Enlarge / A lot of happy developers out there in the world today. Aurich Lawson reader comments 167 with 95 posters participating, including story author Share this story Oracle v. Google View more stories Google and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, ..
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Enlarge / Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrives for the swearing-in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the East Room of the White House on October 8, 2018, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 204 with 115 posters participating Share this story The US Supreme Court today vacated a 2019 appeals-court ruling ..
reader comments 128 with 69 posters participating Share this story Nearly a year ago, Amazon fired two employees who had criticized the company. The employees had publicly called on the company to do more to reduce its carbon footprint and had circulated a petition among Amazon employees supporting better compensation and support for warehouse workers. ..
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. reader comments 303 with 136 posters participating Share this story The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that ..
reader comments 312 with 156 posters participating Share this story Amazon has posted an apology to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) for a tweet last week denying that it makes its workers urinate in water bottles. The controversy started with a tweet by Pocan blasting Amazon for its treatment of workers—a topic of particular public interest ..
Barcroft Media | Getty Images reader comments 123 with 44 posters participating Share this story Huawei, the crown jewel of China’s tech industry, is reeling from a financial one-two punch delivered by US chip sanctions and a campaign aimed at cutting international markets. But with Huawei rapidly expanding into new markets and the Chinese government ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 154 with 116 posters participating Share this story Cable company WideOpenWest (which markets itself as WOW!) yesterday told customers that it is imposing a data cap and explained the change with a pizza analogy that would seem more appropriate for a kindergarten classroom than for an email informing ..
reader comments 213 with 81 posters participating Share this story More details have emerged about the climate and energy priorities of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, and they include support for nuclear power and carbon capture with sequestration (CCS). In a press conference yesterday with reporters, White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said the administration ..
reader comments 122 with 95 posters participating Share this story A Supreme Court ruling today in favor of Facebook limits the reach of a 1991 US law that bans certain kinds of robocalls and texts. The court found that the anti-robocall law only applies to systems that have the ability to generate random or sequential ..
reader comments 40 with 34 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have indicted a Kansas man for allegedly logging into a computer system at a public water system and tampering with the process for cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water. An indictment filed in US District Court for the District of Kansas said Wyatt ..
