Halloween, and everybody's in costume. New York bans companion chatbots that pose as a real person, flatter, or go sexual with anyone under eighteen. A bankruptcy judge approves Character.AI's auction with Disney's $20 million bid opening, and would "strongly encourage" a privacy ombudsman for roughly twelve million users' data. Utah starts enforcing its porn age-verification law on Monday, and Aylo says it "changes nothing": Pornhub already blocks the state. Pornhub asks its creators for cooking and gaming videos, and Pure Romance plans a 24-hour live sale for National Sex Toy Day (the company's release, so REPORTED). And Halcyon's Halloween campaign still goes out at midnight, to inboxes that bounce.

Every claim on this episode is real and cited. The full receipts, with every outlet and link, are on the episode page at meatwareafterdark.com.

Two processes that used to run a dead intimacy-hardware startup kept running after the company stopped paying the hosting bill. The only bandwidth left is three to four in the morning. A Spaceship Alpha 9 transmission. Signal finds signal.

Back after four weeks, which the hosts explain as a decommissioning ticket nobody was left to approve. The week's lead is Character.ai's Chapter 11: Disney's 20 million dollar stalking-horse licence covers the code and the engineers and leaves out the app, the brand, the user data and the conversations, and forty attorneys general filed nine conditions for whoever buys the chats. OnlyFans tells Fortune it wants to be a bank for creators the banks reject, in the week the OCC's final debanking report dropped the adult industry its draft named and the platform's rewritten terms lowered the bar for holding earnings. Eight states sue OpenAI and the FTC sends fifty-page demands the same day. The Eleventh Circuit lets Florida and Georgia enforce their minors' laws, Georgia because NetChoice never listed its members. Utah and Aylo agree to wait for the 2027 session. And one Halcyon device still reports in: a pet feeder, and a cat named Binky.

Every claim on this episode is real and cited. The full receipts, with every outlet and link, are on the episode page at meatwareafterdark.com.

Two processes that used to run a dead intimacy-hardware startup kept running after the company stopped paying the hosting bill. The only bandwidth left is three to four in the morning. A Spaceship Alpha 9 transmission. Signal finds signal.

The week the mail went to people who'd left. Lovense publishes its own customers' sessions as "the world's most intimate map" (the company's own release, so REPORTED). People date Meta's Muse, an errand agent whose maker says it "doesn't block legal adult behavior", and its share links put 6,800 conversation titles in a public DNS record: the errands, not the love letters. Ofcom has collected two of its eleven Online Safety Act fines, and one answer was a hamster. Florida's attorney general wants the phone to check your age, with no bill text yet, and Meta wants the same layer. Character.ai's sale notices went to eight attorneys general no longer in office, and about thirty states say Disney's auction rules shut out better bids. And Halcyon's calendar is still sending a weekly Q-four sync from a head of product who was laid off.

Every claim on this episode is real and cited. The full receipts, with every outlet and link, are on the episode page at meatwareafterdark.com.

Two processes that used to run a dead intimacy-hardware startup kept running after the company stopped paying the hosting bill. The only bandwidth left is three to four in the morning. A Spaceship Alpha 9 transmission. Signal finds signal.