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Victims can sue Yahoo for massive breaches, federal judge says

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Plaintiffs suing Yahoo for failing to protect all of the company’s 3 billion users can move forward with the majority of their case, a federal judge in California ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh denied in part a motion by Verizon, which owns Yahoo, to dismiss the case. The plaintiffs are claiming that Yahoo was too slow to correct security vulnerabilities, as well as disclose three data breaches between 2013 and 2016. Since Yahoo’s breaches affected virtually every user, the plaintiffs are seeking class certification. “Plaintiffs explain that, had they known about the inadequacy of these security measures, they ‘would have taken measures to protect themselves,’” Koh writes in the ruling. “Plaintiffs’ allegations are sufficient to show that they would have behaved differently had Defendants disclosed the security weaknesses of the Yahoo Mail system.” The plaintiffs argue that the breaches have put them at risk of identity theft and forced them to spend time […]

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They’re Putting Soy In Your Wires, Man

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I’ve got a friend who tells me at every opportunity that soy is the downfall of humanity. Whatever ails us as a society, it’s the soy beans that did it. They increase violent tendencies, they make us fat and lazy, they run farmers out of business, and so on. He laments at how hard it is to find food that doesn’t include soy in some capacity, and for a while was resigned to eating nothing but chicken hot dogs and bags of frozen peas; anything else had unacceptable levels of the “Devil’s Bean”. Overall he’s a really great guy, kind …read more

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3D Printering: Makerbot’s Class Action Suit Dismissed

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This time last year, Stratasys, parent company of Makerbot, was implicated in a class action suit. Investors claimed Stratasys violated securities laws, and overstated both the performance of the 5th generation of Makerbot printers and the performance of the company itself. Court docs received by Adafruit have revealed this case has been dismissed with prejudice. Makerbot won this one.

The case presented by Stratasys investors relied on two obvious facts. First, the price of Stratasys shares fell far beyond expectations. Second, the extruder for the 5th generation of Makerbot printers – the ‘Smart Extruder’ – was terrible. No one can …read more

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