A London court last year approved a class action lawsuit brought by consumer advocate Alex Neill over price gouging of digital goods on Sony’s PlayStation Store, which could cost the Japanese company up to $7.9 billion. Image source: ign.com...
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The day before, it was revealed that more than 90% of the OpenAI startup’s employees had signed an open letter to the board demanding his resignation and threatening to quit and work at Microsoft after two of the company’s founders...
Buyers of Intel processors have filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Intel knowingly sold billions of processors despite knowing about the downfall vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00828). This vulnerability is exploited by the AVX2 and AVX-512...
A London court this week rejected Apple’s request to block consideration of a lawsuit brought by human rights activist Justin Gutmann, who represents the interests of 24 million iPhone owners in Britain. The latter expressed his...
Google has announced that it is prepared to defend users of its generative AI products in court in the event of copyright lawsuits. The aim of this move by the company is to reduce users’ concerns about possible legal consequences from using...
The Utah Division of Consumer Protection (UDCP) is suing TikTok over allegations that the video service’s addictive behavior harms children and for misleading users about its alleged lack of ties to ByteDance, its parent company in China...
Elon Musk’s company X (formerly Twitter) is facing a lawsuit from the advertising agency X Social Media. After Musk renamed Twitter to X, experts warned of possible legal issues related to trademarks. Now these fears have been confirmed. Image...
Apple has asked the US Supreme Court to review its decision in a case with developer Epic Games regarding the rules for using the Apple App Store. This litigation could be a pivotal moment in setting the rules for app developers and changing the...
Phanteks issued a statement regarding Lian Li’s allegations. The latter filed a lawsuit against Phanteks, accusing it of copying Lian Li’s patented solutions in Phanteks D30 RGB fans. Phanteks said it had not copied anything and was...
Lian Li filed a patent lawsuit against Phanteks in California. The Taiwanese manufacturer claims that its Dutch competitor deliberately copied patented solutions in fan design. Specifically, Lian Li claims that the Phanteks D30 series fans infringe...
On Tuesday, a trial in an important antitrust case against Google, which is accused of monopolizing online searches, begins in Washington County Court (USA). A case filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2020 could affect the way millions of...
US District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell said that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted. This decision was made in response to a lawsuit filed by Stephen Thaler who was attempting to register the copyright for an image created using the Creativity...
Western Digital (WD) is facing a class action lawsuit alleging defective SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs and subsequent loss of user data. Plaintiffs are seeking over $5 million in damages. The initiator of the process is Nathan Krum, who lives in...
More than 8,000 writers and literati, including Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood) and James Patterson (James Patterson), signed an open letter demanding compensation from companies that use their works to train AI models without the knowledge of the...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday took new steps to block Microsoft from completing its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. reported The Wall Street Journal newspaper. Earlier, the FTC said it was appealing the federal...
Tesla has agreed to pay more than $6 million in a class action lawsuit filed by customers facing a sudden price increase for solar rooftop systems in 2021. The price increase caused more than 6,300 people to cancel their solar rooftop contracts with...
Last Friday, X Corp., Twitter’s parent company, sued the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, hired last year by former executives of the microblogging service to facilitate Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter . She...
Google has settled a class action lawsuit filed by US residents in 2010 alleging that the company violated privacy by sharing search queries with third parties. The IT giant is paying $23 million to settle this case. Image source: Firmbee...
Nansen said investors have withdrawn around $790 million from cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its US subsidiary in the past 24 hours. This came the day after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against both companies...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao of violating US securities regulations. The allegation will lead to a significant escalation of the legal issues facing cryptocurrency exchanges. The SEC...
