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Walmart is finally coming around to contactless payments. The retail giant says it will accept tap to pay in stores by the end of two thousand twenty six, with Sam's Club following close behind. It's a notable hold-out throwing in the towel — most major retailers made this move years ago.
Shifting to the legal front, Florida is pushing to have OpenAI and Sam Altman officially classified as a public nuisance. The state filed its eighty-three page complaint back in June, naming Altman personally and demanding a jury trial. OpenAI moved the case to federal court, and it's been sitting before Judge Aileen Cannon for seven weeks without a ruling on where it belongs.
And for developers leaning on AI tools to write code, a new concern is getting attention. A piece circulating in developer communities today outlines a tool designed to stop AI coding assistants from quietly installing malicious NPM packages — a reminder that automating your workflow doesn't mean automating your judgment.
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