Category: Legal Law

Meta declined to comment further on the company’s vision for social media’s future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told…

Verizon also said that after it bought TracFone, there was “a sharp increase in the number of TracFone devices that…

Judge not ready to rule on whether AI outputs are speech Google and Character Technologies also moved to dismiss the…

Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff on any iPhones sold in the…

AT&T has struck a deal to buy CenturyLink’s consumer fiber broadband division for $5.75 billion, giving the Internet provider another…

Why didn’t DOGE use Grok? It seems that Grok, Musk’s AI model, wasn’t available for DOGE’s task because it was…

“WHO’s priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine,” Kennedy said, alluding to his anti-vaccine and germ-theory…

Judge: DOGE is not just an advisor DOGE then asked the district court for a summary judgment in its favor,…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated an FCC court loss yesterday after a ruling that struck down Biden-era diversity…

Bertin Martens, a senior fellow at a European economics-focused think tank called Bruegel, broke down in April how practical it…

For voice actors who previously portrayed Darth Vader in video games, the Fortnite feature starkly illustrates how AI voice synthesis…

Biotechnology company Regeneron will acquire 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256 million, with a plan to keep the DNA-testing company…

Copyright Office seemingly opposes Meta’s torrenting Also among those “general observations,” the Copyright Office wrote that “making commercial use of…

Analysts estimate it would cost tens of billions of dollars and take years for Apple to increase iPhone manufacturing in…

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of…

Further, Meta argued that the FTC did not show evidence that users sharing friends-and-family content were shown more ads. Meta…

On Thursday, Telegram announced it had removed two huge black markets estimated to have generated more than $35 billion since…

Back in February, Elon Musk skewered the Treasury Department for lacking “basic controls” to stop payments to terrorist organizations, boasting…

Wilner wasn’t fully satisfied with the firm’s response that the two errors were “inadvertently included” in the brief and sought…

Noyb has requested a response from Meta by May 21, but it seems unlikely that Meta will quickly cave in…

“If SpaceX had done a basic search of public filings, it would know that EchoStar extensively utilizes the 2 GHz…

The reconciliation bill primarily focuses on cuts to Medicaid access and increased health care fees for millions of Americans. The…

In addition to cutting Universal Service, Simington proposed a broad streamlining of the FCC licensing process. Manual processing of license…

The deal announced today “did not address what would happen to low-value ‘de minimis’ ecommerce packages shipped from China to…

“It is not clear how AutoRIF has been modified or whether AI is involved in the RIF mandate (through AutoRIF…

Blumenthal pointed out that under a joint resolution of disapproval, the FCC is forbidden to adopt a similar rule in…

As the case dragged on, Mashinsky and his family appeared unremorseful, victims said, even while facing threats of violence and…

One of Bush’s “points of light” Energy Star was first established under President George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1992, the…

President Donald Trump said he is killing a broadband grant program that was authorized by Congress, claiming that the Digital…

The Trump administration’s steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered shutdowns of several climate-related programs…

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency…

The changing face of chip export controls The Biden-era chip restriction framework, which we covered in January, established a three-tiered…

There are 15 US states in which Residential Lite is offered: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,…

President Donald Trump is demanding the release of Tina Peters, a former election official who parroted Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy…

A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group…

The shuttering of Mr. Deepfakes won’t solve the problem of deepfakes, though. In 2022, the number of deepfakes skyrocketed as…

The Trump administration filed an emergency application on Friday asking the Supreme Court to restore DOGE’s access to Social Security…

Although Character Technologies argues that it’s common to update safety practices over time, Garcia’s team alleged these updates show that…

Tensions had been mounting at the company. Sales and profits were deteriorating rapidly. Musk was spending much of his time…

“We want our government to be something that we can rely on, as opposed to something that is on the…

“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president’s authority,” Harrison said. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB…

Determined to probe this key question, Chhabria pushed authors’ attorney, David Boies, to point to specific evidence of market harms…

In the trial, Google will paint this demand as a severe overreach, claiming that few, if any, companies would have…

Sweet did not respond to requests for comment regarding his work. In response to a request to clarify Sweet’s role…

Being a model citizen and a person of taste, you probably don’t need this reminder, but some others do: Federal…

