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Yelp has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of maintaining its local search monopoly by preferencing its own services over competitors, harming competition and reducing quality. “Yelp claims that the way Google directs… Continue reading Yelp Sues Google For Antitrust Violations
An anonymous reader shares a report: Following the arrest of Telegram CEO and co-founder Pavel Durov Saturday, the 39-year-old billionaire, Drov has been indicted on multiple charges after appearing in front of a Paris Court on Wednesday. He has been i… Continue reading Telegram CEO Indicted in Paris Court
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a Wells notice to OpenSea, the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, threatening legal action over alleged securities violations. The SEC contends that NFTs traded on OpenSea’s platform m… Continue reading SEC Threatens Legal Action Against NFT Marketplace OpenSea
The Register’s Connor Jones reports: The U.S. is suing one of its leading research universities over a litany of alleged failures to meet cybersecurity standards set by the Department of Defense (DoD) for contract awardees. Georgia Institute of Technol… Continue reading US Sues Georgia Tech Over Alleged Cybersecurity Failings As a Pentagon Contractor
AI company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude. From a report: The complaint, filed on… Continue reading Authors Sue Anthropic For Copyright Infringement Over AI Training
The Department of Justice has amended its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging that Ticketmaster’s introduction of nontransferable tickets and the SafeTix system was primarily intended to stifle competition from rival platfo… Continue reading Ticketmaster’s Nontransferable ‘SafeTix’ Are Anticompetitive, DOJ Suit Claims
The San Francisco City Attorney’s office is suing 16 of the most frequently visited AI-powered “undressing” websites, often used to create nude deepfakes of women and girls without their consent. From a report: The landmark lawsuit, announced at a pres… Continue reading AI-powered ‘Undressing’ Websites Are Getting Sued
Ars Technica’s Ashley Belanger reports: Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated AI image generators from copying billions of artworks to train AI models and replicate the… Continue reading Artists Claim ‘Big’ Win In Copyright Suit Fighting AI Image Generators
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: 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… Continue reading Lawsuit Attacks Florida’s Lab-Grown Meat Ban As Unconstitutional
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ExtremeTech: The family of a French mariner who died on the imploded Titan submersible last year has sued Titan’s maker, OceanGate Expeditions, for more than $50 million. The lawsuit claims OceanGate is responsi… Continue reading OceanGate Submersible Victim’s Family Sues For $50 Million, Partly Blames $30 Logitech Controller