I was 12 years old when he killed a family acquaintance who lived two blocks away from our family home. I’m relieved that the surviving family member was able to address the court and get closure after 45 years.
It’s jarring to hear that some police feel that even hitting people is a cruelty they cannot bear, compared to the security forces (or even our own Little Green Men…referencing the Navy vet in Portland).
That’s ride on time: Lyft, Uber to continue taxi app service in Cali after appeals court hits pause on AB5 brouhaha
A California appeals court judge has granted a down-to-the-wire emergency stay on an injunction ordering Uber and Lyft to reclassify their ride-hailing app drivers as employees.
Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers
As Uber’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan broke the law by hushing up the theft of millions of people’s details from the app maker’s databases by hackers, prosecutors say.
Sullivan, 52, formerly of eBay, Facebook, and PayPal, was today charged with obstruction of justice and misprision – concealing knowledge of a crime from law enforcement – by the US District Attorney for Northern California, an office he briefly worked for back in the day. These come with potentially five and three-year prison sentences, respectively, and a fine of up to $250,000 apiece.
Apple hits back at Epic, says Fortnite crew wants a ‘free ride’ on fees: Let the app store death match commence
Fallwell’s pool boy thing has hit the fan:
Updated Made-in-China social network TikTok has decided to challenge the Trump administration’s looming ban on its service by taking the matter to the USA’s courts.
Epic move: Judge says Apple can’t revoke Unreal Engine dev tools, asks ‘Where does the 30 per cent come from?’
A federal US judge questioned why Apple takes a 30 per cent slice of developer revenues as she ruled that while Apple cannot cut off Epic’s access to iOS Unreal Engine development tools, she would not order the company to allow Fortnite to return to the App Store.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer, who took the top job on June 1, has told staff he will quit the company.
ETA:
Here’s some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise
With TikTok under increasing pressure to offload its American operations, or be banned from the States by President Trump, the suitors are lining up.
Oracle is apparently the front-runner to acquire the US side of TikTok by offering $20bn in cash and stocks, according to showbiz news sheet The Wrap. We’re told the database software giant is prepared to cough up $10bn in cash and $10bn in Oracle shares, and give the vid-sharing app’s Chinese owner ByteDance half of the US operation’s profits for the next two years.
They said they were going to do it, and they did it.
According to Bloomberg, Apple has officially terminated Epic Games’s App Store developer account after promising to do so, which means the Fortnite maker’s games—and more importantly, updates for existing games like Fortnite—are no more, at least on iOS.
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of controversial social network TikTok, has signalled it will comply with China’s new technology export control laws.
The company used one of its Chinese networks – Toutiao – to say it “will strictly abide” by Chinese law.
As The Register reported yesterday, China updated its export control laws to include “personalized information push service technology based on data analysis” and “artificial intelligence interactive interface technology”. TikTok is thought to use both, which would complicate the sale of its US operations to either a Microsoft/Walmart consortium or an Oracle-led bid.
Makes sense, this does, says US appeals court as it swats away Oracle’s protests in $10bn JEDI contract spat
The ongoing JEDI pantomime took another turn today [PDF] as Oracle’s challenges to the handling of the winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract were rejected by a US appeals court.
As I’ve always said: they’re not worried China will have your personal data so much as that they won’t.
