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[Link] Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Groping TV Judge at Conference
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
A sheriff in Georgia pleaded guilty on Monday to groping a TV judge at a hotel bar last year while attending a law enforcement conference in the state.
[Link] SBF tries to revise bail conditions after judge noted suspicious VPN use
Read: 3/3/2023 arstechnica.com
A few weeks ago, disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried was in danger of losing his bail package and potentially being jailed until October.
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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
Read: 5/8/2022 www.theguardian.com
The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department. Wyoming Rep.
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[Link] New lawsuit calls Kotick’s handling of Activision-Microsoft merger “inexcusable”
Read: 6/5/2022 arstechnica.com
The Activision-Blizzard shareholders' response to a whirlwind of news over the past year—which include disturbing, company-wide allegations of sexual harassment and pay disparity, followed by a $68.
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[Link] US man gets $450,000 after unwanted work birthday party triggered panic attack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A Kentucky man was awarded $450,000 in a lawsuit against his former employer, after the company disregarded his wish not to be given a birthday party.
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[Link] Far-right InfoWars website files for bankruptcy protection
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facing multiple defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars on Sunday voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Texas.
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[Link] Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip
Read: 13/4/2022 www.coindesk.com
Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She has no significant crypto holdings.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for new trial denied, judge rules
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for a new trial has been denied, the judge in her Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking case said. Former British socialite Maxwell repeatedly requested a new trial after a juror on her case failed to disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection.
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[Link] Jared Kushner ‘voluntarily’ gives Capitol attack panel information in testimony
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jared Kushner testified Thursday before the House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol, becoming the first member of Donald Trump’s family to speak to investigators.
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[Link] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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[Link] A Women's Prison Nurse Sexually Assaulted 12 Incarcerated Women, DOJ Says
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The nurse, Tony Daniel Klein, is facing 21 counts of “depriving the victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by sexually assaulting them.
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[Link] Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. Watch Tower: So What?
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
In 2018, Watch Tower filed for a DMCA subpoena that would've required YouTube to hand over the identity of an animator who parodied the religious group in his videos. When that stalled, Watch Tower filed a copyright lawsuit.
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[Link] Proud Boys leader arrested on US Capitol attack conspiracy charge
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy over the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
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[Link] Juror at centre of Ghislaine Maxwell trial controversy to go before judge
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial who apparently did not disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday morning for public questioning.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Report: SEC investigating Activision Blizzard investors for insider trading
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating three investors for alleged massive insider trading just ahead of Microsoft's January announcement of merger plans with Activision Blizzard, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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[Link] Brother and sister charged with cryptocurrency fraud in New York
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
US authorities on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a cryptocurrency executive and civil charges against him and his sister, accusing them of defrauding retail investors out of millions of dollars with a digital token known as Ormeus Coin.
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[Link] Reminder: Telling Cops to ‘Fuck Off’ Is Completely Legal
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
When cops confronted Michael Wood while wearing his “fuck the police” T-shirt at a local county fair in Dayton, Ohio, six years ago, he tried to explain he was well within his rights. He even removed the shirt. But the officers still asked him to leave.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] Donald Trump criminal probe in question after prosecutors suddenly resign
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The criminal case is related to but separate from a parallel civil case being run by New York's Attorney-General. Both started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr and were asked to stay when Mr Bragg took office in January.
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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Warner Bros is being sued by co-financiers Village Roadshow over the hybrid release of the sci-fi sequel The Matrix Resurrections.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell retrial arguments must be public, prosecutors tell judge
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal arguments involving the juror who might not have disclosed childhood sexual abuse during jury selection should be public, prosecutors said in a letter Friday.
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[Link] RIAA Discards EFF’s YouTube-DL Letter, Notes That it ‘Regularly Sides With Infringers’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are contesting Magistrate Judge Buchanan's recommendation to award $82 million in piracy damages to the RIAA. The YouTube-rippers cited a letter where the EFF defends the non-infringing nature of the youtube-dl software.
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[Link] Record Labels Face Sanctions Over ‘Destroyed’ Piracy Evidence
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider Bright House has asked a Florida federal court to sanction several record labels for 'destroying' evidence that it says is crucial to the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit.
