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New York's District Attorney has seized twelve websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, in what officials are calling the largest action of its kind in history. Roughly twelve hundred people were targeted, most of them celebrities and public figures. It's a rare and aggressive use of prosecutorial power against a corner of the internet that has largely operated without consequence.
Shifting to hardware, Valve has opened reservations for the Steam Frame, its newest VR headset, priced up to thirteen hundred dollars. Built on Snapdragon silicon and running SteamOS on Arm, the device supports both standalone and streaming modes, with what Valve engineers are calling ten times foveated streaming. It arrives, notably, in a PC hardware market still rattled by pricing turbulence.
And on a quieter but important policy front, the Federation of American Scientists is pushing back on the datacenter land rush sweeping American communities. Local governments, often outmatched by well-resourced developers, are being handed negotiating frameworks to help them ask harder questions and strike better deals before server farms move in next door.
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