China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz
I'm not a regular government, I'm a cool government
Legal05 Dec 2023 | 9
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Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls
Shareholder claims company should have 'warned' about issue before stock price plunge
Legal30 Nov 2023 | 10
Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model
Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert
Legal28 Nov 2023 | 88
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club
Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum
Legal28 Nov 2023 | 61
Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
Naughty engineers + inability to work email = $$$
Legal24 Nov 2023 | 10
UKFast founder Lawrence Jones convicted of rape
Ex-hosting biz boss to be sentenced for historic offences after being found guilty of earlier sexual assault
Legal24 Nov 2023 |
Singapore to deter crypto investors with tactics like those used on smokers, gamblers
Buying on credit forbidden, affordability tests imposed, and accreditation required for big bets
Legal24 Nov 2023 | 13
Veteran wingman wants $1.75M from Boeing over emotional turbulence
Cites alleged ageist headwinds
Legal22 Nov 2023 | 2
UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge
OK gr8. CU down the pub
Legal14 Nov 2023 | 17
48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax
Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes
Legal13 Nov 2023 | 28
Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill
Nothing is certain except death and taxes
Legal06 Nov 2023 | 7
Digital Millennium Copyright Act celebrates a quarter century of takedown notices
Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years
Legal30 Oct 2023 | 8
It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement
Minimum of $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers' fees. Justice is done!
Legal27 Oct 2023 | 38
13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal
Chocolate Factory agrees $23m guilt-free settlement
Legal25 Oct 2023 | 14
33 AGs sue Meta for 'exploitative and harmful acts' against American children
Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth
Legal24 Oct 2023 | 15
Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken
Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else
Legal24 Oct 2023 | 11
Beijing slaps Foxconn with a tax audit
Asia In Brief ALSO: US may block clouds in China; Toyota reveals moon roover; Google expands Indian loan business; Xiaomi's new unifying OS; and more
Legal23 Oct 2023 | 7
Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics
You Can't Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin' in the (digital) Wind
Legal20 Oct 2023 | 19
'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election
Florida man gets 4,900 people to 'vote' via SMS after promoting it as an option
Legal20 Oct 2023 | 73
Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times
No word on motivation but pair face up to 5 years in the cooler
Legal20 Oct 2023 | 79
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US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities
There's a war on and critical infrastructure operators are still using default passwords
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers
Funny how marketing messages change depending on the audience
40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs
The legacy can still be felt today
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'
Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan
JT-60SA produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans, paves way for ITER
Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux
Signs of the times: Linux's compatibility improves, while x86-32 recedes from Apple
California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian
Stalled self-driving car biz up to its axles in problems
EU lawmakers finalize cyber security rules that panicked open source devs
Infosec in brief PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities
Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully
who, me? Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
Exposed Hugging Face API tokens offered full access to Meta's Llama 2
Updated With more than 1,500 tokens exposed, research highlights importance of securing supply chains in AI and ML
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Biotech exec sentenced to eight years for COVID-19 testing finger-stick fraud
100+ diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood – sound familiar?
Legal19 Oct 2023 | 15
Winklevoss twins back in hot water after NY AG sues over $1B cryptocurrency fraud
Updated SBF comes up like a bad penny
Legal19 Oct 2023 | 21
US prosecutors slam Autonomy tycoon's attempt to get charges tossed
Allege that 'greed and hubris' led Mike Lynch and co to 'pretend Autonomy thrived'
Legal18 Oct 2023 | 27
3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law
Bill in New York aims to stop spread of ghost guns, but fails to address existing kit or private sales
Legal17 Oct 2023 | 37
TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B
As British public spending comes under pressure, tech superstars seemingly avoid two-thirds of tax burden
Legal16 Oct 2023 | 12
Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint
38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers
Legal13 Oct 2023 | 20
SpaceX accused of paying less to women and minority engineers
Suit alleges female staff were forced to start as technical writers despite doing largely same work
Legal09 Oct 2023 | 41
When Microsoft complains that you're a monopolist you know things are bad
Kettle Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough
Legal09 Oct 2023 | 17
India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM
X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime
Legal09 Oct 2023 | 15
US lawmakers want China export bans to include open tech like RISC-V
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave
Legal08 Oct 2023 | 13
Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena
What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires?
