Evening 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.

eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

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

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

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

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