This Week in Tech 1077

Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform “addictiveness” in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits. Find out why attorneys, entrepreneurs, and everyday users are suddenly on edge.

• Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube 
• Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts
• Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy
• Elon Musk’s lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out
• Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims
• FCC’s confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout
• Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs
• The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification
• Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography
• Antimatter on the move: CERN’s oddball truck experiment
• Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse
• Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance
• Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger
• Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade
• Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers
• Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders
• Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future?

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Links

• Is Big Tech Facing a Big Tobacco Moment?
• Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
• Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music
• Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
• Anthropic wins preliminary injunction in DOD fight as judge cites 'First Amendment retaliation'
• Breaking down the government’s bizarre router ban
• LiteLLM Hack: Were You One of the 47,000?
• Flipper Zero, Everyone's Favorite Legally Dubious Hacker Tool, Gets an AI Upgrade
• GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system
• I Decompiled the White House's New App
• 2026 Turing Award Goes To Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
• Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
• Walmart Announces Digital Price Labels for Every Store in the U.S. By the End of 2026
• UK Man Accuses Spouse of Stealing $172 Million Bitcoin Password via CCTV Camera