“[Paramount] Board members are cognizant that a huge settlement could be viewed as something of a payoff to the president…

In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, “We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply…

Not sharing Johnson’s optimism, Goldman wrote that “there is no ‘preferred’ or ‘ideal’ way to do online age authentication.” Even…

“The Fifth Circuit concluded that the FCC’s enforcement proceeding leading to a monetary forfeiture order violated AT&T’s Seventh Amendment rights.…

Elon Musk’s companies could avoid over $2.3 billion in potential fines and other liabilities thanks to Musk’s unusual government position…

While the tech law is expected to achieve the rare feat of getting through Congress at what experts told Ars…

National grid operators in Spain and Portugal confirm that a massive electrical blackout has hit the Iberian Peninsula today, starting…

Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The…

The report of a criminal antitrust investigation follows a report in December that US authorities were investigating whether to ban…

The report of a criminal antitrust investigation follows a report in December that US authorities were investigating whether to ban…

xAI’s submission claimed that each of the 15 turbines “is equipped with Solar’s Dry Low Emission (DLE)/SoLoNOx control technology” and…

The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion…

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief…

Trump pushes for industry involvement It seems clear that Trump’s executive order was a reaction to China’s announcement about AI…

Comcast executives apparently realized something that customers have known and complained about for years: The Internet provider’s prices aren’t transparent…

On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on…

The first event is scheduled for Thursday and will be hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology. The events…

The suit also claims that the funding hold, made in retaliation for Harvard’s letter announcing its refusal to accept these…

Besides the five-year price guarantee, there’s at least one more notable pricing detail. T-Mobile’s previous plans had “taxes and fees…

Several tech executives attended the president’s inauguration ceremony, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg have held…

“Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer,” Ullyot forecasted. According…

However, it is clear that these groups are sharing their concerns with lawmakers. Last week, SEMI, a global industry group,…

NLRB denies breach Berulis’ disclosure said that several days before receiving this threat, he had been instructed to drop his…

The tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that…

Ultimately, Brinkema found that Google’s anticompetitive acts substantially harmed “Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information…

SentinelOne updated that post yesterday with copies of the email sent by Krebs and an email from Weingarten to staff.…

It’s unclear how high prices on Temu and Shein could go, but neither company is willing to wait before overhauling…

Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted of killing Rachel Morin earlier this week. The White House has attempted to link this murder…

If Meta can convince the court that the FTC’s market definition is wrong and that TikTok is Meta’s biggest rival,…

After X (formerly Twitter) announced it would be killing its “Support” account, disgruntled users quickly roasted the social media platform…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized Intuit’s lobbying against Direct File and told the AP that Trump and Musk “are going…

Wagner was first identified as a suspect due to an unspecified “investigative lead developed by law enforcement through scene evidence,”…

We also contacted the CPB and NPR today and will update this article if they provide any comments. Markey: “Outrageous…

He also accused the European Commission of “protectionism” and an “anti-American” attitude. “If Europe has its own satellite constellation then…

The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in…

DOGE has already slashed and burned modernization projects at other agencies, replacing them with smaller teams and tighter timelines. At…

Later today, a former Facebook employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, will testify to Congress that Meta executives “repeatedly” sought to “undermine US…

Shares in the US tech giant were one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties in the days immediately after Trump announced…

OpenAI also alleges that this is when Musk began intensifying his attacks on OpenAI while attempting to poach its top…

After declaring the FTC to be under White House control, Trump fired both Democratic members despite a US law and…

Jassy said Amazon is “doing everything we can to try and keep prices the way they’ve been for customers, as…

Google has long been on the lookout for ways to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on US government office software, and the…

On Wednesday, Donald Trump, once again, took to Truth Social to abruptly shift US trade policy, announcing a 90-day pause…

Free speech concerns The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been speaking out against the bill, saying “it could be easily manipulated…

A US appeals court ruled yesterday that DOGE can access personal data held by the US Department of Education and…

Instead, it appears that X decided to sue Twitch after discovering that Twitch was among advertisers who directly referenced the…

We contacted the White House today and will update this article if it provides any comment. Waltz: “It said one…

Last week, Politico reported that some top Republicans are pushing to reassert Congress’ power over tariffs as the trade war…