Legal06 Oct 2023 | 47
Big Brother is coming to a workplace near you, and the privacy regulator wants a word
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Legal04 Oct 2023 | 47
X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent
Irony alert: Complaint cites defendant as claiming X 'did not even pay rent for such period'
Legal02 Oct 2023 | 25
Equal Employment Commission sues Tesla for racist discrimination, retaliation at Fremont plant
Like some sort of bizarro greatest hits album, the EEOC case sounds just like multiple previous suits
Legal29 Sep 2023 | 29
You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ
Feds allege tat bazaar turned blind eye to folks buying more than 343k aftermarket defeat devices
Legal28 Sep 2023 | 71
Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce
Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet
Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4
Hong Kong securities regulator to name suspicious crypto players
Tightens regulations after downfall of the brazen JPEX exchange
Legal27 Sep 2023 | 6
Cryptocoin Ponzi scheme AirBit Club co-founder jailed
12 years behind bars, and ordered to forfeit $65m in illicit proceeds
Legal27 Sep 2023 | 12
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death
Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints
Legal21 Sep 2023 | 195
SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale
Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it
Legal18 Sep 2023 |
South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight
Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership
Legal18 Sep 2023 | 3
Ex-Twitter employees pull Musk back to money table over missing severance
Will Elon actually pay this bill?
Legal14 Sep 2023 | 26
X marks the spot where free speech clashes with Californian transparency
AB 587's true purpose is to eliminate speech the government finds objectionable, lawyers argue
Legal11 Sep 2023 | 26
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses
Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal
Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone
The Mate 60 Pro keeps making waves – this time worrying Korean chipmaker
Legal08 Sep 2023 | 21
DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel
Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps
Legal07 Sep 2023 | 3
Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal
Agreement will settle claims the company failed to compensate staff for all the hours they worked
Legal06 Sep 2023 | 2
ASEAN bloc starts work on Digital Economy Framework
Who needs India or China when ten booming economies form a gang?
Legal06 Sep 2023 |
US and China to keep talking about chip bans, just not when they'll end
Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes did not
Legal29 Aug 2023 | 2
Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss
Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson
Legal29 Aug 2023 | 8
Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom
Interesting choice, if true. Not a Lamborghini, is it?
Legal24 Aug 2023 | 10
Token prison sentence for first convicted NFT insider trader
Prosecutors wanted 2 years, but former OpenSea employee got 3 months
Legal23 Aug 2023 | 9
US tech titans say a heads-up about India's PC import license would've been nice
Trade org board members petitioning Uncle Sam are who's who of Big Tech
Legal21 Aug 2023 | 7
Can you raise $100M+ from AI investors with no product? SEC says yes
In unrelated news, agency wants to teach folks how to spot a pyramid scheme
Legal15 Aug 2023 | 20
Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse
Asia In Brief Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs
Legal14 Aug 2023 | 3
Biden administration restricts US investment in tech China's military might employ
Venture capital is helping Beijing arm and Washington wants that to stop
Legal10 Aug 2023 | 6
Judge throws out EE's £25M 5G contract suit against Virgin Media
2022's MVNO spat wrapped up as world+dog reminded to check exclusion clauses
Legal04 Aug 2023 | 2
Big Tech's going to love India's new personal data protection bill
Big fines for breaches. Also big powers – including takedowns – for planned Data Protection Board
Legal04 Aug 2023 | 6
SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day
Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling
Legal01 Aug 2023 | 2
Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past
Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan's government to write docs with AI; 5G boom coming; India denies infosec issues
Legal31 Jul 2023 | 26
Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use
Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn't say from whom
Legal26 Jul 2023 | 9
Feds want to rewrite rules for competition-crushing merger probes
No more embrace-and-extinguish M&As, but budgetary changes may make enforcement harder
Legal20 Jul 2023 | 1
Norway bans Meta's behavioral advertising with threats of wrist-slap fines
Won't someone think of Zuck's pocket change?
