Enlarge / The Tesla Cybertruck. reader comments 237 with With Tesla’s first Cybertruck deliveries expected later this month, a now-deleted update to the electric carmaker’s terms of service said the firm could sue customers for $50,000 or more if they resell during the first year of ownership without first getting written permission from Tesla. The ..
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reader comments 71 with After scammers spent years swiping hundreds of millions from Zelle users by inducing people to authorize fraudulent payments, lawmakers were horrified to discover in fall 2022 that “the vast majority” of defrauded Zelle users never got their money back. To regulators, it seemed like Zelle was shirking responsibility for policing this ..
Enlarge / The first Amazon Echo speaker. Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 25 with A Delaware federal court has ordered Amazon to pay $46.7 million for infringing on four patents belonging to VB Assets with Amazon’s Echo smart speakers and Alexa virtual assistant. A lawsuit from Nuance Communications-owned VB Assets, previously known as ..
Enlarge / Apple Store at Garden State Plaza mall on November 4, 2023, in Paramus, New Jersey. Getty Images | Gary Hershorn reader comments 110 with Apple illegally discriminated against US citizens and other US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for certain types of positions that went to foreign workers, the US Department ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 172 with Starlink’s lack of traditional customer support options is making life difficult today for new users affected by a bug that reset their accounts. A bunch of customers received an email from no-reply@starlink.com last night that said, “Your Starlink Account Has Been Reset. All pending orders and ..
Enlarge / Infotainment system in a 2016 Ford Escape. Getty Images | Todd Korol reader comments 48 with A federal appeals court rejected lawsuits that alleged five major carmakers violated a Washington state privacy law. The lawsuits centered on car infotainment systems that store text messages in a way that potentially allows the messages to ..
reader comments 34 with On Thursday, a top European court ruled that Austria cannot force Google, Meta, and TikTok to pay millions in fines if they fail to delete hate speech from their popular social media platforms. Austria had attempted to hold platforms accountable for hate speech and other illegal content after passing a law ..
reader comments 28 with After a viral TikTok trend spurred tens of thousands of car thefts this summer, cops in Washington, DC, started realizing that it was much easier to recover stolen vehicles that could be tracked with Apple AirTags. Because of this, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) rolled out a pilot program this week, ..
Getty Images | traffic_analyzer reader comments 49 with Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory. In 2021, Congress required the ..
reader comments 44 with One of the world’s largest mobile data brokers, Kochava, has lost its battle to stop the Federal Trade Commission from revealing what the FTC has alleged is a disturbing, widespread pattern of unfair use and sale of sensitive data without consent from hundreds of millions of people. US District Judge B. ..
