Enlarge / Elon Musk leaves a Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday December 3, 2019. Apu Gomes/Getty Images reader comments 267 with 139 posters participating Share this story A Los Angeles federal jury has found Elon Musk not liable for defamation in a lawsuit brought by British caver Vernon Unsworth. Musk dubbed Unsworth a “pedo ..
Tag : Policy
Enlarge / One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 10, 2018. reader comments 54 with 44 posters participating Share this story It’s no secret that every major social media platform is chock-full of bad actors, fake accounts, and bots. The big companies ..
Enlarge / Screenshot of Justice Department website shows four pictures of same alleged criminal. reader comments 39 with 29 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have indicted the kingpin of Evil Corp, the name used by a cybercrime gang that used the notorious Dridex malware to drain more than $70 million from bank accounts ..
Enlarge / Regional headquarters of software company Oracle in San Jose, California, April 13, 2019. reader comments 72 with 40 posters participating Share this story As a long-running Department of Labor suit against Oracle heads in front of a judge this week, Oracle is fighting back by arguing that the DOL’s suit, alleging violation of ..
Enlarge / Huawei’s logo at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona in November 2019. Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 108 with 51 posters participating Share this story Trade War! USA v. China View more stories Huawei has sued the Federal Communications Commission over the agency’s order that bans Huawei equipment in ..
Enlarge / Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, during an interview in New York, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. reader comments 16 with 16 posters participating Share this story Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated their 4G coverage in official filings to the Federal Communications Commission, an FCC investigation found. But FCC officials confirmed ..
reader comments 6 with 5 posters participating Share this story IBM X-Force, the company’s security unit, has published a report of a new form of “wiper” malware connected to threat groups in Iran and used in a destructive attack against companies in the Middle East. The sample was discovered in a response to an attack ..
reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating Share this story The US Department of Justice has given its tentative approval to a wireless-industry plan to revise eSIM standards, saying that new safeguards should prevent carriers from colluding against competitors in the standards-setting process. But the DOJ warned the industry that it must eliminate anti-competitive provisions ..
Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org. reader comments 122 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story The courts have long held that laws can’t be copyrighted. But if the state mixes the text of the law together with supporting information, things get trickier. In Monday oral arguments, the US Supreme Court wrestled with ..
Enlarge / Google’s main headquarters. reader comments 65 with 39 posters participating Share this story Four former employees who say Google fired them in retaliation for their efforts to organize co-workers are planning legal action against the company. The workers allege the tech giant violated US labor law. The employees—Laurence Berland, Paul Duke, Rebecca Rivers, ..