Legal19 Jul 2023 | 17
Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward
Suffering and financial loss of subpostmasters prompts decision in interim report
Legal17 Jul 2023 | 71
UK government faces calls to end IR35 double tax anomaly
Meanwhile, Conservative stalwart calls to repeal law
Legal17 Jul 2023 | 47
We will find you and we will sue you, Twitter tells 4 mystery alleged data-scrapers
Lawyers say unknown John Does are profiting at Musk's expense
Legal14 Jul 2023 | 90
India slaps massive 28 percent tax on online games of skill
Fantasy sports bets put on the same footing as online casinos or a punt on the gee-gees
Legal13 Jul 2023 | 7
China outsources censorship to web giants to break the fake news business model
The likes of WeChat and Weibo suddenly have a lot of work to do – including turning off the money tap
Legal12 Jul 2023 | 10
Chinese battery maker for the stars of the EV world suddenly wants to be seen powering human rights
As allegations of forced labour circulate, CATL goes for a jolt of social responsibility
Legal12 Jul 2023 | 4
Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk
X Corp boss invokes spirit of 'Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man'
Legal10 Jul 2023 | 44
Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations
Class action claims company refusing to pay mandated fees
Legal05 Jul 2023 | 27
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits
They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Legal28 Jun 2023 | 84
Europe seeks to punish Putin's infowar pals with bans on Russian tech firms
Also slaps Chinese backdoor entities shipping forbidden tech to Moscow
Legal26 Jun 2023 | 10
'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter
Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines
Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101
Montenegro jails Do Kwon, accused of causing $40 billion LUNA crash
Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin
Legal20 Jun 2023 | 11
Japan unleashes regulation Kaiju on Apple's and Google's app store monopolies
Digital Competition Conf wants rift in markets to allow new app-slingers to spawn
Legal19 Jun 2023 | 14
Micron warns China's ban could cost it $4 billion annual revenue
Asia In Brief PLUS: Crypto just isn't cricket in India; China's budget smartphone surge; Jack Ma is back, again; and more
Legal19 Jun 2023 | 1
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition
Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse
Legal16 Jun 2023 | 14
Music bosses go after Twitter's unlicensed soundtrack to the tune of $250M
Just what the Muskified platform needs right now – another lawsuit
Legal15 Jun 2023 | 23
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies
'Mixed bag' of solutions await tech workers forced into IR35 alternatives
Legal07 Jun 2023 | 28
Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem
State-sponsored SEO effort to send people to properly patriotic tune has its limits
Legal07 Jun 2023 | 23
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers
Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you
Legal31 May 2023 | 29
Fahrenheit to take over Celsius
0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts?
Legal26 May 2023 | 43
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act
Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too
Legal26 May 2023 |
Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing
Lawsuit alleges he was 'set up' after finding flaws in product meant for sale to Uncle Sam
Legal24 May 2023 | 22
Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy
Meanwhile, will train a million IT graduates in Artificial Intelligence
Legal24 May 2023 | 6
China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout
Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail
Legal23 May 2023 | 10
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws
Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place
Legal21 May 2023 | 24
Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late
Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion
Legal18 May 2023 | 3
US Disruptive Technology Strike Force has struck
Former Apple engineer busted for stealing self-driving code, others accused of arranging illicit military tech transfers
Legal17 May 2023 | 3
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted
Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation
Legal17 May 2023 | 59
Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak
Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write
Legal15 May 2023 | 3
EU-US Privacy Framework could make life easier for a data biz, if it survives
Analysis But what about the Brits? A lawyer gives their take on the privacy minefield
Legal11 May 2023 | 18
Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung
Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on
Legal10 May 2023 | 1
Vietnam to require registration of social media, even on global platforms
Show some ID or your Facebook feed might not make it across the border
Legal09 May 2023 | 5
Ex-OpenSea exec convicted in first-of-its-kind case of insider trading of NFTs
Who would have thought there was anything dodgy about selling pictures of cartoon apes?
Legal05 May 2023 | 6
Fresh GDPR ruling says even 'minor anxiety' could mean payouts for EU folks
Lawyers quip: 'The definition of hell is European legislation with American enforcement'
Legal04 May 2023 | 45
Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China
Human Rights Watch details mass surveillance and repression
Legal04 May 2023 | 56
Major decision on GDPR compensation rights expected soon
Breached businesses might have to cough for your discomfort too
Legal03 May 2023 | 21
Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters
A new twist on fast food
Legal03 May 2023 | 14
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