Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit that's changing how Android app stores work in the…
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Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as report…
New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide …
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
States make last-ditch effort to stop the Paramount ‘media behemoth’
A dozen state attorneys general are trying to block the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery they warn would raise movie prices …
States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."
Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
The amendment would restrict building codes that promote electrification.
Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe
The European Union is weighing sweeping new restrictions on children's and teenagers' access to social media, including age limits, an outright ban, a…
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Rot…
Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rayfield also asked …
White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of…
ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers
Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and ki…
Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban
Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones…
Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers
Six years in prison for man who "sold out the very victims he was hired to represent."
ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting
Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican im…
Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks
The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mob…
Instagram and Facebook will likely require a redesign after EU rules they’re ‘addictive’
Meta is in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), a preliminary investigation has found, over the "addictive" design of Instagram and Facebook…
Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it
Judge reluctantly approves $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter stock violation.
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’
About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a "limited prev…
ICE agents are making house calls for online critics
A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Str…
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws
Kalshi tried to ignore gambling laws on its prediction market, NY governor says.
Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
But the devices could "easily be reflashed."
Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan
Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
Texas win at 5th Circuit left in place as attempts to overturn age law continue.