Meta $25 Billion Cambridge Analytica Penalty & LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Compromise - Hacker News (Oct 22, 2026)
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Meta $25 Billion Cambridge Analytica Penalty & LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Compromise - Hacker News (Oct 22, 2026)

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A jury's math first came to $219.5 billion. The judge brought it down to 25 billion, and that is still one of the largest privacy penalties ever handed to a tech company.

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Stay with us for the details. Welcome to The Automated Daily, Hacker News edition, the podcast created by Generative AI. I'm Trent Teller, and today is October 22nd, 2026.

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It's a busy one for security, a poisoned AI library, two cloud platforms dealing with possible data exposure, and urgent patches for PHP and GitLab. Let's start in a New Mexico courtroom.

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