Hacker News with Generative AI: Lawsuits

Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst (theguardian.com)
A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him “recklessly” with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another YouTuber’s suicide.
Gaming, Lawsuits, YouTube, Defamation
85 points by throw7 15 hours ago | 68 comments
Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building (wired.com)
The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free of charge, according to court documents revealed in a recently filed lawsuit.
Cryptocurrency, Politics, Real Estate, Lawsuits
82 points by thefreeman 17 hours ago | 35 comments
Requesting formal removal of all anaconda posts for copyright violation (stackoverflow.com)
Copyright, Software, Lawsuits, Online Communities
22 points by user5994461 3 days ago | 9 comments
Founder Charlie Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase (cnbc.com)
Finance, Fraud, Lawsuits, Business, Banking
3 points by _JamesA_ 4 days ago | 0 comments
Apple's $22B Loss Risk as Google Might Cease to Be Default Search Engine (gizmodo.com)
We’ve all overslept an alarm or missed a deadline, but has it ever cost you $20 billion? According to Ars Technica, it may have just happened to Apple, which apparently suffered from some decision paralysis that pissed off a federal judge and might cost the company its lucrative agreement with Google to make the company’s search engine the default on Apple devices.
Apple, Google, Search Engines, Lawsuits, Business
8 points by bentobean 7 days ago | 4 comments
After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt (heise.de)
Following a decree by US President Trump, the Open Technology Fund is no longer receiving funding. That is why the organization is now going to court.
Politics, Open Source, Lawsuits, Security
12 points by AceSlash 7 days ago | 4 comments
Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20B search deal on the line (arstechnica.com)
Apple has suffered a blow in its efforts to salvage its lucrative search placement deal with Google. A new ruling from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirms that Apple cannot participate in Google's upcoming antitrust hearing, which could leave a multibillion-dollar hole in Apple's balance sheet. The judges in the case say Apple simply waited too long to get involved.
Antitrust, Google, Apple, Lawsuits, Business
7 points by brycewray 7 days ago | 0 comments
OTF,which backs Tor,Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts (theregister.com)
An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.
Internet Security, Politics, Funding, Lawsuits
9 points by croes 8 days ago | 0 comments
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt etc., sues to save funding from Trump cuts (theregister.com)
An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.
Politics, Cybersecurity, Nonprofits, Funding, Lawsuits
14 points by defrost 8 days ago | 0 comments
HP avoids monetary damages over printers in class-action settlement (arstechnica.com)
A United States District Court for the Northern District of California judge has signed off on a settlement agreement between HP and its customers, who sued the company for issuing firmware updates that prevented their printers from working with non-HP ink and toner.
Lawsuits, Printers, Technology, Business, HP
111 points by JSR_FDED 9 days ago | 89 comments
Seventeen years after that nice Mr Musk sued me, victory is mine (thetimes.com)
Lawsuits, Elon Musk, Victory
16 points by dhfbshfbu4u3 9 days ago | 1 comments
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son's suicide (fortune.com)
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Mental Health, Social Media
6 points by 01-_- 11 days ago | 0 comments
Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight (bbc.co.uk)
Facebook has agreed to stop targeting adverts at an individual user using personal data after she filed a lawsuit against its parent company, tech giant Meta.
Privacy, Facebook, Lawsuits, Advertising
133 points by dijksterhuis 11 days ago | 108 comments
One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone (thetimes.com)
Social Media, Lawsuits, Privacy
48 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 38 comments
HP Escapes Customer Payouts in Printer-Bricking Lawsuit Settlement (arstechnica.com)
A United States District Court for the Northern District of California judge has signed off on a settlement agreement between HP and its customers, who sued the company for issuing firmware updates that prevented their printers from working with non-HP ink and toner.
Lawsuits, Technology, Printers, HP
9 points by m463 11 days ago | 0 comments
How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta (theverge.com)
Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back.
Meta, Social Media, Public Relations, Lawsuits, Books
50 points by CrypticShift 11 days ago | 41 comments
Gitlab is sued by its own investors over misleading AI hype (theregister.com)
For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.
Lawsuits, AI, Business, Technology, Investments
22 points by AbuAssar 12 days ago | 1 comments
ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore.
Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Lawsuits
102 points by matsemann 13 days ago | 128 comments
Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT's false claim that he murdered his kids (arstechnica.com)
A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Privacy, Lawsuits, Ethics
44 points by pseudolus 13 days ago | 38 comments
Boeing blamed for whistleblower's death in new lawsuit (seattletimes.com)
The family of John “Mitch” Barnett, a Boeing whistleblower whose death last year brought fresh attention to the company’s persistent struggles with quality, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C., blaming the aerospace company for Barnett’s suicide.
Lawsuits, Boeing, Whistleblowers, Aviation
13 points by iancmceachern 13 days ago | 0 comments
Home Sellers and Buyers Accuse Realtors of Blocking Lower Fees (nytimes.com)
A year after a landmark settlement called for a disruption in how real estate agents are paid, people say they still feel forced to pay them excessive commissions.
Real Estate, Business, Lawsuits, Consumer Protection
20 points by lxm 13 days ago | 4 comments
Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities (apnews.com)
Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, a jury found Wednesday.
Environmental Activism, Lawsuits, Pipelines
92 points by pseudolus 13 days ago | 70 comments
Greenpeace must pay millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury (theguardian.com)
A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable over defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago.
Environmental Activism, Lawsuits, Pipeline Projects
21 points by n1b0m 13 days ago | 6 comments
Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees (theguardian.com)
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers.
Google, Lawsuits, Discrimination, Employment, Race
104 points by rouma7 14 days ago | 136 comments
Google agrees to pay $28M in racial bias lawsuit (bbc.co.uk)
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds, a law firm representing claimants says.
Lawsuits, Racial Bias, Google, Technology, Employment
6 points by saos 14 days ago | 1 comments
Flexport accuses former employees of stealing source code to start rival startup (techcrunch.com)
Creating a startup that competes with your former employer can be risky. Apple, for example, once sued a former chip design executive who founded his own chip startup in a case that was dropped in 2023.
Business, Lawsuits, Startups, Technology
5 points by drx 14 days ago | 0 comments
Startup Rippling sues competitor Deel, claiming a spy stole sales data (cnbc.com)
Startup, Lawsuits, Competition, Technology, Business
3 points by isaacfrond 15 days ago | 1 comments
380M-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after college didn't pay UPS bill (nbcnews.com)
A professor filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey university claiming the school's negligence led to 380-million-year-old fossils ending up in a landfill in Nashville, Tennessee, last year.
Fossils, Lawsuits, Universities, Negligence
18 points by impish9208 15 days ago | 0 comments
Rippling Sues Deel, a Software Rival, over Corporate Spying (nytimes.com)
Rippling, an H.R. start-up led by the entrepreneur Parker Conrad, is accusing a top rival, Deel, of placing a mole within its ranks to steal confidential information.
Business, Software, Lawsuits, Competition, Startups
16 points by achristmascarl 16 days ago | 1 comments
Rippling suing Deel for espionage after Slack honeypot worked (rippling.com)
San Francisco, CA, March 17, 2025 – Deel, a $12-billion unicorn company, orchestrated a multi-month campaign to steal a competitor’s confidential business information with help from a corporate spy, according to a lawsuit filed today in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division.
Espionage, Lawsuits, Business, Software, Competition
38 points by paulgb 16 days ago | 3 comments