SCOTUS Narrows Anti-Hacking Law
The Supreme Court on Monday restricted the scope of a federal anti-hacking law, with the majority of justices saying the government's "breathtaking" interpretation of the statute could make criminals of "millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens."
On Friday, TSM, a competitive video game organization based in Los Angeles, announced that it was changing its name to TSM FTX -- and getting paid $210 million over 10 years in the process. FTX, an up-and-coming Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, will foot the bill. The annual $21 million payment is larger than many deals corporations have struck with traditional sports teams in recent decades to have their names attached to stadiums and arenas.
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded the alarm on ransomware in stark terms by likening the challenge posed by the recent spate of damaging cyber attacks on the US to the September 11 terrorist attacks, calling for a similar response. His remarks come as officials across government have tried to step up the urgency of the response to the problem after back-to-back ransomware incidents exposed the vulnerability of critical industries in the United States.
A Texas-based conspiracy extremist being sued for defamation by a group of Sandy Hook families in Connecticut has three weeks to give families long-overdue pretrial documents or face possible sanctions including a default judgment against him.
Facebook on Friday announced that it may allow former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts to be reinstated in January 2023.
The standoff between two factions of the Multnomah County [Oregon] Republican Party -- one of which has openly aligned itself with the Proud Boys -- is growing increasingly bizarre.
President Biden has ruled out creating a presidential commission to investigate the January 6 assault on the Capitol because he believes Congress should be the one to investigate, according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
And while a forthcoming unclassified version [of the report], expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomenon observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.
A former government official who shared confidential bank documents with a journalist, sparking a global investigation into illicit money flows, was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison by a United States federal judge.
A giant sinkhole that was expanding by dozens of meters each day has alarmed residents in a rural area of central Mexico where it was threatening to swallow a house. When the Sanchez family heard a loud crash on Saturday they first thought that it was a lightning strike. But they soon discovered that the ground had collapsed just meters from their home in a field in Santa Maria Zacatepec in the state of Puebla
Caroline Haskins
