Apple pays France €500 million to cover a decade of back taxes
Paris has been urging other EU states to more heavily tax Silicon Valley giants.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has made the world better
Opinion: Facebook celebrates 15 years of impact—much of which is negative.
Prosecutors: Two men used SIM swapping to extort cryptocurrency
A third suspect was found to have a file on his computer: "Hacker Sh—t!"
Remember the woman who was killed by an Uber AV? Her family sued Tempe
Lawsuit claims city was liable for its design of a particular median.
Man who stole $5M in cryptocurrency via SIM swap pleads guilty
Prosecutors: Joel Ortiz tricked mobile firms, fraudulently transferred phone numbers.
Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
Court: FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm to broadband access.
Boy arrested for “joking” about shooting up school on social media
Screenshot showed Siri suggesting nearby schools—cops say threat wasn't credible.
In Estonia, students’ transit, school meals, and textbooks are all free
Mailis Reps: "I would still like to see a still more individual approach to all learners."
Here’s what the Sacklers didn’t want you to see in the OxyContin lawsuit
From 2007 to 2018, the Sacklers paid themselves more than $4B from opioid sales.
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.
UAE buys its way toward supremacy in Gulf cyberwar, using US and Israeli experts
UAE hired ex-NSA employees to build a spying operation possibly targeting US citizens, others.
Court dismisses Defense Distributed’s lawsuit over New Jersey “ghost gun” law
Judge avoids central question of whether NJ law barring gun file sales was constitutional.
Apple, Facebook spat is over, for now—iOS certificate access restored
Spokesman: "We are in the process of getting our internal apps up and running."
Feds secretly ship plutonium to Nevada to meet South Carolina court order
The government shipped the material before Nevada requested an injunction.
Facebook nukes hundreds of “inauthentic” accounts “tied to Iran”
"We're not in a position to directly assert who the actor is in this case."
