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Quotes My thoughts It’s good that Apple has been held accountable hopefully this trend continues. Concerning the payouts, I wonder how much paperwork will be necessary to receive the cash. Will a receipt of having bought the phone be needed or will Apple be asked to provide their selling data. Realistically, I think it’ll be a long form and process to actually receive the cash. Sources https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/6/24028162/apple-batterygate-payments-issued-class-action-lawsuit
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Summary Investors from a consortium of Facebook shareholders are suing the company over its unlawful gain in market power in a large lawsuit that was filed in Delaware. Some of the allegations are that FB had failed its 2012 consent decree, removed apps from its platform that didn't give it data, knew about the Cambridge Analytical Scandal but did nothing, paid the FTC $4.9B to protect the Zuck personally, insider trading occurred, among others. Quotes My thoughts If everything alleged to happen is true it would seem that everyone is now after Facebook and it is only a matter of time before heavy regulation is brought in and Zuck is ousted like Elon was at Tesla. Sources https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1440304941428473857 https://rfob.medium.com/exclusive-facebook-executives-sued-over-cambridge-analytica-scandal-254b1cbf6b3f
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Summary A Texas federal jury has ruled that Apple owes PanOptis and its sister companies a total of $506.2 million for patent infringement. PanOptis and its sister companies currently hold 7 patents relating to LTE technology. They are all non-operational companies and their sole source of income is through patent litigation. In other words, they are patent trolls. PanOptis said that they had tried to offer Apple a global license before the lawsuit, but they had never made it past negotiations. The jury ruled in favor of PanOptics saying that, Apple had failed to prove they did not infringe on PanOptics patents. It is expected that Apple will appeal this decision. Quotes My thoughts I have to say, I think Apple should have won this one. I find it weird that Apple had to prove that they didn't infringe on the patent instead of PanOptics having to prove that they did. That said, even if they did infringe on the patents, I dont think companies should be able to just register a bunch of patents and then sue a bunch of major companies to make money. Sources law360 Bloomberg MacRumors 9to5Mac
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So it turns out that ingonito mode isn't that incognito, sort of. From what I gather you can retroactively link cookies to your Google account by signing in whilst inside the incognito mode. Quote from Readers Digest Article This would be a big no no as Google states it won't save cookies or data when browsing in incognito mode (below screenshot). Here's a response form Google in the BBC article I haven't found all the reasons for the lawsuit so any other articles or information would be helpful. Below are the two articles I found and quoted. https://www.rd.com/culture/truth-google-incognito-mode/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340
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SOURCES: PCGamer Article Second PCGamer Article AMD Class Action Lawsuit Site A Class Action Lawsuit from 2015 against AMD over the misleading labeling of their FX CPUs as 8-Core Chips is finally accepting claims for a proposed settlement In August, AMD Agreed to come to a settlement over the lawsuit regarding misleadingly advertising the FX Chips as 8-Core CPUs when architecturally they could be classified as 4-Core CPUs However one of the caveats to the settlement is that only customers who purchased an FX CPU while residing in California, or purchased it on AMD's website, are eligible for a claim. If you live in California and purchased an AMD FX CPU, or you purchased an AMD FX CPU on AMD's website, you have until January 3, 2020 to file a claim
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Epic Games sued for not warning parents that "Fortnite" is allegedly as addictive as cocaine. Are video games as addictive as drugs? One parental unit in Montreal claims so, and says they have a study to back it up. Source 1: https://myfox8.com/2019/10/07/addictive-as-cocaine-parents-sue-fortnite-creators/ Source 2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/10/07/fortnite-producer-epic-games-lawsuit-says-addictive-as-cocaine/3900236002/ I really want to hear from Linus on this one, as a parent figure. If they're claiming it boosts Dopamine levels, wouldn't any type of "Social Media" also fall under this category? (eg; Like/Dislike/Love "Reaction" options)
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Source: Tom's Hardware Source 2: The Register Update (Aug 28, 2019): Source 3: AnandTech PDF of lawsuit agreement: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/08/27/amd-eight-core-settlement.pdf I think this would be a reasonable payout since it has been 8 years since the first Bulldozer CPU came out. The lawsuit itself regarding the marketing of the CPU cores mainly in the FX 8xxx lineup of having 8-cores I believe is kind of a false advertisement; it would be like buying a really nice car that featured air conditioning but you can not use it when the car is moving. I still have my FX-8350 and it runs pretty okay, but performance is not really great for the amount of heat generated and power consumed. With Ryzen, it seems AMD changed their way of marketing without trying to really say anything that would comeback and hit them.
