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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCuba Gooding Jr has been hit with two lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault.In the suits, the Jerry Maguire actor is accused of groping two women in two separate incidents at New York restaurants in 2018 and 2019.The lawsuits were filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court ahead of the expiration of the state’s Adult Survivors Act on Friday.The measure, passed last year, created a…

Too Long; Didn't ReadFormer OpenAI employees express deep concerns over alleged misconduct by Sam Altman, revealing a troubling pattern of deceit and manipulation. The letter calls on the Board of Directors to expand investigations, protect whistleblowers, and address issues like discriminatory behavior and misuse of resources. The employees assert that OpenAI's mission is compromised by profit-driven interests, urging a commitment to ethical leadership and transparency to safeguard the future of artificial intelligence.…

A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing X, the social media service formerly called Twitter, of disproportionately laying off older workers when Elon Musk acquired the company last year.US District Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday said the plaintiff in the proposed class action, John Zeman, had provided enough evidence that the mass layoffs had a greater impact on older employees to continue pursuing the case.Zeman, for example, claims that X laid off 60 percent of workers who were 50 or older…

The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.'s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.The justices left in place a ruling that tossed out the suit, which accused Google of violating a contract with Genius by using its song lyrics in search results without attribution. It's the latest victory at the Supreme Court for Google, which earlier this year won a battle over whether its video-streaming platform YouTube can be held liable for hosting terrorist…

DoorDash has been charging iPhone users more than Android users for identical deliveries, according to a lawsuit seeking class action status. The court documents (PDF, via 9to5Mac) submitted for the case included screenshots showing how iPhone users are charged an extra fee for "expanded range." On the company's website, it said the fee "helps DoorDash preserve access to the available merchants farthest from ." However, the lawsuit said the fee is tacked onto iPhone users' bills more often than Android users' "likely…

A federal judge in Idaho on Thursday dismissed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Kochava Inc alleging that the data broker unfairly sold geolocation data but gave the regulator an opportunity to revise its case.In a 35-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Winmill granted a motion the Idaho-based company filed in October by ruling the FTC complaint lacks sufficient allegations to state a claim. The FTC failed to allege Kochava's data sales created "significant risk" of concrete harm, order said,…

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a harsh critic of former President Donald Trump, has helped pay for a lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, the New York magazine writer who sued Trump for rape and defamation, according to newly filed court papers in the case.Hoffman's support for Carroll's lawsuit, which was first disclosed in a letter to a judge Thursday by Trump's lawyers, has sparked a sharp dispute in the case, which is scheduled for trial in federal court in Manhattan on April 25.Trump's lawyers, writing to the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBrooke Shields revealed that The Blue Lagoon director Randal Kleiser has tried to contact her after the release of her new Hulu documentary Pretty Baby.In the documentary, the actor and supermodel accused Kleiser of wanting “to sell my sexual awakening.”Shields starred in the 1980 film alongside Christopher Atkins. Aged 14 and 18 at the time of filming, respectively, Shields and Atkins…

Twitter faced a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the social media giant of illegally laying off contract workers without notice after Elon Musk bought the company last year, the latest action stemming from its massive job cuts.The proposed class action, filed in San Francisco federal court, claims Twitter in November laid off numerous workers employed by staffing firm TEKsystems without the 60 days of advance notice required by US and California law.Five other cases are pending in the same court accusing Twitter of violating…

In December, Nick Carter was sued for sexual battery by a woman who alleged that the Backstreet Boys singer had sexually assaulted her and infected her with HPV in 2001. Now, as the Los Angeles Times reports, Carter has countersued her, as well as another accuser, describing them as “opportunists” looking to take advantage of the #MeToo movement.According to that report, Carter’s lawsuit claims the women are seeking to “destroy innocent lives” and “defame and vilify Carter and otherwise ruin his reputation for the…