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Swedish multinational tech giant Ericsson pled guilty this week to bribery and agreed to pay the Department of Justice $206 million dollars. Federal prosecutors accused Ericsson of engaging in a long-running international corruption scheme that involved bribing government officials, falsifying records, and failing to…

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A Washington woman with tuberculosis who has refused treatment for over a year is set to be arrested as a result. According to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, the woman had repeatedly disobeyed court orders to stay isolated until she completed treatment. A local judge has now issued a warrant for her…

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America’s oldest law enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals Service, is in a bit of security trouble. The federal police agency was targeted by ransomware hackers earlier this month in an episode that officials are saying involved a significant amount of “sensitive” data. Just how bad is this? While details are thin,…

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While FTX collapsed just a few months ago, the fallout of the defunct crypto exchange is still developing.

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Ozy CEO and co-founder, Carlos Watson, was arrested on Thursday for conspiring to commit securities fraud and conspiring to commit wire fraud. His arrest comes just days after fellow co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Samir Rao and Suzee Han, Ozy’s former chief of staff, pleaded guilty to fraud charges.

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The future of online expression, as it’s currently understood, could come down to five hours of oral arguments held in the Supreme Court’s chambers this week. Justices heard from lawyers both attacking and defending Big Tech’s strongest legal shield: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v.

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U.S. Supreme Court justices may be many things, but they definitely aren’t social media experts. The justices roasted themselves during oral arguments Tuesday of a case against Google that could determine the fate of nearly all speech online. Tech companies and advocates fear a ruling against Google could…

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A group made up of 24-Republican led states has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a rule that decides which bodies of water receive federal protection. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in North Dakota this Thursday.