Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI 'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order' AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 15
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions Comment Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't Legal07 Jul 2025 | 7
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well Legal01 Jul 2025 | 27
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31
Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 116
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 43
AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel AI + ML15 Jun 2025 | 115
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 7
European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger' Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18
Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10
Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission No wonder those products always rated so highly Legal03 Jun 2025 | 18
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns ‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber Legal29 May 2025 | 9
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath No, not Amazon. China’s SHEIN is in the spotlight for fake discounts, grubby greenery, and evading inquiries Public Sector27 May 2025 | 66
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat Legal15 May 2025 | 30
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now CxO12 May 2025 | 46
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI AI + ML12 May 2025 | 113
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests AI phone home On-Prem09 May 2025 | 74
Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently Public Sector08 May 2025 | 12
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity Networks07 May 2025 | 12
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 128
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote Public Sector07 May 2025 | 30
Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair As military memo makes it official policy Public Sector02 May 2025 | 27
Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges CEO, senior execs ‘at every turn chose the most anti-competitive option’ Personal Tech01 May 2025 | 47
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do' Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 51
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110
It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant Personal Tech22 Apr 2025 | 40
Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4
Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 9
California sues President Tariff World War Fee Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 51
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 22
Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal! Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts $5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
Europol: Five pay-per-infect suspects cuffed, some spill secrets to cops Officials teased more details to come later this year Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 |
Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs Updated Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories Public Sector10 Apr 2025 | 113
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec Cyber-crime09 Apr 2025 | 23
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling Double-oh-sh... CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it Interview 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 21
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time Cyber-crime01 Apr 2025 | 44
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt Science01 Apr 2025 | 21
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan 11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing Legal31 Mar 2025 | 8
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising Personal Tech28 Mar 2025 | 9
Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software Software28 Mar 2025 | 22
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Science25 Mar 2025 | 117
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman 'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 42
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 45
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 30
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl Applications18 Mar 2025 | 55
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom Updated There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit Bootnotes18 Mar 2025 | 25
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44
Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too Applications12 Mar 2025 | 17
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 23
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever Software04 Mar 2025 | 25
Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims Updated Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies Personal Tech01 Mar 2025 | 59
FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia Databases27 Feb 2025 | 78
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 33