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Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent

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A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The line comes from a 2017 document that the state of Tennessee has placed […]

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Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

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Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant through European courts now see the infringement finding as […]

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Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single Chinese firm, watchdog says

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Awatchdog group says Meta ran thousands of advertisements for apps that digitally undress women, and that the network placing them traces back to a single company in China. The finding lands on a platform that has spent more than a year insisting it is winning this fight, even as it fields separate lawsuits over scam ads elsewhere […]

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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA

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On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services Act by leaving minors’ accounts open to adults, the latest escalation in a probe that has shadowed the app since 2024. The finding is narrow but pointed. Investigators concluded that TikTok’s default settings failed to keep children’s profiles private in practice, […]

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Google fined €890M in its first Digital Markets Act penalty

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The European Commission fined Google €890 million on Thursday for breaking the Digital Markets Act, the first time Brussels has penalised the company under the rulebook it built to rein in the largest technology platforms .The penalty divides in two. A €460 million share covers search self-preferencing, where Google gave its own shopping, hotel, transport, and […]

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University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents

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The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed. The complaint, unsealed on Tuesday, is thought to be the first patent infringement case brought against Anthropic, and […]

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TikTok’s US security chief to face the House China committee on September 15

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Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s influence over the app, Reuters reported. He will be the first executive from the business recently sold to a group of US investors to testify since that ownership […]

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Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight

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Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury. Jury selection began on 20 July in a proceeding expected to run about seven weeks, part of a wider wave […]

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Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

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A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […]

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The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

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Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […]

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