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
US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough Analysis Lawsuit claims Charter's 'fixed' monthly fees are anything but Personal Tech27 May 2020 | 37
Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled It was a software bug, insists telco, as attorneys walk with most of the money Security21 May 2020 | 8
Lawyers hail 'superb result' in Facebook biometric privacy battle: They'll get 25% of $550m, Illinois gets the rest Sure, they should have got more, but let’s not get greedy here Personal Tech13 May 2020 | 17
Apple chucks $3 at iPhone users after killing FaceTime on iOS 6 because it didn't want to pay connectivity charges Millions to go to lawyers after legal brouhaha ends in settlement Networks29 Apr 2020 | 14
Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer Where there's a hit, there's a writ Personal Tech17 Mar 2020 | 76
Third time's a charm, maybe: Bankers suing Oracle over claims of exaggerated cloud sales have another go at convincing skeptical judge Anecdotes of bullying customers fall short of legal standard to establish fraudulent intent SaaS21 Feb 2020 | 15
Ever own a Galaxy S4? Congrats, you're $10 richer as Samsung agrees payout over dodgy speed tests The good news? It can't do it again for three years Personal Tech30 Sep 2019 | 42
Whistleblowing saboteur costs us $167m bellows Tesla’s accountant And another $262,000 to figure out who he was On-Prem30 Aug 2019 | 52
As many as 100,000 IBM staff axed in recent years as Big Blue battles to reinvent itself from IT's 'old fuddy duddy' Age discrim legal battle reveals startling internal details SaaS01 Aug 2019 | 102
Investor fires shot at 'sinking ship' Google in battle over privacy-menacing Google+ bug Pension fund files lively lawsuit hate-letter after 500,000 people's deets put at risk Legal10 Jul 2019 | 15
Wanna sue us for selling your location? Think again: You should read your contract's fine print, says T-Mobile US Under-fire carrier insists on forcing privacy-trashed punters into out-of-court arbitration Personal Tech09 Jul 2019 | 19
Now Intel taken to US Supreme Court over retirement fund gripes: Ex-staffer demands right to sue over risks, losses America's highest court agrees to mull over whether lawsuit can proceed Legal10 Jun 2019 | 5
Boffins stole our 3D files – and gave them all to Facebook's AI eggheads, claims Lithuanian biz Planner5D wants lots of Zuck's bucks as compensation AI + ML07 Jun 2019 | 80
Long-distance dildo devotee deploys ding-dong over data deceit Chinese sex company wants to (wire)tap that... Bootnotes20 May 2019 | 56
Legal bombs fall on TurboTax maker Intuit for 'hiding' free service from search engines Updated Unhappy taxpayers want refunds of a different kind, lodge lawsuits across Cali Software14 May 2019 | 72
IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished Database biz shifted its assets to another outfit mid-trial On-Prem24 Apr 2019 | 73
Double trouble for Lyft after share price drop sparks class action lawsuits claiming hype Rideshare company lied about market share, claim investors On-Prem19 Apr 2019 | 47
Biker sues Google Fiber: I broke my leg, borked my ankle in trench dug to lay ad giant's pipe Sum of a ditch! Bloke demands $75,000 after road prang Networks09 Mar 2019 | 97
Now, hold on. This may shock you... Oracle allegedly juices its cloud sales with threats and shoddy on-prem support Board of directors sued for 'failing to protect investors' On-Prem13 Feb 2019 | 35
Cisco sues lawyers on its own side – for bigger slice of capacitor price-fixing settlement pie Class action lawsuit over component sparks legal fight Networks12 Feb 2019 | 20
And it's go, go, go for class-action lawsuits against Equifax after 148m personal records spilled in that mega-hack Banks, folks can sue – but businesses have to show harm Security29 Jan 2019 | 19
Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says Complaint argues false pixels, notch, and measurements don't fit with ad claims Personal Tech15 Dec 2018 | 74
Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files Videographer stung after app nukes '$250k' of footage Software08 Nov 2018 | 87
Former Apple engineer fights iPhone giant for patent credit and denied cash, says Steve Jobs loved his 'killer ideas' Analysis Cupertino company's culture turns to crap under Cook, complaint carps Personal Tech28 Sep 2018 | 32
Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit 'Made-up PR numbers' used by social giant to exaggerate online advertising audience On-Prem17 Aug 2018 | 62
Firefighters choke on Oracle's alleged smoke-and-mirrors cloud Pension fund cries fraud over database giant's boasts about its off-prem biz performance On-Prem13 Aug 2018 | 20
Insurers hurl sueball at Trustwave over 2008 Heartland megabreach Firm smacks back: We 'did not manage Heartland's information security' Security10 Jul 2018 | 17
Sueball claims Apple broke hacking laws with iOS batt throttling code 30 per cent error fix was a violation of CFAA, claim scores of angry fans Personal Tech09 Jul 2018 | 33
Imagine a patent on organizing computer files being used against online shopping sites. Oh, it's still happening Cyber bazaars push back against infringement claims Legal06 Jul 2018 | 67
Tesla fingers former Gigafactory hand as alleged blueprint-leaking sabotage mastermind Musk blames bad Tripp, drags fella into lawsuit Security20 Jun 2018 | 108
Apple hit with another faulty hardware lawsuit – this time it's the Watch Swelling batteries causes headache for Cupertino Personal Tech07 Jun 2018 | 16
US judge to Facebook: Nope, facial recognition lawsuit has to go to jury Too many disputes over how the tech and law work On-Prem15 May 2018 | 21
Google's cell network Project Fi charged me for using Wi-Fi – lawsuit Ad giant billed subscribers for Wi-Fi data, punters claim Personal Tech07 Feb 2018 | 22
You Wreck Me, Spotify: Tom Petty, Neil Young publisher launches $1.6bn copyright sueball Wixen won't back down, claims Spotify failed to get a licence for 10,000-plus tunes On-Prem03 Jan 2018 | 51
That was fast... unlike old iPhones: Apple sued for slowing down mobes Admission of deliberate battery-saving CPU speed limiting in iOS chums water for sharks Personal Tech22 Dec 2017 | 157
Facebook, Google, IBM, Red Hat give GPL code scofflaws 60 days to behave – or else Cure period now available in other license flavors Software27 Nov 2017 | 12
Judge bins sueball lobbed at Malwarebytes by rival antivirus maker for torpedoing its tool Litigious security biz upset at blanket PC ban Security10 Nov 2017 | 13
Ex-Facebook manager sues biz after getting 'Zucked out of overtime' Social network hit with claim of illegally skirting Illinois wage laws On-Prem31 Oct 2017 | 23
If you say it loud enough, Uber will sound atrocious: Super Cali juristic discrimination process Biz sued for allegedly screwing over women, people of color On-Prem26 Oct 2017 | 21
Open World? More like closed world: Women sue Oracle for 'paying them less' than blokes OpenWorld Class-action sueball alleges discrimination On-Prem02 Oct 2017 | 30
Surprising nobody, lawyers line up to sue the crap out of Equifax Class actions already piling up against identity theft brokers Security08 Sep 2017 | 52
Couple fires sueball at Amazon over faulty solar eclipse-viewing goggles Complaint states Bezos' empire did 'too little, too late' On-Prem31 Aug 2017 | 74
Oracle has to pay top sales rep stiffed out of $250,000, US court rules Attempt to undo arbitration award gets nixed by judge On-Prem22 Aug 2017 | 53
Fox News fabricated faux news with Donald Trump, lawsuit claims Fake quotes linked DNC staffer to Wikileaks to divert attention from Russia, it is claimed Legal01 Aug 2017 | 53