A California bill would require $15 plans with download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps. The broadband lobby groups' filing said ISPs are also worried about "unnecessary anticompetitive regulations" proposed in Connecticut, Hawaii, ....

If MMFA is made to endure Paxton's probe, the media company could face civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation of Texas' unfair trade law, a fine or confinement if requested evidence was deleted, ....

Trump quickly appeals Trump has immediately appealed the ruling and is expected to take the case to the Supreme Court. He's arguing that the court cannot define what constitutes a "national emergency," which is a ....

An accused movie pirate who stole more than 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while working for a DVD manufacturing company struck a plea deal this week to lower his sentence after the FBI claimed the ....

According to Clegg, the only viable solution to the tension between artists and AI companies would be to give artists ways to opt out of training, which Stability AI notably started doing in 2022. "Quite ....

Enhanced damages can be $150,000 per work, instead of the usual cap of $30,000. The jury in the case "was instructed that it could find Cox's violations willful if Cox knew that its subscribers had ....

A large number of startups have proposed designs that should be far less prone to failure. Many of these are SMRs, or small modular reactors, which promise economies of scale by building the reactor at ....

Ars could not immediately reach Apple or Jennifer Golinveaux, Musi's lawyer, for comment on the sanctions battle. But in a separate filing, Golinveaux noted that Apple sent "thousands of pages of documents" to Musi, but ....

According to police records submitted to the city council, the network "only proved useful in a single case." Investigating the tension between these claims, the Post suggested we may never know how many suspects were ....

Verizon's letter said that because of the "changing landscape," the firm "has been evaluating its DEI-related programs, HR processes, supplier programs, training programs and materials, and other initiatives." Among other changes, Verizon said it "will ....

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated an FCC court loss yesterday after a ruling that struck down Biden-era diversity reporting requirements that Carr voted against while Democrats were in charge. "An appellate court just ....

Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it threatens US leadership ....

US argues for secrecy A three-judge panel at the appeals court was unswayed by the government's claim that this process is too burdensome. "Although the government protests that any such assertion of privilege would be ....

AT&T has struck a deal to buy CenturyLink's consumer fiber broadband division for $5.75 billion, giving the Internet provider another 1.1 million fiber customers in 11 states. The all-cash deal is expected to close during ....

Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff on any iPhones sold in the US that are not manufactured in America. In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that ....

Why didn’t DOGE use Grok? It seems that Grok, Musk's AI model, wasn't available for DOGE's task because it was only available as a proprietary model in January. Moving forward, DOGE may rely more frequently ....

Judge not ready to rule on whether AI outputs are speech Google and Character Technologies also moved to dismiss the lawsuit based on First Amendment claims, arguing that C.AI users have a right to listen ....

"WHO's priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine," Kennedy said, alluding to his anti-vaccine and germ-theory denialist views. He chastised the health organization for allegedly capitulating to China and working with ....

Verizon also said that after it bought TracFone, there was "a sharp increase in the number of TracFone devices that deactivated before making enough payments for Verizon to recover the subsidy on the device." Verizon: ....

Bertin Martens, a senior fellow at a European economics-focused think tank called Bruegel, broke down in April how practical it could be for the EU to attack digital platforms, noting, "there is a question of ....

For voice actors who previously portrayed Darth Vader in video games, the Fortnite feature starkly illustrates how AI voice synthesis could reshape their profession. While James Earl Jones created the iconic voice for films, at ....

Biotechnology company Regeneron will acquire 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256 million, with a plan to keep the DNA-testing company running without interruption and uphold its privacy protection promises. In its announcement of the acquisition, ....

Likely wearisome for victims, the law won't be widely enforced for about a year, while any revenge porn already online continues spreading. Perhaps most frustrating, once the law kicks in, victims will still need to ....

Copyright Office seemingly opposes Meta’s torrenting Also among those "general observations," the Copyright Office wrote that "making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing ....

Analysts estimate it would cost tens of billions of dollars and take years for Apple to increase iPhone manufacturing in the US, where it at present makes only a very limited number of products. US ....

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of Spotify's policies and, likely, federal law. On Thursday, Business Insider (BI) reported that Spotify removed ....

