reader comments 37 A large Internet service provider wants the Supreme Court to rule that ISPs shouldn’t have to disconnect broadband users who have been accused of piracy. Cable firm Cox Communications, which is trying to overturn a ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Sony, petitioned the Supreme Court to take up the ..
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Enlarge / Kim Dotcom speaks to the media after a bail hearing at Auckland District Court on December 1, 2014, in Auckland, New Zealand. Getty Images | Fiona Goodall reader comments 56 Kim Dotcom has lost yet another ruling in his attempt to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the United States, over a dozen ..
Upside Foods reader comments 123 Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed yesterday. The case is being brought by the cultivated meat firm Upside Foods and the Institute of Justice (IJ), a nonprofit public interest law firm. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the legislation making ..
Getty Images | Dan Kitwood reader comments 248 Elon Musk clashed with the EU ahead of a planned interview with Donald Trump on X as a war of words broke out between Brussels and the technology billionaire’s social media platform over content related to the US election. The dispute erupted as Trump, the Republican US ..
reader comments 105 Google announced Monday that it’s shutting down all AdSense accounts in Russia due to “ongoing developments in Russia.” This effectively ends Russian content creators’ ability to monetize their posts, including YouTube videos. The change impacts accounts monetizing content through AdSense, AdMob, and Ad Manager, the support page said. While Google has declined ..
Enlarge / Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reader comments 15 The Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has once again failed to convince a court that Meta acted as a state agent when censoring the group’s posts and ads on Facebook and Instagram. In his opinion ..
FT montage/Getty Images reader comments 68 TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users’ phones, including a false claim about Taylor Swift and a weeks-old disaster warning, intensifying fears about the spread of misinformation on the popular video-sharing platform. Among alerts seen by the Financial Times was a warning about a tsunami ..
Enlarge / Screenshot from AT&T commercial featuring Ben Stiller making a satellite call to Jordan Spieth. reader comments 46 AT&T has been told to stop running ads that claim the carrier is already offering cellular coverage from space. AT&T intends to offer Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) and has a deal with AST SpaceMobile, a ..
Enlarge / US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 1.1 million Samsung Slide-in Electric Ranges due to hundreds of reported fires. reader comments 134 After hundreds of reports of fires causing dozens of injuries and several pet deaths, Samsung is recalling more than a million electric stoves sold in the US between 2013 ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 232 Antitrust law professors aren’t impressed by Elon Musk’s lawsuit alleging a supposed X advertising boycott amounts to an antitrust violation. Based on the initial complaint filed by Musk’s X Corp., it looks like “a very weak case,” Vanderbilt Law School Associate Dean for Research Rebecca Haw Allensworth ..
