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Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

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Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on […]

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A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together

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Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most large technology firms, and campaigners there have managed exactly one. A law from 1634 explains why. Ellen O’Regan set out the problem for Politico from Dublin. Irish law bars anyone from funding a […]

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Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets

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Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without admitting liability. The firm is one of the largest technology consultancies in the world as well as an accountancy, and it sits inside the same enterprise AI and systems integration market that has drawn Indian IT firms […]

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Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting

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Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the company and four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial that opened this […]

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Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped

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Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature “helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped”, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Meta’s public blog post at the time said more than 90% of users who turned […]

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Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil

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Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market, with Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly among the launch customers. It arrives in a category where the specialists got there first and have the revenue to show for it, with Legora reaching $100mn in 18 […]

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Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told

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Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the courtroom for MLex. Volichenko worked on […]

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An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost

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Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […]

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Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China

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Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has run for months, having already produced detentions over server smuggling and reached inside Nvidia itself. […]

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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over

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A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US […]

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