X Files Appeal Against €120M EU Fine Under Digital Services Act X filed an appeal at the General Court of the European Union challenging the €120 million fine imposed by the European Commission on 5 December 2025, the first non-compliance fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This EU Decision resulted from an incomplete and superficial investigation, grave procedural errors, a tortured interpretation of the obligations under the DSA, and systematic breaches of rights of defence and basic due process requirements suggesting prosecutorial bias. This landmark case is the first judicial challenge to a DSA fine and could set important precedents for enforcement, penalty calculations, and fundamental rights protections under the 2022 regulation. X remains committed to user safety and transparency while defending our users' access to the only global town square.

38-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Husband Caught Her Performing S+x Act With Family D%g In Florida, U.S A 38-year-old Florida woman, Malia Nummerdor, has been arrested after her husband allegedly discovered footage of her engaging in s+xual activity with their family d%g. Nummerdor was charged with engaging in s+xual contact with an animal after her husband reportedly shared the allegations on Facebook and told police he had photographic and video evidence, according to Gulf Coast News. Police said the husband had installed two security cameras inside their home while trying to identify who had been taking money from a coin jar. He reportedly said everyone in the household knew about the cameras. However, while reviewing footage from a camera positioned in a bedroom, the man allegedly discovered recordings showing Nummerdor engaging in s+xual acts with the family d%g. He subsequently showed investigators images from the footage and gave them access to the laptop where the recordings were stored. During an interview with police on Tuesday, Nummerdor acknowledged that the footage showed her with the dog but denied engaging in any s+xual contact. She reportedly told officers that she was only petting the animal. According to the arrest report, however, police found her explanation contradictory and said she could not account for what she appeared to be doing in the video. Nummerdor was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Charlotte County Jail.

XRP is showing a power move after the Clarity Act. Why it's leading: - $XRP is the biggest direct beneficiary of clearer US crypto rules. - $XRP is built for payments and cross-border money transfers. The Clarity Act gives Ripple legal clarity to expand RLUSD (their stablecoin) inside the US. - $XLM, $ADA, and $HBAR are rallying for the same reason. They're all payment-focused coins that win under the new rules.

NEWS: X sued New York over a hate speech law and lost In December 2024 New York passed the Stop Hiding Hate Act. It applies to social media companies making $100M or more a year. Twice a year they file a report with the state attorney general explaining how they handle hate speech, extremism, harassment, foreign interference and disinformation. The law does not tell them to remove anything. Only to explain their own rules and report the numbers. Ignore it and the fine runs up to $15,000 per violation per day. It was written by Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Grace Lee with help from the Anti-Defamation League. Their letter said Musk and X had a "disturbing record" on moderation "that threatens the foundations of our democracy." X sued on 17 June 2025 in Manhattan federal court and named attorney general Letitia James. X argued the law forces it to talk about "highly sensitive and controversial speech" the state dislikes. "This is not a role that the government may play." X had real reason to expect a win. It ran this same play against California's nearly identical AB 587 and it worked. On 4 September 2024 the Ninth Circuit blocked the core reporting parts of that law. California settled in February and agreed not to enforce them. New York went the other way. On 26 August Judge John Cronan, a Trump appointee, threw the case out with prejudice. X cannot rewrite it and try again in his court. His reasoning was that the law asks for facts, not opinions. "Burger King chooses to generally offer higher-calorie items than, say, Sweetgreen, but the disclosure of calorie information remains purely factual. So too here." He also rejected X's separate claim that Section 230 blocks the law. Neither X nor the attorney general's office would comment. No appeal has been reported yet. The same argument wins in California and loses in New York. That is why the next move matters.

🇨🇳 Xi says he and 🇺🇸 Trump had a “candid & thorough” exchange & reached broad agreement on numerous issues as a new historical milestone for U.S.-China ties. Xi said both countries should “act with responsibility as major powers” & seek new ways to coexist peacefully.

Our co-founder @xiangrenNLP is at @COLM_conf in SF this week 📷 As LLMs become agents that act on our behalf, the big question is: can we actually trust and verify them? He'll be sharing our work on securing and auditing LLMs, from vulnerability detection to provenance to agent safeguards. If you're around, say hi 📷