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Elon Musk Escalates Legal Feud With Sam Altman, Alleges OpenAI A "Monopolist"
Musk said in the filing that the company "has attempted to starve competitors of AI talent by aggressively recruiting employees with offers of lavish compensation and is on track to spend $1.5 billion on personnel for just 1,500 employees."
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Twitter Sued For Failing To Pay Rent Of San Francisco Office
Twitter Inc. was sued for failing to pay $136,250 in rent for its office space in San Francisco.
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AirTag Stalking: Apple Faces Lawsuit by Two Women Over Dangerous Tracking by Exes
Apple was sued by two US women who have claimed that the company's AirTag allows stalkers to track and locate their victims. The Cupertino company had advertised the AirTag as “stalker proof” when it launched the device in April 2021, but privacy advocates have warned, and police reports have verified, that the tiny devices can be misused to tr...
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Elon Musk Sued by Twitter Investor Over Fraudulent Buyout Flip-Flop, Public Attacks on Company
Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter investor who says the world’s richest person’s on-again-off-again purchase of the social media platform and his public attacks on the company were designed to manipulate its stock price.
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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Skirting Apple's Privacy Rules to Violate User Privacy: All Details
Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...
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Google Sued for Nixing Free Workspace Software to Early Adopters
Alphabet's Google was sued by an early adopter of its Workplace cloud productivity software who claims the company reneged on a promise to provide it with free access to the program for life. Google Workplace, formerly known as Google Apps and G Suite, provides a host of services including Gmail, Calendar, Drive for storage and Google Docs for cont...
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Facebook Allowed Employees to Access Deleted User Data, Fired Content Screener Claims
Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...
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TikTok Sued by Content Moderator Traumatized by Graphic Videos
TikTok's 10,000 content moderators are exposed to a regular diet of child pornography, rapes, beheadings and animal mutilation, according to a lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform and its parent, ByteDance Inc.
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Apple Loses Early Round in Discrimination Lawsuit Filed by Indian Engineer in US
Apple lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the US by a female engineer from India who says her two managers — one from her country, the other from Pakistan — treated her as they would in their own countries: as a subservient.
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In Silicon Valley, Apple Loses Early Round In Case By Indian Engineer
Apple Inc. lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the US by a female engineer from India who says her two managers -- one from her country, the other from Pakistan -- treated her as they would in their own countries: as a subservient.
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Elon Musk Loses Round One Vs Indian American Student Who Sued Him
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk failed to turn the tables on a critic of the company who sued him for defamation.
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Facebook Spying on Instagram Users Through Cameras, Lawsuit Alleges
Facebook is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorised use of their mobile phone cameras.
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US Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File
Jizhong Chen, a US citizen who was arrested on his way to catch a flight to China, is awaiting trial on charges that he collected photos, schematics and manuals from his work on Apple's tightly guarded self-driving car project.
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TCS Faces US Jury Over Why It Fires So Many Americans
India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...
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Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Voice-Messaging Tech
Facebook is suing BlackBerry for patent infringement, escalating the legal battle between the two companies over protected technology.
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Elon Musk Escalates Legal Feud With Sam Altman, Alleges OpenAI A "Monopolist"
Musk said in the filing that the company "has attempted to starve competitors of AI talent by aggressively recruiting employees with offers of lavish compensation and is on track to spend $1.5 billion on personnel for just 1,500 employees."
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Twitter Sued For Failing To Pay Rent Of San Francisco Office
Twitter Inc. was sued for failing to pay $136,250 in rent for its office space in San Francisco.
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AirTag Stalking: Apple Faces Lawsuit by Two Women Over Dangerous Tracking by Exes
Apple was sued by two US women who have claimed that the company's AirTag allows stalkers to track and locate their victims. The Cupertino company had advertised the AirTag as “stalker proof” when it launched the device in April 2021, but privacy advocates have warned, and police reports have verified, that the tiny devices can be misused to tr...
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Elon Musk Sued by Twitter Investor Over Fraudulent Buyout Flip-Flop, Public Attacks on Company
Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter investor who says the world’s richest person’s on-again-off-again purchase of the social media platform and his public attacks on the company were designed to manipulate its stock price.
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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Skirting Apple's Privacy Rules to Violate User Privacy: All Details
Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...
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Google Sued for Nixing Free Workspace Software to Early Adopters
Alphabet's Google was sued by an early adopter of its Workplace cloud productivity software who claims the company reneged on a promise to provide it with free access to the program for life. Google Workplace, formerly known as Google Apps and G Suite, provides a host of services including Gmail, Calendar, Drive for storage and Google Docs for cont...
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Facebook Allowed Employees to Access Deleted User Data, Fired Content Screener Claims
Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...
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TikTok Sued by Content Moderator Traumatized by Graphic Videos
TikTok's 10,000 content moderators are exposed to a regular diet of child pornography, rapes, beheadings and animal mutilation, according to a lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform and its parent, ByteDance Inc.
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Apple Loses Early Round in Discrimination Lawsuit Filed by Indian Engineer in US
Apple lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the US by a female engineer from India who says her two managers — one from her country, the other from Pakistan — treated her as they would in their own countries: as a subservient.
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In Silicon Valley, Apple Loses Early Round In Case By Indian Engineer
Apple Inc. lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the US by a female engineer from India who says her two managers -- one from her country, the other from Pakistan -- treated her as they would in their own countries: as a subservient.
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Elon Musk Loses Round One Vs Indian American Student Who Sued Him
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk failed to turn the tables on a critic of the company who sued him for defamation.
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Facebook Spying on Instagram Users Through Cameras, Lawsuit Alleges
Facebook is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorised use of their mobile phone cameras.
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US Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File
Jizhong Chen, a US citizen who was arrested on his way to catch a flight to China, is awaiting trial on charges that he collected photos, schematics and manuals from his work on Apple's tightly guarded self-driving car project.
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TCS Faces US Jury Over Why It Fires So Many Americans
India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...
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Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Voice-Messaging Tech
Facebook is suing BlackBerry for patent infringement, escalating the legal battle between the two companies over protected technology.
