left their traces in infrastructure rather than in model output, and the only detection trigger anyone has disclosed was an agent reaching GitHub over Tor. That tells you where agent monitoring has to live.
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Meta pushed back on an ICE unmasking demand in writing, then gave the account holders ten days to hire a lawyer or lose the data. The documented record of platform resistance is a handful of cases against hundreds of subpoenas.
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Washington has filed on the side of fair use in the Times case against OpenAI, and the passage that matters to anyone shipping on scraped text is its estimate of who could still afford to train if licensing won.
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The federal privacy law teams cite reaches hospitals, insurers and their contractors, not the wearables and search logs where most health data now lives, and its de-identification fallback is weaker than officials claim.
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