Category: Legal Law

On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears…

peterschreiber.media | Getty Images The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking or attempting…

Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple, and Meta…

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook leaving the US Capitol building on Thursday, September 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty…

Enlarge / FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (R) departs Manhattan Federal Court after an arraignment hearing on March 30, 2023, in…

Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political content by…

Enlarge / Steve Huffman, u/spez on Reddit, sold 500,000 of his shares in Reddit’s IPO on Thursday AFP via Getty…

Enlarge / “Yes, we offer Internet at your address.” An Internet service provider that admitted lying to the Federal Communications…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today’s antitrust lawsuit against…

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt…

iStock/Getty Images X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a…

Enlarge / Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in New York…

Intel will receive $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans from the US government to expand its…

Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews of employers, has recently begun adding real names to user profiles without…

Enlarge / Tesla cars sit in a parking lot at the company’s factory in Fremont, California on October 19, 2022.…

Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider (BI) reported Saturday.…

Enlarge / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, in…

Enlarge / Dr. Craig Wright arrives at the Rolls Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice, on February 06,…

Enlarge / Taylor’s C709 Soft Serve Freezer isn’t so much mechanically complicated as it is a software and diagnostic trap…

Enlarge / Signs displayed at the Pornhub booth at the 2024 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at Resorts World Las Vegas…

There are some circumstances where government officials are allowed to block people from commenting on their social media pages, the…

Enlarge / National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy testifies about the Boeing door-plug investigation before the Senate Commerce, Science,…

Meta is discontinuing data analysis tool CrowdTangle on August 14. The closure will come three months ahead of the next…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first…

A recently unsealed court filing has revealed that Meta has sued a former senior employee for “brazenly disloyal and dishonest…

A US federal jury has convicted a dual Russian-Swedish national, Roman Sterlingov, for operating Bitcoin Fog, “the longest-running bitcoin money…

On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill with a vote of 352–65 that could block TikTok in…

Enlarge / Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building on January 30, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | J. David…

Enlarge / Cell-cultivated chicken is made in the pictured tanks at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023, in…

Enlarge / A LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner taxiing at Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Chile on March 20,…

Enlarge / Domestically made smartphones were much in evidence at the National People’s Congress in Beijing Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images Apple…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in discussions with…

Enlarge / A Google sign stands in front of the building on the sidelines of the opening of the new…

Jacqui VanLiew; Getty Images Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated…

Enlarge / A Starlink terminal used by the Ukraine army for drone operations in May 2023. Getty Images | Pacific…

Enlarge / Tesla Superchargers. Getty Images | NurPhoto Tesla drivers who say the carmaker “grossly” exaggerated the ranges of its…

Enlarge / A promotional image for a Roku TV. Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose…

Enlarge / TikTok ad at a Metro station in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg The…

Enlarge / Meta has a verified program for users of Facebook and Instagram. Getty Images | Chesnot Forty-one state attorneys…

Microsoft’s AI text-to-image generator Copilot Designer appears to be heavily filtering outputs after a Microsoft engineer, Shane Jones, warned that…

Bitcoin’s price hit a record high Tuesday, surging above $69,000 and notching past its prior peak price of $68,991.85 recorded…

Getty Images | Aliaksandr Litviniuk Microsoft urged a federal court to dismiss part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit…

The European Commission (EC) has sided with Spotify, fining Apple nearly $2 billion for abusive App Store restrictions on developers…

Enlarge / This photo illustration created on April 13, 2023, shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national guardsman Jack…

Enlarge / Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at US District Court on August 11, 2023,…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images When a severe winter storm hit Oregon on January 13, Nicholas Brown’s CenturyLink fiber Internet…

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach of contract, alleging they have compromised the…

It looks like Elon Musk may lose X’s lawsuit against hate speech researchers who encouraged a major brand boycott after…

WhatsApp will soon be granted access to explore the “full functionality” of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware—sophisticated malware the Israeli…

Amid safety scandals involving “many loose bolts” and widespread problems with Boeing’s 737 Max 9s, Boeing is apparently considering buying…