Further, Meta argued that the FTC did not show evidence that users sharing friends-and-family content were shown more ads. Meta noted that it "does not profit by showing more ads to users who do not ....

Back in February, Elon Musk skewered the Treasury Department for lacking "basic controls" to stop payments to terrorist organizations, boasting at the Oval Office that "any company" has those controls. Fast-forward three months, and now ....

On Thursday, Telegram announced it had removed two huge black markets estimated to have generated more than $35 billion since 2021 by serving cybercriminals and scammers. Blockchain research firm Elliptic told Reuters that the Chinese-language ....

Wilner wasn't fully satisfied with the firm's response that the two errors were "inadvertently included" in the brief and sought more detail. "I didn't discover that Plaintiff's lawyers used AI—and re-submitted the brief with considerably ....

Noyb has requested a response from Meta by May 21, but it seems unlikely that Meta will quickly cave in this fight. In a blog post, Meta said that AI training on EU users was ....

The reconciliation bill primarily focuses on cuts to Medicaid access and increased health care fees for millions of Americans. The AI provision appears as an addition to these broader health care changes, potentially limiting debate ....

"If SpaceX had done a basic search of public filings, it would know that EchoStar extensively utilizes the 2 GHz band and that the Commission itself has confirmed the coverage, utilization, and methodology for assessing ....

In addition to cutting Universal Service, Simington proposed a broad streamlining of the FCC licensing process. Manual processing of license applications "consumes vast staff hours and introduces unnecessary delay into markets that thrive on speed ....

The deal announced today "did not address what would happen to low-value 'de minimis' ecommerce packages shipped from China to the US," Reuters wrote. The US imposed 120 percent tariffs on those packages. According to ....

Many horses, including Spotify and Amazon's Kindle Store, have already left the barn. But Apple is moving quickly to shut the external payments door opened by last week's ruling that the company willfully failed to ....

Blumenthal pointed out that under a joint resolution of disapproval, the FCC is forbidden to adopt a similar rule in the future. "I have to ask, really? Are schools and teachers crying out to repeal ....

The Trump administration's steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered shutdowns of several climate-related programs Thursday. Perhaps most notably, the NOAA announced it would be shuttering the "billion-dollar weather and ....

One of Bush’s “points of light” Energy Star was first established under President George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1992, the year of the Earth Summit in Rio, where nations around the world first joined in ....

President Donald Trump said he is killing a broadband grant program that was authorized by Congress, claiming that the Digital Equity Act of 2021 is racist and unconstitutional. "I have spoken with my wonderful Secretary ....

As the case dragged on, Mashinsky and his family appeared unremorseful, victims said, even while facing threats of violence and significant public shaming. Some victims accused Mashinsky of lying to their faces and pushing them ....

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging ....

"It is not clear how AutoRIF has been modified or whether AI is involved in the RIF mandate (through AutoRIF or independently)," Kunkler wrote. "However, fears of AI-driven mass-firings of federal workers are not unfounded. ....

There are 15 US states in which Residential Lite is offered: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Hawaii. This territory generally overlaps ....

"If the US says one thing but does another, or even attempts to use negotiations as a pretext to continue coercive and blackmailing tactics, China will never agree, nor will it sacrifice its principles or ....

A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. The verdict, ....

Not sharing Johnson's optimism, Goldman wrote that "there is no 'preferred' or 'ideal' way to do online age authentication." Even a perfect system that accurately authenticates age every time would be flawed, he suggested. "Rather, ....

The shuttering of Mr. Deepfakes won't solve the problem of deepfakes, though. In 2022, the number of deepfakes skyrocketed as AI technology made the synthetic NCII appear more realistic than ever, prompting an FBI warning ....

The Trump administration filed an emergency application on Friday asking the Supreme Court to restore DOGE's access to Social Security Administration records. A lower-court order that prohibited DOGE's access is causing "irreparable harm to the ....

Although Character Technologies argues that it's common to update safety practices over time, Garcia's team alleged these updates show that C.AI could have made a safer product and chose not to. Expert warns against giving ....

“We want our government to be something that we can rely on, as opposed to something that is on the absolute bleeding edge,” says Etzioni. “We don't need it to be bureaucratic and slow, but ....

