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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign

LAUREN GOODE

For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.

New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France

JEREMY HSU

Record flight shows viability of Qantas Airways’ Project Sunrise routes in 2027.

Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets

JON BRODKIN

Judge may allow Minnesota to ban some types of bets, but not all of them.

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

JULIE BORT

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

JULIE BORT

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit

STEPHEN CLARK

"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."

College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure

BETH MOLE

Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.

eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

JON BRODKIN

eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.

We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

DAN GOODIN

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands

NATE ANDERSON

The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)

Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away

KYLE ORLAND

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

“We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two."

A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months

NATE ANDERSON, ARS TECHNICA

How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

MARINA TEMKIN

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

DELL CAMERON, MAXWELL ZEFF

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.