Russia launches terror probe into Telegram chief Pavel Durov
Milena Wälde / politico - Moscow claims the messaging platform has been used in thousands of cases of sabotage, terrorism and extremism.
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Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings
abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data
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Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Tesla has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to CNBC. The automaker seeks to overturn a DMV ruling which determined its marketing practices were deceptive regarding vehicle automatio…
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Terraform Labs sues Jane Street for alleged insider trading prior to Terra-Luna collapse: WSJ
Danny Park / theblock - Terraform Labs' liquidation administrator sued Jane Street, accusing the firm of insider trading leading up to the collapse of Terra-Luna.
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Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing busines…
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Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use
cnbc - Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.
- Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks (6)
- Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz (1)
- Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks (8)
- Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits (5)
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Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks
Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz
Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks
Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits
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Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting
bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.
- ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
- Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
- OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
- Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)
ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.
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More than $140 billion in tariff refunds are at stake. The Supreme Court punted
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / qz - Americans shouldn't bet on getting refunded for the tariffs they have paid up to now. For companies, it's a different story
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Tesla loses bid to toss $243 million verdict in fatal Autopilot crash suit
cnbc - A federal judge in Miami denied Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash.
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Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mark Zuckerberg has testified he reached out to Tim Cook on teen wellbeing as Meta faces a landmark trial alleging its platforms were designed to addict youth.The post Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial appeared first on WinBuzze…
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Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court
Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked
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West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting
appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …
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New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - News laws requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without the consent of the subject within 48 hours are set to come into effect. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, online platforms could face fines of up to 10% of t…
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial
Eli Tan / nytimes - Meta’s chief executive said users spent a lot of time on the app because of its value, as he was grilled about child safety issues in front of a jury.
- Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety (5)
- Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk (4)
- Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases (2)
- Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals (9)
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Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety
Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk
Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases
Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals
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Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
Dan Robinson / theregister - State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and fo…
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Tesla Drops 'Autopilot' From California Marketing to Avoid 30-Day Sales Ban, DMV Says
Maria Garcia / implicator - Tesla removed Autopilot from California marketing, settling a DMV case filed in 2021. California accounts for nearly a third of Tesla's U.S. sales.
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Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'
Andre Revilla / engadget - Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a preliminary win in a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool Sora cannot use the term 'cameo' or any var…
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Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial
techxplore - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing a plaintiff who alleges Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted.
- Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom (2)
- Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible? (3)
- On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers (5)
- Social and community posts amplifying trial coverage (2)
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Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom
Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible?
On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers
Social and community posts amplifying trial coverage
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Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die
mashable - Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 19312 / 4 stories in 17 days