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Tennessee Grandmother Jailed 168 Days After Facial Recognition Error as State Police Weigh Adopting the Same Technology

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Clearview AI flagged her for bank fraud in a state she had never visited, even as Tennessee Highway Patrol considers a million-dollar contract with the same company.

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MySQL 8.0 Reaches End of Life This Month as Majority of Installations Have Yet to Upgrade

Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.

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US New EV Sales Fall 28 Percent in Q1 2026 After Tax Credit Expiration as Used Market Surges to Near Price Parity

Cox Automotive data shows new EV sales dropped to 212,600 units in Q1 2026, while used EV sales climbed 12 percent to 93,500 units with prices approaching parity with gas vehicles.

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The $6.6 Trillion Question: Banks and Crypto Firms Clash Over Stablecoin Yield as Washington Writes the Rules

A proposed ban on stablecoin yield payments has triggered a lobbying war between banks and crypto exchanges, with billions in deposits and a new financial architecture at stake.

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Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Fund AI Pivot as SaaS Sector Sheds Staff at Accelerating Pace

Atlassian eliminates 10 percent of its workforce, including 900 R&D roles, to self-fund AI and enterprise investments while replacing its CTO amid a broader SaaS industry contraction.

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Figure AI's Humanoid Robot Walks Into the White House, Becoming the First to Address World Leaders at a U.S. Presidential Summit

Figure 03 appeared alongside First Lady Melania Trump at a global education summit, greeting 45 delegations in multiple languages.

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Blue Origin Files for 51,600 Orbital Data Center Satellites, Joining SpaceX in the Race to Move AI Compute Off Earth

An FCC filing reveals Blue Origin's Project Sunrise constellation, which would place tens of thousands of computing satellites in sun-synchronous orbits to serve AI workloads.

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Nia Therapeutics Wins First FDA Breakthrough Designation for a Brain Implant That Treats Memory Loss After Traumatic Brain Injury

The FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Nia Therapeutics' 60-channel Smart Neurostimulation System, a closed-loop brain implant that uses machine learning to detect impaired memory encoding and deliver targeted stimulation, marking the first such designation for TBI-related memory loss.

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