You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k? At the very least, with other costs on top Cyber-crime18 Mar 2023 | 16
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm' AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15
Shareholders accuse Tesla of overegging Autopilot, Full Self-Driving capabilities This is starting to become a common theme AI + ML28 Feb 2023 | 17
Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination Software alleged to reject applicants based on 'race, age, and/or disability' AI + ML23 Feb 2023 | 54
Meta sees off another logo complaint from blockchain player Dfinity What would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire? Legal08 Feb 2023 | 7
Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps You are the product Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 47
Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health Human Capital leaves the building Off-Prem26 Jan 2023 | 20
Activision prevails as court tosses 'frat house' culture lawsuit Investors use up all their continues, game over Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 4
Tesla fails to push racial discrimination lawsuit into arbitration Plaintiff was offered direct employment with an arbitration agreement, but never signed the letter On-Prem05 Jan 2023 | 33
Google gets off easy in location tracking lawsuits $29.5 million and we don't have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign? Security03 Jan 2023 | 4
Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers Systems29 Dec 2022 | 53
Video game players sue to frag Microsoft-Activision merger Redmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 9
Washington DC drags Amazon to court for 'yoinking' driver tips But we already gave them back $62m, web bazaar shrugs Personal Tech07 Dec 2022 | 50
Iterable co-founder claims he was ousted because of racial discrimination, not LSD use While Justin Zhu admits to micro-dosing, he alleges that his ethnicity was an issue for investors Bootnotes29 Nov 2022 | 14
Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard' Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59
Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs Doesn't matter what the data is, they thought they pushed the off switch, argues complaint Legal14 Nov 2022 | 16
Experian, T-Mobile US settle data spills for mere $16m Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen Cyber-crime08 Nov 2022 | 4
Qualcomm: Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead Analysis Snapdragon giant warns of dramatic shift in business model Systems01 Nov 2022 | 59
Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not. Legal01 Nov 2022 | 10
Ex-WSJ reporter says he was framed in elaborate 'hack-and-smear' operation Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more Security18 Oct 2022 | 12
French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook Personal Tech07 Oct 2022 | 16
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori Security06 Oct 2022 | 26
Google burns few hours of profit to disappear location privacy lawsuit Phrasing, Arizona... AG claims deal is 'historic' Personal Tech04 Oct 2022 | 16
Samsung sued for gobbling up too much personal info that miscreants then stole If you're gonna force everyone to register an account, at least protect that data, lawsuit argues Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 9
Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8
Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 77
Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31
Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 26
FTC presses ahead in its war on 'free' Turbo Tax Updated US watchdog snubs Intuit's request to drop claims of bait-and-switch tactics Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 15
Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016 Legal23 Aug 2022 | 29
Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents Patent lawsuits, the next saga Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 33
Apple sued by French media over App Store power Gros fromages take on big Pomme Applications02 Aug 2022 | 19
Court OKs billion-dollar Play Store gouging suit against Google Just as web giant accepts third-party payment platforms, reduces fees in the EU Personal Tech20 Jul 2022 | 7
Apple to pay $50m settlement for rotten butterfly keyboards Diehards who replaced their keyboards can get up to $395 repeatedly Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 28
Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit If this sounds familiar, it's because the EU is investigating the same thing Legal19 Jul 2022 | 7
Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000 Legal01 Jul 2022 | 9
Tesla lawsuit alleges unlawful layoffs at Nevada gigafactory It's the second time a Musk-owned company has been accused of WARN Act violations Legal21 Jun 2022 | 15
Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 13
I was fired for blowing the whistle on cult's status in Google unit, says contractor The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley Bootnotes16 Jun 2022 | 40
Google offers $118m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit Don't even think about putting LaMDA on the compensation committee Legal13 Jun 2022 | 8
Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death Offbeat09 Jun 2022 | 40
IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC Big Blue's 'routine eschewal of rules' justifies large penalty, judge says Systems31 May 2022 | 33
TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people Might be a $30 check for you if you were screwed over by 'free, free, free' ads Applications04 May 2022 | 26
Intuit sued over alleged cryptocurrency thefts via Mailchimp intrusion Financial software giant slammed for 'poor security practices' Cyber-crime25 Apr 2022 | 13
IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires Legal14 Apr 2022 | 26
Mandiant shareholder sues to block $5.4b Google deal Investors given 'materially incomplete and misleading' info, it is claimed Security04 Apr 2022 | 3
UK suit over reselling surplus Microsoft licenses rolls on In the meantime, Windows giant eliminates 'challenged restriction' Legal01 Apr 2022 | 45
IBM files IP lawsuit against mainframe migration firm Claims shell company formed to license mainframe products for reverse engineering Legal22 Mar 2022 | 12
Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama Software25 Jan 2022 | 80
EthereumMax, a Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr sued over alleged 'pump and dump' cryptocurrency scam Angry punter wants his money back Personal Tech13 Jan 2022 | 55
Lawsuit accusing Robinhood and Citadel Securities of colluding to stop GameStop shares from skyrocketing thrown out by judge There's not enough evidence, judge ruled Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 | 40
Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant Legal28 Sep 2021 | 128
IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise When is a contract not a contract? When it's an incentive plan letter PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2021 | 45
Blue Origin sues NASA for awarding SpaceX $3bn contract to land next American boots on the Moon Updated In Jeff's world, it's not 'you snooze, you lose', it's 'you lose, you sues' Science16 Aug 2021 | 54
Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement? Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 15
Ah, right on time: Hacker-slammed SolarWinds sued by angry shareholders Plus: US intelligence names and shames Russia as probable culprit Security05 Jan 2021 | 27
Apple rummages through pockets, hands out $113m in change to US states to make iPhone slowdown row go away Arizona-led fight over battery-gate ends in settlement Personal Tech18 Nov 2020 | 12
Zoom-er or later, your past catches up with you: Vid chat service hit by sueball over end-to-end encryption claim US consumer nonprofit alleges it was false advertising SaaS12 Aug 2020 | 5
Amazon warehouse workers sue over safety concerns as several contract COVID-19 One employee went on to infect her cousin, who later died Legal04 Jun 2020 | 15
Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint Storage29 May 2020 | 71