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Delhi Police sent X takedown requests for 42 URLs tied to SFLC.in, IFF and censorship trackers, threatening transparency. The US DoJ launched a ‘Super Intelligence Task Force’ to defend AI supremacy. DigiCert admitted a 16-month breach exposed customer data. Blue Origin’s New Glenn slipped to 2027, while the Bank of England warned AI spending may not yield a productivity boom. UK ministers sought powers to investigate runaway AI agents.
Republicans’ X-fueled midterm strategy backfired as Democrats swept key races, while an AI fake-ID kingpin confessed to fueling fraud. Ransomware darkened Queens Public Library and breached Norway’s Norad, exposing user data. Memory prices surged on AI demand, European activists planned datacenter protests, and Anthropic left a Claude Dispatch flaw unfixed despite remote-code risks.
Debian patched an APT man-in-the-middle flaw that could let attackers run code as root. San Francisco made illicit guerrilla bike lanes permanent after cyclist deaths. Voters in 30+ localities across nine states rejected data centers via bans and moratoriums, rattling investors as 145+ U.S. projects were delayed or canceled. Synaptics legal threats shut down an open-source DisplayLink driver; RTX 5090 street prices topped $9,000.
Octomind launched as an open-source AI coding-agent runtime, claiming 24 of 25 held-out tasks solved at lower cost. Users report OpenAI silently re-enabled model training on Codex chats despite opt-outs; disable via privacy controls. Anthropic’s IPO filing warns future models may be imminently close to recursive self-improvement, though none have crossed it. itch.io expanded generative-AI disclosure filters.
Google dismantled the XCPE botnet, severing a backdoor that had ensnared over 1.3 million set-top boxes and banning maker Videostrong. Proton CEO Andy Yen scrapped company-wide AI “re-interviews” after backlash. Ubuntu faces criticism for leaving a critical kernel TCP flaw unpatched for over two weeks, while San Francisco’s AI boom contrasts sharply with laid-off tech workers’ struggles.