Enlarge / Glacier National Park, Montana. reader comments 82 with Yesterday, a landmark climate trial kicked off in Montana, with 16 young residents demanding that the state be ordered to do more to protect residents’ constitutional rights by reducing emissions and tossing out state policies promoting the fossil fuels industry. The trial comes shortly after ..
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reader comments 21 with This week, the European Union (EU) is preparing to lob yet another formal antitrust complaint against Google, Bloomberg reported. Charges could come with massive fines for Google, as the EU’s European Commission follows in the US Department of Justice’s footsteps and starts pushing back against Google’s alleged advertising technology industry dominance. The ..
Enlarge / The FTC’s reported filing would be more likely to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard than its previous internally litigated lawsuit. Getty Images reader comments 153 with [Update, 6:30 pm ET: The FTC filed its complaint (PDF) for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s ..
reader comments 159 with In what might be another blow to the stability of Twitter’s trust and safety efforts, the company has allegedly stopped paying for Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS), which host tools that support the platform’s safety measures, Platformer reported this weekend. According to Platformer, Twitter relies on Google Cloud to ..
Enlarge / Acer continued selling laptops, like these Chromebooks, in Russia after saying it suspended business there, Reuters reports. reader comments 77 with Per a report by Reuters on Thursday, Acer said it sold monitors in Russia after publicly declaring that it would suspend business there due to the Russia-Ukraine war. In Reuters‘ report, Acer ..
Enlarge / Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder, delivers remarks at Web Summit in Altice Arena on November 8, 2018, in Lisbon, Portugal. reader comments 130 with Twitter co-founder Evan “Ev” Williams has broken his silence and joined other co-founders in expressing his dismay at how Elon Musk is running the platform. In his first public remarks ..
An antitrust-based lawsuit accusing Amazon and Apple of colluding to keep Apple products priced higher in Amazon’s store is moving forward after a judge declined to dismiss the case on the companies’ motions. Getty Images reader comments 12 with A federal judge has rejected Apple’s and Amazon’s motions to wholly dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit, ..
reader comments 87 with Armed America Radio touts one of its hosts, Mark Walters, as the “loudest voice in America fighting for gun rights.” Now it appears that Walters’ prominent commentary on gun rights and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)—a gun rights nonprofit that gave him a distinguished service award in 2017—has led generative AI ..
Enlarge / Screenshot of the Downloader app on Google Play. reader comments 6 with Google has reversed the suspension of an Android TV app that was hit with a copyright complaint simply because it is able to load a pirate website that can also be loaded in any standard web browser. The Downloader app, which ..
Enlarge / Screenshot from Ron DeSantis ad shows a collage of real and fake images. reader comments 150 with A Ron DeSantis presidential campaign video shows three pictures of Donald Trump hugging and kissing Anthony Fauci, all of which seem to be fake images generated by artificial intelligence. One professor told Ars today that there ..