“The number of reported decisions drops off dramatically after 1976, and there is only one finding of distortion after 1982,…

A typical ATT  pop-up asks a user whether to allow an app “to track your activity across other companies’ apps…

A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s office at the…

On LinkedIn, her mother, Dorota Mani—who has been working with the governor’s office on a commission to protect kids from…

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a…

“Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a minimum had reason to investigate…

The expert sample is not representative of the AI field, as Bender points out to Ars that AI is not…

Rumors claim Trump consulted chatbots On social media, rumors swirled that the Trump administration got these supposedly fake numbers from…

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington…

Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide…

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he’s keeping an eye on 23andMe’s bankruptcy proceeding and the company’s planned sale…

Nearly half of US states sued the federal government and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…

A loss in the investors’ and SEC’s suits could force Musk to disgorge any ill-gotten gains from the alleged scheme,…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access “to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000…

Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors and hospitals in Europe, says that…

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado,…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s pledge to spend an extra $100 billion on advanced manufacturing plants in the US will do…

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in…

Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values the social network formerly known…

The Federal Communications Commission’s news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former…

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) don’t have to turn over information related to their government cost-cutting…

Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their removals…

The Scholars Program has provided funding for around 3,500 students to support their studies in scientific fields. With these lawsuits,…

White House didn’t want texts released Prior to running its follow-up article, The Atlantic asked Trump administration officials if they…

Boeing is trying to withdraw a plea agreement and obtain more lenient treatment from the Trump administration in a case…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday launched a task force “to try to nail the criminals setting fire to Tesla…

A new report says that when the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk less than a week before President…

Using Signal in this way may have violated US law, Goldberg wrote. “Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over…

Moutier told Ars that chatbots encouraging suicidal ideation don’t just present risks for people with acute issues. They could put…

Giulio Coppi, a senior humanitarian officer at the nonprofit Access Now who has researched the use of blockchain in humanitarian…

Every Tesla Cybertruck ever sold is being recalled so Tesla can fix an exterior panel that could potentially come unglued…

The lawsuit was filed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Alliance for Retired Americans; and…

Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of…

Several states consider price requirements While the California proposal will face opposition from ISPs and is not guaranteed to become…

In July 2024, AT&T became the first carrier to apply for a technology transition discontinuance “under the Adequate Replacement Test…

The police claimed that “the fraudulent Facebook pages posted comments on Village of Orland Park social media sites while also…

Currently, ChatGPT does not repeat these horrible false claims about Holmen in outputs. A more recent update apparently fixed the…

The petition argues that discovery is unnecessary to assess the plaintiff states’ claims. “Plaintiffs allege a violation of the Appointments…

By contrast, then-President Joe Biden waited nine months to choose a Democratic nominee in 2021. His first nominee, Gigi Sohn,…

If “the Federal Communications Commission reverses their adverse regulations,” Montgomery said, “the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office will revisit the feasibility…

Despite the UK’s apparent hard stance to defend the OSA, Trump has suggested that there’s a “very good chance” the…

“Some states are on the 1-yard line” Republicans criticized the Biden administration for not yet distributing grant money, but the…

Trump could possibly come for those funds, but the CHIPS Act’s claw-back provisions “are only to be triggered for ‘non-performance,’”…

The authors, however, think that torrenting pirated works is so notoriously illegal that they now have an “open-and-shut case” of…

The spokesperson noted that users can also “report” an ad if they believe it goes against Reddit’s policies. Reporting an…

An attention-grabbing Kickstarter campaign attempting to reinvent the measuring spoon has turned into a mad, mad, mad, mad world for…

Google’s position on AI regulation: Trust us, bro If there was any doubt about Google’s commitment to move fast and…

Elon Musk’s Tesla is waving a red flag, warning that Donald Trump’s trade war risks dooming US electric vehicle makers,…

OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI…

Meta also confirmed that it won’t be reducing visibility of misleading posts with community notes. That’s a change from the…

Citibank has until March 15 to provide more information on orders to freeze funding. More details on that front were…

The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if Amazon tricked customers into signing…

“X conceded that depending on what content a user follows and how long they’ve had their account, they might see…

Adding to the complexity and uncertainty around Vodafone’s newly strict RTO enforcement are claims of there being limited office space…

