Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them.
Check out the tracker here, regularly updated by Anna Hickey: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trumps-first-100-days/tracking-trump-administration-litigation
Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance.
Amusing and informative blog from the FTC warning AI product providers what not to do.
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/06/succor-borne-every-minute
"Don’t misrepresent what these services are or can do. Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods. "
Earnest chats with objects are not so unusual. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the famed Detroit Tiger, used to stand on the pitching mound whispering to the baseball. Forky, the highly animate utensil from Toy Story 4, once posed deep questions about friendship to a ceramic mug. And many of us have made repeated queries of the Magic 8 Ball despite its limited set of randomly generated answers.
This paper shines a light on the dysfunction of the music streaming ecosystem. This is the updated law review version of this paper as published by the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment & Sports Law in May of 2024.
NEW, by me: The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a consumer-grade spyware app called pcTattletale.
pcTattletale was seen stealthily and continually capturing screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest information and reservation details.
This was discovered because a security researcher found a flaw in the spyware is exposing these screenshots to the internet, not just the spyware's intended users.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers/
Over the last 48 hours, Roku has slowly been rolling out a mandatory update to its terms of service. In this terms it changes the dispute resolution terms but it is not clear exactly why. When the new terms and conditions message shows up on a Roku Player or TV, your only option is to […]
Oregon OKs right-to-repair bill that bans the blocking of aftermarket parts
Governor's signature would stop software locks from impairing replacement parts.
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