Regulation

California Reaches Deal With Google Over Journalism Legislation

Showdown with California avoided. Google reaches $250m agreement to avoid California Journalism Preservation Act

4 months ago

Dr Mike Lynch Confirmed Dead, As Search For Daughter Continues

Dr Mike Lynch confirmed dead after five bodies recovered from sunken yacht. Search continues for missing daughter

4 months ago

CMA Drops Apple, Google App Store Investigations

British competition regulator shuts down investigations into Apple and Google app stores, ahead of new law governing digital markets

4 months ago

Four Bodies Found In Yacht Wreck Amid Search For Mike Lynch

Four bodies found in sunken yacht by Italian rescue divers, amid search for British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and others

4 months ago

Anthropic Sued For Copyright Infringement By Authors

Authors sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, who allege AI firm used their and other books to train Claude…

4 months ago

Tesla To Receive Lower EU Tariff For Chinese-Made EVs

Imported Tesla electric vehicles from China to receive lower tariff, after European Union halves its planned import duty

4 months ago

Mike Lynch Co-Defendant Dies In Car Accident

Stephen Chamberlain, co-defendant with Mike Lynch on Autonomy fraud charges, died in car accident hours before Lynch went missing at…

4 months ago

X Closes Brazil Office Due To ‘Censorship’

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, closes Brazil office due to 'censorship orders' by judge investigating 'digital militias'

4 months ago

Court Narrows Injunction On California Social Media Law

US appeals court throws out much of injunction that blocks California law aimed at protecting children from harmful effects of…

4 months ago

OpenAI Deactivates Accounts Used By Iran Election Influence Group

Microsoft-backed OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts used by Iranian group to attempt to influence US election and other topics of…

4 months ago

TikTok Says US Data Not Linked To China

TikTok says US Justice Department made factual errors in describing company's links to China, as it seeks to overturn potential…

4 months ago

Epic Games’s Fortnite Returns To Smartphones After Four Years

Epic Games' Fortnite returns to Android devices and EU iPhones via company's third-party app store after years of legal wrangling

4 months ago

China To Limit Export Of Another Critical Mineral

Tit for tat. Beijing is to impose export limits on the strategic metal antimony and related elements due to “national…

4 months ago

Google Confirms Iranian Hackers Behind US Presidential Hacks

Hackers linked to Iran's government conducted phishing campaigns against Israel and targetted U.S. presidential election accounts

4 months ago

Kim Dotcom “Has A Plan”, After NZ Signs Extradition Warrant

Remember Megaupload? Founder Kim Dotcom is to be extradited to the United States for copyright infringement

4 months ago

Bluesky Signups Surge In UK After Musk Clash With British Government

Large increase in UK signups to X/Twitter rival Bluesky, after Elon Musk clash with British government over riots

4 months ago

DoJ Considers Google Breakup After Landmark Monopoly Ruling

US Department of Justice is reportedly considering the breakup of Google as one of the possible options, after monopoly ruling

4 months ago

Privacy Group Files GDPR Complaints Over X AI Data Plans

Vienna privacy group Noyb files GDPR complaints in nine countries over X plans to use user data to train AI…

4 months ago

Policing the Metaverse

Explore the challenges of policing the metaverse, a new virtual world without borders. Learn how law enforcement is adapting to…

4 months ago

Delta Calls CrowdStrike Outage ‘Unacceptable’

Delta trades barbs with CrowdStrike, Microsoft over worldwide outage that led to 7,000 cancelled flights and $500m losses at airline

4 months ago

Government Considers Revisiting Online Safety Act

Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson says government considers revising Online Safety Act after posts fan anti-immigrant violence

4 months ago

Leeds Man Jailed For Inciting Violence On Facebook

Man from Leeds jailed for 20 months after posting social media messages encouraging people to target hotel that housed migrants

4 months ago

Elon Musk Shares Fake News Of UK Rioters Being Deported To Falklands

Owner of X, Elon Musk, deletes his post of faked article that claimed UK rioters would be deported to Falkland…

4 months ago

UK To Investigate Amazon’s $4 Billion Investment In Anthropic

British competition regulator, the CMA, confirms it will investigate Amazon's huge investment into AI firm Anthropic

4 months ago

Intel Sued By Shareholders After Dividend Suspension, Stock Price Crash

Shareholders alleged being blindsided after Intel's weak Q2 results, job losses, dividend suspension, triggered share price plunge

4 months ago

YouTube Hit By Thousands Of Outages In Russia

YouTube suffers thousands of outages in Russia as Ukrainian forces conduct raid inside Russia's Kursk region

4 months ago

UK ICO Fines NHS Supplier For Medical Records Breach

NHS supplier Advanced Computer Software Group fined £6m for data breach that exposed medical records of 82,000 people

4 months ago

Musk Hits Out At UK Justice System, Amid War Of Words

UK government calls on Elon Musk to act responsibly amid provocative posts about unrest, but Musk lashes out at the…

4 months ago

Microsoft, CrowdStrike Hit Back At Delta’s Compensation Bid

Delta's old infrastructure blamed for its long recovery from global IT outage that resulted in over 6,000 cancelled flights

4 months ago

Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over “Massive Advertiser Boycott”

Advertising boycott. Lawsuit filed against World Federation of Advertisers and member firms Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted

4 months ago