Collaborate Disseminate
Jurors delivered a mixed verdict on Friday, ruling that Qualcomm had properly licensed its central processor chips from Arm. This decision effectively concludes Arm’s lawsuit against Qualcomm, which had the potential to disrupt the global smartphone an… Continue reading Qualcomm Processors Properly Licensed From Arm, US Jury Finds
Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist living in the UK, has been found guilty of contempt of court for persistently and falsely claiming to be Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, despite a High Court ruling against his claim. He has been sent… Continue reading Craig Wright Convicted For Repeatedly Lying About Inventing Bitcoin
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Montana’s top court on Wednesday held that the state’s constitution guaranteed a right to a stable climate system and invalidated a law barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse… Continue reading Montana Supreme Court Upholds Right To ‘Stable Climate System’ For Youngsters
Nebraska’s attorney general has sued Change Healthcare over a massive data breach that exposed sensitive medical information of more than 100 million Americans following a February ransomware attack. The lawsuit alleges the UnitedHealth-owned company f… Continue reading Nebraska Sues UnitedHealth Unit Over 100 Million Patient Data Breach
A San Francisco jury convicted tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni of second-degree murder for the April 2023 stabbing death of Cash App’s founder Bob Lee. He faces 15 years to life in prison. The BBC reports: Momeni was found not guilty of the more serious … Continue reading Tech Entrepreneur Found Guilty of Cash App Founder Bob Lee’s Murder
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: TikTokasked the Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily block a law that would effectively ban it in the United States in a matter of weeks. Saying that the law violates both its First Amendme… Continue reading TikTok Asks Supreme Court To Block Law Banning Its US Operations
WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with its plugin… Continue reading WordPress Parent Company Must Stop Blocking WP Engine, Judge Rules
In March, 2023 the Internet Archive lost in court, with a judge ruling they couldn’t scan entire books and then lend them as ebooks. The Internet Archive appealed to a higher court, which also ruled against them in September of 2024.
Today, the Inter… Continue reading Internet Archive: We Will Not Appeal ‘Hachette v. Internet Archive’ Ruling
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has sued one of its former engineers in Texas federal court, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to its chip designs and sharing them publicly on the internet. The lawsuit, filed on Tu… Continue reading Google Sues Ex-Engineer In Texas Over Leaked Pixel Chip Secrets
An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant… Continue reading OpenAI Accidentally Deleted Potential Evidence in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit