Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges
Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer
Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine €890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion
EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets Lawsuit alleges job-swappers took secrets with them, helped by coaching on how to avoid scrutiny
Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program
T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out 303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door
Where there's a will, AI still has work to do Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter
Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment
European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act
Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits
Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service
Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI The group claims $100M in losses from flubby system
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results Former franchise operators claim telco unfairly cut commission and other payments
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files
IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases
What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession Hallucinations don't fly in a court of law
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job
Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’ Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption
Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll
China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition
EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government
If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcome
FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable
ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it
EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams
Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack
Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars
Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details
Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'
China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination
Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster
ICE watchers say agents used software to threaten and follow them home 'This is a warning. We know you live right here'
SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping 'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'
Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose
Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers
AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussion
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his way
Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion
