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News Corp sues privacy-focused search engine Brave, alleging it uses masked web crawlers to bypass publishers' restrictions and deliver "verbatim" AI summaries (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2026

NewsCorp accuses search engine Brave of AI copyright infringement
News Corp announced that it is suing Brave AI, a privacy-focused search engine with an AI sidebar tool that plugs into large language models.

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Fun engineering/privacy problem: design a device that plugs into an ESP32 based sensor node that has a microphone and reports ambient noise levels in dBa via MQTT or similar.
That's the easy part.
The hard part is to do so in a way that you can prove it's incapable of being used as a bug/listening device even in the worst case scenario (attacker running arbitrary code on any programmable component).
My initial thought is to record audio from a MEMS mic into a tiny M…

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p117#a260611p117

Trump plugs Dell at first-ever White House opening bell, sending shares soaring (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/trump-opening-bell-ceo-nyse-nasdaq-stocks-accounts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260706/p42#a260706p42