Lawsuit

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments

Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 109

IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond

On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 1

Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it

Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands

CSO10 Mar 2025 | 10

Intel wins something: Judge tosses out shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses

If you find Chipzilla's financial figures hard to parse, don't worry, it stumped these folks, too

On-Prem06 Mar 2025 | 1

US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law

That's the way the cookie melts

Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 |

Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license

The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss

On-Prem06 Feb 2025 | 27

OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit

Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory'

AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 16

The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster

Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings

CSO29 Jan 2025 | 57

Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands

Markets smartwatches as health helpers even as they expose some owners to PFAS

Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 22

Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules

Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too

Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 8

We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions

Feature Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt

Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 45

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor

Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 132

Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries

Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents

Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 56

Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs

No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars

Cyber-crime03 Dec 2024 | 27

Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices

Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiff

Legal02 Dec 2024 | 8

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

Updated Probably not intentional, but '150 person-hours' of work were still lost

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 8

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random

Offbeat18 Nov 2024 | 70

TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action

Updated Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin

CxO13 Nov 2024 | 7

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Don't hold your breath Putin

Software29 Oct 2024 | 254

JPMorgan Chase sues scammers following viral 'infinite money glitch'

ATMs paid customers thousands ... and now the bank wants its money back

Security28 Oct 2024 | 47

Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims

'They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations'

AI + ML25 Oct 2024 | 24

Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

We sell that to OpenAI – how dare you steal it and make stuff up

AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 16

Drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over ‘Chinese military company’ label

Pending CCP drone ban could render the suit irrelevant

Legal22 Oct 2024 | 14

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays

AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 178

VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout

Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in

Virtualization15 Oct 2024 | 5

Fresh court filing accuses Oracle of creating 'maze' of options 'hidden' in 'contract'

Big Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out

SaaS02 Oct 2024 | 33

AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap

No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31

Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court

Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation

Databases30 Sep 2024 | 3

Cards Against Humanity deals SpaceX a $15M lawsuit over Texas turf tangle

Land purchased to save it from Trump's border wall 'completely f*cked' by 'gravel, tractors, and space garbage'

Bootnotes23 Sep 2024 | 48

IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer

Big Blue’s Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant

Applications17 Sep 2024 | 12

Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims

GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup

Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11

Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

Judge clears path for 149 ex-Twitters over 50 to sue collectively

Legal05 Sep 2024 | 24

Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets

Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product

CxO26 Aug 2024 | 9

Elon Musk's X Corp faces $61M lawsuit over unpaid tech tabs

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider claims platform ghosted it

On-Prem20 Aug 2024 | 39

Disney claims agreeing to Disney+ terms waives man's right to sue over wife's death

Updated NYU doc died from allergic reaction after eating at Florida resort pub

Bootnotes15 Aug 2024 | 69

Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies

Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale

Security14 Aug 2024 | 30

Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late

Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue

CxO08 Aug 2024 | 32

Intel's legal troubles mount after plunging stock sparks yet another court battle

Pension fund claims CEO, CFO covered up truth about money-pit foundry

Systems08 Aug 2024 | 15

Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats

SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline's IT is in a mess

CxO07 Aug 2024 | 39

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him

These two are going through a really, really bad breakup

AI + ML05 Aug 2024 | 21

Another law firm piles on Intel for Raptor Lake CPU failures as complaints grow louder

Meanwhile, a boutique PC builder says Intel didn’t even need to chase high clock speeds

Systems05 Aug 2024 | 12

That cyber-heist of 2.9B personal records? There's a class-action lawsuit looming for that

Updated Background check biz accused of negligence

Cyber-crime05 Aug 2024 | 11

Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation

Systems01 Aug 2024 | 10

Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit

Updated Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it

Networks31 Jul 2024 | 10

US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices

Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look

Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 38

Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge

You can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB

Networks22 Jul 2024 | 30

Oracle coughs up $115M to make privacy case go away

Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action

Security22 Jul 2024 | 6

Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion

Leaking skylights, collapsed roof, garbage-clogged pipes - did ChatGPT make this?

Bootnotes18 Jul 2024 | 88

Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

Aussie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial

Security17 Jul 2024 | 86

Former Autonomy CFO banned from chartered accounting group until 2038

Sushovan Hussain’s failure in 2020 to appeal his 2018 fraud conviction in the US means he won’t be a member of ICAEW for 20 years

Software11 Jul 2024 | 8

Coders' Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft

A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win?

Software08 Jul 2024 | 40

Peloton faces lawsuit over claims it pedaled past privacy

Chat widget allegedly fed data to third party, which used it to train AI without telling customers

AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 8

Nintendo sues alleged Switch pirate pair for serious coin

And if court finds for gaming giant? It's-a me! Bankruptcy!

Legal02 Jul 2024 | 20

Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say

Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time

Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 13

Appeals court reanimates lawsuit accusing Meta of hiring bias against US citizens

Software techie claims he was snubbed because he wasn't on an H-1B

Software27 Jun 2024 | 18

Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo

White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation

Public Sector26 Jun 2024 | 26