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Even the bookie couldn't believe the bets that Shohei Ohtani's interpreter was throwing down.

The iconic catwalker also modeled two different legging-and-sports-bra sets.

The iconic catwalker also modeled two different legging-and-sports-bra sets.

Lane Kiffin recently faced a colorful question that not only would affect his LSU team but his own household.

Sen. Bernie Moreno accused his ex-son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, of holding his 2-year-old daughter’s stuffed blue bunny hostage for 48 hours.

Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone said: “I recognize that no report or investigation into the Eaton Fire can ease the deep pain and tragedy our residents have endured.

Apple Demands Forensics, Injunction On OpenAI - Which Fired Back Hours Later

Apple went to a federal judge on Monday with a sweeping demand in its case against OpenAI - in which two former Apple employees stand accused of funneling confidential information to the ChatGPT maker.

Apple wants an order barring OpenAI, io Products, Chang Liu, and Tang Yew Tan from touching its alleged trade secrets, plus forensic imaging of OpenAI's devices, cloud storage, email, and Slack, including anything that "previously contained" Apple data. The motion landed before Judge Edward J. Davila - yes, the Theranos judge - in the Northern District of California.

OpenAI fired back Monday night in a blog post titled "Apple is getting this wrong," calling the suit "careless, aggressive and oddly personal" and publishing email chains and iMessage screenshots to back it. Both sides have now put their evidence on the table, and the two accounts are irreconcilable.

"Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn't live up to that reputation," the company posted. 

As we reported last month, Apple sued on July 10, accusing OpenAI hardware chief Tan - a 24-year Apple veteran and former VP of product design for iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch - and former senior electrical engineer Liu of running a scheme to funnel confidential hardware information to OpenAI. The complaint says more than 400 former Apple employees now work there. It was randomly assigned to a magistrate judge before Apple declined to consent, sending it to Davila. Apple's statement then: significant evidence had emerged that OpenAI employees wrongfully took its secret information on unreleased technologies. Monday's motion is the escalation, and it is far more specific than the complaint was.

After suing, Apple sent OpenAI a letter offering to stand down on injunctive relief if OpenAI would agree to five things:

1. No future access, acquisition, use, disclosure, or solicitation of Apple trade secret information
2. Halt any ongoing access or use
3. Preserve relevant evidence
4. "Permit Apple's counsel and third-party forensic analysts to inspect, image, and analyze all devices, storage drives, and accounts in OpenAI's possession, custody, or control that contain, or previously contained, any of Apple's confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information"
5. "Search any OpenAI network location where any Apple proprietary and trade secret information may have been transferred or stored"

Per the motion, "OpenAI initially responded that it would be willing to agree to the first three items." Then, over more than two weeks of negotiations between the companies and their outside counsel, talks on items four and five went nowhere: "they could not reach agreement."

Translation: OpenAI would promise not to use Apple's secrets. It would not let Apple's lawyers image its machines. So Apple is now asking a federal judge to order it.

Apple's four-front theory

The motion accuses OpenAI of "misappropriation at the organizational level" running on four tracks - Apple's words:

"(1) using proprietary Apple information to acquire and use still more trade secrets, including from Apple's trusted business partners; (2) exfiltrating Apple's trade secret information directly (through conduct like Mr. Liu's); (3) maintaining ongoing information pipelines from contacts still employed at Apple; and (4) using Apple proprietary information during the recruiting processes to try to extract still more trade secrets from job candidates."

So - Apple is claiming they've got moles in their organization.  

The new evidence in Apple's filing

Beyond what was in the July complaint, the motion alleges:

• One of the eleven additional ex-Apple employees now at OpenAI, "in the hours before his interview with OpenAI, began screenshotting and downloading information related to the highly confidential Apple project about which Mr. Tan inquired during his interview."
• Liu allegedly told Yu-Ting "Alyssa" Peng, still at Apple, that another former Apple employee "fumbled" his answers to Tan's questions about the unannounced product - and helped her prep for her own OpenAI interview on the same subject matter.
• Tan allegedly circulated Apple's own manager exit checklist to a departing employee, writing: "One thing for sure is that Apple will probably walk you out (wasn't like that a year ago but they have been clamping down recently .... Attached below is the manager's checklist so this will give you time to plan."
• OpenAI has allegedly been "circulating to job candidates an Apple document that describes Apple's security processes when an employee leaves the company." Apple's gloss: "OpenAI's goal here is plain - to help departing Apple employees avoid the checks and protections of Apple's exit processes."
• One interviewee was reportedly "surprised" that others brought Apple parts to OpenAI interviews because he "didn't even know we could take those from the office."

