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Illinois Courts Enforce AI Policy After 518 Hallucinated Citations; OpenAI, Google Struggle with Deepfakes; IIT Madras and Lowe’s Drive AI Innovation

Illinois Courts Enforce AI Policy After 518 Hallucinated Citations; OpenAI, Google Struggle with Deepfakes; IIT Madras and Lowe’s Drive AI Innovation

TL;DR * Illinois Supreme Court Enforces AI Use Policy in Courts After 518 Documented Cases of Hallucinated Legal Citations Since 2025 * OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 and Google’s Gemini Fail to Identify 95% of AI-Generated Videos, Raising Alarm Over Deepfake Detection Capabilities * IIT Madras Launches 10x Research Park to Incubate

Tezos Protocol Upgrade Tallinn Cuts Block Times to 6 Seconds, Boosts TPS, Lowers Storage Costs

Tezos Protocol Upgrade Tallinn Cuts Block Times to 6 Seconds, Boosts TPS, Lowers Storage Costs

Tezos Tallinn upgrade: 6s blocks, 300 TPS, 40 % cheaper storage. Perfect rails for African stablecoins—if security keeps pace. Tezos just proved they can cut block time from 15 s to 6 s, lift throughput to 300 TPS and slash storage fees 40 %. On paper that’s a straight scalability

AI Deepfakes, VPN Flaws & Ransomware Attacks: Tech’s Darkest Week Yet — Who’s Really Safe?

AI Deepfakes, VPN Flaws & Ransomware Attacks: Tech’s Darkest Week Yet — Who’s Really Safe?

TL;DR * Mullvad VPN Undergoes Security Audit, Discloses Voucher Redemption Flaw and Side-Channel Leak in Payment System * Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Exchange Online, OneDrive, and SharePoint Across North America * Ring Partners with Flock Safety to Enable Law Enforcement Access to Private Doorbell Footage * Luxshare Cyberattack by RansomHub Group Leaks 3D

Iran Protests Surge to 5,002 Dead as U.S. Navy Moves In, Trump Deports Venezuelans, and Clinton Contempt Rages — Global Crises Ignite

Iran Protests Surge to 5,002 Dead as U.S. Navy Moves In, Trump Deports Venezuelans, and Clinton Contempt Rages — Global Crises Ignite

TL;DR * Iran Protests Reach 5,002 Dead as U.S. Navy Carrier Group Moves Toward Middle East Amid Internet Blackout * House narrowly blocks war powers resolution to restrain Trump’s Venezuela operation, tying 215-215 as Wesley Hunt casts decisive vote * Gaza ceasefire enters 100+ days as Israel withdraws from

Helicopters Grounded Near DCA, India Launches Drone Ambulance, and O’Hare Tops Atlanta as Busiest U.S. Airport

Helicopters Grounded Near DCA, India Launches Drone Ambulance, and O’Hare Tops Atlanta as Busiest U.S. Airport

TL;DR * FAA Permanently Restricts Helicopter and Powered-Lift Flights to 1,500 Feet Near DCA After Black Hawk-CRJ700 Midair Collision * Honeywell and Flexjet Settle $500M Litigation, Extending Aircraft Engine Maintenance Agreement Through 2035 * India Deploys First Human-Carrying Drone Ambulance in Andhra Pradesh, Capable of 150kg Payload and BVLOS Operations to

AI Ethics vs. Innovation: Anthropic’s Claude Outage, AWS Step Functions + Bedrock, and South Korea’s $30M AI Fines Shake the Tech World

AI Ethics vs. Innovation: Anthropic’s Claude Outage, AWS Step Functions + Bedrock, and South Korea’s $30M AI Fines Shake the Tech World

TL;DR * AWS Step Functions integrates Amazon Bedrock to orchestrate LLM workflows with human-in-the-loop validation * Anthropic's Claude Code Experiences Major Outage with Over 2,800 User Reports of Authentication Failures * Anthropic Releases 84-Page Claude Constitution to Enforce AI Safety, Ethics, and Human Oversight * South Korea enforces AI Basic

Chip Wars Intensify: Intel, AMD, and SK Hynix Push Density Limits as UK Blocks AI Data Centers Over Environmental Fears

Chip Wars Intensify: Intel, AMD, and SK Hynix Push Density Limits as UK Blocks AI Data Centers Over Environmental Fears

TL;DR * SK Hynix introduces split-cell 5-bit PLC NAND flash to boost SSD density and reduce voltage stress * Intel Integrates Glass Substrates into EMIB Packaging for Multi-Chiplet HPC GPUs, Enabling 78mm x 77mm Dense Architectures for Data Centers * Intel hires ex-Qualcomm GPU chief Eric Demers to revive its accelerated computing