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[Link] RIAA: Yout’s Attempt to Legitimize Stream-Ripping is ‘Wordplay’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com is suing the RIAA in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The case boils down to whether YouTube has meaningful technical protection measures and whether Yout circumvents them. According to the RIAA, there is no question that Yout.
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[Link] FBI Arrests Man For Fraudulently Obtaining Leaks of 100s of Pre-Release Books
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The FBI has arrested a man who impersonated publishers and literary agents in order to fraudulently obtain hundreds of pre-release novels and other books in electronic form.
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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.
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[Link] Kim Dotcom Suffers Setback in His U.S. Extradition Battle
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Kim Dotcom and former colleagues Mattias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk have encountered a setback in their attempt to avoid extradition to the United States.
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[Link] The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has paved the way for President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to be the first to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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[Link] Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10.16am.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell requests new trial after lawyers raise concern about juror
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have formally asked for a new trial after they raised concerns about a juror's possible failure to disclose before the trial that he was sexually abused as a child.
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[Link] ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks
Read: 23/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week’s avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.
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[Link] 3 Cops Charged in Shooting Death of 8-Year-Old Girl After Gunfight
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Three Pennsylvania officers have turned themselves in to authorities after a grand jury decided to bring charges against them in the death of an 8-year-old killed during a firefight they had with two teens.
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[Link] Cops Covered Up Sex Trafficking Ring to Receive Free Sex Acts, Lawsuit Says
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
Top cops for a local department in Virginia actively hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for free sex acts from the victimized women, according to a recently updated federal lawsuit.
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[Link] US Secret Service says $US100 billion stolen from COVID-19 relief funds
Read: 23/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US Secret Service says around $US100 billion ($139 billion) at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
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[Link] Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. The D.C. attorney general is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages for allegedly “planning, promoting, and participating in” the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, he announced Tuesday.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial adjourned after attorney becomes ill
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s New York sex-trafficking trial was unexpectedly adjourned early Thursday because an “ill” attorney needed medical care.
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[Link] Jussie Smollett Testified He Did Drugs and Masturbated With His Attacker
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Jussie Smollett finally took the stand in his bizarre trial Monday and testified that he once masturbated with one of the men he’s accused of hiring to attack him for attention.
[Link] Ex-National Guard Official Accuses Army of ‘Stalinist’ Lies About Jan. 6
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and covering up their roles in delaying a military response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Col. Earl Matthews, a senior National Security Council and Army official who was the top attorney for the D.C.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell warned Epstein’s house manager not to ‘look at his eyes’, court hears
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home said Thursday that Ghislaine Maxwell warned that he should “never look” his boss in the eyes.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
Read: 1/12/2021 www.wired.com
Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell was present when Epstein abused me, accuser testifies
Read: 1/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
The first accuser in the child sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell testified in court in New York on Tuesday. The accuser, who used the name “Jane”, alleged that Maxwell was sometimes present when Jeffrey Epstein abused her.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes trial: former Theranos CEO recounts alleged abuse by her former lover
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Elizabeth Holmes has testified that she was emotionally and physically abused by her former lover and business partner, Sunny Balwani, part of her attempt to refute accusations that she lied about Theranos’ core blood-testing technology.
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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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[Link] The billionaire, the socialite and the 'little black book': Ghislaine Maxwell's trial finally begins
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Sixteen months after FBI agents swooped in on her remote hideaway to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell on sexual abuse charges, the trial of the British socialite and former partner of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is beginning in New York.
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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.
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[Link] ClassPass Faces Class Action Suit Over Phony Business Listings
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
ClassPass, the fitness and health club aggregator and subscription app, is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit for allegedly claiming to be partner with “countless” small businesses on its subscription-based app without their consent or even knowledge.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus
Read: 24/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Elizabeth Holmes would like the jury to know that scientists, at Theranos and at other companies, led her astray. One of those scientists was Ian Gibbons, who led Theranos’ scientific research efforts.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Using the Waukesha Attack for Propaganda
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Only a day after a man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in a suburb of Milwaukee, killing five people and injuring 48, right-wing extremists are using the incident as propaganda, spinning it as a calculated terrorist attack perpetrated by a left-wing radical.
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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[Link] Biden Administration Intervenes In Donald Trump's Silly Lawsuit Against Twitter To Defend Section 230
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
As you'll recall, a few months ago, former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube claiming that his own government violated the 1st Amendment... because those three private companies kicked him off their services for violating their policies.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Phew.
