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 ..
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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, ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile’s 5G coverage map. reader comments 58 with 42 posters participating, including story author Share this story T-Mobile today announced that it has launched “America’s first nationwide 5G network,” but T-Mobile’s definition of “nationwide” doesn’t include about 40% of the US population. “America gets its first nationwide 5G network today, covering more than ..
Enlarge / A wall of user photos form a Facebook logo at the company’s data center in Lulea, Sweden. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND | AFP | Getty Images reader comments 26 with 24 posters participating Share this story If you feel like you don’t want to spend much time on Facebook anymore but don’t want to lose ..
Enlarge / Google logo seen during Google Developer Days (GDD) in Shanghai, China, September 2019. reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story Transplanted stem cells can be as lifesaving as donated organs, but the Food and Drug Administration in September warned consumers that some stem cell clinics only pretend to be in ..
Enlarge / Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at dusk. reader comments 39 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story Louisiana has brought some of its services back as it recovers from a targeted ransomware attack using the Ryuk malware on November 18. The state’s Office of Motor Vehicles re-opened offices on ..
Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019. reader comments 76 with 64 posters participating Share this story Reports of poor and unsafe working conditions within Amazon’s sprawling web of warehouses have been surfacing for years. A new report alleges that not only did conditions in one ..
Enlarge / Don’t abandon the Internet yet! reader comments 76 with 62 posters participating Share this story Eric Goldman is a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the High-Tech Law Institute. Jess Miers is an Internet Law & Policy Foundry fellow and a second year Tech Edge J.D. student at ..
Enlarge / Sen. Maria Cantwell during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Aug. 22, 2018. reader comments 52 with 41 posters participating Share this story Perhaps the third time’s the charm: a group of Senate Democrats, following in the recent footsteps of their colleagues in both chambers, has introduced a bill that would impose sweeping ..
Enlarge / Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann giving a presentation on records of past climate. reader comments 103 with 64 posters participating, including story author Share this story Climate scientists take a lot of abuse. The political opposition to climate science in some countries breeds nasty attacks on the scientists themselves. Penn State’s Michael ..
