After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica
Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents’ sleep.
Cyrus Farivar
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Policy // Civilization & Discontents
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Ashley Belanger
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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
Ashley Belanger
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Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.
Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie.
Ashley Belanger
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How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
Nate Anderson
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Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV
“Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril.”
Jon Brodkin
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Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper
Advertisers agreed to “reset” relationship with X.
Ashley Belanger
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Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers’ faces, lawsuit claims
Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.
Jon Brodkin
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Most Read
Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota’s nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
Ashley Belanger
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Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?
Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.
Ashley Belanger
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eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign
eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists’ home.
Jon Brodkin
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Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)
Nate Anderson
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Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets
Judge may allow Minnesota to ban some types of bets, but not all of them.
Jon Brodkin
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Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
Jon Brodkin
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146
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
Nate Anderson
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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win
Google’s and Reddit’s use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
Ashley Belanger
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66
5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech
Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
Jon Brodkin
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Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
Ashley Belanger
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Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren’t providing data they’re legally required to.
WIRED
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Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states’ lawsuit moves toward trial
“Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory,” NY AG said.
Jon Brodkin
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RFK Jr.’s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
There’s no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.
John Timmer
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Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
“We can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” judge told US.
Jon Brodkin
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AI firms want more data centers; Trump’s EPA may give neighbors less say
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
WIRED
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AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
Jon Brodkin
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Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle
Google becomes third tech giant to face huge fines under the Digital Markets Act.
Ashley Belanger
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ISPs’ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
Jon Brodkin
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Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds
Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.
Jon Brodkin
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Ashley Belanger
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DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.
Nate Anderson
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Judge halts Paramount’s $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
Judge grants restraining order, saying merger “likely to violate antitrust laws.”
Jon Brodkin
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AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California
AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules.
Jon Brodkin
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AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
Online retailer AliExpress says it’s shocked by largest DSA fine yet.
Ashley Belanger
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San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Ashley Belanger
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FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica
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T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users’ free lines
T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
Jon Brodkin
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xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk’s xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Ashley Belanger
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