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[Link] Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ahmaud Arbery did not threaten Travis McMichael or signal that he was armed in the moments before he was killed, but McMichael shot him dead during their struggle anyway, the Glynn County courthouse in Georgia heard Thursday.
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[Link] ‘He Had My Gun’: Ahmaud Arbery's Killer Claims It Was Self-Defense
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael, one of three men who chased Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in a truck with a confederate flag vanity plate, testified Wednesday that he shot Arbery during the confrontation because he believed Arbery was trying to take his gun.
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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.
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[Link] FBI Raids Home of GOP Election Official Linked to QAnon’s Ron Watkins
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
The FBI has raided the home of a Republican election official in Colorado accused of facilitating the leak of sensitive election data to QAnon influencer Ron Watkins.
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[Link] ‘QAnon Shaman’ Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Jacob Chansley “made himself the very image of the riot,” the judge who sentenced him said. Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison today.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] Stephen Colbert Is Tickled by a Judge’s Takedown of Trump
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. “Now Trump’s legal team is going to have to figure out what to obstruct next.
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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale.
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[Link] Defense for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Doesn’t Want Famous Black People in Court
Read: 12/11/2021 www.vice.com
One of the defense attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers was in his feelings when he found out Rev. Al Sharpton stopped by the courtroom to sit with the slain young Black man’s family.
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[Link] Holmes’ ex-boyfriend, who was Theranos exec, bullied and ignored $1.2M investor
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
In 2006, Alan Eisenman invested more than $1 million in Theranos, a then-promising medical diagnostic company founded by college dropout Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.
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[Link] Theranos lab chief says Elizabeth Holmes offered ‘impossible’ explanation for odd findings
Read: 10/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former lab director of Theranos has testified that Elizabeth Holmes gave “implausible” excuses for apparent failures in the company’s tests and personally pushed back against his concerns about its signature blood testing machines.
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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.
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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Hijack the ‘Unite the Right’ Trial and Turn It Into a Horrible Podcast
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
This is, perhaps, an inevitable byproduct of trying to hold the more than two dozen white nationalist and neo-Nazi figures, plus their organizations, accountable for the violent Unite the Right rally that left one dead, many injured, and traumatized this small college town. Sines v.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.
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[Link] Paramedic Shot by Rittenhouse Believed He ‘Was Going to Die’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The high-profile Rittenhouse trial has now entered its second week.
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[Link] After Being Sued By ACE, Nitro IPTV Now Faces a New DISH Network Lawsuit
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In 2020, pirate IPTV service Nitro TV was sued by members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment for millions in copyright infringement damages.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded. But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.
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[Link] 'Crypto Investing Club' Leader Spent Investors' Money on Jewellery, Real Estate
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and also spent ill-gotten funds on private security guards. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs
Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video.
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[Link] Former UFC Star Paige VanZant is Hunting Down Photo Pirates on Discord
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Former UFC star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Paige VanZant is reportedly making more money from selling pictures and videos of herself online than she ever did with the MMA organization.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Accused of Killing His Own Kids May Mount Mental Health Defense
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Lawyers for the man accused of killing his own children with a spear gun because he was radicalized by QAnon conspiracy theories are seeking to delay his trial by six months to properly assess his mental health.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] $100M Theranos investor did little vetting for fear of upsetting Elizabeth Holmes
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Theranos sent a major investor financial projections that were wildly optimistic—perhaps even deceptive—the jury heard yesterday in the criminal trial of company founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] Jury Selection at the Charlottesville White Nationalist Trial Has Been Wild
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Jury selection was always going to be an arduous and challenging process in Sines vs. Kessler, a massive civil suit brought by nine survivors of the violence in Charlottesville against 20 white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] School Cop Who Shot and Killed Manuela ‘Mona’ Rodriguez Charged With Murder
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The former Long Beach, California, school safety officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old mother as she drove away from the scene of a fight will now face a murder charge.
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] Amazon ‘Delivery Partners’ Hit Amazon With $150 Million Lawsuit
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two Amazon delivery companies in the Portland area sued Amazon Monday, claiming that the e-commerce giant controls nearly every aspect of their business and penalizes them for circumstances beyond their control. The companies are seeking $15 million in damages.
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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016.
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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants.
