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Court documents show TikTok employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their concerns about risks to children. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. TikTok was repeatedly warned by employees about the risks the social media platform posed to children, according to court records obtained NPR. The documents say employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their.

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Last week over 200 packages of graded trading cards being shipped back to their owners were stolen from a Fedex truck parked outside the headquarters of Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by The Athletic. PSA is one of the largest third-party sports and hobby card grading companies in the world and it reported to the Santa Ana Police Department that the majority of.

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Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns about MCP (model context protocol), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools, the company is expanding its support for the open source standard. At.

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Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft. Now, with a $115 million funding boost, the Mountain View, California-based startup has a.

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TikTok was repeatedly warned by its own staffers about risks its platform posed to child safety, according to court records obtained by NPR. The publication reports that employees were frustrated over TikTok executives failing to appropriately act on concerns they raised, including minors bypassing age-restricted content, and appearing in "transactional sexual content" the company could financially benefit from. The previously unreported depositions of TikTok staffers were filed in federal court.

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The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing services and products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and remove them from government IT systems over national security concerns.