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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts
Internet service providers are again urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose new fees on Big Tech firms…
Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video
Australia’s safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000 daily fines…
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI
Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into whether Nvidia,…
Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says
The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt…
Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government
Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Google has achieved its goal of avoiding a jury trial in one antitrust…
Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks onstage at SXSW on March 11, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images |…
FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission wants to verify that Internet service providers are strengthening…
Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news
After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake…
T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out
Enlarge / T-Mobile logo exhibited during Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images…
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers
Getty Images | NurPhoto / Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of their…
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino As expected, broadband industry lobby groups have sued the Federal Communications Commission in…
GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says
Enlarge / Keith Gill, known on Reddit under the pseudonym DeepFuckingValue and as Roaring Kitty, is seen on…
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Adult content has always proliferated on Twitter, but the platform now called X…
Lawsuit argues Call of Duty helped cause the Uvalde school shooting
Enlarge / Is this an aspirational image for mass shooters? The families of multiple victims of the 2022…
NYT targets Street View Worldle game in fight to wipe out Wordle clones
The New York Times is fighting to take down a game called Worldle, according to a legal filing…
TikTok vaguely disputes report that it’s making a US-only app
TikTok is now disputing a Reuters report that claims the short-video app is cloning its algorithm to potentially…
Musk can’t avoid testifying in SEC probe of Twitter buyout by playing victim
After months of loudly protesting a subpoena, Elon Musk has once again agreed to testify in the US…
Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get
YouTube’s Content ID system—which automatically detects content registered by rightsholders—is “completely fucking broken,” a YouTuber called “Albino” declared…
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups
Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit targeting the…
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities
Google needs to pump the brakes when it comes to tracking sensitive information shared with DMV sites, a…
Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit
Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books…
Municipal broadband advocates fight off attacks from “dark money” groups
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Cities and towns that build their own broadband networks often say they only…
Tesla shareholder group opposes Musk’s $46B pay, slams board “dysfunction”
Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty A Tesla shareholder group yesterday urged other shareholders to vote against…
Investigation shows how easy it is to find escorts, oxycodone on Eventbrite
This June, approximately 150 motorcycles will thunder down Route 9W in Saugerties, New York, for Ryan’s Ride for…
US sues Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation, seeks breakup of monopoly
Enlarge / Ticketmaster advertisements in the United States v. South Africa women’s soccer match at Soldier Field on…
OpenAI ends harsh non-disparagement agreements that could claw back millions
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Former and current OpenAI employees received a memo this week that the…
Biden’s new import rules will hit e-bike batteries too
Last week, the Biden administration announced it would levy dramatic new tariffs on electric vehicles, electric vehicle batteries,…
Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and…
Democratic consultant indicted for Biden deepfake that told people not to vote
Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023,…
Sky voice actor says nobody ever compared her to ScarJo before OpenAI drama
Enlarge / Scarlett Johansson attends the Golden Heart Awards in 2023. OpenAI is sticking to its story that…
T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. T-Mobile today is…
Lawmakers say Section 230 repeal will protect children—opponents predict chaos
Enlarge / US Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), right, speaks as House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers…
Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial
Last week, Google sent a cashier’s check to the US government that it claimed in a court filing…
“CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest
The US Department of Justice has started cracking down on the use of AI image generators to produce…
23-year-old man accused of running $100 million online narcotics marketplace
ullstein bild / Getty Images News Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with…
Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic
Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in downtown San Francisco on Bush and Sansome Streets as it drives…
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
The US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive allegedly bribed a powerful state…
Concerns over addicted kids spur probe into Meta and its use of dark patterns
Getty Images | Chesnot Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to…
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves
Getty Images | SOPA Images A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging that…
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training
After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy…
