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OpenAI is facing thirty new lawsuits filed in California federal court, accusing the company of providing substantial assistance to the suspect behind Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting. Students, teachers, and a principal are among the plaintiffs, raising urgent questions about AI liability and what responsibility platforms bear when their technology is allegedly misused in violent crimes.
Shifting to education, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a one-year moratorium on AI use in classrooms for students from kindergarten through eighth grade, affecting roughly six hundred thousand public school children starting in the two thousand twenty six to twenty twenty seven school year. The policy comes alongside broader limits on digital devices and a small pilot program to explore responsible AI education tools.
And in cybersecurity, a botnet called Sality that had been quietly running for twenty three years was finally dismantled by CrowdStrike working alongside the FBI, Europol, and other agencies. The peer-to-peer network had grown to more than fifteen thousand endpoints and was linked to a clipboard hijacker that stole around one hundred fifty thousand dollars in cryptocurrency before investigators sinkholed its infrastructure.
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