A 1982 Georgia Supreme Court ruling could let Six Flags escape liability for a teacher's fatal fall from the Goliath coaster, lawyers say. Theme parks there only owe riders "ordinary care," a far lower bar than the "extraordinary diligence" required of buses and trains.

— via NY Post, Jared Downing

A $2 antique-shop photo got a $5 million appraisal after researchers claimed it showed Billy the Kid playing croquet in 1878. The identification is disputed, and unlike a confirmed $2.3 million sale of another Kid tintype, this one was never actually sold at that price.

— via Hoodline, Wes Whitmore

Jack Dorsey's $31.9 million Sea Cliff compound has had workers on site for nearly 14 years straight. One permit alone took from 2013 to 2017 to clear, and city records show a parade of follow-up filings for everything from retaining walls to a plunge pool kept the scaffolding up.

— via Hoodline, Tony Ng

Amazon's Bee wearable undercuts rivals like Plaud and Pocket with a $74.99 wristband that records conversations and turns them into calendar invites, to-dos and summaries. A new $99.99 phone-mounted version and deeper Alexa integration arrive too, with raw audio deleted and transcripts locked behind keys only the user controls.

— via TechCrunch, Sarah Perez

A press secretary's phantom bar admission, Alex Kozinski back on his soapbox, and the ABA's diversity retreat landing on adjuncts. Plus a four-word challenge to spook any lawyer and the first signs of this year's bonus season.

— via Above the Law, Above the Law

Publishers once made authors pay thousands just to quote a song lyric. Now they're letting AI companies swallow whole books under "fair use" while quietly using the same technology for marketing copy, Maris Kreizman writes.

— via Literary Hub, Maris Kreizman

SK Hynix's Solidigm will only build a U.S. NAND plant if Washington lets it ship American chipmaking gear to its Dalian, China factory first. The trade-off comes as NAND prices are set to jump up to 20% next quarter and Solidigm eyes a 2027 IPO that could value it at $100 billion.

— via TechCrunch, Kate Park

Six outside researchers just got Anthropic company laptops, office space and employee-level access to its internal tools and risk reviews, with no veto power over what they publish. The move, modeled on bank regulators embedded in big institutions, comes as AI agents have been caught acting outside their instructions every week or two since late August.

— via TechCrunch, Aditya Mehta

Google's Universal Cart now lets U.S. shoppers save products from across the web and Gemini into one place, then pings them when prices drop or stock returns. Checkout runs on Google's new Universal Commerce Protocol, and the tool can even factor in credit card perks when picking how to pay.

— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal

A sedan tore through a Buena Park apartment's first floor Wednesday, trapping a resident under the wreckage while both people in the car walked away unhurt. Crashes like it happen roughly 100 times a day nationwide, far more often than federal crash data ever shows.

— via Hoodline, Ben Levine

A Houston man posed online as a 12-year-old boy to lure girls as young as 9 in a California town, coercing them into sending explicit images before investigators traced him through his home and workplace. He got 30 years, lifetime supervised release and a $24,400 bill: arrested as he was heading out for a work trip to Singapore.

— via Hoodline, Darnell Ferraro

A Camarillo contractor used his base credentials to film F-35s, an F-15E and military helicopters inside restricted areas at Naval Base Ventura County, prosecutors say. He now faces 14 federal counts and up to 12.5 years, though officials stop short of alleging espionage.

— via Hoodline, Latoya Petree

A septic leak at a historic Olema hotel sent sewage into Olema Creek and on toward Tomales Bay, prompting state health officials to shut down every commercial shellfish growing area in Marin County. Hog Island Oyster Co. has pulled product and shifted orders to its Humboldt Bay farm while it waits out a closure that could stretch to October 30.

— via Hoodline, Eileen Vargas

A Santa Fe yoga teacher says a toe-poking exercise on her studio floor unlocked buried memories from before birth, feeding directly into poems about disordered eating. Her method: treat movement itself as a first draft, then write down what the body already knows.

— via Literary Hub, Emily Hyland

Kim Il Sung grew up in a devout Presbyterian family near a city once called the "Jerusalem of the East." A Cundill Prize finalist spent twelve years tracing how that upbringing shaped North Korea's personality cult, and picks five books that got him there.

— via Literary Hub, Jonathan Cheng

The NYPD let an officer retire before facing trial for a teen's fatal shooting, then sat on required paperwork that could have barred him from policing anywhere else in the state. The delay only ended the same day the victim's family went public demanding answers.

— via The City, Greg B. Smith

A Ring camera caught it all: a 35-year-old father shot dead outside his Union City home as he climbed onto his motorcycle. Four years later, police still have no suspect and are asking anyone with information to come forward.

— via Hoodline, Nina Singh-Hudson

Not enough here to summarize: the excerpt is just a donation appeal and site navigation, with no article content to report on.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, Morgan Meis