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OpenAI to Shut Down Sora Video Generation Platform

OpenAI is planning to discontinue its Sora video platform app and related products, just 15 months after launch, amid low user adoption and strategic refocus.

March 25, 20261 min
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OpenAI to Discontinue Sora Video Platform and Related AI Video Products

OpenAI is planning to shut down its Sora video generation platform, including the consumer app, developer version, and ChatGPT video feature, just 15 months after its highly-publicized launch.

March 25, 20261 min
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Meta ordered to pay $375m over child safety misleading claims

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $375m after a jury found the company misled users about platform safety for children, exposing them to sexually explicit material and predators. This marks the first successful state lawsuit against Meta over child safety issues.

March 25, 20262 min
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OpenAI Plans to Discontinue Sora Video Generation Platform and Consumer App

OpenAI is planning to discontinue its Sora video platform app and related products, including a developer version and video feature in ChatGPT, just 15 months after its high-profile launch.

March 25, 20261 min
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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department, along with authorities in Canada and Germany, dismantled four major botnets that compromised over three million IoT devices and launched record-breaking DDoS attacks.

March 25, 20263 min
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Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content

Influencers will be able to link products directly in their content, similar to how TikTok Shop links are embedded.

March 25, 20262 min
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Pentagon's Attempt to Cripple Anthropic Is 'Troublesome,' Judge Says

US District Judge Rita Lin suggested the Department of Defense may be illegally retaliating against Anthropic for trying to restrict military use of its AI tools, calling the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation an attempt to 'cripple' the company.

March 25, 20264 min
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OpenAI's Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it's shutting down

OpenAI announced it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that launched six months ago, without giving a reason or timeline for the discontinuation.

March 25, 20261 min
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TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

Popular AI proxy library LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were compromised by the TeamPCP threat group, likely through a CI/CD pipeline attack involving the Trivy security scanner.

March 25, 20261 min
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Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers

The UK government is testing social media restrictions on 300 teenagers through trials involving complete bans, time limits, and overnight curfews to gather evidence for potential under-16s social media legislation.

March 25, 20264 min
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Jury reaches verdict in major Meta child safety trial in New Mexico

A jury has reached a verdict in a civil trial where New Mexico's attorney general alleged Meta failed to protect its platforms from child predators, potentially facing over $2 billion in penalties.

March 25, 20263 min
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OpenAI Plans to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year. The company plans to discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT.

March 24, 20262 min
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Jury reaches verdict in major Meta child safety trial in New Mexico

A jury has reached a verdict in a New Mexico civil trial where the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to protect its apps from child predators and violated consumer protection laws.

March 24, 20263 min
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Kentucky woman rejects $26 million offer to turn her farm into a data center

Ida Huddleston, 82, and her family declined a $26 million offer from a major AI company to build a data center on their 1,200-acre Kentucky farm, citing concerns about environmental impact and disappearing farmland.

March 24, 20262 min
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Orbital Data Centers Part 1: There's No Way This is Economically Viable, Right?

The first of three articles examining the financial viability of putting data centers in space, as companies like SpaceX plan megaconstellations of up to 1 million satellites to address AI computing demands.

March 24, 20266 min
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OpenAI to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App and Products

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform and all products using Sora models, including the consumer app, developer version, and ChatGPT video feature, just 15 months after its launch.

March 24, 20261 min
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CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added CVE-2026-20131, a Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center deserialization vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation.

March 24, 20261 min
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FCC bans new routers made outside the USA over security risks

The Federal Communications Commission has updated its Covered List to include all consumer routers made in foreign countries, banning the sale of new models in the U.S. over national security concerns.

March 24, 20263 min
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TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

Security researchers have discovered that TeamPCP threat actors have compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 through what appears to be a CI/CD pipeline attack targeting the Trivy security scanner.

March 24, 20261 min
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Meta misled users about its products' safety, jury decides

New Mexico got a historic $375 million jury verdict in the first of several cases nationwide against Meta for willfully violating state law by misleading users about product safety and engaging in unconscionable trade practices.

March 24, 20262 min
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New Building Regulations Require Heat Pumps and Solar Panels in All New Homes in England

England's new building regulations mandate that developers install heat pumps and solar panels in all new homes as part of the government's Warm Homes Plan to cut fossil fuel use and meet net zero targets.

March 24, 20266 min
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New Building Regulations Require Heat Pumps and Solar Panels in All New Homes in England

England's new building regulations mandate that developers install heat pumps and solar panels in all new homes as part of the government's Warm Homes Plan to cut fossil fuel use and meet net zero targets.

March 24, 20266 min
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