reader comments 47 with 37 posters participating Share this story Sponsors of a key bipartisan antitrust bill have tried for months to secure a Senate vote and potentially pass “the first major bill on technology competition” to come before the Senate “since the dawn of the Internet.” Now, The Wall Street Journal reports, that bill ..
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Getty Images | Samuel Corum reader comments 367 with 184 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk, unsatisfied with the ongoing court case over his attempt to break a $44 billion merger contract, has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate. “I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Christopher Pike/Bloomberg reader comments 254 with 121 posters participating Share this story Twitter yesterday slammed Elon Musk’s response to the company’s lawsuit in a 127-page filing in the Delaware Court of Chancery that says Musk’s claims are “contradicted by the evidence and common sense.” Twitter’s court filing also said Musk’s ..
reader comments 157 with 68 posters participating Share this story Are spam accounts really the reason behind Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s decision to back out of his cursed Twitter deal? This week, Twitter sent a bunch of subpoenas to find out, pulling Musk’s close circle of friends and business associates into the chaotic trial. One ..
reader comments 61 with 48 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications has agreed to settle piracy lawsuits filed by the major record labels, which accused the cable Internet provider of failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who illegally download copyrighted songs. Sony, Universal, Warner, and their various subsidiaries sued Charter in US District ..
reader comments 112 with 54 posters participating Share this story This week, a California court denied Visa’s motion to be dropped from a lawsuit alleging that Visa “intended to help” monetize child sexual abuse materials hosted on sites like Pornhub. In part, because the credit card company processed payments for ads featured alongside these videos, ..
An atomic clock based on a fountain of atoms. reader comments 91 with 59 posters participating Share this story Meta recently joined the ranks of tech giants calling for the end of the leap second, the fascinatingly complex way humans account for tiny changes in the Earth’s rotation timing. The owner of Facebook and Instagram ..
Getty Images | Diy13 reader comments 87 with 45 posters participating Share this story Attorneys general from all 50 states have created an Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force “to investigate and take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States,” they announced yesterday. In the task ..
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish. reader comments 80 with 54 posters participating Share this story Over a year and a half after tentatively winning $886 million in broadband funding from the government’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), SpaceX is still trying to get paid by the Federal Communications Commission. One problem for Starlink—though not ..
reader comments 167 with 67 posters participating Share this story Microsoft isn’t the only company that seems to contradict its own politics by promising to cover abortion travel costs for employees, while at the same time donating to political action committees that funded the governors and attorneys general who fought to overturn Roe v. Wade. However, ..
