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Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
When Fisker collapsed, its Ocean EV owners refused to be left stranded. A group of them pooled resources and expertise to build an open-source platform that keeps their vehicles running — reverse-engineering software, sharing repair documentation, and effectively becoming their own automaker. It's a striking demonstration of what organized communities can do when manufacturers abandon their customers, and raises serious questions about software-locked vehicles in an era of corporate instability.
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Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have reached a settlement with a Kentucky school district in what marks the first lawsuit of its kind to be resolved, with Breathitt County Schools alleging that social media addiction has drained budgets and fueled a student mental health crisis. The terms remain undisclosed, but the case signals growing legal accountability for platforms over their real-world impact on young users. With hundreds of similar suits pending nationwide, this settlement could set a significant precedent for how tech companies answer to institutions bearing the costs of the attention economy.
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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv is tightening its grip on AI-generated content, threatening to ban authors for up to a year if they submit papers written entirely by large language models. The preprint repository has long required human intellectual ownership of submissions, but the new enforcement signals a harder line against researchers offloading scientific work to AI tools. For a platform that serves as the backbone of academic communication, the policy puts authors on notice that cutting corners with AI carries real consequences.
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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The AI gold rush is minting winners and losers at a striking pace, with wealth and opportunity concentrating among a relatively small slice of the industry. Even within tech, where enthusiasm for AI runs highest, unease is growing about who actually benefits from the boom. The gap between those cashing in and those left behind is becoming impossible to ignore.
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