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A Massachusetts couple who endured a years-long campaign of harassment by eBay employees has reached a fifty-six million dollar settlement with the company. The case, which involved sending live insects, a bloody pig mask, and threatening messages to a newsletter writer and her husband, remains one of the more disturbing examples of corporate misconduct in recent memory. Several eBay executives were criminally convicted, and this settlement closes the civil chapter of a genuinely ugly story.
Meanwhile, researchers are raising fresh questions about the timeline for quantum-safe cryptography after an AI system called HAWK cracked a candidate encryption algorithm in roughly sixty hours. Bitcoin developers are already working to harden the network against quantum threats, but this result suggests the window may be narrower than many assumed. The algorithm in question isn't used by Bitcoin directly, but it sits in the same competitive landscape developers are racing to resolve.
And DoorDash has confirmed it's entering the drone delivery space with a service called DoorDash Air, a move that signals the food delivery wars are now extending into the skies. Whether the economics actually work at scale remains the real question, as every player in this space has promised aerial delivery for years without it becoming routine.
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