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose security breaches within 30 days…
Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name
Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Twitter.com links are now redirecting to the x.com domain as Elon Musk gets…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban
Enlarge / Screenshot from the documentary Who Is Bobby Kennedy? In a lawsuit that seems determined to ignore…
Bumble apologizes for ads shaming women into sex
For the past decade, the dating app Bumble has claimed to be all about empowering women. But under…
MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says
Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated brothers allegedly stole $25 million by tampering with the ethereum blockchain…
DOJ says Boeing faces criminal charge for violating deal over 737 Max crashes
Enlarge / Relatives hold a poster with faces of the victims of Ethiopia flight 302 outside a courthouse…
Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say
After backlash over Google’s search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn websites, Google has started…
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams
Microsoft Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is…
AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation
Getty Images | Joe Raedle AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is likely to…
Elon Musk’s X dodges Australian order to remove church stabbing video
An Australian federal court sided with Elon Musk on Monday, rejecting an Australian safety regulator’s request to extend…
TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US government over “foreign adversary” law
Getty Images | Chesnot TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the “Foreign…
Oil companies may soon have to pay for Vermont’s climate recovery
Enlarge / Ripton, VT – July 16, 2023: Ethan Poploski stood in front of his family’s home, which…
US Cellular is for sale, reportedly could be “carved up” by major carriers
Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile is reportedly close to buying a portion of the regional carrier US…
Big Three carriers pay $10M to settle claims of false “unlimited” advertising
Verizon T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that…
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says
A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping…
Studio: Takedown notice for 15-year-old fan-made Hunt for Gollum was a mistake
Enlarge / WETA “Gollum” figure at Arclight at the opening of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return…
Leaked FBI email stresses need for warrantless surveillance of Americans
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to “look for ways”…
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook
themotioncloud/Getty Images Ethan Zuckerman wants to release a tool that would allow Facebook users to control what appears…
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole
Getty Images | nadla The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of…
Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies
Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from…
OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections
As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern…
SEC crypto crackdown continues with Robinhood as lawsuit looms
Continuing its crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may potentially sue Robinhood Markets over…
Telcos keep using “insecure” Chinese gear because of congressional inaction
Getty Images | NurPhoto The US government has pressured telcos to rip out network gear made by Chinese…
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks
Razer The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week a proposed settlement against Razer that would see the…
What Are the Fees for Employment Lawyers in Toronto?
Fees for Employment Lawyers in Toronto Among the biggest complaints about lawyers is their fees. Many people feel…
Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law
Enlarge / Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle for sentencing on Tuesday, April…
Supreme Court decides not to block Texas law that age-gates porn websites
Getty Images | PA Thompson The US Supreme Court yesterday denied a request to block a Texas law…
Apple deal could have been “suicide” for Google, company lawyer says
Enlarge / John Schmidtlein, partner at Williams & Connolly LLP and lead litigator for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, arrives…
Google tells court it shouldn’t have to distribute third-party app stores
Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Google urged a federal court to reject Epic Games’ request for an injunction…
Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats
Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, exits federal court in Washington, DC, on…
Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook
“Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a…
AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for “Turbo” 5G speeds
Getty Images | Bloomberg AT&T is now charging mobile customers an extra $7 per month for faster wireless…
Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI
In mid-June 2019, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella received a rude awakening in an email…
Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking…
CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Telecom provider CenturyLink left a couple in Oregon without landline phone service for…
DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say
Enlarge / Medical marijuana growing in a facility in Canada. The US Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to…
FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data
Getty Images | SOPA Images The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196…
Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board
On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security…
Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over “funding secured” tweets
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC.…
Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes
Getty Images | eccolo74 The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups sued the Federal Trade Commission…
In the face of bans, ByteDance tightens grip over US TikTok operations
