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California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/23andme-lawsuit-data-breach-geneti…

California attorney general sues 23andMe over user data breach
California’s attorney general is suing the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected nearly 7 million people across the country. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit Thursday against Chrome Holding Co., which 23andMe rebranded under after filing for bankruptcy last March. The company has acknowledged that it suffered a major security breach in 2023. Bonta's office said the company failed to imple…

A Palestinian middle school student in Michigan
who was publicly admonished for refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance as part of a personal protest against the war on Gaza
has settled with her school district following a lawsuit around her first amendment free speech rights.
The teenager, identified as DK in court documents, said she faced racism from a teacher at the West Middle school in Canton, Michigan,
after she did not participate in the pledge.
T…

Ich hoffe, irgendjemand gibt Fritz Göttler irgendwo richtig viel Platz, um über Kluges frühe Jahre zu schreiben. Die SZ scheint das leider mal wieder nicht hinzubekommen.
#AlexanderKluge #Film #Filmgeschichte

Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…

Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
Seven families of victims in a February school shooting sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, alleging the company and its ChatGPT chatbot were complicit in the injuries or deaths of their children.

"Following days of online criticism, Salazar said she had been receiving death threats."
MAGA-Aligned Lawmakers Target a Republican Colleague for Her Immigration Bill - NOTUS — News of the United States
https://www.notus.org/maga-aligned-lawmakers-target-a-republican-colleague-for-her-immigration-bill

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?
So that sucks.
With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).
What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into th…

Asylzahlen halbiert, AfD trotzdem stabil. Wer noch glaubt, die Partei lebe vom Migrationsthema, hat ihren Markenkern nicht verstanden: Sie mobilisiert Angst vor sozialem Abstieg, Unsicherheit, Wut aufs System. Lösungen? Fehlanzeige. Merz' „populistische Plagiate", stärken sie, statt sie zu schwächen. Wir brauchen endlich eine konstruktive Erzählung – keine Kopie von rechts gegen die Anti-Partei. #T

"Das ist ein Irrglaube": Darum bleibt die AfD stark
Die Asylzahlen sinken, doch die AfD bleibt stark. Das liegt auch an der allgemeinen Unzufriedenheit im Land. Denn die Partei punktet längst nicht mehr allein mit dem Thema Migration.

Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-grok-spicy-mode-risks/

SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging that Grok created sexualized images.

Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/21…

Tron's Justin Sun sues Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over frozen assets
World Liberty unfairly froze Sun's $WLFI tokens and threatened him, the lawsuit alleged.

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Gemini’s task automation feature on the Samsung S26 and Pixel 10 series is an impressive glimpse at what the future of AI assistants could look like.