FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business (arstechnica.com)
Amazon to be accused of punishing sellers who don't use its fulfillment services.
Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)
Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)
It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.
AT&T says lead cables in Lake Tahoe “pose no danger” and should stay in place (arstechnica.com)
AT&T's legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing.
Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill (arstechnica.com)
Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.
State Dept. cancels election meetings with Facebook after “free speech” ruling (arstechnica.com)
The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ordered the government to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies. President Biden and the other federal defendants in the case "hereby appeal" the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice filed in US...
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses” (arstechnica.com)
Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company (arstechnica.com)
The "first official Unity user group in the world" has announced that it is dissolving after 13 years because "the trust we used to have in the company has been completely eroded." The move comes as many developers are saying they will continue to stay away from the company's products even after last week's partial rollback of...
NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens (arstechnica.com)
NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on September 14, 2023....
Google hid evidence by training workers to avoid words monopolists use, DOJ says (arstechnica.com)
The Department of Justice kicked off its antitrust trial against Google this week by presenting evidence that Google allegedly hid monopolistic behaviors not just by auto-deleting four years of chats, but also by training employees to avoid using certain words in office communications.
Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods (arstechnica.com)
Harris Wolobah, a healthy 14-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, tragically died last Friday, hours after eating a single ultra-spicy tortilla chip seasoned with two of the hottest peppers in the world.
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission's chief administrative law judge ruled that Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising and should be forced to stop promoting TurboTax as "free" unless all conditions imposed on the free offer are immediately and conspicuously displayed to consumers.
The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction (arstechnica.com)
Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card (arstechnica.com)
Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.
Flipper Zero gadget is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop (arstechnica.com)
No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth.
Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? (arstechnica.com)
Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.
Big ISPs will dominate $42B grant fund if rules aren’t changed, advocates say (arstechnica.com)
Upfront grant costs are "too steep for all butThe biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local...
Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo (arstechnica.com)
There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. “Space is big,” he writes. “You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to...
No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction (arstechnica.com)
People who underwent gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgeries as adults have virtually no regrets years later and overwhelmingly high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery.
Baldur’s Gate 3 early impressions: You’ll spend whole weeks in here and love it (arstechnica.com)
Another remarkable feat of a streamlined tabletop experience by Larian Studios.
Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A federal court on Saturday quashed a subpoena demanding users' names and other identifying details, agreeing with Reddit's argument that the film companies' demands violate the First Amendment....
Google’s head of AR software quits, citing “unstable commitment and vision” (arstechnica.com)
Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) (arstechnica.com)
Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
