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Google Asked To Remove 10 Billion 'Pirate' Search Results - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Rightsholders have asked Google to remove more than...
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Interpol Disrupts Cybercrime Activity On 22,000 IP Addresses, Arrests 41 - Slashdot
During an operation across 95 countries from April to August 2024, Interpol arrested 41 individuals and...
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Lawsuit Accuses PowerSchool of Selling Student Data To 3rd Parties - Slashdot
A former teacher has filed a federal lawsuit against PowerSchool, alleging the education technology giant illegally...
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Google, Apple Drive 'Black Box' IP Policing with App Store Rules - Slashdot
App developers Musi and Sarafan Mobile have sued Apple and Google in California federal court over...
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'The Law Must Respond When Science Changes' - Slashdot
The clash between law's need for finality and science's evolving nature is creating serious justice problems,...
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L.A. County Sues Pepsi and Coca-Cola Over Their Role in the Plastic Pollution Crisis - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles County has filed...
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Millions of U.S. Cellphones Could Be Vulnerable to Chinese Government Surveillance - Slashdot
Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance, warns a Washington Post...
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What's Worse Than Setting Clocks Back an Hour? Permanent Daylight Savings Time - Slashdot
"It's that time again," writes USA Today, noting that Sunday morning millions of Americans (along with...
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A Fourth FTX Executive Sentenced: Forfeits $11 Billion, But No Prison Time - Slashdot
Former FTX executive Nishad Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion, reports CNBC — and is...
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US Government Considers Legal Action Over Meta's Use of Financial Data for Ads - Slashdot
The Washington Post reports that America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) "is considering legal action...
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PimEyes 'Made a Public Rolodex of Our Faces'. Should You Opt Out? - Slashdot
The free face-image search engine PimEyes "scans through billions of images from the internet and finds...
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How America's Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China's Huawei - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: A few weeks ago, analysts at...
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US Indicts 26-Year-Old Gotbit Founder For Market Manipulation - Slashdot
The feds have indicted Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national and founder of Gotbit, on charges...
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US Plans $825 Million Investment For New York Semiconductor R&D Facility - Slashdot
The Biden administration is investing $825 million in a new semiconductor research and development facility in...
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Colorado Agency 'Improperly' Posted Passwords for Its Election System Online - Slashdot
For months, the Colorado Department of State inadvertently exposed partial passwords for voting machines in a...
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Russian Court Fines Google $20 Decillion For Blocking Media Content - Slashdot
A Russian court has fined Google an astronomical sum of around $20 decillion for YouTube's blocking...
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Robert Downey Jr. Threatens To Sue Over AI Recreations of His Likeness - Slashdot
Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. has threatened legal action against future studio executives who attempt to...
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Fitness App Strava Gives Away Location of Foreign Leaders, Report Finds - Slashdot
French newspaper Le Monde found that the fitness app Strava can easily track confidential movements of...
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Russia Publishes New Crypto Law Expanding State Control Over Digital Assets - Slashdot
Russia has enacted a new law expanding control over cryptocurrency mining, granting multiple federal agencies access...
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Can the EU Hold Software Makers Liable For Negligence? - Slashdot
When it comes to introducing liability for software products, "the EU and U.S. are taking very...
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Europe's Crooks Keep Blowing up ATMs - Slashdot
"In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg...
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'We Took on Google and They Were Forced to Pay Billions' - Slashdot
"Google essentially disappeared us from the internet," says the couple who created price-comparison site Foundem in...
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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones At Abortion Clinics - Slashdot
Slashdot reader samleecole writes: Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law...
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Egyptian Blogger/Developer Still Held in Prison 28 Days After His Release Date - Slashdot
In 2004 Alaa Abd El Fattah answered questions from Slashdot's readers about organizing the first-ever Linux...