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Amazon accused of systematically denying pregnant warehouse workers chairs and breaks

Four former Amazon warehouse employees have filed a proposed nationwide class action accusing the company of routinely refusing pregnant workers the accommodations they are entitled to by law, and then disciplining them for the absences that followed. The case was filed on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn and reported by Reuters. It is brought with […]

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Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week

Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neumeister reported the trial date for the Associated Press. Every charge is […]

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OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says

OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters reported, and set out what Brussels expects of such documents. “Incident reports are not just a tick-box; you […]

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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trademark. Chief Judge Colm Connolly ruled on […]

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Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publishers have filed competing claims over the same titles. The […]

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Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces

Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes. The State of Berlin set out that machinery itself, in a […]

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BASF sues Apple over Face ID patents in Texas federal court

The world’s largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday, alleging that dozens of iPhone and iPad models use face authentication technology covered by patents it owns. The case was reported by Reuters and was filed in federal court in Texas, in the Western District that […]

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Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency, brought by a former CMA official

Apple is facing a £2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of UK app developers, argues that App Tracking Transparency polices everyone except Apple. The claim was reported by Reuters, which values it at $2.7bn. Bringing it is Ann Pope, a […]

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Opera loses EU court fight to have Microsoft Edge labelled a gatekeeper

Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera’s challenge to the European Commission’s decision not to designate the browser as a gatekeeper service under the Digital Markets Act. The Luxembourg-based court ruled that the Commission “did not err by accepting Microsoft’s sufficiently substantiated arguments […]

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Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple

Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John Ternus took over. Apple has not announced any of it, and declined to […]

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