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Apple is being sued by customers for unlawfully selling information about their iTunes purchases as well as personal data. This data allegedly was sold to 3rd parties, which resulted in the plaintiffs getting "a barrage of unwanted junk mail at their home addresses and e-mail inboxes" According to the court document, 3rd parties can buy the data for $136 per 1000 users, so little under 14 cent per user. Source 1 : Bloomberg Source 2 : 9 to 5 Mac Source 3 : The Register My 13.6 cents: If these allegations turn out to be true, that's going to leave a long-lasting mark on their brand. Either way, what do you think the odds are of them saying that only a very small percentage of users were affected by this?
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 (with the infamous Brett Kavanaugh being the deciding vote) today to allow the Anti-Trust case against the Apple App Store to go through. The Lawsuit accuses Apple of holding a monopoly over iOS Apps on iOS. The "Honorable" Justice Brett Kavanaugh claims that rising prices on the App Store are because of Apple, rather than developers who are moving to subscription models more and more frequently. Apple claims (imo correctly claims) that increasing prices are in-fact due to developers asking more from the platform that spends 2x as much on Apps as do users of competing App Stores. This is true, Apple only sets the percent cut that they make from every sale. Apple does not control what price developers charge for their applications. The US Justice Department attempted to help Apple by explaining this to the Supreme Court, but it did not persuade any of the Justices. If Apple were to lose this case they could be forced to allow 3rd party App Stores on iOS. Personally I can't subscribe to the idea that a company who built an entire ecosystem from the ground up should be forced to allow competition from 3rd parties on their platform. Imagine building your own home and being told that you have to let some moocher squat in it because it's not fair to the people who don't have homes? That's what is at risk of happening here. Developers are more than welcome to develop for Android if they want to get their Apps out there. There are far more Android users than iOS users and Google allows for nearly anything to be installed on phones that run Android. What do you think? Should Apple be forced to allow competing app stores on their platform? Do you view this as similar to how Windows and macOS have their own respective app stores but can still install applications from the Internet? Here is the ruling from the Supreme Court: https://www.scribd.com/document/409790734/Supreme-Court-App-Store-Apple-Ruling#download&from_embed Source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/us-supreme-court-greenlights-lawsuit-over-app-store-monopoly
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Well within 2 days of uploading a reaction to Apple's new Apple Card product and Apple's legal team did not waste a minute to send a 'Cease and Desist' letter to the author - Youtuber Graham Stephan to pull his opinionated Youtube video down. Right after the author did not comply they followed with a Defamation lawsuit. The Youtuber is defending himself with the 1A and Fair use, which is, IMO, totally right in doing so. The Youtuber was pointing out in his original video a shady history of Apple's partner in crime - Goldman Sachs, which was in the centre of 2008 financial crisis and explaining the not-so-great deal from Apple Card with chargeback of 2% when using Apple Pay instead of Apple Card where you will get only 1% back. The original video, that caused the uproar in Cupertino linked below.
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AMD is currently on the negative end of a class action lawsuit due to their FX processors. AMD advertised their FX processor as having 8 cores, but now the courts must decide what a "core" actually is. Unlike Ryzen, AMD's FX series had a different architecture and they have even said that with this design, they have approximately 80% of the performance of "true" 8-core processors. The argument then, is that people didn't pay for the performance of a 6-core, they paid for an 8-core. This all having been said, I personally don't think there is a whole lot to this lawsuit and I think it should be dropped. That having been said, I didn't buy one of AMD's top-of-the-line processors in 2015. What do you guys think? Links and photos below. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/284335-the-garbage-class-action-lawsuit-against-amds-bulldozer-is-headed-to-trial https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-fx-processors-lawsuit-continues,38486.html
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Source: Engadget Tom's Guide TL;DR: Vizio TVs will be displaying notifications of a class action lawsuit against the company on affected SmartTVs. Quotes/Excerpts: My Thoughts: An interesting new way to inform users of a class action lawsuit. Generally you'd get a letter in the mail if you had registered the product, now potentially everyone who owns the TV will likely be entering into it. Having been in a couple class action lawsuits myself, it's likely they'll get 1/100th the potential damages per user.
