Tag: Lawsuit’s

06 JAN

Intel faces class action lawsuits regarding Meltdown and Spectre

Enlarge / An Intel CPU. (credit: Mark Walton) Three class action complaints have been filed against Intel over the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws that were discovered by researchers earlier this year and widely publicized earlier this week. The three lawsuits—filed in California, Indiana, and Oregon (PDF)—cite not just the security vulnerabilities and their […]

05 JAN

Intel faces multiple lawsuits over chip security vulnerabilities

Intel is already facing multiple lawsuits over the chip security flaws revealed earlier this week. Gizmodo reports that three have been filed so far — in California, Oregon and Indiana. All three are class action complaints and note Intel’s delay in disclosing the vulnerabilities — it new about them for months — as well as […]

31 DEC

Lawsuits, lies, and Colombian prisons: The downfall of two wildly successful tech entrepreneurs

Getty Images Prominent tech entrepreneurs Omar Amanat and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman were found guilty on numerous accounts of fraudulent charges in their dealings with former video management company KIT digital.  Both Amanat and Tuzman have led successful but controversial entrepreneurial careers — and their guilty verdict marks a striking fall from prominence.    For the past […]

23 DEC

Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount

Enlarge / An iPhone 6’s battery, courtesy of iFixit. (credit: iFixit) Since news broke that Apple deliberately slows down the processor speed of iPhones as they age, the company has now been sued three times in various federal courts nationwide. These proposed class-action lawsuits allege largely the same thing: that over time certain iPhones exhibited […]

22 DEC

Apple faces two lawsuits over intentional iPhone slowdowns

Well that was quick. Just two days after Apple admitted that it intentionally slowed down older iPhones with older batteries (to prevent sudden unexpected shutdowns), the company is being sued. Both suits claim that Apple does this to force customers into a shortened upgrade cycle. The Atlas Consumer Law group in Chicago claims that Apple […]

08 DEC

Europe is seeing more collective lawsuits from shareholders

LIKE the ghosts that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge, the scandals of years past—summoned up by angry shareholders—will not let companies rest. In Britain this year, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid £900m ($ 1.2bn) to settle a long-running investor lawsuit related to the bank’s behaviour at the time of the financial crisis of 2007-08. Also […]

23 NOV

Uber hit with 2 lawsuits over gigantic 2016 data breach

Enlarge (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the 48 hours since the explosive revelations that Uber sustained a massive data breach in 2016, two separate proposed class-action lawsuits have been filed in different federal courts across California. The cases allege substantial negligence on Uber’s part: plaintiffs say the company failed to keep safe the […]

21 NOV

Hundreds of victims of Las Vegas shooting file 5 lawsuits in Los Angeles

Published time: 21 Nov, 2017 05:01 On Monday, hundreds of victims of the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, filed five lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court in California. The suits target the operators of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, the organizers of the country music festival, and the estate of shooter Stephen Paddock. […]