FT/Getty Images TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years,…
TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say
Getty Images | NurPhoto TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden…
Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
Discord Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion…
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
Getty Images | Creativeye99 A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing…
EPA issues four rules limiting pollution from fossil fuel power plants
Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of rules that target pollution from fossil fuel power…
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote
Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules…
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis
On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with…
Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence…
US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
Getty Images | Chesnot The Senate last night approved a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell…
FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable
Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan talks with guests during an event in the Eisenhower Executive…
North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows
Aurich Lawson / Getty For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence,…
Biden signs bill criticized as “major expansion of warrantless surveillance”
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Congress passed and President Biden signed a reauthorization of Title VII of the…
TikTok ready to “move to the courts” to prevent ban in US
TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to…
Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets
A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice’s first case involving cryptocurrency open-market…
China orders Apple to remove Meta apps after “inflammatory” posts about president
Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Apple…
Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story
Enlarge / A cropped image showing Raw TV’s poster for the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did, which features…
Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist
Getty Images Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a…
Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute
The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced its leadership…
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post
Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to start charging new users to post on the…
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will…
UK seeks to criminalize creation of sexually explicit AI deepfake images without consent
On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit deepfake images.…
US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme
A 28-year-old Delaware woman, Hadja Kone, was arrested after cops linked her to an international sextortion scheme targeting…
Report details how Russia obtains Starlink terminals for war in Ukraine
Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in England. Getty…
Report: People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier
Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started requiring…
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites
Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the National Association…
EPA’s PFAS rules: We’d prefer zero, but we’ll accept 4 parts per trillion
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has finalized rules for handling water supplies that are contaminated…
Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”
Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg Elon Musk’s clumsy…
Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly
Epic Games has filed a proposed injunction that would stop Google from restricting third-party app distribution outside Google…
Elon Musk’s X to stop allowing users to hide their blue checks
X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously,…
Industries Where Severance Pay is More Common
Where Severance Pay is More Common Severance pay is a way for companies to protect themselves from legal…
US lawmaker proposes a public database of all AI training material
Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models’ training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a…
More legal acrimony for Truth Social, as executive says he was hacked
A board member of Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, has been accused of hacking…
Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Enlarge / A sample consumer label for home Internet service. FCC Starting today,…
EPA seeks to cut “Cancer Alley” pollutants
Enlarge / An oil refinery in Louisiana. Facilities such as this have led to a proliferation of petrochemical…
Elon Musk denies knowing who’s suing him to dodge defamation suit
After Elon Musk was accused of defaming Ben Brody—a 22-year-old Jewish man falsely linked to a neo-Nazi brawl…
Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
Enlarge / Divi Divi trees on a sandy beach in Aruba. Aruba has long been a special place…
FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
Getty Images | BernardaSv The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet…
Elon Musk threatens to disobey court order over banned profiles
Brazil’s attorney general has demanded “urgent regulation” of social media sites after Elon Musk threatened to disobey a…
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a spectrum policy event at the National Press Club on Monday,…
Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme
Google has sued two app developers based in China over an alleged scheme targeting 100,000 users globally over…
Meta relaxes “incoherent” policy requiring removal of AI videos
On Friday, Meta announced policy updates to stop censoring harmless AI-generated content and instead begin “labeling a wider…
Claims of TikTok whistleblower may not add up
The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the…
FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment”
Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography California can keep enforcing its state net neutrality law after the Federal…
Publisher: OpenAI’s GPT Store bots are illegally scraping our textbooks
