Fortnite returns to Google Play in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic settled last week, after a years-long antitrust dispute
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A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
A Texas District Court rules against the sanctions on Tornado Cash, ordering a previous decision to be reversed; the US sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022
- A U.S. District Court has ordered the sanctions on Tornado Cash to be reversed. — The price of TORN jumped over 140% following the news.
A profile of US District Court judge Amit P. Mehta, who is presiding over the US v. Google case, which could set a precedent for other US tech antitrust cases
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Filing: to settle a 2020 class action lawsuit over Chrome's Incognito mode, Google agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected
Over 100 Billion Private Browsing Records To Be Deleted Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Google Incognito mode was never private — and now Google's being forced to delete all the data Grace Eliza Goodwin...
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT
I just left a dramatic, emotional courtroom hearing at US District Court in Manhattan. Sam Bankman-Fried has been ordered to jail. @verge : SBF was free on $250 million bail, but using a VPN to watch ...
Industry groups representing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter sue Texas over a law that lets residents sue social networks that ban them for their political views
Technology trade groups that represent Facebook, Google's YouTube and Twitter are suing Texas to stop a new state law that cracks … Source: US District Court for the Western District of Texas Division...
A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Ripple to allow deposition of former SEC official William Hinman, who in 2018 said Ethereum is not a security
Ripple can ask Hinman about how he came up with “sufficiently decentralized” test for ETH Also puts Hinman in an awkward spot over the $1.6M he was getting from his old law firm while at SEC — a firm ...
Donald Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Pichai, claiming the companies have violated his First Amendment rights
Taking on Big Tech ‘censorship’ can be a winning argument even if it loses in court. Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Trump announces lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube BBC : Trum...