Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

fivenewscrypto    mai 20, 2026   

An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called "Are We Dating the Same Guy" may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on fake AI citations to support doxing claims.

The case had already been dismissed with prejudice by a district court, which ruled there was no way to amend the complaint to possibly save it. But Nikko D'Ambrosio—who accused more than two dozen women of defaming him and blamed Meta for supposedly boosting the post to profit off its "entertainment value"—appealed anyway.

Perhaps he felt confident despite his likely tough odds because he was relying on MarcTrent.AI, a law firm that claims to use AI to "uncover legal opportunities traditional firms miss" and "increase legal success rates by 35 percent through predictive modeling."

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One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

fivenewscrypto    mai 20, 2026   

NASA released a much-anticipated contract solicitation for a Mars-orbiting spacecraft late last week, kicking off what is sure to be a hotly contested and potentially controversial procurement.

At issue is $700 million, already appropriated by Congress, to build a spacecraft, launch it to Mars, and once there to serve as a vehicle to relay communications between the red planet and Earth. But the stakes may be even bigger than this, including the possible resurrection of the recently canceled Mars Sample Return mission.

As part of the new solicitation, NASA says it will conduct the acquisition "as a full and open competition." But will it? That's the question that several people involved with this procurement process are asking. And it could turn messy, quickly.

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Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades

Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades

fivenewscrypto    mai 19, 2026   

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today's Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells.

Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what's now New South Wales, Australia. They found that the Barkindji ancestors had buried the dingo with the same care and ceremony as any beloved human member of the community and looked after the grave for centuries. The burial reveals that dingoes were, as Australian Museum and University of Sydney archaeologist and study co-author Amy Way puts it, “deeply valued and loved” by ancient people in Australia.

The long-lost dingo

Five years ago, Barkindji Elder Uncle Badger Bates and National Parks and Wildlife Service archaeologist Dan Witter saw bones eroding out of a road cut in Kinchega National Park, an area along the Baaka, or Darling River, in New South Wales, Australia. Badger recognized the bones as a dingo, lying on its left side in what was once a carefully built mound of river mussel shells.

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Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

fivenewscrypto    mai 19, 2026   

Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday.

Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a "fool" out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

But the jury found that Musk was aware of OpenAI's restructuring plans as early as 2021 and therefore missed the statute of limitations requiring him to bring the lawsuit within three years, The New York Times reported. Because Musk took too long to file the litigation, the jury deemed Altman and Brockman not liable for any of the claims that Musk brought against OpenAI, the NYT reported. The jury also let Microsoft off the hook, finding no liability for the OpenAI investor after Musk alleged they aided OpenAI's get-rich scheme.

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Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

fivenewscrypto    mai 19, 2026   

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the Windows 8/10 era. But its reformulated taskbar and Start menu came with a number of functional regressions from the versions in Windows 10. Some of these were addressed quickly; others continue to linger.

A new Windows Insider Preview build released to testers includes a new wave of improvements that fix longstanding regressions while trying out new things.

Most significantly, the Windows 11 taskbar can now be docked to any edge of your screen, including the left and right, something that was possible in Windows 10 (and many older versions of Windows) but has been missing from Windows 11 since launch. Users can configure slightly different taskbar behavior for every taskbar position—if you prefer a different icon alignment or a left/right-mounted taskbar over a top/bottom-mounted taskbar, or if you want different settings for labels and icon groupings, you can choose different options for each position and Windows will remember them.

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BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

fivenewscrypto    mai 19, 2026   

The march of time, and what counts for progress in the automotive industry, has not been particularly kind to the driving enthusiast. Our vehicles have gotten bigger and heavier. Touch-sensitive panels and screens replaced buttons. Steering feel evaporated about a decade ago. And if you're a fan of changing your own gears with a stick shift and three pedals, things have been looking bleak for a while now. Which makes BMW's send-off for its current sixth-generation M3 so notable.

BMW's M division kept the six-speed manual alive for the G80 M3, but only the normal version. If you wanted the more powerful, much torquier M3 Competition or the track-focused M3 CS (Competition Sport), the only transmission choice was an eight-speed automatic. That automatic happens to be the excellent ZF 8HP gearbox, and for being fast on track, I'd still choose it, because that makes left-foot braking easier.

Using paddle shifts might be faster, but I won't pretend it's more engaging than coordinating the movement of a gearstick through its gate, timed properly to the action of the clutch—especially if you're heel-and-toeing, but even if you use the auto-blip feature that revs the engines for you on downshifts now. BMW appears to recognize that too, because it says the 2027 M3 CS Handschalter is designed for maximum driver engagement, and just for North America.

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Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.

Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.

fivenewscrypto    mai 19, 2026   

When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the weeklong "Aviation Challenge" program at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.

"For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when I attended Aviation Challenge," Isaacman said on Friday evening during an event at the US Space & Rocket Center. "I became a pilot because I thought that was the closest I would ever get to the stars."

Decades later, after founding a successful online payments company and flying to space twice as a private citizen aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon, Isaacman has returned to Space Camp in Alabama on multiple occasions to meet with participants and share a bit of the awe he experienced as a kid. In 2022, a year after the first of these flights, Inspiration4, Isaacman donated $10 million to kick off a Space Camp expansion.

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