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Unless they can prove that fortnite directly used assets from pubg i don't think this should be a valid case just because the two games have some similar mechanics. A company shouldn't have the exclusive rights to gameplay design eg dota shouldn't be able to sue league of legends just on the fact they are both moba games. Also its interesting that pubg only filed this lawsuit in korea and not in the US which tells me that they also believe that it will be a hard case to win and they are hoping that some home country favortism might help them win. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pubg-dev-suing-fortnite-studio-for-copyright-infri/1100-6459244/
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Tesla has been accused of allegedly stealing the design for its electric Semi truck from Hydrogen truck startup Nikola Motor. Nikola Motors have filed a $2 Billion lawsuit in Arizona court. Nikola Tesla Source: http://fortune.com/2018/05/02/tesla-lawsuit-nikola-truck-patent-infringement/
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/17/amd_investors_sue_over_chip_flaw_silence/ A lawsuit was filed in California against AMD, claiming they artificially inflated stock prices by not announcing the Spectre vulnerability. I'm not sure the suit will stand, given that the product was already launched well before the vulnerability was discovered. It's not like they rushed it to market after learning about Spectre, that was all discovered well after the product was released to market. Especially given that the lawsuit alleges the artificial inflation goes back to FY 2016. Another nail in the coffin of this lawsuit, is that the stock prices have actually gone up since the announcement about Spectre. *EDIT* I apparently overlooked this, there was a link to the original filing in the above story. https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/01/17/amd_cpu_design_lawsuit.pdf *EDIT2* I just noticed one more bit of information (and this is why I shouldn't post late at night, when I should be sleeping). Apparently, the guy bringing the lawsuit bought his shares on the 8th. Of January. Of this year. In other words, he apparently bought shares after the Meltdown bug was announced, while AMD was saying there was little chance of vulnerability from Spectre. After AMD announced they were vulnerable to Spectre, the shares dropped by 0.99% (or $0.12), meaning he lost money on a gamble (around $1,200) and now wants to cry foul.
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Tavis Ormandy, member of Google's Project Zero just tweeted about a Lawsuit filed by Keeper Security (Keepass) against Ars Technica on "Misleading Claims" for their "Windows Bundled App" Article. On the original article by Ars Technica, they describe how Tavis Ormandy (re)discovered a flaw on Keepass after noticing that windows 10 was bundling the app after installation. According to Tavis, the flaw was exactly the same as one he had perviously disclosed (Issue 917), which had been patched by Keepass (back on August 2016). The article also indicates that this issue could have been avoided if Windows wasn't downloading the app without the user's consent, as it should only affect users that accepted to use the app by trusting it with their passwords. Today, however, Tavis Ormandy tweeted about the lawsuit which has been filed by Keeper Security (Owner of Keepass) against Ars Technica, this was followed by a link to the public case and later by the case's document. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/943532596012638208 Case: https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/23282996/Keeper_Security,_Incv_Goodin_et_al Document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4333677-Keeper-Security-Inc-v-Goodin-et-al.html The document reads: Following with a claim for defamation, after acknowledging that Ars Technica had corrected some "Misleading Claims" on their article at least twice.
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Crytek has filed a lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games over breach of contract during the development of Star Citizen and SQ42 The source will be the legal paperwork which is located: HERE and an article which was launched by massivelyop.com Some of the main points from the lawsuit: Crytek Inc is suing on 1 count of Breach of Contract and 1 count of Copyright Infringement and Crytek demand that they're awarded $75'000 in damages, including loss of profits, they also request that the defendants (Cloud Imperium Games) are issued a permanent injunction from the continuation of the work which will inadvertently destroy the development of Star Citizen and SQ42. It also appears that the defendants (CIG) are dragging their feet in refunding a backers $25'000 in pledges. [Source] E: @Zando Bob is very sad, I'm sad, are we all sad? What you think friends.
