reader comments 134 with Yesterday, some of the biggest textbook publishers sued Library Genesis, an illegal shadow library that publishers accused of “extensive violations of federal copyright law.” Publishers suing include Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education. They claimed that Library Genesis (aka Libgen) is operated by unknown individuals based outside the ..
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reader comments 344 with Last night when the clock struck midnight, nearly 13,000 workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis went on strike after the so-called “Big Three” car companies failed to reach an agreement with United Auto Workers (UAW). By Friday morning, UAW discovered that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter—in what appeared ..
reader comments 107 with In July, a federal judge issued an order limiting the Biden administration’s social media contacts over Republicans’ concerns that officials illegally suppressed speech. That order was mostly overturned last week, and now, US Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar has rushed to ask the Supreme Court to reevaluate one of the order’s ..
reader comments 21 with TikTok has been hit with a €345 million EU fine over the way it processes the personal data of children and teenage users, the first handed out by the bloc to the Chinese-owned social media platform. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the regulator responsible for holding TikTok Technology to EU data protection ..
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrive to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Getty Images reader comments 100 with On Wednesday, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hosted an “AI Insight Forum” in the Senate’s office building about ..
Enlarge / The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility under construction in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. reader comments 162 with A new report has revealed that America may be quickly approaching a major roadblock in its bid to become a global chips leader by the end of the decade. Employees of the ..
reader comments 114 with Today, US District Judge Amit Mehta heard opening statements in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case challenging Google’s search dominance. Mehta alone will decide if Google maintained its role as the world’s search leader by competing on its own merits—as Google has claimed—or through anticompetitive conduct—which the DOJ has alleged. The ..
Enlarge / President Joe Biden at the White House on September 6, 2023. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 138 with The White House and FBI likely violated the First Amendment by coercing social media platforms into moderating content and changing their moderation policies, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled ..
reader comments 103 with Today, Elon Musk’s X Corp. sued to block California’s content moderation law, AB 587. In its complaint, filed a US district court in California, X Corp. is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction stopping California Attorney General Robert Bonta from enforcing the law. AB 587 passed in September 2022, requiring social ..
Getty Images | Sasirin Pamai reader comments 81 with The Federal Trade Commission’s chief administrative law judge ruled that Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising and should be forced to stop promoting TurboTax as “free” unless all conditions imposed on the free offer are immediately and conspicuously displayed to consumers. The initial decision by ..
