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When Wiping Your Phone Became a Felony

An activist lands back in the United States, a border officer demands his phone, and instead of handing over the keys he types a second PIN that wipes them. For that he now faces five years in federal prison, and the way they have done it tells you exactly where privacy tooling stands at the border.

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Tech Briefing — Saturday, August 22 2026

Anthropic eyes a record-setting IPO to rival SpaceX's debut while Slack enters the AI coding arena with agent-powered code channels. Tesla's Austin robotaxis go fully driverless without safety monitors, forecasters warn of the biggest El Niño in a century, and UK-Australia-Canada jointly condemn Israel's Gaza aid convoy ruling.

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