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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-07-29-pm/
- Published: 2026-07-29T23:12:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-29T23:12:25.000Z
- Description: Two eBay stories about the same $56M harassment settlement flooded the wires today. It’s one very expensive lesson in corporate restraint. Elsewhere, chips had a good day, robots did not, and the AI industry keeps finding new ways to hack itself.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

Two eBay stories about the same $56M harassment settlement flooded the wires today. It's one very expensive lesson in corporate restraint. Elsewhere, chips had a good day, robots did not, and the AI industry keeps finding new ways to hack itself.

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#### [eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ebay-former-execs-pay-56m-to-settle-bloody-pig-mask-harassment-case/?ref=adjacent.media)

The Massachusetts couple who run a tech newsletter were tormented with live spiders, funeral wreaths, and a pig mask by eBay's own security team. eBay and three ex-executives are paying nearly $56M for it. *(Ars Technica)*

#### [Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/29/0441240/trump-administration-bans-new-chinese-humanoid-robots?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm%5Fmedium=feed)

New foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots, plus power inverters, are now on the covered list over spying fears. Zuckerberg thinks this is the wrong move entirely. *(Slashdot)*

#### [SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to \~$54.34B](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/sk-hynix-earnings-profit-revenue-hbm-memory.html?ref=adjacent.media)

Operating profit up 557% YoY, and it still missed estimates. The HBM memory boom has apparently reset what "good" even means. *(CNBC)*

#### [Ozlo's Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose's sleep earbud legacy](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/ozlos-sleepbuds-2-build-on-boses-sleep-earbud-legacy/?ref=adjacent.media)

Longer battery, better connectivity, and mercifully no AI angle whatsoever. *(TechCrunch)*

> “The full story reviews concerns from business practices to whether Anthropic is trying to kneecap competitors.” — *Marcus on AI, on the WSJ's Anthropic backlash piece*