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A Minnesota judge has cleared the way for the state's ban on so-called nudify apps, rejecting a legal challenge from Elon Musk's xAI. The ruling means software that strips clothing from images using artificial intelligence remains prohibited in the state, a significant moment in the growing legal effort to curb non-consensual intimate imagery online.
Meanwhile, a serious and expanding threat is hitting cryptocurrency holders. Researchers at Galaxy have flagged a third wave of attacks targeting weakly generated Coldcard wallet keys, with losses now approaching eighty-nine million dollars and the number of compromised addresses climbing past four thousand five hundred. The attacker has shifted tactics, now going after smaller balances and altering how funds are moved on-chain, suggesting a patient and methodical operation.
And on a more personal note, science communicator and YouTuber Hank Green has gone public with a candid admission about his relationship with AI tools, saying the dopamine he gets from interacting with large language models is, in his words, not healthy for him or good for the world. It's a rare moment of self-reflection from someone inside the creator economy, and likely not the last we'll hear of it.
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