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Two Ships Named Defiant: DARPA’s Crewless USX-1 Still Has No Navy Handoff While a Battleship Proposal Wears the Same Name
März 6, 2025
Two Ships Named Defiant: DARPA’s Crewless USX-1 Still Has No Navy Handoff While a Battleship Proposal Wears the Same Name
USX-1 Defiant, the crewless NOMARS hull Reddit exposed in Puget Sound, is in final trials with no public Navy transfer date. A proposed Trump-class battleship, USS Defiant, now shares the…
Visa and Mastercard Kept Settling OnlyFans Charges After a Whistleblower Says They Were Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
Januar 24, 2025
Visa and Mastercard Kept Settling OnlyFans Charges After a Whistleblower Says They Were Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
A compliance specialist told FinCEN that Visa and Mastercard kept clearing OnlyFans payments after 2021 warnings about child sexual abuse material. Both companies deny it. Plaintiffs later cited that account…
TikTok Came Back With a Thank-You Screen Before Anyone Proved the Algorithm Changed Hands
Januar 19, 2025
TikTok Came Back With a Thank-You Screen Before Anyone Proved the Algorithm Changed Hands
TikTok's welcome-back screen thanked a political stay. The later joint venture left ByteDance with 19.9 percent, a licensed algorithm, and the advertising business.
Galaxy S24 Heat and Battery Drain Followed the Firmware, Not the Launch Event
Januar 19, 2025
Galaxy S24 Heat and Battery Drain Followed the Firmware, Not the Launch Event
Galaxy S24 owners met heat, idle battery drain, and slow charging after One UI updates, including a July 2026 security patch Samsung did not publicly own.
TikTok Went Dark in the United States and Showed What a Sale-or-Ban Law Does to a Phone
Januar 19, 2025
TikTok Went Dark in the United States and Showed What a Sale-or-Ban Law Does to a Phone
TikTok, Lemon8, and CapCut went dark in January 2025 before a joint venture rewrote the letterhead. The shutdown screen was the law, not a glitch.
TikTok Kept the Feed After the Supreme Court Because ByteDance Licensed the Algorithm and Sold the Cap Table
Januar 10, 2025
TikTok Kept the Feed After the Supreme Court Because ByteDance Licensed the Algorithm and Sold the Cap Table
The Supreme Court upheld TikTok's sale-or-ban law. ByteDance later kept 19.9 percent and licensed the algorithm to a U.S. joint venture.
The Cash, the Vials, and the Twenty Years: How Takeshi Ebisawa’s Drug Sting Became a Plutonium Prosecution
Januar 9, 2025
The Cash, the Vials, and the Twenty Years: How Takeshi Ebisawa’s Drug Sting Became a Plutonium Prosecution
A 20-year sentence closed Takeshi Ebisawa's guilty plea. The file still turns on Tokyo cash, Bangkok vials, and a plutonium offer made to a DEA sting.
Meta Is Testing Community Notes Across 16 Latin American Countries Before the U.S. Version Has Been Audited
Januar 7, 2025
Meta Is Testing Community Notes Across 16 Latin American Countries Before the U.S. Version Has Been Audited
Meta opened Community Notes signups in 16 Latin American countries while the Oversight Board says it still has not received the risk criteria.
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu Says Tesla Full Self-Driving Drove Him Onto Santa Monica Light-Rail Tracks With a Train Behind Him
Januar 4, 2025
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu Says Tesla Full Self-Driving Drove Him Onto Santa Monica Light-Rail Tracks With a Train Behind Him
Jesse Lyu shut off Tesla Full Self-Driving and ran a red light to leave Santa Monica light-rail tracks. Later software versions were still drawing complaints at railroad crossings.
Hundreds of Thousands of Police Reports Now Start as Axon Draft One Text While California Forces Agencies to Keep the First Machine Draft
August 26, 2024
Hundreds of Thousands of Police Reports Now Start as Axon Draft One Text While California Forces Agencies to Keep the First Machine Draft
Axon says its report-writing tools have helped produce more than 600,000 police reports. California requires agencies to keep the first machine draft. Axon's retention switch still starts off.