Lawsuit

Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime

Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net

Legal25 Sep 2025 | 16

Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions

Doing a simple system reset may not be enough to save you from fines and lawsuits

Security14 Sep 2025 | 64

Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement

Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startup

AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 3

Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business

Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement

AI + ML12 Aug 2025 | 37

Florida jury throws huge fine at Tesla in Autopilot crash

Plaintiffs argued that the company massively oversold the assisted-driving capabilities of its cars

Legal01 Aug 2025 | 91

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China

Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too

Cyber-crime17 Jul 2025 | 8

LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules

Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies

AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 63

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

Updated Stop us if you've heard this one before

OSes13 May 2025 | 43

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62

Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction

Software06 May 2025 | 6

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

What was the plan, showing her his big iron?

AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 79

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously

Personal Tech19 Apr 2025 | 22

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7

Judge halts DOGE's union personal data grab at OPM, Treasury, Education

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent

Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 53

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues

AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 77

HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money

Legal19 Mar 2025 | 90

Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data

Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem

Databases17 Mar 2025 | 13

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 | 108

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 | 14

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 | 131

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 | 15

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