A California judge ruled the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic was unlawful retaliation for arguing in public. A second case in Washington is still open, so the company technically remains on the list. Alex and Jordan look at Meta's kids settlement, headlines of eighteen billion dollars against a forever pass on kids' data for age checks, Treasury putting an Italian volunteer email host on a terrorism list for running encrypted mail, and unnamed sources saying Stripe dropped a bid for PayPal. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-28

In this episode

• The label did the damage — A Califo ...