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Los Angeles County has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, the popular online gaming platform, alleging the company has failed to adequately protect children from predatory behavior and grooming on its platform.

NASA announced that Boeing stranding astronauts in space due to the Starliner spacecraft’s failure has been officially reclassified as a Type A mishap, the agency’s most serious safety designation, nearly eight months after the troubled mission concluded.

Federal prosecutors have indicted three Silicon Valley-based Iranian engineers on charges of stealing confidential information from Google and other major technology companies and transmitting sensitive data to Iran.

Academy Award-winning movie titan James Cameron penned a letter Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warning that Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery could lead to the death of cinema. 

A U.N. panel on artificial intelligence has been launched to implement global governance of the emerging technology at its sole direction,  the body’s chief António Guterres announced Thursday.

The Central African nation of Gabon on Wednesday announced it was suspending some social media platforms for spreading “inappropriate, defamatory, hateful, and abusive” content that was allegedly threatening “social cohesion, the stability of the republic’s institutions, and national security.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Los Angeles court on Wednesday that he cares “about the wellbeing of teens and kids.” The Big Tech mastermind whose platforms have notoriously censored conservatives including President Donald Trump added, “I genuinely want to err on the side of giving people the ability to express themselves.”

The streaming giant Netflix has threatened the Chinese-owned ByteDance with “immediate litigation” for potential copyright infringement.

Meta on Thursday unveiled its policies regarding how the social media giant will handle political ads and transparency ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Tesla’s autonomous vehicle fleet operating in Austin, Texas, has experienced crashes at a rate four times higher than that of human-driven vehicles, according to data reported to federal safety regulators.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday proposed reforms to the agency’s program that helps low-income Americans afford phone and internet services amidst reports of abuse of the program, especially in states such as California.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday in a landmark lawsuit alleging that social media platforms were deliberately designed to addict young users and harm their mental health.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (R) has initiated a formal investigation into the popular online gaming platform Roblox amid concerns that the company may be failing to protect young users from predators and harmful content.

Elon Musk’s Tesla has successfully dodged a potentially 30-day sales suspension in California after making changes to how it markets its driver-assistance technologies, according to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos claimed that Paramount Skydance has been “flooding the zone with misinformation” to derail the WB takeover.

Polish army banned Chinese cars from entering military facilities hoping to prevent the collection of sensitive data.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Tuesday announced it has opened an investigation into Chinese e-commerce titan Temu for allegedly violating Nigeria’s data protection laws.

Writer-director Roger Avary, who won an Academy Award alongside Quentin Tarantino for the screenplay of “Pulp Fiction,” announced his foray into AI filmmaking, adding that he has “three features” in the works with lots of buzzing interest.

The FTC is ramping up its investigation of Microsoft, sending a new round of investigative requests to the company’s competitors regarding the tech giant’s practice of bundling of AI, security and identity software in its offerings.

Internal testing documents from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta show that an unreleased chatbot product failed to protect minors from sexual exploitation in nearly 70 percent of test scenarios, according to court testimony presented on Monday as part of New Mexico’s child exploitation lawsuit against the internet giant.

The Department of War is contemplating severing its relationship with AI company Anthropic and potentially classifying it as a supply chain risk, which would force any entity conducting business with the U.S. military to discontinue their association with the AI startup.

Green Mountain Transit in Vermont is experiencing significant difficulties with its electric bus fleet this winter as the vehicles cannot charge in temperatures below 41 degrees, compounded by a battery recall that prevents indoor charging due to fire hazards.

Google has disclosed that multiple state-backed hacking groups, including a North Korean threat actor, have been utilizing its Gemini AI platform to enhance reconnaissance activities and accelerate various stages of cyber attacks.

The Trump administration is exploring measures to require technology companies building data centers to absorb all associated utility and infrastructure costs as electricity prices continue to rise across the United States.

Prominent Democrats are attacking the Trump Administration over the resignation of Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Gail Slater.

Western Digital, one of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers, has completely sold out its storage capacity for 2026 with more than ten months remaining in the year, driven by overwhelming demand from AI companies.

The cold case of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman more than three decades ago was closed Friday as a 53-year-old man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the crime.

Both Disney and Paramount-Skydance have sent cease and desist letters to China’s ByteDance accusing them of “blatant infringement” of intellectual property rights after the recent spate of hyper-realistic Seedance 2.0 AI videos were released last week.

Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on phenomena in the world’s skies that have perplexed observers since “flying saucers” were first reported after World War II.

Google’s Waymo has begun paying gig economy workers from DoorDash and other platforms to close robotaxi doors left open by customers. The self-driving vehicles are stuck in place when doors are left open, a common occurrence for the company.  

Tech tycoon Elon Musk publicly slammed AI rival Anthropic this week, calling its AI models “misanthropic and evil” in a post on his social media platform X. According to Musk, Anthropic’s AI “hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men.”

The top campaign concern of affordability can’t be solved without reducing the cost of American energy, and T1 Energy CEO Dan Barcelo has a plan to contribute.

An upcoming movie by director Doug Liman and set to star Pete Davidson and Casey Affleck has published a notice that artificial intelligence will be used to “adjust” actor performances and to create set locations and backgrounds.