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YouTube's parent company Google has quietly settled a lawsuit brought by a minor claiming that social media platforms caused them direct harm. The case is being watched closely as an early test of how courts assign liability to platforms for psychological damage to young users — and it likely won't be the last.
Shifting from the courtroom to the cosmos, a piece from Andreessen Horowitz is making the rounds arguing that the future of military advantage runs straight through low-Earth orbit. The essay frames commercial space infrastructure not as a side industry but as the decisive layer in any future great-power conflict — a framing that blurs the line between Silicon Valley investment and national security strategy in ways worth examining carefully.
And in a story about the hidden costs of the AI buildout, The Register is spotlighting what engineers are calling GPU starvation — the phenomenon where billion-dollar accelerator chips sit idle simply because the storage systems feeding them data weren't designed for this kind of throughput. It's a reminder that the bottleneck in modern AI isn't always the headline hardware. Sometimes it's the pipes.
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