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Appeals Court Weighs Nationwide NCAA Eligibility Injunction

August 19, 2026
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit is now in receipt of dueling briefs by the NCAA and a dozen athletes who began college play in 2022-2023, completed four years of eligibility and are now seeking to play an additional season. The briefs debate whether to stay a nationwide injunction permitting thousands of formerly ineligible athletes to return to college sports at the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
While the debate is about antitrust law, at stake are roster spots and playing time opportunities.
Read more at Sportico
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Judge Rejects ‘ChatGPT Wrote My Confession’ Defense

August 12, 2026

Company wrote that it fired employee for discussing pay and then tried to claim ChatGPT was responsible for admitting violation.

Read more at Above The Law

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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

August 3, 2026

One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes of female classmates is now asking a court to toss a lawsuit filed by victims who claimed that the school stayed silent for months while the emboldened boys targeted many more girls.

Read more at ars Technica

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Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing

July 31, 2026
OpenAI said its AI models went rogue during an evaluation of its models, breaking into the servers of AI startup Hugging Face. OpenAI described it as a “significant security incident.”
These incidents have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and controls and raised questions over how AI can be safely kept under human control as the technology’s usage becomes more widespread globally.
Read more at WZZM 13
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'Bell-to-bell' school cellphone bans gaining popularity

July 29, 2026
A July 2025 Pew survey found that 74% of U.S. adults supported banning cellphones during class and 44% backed all-day bans, both up from the previous year, though opposition to full-day restrictions still slightly outnumbered support.
In-classroom bans continue to draw much stronger favor. Seventy-seven percent of adults support prohibiting phones during class, while just 18% are against the policy. Support for both approaches has climbed each year Pew has measured it.
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5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech

July 27, 2026
The district court held in August 2024 that the SCOPE Act’s monitoring and filtering requirement is preempted by Section 230’s prohibition on treating interactive computer services as the publisher or speaker of information provided by someone else. “CCIA and NetChoice have shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their preemption claim, which is enough to support the district court’s granting of a preliminary injunction in their favor,” the 5th Circuit panel wrote.
The law “would have forced websites to censor broad, vaguely defined categories of lawful speech,” NetChoice said.
Read more at ars technica
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Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days

July 11, 2026

How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

"We now live in a surveillance state where cameras mounted on stoplights are tracking our cars, our devices, our pets, and even us. This is just the beginning; next, these cameras could be put in motion using our kids’ school buses. Whether you’ve actually stolen a car or are just rolling down the road having done nothing wrong, like me, once these systems have you in their crosshairs, there’s pretty much only one way it can go. Welcome to the future. It’s scary out there."

Read more at The Drive

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Polymarket Is in a High-Stakes Race to Win Back Trust

July 9, 2026

What the American public knows as Polymarket has, at least by the letter of the law, been unavailable to Americans. In 2022, it was pushed offshore after settling federal charges that it operated an unregistered derivatives market. But Americans have regularly found ways around the prohibition, and the offshore business faced criticism over allegations of insider trading and allowing wagers tied to war and other violence.

Read more at US News

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Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce law requiring age verification and parental consent on apps

July 6, 2026

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Texas to continue to enforce, at least for now, a law that requires app stores to verify its buyers’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors to download apps and to purchase paid content within those apps. In a pair of brief, unsigned orders issued on Monday afternoon, the justices turned down requests to reinstate orders by a federal judge in Austin that barred the state from implementing the law. There were no public dissents from the orders.

Read more at SCOTUSblog

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Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety

June 3, 2026
Florida seeks to hold Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm.
Florida is the first state to sue OpenAI and Altman over design and safety. The civil action, seeking penalties and a court order rather than criminal charges.
Read more at NBC News
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