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Primarily from Neowin, more from The Verge: It is no surprise that Google is using collected information from its users for AdSense, but now they are facing a hefty class action lawsuit ------------------------------------------- Here's the gist of it: Originated from the "Google You Owe Us Campaign" (Neowin) How it worked: Essentially, interacting with Google ads in safari allowed otherwise blocked third-party cookies to be installed (Via Neowin) In 2012, Google payed $22.5 million fine for the same safari breach (Verge) ------------------------------------------- A Google spokesperson attested, Frank I don't really mind what Google is doing because it is a "fair" trade for all of their free products, but I can definitely see where these people are coming from. Privacy is a huge must for most people and I hope they get the justice they want. Although, we've seen Google settle for dimes on the dollar before and that could very well happen again; let's see how this one goes.
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I guess Qualcomm didn't take too kindly to Apple leaving them in the dust for Intel. At this rate, anyone is throwing around lawsuits left right and center but it'll be cool to see where this actually goes and how far. Sauce: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-lawsuit-qualcomm/qualcomm-sues-apple-for-breach-of-software-license-contract-idUSKBN1D22HA
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This has to be one of the more humorous articles that I've read today... The Psychic Network has decided that the Auntie Poulet character from GTA: Vice City (released in 2002) is a copyright infringement on the Miss Cleo persona that they created and therefore Rockstar owes them money. https://www.techspot.com/news/70419-rockstar-sued-psychic-network-over-gta-vice-city.html So this is a very frivolous lawsuit, but who knows, maybe the Psychic Network received some message or information that they would win this... I however, would not place bets on this as I'm fairly sure there is a statute of limitations on copyright suits that has long since expired.
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Not to long ago, there was a Pokemon Go even held in Chicago, where there were about 20,000 attendees. All of them were not able to sign on to the Pokemon Go servers in order to play the game, so all they did was went there for nothing. Now one dude has filed a class action lawsuit in California, for unspecified amount of damages. PDF https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pokemon-Go-Complaint.pdf Article https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/pokemon-go-fests-blunders-result-in-class-action-lawsuit/
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First news post, hope I did it correctly . Article link ----> https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/6/15930928/qualcomm-requests-iphone-import-ban This is interesting really, I don't follow these things usually but this caught my attention. The two companies seem to be in a legal battle regarding anti-competitive practices. The article is short so im going to find some other sources in the mean time. Edit/addition: A video if you are the type of person that likes watching the news and a longer article that gives more information on the topic: ----> http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/qualcomm-sues-over-alleged-apple-iphone-patent-infringement.html
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source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-lawsuit-idUSKBN19J0GU Toshiba had an offer from a consortium composed of japanese investors and a US private equity firm, Bain Capital - the sum is rumored to be around 18bil USD but Western Digital meddling in the transaction has thrown a rock in the dealing and Toshiba missed the deadline Western Digital who runs a joint venture with Toshiba's memory plant claims that Toshiba is breaching the joint venture contract and actively seeks a US court injunction to prevent the sale Western Digital wants the plant for themselves and issued a bit, Toshiba turned them down claiming they pose an anti-trust issue and the bid being too low furthermore, Toshiba is said to terminate all access for Western Digital's employees to all the systems in fear that they will continue to interfere one other problem seems to be that Bain Capital is doing business with SK Hynix and some Toshiba's board members and Western Digital are not keen to sell their secretes Western Digital is said to take further legal action of SK Hynix participates in the sale
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According to an article on Tweakers, Apple tried to prevent the judge from giving a verdict by arguing that the woman in question was already offered everything that she demanded by Apple, but the objection was rejected by the judge. This verdict could be used for other lawsuits or even a class action lawsuit. I believe Apple should have provided the woman with a brand new product or a repair. A refurbished or remanufactured product isn't new, it could contain parts that are very worn-out. If a manufacturer can't repair your product, you should always get a brand new one, otherwise you could get a worse product. What do you think? Source
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Link: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15255318/qualcomm-sues-apple-iphone-countersue-intel I already didn't like Apple, this just makes it worse. In January of this year, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm. They claimed that Qualcomm was charging Apple too much to use their patents. This past Monday (4/10/17), Qualcomm filed a counter-suit against Apple which stated that Apple was hindering performance on Qualcomm chipset-equipped iPhone 7's. They also claim that Apple "threatened" them into keeping thier mouths shut about the superior performance of their Qualcomm iPhone 7's versus the Intel-equipped models. Depending on how it plays out, it's possible that Apple could put out an OTA update for Qualcomm-equipped iPhones that could unlock extra performance for some lucky users. Anyone else have thoughts on how this might play out?