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Visa and Mastercard Kept Settling OnlyFans Charges After a Whistleblower Says They Were Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Meta Is Testing Community Notes Across 16 Latin American Countries Before the U.S. Version Has Been Audited
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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
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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.
A Stolen BeyondTrust Key Opened U.S. Treasury Workstations Before OFAC Sanctioned Shanghai Operator Yin Kecheng
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A Stolen BeyondTrust Key Opened U.S. Treasury Workstations Before OFAC Sanctioned Shanghai Operator Yin Kecheng

Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust remote-support key reached Departmental Offices machines. OFAC later sanctioned Yin Kecheng. Salt Typhoon was a separate campaign.
Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite
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Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite

A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira of Curitiba with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records unless he was paid about $3.2 million in…
Hundreds of Thousands of Police Reports Now Start as Axon Draft One Text While California Forces Agencies to Keep the First Machine Draft
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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.
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