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Tesla Closes Arizona Wrongful Death Case Over Full Self-Driving Pedestrian Fatality

The 2023 incident marked the first known pedestrian death linked to Tesla's automated driving suite and triggered a federal probe into visibility limitations.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jun 29, 2026·5 min read
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Apple Seeks Pentagon Waiver to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Manufacturer

The Cupertino giant is navigating Washington corridors to secure CXMT as a supplier amid a deepening memory shortage that has already forced

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Forensics Hardware Outlives Its Sanctions

Russian authorities extracted messaging data from a jailed activist's iPhone months after Cellebrite canceled its contract - a case study in

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Italy Opens Probe Into Auto-Renewal Price Bumps Tied to Microsoft 365 AI Tools

Watchdog zeroes in on whether customers received clear notice before being shifted to costlier subscriptions bundled with Copilot and Design

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
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One in Four Major Apps Still Block Users from Passkeys

A new public database exposes which platforms continue to rely on passwords despite industry consensus that passkeys offer superior phishing

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Alibaba Takes Pentagon to Court Over Military Contractor Label

The e-commerce and cloud giant argues its placement on the 1260H blacklist violates due process and free speech, blocking business ties and

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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YouTube Settles Youth Harm Case as Thousands of Similar Claims Loom

A confidential agreement with a minor plaintiff points to the platform's mounting exposure across US jurisdictions, where more than 5,900 ca

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Satellite Operators Float Lunar Scrapyards as Cislunar Traffic Swells

With a Falcon 9 stage set to impact the Moon in August and decades of orbital debris experience in hand, industry leaders are sketching out

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m
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When Security Tools Become National Security Threats

A ninety-minute ultimatum to Anthropic exposes the tension between defensive cyber capabilities and export-control reflex in Washington - an

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Prediction Markets and the Incentivized Influencer Economy

As Polymarket faces scrutiny over paid creator campaigns, regulators across the US and Europe are racing to define where betting ends and fi

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Brazil Joins the Alternative App Store Era With a 5% Fee

Cupertino's compromise with CADE offers developers a gentler tax than the App Store - but Notarization and approval gates remain firmly in p

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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The Thousand-Clip Deception Behind Polymarket's Viral Bet Videos

An investigation has uncovered more than 1,100 staged social-media clips showing fake wagers and fabricated wins, raising questions about pl

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Signal President Challenges Chatbot Personification as Privacy Risks Deepen

As conversational AI spreads from document formatting to household shopping, Meredith Whittaker warns users that convenience features mask s

Priya Nair ·   · 8m
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How a Guardrail Bypass Turned Into an Export Control Fight

The Trump administration's order forcing Anthropic offline has less to do with unique security risks than with leverage, relationships, and

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Britain's Facial Age-Estimation Plan Faces Coalition Pushback Over Accuracy and Bias

Sixty-two civil society organizations challenge the Home Office's 2027 rollout of AI screening for asylum-seeking minors, citing ethnic perf

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
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When Data Sovereignty Trumps the Cloud: RIPE's €5 Million Pivot

Europe's internet registry is reversing years of cloud migration after geopolitical risk forced a rethink - and now faces the bill for aging

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
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Norway Bans Elementary Pupils from Using Generative AI in Class

Oslo's new policy reflects mounting anxiety across democracies about whether large language models short-circuit foundational learning - and

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 7m
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Britain Taps 40 Million LinkedIn Profiles to Map Skills Gaps and Career Flows

The Department for Work and Pensions will lean on Microsoft-owned platform data to track workforce movements and hiring mismatches, signalin

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Credential Harvesting at Fortinet Scale: 75,000 Devices, 194 Countries, and the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Name

A 1.16 billion-attempt brute-force campaign against enterprise firewalls exposes the brittleness of perimeter security - and the credential

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 9m
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iOS Browser Performance Lags by 29 Percent Under WebKit Mandate

Microsoft research shows alternative rendering engines could deliver substantially faster mobile web experiences, yet Apple's compliance fra

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
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The Pentagon Is Letting AI Draft Congressional Reports

US defense officials tout GenAI.mil as a way to slash hundreds of staffing hours on mandated compliance work, raising fresh questions about

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
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Unknown Actors Target Fortinet Sandbox, Three Critical Flaws Exploited in the Wild

At DailyTechWire, we've tracked a weekend surge in attacks against FortiSandbox deployments - all three bugs rated 9.1 on CVSS, all initiall

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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When 2.28 Million Test Scores Vanish: India's Telegram Ban and the Exam Scandal Behind It

A week-long messaging blackout affects 84 million users as authorities scramble to salvage a medical entrance exam marred by leaks, grading

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
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Sovereign Storage Scales, but Office Habits Prove Stubborn in France's Digital Independence Drive

The French Ministry of Education has onboarded 400,000 accounts to open-source infrastructure, yet users still reach for Microsoft's desktop

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 8m
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Britain Draws a Hard Line on Teen Access to Social Platforms

Westminster is moving to ban under-16s from TikTok, Instagram and most major apps, aiming for spring 2027 enforcement - and the regulatory m

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 9m