The day’s biggest story puts an ordinary chatbot user in court: a Florida woman faces a felony charge after Claude flagged an entry she wrote like a diary. Privacy, platform permissions, and stalled regulation run through the rest of the digest, with science, business, and culture each holding their own.

A decade-in-the-making store redesign and a chip opening to Linux frame a day about who controls defaults — with two-tier encryption, AI agents testing boundaries, a $17.2 million lifeline for arXiv, an electric Corolla, and a 17-year vigil on Street View.