Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

Adafruit received a demand letter from Fenwick & West LLP on behalf of Flux.ai on May 22, 2026, ordering the company to stop publishing an article about alleged false and defamatory claims regarding Flux’s intellectual property, commercial traction, and user base. The letter also asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, though Adafruit accessed only publicly available information through a server misconfiguration. Adafruit has temporarily paused publishing on its blog while it considers its response, rejecting the letter’s assertions and maintaining its reporting addresses a matter of public security interest.

Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, including statements about Flux’s intellectual property, commercial traction and user base. The letter further asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Adafruit accessed only information that Flux’s own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration. Adafruit’s reporting concerns a matter of public security interest and was conducted in the ordinary course of responsible disclosure. Although Adafruit vigorously rejects the assertions made in Flux’s May 22, 2026 demand letter, we have temporarily stopped publishing on the Adafruit blog while we consider our response and next steps. We will update the community as appropriate. The Adafruit press contact is: email protected /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection 88f8faedfbfbc8e9ece9eefafde1fca6ebe7e5 -ladyada & pt