Sweet did not respond to requests for comment regarding his work. In response to a request to clarify Sweet’s role at HUD, a spokesperson for the agency said they do not comment on individual personnel. ....

Determined to probe this key question, Chhabria pushed authors' attorney, David Boies, to point to specific evidence of market harms that seemed noticeably missing from the record. "It seems like you're asking me to speculate ....

In the trial, Google will paint this demand as a severe overreach, claiming that few, if any, companies would have the resources to purchase and run the products. Last year, an ad consultant estimated Google’s ....

"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president’s authority," Harrison said. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government," statutorily forbidding "any ....

Being a model citizen and a person of taste, you probably don't need this reminder, but some others do: Federal judges do not like it when lawyers electronically watermark every page of their legal PDFs ....

Tensions had been mounting at the company. Sales and profits were deteriorating rapidly. Musk was spending much of his time in Washington. Around that time, Tesla's board met with Musk for an update. Board members ....

In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, "We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court’s order and we will appeal." An Epic return With the new court ....

"[Paramount] Board members are cognizant that a huge settlement could be viewed as something of a payoff to the president to move the Skydance merger over the finish line, knowledgeable sources have said," the Los ....

"The Fifth Circuit concluded that the FCC's enforcement proceeding leading to a monetary forfeiture order violated AT&T's Seventh Amendment rights. This Court shouldn't follow that decision," the FCC told the 2nd Circuit last week. FCC ....

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. In the wake of a high-profile court decision that ....

While the tech law is expected to achieve the rare feat of getting through Congress at what experts told Ars was a record pace, both supporters and critics also expect that the law will just ....

National grid operators in Spain and Portugal confirm that a massive electrical blackout has hit the Iberian Peninsula today, starting just a couple of minutes after 12:30 pm Central European Summer Time (10:30 am UTC, ....

Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The malware is hidden inside a modified app for Alpine Quest mapping software, which is used ....

Trump pushes for industry involvement It seems clear that Trump's executive order was a reaction to China's announcement about AI education reforms last week, as Reuters reported. Elsewhere, Singapore and Estonia have laid out their ....

xAI's submission claimed that each of the 15 turbines "is equipped with Solar’s Dry Low Emission (DLE)/SoLoNOx control technology" and other systems to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. For ....

The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies. Salt Typhoon is one ....

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal ....

The report of a criminal antitrust investigation follows a report in December that US authorities were investigating whether to ban TP-Link wireless routers, which were targeted in high-profile attacks linked to the Chinese government. TP-Link ....

Comcast executives apparently realized something that customers have known and complained about for years: The Internet provider's prices aren't transparent enough and rise too frequently. This might not have mattered much to cable executives as ....

On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. The ....

The first event is scheduled for Thursday and will be hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology. The events will be open to the public and livestreamed when possible, and feature various speakers on ....

Apple App Store restrictions The EC can fine companies up to 10 percent of their global annual turnover, which would amount to many billions for Apple and Meta. Reuters reported that the relatively modest fines ....

Besides the five-year price guarantee, there's at least one more notable pricing detail. T-Mobile's previous plans had "taxes and fees included," meaning the advertised price was inclusive of taxes and fees. With the new Experience ....

Several tech executives attended the president’s inauguration ceremony, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg have held meetings with the president at the White House in recent months. Efforts to gain favour ....

"Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer," Ullyot forecasted. According to NPR—which has been the target of Trump threats to rescind funding—four of Hegseth's senior ....

"Despite TSMC’s best efforts to comply with all relevant export control and sanctions laws and regulations, there is no assurance that its business activities will not be found incompliant with export control laws and regulations," ....

NLRB denies breach Berulis' disclosure said that several days before receiving this threat, he had been instructed to drop his investigation and not report his concerns to US security officials. Bakaj's letter to senators and ....

The tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that may change next week. Even further, the tariffs are confusing, poorly communicated, and complex. Today, ....

After X (formerly Twitter) announced it would be killing its "Support" account, disgruntled users quickly roasted the social media platform for providing "essentially non-existent" support. "We'll soon be closing this account to streamline how users ....

SentinelOne updated that post yesterday with copies of the email sent by Krebs and an email from Weingarten to staff. Weingarten's email praised Krebs' work "in service of democratic institutions and critical infrastructure." "I know ....

Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted of killing Rachel Morin earlier this week. The White House has attempted to link this murder to Abrego Garcia's deportation, but they are entirely separate cases. Carr’s fight against media Carr's ....

It's unclear how high prices on Temu and Shein could go, but neither company is willing to wait before overhauling their price models. In Shein's announcement, the fashion retailer only explained that it "will be ....

If Meta can convince the court that the FTC's market definition is wrong and that TikTok is Meta's biggest rival, then Meta's market share drops below monopolist standards, "undercutting" the FTC's case, Big Tech on ....

Ultimately, Brinkema found that Google's anticompetitive acts substantially harmed "Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web." For Google, the ruling likely hits hard, despite a couple of ....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized Intuit's lobbying against Direct File and told the AP that Trump and Musk "are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies from ripping taxpayers off for ....

Wagner was first identified as a suspect due to an unspecified “investigative lead developed by law enforcement through scene evidence,” according to the arrest warrant. Investigators claim that after analyzing CCTV footage from buildings near ....

We also contacted the CPB and NPR today and will update this article if they provide any comments. Markey: “Outrageous and reckless... cultural sabotage” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) blasted the Trump plan, calling it "an ....

Securus also wants the FCC to lift a ban on "ancillary" charges that drive up the prices paid by prisoners and their families. Carr generally supported that 2024 order but expressed some concerns about the ....

The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel ....

Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The politically timed ....

A US appeals court ruled yesterday that DOGE can access personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), overturning an order issued by a lower-court judge. The US ....

OpenAI also alleges that this is when Musk began intensifying his attacks on OpenAI while attempting to poach its top talent and demanding access to OpenAI's confidential, sensitive information as a former donor and director—"without ....

Shares in the US tech giant were one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties in the days immediately after Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs. About $700 billion was wiped off Apple’s market value in the space ....

Jassy said Amazon is "doing everything we can to try and keep prices the way they've been for customers, as low as possible." Amazon has already "done some strategic forward inventory buys to get as ....

During Trump's last term, Cook raised a successful "charm offensive" that secured tariff exemptions without caving to Trump's demand to build iPhones in the US, CNBC reported, and he's likely betting that Apple's recent $500 ....

After declaring the FTC to be under White House control, Trump fired both Democratic members despite a US law and Supreme Court precedent stating that the president cannot fire commissioners without good cause. House Commerce ....

Google has long been on the lookout for ways to break Microsoft's stranglehold on US government office software, and the current drive to cut costs may be it. Google and the federal government have announced ....

On Wednesday, Donald Trump, once again, took to Truth Social to abruptly shift US trade policy, announcing a 90-day pause "substantially" lowering reciprocal tariffs against all countries except China to 10 percent. Because China retaliated—raising ....

Free speech concerns The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been speaking out against the bill, saying "it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like." The EFF pointed to ....

Later today, a former Facebook employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, will testify to Congress that Meta executives "repeatedly" sought to "undermine US national security and betray American values" in "secret" efforts to "win favor with Beijing and ....

Instead, it appears that X decided to sue Twitch after discovering that Twitch was among advertisers who directly referenced the WFA's brand safety guidelines in its own community guidelines and terms of service. X likely ....

We contacted the White House today and will update this article if it provides any comment. Waltz: “It said one person and then a different phone number” Waltz recently told Fox News, "I'm sure everybody ....

Last week, Politico reported that some top Republicans are pushing to reassert Congress' power over tariffs as the trade war escalates. They've introduced a bill that would force Trump to give Congress 48 hours' notice ....

DOGE has already slashed and burned modernization projects at other agencies, replacing them with smaller teams and tighter timelines. At the Social Security Administration, DOGE representatives are planning to move all of the agency’s data ....

A typical ATT  pop-up asks a user whether to allow an app "to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites," and says that "your data will be used to deliver personalized ads to ....

A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at the Department of Justice (DOJ)—was reportedly caught bragging about hacking and distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, ....

On LinkedIn, her mother, Dorota Mani—who has been working with the governor's office on a commission to protect kids from online harms—thanked lawmakers like Murphy and former New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway, who sponsored the ....

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday. The European Commission determined last year that Elon Musk's social ....

"Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a minimum had reason to investigate and uncover end-user infringement," Stein wrote. To Stein, the fact that OpenAI maintains an "ongoing ....

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday. Waltz has been at the center of controversy for weeks because ....

Rumors claim Trump consulted chatbots On social media, rumors swirled that the Trump administration got these supposedly fake numbers from chatbots. On Bluesky, tech entrepreneur Amy Hoy joined others posting screenshots from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, ....

The expert sample is not representative of the AI field, as Bender points out to Ars that AI is not a "thing" or even "a coherent set of technologies," and an expert in one area ....

Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join ....

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he's keeping an eye on 23andMe's bankruptcy proceeding and the company's planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing data. 23andMe and its future owner must ....

Nearly half of US states sued the federal government and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today in a bid to halt the termination of $11 billion in public health grants. ....

A loss in the investors' and SEC's suits could force Musk to disgorge any ill-gotten gains from the alleged scheme, estimated at $150 million, as well as potential civil penalties. The SEC and Musk's X ....

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies," despite "objections from senior IT staff who feared it ....

According to data from Emarketer, X’s revenue will increase to $2.3 billion this year compared with $1.9 billion a year ago. However, global sales in 2022, when the group was known as Twitter and taken ....

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, ....

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) don't have to turn over information related to their government cost-cutting operations, at least for now, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. A federal judge previously ....

The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former FCC commissioners, including two former chairmen. The group criticizing current Chairman Brendan Carr includes Republican ....

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to ....

Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values the social network formerly known as Twitter at $33 billion. Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022. xAI acquired ....

The EU is set to impose minimal fines on Apple and Facebook-owner Meta next week under its Digital Markets Act, as Brussels seeks to avoid escalating tensions with US President Donald Trump. According to people ....

Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their removals are "in direct violation of a century of federal law and Supreme Court precedent." "Plaintiffs ....

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s pledge to spend an extra $100 billion on advanced manufacturing plants in the US will do little to help the country restore its global lead in chipmaking, according to Pat Gelsinger, ....

White House didn’t want texts released Prior to running its follow-up article, The Atlantic asked Trump administration officials if they objected to publishing the full texts. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: ....

The Scholars Program has provided funding for around 3,500 students to support their studies in scientific fields. With these lawsuits, “there are students who are currently enrolled, students who will be enrolled, who see themselves ....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday launched a task force "to try to nail the criminals setting fire to Tesla vehicles and charging stations," and is looking into an anarchist blog that has been "calling ....

Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors and hospitals in Europe, says that having data in Europe has always “been a must,” but his customers have been asking ....

Using Signal in this way may have violated US law, Goldberg wrote. "Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of ....

Moutier told Ars that chatbots encouraging suicidal ideation don't just present risks for people with acute issues. They could put people with no perceived mental health issues at risk, and warning signs can be hard ....

Every Tesla Cybertruck ever sold is being recalled so Tesla can fix an exterior panel that could potentially come unglued and detach while driving. If the "panel separates from the vehicle while in drive, it ....

Giulio Coppi, a senior humanitarian officer at the nonprofit Access Now who has researched the use of blockchain in humanitarian work, says that blockchain technologies, while sometimes effective, offer no obvious advantages over other tools ....

The lawsuit was filed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Alliance for Retired Americans; and American Federation of Teachers. "Never before has a group of unelected, unappointed, and unvetted individuals—contradictorily ....

Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of the Italian Piracy Shield. "The Judge confirmed the value of AGCOM's investigations, once again giving ....

Several states consider price requirements While the California proposal will face opposition from ISPs and is not guaranteed to become law, the amended bill has higher speed requirements for the $15 plan than the existing ....

In July 2024, AT&T became the first carrier to apply for a technology transition discontinuance "under the Adequate Replacement Test relying on the applicant's own replacement service," the order said. "AT&T indicated in this application ....

The police claimed that "the fraudulent Facebook pages posted comments on Village of Orland Park social media sites while also soliciting friend requests from Orland Park Police employees and other citizens, portraying the likeness of ....

But the Post has struggled to hold on to the commercial success it had reached during the first Trump administration, falling far behind its biggest competitor, The New York Times. Its audience has shrunk and ....

The petition argues that discovery is unnecessary to assess the plaintiff states' claims. "Plaintiffs allege a violation of the Appointments Clause and USDS's statutory authority on the theory that USDS and Mr. Musk are directing ....

By contrast, then-President Joe Biden waited nine months to choose a Democratic nominee in 2021. His first nominee, Gigi Sohn, wasn't confirmed despite Democrats having control of the Senate at the time. The Biden-era FCC ....

If "the Federal Communications Commission reverses their adverse regulations," Montgomery said, "the Baxter County Sheriff's Office will revisit the feasibility of reimplementing the inmate phone system." One might expect this view to generate some sympathy ....

Two federal judges and an independent agency that assesses government personnel decisions have already ordered that fired USDA employees be reinstated. Earlier this week, the USDA said that it was pausing the terminations for 45 ....

“Some states are on the 1-yard line” Republicans criticized the Biden administration for not yet distributing grant money, but the NTIA said in November that it had approved initial funding plans submitted by every state ....

Krishnaswamy, Taara’s general manager, says the next stage of development is a tiny silicon photonic chip that will obviate the need for many of the terminals’ mirrors and lenses and allow multiple connections from one ....

The authors, however, think that torrenting pirated works is so notoriously illegal that they now have an "open-and-shut case" of copyright infringement. "Meta’s reproduction of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Books without permission, including through peer-to-peer file sharing, ....

OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI ....

An attention-grabbing Kickstarter campaign attempting to reinvent the measuring spoon has turned into a mad, mad, mad, mad world for backers after years of broken promises and thousands of missing spoons. The mind-boggling design for ....

Google’s position on AI regulation: Trust us, bro If there was any doubt about Google's commitment to move fast and break things, its new policy position should put that to rest. "For too long, AI ....

Elon Musk's Tesla is waving a red flag, warning that Donald Trump's trade war risks dooming US electric vehicle makers, triggering job losses, and hurting the economy. In an unsigned letter to the US Trade ....

The spokesperson noted that users can also “report” an ad if they believe it goes against Reddit’s policies. Reporting an ad also results in that advertiser being blocked from pitching to you for a year. ....

Meta also confirmed that it won't be reducing visibility of misleading posts with community notes. That's a change from the prior system, Meta noted, which had penalties associated with fact-checking. According to Meta, X's algorithm ....

The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if Amazon tricked customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions. At a Zoom status hearing on Wednesday, the FTC officially asked ....

Citibank has until March 15 to provide more information on orders to freeze funding. More details on that front were shared today, however, in a court filing in a lawsuit raised by Climate United—one of ....

Adding to the complexity and uncertainty around Vodafone’s newly strict RTO enforcement are claims of there being limited office space for employees. Vodafone is “reducing office space at their offices in Newbury and Paddington, offshoring ....

"X conceded that depending on what content a user follows and how long they’ve had their account, they might see advertisements placed next to extremist content," MMFA alleged. As MMFA sees it, Musk is trying ....

A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The US Department of Justice ....

A document that was first issued in 2009 would seem an unlikely candidate for making news in 2025. Yet the past few weeks have seen a steady stream of articles about an analysis first issued ....

Unsurprisingly, Google's remedy position is light-years away from the Justice Department's. "DOJ’s sweeping proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court’s decision and would harm America’s consumers, economy, and national security," said a Google spokesperson. ....

Rogers found that because "the threshold question of whether a charitable trust was created remains a toss-up, Musk has not demonstrated likelihood of success on the merits sufficient to obtain an injunction." Trial expedited to ....

Ahead of the first-ever White House Crypto Summit Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve that a factsheet claimed delivers on his promise to make America the "crypto capital ....

But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told Ars that he frequently used the project as an archive and not just to listen to the recordings. For ....

A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According ....

"If Mr. Musk has taken actions in his federal role that will benefit his financial interests without receiving appropriate waivers and approvals, he may have violated the criminal conflict of interest statute," the senators alleged. ....

Don’t be “technology-blind,” broadband group says The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society criticized what it called "Trump's BEAD meddling," saying it would "leave millions of Americans with broadband that is slower, less reliable, and ....

