Today’s tech news is really about trust in digital identity. Meta is trying to revive online communities with Forum, a new standalone app that pulls Facebook Groups into a Reddit-like space, complete with AI tools for answering questions and helping moderators manage discussions. But the company is also facing a fresh challenge in Texas, where Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges Meta and WhatsApp misled users about how private encrypted messages really are — claims Meta disputes, and which remain unproven in court. Elsewhere, the data world is getting a more practical kind of AI-era infrastructure update, with Apache Iceberg’s latest masterclass spotlighting the plumbing behind modern analytics: metadata, streaming ingestion, Python access, and low-risk migration. And on the cultural edge of tech, Ozzy Osbourne’s family has unveiled an AI-powered interactive hologram, pushing the debate over digital afterlives into even more uncanny territory.