May 22, 2023 Meta has been hit with a record 1.2 billion euro (US$1.3 billon) fine by the European Union following an investigation into Facebook’s transfers of personal data since July 2020. In addition, Meta has been ordered more...
May 19, 2023 The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit that may have called into question Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This federal legislation protects internet corporations like Twitter and YouTube against more...
May 17, 2023 The Justice Department has issued a series of indictments against foreign persons suspected of getting critical U.S. technology illegally. In southern California, a Chinese national stole advanced "smart manufacturing" source code for nuclear submarines and more...
May 16, 2023 Elon Musk's bid to alter or terminate his 2018 securities fraud settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been rejected by a federal appeals court. The court ruled that the SEC did more...
May 10, 2023 Textbook publishers Pearson has announced its intention to sue over the improper use of its intellectual property (IP) for training artificial intelligence (AI) models. CEO Andy Bird expressed worry about other companies using Pearson's material more...
May 8, 2023 Former Uber Technologies chief security officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach and theft of tens of millions of customer records, the Associated Press more...
May 5, 2023 Former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan has been sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service for his part in concealing and impeding a 2016 hack from authorities. Last October, a more...
May 3, 2023 Google has been ordered to pay a Quebec man $500,000 in moral damages for not removing a link in its search engine to an article wrongly alleging he was convicted of a sexual offence. However, more...
May 1, 2023 A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an antitrust suit against Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The case was brought by 48 U.S. states and territories over more...
April 25, 2023 The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal to the US Patent and Trademark Office's decision to deny patents for inventions created by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist, filed an appeal, more...