On the supplier front, Apple says the Corporate Defendants "directed a trusted Apple partner" - name blacked out in the public version - to run Apple's proprietary metal-finishing process for them, and that they "knew this too because they were involved in this partnership while at Apple." Apple put its own Surface Finishing Manager, Jackie Hughes, under oath on that one, alongside eight other declarants - including James Pooley, who wrote the treatise on trade secrets law, and forensic investigator Daniel Roffman, whose exhibits supply most of the quoted messages.

One wording note: coverage of the July complaint centered on Liu allegedly exploiting a rare authentication bug - a zero-day, per TechCrunch - to reach Apple's network after leaving. This motion frames the five download sessions as exploiting "residual access to Apple's third-party cloud storage." Same alleged outcome either way: thousands of pages out the door between his January exit and April.

Tyler Durden Tue, 08/04/2026 - 14:00

Vogue and the Met clearly aren’t afraid to court controversy. Following last year’s Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez-funded Met Gala, the theme of the museum’s spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition — and the accompanying star-studded ball — will be “John Galliano: Horizons.” On this episode of “Currently Trending” Page Six Style & Shopping Director Elana...

Vogue and the Met clearly aren’t afraid to court controversy. Following last year’s Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez-funded Met Gala, the theme of the museum’s spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition — and the accompanying star-studded ball — will be “John Galliano: Horizons.” On this episode of “Currently Trending” Page Six Style & Shopping Director Elana...

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Palisades Fire Fraud: Man Headed To Prison After Scamming $64K Out Of FEMA

An East Hollywood man is headed to federal prison for a year and a day after collecting more than $64,000 in wildfire disaster relief on a Pacific Palisades home he had no connection to whatsoever.

People gathered on the beach near cleared lots where houses were destroyed in the Palisades Fire at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in Los Angeles on June 25, 2026. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Delvonne Dashon Johnson, 32, was sentenced on July 31 in Los Angeles and ordered to repay $64,148 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He pleaded guilty last year to fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits - a charge that carries a statutory maximum of 30 years.

In February 2025, weeks after the Palisades Fire tore through the coastline, Johnson filed a FEMA claim listing a Pacific Palisades address as a home he owned. FEMA wired him $64,138 later that same month - except, he didn't own the house. Someone else did, and she was living in it.

The fraud unraveled only when the actual homeowner tried to file her own claim. FEMA told her someone had already submitted one on her property's behalf. When investigators interviewed her on April 2, 2025, she told them she had lived at the address since 2015, that it was her primary residence, that she was there when the fire hit, that she had never rented the place to anyone, and that she had never heard of Delvonne Johnson.

Johnson was not working alone - he was one of several people federal prosecutors swept up for running the same play on the same disaster. Deanniah Hogan, 32, of Compton, allegedly posed as a renter at a Palisades home and drew roughly $17,351. Zenalyn McIntre, 38, of Sherman Oaks, allegedly submitted a fabricated utility bill and a driver's license listing a different address, and received about $25,229. Hedeshia Robertson, 36, of Lakewood, pleaded guilty after obtaining some $24,899. Another defendant allegedly claimed a nonexistent Altadena address as her destroyed primary residence and collected $23,441, plus two FEMA-booked hotel stays. Jaime Arturo Carrillo, 48, pleaded guilty after claiming property damage and utility disruption at a South Los Angeles address roughly 20 miles from either fire.

The pattern extends well beyond Los Angeles County. In June, a Honolulu man was sentenced to two years for conspiring to submit false FEMA claims tied to both the Lahaina fire and the Pacific Palisades fire, with a co-defendant posing as his Maui landlord before turning around and claiming to have lived in Pacific Palisades herself. The pair collected more than $60,000. He then filed fabricated flight records with the court and picked up an obstruction charge on top.

Victims of the Eaton and Palisades fires could qualify for a one-time $750 FEMA payment, up to $43,600 in other-needs assistance covering personal property, transportation and medical costs, and housing assistance for as long as 18 months. Homeowners were eligible for up to another $43,600 in repair money. Money that moves fast enough to help people who just lost everything moves fast enough to reach people who lost nothing.

The two fires ignited on Jan. 7, 2025, burned close to 60,000 acres, destroyed more than 16,000 structures, and killed 30 people.

For claiming a slice of the recovery money set aside for those people, Johnson drew 12 months and one day.

Tyler Durden Tue, 08/04/2026 - 13:20