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Logitech Faces Class Action Over Tariff-Linked Price Hikes

A proposed lawsuit alleges the Swiss peripherals maker should pass government tariff refunds back to consumers who paid higher prices in 2025.

By Daniel R. Whitfield·Aug 22, 2026·5 min read
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Waymo Ramps Up Federal Lobbying to Shape Autonomous Vehicle Rules

The Alphabet subsidiary more than doubled its Washington spending in Q2, outpacing most AV rivals as it pushes for faster deployment of full

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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OpenAI's Teen Chatbot Rollout Faces Scrutiny Over Safety Promises

Advocacy groups and researchers demand independent verification of age-gating, moderation capacity, and parental alert systems before recomm

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
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RoboStore Builds US Factory After Losing Access to Chinese Humanoid Supply

A distributor that placed over 1,500 Unitree robots at MIT, Harvard, and OpenAI must now manufacture its own hardware on Long Island as Wash

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Beijing Opens Satellite IoT to Private Capital With Geely Trial

A two-year permit for Geely's space unit marks China's first commercial license in low-Earth orbit connectivity, signaling regulatory appeti

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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The Human Bottleneck in AI Drug Discovery

As generative models design molecules faster than humans can think them up, a legal puzzle emerges: who owns the invention when the inventor

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
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A People-Search Tool Promised Privacy. It Exposed 9 Million Face Photos Instead

ClarityCheck's misconfigured cloud storage left sensitive images and contact data accessible to anyone with a URL, raising fresh questions a

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Nevada Opens the Floodgates: 7,000 Paid Robotaxis Coming to Las Vegas

State regulators just approved the largest commercial autonomous vehicle deployment in US history, with Tesla, Waymo, and Uber racing to put

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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Attackers Weaponize Google Docs to Target Security Researchers at Black Hat

A campaign that exploited legitimate Google features and a fake crypto conference invitation highlights the evolving tactics used to comprom

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Apple Music Prepares Mandatory AI Label as Industry Draws Battle Lines

Cupertino's shift from voluntary to required disclosure marks a policy escalation in the streaming wars over synthetic content

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
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Google Lets Publishers Fight Back Against AI Overviews With Embedded Preference Button

A new embeddable widget allows readers to mark favorite sources directly from publisher sites, as the search giant tries to offset the traff

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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Australia Imposes Revenue Levy on Tech Platforms That Sidestep Publisher Deals

Parliament mandates Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn pay 2.75 percent of local ad revenue unless they strike agreements with at least eight

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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The Liability Shield: Why the AI Consciousness Debate Serves Corporate Interests

As frontier labs struggle with containment, anthropomorphic framing threatens to dismantle product liability frameworks that protect victims

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 10m
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The Patent Metrics Behind Japan's Vanishing Innovation Lead

Two decades of IP data reveal how Tokyo's technology footprint contracted from a quarter to single digits while Beijing and Washington raced

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 7m
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Nevada Greenlights 8,000 Robotaxis as Tesla, Waymo, and Uber Converge on Vegas

A unanimous vote hands permits to three giants, but deployment timelines and workforce concerns reveal a more cautious reality beneath the r

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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TikTok Faces Senate Scrutiny After Test Stripped Safety Controls from 15 Million Accounts

Two senators have demanded answers about an algorithmic experiment that removed content moderation guardrails, including from a teenager who

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
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TikTok Withheld Filter Bubble Safeguard From Millions to Test Engagement Impact

Congressional inquiry reveals platform kept algorithmic safety feature from control group while teen deaths occurred in repetitive content l

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Hackers Turn AI Into a Scripting Tool for Water Infrastructure Attacks

U.S. agencies warn that automated exploit generation is accelerating intrusions into Siemens controllers across rural water systems, exposin

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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How T-Mobile Cut a Physical Cable to Stop a Nation-State Intrusion

When months of digital forensics failed to dislodge Chinese APT actors, the carrier's security team drove to a data center with scissors.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Roblox Agrees to Court-Enforceable Safety Overhaul After Australian Tests Expose Contact Loopholes

Despite rolling out age verification and account tiers globally, the platform still allowed adults to reach children without parental consen

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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Six Experts Dismantle Zuckerberg's Open AI Vision

From Nairobi to Dublin, researchers and policy leaders say Meta's manifesto ignores infrastructure gaps, exploits labor, and conflates acces

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Zero Zero Robotics Bets on Semantic Arbitrage to Evade US Drone Ban

The company behind HoverAir is marketing its newest flying device as a handheld camera with detachable propellers, testing whether product c

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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OpenAI Pulls Access to Cyber Research Program, Cites Technical Error

Defenders outside the US and Europe suddenly lost credentials to Daybreak Blue tier, raising questions about vetting processes and regional

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Google Acquires Spirit Airlines' Workforce Records in Unusual Auction

The search giant now owns years of employment data from the defunct carrier, with flight attendants raising privacy concerns despite de-iden

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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Flock's Investigative AI Tracks Drivers by Behavior, Not Just Plates

New surveillance software allows law enforcement to locate people using movement patterns, physical descriptions, and natural-language promp

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m