For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it…
Elon Musk shares “extremely false” allegation of voting fraud by “illegals”
Getty Images | Nathan Stirk Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson yesterday issued a statement debunking claims of…
“Pink slime” local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears
Enlarge / Chicago City Wire is a hyper-partisan website masquerading as an outlet that does journalism. FT Montage…
Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years
A high-level Iowa hospital systems administrator, Matthew Kierans, has admitted to stealing a coworker’s identity and posing as…
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan. The conversation about Apple begins around…
X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says
Ever since Elon Musk’s X Corp sued Media Matters for America (MMFA) over a pair of reports that…
AT&T acknowledges data leak that hit 73 million current and former users
Getty Images | VIEW press AT&T reset passcodes for millions of customers after acknowledging a massive leak involving…
Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”
To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records…
Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple,…
Florida braces for lawsuits over law banning kids from social media
On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission.…
Pornhub could block Florida if child safety law takes effect
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images This week, Florida made headlines after passing HB 3, a law banning children…
After overreaching TOS angers users, cloud provider Vultr backs off
After backlash, the cloud provider Vultr has updated its terms to remove a clause that a Reddit user…
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
Getty Images | Charles O’Rear Two lawsuits filed by a civil rights group allege that county jails in…
NYC’s government chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations
Enlarge / Has a government employee checked all those zeroes and ones floating above the skyline? If you…
FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Enlarge / FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at US District Court on March 30, 2023, in New York…
Biden orders every US agency to appoint a chief AI officer
The White House has announced the “first government-wide policy to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness…
Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called “Ghostbusters,” designed to sneakily…
Starlink mobile plans hit snag as FCC dismisses SpaceX spectrum application
Enlarge / A Starlink user terminal during winter. Getty Images | AntaresNS Starlink’s mobile ambitions were dealt at…
Missouri AG sues Media Matters over its X research, demands donor names
Getty Images | NurPhoto Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey yesterday sued Media Matters in an attempt to protect…
SCOTUS mifepristone case: Justices focus on anti-abortion groups’ legal standing
Enlarge / Demonstrators participate in an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court…
Lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X against anti-hate speech group dismissed by US judge
Getty Images | Dan Kitwood A US judge has struck down a lawsuit brought by X against a…
Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov
peterschreiber.media | Getty Images The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking…
Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app”
Aurich Lawson | NurPhoto / Getty Images X used to be called Twitter, but soon it will become…
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist
iStock/Getty Images X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity…
SBF repeatedly lied to get out of “supervillain” prison term, FTX CEO alleges
Enlarge / FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (R) departs Manhattan Federal Court after an arraignment hearing on March 30,…
Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default
Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political…
Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO
Enlarge / Steve Huffman, u/spez on Reddit, sold 500,000 of his shares in Reddit’s IPO on Thursday AFP…
Cable ISP fined $10,000 for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband
Enlarge / “Yes, we offer Internet at your address.” An Internet service provider that admitted lying to the…
Apple’s green message bubbles draw wrath of US attorney general
Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today’s antitrust…
World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations
Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented…
Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites’ content
Google has agreed to pay 250 million euros (about $273 million) to settle a dispute in France after…
Michael Cohen loses court motion after lawyer cited AI-invented cases
Enlarge / Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in…
Intel receives $8.5 billion from US for expanding high-end fab capacity
Intel will receive $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans from the US government to…
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews of employers, has recently begun adding real names to user…
Tesla settles with Black worker after $3.2 million verdict in racism lawsuit
Enlarge / Tesla cars sit in a parking lot at the company’s factory in Fremont, California on October…
Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion
Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider (BI)…
Epic asks court to block Apple’s 27% commission on website purchases
Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Epic Games yesterday urged a federal court to sanction Apple for alleged violations…
“Overwhelming evidence” shows Craig Wright did not create bitcoin, judge says
Enlarge / Dr. Craig Wright arrives at the Rolls Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice, on…
US government agencies demand fixable ice cream machines
Enlarge / Taylor’s C709 Soft Serve Freezer isn’t so much mechanically complicated as it is a software and…
Pornhub blocks all of Texas to protest state law—Paxton says “good riddance”
Enlarge / Signs displayed at the Pornhub booth at the 2024 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at Resorts World…
Public officials can block haters—but only sometimes, SCOTUS rules
