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Archives for May 2026

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Trump Mobile admits it suffered a data breach.

YouTuber Coffeezilla first reported the leak of customer details, now apparently fixed. Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien has now confirmed to The Verge there was a breach, which he blames on “a third-party platform provider.”

“The impacted information appears to be limited to certain customer details, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, order identifiers and mobile phone numbers.

Out of an abundance of caution, our third-party platform provider has implemented additional safeguards and enhanced monitoring measures while the matter continues to be investigated.”

Update: Added comment from Trump Mobile’s CEO.

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Dominic Preston
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Live Nation-Ticketmaster asks judge to override jury verdict or let it have a new trial.

The company asked the judge to rule that, as a matter of law, it could not be found an illegal monopolist, despite the jury issuing a verdict against it. If that fails, it’s asked the court to grant it a new trial altogether.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Trump delayed signing AI executive order because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it.”

As Politico reports, Trump postponed signing an executive order on government oversight and access to AI at the last minute on Thursday, saying it “could have been a blocker” for the jobs and “tremendous good” he claims AI is creating. Trump also said China was a factor:

We’re leading China. We’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that.

Luigi Mangione supporters are back in court — this time with press credentials

A handful of supporters showed up to a pretrial hearing with New York City-issued press passes.

Mia Sato
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bluesky says that Russian influence operators are hijacking accounts to share disinformation.

Hijacked accounts include those of people who are “influential in their fields, though perhaps not famous,” like journalists and professors, according to The New York Times.

Musk v. Altman: Much ado about nothing
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We sent Liz Lopatto to Musk v. Altman and all we got was this episode of Decoder

Nilay Patel
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
The FCC voted to ‘streamline’ tracking US broadband quality.

But the nonprofit Public Knowledge argues its changes could make the National Broadband Map less effective. Public Knowledge broadband policy director Alisa Valentin:

Today, the Commission is once again invoking the term ‘streamlining’ as justification for creating a permission structure that allows providers to evade accountability while consumers experience the consequences of distorted broadband maps.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Book publishers win $19.5 million default judgement against Anna’s Archive.

A judge awarded Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and other major publishers with the judgment after Anna’s Archive — an open-source library and pirate activist group — didn’t respond to their copyright lawsuit.

Just like with the $322 million judgment awarded to Spotify and major music labels, collecting damages from anonymous online operators isn’t easy.