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March 16, 2026
U.S. Senate Democrats have called on Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr to resign for warning the FCC could pull broadcast licenses over news organizations' coverage of the Iran war, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling the agency chief's comment "vindictive, fascist stuff."
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March 16, 2026
A New York federal judge has dismissed a suit accusing an artificial-intelligence-based call center software maker of patent infringement, finding the asserted patent was invalid under the Supreme Court's Alice test.
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March 16, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI puts profits above all else by knowingly serving pedophiles who use the Grok generative artificial intelligence platform to transform ordinary photographs of children into child sexual abuse material they can trade with other predators across the internet, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court.
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March 16, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has dismissed Trustybell GmbH's suit accusing a digital notarization company of infringing its patent for video identity verification, saying it does not meet eligibility requirements.
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March 13, 2026
AT&T says it would be a bad idea for the Federal Communications Commission to make new rules requiring companies to deploy caller ID authentication methods that don't rely on internet-based networks, since the industry is working hard to move away from non-IP networks.
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March 13, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Thursday refused to invalidate five wireless charging patents that a jury found Samsung had infringed and that were the basis of a $192 million damages award.
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March 13, 2026
EchoStar should have set aside some of the $40 billion it plans to make from spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX to repay the companies who were supposed to be building Dish Network's 5G network, which EchoStar and Dish have now abandoned, a think tank has told the FCC.
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March 13, 2026
A voice service provider can no longer send call traffic through U.S. networks after originating and failing to block unwanted robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said.
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March 13, 2026
Connecticut lawmakers are one-third of the way through the state's three-month legislative session, and already, bills targeting social media, artificial intelligence, prediction markets, private equity and hospital ownership are stacking up at the statehouse.
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March 13, 2026
A mobile provider will shell out $60,000 and set up a compliance plan after acknowledging it violated the Federal Communications Commission's international common carrier rules by not securing an FCC authorization before selling services.
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March 12, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday scrapped part of an injunction halting a groundbreaking California law requiring social media platforms to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that the tech trade group behind the lawsuit wasn't likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge to the statute's coverage definition and age estimation mandate.
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March 12, 2026
The plaintiff's attorney in a bellwether trial accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC of harming children's mental health encouraged a California jury during closing arguments Thursday not to buy the defendants' focus on his client's difficult childhood, saying it only weakened her to their social media "addiction machine" like a vulnerable gazelle being hunted by lions.
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March 12, 2026
On the heels of the New York attorney general's accusations that Washington-based Valve Corp. promotes illegal gambling through its popular video game franchises, gamers filed two putative class actions in Seattle federal court similarly targeting the entertainment giant's use of "loot boxes."
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March 12, 2026
Broadcasters have a lot on their plates as they move to the next TV standard, but chief among their worries will be protecting content from piracy, a security group formed by the major networks told the Federal Communications Commission.
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March 12, 2026
Sprawling artificial intelligence data centers will require larger shares of U.S. energy consumption in the coming years, but telecom networks also need more capacity and resilience if the U.S. wants to fuel an AI boom, a think tank said Thursday.
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March 12, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has found that modified versions of Innoscience's semiconductor chips no longer infringe an Efficient Power Conversion patent, after the U.S. International Trade Commission blocked infringing imports.
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March 12, 2026
Technology company Lenovo unlawfully sent marketing text messages early in the morning to potentially thousands of people and might owe up to $1,500 in damages for each unwanted solicitation, according to a putative class action in California federal court.
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March 12, 2026
Dish Network is pushing back on a bid from the Walt Disney Co. to pause discovery for Dish's antitrust counterclaims over the programming giant's carriage licensing deals.
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March 12, 2026
The CEO and board members of internet service provider Cogent Communications Holdings Inc. face shareholder derivative claims the CEO improperly collateralized his commercial real estate portfolio with his stake in the company, causing trading prices to plummet when he was forced to sell off those shares amid financial distress.
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March 12, 2026
The U.S. Space Force has terminated its $1.4 billion contract with AeroVironment to deliver new antenna systems to support the agency's satellite communications augmentation resource program, after the contract was put on hold earlier this year.
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March 12, 2026
The owner of a broadcasting company whose deal to sell $75 million in assets fell through is headed to settlement negotiations with the federal government over $18 million in taxes related to his father's estate, according to Michigan federal court filings.
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March 12, 2026
The European Union's top antitrust official said Thursday that bloc enforcers are casting a wide net as they look at the ways artificial intelligence companies may try to anticompetitively boost themselves over rivals, including underlying training models and needed power and cloud computing infrastructure.
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March 11, 2026
A Maryland-based internet service provider was not up front with the Federal Communications Commission about the details surrounding a permitting dispute when it came to the agency to ask it to preempt local regulations and allow it to move forward with a new utility pole and attachments without them, an Old Line State county says.
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March 11, 2026
Verizon will not be allowed to reopen an old beef with FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co. over pole attachment rates at the Federal Communications Commission, which just denied the telecom behemoth's request to return to the matter.
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March 11, 2026
Wisconsin Bell will pay $55 million to end long-running False Claims Act whistleblower claims accusing the company of overcharging public schools and libraries for internet services paid for by the government under the federal E-rate program, bringing almost 18 years of litigation to an end.