Hacker News with Generative AI: Lawsuit

VMware says Siemens pirated "thousands" of copies of its software (arstechnica.com)
VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license.

Software Piracy, Lawsuit, VMware, Siemens, Industrial Technology

5 points by elorant 18 hours ago | 0 comments

Lawsuit Alleges GM Illegally Sold Arkansans' Driving Data to Insurance Companies (insurancejournal.com)
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar this week, alleging the car manufacturer deceived Arkansans by collecting and selling driver information to third parties, who then sold the data to insurance companies.

Privacy, Lawsuit, Data, Automotive, Insurance

6 points by IronWolve 33 days ago | 2 comments

OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit (theregister.com)
Updated Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a California judge responds favorably to the latest filings in the case.

OpenAI, Microsoft, Lawsuit, Elon Musk

12 points by rntn 57 days ago | 0 comments

Lawsuit accuses Amazon of tracking consumers through cellphones (msn.com)

Privacy, Amazon, Lawsuit, Technology, Consumer Protection

4 points by isaacfrond 62 days ago | 0 comments

Google internal mail from tech search lead to ad lead [pdf] (justice.gov)

Google, Internal Documents, Lawsuit, Advertising

9 points by lifeisstillgood 95 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries (theregister.com)
Amazon has trouble in the US capital, where the city's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed today that the company excluded two postal zip codes from its fastest Prime delivery service without informing customers.

Amazon, Lawsuit, Prime Delivery, Consumer Rights, Low-Income

11 points by rntn 119 days ago | 0 comments

Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything (arstechnica.com)
Meta has defeated a lawsuit—for now—that attempted to invoke Section 230 protections for a third-party tool that would have made it easy for Facebook users to toggle on and off their news feeds as they pleased.

Meta, Lawsuit, Social Media, Section 230

23 points by rntn 145 days ago | 11 comments

Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] (wpengine.com)

Lawsuit, WordPress, Software

574 points by dangrossman 182 days ago | 626 comments

Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its 'pristine' propert (theverge.com)
Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing on and damaging its property in Texas.

Lawsuit, SpaceX, Real Estate, Texas

10 points by tombot 194 days ago | 1 comments

Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for Trespassing on Texas Land (nbcnews.com)
The maker of the party game Cards Against Humanity has sued Elon Musk’s SpaceX accusing it of trespassing on and damaging company-owned property in Texas.

Lawsuit, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Texas

33 points by gamblor956 194 days ago | 3 comments

Google sued by longtime enemy Yelp after years of antitrust complaints (washingtonpost.com)

Google, Antitrust, Lawsuit, Yelp, Business

9 points by pseudolus 217 days ago | 2 comments

Intel hit with lawsuit over $32B loss, shareholders complain company hid problem (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Lawsuit, Shareholders, Business, Finance

20 points by speckx 237 days ago | 13 comments

Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman (nytimes.com)

Elon Musk, OpenAI, Lawsuit, Artificial Intelligence, Business

3 points by ahiknsr 239 days ago | 0 comments

Google loses antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance (cnn.com)