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 | 2
Law
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 | 41
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 | 21
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 39
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
GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes
Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim
AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7
We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists
Feature STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models
AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 31
DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns
Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts
Public Sector18 Feb 2025 | 8
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit
Talk about court red-handed
AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 95
WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed
Updated Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'
Software13 Feb 2025 | 8
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI
Demand described as a 'soft layoff'
On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 35
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap
You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party
AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting
updated Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand
Cyber-crime10 Feb 2025 | 3
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers
Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues
Legal06 Feb 2025 | 110
Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle
Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim
Software05 Feb 2025 | 82
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices
As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms
AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again
Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 124
White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off
Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans
Public Sector29 Jan 2025 | 106
AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe
updated Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence
AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 37
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged
AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 15
LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages
Updated Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 20
GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums
We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC
Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 40
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue
Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA
Software16 Jan 2025 | 27
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data
Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 24
Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan
Interview Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition
Software14 Jan 2025 | 13
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code
Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?
Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes
Not just making them, but sharing them too
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers
Regulator will see a 'participative' approach before imposing fines
Public Sector08 Jan 2025 | 13
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing
One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say
AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 25
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business
Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members
Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch
If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish
Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic
Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
Software11 Dec 2024 | 34
Facing sale or ban, TikTok tossed under national security bus by appeals court
Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump
Personal Tech06 Dec 2024 | 43
Binance accused of tax evasion by India's finance department
Minister reveals 17 crypto players owe $100 million – with Binance the baddest of the bad
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 7
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims
But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3
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