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Ex-Google engineer’s espionage convictions overturned, theft convictions stand

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A federal judge has thrown out seven economic espionage convictions against the former Google engineer Linwei Ding, on the grounds that prosecutors never proved he was working for China. Seven trade secret theft convictions stand. Judge Vince Chhabria found the evidence sufficient to show that Ding took what he took, but insufficient to show that […]

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DOJ opposes an emergency hearing over the FCC’s review of ABC’s licences

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Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The government’s argument is procedural and, on its face, mild. A hearing designation order would […]

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New Jersey teen drops claims against Meta, Google, and Snap weeks before trial

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A 15-year-old from New Jersey has dropped her case against Meta, Google, and Snap seven weeks before it was due to be heard in Los Angeles. Her lawyer said she wanted to get on with her life. The case was one of three bellwethers set for trial in October in California state court, chosen to […]

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Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US

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Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to […]

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Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe

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The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of the EU. Apple has agreed to overhaul the way its iPhones ask people for permission to be tracked, after Germany’s competition regulator concluded that the company […]

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France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts

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The decision lands about two weeks before the ban was due to start, Bloomberg reported. Platforms were to stop creating accounts for under-15s from 1 September. Parliament gave the law final approval on 21 July. The desk covered that final vote at the time. What the Council ruled The Council struck down the ban on […]

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A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT

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A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It is among the most disturbing in a growing line of cases in which an […]

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Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup’s app was never built

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Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startup Wondermind was a hollow promise dressed up as a movement. The complaint, filed against the singer and her mother and co-founder Mandy Teefey, alleges securities fraud and breach of contract. All of the claims are, […]

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Donald Trump is sued for putting a $100,000 paywall on his Truth Social posts

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The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers […]

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Brazil orders Discord to suspend livestreaming after a 13-year-old’s death

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The country’s data protection authority says there is robust evidence Discord failed to keep minors away from content promoting self-harm, and real-time video is the hardest thing on the internet to moderate. Brazil has ordered Discord to switch off livestreaming across the country, one of the sharpest interventions yet by a regulator that has grown […]

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