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[Link] ‘Unite the Right’ Organizers Are Facing a Court Case That Could Bankrupt Them
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - Yellow U.S. Marshall tape cordoned off the walkways into the federal courthouse in downtown Charlottesville on Monday morning, which, for the next month will be the focal point of a civil case that could bankrupt a white supremacist movement.
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[Link] Parkland school shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
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[Link] Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations
Read: 22/10/2021 hackaday.com
As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux running under the hood.
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Trial Jury Is Proving Hard to Pick
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jury selection in the ongoing murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is off to a rough start.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] Custom PS5 Plate Company Dares Sony to Sue It, Gets Sued, Trolls Sony Again
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The PlayStation 5 is an ugly machine. Thankfully, the hideous white plates flanking either side of the gaming console come off and there are several companies that sell variations on Sony’s white, default theme.
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[Link] Miya Marcano’s Family Just Sued Her Apartment Complex for Wrongful Death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Armando Caballero, a maintenance man for Arden Villas, allegedly killed Marcano, a college student who was a tenant and employee at the apartment complex in Orlando, Florida.
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[Link] Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Those documents include specifics about Arbery’s mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.
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[Link] Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos From Hundreds of iCloud Accounts
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and computer fraud after he hacked into hundreds of iCloud accounts and stole nude photos, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s the oil industry’s turn
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two weeks from today, Darren Woods will face a potential doomsday moment before the US Congress. As the CEO of ExxonMobil, Woods was paid $15.6m last year to run the richest, most powerful private oil company in history.
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[Link] 'Girls Do Porn' Victims Reach Settlement with Pornhub
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
Fifty victims who were coerced into having sex on camera by Girls Do Porn have reached a settlement with Mindgeek, Pornhub's parent company, according to a court document filed Friday. Terms of the settlement between the women and Pornhub were not disclosed.
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[Link] Capitol Police Officer Arrested For Aiding January 6 Rioter
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly warning a rioter to destroy evidence that they’d made it into the Capitol on January 6.
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[Link] A Capitol Rioter Represented Himself in Court and it Went Very, Very Wrong
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Brandon Fellows, a 27-year-old from Albany, New York, was charged with multiple crimes including obstruction of an official proceeding, which could land him in prison for up to 20 years.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.
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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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[Link] Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the morning of August 26, 2015, television journalist Alison Parker was in Monela, Virginia reporting for a CBS affiliate station.
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[Link] Activision sued by another federal agency, settles lawsuit for $18 million
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Earlier today the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard after a three year investigation into alleged workplace discrimination.
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[Link] Grand Theft Auto modders that tried to get around a DMCA claim get walloped with Take-Two lawsuit
Read: 7/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The existence of the GTA Trilogy remaster was more-or-less confirmed by the Korean ratings board last week, but the rumours have been gathering pace for a while: not least because Rockstar parent company Take-Two has been getting very heavy-handed with modders of the original games on PC.
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[Link] Proud Boy, Already Awaiting Trial, Allegedly Crashed His Boat While Drunk
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Rae, 38, is currently on federal supervised release while awaiting trial for charges linked to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Nowhere in the order setting Rae’s terms of release did a judge say that getting arrested for alleged drunken boating was an acceptable activity while out on bond.
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[Link] How friend ‘lost to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
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[Link] US supreme court convenes for pivotal term – with its credibility on the line
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Eight justices of the US supreme court donned their black robes and returned to their austere, column-lined courtroom on Monday at the start of a new judicial term that has the potential to radically transform fundamental aspects of American life, from accessing abortion to carrying guns outside the
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[Link] Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentences May Finally Stop Being Racist
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to turn that around by passing a bill to end the sentencing disparity once and for all at the federal level.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Tesla has been sued by five Texas police officers who were injured when a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode crashed into police vehicles that were stopped and had their flashing lights turned on. The officers also sued the owner of a restaurant accused of overserving alcohol to the X's driver.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] She Owes Over $12K for 911 Calls. Now She Could Lose Her Home.
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Gloria Parker dipped into her retirement savings to purchase a home in a suburb of Cleveland nearly a decade ago, she thought it’d give her a bit of security as she aged.
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[Link] Marvel Suing to Keep Rights to ‘Avengers’ Characters From Copyright Termination
Read: 27/9/2021 www.hollywoodreporter.com
Blockbuster lawsuits filed today will decide future ownership of characters including Iron Man and Spider-Man. Disney’s Marvel unit is suing to hold on to full control of Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others.
