Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin
Hard drive that could provide access to 8,000 bitcoins is buried at the dump.
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Elon Musk wants courts to force OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake
Owner of Grok has asked judges in California and Delaware to force sale.
US selling 69K seized bitcoins could mess with Trump plans for crypto reserve
US could get about $6.4 billion from the sale at bitcoin's current price.
Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
Judge: Reasonable juror may find Google profited from misappropriation of data.
X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture.
Data shows election didn’t spike X users or end ad boycott.
After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
If you lost service but only 9 cell towers went down, you won't get a bill credit.
Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
Video feeds from at least 150 Motorola license plate readers accessible without a password.
EU “energetically” probing disinformation, right-wing bias on X, report says
Elon Musk wading further into global right-wing politics raises alarms in EU.
US sues six of the biggest landlords over “algorithmic pricing schemes”
Six landlords added to RealPage lawsuit; Cortland settles and will cooperate.
Dirty deeds in Denver: Ex-prosecutor faked texts, destroyed devices to frame colleague
Sometimes, data collection can work for you.
Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term
Zuckerberg says Meta will "work with President Trump" to fight censorship.
“I’m getting dizzy”: Man films Waymo self-driving car driving around in circles
Waymo software fix addressed "looping events" after car kept circling parking lot.
Do Kwon, the crypto bro behind $40B Luna/Terra collapse, finally extradited to US
Kwon pled "not guilty" before a federal judge.
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
A small win for music publishers in the fight over Claude outputs.
Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules
A three-judge panel ruled the FCC exceeded its authority reviving net neutrality.
