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Trump Signs Memo Green-Lighting Private Hackers: US Government Outsources Cyberattacks

A newly signed national security memo lets private companies launch cyberattacks on behalf of the US government—provided they first put down a $1 million bond. But nobody's quite sure who's on the hook if things go wrong.

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Amazon Loses Round to Perplexity: Court Says the User—Not the AI—Is the One Placing the Order

The Ninth Circuit struck down Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's shopping bot, hinging on one key point: it's the user, not Perplexity itself, who's actually operating the Comet browser to place orders.