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  1. House lawmaker sues to reverse Missouri Supreme Court decision to block GOP-friendly congressional map

    Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) is leading a lawsuit aimed at reversing the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision last week…
    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Gerrymandering #Headlines #Lawsuits #MidtermElections(2026) #Missouri #Politics #SupremeCourt #TopStories #USNews #us-house-of-representatives
    newsbeep.com/723190/

  2. Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/engadget-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/
  3. Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/engadget-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/
  4. Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/engadget-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/
  5. Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/engadget-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/
  6. Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/engadget-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/
  7. Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/investing-com-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-ai-training/
  8. Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/investing-com-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-ai-training/
  9. Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/investing-com-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-ai-training/
  10. Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/investing-com-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-ai-training/
  11. Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/investing-com-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-ai-training/
  12. Lawsuit claims missed red flags before San Diego mosque mass shooting

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just days before two teenagers carried out a mass shooting at a San Diego…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CalebVazquez #California #Crime #Generalnews #Gunviolence #Lawsuits #Legalproceedings #Mentalhealth #Raceandethnicity #Religion #SanDiego #Schoolshootings #Shootings #Teens #U.S.FederalBureauofInvestigation #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Violence
    newsbeep.com/721024/

  13. The Guardian: It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta. “Ushering in hope for the future of technology requires changing Meta’s leadership now, so that the future is collectively imagined and built upon a new reputation and commitment. Zuckerberg does not deserve another chance simply because he can afford it. We as a society ultimately pay for his mistakes. Now is the time for […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/the-guardian-its-time-for-mark-zuckerberg-to-resign-from-meta/
  14. OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting

    Edelson PC, the law firm that filed seven lawsuits against OpenAI in April on behalf of victims and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ChrisLehane #Lawsuits #massshooting #OpenAI #TumblerRidge #World
    newsbeep.com/717914/

  15. OpenAI slapped with 30 additional lawsuits bringing the total to 37 filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting.

    OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter’s account to executives eight months before the attack and OpenAI banned her account, but she was able to quickly create a new one, the suits claim. theguardian.com/world/2026/sep #OpenAI #Lawsuits #Canada #TumblerRidge #MassShooting #AISafety #Safety #SocialMedia #AI

  16. Freedom Fuel stations sold gas a distributor says went unpaid for

    A Freedom Fuel Network gas station in Dresher, Pa., on Friday, July 10, 2026. Matt Rourke | AP…
    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #BreakingNews:Business #BreakingNews:Politics #Business #businessnews #Courtdecisions #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #Energy #Headlines #Laws #Lawsuits #Politics #Retailindustry #TopStories
    newsbeep.com/712098/

  17. The Guardian: Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers. “The star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms to young users. ‘The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/30/the-guardian-key-witness-in-meta-trial-says-terms-of-settlement-insufficient-to-halt-apps-harms-to-teenagers/
  18. Mother Jones: The Tate Brothers’ Lawyer Is on an Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their Release. “[Joseph] McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/16/mother-jones-the-tate-brothers-lawyer-is-on-an-aggressive-ai-riddled-quest-to-win-their-release/
  19. New York Times: A TV Judge and an R&B Singer Fought Online Trolls. They Didn’t Get Far.. “The attention economy, the Lattimores found, is structured to reward the most eye-catching claims, allowing sensationalist but baseless narratives to spread and perpetually resurrect with little resistance from social media platforms. Their grueling, 16-month lesson in modern disinformation underscored […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/02/new-york-times-a-tv-judge-and-an-rb-singer-fought-online-trolls-they-didnt-get-far/
  20. Music Business Worldwide: Sony Music sues Udio again, asserting over 30,000 recordings a judge barred the major from adding to its original case. “Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 sound recordings it says the AI music company copied without permission to train its generative AI models. The complaint, obtained and first […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/21/music-business-worldwide-sony-music-sues-udio-again-asserting-over-30000-recordings-a-judge-barred-the-major-from-adding-to-its-original-case/
  21. Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/17/associated-press-youtube-joins-meta-in-appealing-a-jury-verdict-that-faulted-them-for-users-social-media-addiction/
  22. The Register: Startup sues Palo Alto Networks’ Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage. “The legal complaint filed against Koi Security, its researchers, and Palo Alto Networks alleges that Koi used an LLM to generate the threat report, the AI system hallucinated findings about MeetingTV, and the security shop then published those as facts in a […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/the-register-startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/
  23. Politico: Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter stock disclosures. “Elon Musk has struck a settlement deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a 2025 lawsuit tied to the billionaire’s purchases of Twitter stock three years earlier, according to a court filing. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s revocable trust will pay $1.5 million to settle the case, without admitting or […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/05/politico-elon-musk-settles-sec-lawsuit-over-twitter-stock-disclosures/
  24. Weird as it sounds, I think we need an actual law, like some kind of bill of rights, that says you can't notify me on my phone without offering me highly fine-tuned control of each kind of message.