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[Link] R. Kelly's Defense in His Sex Trafficking Trial Did Not Go Well
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. R. Kelly was charged in federal court more than two years ago, but it took less than three days for the testimony called in his defense to draw to a close. And it was a somewhat less-than-stellar showing, per multiple media reports.
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[Link] Missouri couple who pointed guns at protesters may have law licenses revoked
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a Missouri couple who became famous for pointing guns at protesters marching for racial justice last summer, could have their law licenses revoked.
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[Link] Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the Delaware repair store where Biden allegedly left a MacBook Pro, attempted to sue Twitter for defamation in federal court.
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[Link] DoJ vows to protect women seeking abortions in Texas after radical state ban
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
US attorney general Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the federal government will take action to protect those in Texas trying to obtain an abortion in the wake of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US taking effect last week.
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[Link] Former DA indicted for allegedly 'showing favor' to men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery
Read: 3/9/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Jaquelyn Lee Johnson was indicted on charges of violation of oath of public officer and obstruction of a police officer, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced. Johnson served as Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot last February.
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Disgraced Girlboss Elizabeth Holmes is Finally Standing Trial for Fraud
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Judge: Michigan couple must pay son $30,441 for throwing out porn collection
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
US district judge Paul Maloney’s decision this week came eight months after David Werking, 43, won a lawsuit against his parents. Werking said they had no right to throw out his collection of films, magazines and other items, which he said then was worth $29,000 (£21,500).
[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.
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[Link] Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time
Read: 25/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.
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[Link] R. Kelly Allegedly Forced a Woman to Have Sex as “Punishment”
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe 5 in court documents, testified on both Monday and Tuesday in New York court, Vulture reported.
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[Link] Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theregister.com
A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems – including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports.
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[Link] Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced to Jail
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
“Mr Tarrio didn’t care,” Judge Cushenberry Jr. said. “That’s what I think. He could not have cared less about the laws of the District of Columbia. He cared about himself and self-promotion.”
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[Link] Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, has obtained an injunction to restrain Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Altered Carbon, Area 51, and several other pirate IPTV services.
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[Link] Pepe the Frog’s Creator Nuked a $4 Million NFT Collection Over Copyright
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
Artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog who previously used copyright to fight off neo-Nazis who turned the character into a mascot, has found himself in yet another weird spat.
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[Link] Promoting Popcorn Time Piracy Costs Phone Store Employee Her Job and $6,250
Read: 21/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A federal court in Texas has ordered a former employee of a local phone store to pay $6,250 in piracy damages. The woman, who was fired, promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers and also downloaded pirated content herself.
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[Link] R Kelly accuser describes physical abuse from singer when she was 16
Read: 20/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A key accuser at the R Kelly sex-trafficking trial returned to the witness stand on Thursday, saying he often videotaped their sexual encounters and demanded she dress like a Girl Scout during a relationship that began when she was a minor.
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[Link] Pharmacist Faces Decades in Prison for Allegedly Selling Vaccine Cards on eBay
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
The news signals the criminal element of buying or selling vaccination documents, and comes as unvaccinated people seek to buy the cards or similar fakes to try and skirt proof of vaccination requested by employers or businesses.
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[Link] Court Orders RomUniverse to Destroy Pirated Nintendo Games and Stay Offline
Read: 14/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A California federal court has ordered the operator of the now-defunct pirate site RomUniverse to destroy all copyright-infringing games within two weeks.
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[Link] Jake Paul Fight Piracy: Judge Dismisses Triller’s Main Lawsuit, Others On The Brink
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A court in the United States has dismissed Triller's original lawsuit that targeted a site alleged to have pirated the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight. In another lawsuit, Triller failed to inform a court that an investigation was underway and faces a case dismissal.
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[Link] The COVID Cruise Ship Saga Is Really Not Going Well for Ron DeSantis
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempts to ban vaccine passports have been a sinking ship for awhile, and now they’ve finally hit rock bottom.
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[Link] 'Hire a hit man': Two charged in US over plot to kill Myanmar's UN ambassador
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
US prosecutors have charged two Myanmar citizens over an alleged plot to attack the Asian country's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun.
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[Link] The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesOpinion ColumnistOn Tuesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States sat for its third public meeting.
