SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests
Divest-or-Sell Order Slated to Go Into Effect Next Month Forbes : Sources: Tim Cook and senior Apple execs have been discussing how best to respond to potential TikTok ban, conceding there is nothing ...
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...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol' tech company & ...
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing”
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Internet Archive to close its National Emergency Library, which offers free, unrestricted access to ebooks, on June 16, after lawsuit from four major publishers
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Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL
Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago … Tweets: @newsycbot , @markcallaghandb , @grimmelm , and @binarybits Tweets: @newsycbot : O...
DC appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to overturn the ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner; DOJ says it will not seek further review
again Marguerite Reardon / CNET : Justice Department won't appeal AT&T-Time Warner decision Marcy Gordon / Associated Press : US appeals court clears AT&T's $81B merger with Time Warner Sean Burch / T...
Facebook bans Infowars and 3 other pages run by Alex Jones for “repeated violations of Community Standards”; Spotify removes all episodes of The Alex Jones Show
It's About the Incoherence of ‘Hate Speech’ Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Tech firms clamp down on Alex Jones and Infowars Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Platforms quickly pile on Infowars ban, but Alex ...
A history of landmark software patent rulings in the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit, and how they have shifted the rules for software patents in the US
#TAPscholars @PamelaSamuelson & @marklemley discuss: http://arstechnica.com/... | @binarybits Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits : Happy 40th birthday to Parker v. Flook, the Supreme Court's strongest state...