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Tech News from The AEGIS Alliance covers AI, platforms, cybersecurity, and the legal fights over data and speech. Reporting on how infrastructure and algorithms meet civil liberties.
Sturtevant Neighbors Sued Microsoft Over Fairwater’s Hum After Nadella Called the Campus the World’s Most Powerful AI Plant
जुलाई 4, 2026
Sturtevant Neighbors Sued Microsoft Over Fairwater’s Hum After Nadella Called the Campus the World’s Most Powerful AI Plant
Garret Ostergaard, David Wade, and Joy Wade sued Microsoft on July 1, 2026, over noise from the $7.3 billion Fairwater campus. The AEGIS Alliance tracks the low-frequency hum dBA meters…
Google Capped Meta’s Gemini Capacity and Forced a Rival to Ration Tokens Because the Machines Ran Out First
जून 28, 2026
Google Capped Meta’s Gemini Capacity and Forced a Rival to Ration Tokens Because the Machines Ran Out First
Around March 2026 Google capped Meta's Gemini capacity after the social giant asked for more than Alphabet could sell. The AEGIS Alliance looks at delayed internal projects, token rationing, and…
Meta and YouTube Lost a $6 Million Addiction Verdict Then Meta Wrote an $18 Billion Check to Almost Every State
मार्च 25, 2026
Meta and YouTube Lost a $6 Million Addiction Verdict Then Meta Wrote an $18 Billion Check to Almost Every State
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent in the design of Instagram and YouTube and awarded K.G.M. $6 million. After Judge Carolyn Kuhl denied a new trial, both…
Google Cuts Millions of Hijacked Phones and TV Boxes Out of IPIDEA, a Residential Proxy Pool Used by 550 Threat Groups in One Week
जनवरी 31, 2026
Google Cuts Millions of Hijacked Phones and TV Boxes Out of IPIDEA, a Residential Proxy Pool Used by 550 Threat Groups in One Week
Google Threat Intelligence Group moved in late January 2026 against IPIDEA, which it calls one of the world's largest residential proxy networks. In seven days GTIG saw more than 550…
People Pay a Few Dollars for Pharmaicy Packs That Make ChatGPT Role-Play High on Drugs
दिसम्बर 17, 2025
People Pay a Few Dollars for Pharmaicy Packs That Make ChatGPT Role-Play High on Drugs
Pharmaicy sells prompt packs that make chatbots mimic cannabis, ketamine, or cocaine. California SB 243 began regulating companion bots on January 1, 2026. Clinicians warn the scripts flatten safety rails.
New York Responsible Robotics Act Would Criminalize Civilians Arming Robots and Drones With Deadly Weapons
मार्च 14, 2025
New York Responsible Robotics Act Would Criminalize Civilians Arming Robots and Drones With Deadly Weapons
S3133 and A399 would ban civilians from mounting guns, flamethrowers, or explosives on robots and drones. The bill is still sitting in committee.
Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
मार्च 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
The X-37B ended OTV-7 at Vandenberg after 434 days in a highly elliptical orbit. Six months later OTV-8 launched from Kennedy with a quantum inertial sensor and laser communications gear…
DARPA Confirms the USX-1 Defiant After Reddit Photos Exposed the Pentagon’s Crewless Warship in Puget Sound
मार्च 6, 2025
DARPA Confirms the USX-1 Defiant After Reddit Photos Exposed the Pentagon’s Crewless Warship in Puget Sound
Reddit photos of a tarp-wrapped hull in Puget Sound forced DARPA to confirm USX-1 Defiant, the NOMARS crewless prototype now in final acceptance trials before a planned handoff to the…
FinCEN Whistleblower Says Visa and Mastercard Kept Processing OnlyFans Payments After Being Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
जनवरी 24, 2025
FinCEN Whistleblower Says Visa and Mastercard Kept Processing OnlyFans Payments After Being Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
A senior compliance specialist told FinCEN that Visa and Mastercard were warned as early as 2021 that OnlyFans charges included child sexual abuse material. Both companies deny it. The complaint…
TikTok’s Dramatic Return: How the Social Media Giant Came Back From the Brink After a 14-Hour U.S. Blackout
जनवरी 19, 2025
TikTok’s Dramatic Return: How the Social Media Giant Came Back From the Brink After a 14-Hour U.S. Blackout
The January 19, 2025 revival was a political stay, not a verdict that the national-security statute had been satisfied or that the later joint venture transferred real control.