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The United States Senate has sent a unanimous message: Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive a presidential pardon. The nonbinding resolution, passed without a single dissenting vote, declares the disgraced FTX founder should under no circumstances receive clemency. It is a rare show of bipartisan unity, and a pointed signal to the White House.
On a darker note, xAI is taking one of its own users to court. The company behind Grok has filed a lawsuit against a man accused of using the chatbot to generate sexualized deepfake images of both adults and children. It is an unusual move for an AI company to sue its own user, and it raises hard questions about platform responsibility and the limits of generative tools.
And in the world of software security, Microsoft has published a detailed breakdown of a supply chain compromise targeting the AsyncAPI NPM package. The attack delivered a malicious payload at import time, meaning simply loading the package was enough to trigger it. It is a sobering reminder of how fragile the open-source dependency ecosystem remains.
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