Nike sues over “Satan Shoe,” disavowing all connection to soul soles
Nike really doesn’t like anyone thinking it made or endorses the Satan Shoe.
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Parler: We warned the FBI more than 50 times before the Capitol riot
Company claims it warned FBI about violent posts before everything hit the fan.
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Bias, subtweets, and kids: Key takeaways from Big Tech’s latest outing on the Hill
Won’t somebody please think of the children and/or censorship?
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Slack pledges update to “Connect DM” after realizing harassment exists
Users immediately spotted the gaping loophole the company didn’t notice.
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Ousted CEO Matze sues Parler, claims board robbed him of millions
The suit provides a peek into Parler’s founding and behind-the-scenes drama.
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Judge grants class-action status to MacBook butterfly-keyboard suit
Apple phased out the design after 2019, but older models still have issues.
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Cricut fully abandons plans to make device owners pay subscription fee
The after-the-fact change was incredibly unpopular among device owners.
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One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth
Federal agencies already buy tons of user data; one vendor is now being sued.
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Cricut backs off plan to add subscription fee to millions of devices [Updated]
Cricut’s not the first to pull this—and won’t be the last, unless regulators catch up.
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PA woman charged with using deepfakes to harass teenage cheerleaders
Specifically using deepfakes isn’t against state law, but harassment sure is.
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US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations
Both Democrats and Republicans want to do something. Maybe not the same something.
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Facebook asks judge to toss antitrust suits, claiming no consumer harm
Facebook’s arguments boil down to “no we didn’t, and you have no standing.”
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Twitter sues Texas AG to stop “retaliatory” content-moderation probe
Texas targeted Twitter because of protected content moderation, suit claims.
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White House reportedly plans to name Amazon foe Lina Khan to FTC
Khan launched her career arguing Amazon is a problem, and she hasn’t let up since.
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Google tells harassment victims to take “medical leave,” report finds
Nearly two dozen current and former employees reported a widespread pattern.
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White House signals coming antitrust push with Tim Wu appointment
The nod indicates that the new administration isn’t planning to go easy on tech.
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Arizona House advances bill targeting Apple, Google mobile app stores
The Arizona bill has already gotten farther than a similar one in ND did.
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Parler sues Amazon (again), claims AWS ban sank a billion-dollar valuation
The lawsuit is dead. Long live the lawsuit.
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AWS director sues Amazon, alleging systemic racism in corporate office
Amazon talks up inclusion in public but fails behind the scenes, suit claims.
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Why N95 masks are still hard to get, even though production is up
Both supply and demand are up—but they aren’t lining up in the right places.
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TikTok agrees to proposed $92 million settlement in privacy class action
Class members can get compensation, as long as most don’t file for it.
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Google reportedly promises change to research team after high-profile firings
The changes follow the abrupt departures of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell.
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Working from home now? Your 2020 state tax situation could suck
Telecommuters could feel a bite from the Big Apple at tax time.
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Biden admin plans executive order to address chip-shortage woes
Semiconductor demand isn’t going to drop, but supply has proven a problem.
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Facebook to reverse Australia news ban after lawmakers alter bill
Australian Facebook users’ News Feeds can once again have actual news in them.
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Software bugs reportedly keep Arizona inmates jailed past release dates
State law was updated in 2019, but the state’s software suite still hasn’t been.
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Tech groups sue Maryland to block new digital-ad tax from going into effect
The countdown to lawsuit o’clock basically started the second legislators voted.
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Facebook news ban is “arrogant,” Australia will not be “intimidated,” PM says
Deploying a blunt instrument on a whole nation is going just as well as you’d guess.
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Fortnite fight expands as Epic claims Apple broke EU competition law
In the US, Epic is taking Apple to court; in the EU, it’s heading to regulators.
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North Dakota lawmakers jump into Apple/Epic fight with new app store bill
ND bill would require Apple, Google to let you side-load apps and avoid the 30% cut.
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State lawmakers override veto, become first in nation to tax online ads
First-of-its-kind bill in the US is likely to face legal challenges.
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Virginia is about to get a major California-style data privacy law
Virginia’s the first on deck since California’s CCPA in 2018, but more are coming.
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Google, Facebook tell SCOTUS it should be harder for you to sue them
The argument boils down to “if you don’t know we messed up, it can’t hurt you.”
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Oracle’s TikTok acquisition reportedly “shelved” indefinitely
Former admin. made a big deal of TikTok’s alleged security risks… until it forgot.
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Proposed Sec. 230 rewrite could have wide-ranging consequences
Sec. 230 reform bills are already pouring into this Congress.
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Klobuchar targets Big Tech with biggest antitrust overhaul in 45 years
Big Tech got big through acquisitions—and this bill aims to prevent that in the future.
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