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A serious civil liberties story is gaining traction tonight. The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that border agents fabricated child abuse allegations against an activist in order to compel him to unlock his phone. The admission raises hard questions about what legal guardrails actually exist at the border when it comes to device searches.
On the corporate side, Elon Musk has floated the idea of merging SpaceX and Tesla into a single company, saying the combination has, quote, a lot of merit. The proposal would unite an electric vehicle giant with a private aerospace firm — two businesses that share a founder but operate in very different regulatory and financial worlds. The implications for investors in both companies are anything but simple.
And from the world of open source tooling, OpenAI has quietly released an official command-line interface for its API on GitHub. It is a small but telling move — one that signals the company is taking developer workflow seriously and wants its models embedded deeper into the terminals where engineers actually spend their time.
Those are the stories worth watching today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