A document that was first issued in 2009 would seem an unlikely candidate for making news in 2025. Yet the…

A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer’s…

Rogers found that because “the threshold question of whether a charitable trust was created remains a toss-up, Musk has not…

“If Mr. Musk has taken actions in his federal role that will benefit his financial interests without receiving appropriate waivers…

But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told Ars that he frequently…

A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used…

Ahead of the first-ever White House Crypto Summit Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin…

Don’t be “technology-blind,” broadband group says The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society criticized what it called “Trump’s BEAD meddling,”…

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally made it clear to Congress that he wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Act—a…

The government’s 2024 request also sought to have Google’s investment in AI firms curtailed even though this isn’t directly related…

Although it wasn’t previously reported, Apple’s appeal was filed last month at about the time it withdrew ADP from the…

President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect today, and the White House increased a tariff on…

Currently, TSMC only builds its most advanced chips in Taiwan. But when the most advanced US fabs are operational, they’ll…

Thorn also recommends more research into how young people use blocking and reporting to combat threats online. Stroebel told Ars…

Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers…

“It’s hard to go higher than being this kind of a second-in-charge or second-in-popularity to Trump,” Zelinsky said. On Reddit…

In South Korea, where AI-generated deepfake porn has been criminalized, an “emergency” was declared and hundreds were arrested, mostly teens.…

Streaming ads could get muzzled, too As you may have noticed—either through the text of this article or your own…

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users’ personal data and is trying to assure worried users…

The price of bitcoin hit a record high of $109,114.88 during intraday trading on January 20, the day of President…

“Countries including Brazil, India, Israel, and the UAE are eminently capable of ramping up investments aimed at securing new ways…

WordPress software, Keller’s complaint explained, “has long been promised to be free and available to everyone forever.” This promise propelled…

More state bills are expected Morrow told Ars he is concerned about his bill facing opposition from Internet providers, though…

Chegg is suing Google parent Alphabet over claims the search engine’s artificial intelligence summary tool has hit its revenues, leading…

“To broadband ISPs and their friends complaining about the New York law and proposed Massachusetts laws mandating a low-income broadband…

“The plaintiffs have made a clear showing that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief,” the order…

On Monday, Apple announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years. This…

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment.…

In the 1990s, Lane, as NSF director, ushered in the requirement that, in addition to intellectual merit, reviewers should consider…

On Friday, a Coinbase executive declared the “war against crypto” over—”at least as it applies to Coinbase.” According to Coinbase…

Elon Musk apparently no longer believes that crowdsourcing fact-checking through Community Notes can never be manipulated and is, thus, the…

You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number “666” is a joke, but AB-666 is…

“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK…

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants “to better understand how…

Poison pill another option OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and created an additional “capped profit” entity in…

The White House fact sheet said the goal of this provision is to ensure that the president and attorney general…

“As all lawyers know (or should know), it has been documented that AI sometimes invents case law, complete with fabricated…

PC-manufacturer Acer has said that it plans to raise the prices of its PCs in the US by 10 percent,…

“The executive does not have the authority to change policies simply because they don’t like them,” Blanchard said at a…

“An official website of the United States government,” reads small text atop the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website that…

Howells told The Times that he envisions cleaning up the site and turning it into a park, but the council’s…

In December, MDOT issued a new call for proposals for building up to 29 additional highway charging stations, expecting stable…

Carpenter, for his part, insisted that he was never willing to give the flash drive to Palmer or to show…

A Verizon or AT&T customer can use T-Mobile Starlink by activating a second eSIM on their device. “They will technically…

Condé Nast and several other media companies sued the AI startup Cohere today, alleging that it engaged in “systematic copyright…

However, Ranjan found that Tiger lacked standing to bring the lawsuit. It is not clear that Tiger’s symptoms were caused…

All of these plaintiffs had personal data “improperly disclosed to DOGE representatives in a manner completely divorced from the legitimate…

NHTSA has not directly confirmed if the dataset is being changed to remove this data or if other “minor corrections”…

“Irrational removal” In his opinion, Bates cited the declarations from Stephanie Liou, a physician who works with low-income immigrant families…

However, it could bode well that all the authors involved in the nature report were publicly nominated and that the…