Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court
How's that free comment thing working out, Elon?
Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 88
Legal
The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law
European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue
OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple
Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals
OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
Canadian arrested for 'stealing secret' to speedy Tesla battery production
Special tech allegedly lets Musk's assembly lines produce 5-10 times more kit than rivals
Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 57
India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe
Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed
Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |
Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter
Section 230 on trial: Plaintiffs contend social media platforms are defective products, not protected message boards
Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 95
Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook
CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain
Legal19 Mar 2024 | 20
UK tech titan Mike Lynch's US fraud trial begins today
13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster
Applications18 Mar 2024 | 10
US House goes bang, bang on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks
Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 61
South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China
Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too
Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints
Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup
PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'
Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting
Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force
iPhone giant's $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation
Legal07 Mar 2024 | 16
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe
Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality
Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 1
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism
Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended
Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36
Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M
Musk playbook described as 'Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him'
Legal05 Mar 2024 | 49
Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims
Feds allege EV maker talked up pre-orders for trucks it didn't have parts for
Legal01 Mar 2024 | 6
Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering
Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector
Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia
So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020
Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87
Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe
Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation
Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech
Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers
Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories
The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models
AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17
Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction
Trevor Milton bought it for cash and stock options, and he wants the cash back
Legal28 Feb 2024 | 13
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI
Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly
AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27
EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry
Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels
Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 9
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT
Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed
AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26
Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint
Lawsuit accuses contractor and co-defendants of 'pacify and delay' tactics
Legal23 Feb 2024 | 31
India buys a third of the world's wearable devices
Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens
Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too
Fakers face the wrath of Khan
AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 22
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms
Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying?
AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 43
X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies
Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks
Personal Tech16 Feb 2024 | 25
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit
Who could possibly have predicted this backlash?
Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules
Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions
Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army
The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss
Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO
Could have been worse – IT giant was asking for five
On-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 16
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours
Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce
Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81
California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models
Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior'
Legal09 Feb 2024 | 1
Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades
Fourth conviction in South Africa-linked scheme
Legal08 Feb 2024 | 9
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender
Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions
Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges
What a surprise, said no one
Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy
The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists – are essential for EUV lithography
Legal06 Feb 2024 | 4
Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI
Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power
AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 16
DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry
Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts
Legal29 Jan 2024 | 15
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models
What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud?
Legal29 Jan 2024 | 5
France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break'
French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal
Legal23 Jan 2024 | 13
Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform
Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law
Legal23 Jan 2024 | 26
India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions
Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained
Legal16 Jan 2024 | 6
SpaceX snaps back at US labor board's complaint, calling it 'unconstitutional'
It's the second time in a month a Musk firm has said that about a US regulator
Legal05 Jan 2024 | 49
Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant
India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem
Legal05 Jan 2024 | 5
Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB
Updated Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with
Legal04 Jan 2024 | 15
Former Adobe software engineering leader convicted of insider trading
Another Silicon Valley Icarus flies too close to the Sun
Legal04 Jan 2024 | 7
SpaceX accused of firing employees critical of free speech fan Elon Musk
Rule 1: You do not criticize the boss. Rule 2: You do NOT criticize the boss
Legal04 Jan 2024 | 59
DotAsia registry tries to put poll problems behind it and set new strategy
Special report Home of the .asia gTLD has had a challenging year
Legal28 Dec 2023 |
China bans export of rare earth processing kit
Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home
Legal22 Dec 2023 | 110
Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations
Very Large Online Platform status means NSFW sites must clean up their acts
Legal21 Dec 2023 | 66
GM's Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity
Updated Robotaxi firm's car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators
Legal14 Dec 2023 | 14
Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices
Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results
Legal14 Dec 2023 | 18
ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy
Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community
Legal12 Dec 2023 |
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly
Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world'
Legal12 Dec 2023 | 53
Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge
Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request
Legal11 Dec 2023 | 12
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