Last April, Twitter quietly edited its abuse and harassment policy to no longer explicitly ban deadnaming (calling transgender people by…

Enlarge / Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on September 18, 2023. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Tesla must face a…

Enlarge / Materials such as steel, cement, aluminum, electricity, fertilizer, hydrogen and iron will soon be subject to greenhouse gas…

The screenwriter who penned the original screenplay for the 1989 cult classic film Road House, R. Lance Hill, is suing…

Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intention to gather basic information about the energy consumed…

OpenAI is now boldly claiming that The New York Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products” like ChatGPT to “set…

After failing for almost a decade to convince Apple to ditch Google and set Bing as Safari’s default search engine,…

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington D.C. in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto The…

Reddit filed to go public on Thursday (PDF), revealing various details of the social media company’s inner workings. Among the…

India’s plan to let a moratorium on imposing customs duties on cross-border digital e-commerce transactions expire may end up hurting…

In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest…

Getty Images Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps,…

Anjali Nair; Getty Images To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has…

Aurich Lawson | Mars | Getty Images Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from…

A judge has dismissed a complaint from a parent and guardian of a girl, now 15, who was sexually assaulted…

Getty Images | Andrey Denisyuk Internet service providers are still providing false coverage information to the Federal Communications Commission, and…

Thousands of the most dedicated Reddit users will have a chance to snag shares when the company goes public in…

Enlarge / Elon Musk at the New York Times DealBook Summit on November 29, 2023, in New York City. Getty…

Enlarge / A Neuralink implant. Neuralink Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk said the first human to be implanted with the company’s…

Getty Images | OcusFocus A federal appeals court today overturned a $1 billion piracy verdict that a jury handed down…

Brussels is to impose its first-ever fine on tech giant Apple for allegedly breaking EU law over access to its…

The European Commission (EC) is concerned that TikTok isn’t doing enough to protect kids, alleging that the short-video app may…

Once again, Cloudflare has proven that its unusual defense against meritless patent infringement claims effectively works to end so-called “patent…

Getty Images Apple’s iMessage service is not a “gatekeeper” prone to unfair business practices and will thus not be required…

Enlarge / Musician Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias The Flashbulb, successfully defended his music against streaming fraud allegations.…

After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple is removing the ability to install home screen web apps from iPhones and iPads in…

Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut…

On Thursday, AMC notified subscribers of a proposed $8.3 million settlement that provides awards to an estimated 6 million subscribers…

Enlarge / Building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France). The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A watchdog group’s investigation found that terrorist group Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities have accounts with…

Enlarge / Image from Bitcoin Latinum’s website Bitcoin Latinum The cryptocurrency firm Bitcoin Latinum has sued journalists at Forbes and…

A US district judge in California has largely sided with OpenAI, dismissing the majority of claims raised by authors alleging…

Enlarge / Elon Musk leaves court in San Francisco, California Jan. 24, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg A federal court…

Amazon rigged its platform to “routinely” push an overwhelming majority of customers to pay more for items that could’ve been…

Getty Images | Science Photo Library In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks before signing the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The Biden administration announced…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Movie companies have lost a third attempt to unmask Reddit users who posted comments discussing piracy.…

Enlarge / Climate scientist Michael Mann. This is a story I had sporadically wondered whether I’d ever have the chance…

Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1…

One of TikTok’s senior-most female executives, Katie Ellen Puris, is suing TikTok and its owner ByteDance, alleging wrongful termination based…

Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling gas furnaces…

Dozens of California police agencies are still sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities without a warrant,…

Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge Cable and satellite TV companies are defending their early termination fees (ETFs) in hopes of…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks on the phone in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,…

Enlarge / Rows 25 and 26 in the Boeing plane that lost a door plug during flight. NTSB Four important…

AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is drawing protest from residents as state officials consider whether…

Getty Images | SimpleImages Europe’s right-to-repair rules will force vendors to stand by their products an extra 12 months after…

4chan users who have made a game out of exploiting popular AI image generators appear to be at least partly…

Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package was unfair to the electric…

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s approaches to child safety at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing January 31, 2024. During…

Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy when it dramatically changed the prices and rules associated with accessing its API. The…

eBay has agreed to pay $59 million after the US Department of Justice accused the online marketplace of selling thousands…

Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images…

Enlarge / US Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) speaks to the press on June 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Enlarge / Booking photo of Alan Filion, charged with multiple felonies connected to a “swatting” incident at the Masjid Al…

Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on making the use of AI-generated voices in…

Law enforcement is continuing to warn that a “flood” of AI-generated fake child sex images is making it harder to…

Comcast Comcast has reluctantly agreed to discontinue its “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing an appeal of a ruling…

The US may have uncovered the nation’s largest “SIM swap” scheme yet, charging a Chicago man and co-conspirators with allegedly…

Enlarge / The Citibank logo on a bank in New York City in January 2024. Citibank has illegally refused to…

Apple is “deeply concerned” that proposed changes to a United Kingdom law could give the UK government unprecedented power to…

Getty Images Amazon will no longer pursue a $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot, maker of Roomba robot vacuums after the…

Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party…

Enlarge / Illustration of AST SpaceMobile’s cellular satellite. AST SpaceMobile Google, AT&T, and Vodafone are investing $206.5 million in AST…

Getty Images | OsakaWayne Studios Republican officials from 20 states, including 19 state attorneys general, are backing Florida and Texas…

Getty Images | Justin Sullivan eBay is laying off approximately 1,000 employees in a move that reduces its full-time workforce…

The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying records from data brokers detailing which websites and apps Americans use,…

Some teens will now have their Facebook and Instagram accounts defaulted to a setting that blocks strangers from sending direct…

Explicit, fake AI-generated images sexualizing Taylor Swift began circulating online this week, quickly sparking mass outrage that may finally force…

Getty Images | NurPhoto One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s…

Amazon Ring has shut down a controversial feature in its community safety app Neighbors that has allowed police to contact…

Popular apps like Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App aren’t doing enough to protect consumers from fraud that occurs when unauthorized…

Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators, has asked a federal judge to deem unconstitutional a rarely invoked law that…

Getty Images | Bloomberg The Federal Trade Commission yesterday ruled that TurboTax maker Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising…

Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023, in Washington,…

Meta will allow some Facebook and Instagram users to unlink their accounts as part of the platform’s efforts to comply…

Enlarge / Utah high school student Hannah Zoulek sued Utah to block the Social Media Regulation Act from taking effect…

Sam Rodriguez JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail:…

Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, one of…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a Senate subcommittee hearing on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Getty Images | SOPA Images European Union regulators intend to block Amazon’s attempt to purchase Roomba-maker iRobot, The Wall Street…

Enlarge / Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu’s European division, testifies for a public inquiry in London on January 19, 2024.…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks during a “First Tool-In” ceremony at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility under…

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Ultra 2. Apple Starting today, if you buy an Apple Watch Series 9 or Watch…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the US Supreme…

The US seems to be getting serious about criminalizing deepfake pornography after teen boys at a New Jersey high school…

Content creators have spent the past five years developing new tactics to evade YouTube’s policies blocking monetization of videos making…

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of iOS developers after today’s Supreme Court ruling, surveying a new landscape of payment options and…

Enlarge / A Verizon store in New York on July 3, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg Verizon Wireless customers may…

Getty Images | Matt Cardy A federal judge blocked an Ohio state law that would prevent minors from using social…

Enlarge / A screenshot from Jack Gamble’s video outing Stephen Harrison as HyperVerse’s fake CEO, posted on Gamble’s “Nobody Special…

For those who trade in child sexual exploitation images and videos in the darkest recesses of the Internet, cryptocurrency has…

eBay has agreed to pay $3 million—the maximum criminal penalty possible—after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its investigation into potential risks posed by lead-covered cables installed nationwide by major…

For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider…

Enlarge / Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability. SpaceX SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between T-Mobile phones…

Popular search engines like Google and Bing are making it easy to surface nonconsensual deepfake pornography by placing it at…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon today is laying off 500 employees at Twitch and several hundred more at its MGM…

