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The Republican National Committee is suing Google. According to (via The Verge), the organization filed a lawsuit with California’s Eastern District Court on Friday. The complaint accuses Google of sending “millions” of RNC campaign emails to Gmail spam folders in an extension of the company’s “discriminatory” filtering practices. “At approximately the same time at the end of each month, Google sends to spam nearly all of the RNC’s emails,” the complaint claims. “Critically, and suspiciously, this end of the month period…

Nokia already pushed Oppo and OnePlus (both part of BBK Electronics) out of the German market over patent infringements after the court ruled out two consecutive lawsuits in favor of the Finnish company. According to a new report, Nokia is now suing Oppo in Australia over the violation of Nokia's SEP (Service Enablement Platform) that cover 4G and 5G technologies. The German court halted Oppo's sales on the same basis, so we might see the same denouement in Australia and other markets. Nokia is currently suing Oppo…

It’s tough to be safe on the mobile market. There are several apps that you should not download if you want to maintain your privacy and security. Case and point, Meta has filed a lawsuit against a handful of app developers it believes to have stolen the data from millions of WhatsApp users.This Meta lawsuit is against three companies in particularThe tech giant has its eye on three companies (HeyMods, Highlight Mobi, and HeyWhatsApp), and they all develop unofficial WhatsApp apps for the Google Play Store. Not only that…

MM(n)O Publisher Atlus has taken the somewhat brutish step of filing suit against a party of Shin Megami Tensei fans who allegedly created an unofficial server for the now-defunct SMT MMO, Imagine. In related news, a fan server, titled “ReImagine” has been operating since 2020, but has now, understandably, been taken offline. The suit was initially spotted by Twitter user “Marsh”. According to the lawsuit, (viewable here at CourtListener) Atlus is seeking around $25,000 per copyright violation, citing the “irreparable…

Nearly two years after leasing space in the 35-story Confluence apartment complex, and after investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a Korean barbecue restaurant that never opened, local restaurateurs say they are being evicted due to a clerical error. They’re asking a judge to put a stop to that. The Hwaro restaurant group has leased four spaces around the metro area in recent years. Hwaro Premium Sushi opened this year at the base of the Millennium Bridge and another Hwaro sushi restaurant is planned for Wheat…

Arm is suing Qualcomm and Nuvia, a startup the chipmaker acquired in 2021, claiming that the companies violated the licenses they have to use Arm’s processor designs and architecture (via Reuters). Arm’s argument is that the licenses it gave Nuvia before it was acquired aren’t valid now that it’s under new ownership. If Arm wins its suit, Qualcomm could be forced to destroy any work it’s done with the particular licenses in question — a significant setback for its ambitions to create desktop and server chips using…

Photo: Thomas Lohnes (Getty Images)Moderna and Pfizer are set to wage legal battle over the technology that led to their respective covid-19 vaccines. Moderna is now suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for the alleged infringement of patents related to the development of a viable mRNA vaccine platform that Moderna claims to have pioneered. Though the Massachusetts-based company is seeking financial compensation, the lawsuits aren’t expected to affect the current or future availability of Pfizer’s vaccines.Moderna…

Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech over alleged infringement of its mRNA vaccine technology patents, the company announced today. “We are filing these lawsuits to protect the innovative mRNA technology platform that we pioneered, invested billions of dollars in creating, and patented during the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Moderna chief executive officer Stéphane Bancel in a statement. Moderna said in 2020 that it would not enforce its patents during the pandemic to allow for an unhindered public…

A California administrative agency has declined to review Tesla Inc's claim that the state's civil rights watchdog suing the company for race bias at an assembly plant is rushing to sue businesses without conducting full investigations. California's Office of Administrative Law in a letter denied Tesla's petition, filed in June, to determine whether the Department of Civil Rights (DCR) had adopted "underground regulations" that flout requirements it must meet before suing employers. The letter obtained by Reuters is dated…

In February, when the Def Con hacker conference released its annual transparency report, the public learned that one of the most prominent figures in the field of social engineering had been permanently banned from attending. For years, Chris Hadnagy had enjoyed a high-profile role as the leader of the conference’s social engineering village. But Def Con’s transparency report stated that there had been multiple reports of him violating the conference’s code of conduct. In response, Def Con banned Hadnagy from the…