TikTok US says it doesn't “have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages” and is “investigating why some users are experiencing issues”
Bobby Allyn /NPR:
xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging their deal to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's OSes stifles competition and that Apple favors OpenAI in its App Store rankings
in their great past. @elonmusk is right to do this. [image] Bluesky: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Can Musk sue his way to the top of the App Store? I asked Stanford Law Prof. @marklemley.bsky.social...
A US federal judge rejects OpenAI's request to dismiss the NYT's lawsuit, allowing the main copyright infringement claims to go forward while narrowing the suit
Bobby Allyn / NPR :
US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever
as to the timeline, it does come “after” the NPR reporting — but the inference that they're related does not seem to be backed up by the facts of today's recusal, as I have detailed in my thread. @tha...
X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott”
In an all-hands at X, formerly Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino attempted … Karissa Bell / Engadget : X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform Grace Eliza Goodwin / Business Insider : Elon...
In a filing, ByteDance urged a US court to strike down a law that could ban TikTok in the US, recounting lengthy talks that it says the US ended in August 2022
which had been shrouded in secrecy. Eager for more revelations: https://www.nytimes.com/... David Shepardson / @davidshepardson : More from TikTok brief: “In short, Congress reached for a sledgehammer...
Prior to the 60 Minutes interview, Nick Clegg posted an internal memo saying the whistleblower would accuse Facebook of relaxing election safeguards too soon
Yeah, about those annotations Facebook provided... https://www.nytimes.com/... Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat : A plea before the whistleblower speaks tonight: don't fall for Facebook's playbook of c...
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not to pay. Google, doi...
Federal judge ordered Twitter to reveal identity behind @whyspertech, who allegedly forged an FBI doc to spread conspiracy theory on killing of DNC's Seth Rich
Bobby Allyn / NPR :
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...