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[Link] Nancy Pelosi’s Surprise Flip on Student Debt Cancellation Came After Urging From Billionaire Power Couple
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The drive to persuade President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition.
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[Link] Wall Street Investors Press Corporate Landlords on Eviction Plan
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
In courthouses across the country this week, grief and anger over looming eviction orders turned to hope as the Biden administration shifted course.
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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.
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[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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[Link] QAnon Thinks Cop Suicides After the Capitol Riot Are a Cover-Up
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon conspiracy theorists firmly believe that pretty much everything is fake or a cover up. The stolen election, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of course, the Capitol riots, in which QAnon followers played a central role.
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[Link] Britney Spears’ Dad Tried to Cancel Her Vacation, Lawyer Says
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Britney Spears doesn’t want to wait to kick her dad out of the conservatorship that’s controlled her life since 2008. At this point, the pop star says, it’s a matter of saving her mental health—and her finances.
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[Link] Lawyer Who ‘Shut Down’ 4Anime Has Giant Pirate Sites in His Crosshairs
Read: 5/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, 4anime - one of the world's largest streaming sites - shut down after Legacy Rights Group obtained a DMCA subpoena to identify its operators. With attorney Corey D. Silverstein now taking credit for that shutdown, trouble could lie ahead for more anime-focused sites.
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[Link] Mexico Just Sued the US Gun Industry for Causing 17,000 Killings a Year
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The lawsuit names among others Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock and Ruger. Their guns are the ones most often recovered in Mexico, according to the complaint from the Mexican government. It also lists Barrett, “whose .
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[Link] No One Knows How This Proud Boy Got $1 Million for Bail
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The recent back-and-forth in court documents filed this week is part of Nordean’s ongoing battle to get out of jail before trial.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard Faces Second Lawsuit Over First Lawsuit
Read: 4/8/2021 kotaku.com
A class action lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court of Central California on behalf of investors alleges that Activision Blizzard’s intentional failure to disclose its ongoing problems with sexual harassment and discrimination artificially inflated the company’s stock value.
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[Link] Stream-Ripping Can be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says
Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Downloading music via stream-ripping tools can be perfectly legal, the French Ministry of Culture has confirmed. The resulting copies fall under the private copying exemption.
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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.
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[Link] That One-of-a-Kind Wu Tang Clan Album Has Been Resold, and No One Knows Who Has It
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
The one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, previously owned by controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been resold – and virtually nobody knows who has it now.
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[Link] Marvel's Kevin Feige Reportedly 'Angry and Embarrassed' at Disney Over Scarlett Johansson Lawsuit
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is reportedly “angry and embarrassed” over Disney’s response to Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit, feeling the company did not do enough to make it right with one of Marvel’s biggest stars.
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[Link] IRS must turn over Trump tax returns to Congress, DoJ says
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had invoked “sufficient reasons” for requesting them.
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[Link] Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.
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[Link] Biden asks Congress to extend COVID-19 eviction ban set to expire this week
Read: 30/7/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday to extend a moratorium on evictions to protect millions of U.S. renters and their families that is set to expire this week amid a deadly rise in coronavirus infections, the White House said.
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[Link] DACA: Joe Biden Pledges to Fight for Program after Judge Rules Against It
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
The legal fight over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program continues. The Obama-era policy has provided hundreds of thousands of migrant Dreamers with legal protections against deportation.
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[Link] Texas soldier who shot protester indicted on murder charge
Read: 3/7/2021 abcnews.go.com
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Army soldier who shot and killed an armed protester after driving into a crowd demonstrating against police violence in the Texas capital last summer has been indicted on murder charge, authorities said Thursday. Sgt.
[Link] Report: Judge Throws Out Antitrust Cases Brought Against Facebook
Read: 2/7/2021 uploadvr.com
The United States Federal Trade Commission has 30 days to refile its complaint against Facebook after a federal judge on Monday threw it out as well as another case brought by dozens of individual states. You can read through the opinions written by judge James E. Boasberg for the U.S.
[Link] Yabba dabba deal! California town settles suit over Flintstones house
Read: 28/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of a controversial Flintstones-themed house has settled a lawsuit with the town of Hillsborough, in the San Francisco suburbs, which alleged she violated local codes when she put dinosaur sculptures in the back yard and made other landscaping changes that caused local officials to declare