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The Fall of TikTok: How a Global Phenomenon Went Dark in the United States Before an American Takeover Saved It
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The Fall of TikTok: How a Global Phenomenon Went Dark in the United States Before an American Takeover Saved It

A 14-hour blackout in January 2025, a sale-or-ban statute the Supreme Court left standing, and a January 2026 joint venture that still has not quieted the national-security fight over who…
Supreme Court Upheld the TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law and the Fight Moved From the Bench to a U.S. Joint Venture
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Supreme Court Upheld the TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law and the Fight Moved From the Bench to a U.S. Joint Venture

The justices treated a sale-or-ban statute as foreign-commerce power, not as a First Amendment rescue of a foreign-controlled feed. The January 2026 deal rewrote the org chart, not the statute.
Meta Drops Third-Party Fact-Checking for X-Style Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
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Meta Drops Third-Party Fact-Checking for X-Style Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Mark Zuckerberg timed the shift to a political weather change. The product question is who writes the note and how far a false claim travels before one attaches.
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key
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Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key

Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust key let a China-linked actor reach Departmental Offices machines and unclassified files. OFAC later named Yin Kecheng.
U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach
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U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach

A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil, with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records stolen from a Brazilian subsidiary of…
Axon Draft One Writes Police Report Narratives From Body-Cam Audio as California Forces Agencies to Keep the First AI Draft
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Axon Draft One Writes Police Report Narratives From Body-Cam Audio as California Forces Agencies to Keep the First AI Draft

Draft One turns body-worn camera audio into a first-person incident narrative. Officers still sign the report. California's SB 524 and an Axon December 2025 setting now push departments to retain…
Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty
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Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty

The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens fined Uber 290 million euros on August 26, 2024, for sending EEA driver data to the United States without Article 44 safeguards. Uber appealed. On August 17,…
France Lifts Pavel Durov Travel Ban as Telegram Founder Still Faces Twelve French Counts and a Russian Warrant
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France Lifts Pavel Durov Travel Ban as Telegram Founder Still Faces Twelve French Counts and a Russian Warrant

Pavel Durov was arrested at Le Bourget on August 24, 2024, and indicted four days later on 12 counts tied to crimes on Telegram. France lifted the travel ban in…
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
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Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back

Tomorrow.Bio, Alcor, and the Cryonics Institute store legally dead patients in liquid nitrogen for six-figure fees. No human has been revived. Organ vitrification research is advancing. Whole-body revival is not.
Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy
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Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy

A University of South Australia and Middle Technical University model matched tongue color to diagnosed illness in 58 of 60 hospital cases. A 2025 web app now tests shape and…
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