“CNN reports on a wide-ranging class action lawsuit claiming Google scraped and misused data to train its AI systems,” writes long-time Slashdot reader david.emery. “This goes to the heart of what can be done with information that is available over the…

Uber Eats, DoorDash, and GrubHub filed lawsuits on Thursday seeking to strike down New York City’s minimum wage law for delivery workers. The New York Times reports: Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub on Thursday each filed a request for a temporary restrainin…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Globe and Mail: A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text m…

Apple said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a judge’s order in the antitrust case filed by Epic Games, the creator of “Fortnite.” The order, issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, largely upheld a previous ruling that prohibits Ap…

After a three-year pause, U.S. student loan repayments are set to resume on October 1st — just three months from today. But CNN reports that yesterday America’s Supreme Court “struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, bl…

Two U.S. authors have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that the company infringed their copyrights by using their works without permission to train its generative AI system, ChatGPT. The plaintiffs, Massachusetts-based wri…

In a landmark ruling (PDF) on Thursday, the New Jersey Supreme Court sided with Facebook in a major court decision that requires prosecutors to get a wiretap order if they want to eavesdrop on social media accounts without adequate evidence of a crime….

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that in order to find someone guilty of making a “true threat” courts must first determine that the person recklessly disregarded the fact that their words might be perceived as threats. From a report: Experts fear the d…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US judge has fined two lawyers and a law firm $5,000 after fake citations generated by ChatGPT were submitted in a court filing. A district judge in Manhattan ordered Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuc…

The US Supreme Court sided with a Coinbase unit in a ruling that reinforces the ability of companies to channel customer and employee disputes into arbitration. From a report: The justices, voting 5-4, ruled that lawsuits filed in federal court must be…