Enlarge / Starbucks’ Rewards programs are a key part of their revenue. How the company deals with unspent amounts in…

There’s currently a surge in cryptocurrency and phishing scams proliferating on X (formerly Twitter)—hiding under the guise of gold and…

23andMe is “shamelessly” blaming victims of a data breach impacting 6.9 million users, a lawyer representing victims pursuing a class-action…

Getty Images | SOPA Images TurboTax maker Intuit’s tax breaks are being questioned by four US lawmakers who object to…

Enlarge / A still from a HyperVerse video featuring CEO Steven Reece Lewis. For years, rumors spread on social media…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks with members of the media at the AI Safety Summit on November 1, 2023 in…

Getty Images | DNY59 Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth…

Enlarge / A marketing image for Vizio’s P-series Q9 TV. Vizio has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a…

Getty Images Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over its Chrome…

If you were to search for a product called “Mens Maximum Energy Supplement” on Amazon, you’d be bombarded with everything…

Enlarge / Microsoft is named in the suit for allegedly building the system that allowed GPT derivatives to be trained…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) on December 15,…

Adobe has abandoned its proposed $20 billion acquisition of product design software company Figma, as there was “no clear path…

Aurich / Getty US president Joe Biden’s plan for containing the dangers of artificial intelligencealready risks being derailed by congressional…

When you drop money in the bank, it looks like it’s just sitting there, ready for you to withdraw. In…

After Epic Games proved that Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, Google has agreed to pay a $700…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently seeking comments on new rules that would further restrict platforms’ efforts to monetize…

ToolX via Getty Images Three of the world’s biggest pornography sites will be hit with new regulatory curbs including stricter…

More than 1,000 known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) were found in a large open dataset—known as LAION-5B—that was used…

Enlarge / Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ,” in May 10, 2022, in Rome, Italy.…

Enlarge / Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican caucus lunch on November…

Getty Images | Chris Delmas The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly…

Enlarge / Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Milton…

Elon Musk privately told some of the bankers who lent him $13 billion to fund his leveraged buyout of Twitter…

Getty Images | Bet_Noire Elon Musk can’t avoid testifying in an investigation into whether he violated federal securities laws, a…

Some TikTok users may have skipped reviewing an update to TikTok’s terms of service this summer that shakes up the process…

A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around…

We’ve all experienced it or heard about it happening: Someone has a conversation about wanting a red jacket, and then…

Just two days after updating its policy to allow for more nudity, Twitch has announced that it’s immediately “rolling back…

Getty Images | releon8211 Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment…

Getty Images | RoyalFive The Federal Communications Commission has taken a step toward prohibiting early termination fees charged by cable…

Enlarge / Dragon Sector uploaded a video to social media after discovering an “undocumented ‘unlock code’ which you could enter…

Enlarge / Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber defied expectations to deliver a document that explicitly calls for limits on fossil fuel…

Enlarge / Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Getty Images |…

Enlarge / Cars parked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022. Getty Images | Josh Edelson…

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney jumping for joy at news of the verdict. Epic Games…

Enlarge / Infowars-founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court on September 21, 2022 during one of…

Getty Images | SOPA Images A former Tesla employee who leaked thousands of accident reports and other documents expressed his…

Getty Images | imagedepotpro The US broadband industry is protesting a Federal Communications Commission plan to measure the affordability of…

Shortly after 23andMe confirmed that hackers stole ancestry data of 6.9 million users, 23andMe has updated its terms of service,…

Wired/Getty One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the…

Enlarge / A Verizon logo at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Verizon Wireless…

Enlarge / Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2,…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon-owned Twitch plans to stop providing its streaming platform in South Korea, saying that fees charged…

Getty Images | Chesnot Meta has started enabling end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for chats and calls on Messenger and…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A former Twitter security executive sued Elon Musk and X Corp. yesterday, alleging that he was…

Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown number of people using Apple and Google smartphones, US…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images AI face detection now counts among the tools that could be used to help adult…

Trevor Jacob, a 30-year-old YouTuber pilot who intentionally crashed his plane to drive up views on a sponsored video, has…