There are some circumstances where government officials are allowed to block people from commenting on their social media…
Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten
Enlarge / National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy testifies about the Boeing door-plug investigation before the Senate…
“Really bad timing”: Meta is killing misinformation analysis tool on August 14
Meta is discontinuing data analysis tool CrowdTangle on August 14. The closure will come three months ahead of…
FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for…
Meta sues “brazenly disloyal” former exec over stolen confidential docs
A recently unsealed court filing has revealed that Meta has sued a former senior employee for “brazenly disloyal…
Bitcoin Fog operator convicted of laundering $400M in bitcoins on darknet
A US federal jury has convicted a dual Russian-Swedish national, Roman Sterlingov, for operating Bitcoin Fog, “the longest-running…
Apple to allow iOS app installs from websites, but small devs don’t qualify
Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple will let European app developers distribute iPhone and iPad applications to users directly…
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
Enlarge / Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building on January 30, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images |…
Airbnb bans creepy surveillance cameras inside rentals starting April 30
Airbnb, like hotels and rival vacation rental site Vrbo, will no longer allow hosts to record guests while…
50 injured on Boeing 787 as “strong shake” reportedly sent heads into ceiling
Enlarge / A LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner taxiing at Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Chile on…
Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job
Caitlin Vogus is the deputy director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation and a First Amendment…
Law enforcement doesn’t want to be “customer service” reps for Meta any more
Enlarge / Meta has a verified program for users of Facebook and Instagram. Getty Images | Chesnot Forty-one…
US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft
Enlarge / A Google sign stands in front of the building on the sidelines of the opening of…
Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates
Jacqui VanLiew; Getty Images Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and…
Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions
Enlarge / A Starlink terminal used by the Ukraine army for drone operations in May 2023. Getty Images…
Tesla drivers who sued over exaggerated EV range are forced into arbitration
Enlarge / Tesla Superchargers. Getty Images | NurPhoto Tesla drivers who say the carmaker “grossly” exaggerated the ranges…
“Disgraceful”: Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in
Enlarge / A promotional image for a Roku TV. Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to…
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Enlarge / TikTok ad at a Metro station in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023. Getty Images |…
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in…
Microsoft accused of selling AI tool that spews violent, sexual images to kids
Microsoft’s AI text-to-image generator Copilot Designer appears to be heavily filtering outputs after a Microsoft engineer, Shane Jones,…
Bitcoin price hits record $69K after SEC approvals fueled $7B in investments
Bitcoin’s price hit a record high Tuesday, surging above $69,000 and notching past its prior peak price of…
Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR ruling should doom NYT’s OpenAI lawsuit
Getty Images | Aliaksandr Litviniuk Microsoft urged a federal court to dismiss part of The New York Times’…
Spotify wins as EU orders Apple to pay $2B and change App Store rules
The European Commission (EC) has sided with Spotify, fining Apple nearly $2 billion for abusive App Store restrictions…
Discord leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty, seeks light 11-year sentence
Enlarge / This photo illustration created on April 13, 2023, shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national…
A big boost to Europe’s climate-change goals
Enlarge / Materials such as steel, cement, aluminum, electricity, fertilizer, hydrogen, and iron will soon be subject to…
CenturyLink left customers without Internet for 39 days—until Ars stepped in
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images When a severe winter storm hit Oregon on January 13, Nicholas Brown’s CenturyLink…
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach of contract, alleging they have…
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit
It looks like Elon Musk may lose X’s lawsuit against hate speech researchers who encouraged a major brand…
WhatsApp finally forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
WhatsApp will soon be granted access to explore the “full functionality” of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware—sophisticated malware…
Report: Boeing may reacquire Spirit at higher price despite hating optics
Amid safety scandals involving “many loose bolts” and widespread problems with Boeing’s 737 Max 9s, Boeing is apparently…
X quietly revived anti-misgendering policy that Musk dropped last year
Last April, Twitter quietly edited its abuse and harassment policy to no longer explicitly ban deadnaming (calling transgender…
Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules
Enlarge / Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on September 18, 2023. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Tesla must…
SBF asks for 5-year prison sentence, calls 100-year recommendation “grotesque”
Enlarge / Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at US District Court on August…
Amazon refuses to pay screenwriter for the right to reboot Road House
The screenwriter who penned the original screenplay for the 1989 cult classic film Road House, R. Lance Hill,…
Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from tracking bitcoin miners
Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intention to gather basic information about the…
OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT to set up copyright suit
OpenAI is now boldly claiming that The New York Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products” like ChatGPT…