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally made it clear to Congress that he wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion bipartisan law Joe Biden signed in 2022 to bring more semiconductor manufacturing into ....

The government's 2024 request also sought to have Google's investment in AI firms curtailed even though this isn't directly related to search. If, like Google, you believe leadership in AI is important to the future ....

President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect today, and the White House increased a tariff on China from 10 to 20 percent in an executive order. Canada, Mexico, and China announced ....

Although it wasn't previously reported, Apple's appeal was filed last month at about the time it withdrew ADP from the UK, the Financial Times wrote today. Snoopers’ Charter Backdoors demanded by governments have alarmed security ....

Currently, TSMC only builds its most advanced chips in Taiwan. But when the most advanced US fabs are operational, they'll be prepared to manufacture "tens of millions of leading-edge chips" to "power products like 5G/6G ....

Thorn also recommends more research into how young people use blocking and reporting to combat threats online. Stroebel told Ars that she wants to better understand why kids choose to block versus report in certain ....

Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs. The subscribers "were the subject of RIAA or third ....

In South Korea, where AI-generated deepfake porn has been criminalized, an "emergency" was declared and hundreds were arrested, mostly teens. But most countries don't yet have clear laws banning AI sex images of minors, and ....

Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your ....

Streaming ads could get muzzled, too As you may have noticed—either through the text of this article or your own ears—The Calm Act doesn’t apply to streaming services. And because The Calm Act doesn’t affect ....

"It's hard to go higher than being this kind of a second-in-charge or second-in-popularity to Trump," Zelinsky said. On Reddit and X, Zelinsky analyzed messages from Musk followers who truly believed that Dogecoin price hikes ....

"Countries including Brazil, India, Israel, and the UAE are eminently capable of ramping up investments aimed at securing new ways to access increased computing capacity," the Brookings Institute said. "Preventing companies in middle-tier countries from ....

The price of bitcoin hit a record high of $109,114.88 during intraday trading on January 20, the day of President Trump's inauguration, but has plummeted since and went as low as $83,741.94 during today's trading. ....

WordPress software, Keller's complaint explained, "has long been promised to be free and available to everyone forever." This promise propelled WordPress' popularity to, by its own estimates, "encompass more than 40 percent of all websites ....

Chegg is suing Google parent Alphabet over claims the search engine’s artificial intelligence summary tool has hit its revenues, leading the US-listed educational technology group to weigh up a sale of the business. California-based Chegg, ....

"To broadband ISPs and their friends complaining about the New York law and proposed Massachusetts laws mandating a low-income broadband service offering: you asked for complete deregulation at the federal level and you got it. ....

On Monday, Apple announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years. This is the "largest-ever" spending commitment that Apple has made in the US, supporting "a wide ....

"The plaintiffs have made a clear showing that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief," the order said. "DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems of record that contain some of ....

More state bills are expected Morrow told Ars he is concerned about his bill facing opposition from Internet providers, though he noted Comcast already offers a low-cost plan in Vermont that "just needs to be ....

On Friday, a Coinbase executive declared the "war against crypto" over—"at least as it applies to Coinbase." According to Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to drop ....

In the 1990s, Lane, as NSF director, ushered in the requirement that, in addition to intellectual merit, reviewers should consider a grant proposal’s “broader impacts.” In general, he said, the aim was to encourage science ....

"We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy," Apple said. ....

Elon Musk apparently no longer believes that crowdsourcing fact-checking through Community Notes can never be manipulated and is, thus, the best way to correct bad posts on his social media platform X. Community Notes are ....

You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number "666" is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offering from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district known ....

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track ....

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their ....

"As all lawyers know (or should know), it has been documented that AI sometimes invents case law, complete with fabricated citations, holdings, and even direct quotes," his letter said. "As we previously instructed you, if ....

The White House fact sheet said the goal of this provision is to ensure that the president and attorney general "interpret the law for the executive branch, instead of having separate agencies adopt conflicting interpretations." ....

Poison pill another option OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and created an additional "capped profit" entity in 2019. Any profit beyond the cap is returned to the nonprofit, OpenAI says. That would ....

PC-manufacturer Acer has said that it plans to raise the prices of its PCs in the US by 10 percent, a direct response to the new 10 percent import tariff on Chinese goods that the ....