August 22, 2023 A federal judge has ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot own copyrights. The ruling came in a case brought by Stephen Thaler, who had sued the U.S. Copyright Office after it rejected his application to more...
August 21, 2023 Western Digital is facing three class-action lawsuits over its SanDisk Extreme series and My Passport portable SSDs. The lawsuits allege that the drives are defective and can abruptly wipe data, rendering them worthless. The lawsuits more...
August 16, 2023 Russia fined social media site Reddit and the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, for failing to delete content that the Russian government considers to be "fake" about its military campaign in Ukraine. A Russian court more...
August 16, 2023 Major record labels are suing the Internet Archive, accusing the nonprofit of copyright infringement for its "Great 78 Project." The project digitizes sound recordings on 78 RPM records, which were made between 1898 and the more...
August 15, 2023 The Internet Archive, a digital library that provides free access to books, movies, music, and other content, has reached an agreement with four major publishers to allow the Archive to appeal a recent copyright ruling. more...
August 14, 2023 A former Salesforce vice president, Karl Wirth is suing the company, alleging that it falsely advertised the capabilities of its Customer Data Platform (CDP) and retaliated against him for raising concerns about the product's claims. more...
August 9, 2023 A U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, has rejected Google's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use, even when they were in more...
July 28, 2023 The European Commission is opening a formal antitrust investigation into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams software with its Office productivity suite. The investigation comes after a complaint by Slack, a rival communication app, which alleges more...
July 28, 2023 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company has abused its market power to stifle competition. The suit, which is expected to be filed as more...
July 26, 2023 Several proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. stemming from the exploitation and data thefts in January from a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer software. Now a Canadian action has more...