    Notifications intrude into my life. Sometimes my phone is on waiting for emergencies or other high-priority issues while I sleep. If a friend wakes me, I can have them dialed up or down in priority.

    But Android is designed so Audible won't let me have control of my audiobooks in the lock screen without notifications turned on, yet once I've done that, Audible has no compunction against advertising new book releases in the middle of the night via notifications. I should be able to get cash compensation in court for that.

    And my USB-C cable, once I plug it into my Android phone insists on randomly popping up an utterly inscrutible notification saying "you need to log in if you want to see notifications", or some such, and then when I do there is no notification to see. It was just random.

    And Android Auto likes to give me two completely pointless notifications, one when I plug my phone into the car and one saying Android Auto is available. The first one I don't need a notification about because I just plugged in my phone. But more importantly, the second one is a lie. Android Auto MIGHT be available and it confirms nothing. The handshake may have been done wrong, so all it tells me is the thing I know already, which is that Android Auto is on the phone. But I might have to pull the plug and replug it to be properly connected. So the notification is worse than pointless and just floods my screen with stuff I don't care about that appears to need immediate attention. And then Android asks, as soon as I disconnect it, how my experience was. I always say "Bad" because part of my experience is getting asked that pesky message that I do not want and would happily say "never do this".

    These all seem like technical problems, but they are not. They are reminders that we no longer control our lives, that companies can, at a whim, intrude into our lives with pointless rituals that whittle away our existence. I'm not being metaphorical when I say we need laws on this. I absolutely mean that if we don't write strong law on this, it will only get worse. Or we need to enforce the 4th Amendment on a theory, like Larry Lessig has effectively said in the past, that programmatic code is effectively a kind of government that binds us and our choices in life as surely as legal code does.

    But what DO we get laws about? Having to login to use an operating system so they can track us better, know who we are and where we are at every moment. We need laws against such laws.

    #marketing #notifications #android #ui #ux #settings #design #QualityOfLife #computers #LockScreen #permissions #law #legal #lawsuits #ClassAction #rights #HumanRights #BillOfRights #identity #intrusion #interruption #4thAmendment #government #code

  25. Kotaku: A Woman Is Suing MrBeast’s Company For Alleged Sexual Harassment And Verbal Abuse. “A woman who previously worked at Beast Industries, the company behind MrBeast’s popular YouTube channel, has filed a lawsuit against the YouTuber’s company claiming she was sexually harassed, verbally abused, and fired after returning from maternity leave. The company says it has extensive evidence […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/kotaku-a-woman-is-suing-mrbeasts-company-for-alleged-sexual-harassment-and-verbal-abuse/
  26. Arkansas Times: Saline County sheriff hopeful sues over lurid Facebook accusations. “Richard Friend, who is the chief of police in England, is in a runoff for the Saline County sheriff’s position. He filed suit on March 10 in Saline County Circuit Court against Kevin Cooper, Rick Cross and ‘John Does 1-5,’ saying they falsely accused him of corruption, theft and abuse of authority, among […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/arkansas-times-saline-county-sheriff-hopeful-sues-over-lurid-facebook-accusations/
  27. Courthouse News Service: Media watchdog withdraws its suit against X. “A nonprofit media watchdog and the social media giant X filed to dismiss the current cases between the two entities Thursday, after a year of litigation that at one point made it to the Ninth Circuit in December.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/16/courthouse-news-service-media-watchdog-withdraws-its-suit-against-x/