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Samsung Galaxy S24 Heat, Camera Second-Guessing, and the Software Fixes That Actually Matter for Owners

Samsung Galaxy S24 Heat, Camera Second-Guessing, and the Software Fixes That Actually Matter for Owners

Galaxy S24 owners are still fighting heat, a bossy camera app, and One UI updates that turned a flagship into a hand warmer long after the launch event ended.
The Fall of TikTok: How a Global Phenomenon Went Dark in the United States Before an American Takeover Saved It

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

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.
Takeshi Ebisawa Sentenced to 20 Years in New York for Conspiring to Traffic Weapons-Grade Plutonium, Narcotics, and Firearms

Takeshi Ebisawa Sentenced to 20 Years in New York for Conspiring to Traffic Weapons-Grade Plutonium, Narcotics, and Firearms

A Manhattan judge gave Takeshi Ebisawa 20 years after a DEA sting that began with Golden Triangle drugs and ended with laboratory-confirmed traces of uranium, thorium, and weapons-grade plutonium.
Meta Drops Third-Party Fact-Checking for X-Style Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

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.
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu Says Tesla Full Self-Driving Put His Car on Santa Monica Light-Rail Tracks

Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu Says Tesla Full Self-Driving Put His Car on Santa Monica Light-Rail Tracks

Lyu shut the system off and ran a red light to get off the rails. A train was a block behind him. The algorithm, he said, should never choose the…
Axon Draft One Writes Police Report Narratives From Body-Cam Audio as California Forces Agencies to Keep the First AI Draft

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

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

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

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.
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