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LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For
Karl Bode, Techdirt
If your product is even a third as innovative and useful as you claim it is, you shouldn’t have to go around trying a little too hard to convince people. The product’s usefulness should speak for itself. And you definitely shouldn’t be forcing people to use p…
Dec 24, 2025, 9:33 PM
Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins)
Karl Bode, Techdirt
If you’ve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wouldn’t even let you use a competing GPS mapping app, locking you to V…
Dec 23, 2025, 9:09 PM
21 Democratic-led states sue White House over consumer protection bureau funding
KEN SWEET, Yahoo Entertainment
A coalition of 21 attorneys general from Democratic-led states sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought, on Monday...
Dec 22, 2025, 9:38 PM
This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal
Chris Arnold, NPR
A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it.
Dec 2, 2025, 10:00 AM
This Xbox Series X Best Buy deal (no, seriously) throws in a $100 gift card for Cyber Monday — hurry if you want to save
samuelwtolbert@gmail.com (Samuel Tolbert) , Samuel Tolbert, Windows Central
A Cyber Monday deal at Best Buy will net you a $100 gift card when you buy an Xbox Series X, making it easily the best deal on an Xbox console this season.
Dec 1, 2025, 8:27 PM
Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals, experts warn
Mark Hachman, PCWorld
This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month. …
Nov 26, 2025, 8:28 PM
Amazon to face growing boycott from angry consumers amid holidays
Patricia Battle, TheStreet
Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, is currently benefiting from growing demand, despite increasing economic concerns among consumers...
Nov 26, 2025, 3:03 AM
Prices increase as Americans prepare for Thanksgiving
Andy Hirschfeld, Al Jazeera English
Despite White House claims, prices on key staples are on the rise, including cranberry sauce and potatoes.
Nov 25, 2025, 6:53 PM
Meta Allegedly Profited by $16B From Scam Ads. US Senators Demand FTC, SEC Probe
Macy Meyer, CNET
The lawmakers say Meta's platforms may be implicated in "about a third of all US scams" and linked to more than $50 billion in consumer losses last year.
Nov 24, 2025, 10:16 PM
Experts: Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals
Mark Hachman, PCWorld
This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month. …
Nov 20, 2025, 11:30 AM
After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
Karl Bode, Techdirt
It’s not hyperbole to say that after decades of hard work and lobbying, companies like AT&T have effectively destroyed whatever was left of federal U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight. It’s a “victory” that’s going to result in concussive harms t…
Nov 14, 2025, 1:32 PM
Texas attorney general sues Tylenol makers over autism claims
BBC News
He accuses them of hiding alleged dangers from the drug, following the Trump administration's unproven claim it is linked to autism.
Oct 28, 2025, 2:52 PM
Broadband Monopolies Are Mad Because California Won’t Let Them Rip Off Apartment Dwellers
Karl Bode, Techdirt
California this week signed a new law that tries to prevent your landlord and broadband ISP from teaming up and preventing you from using broadband competitors. Starting January 1, AB1414 requires that landlords “allow the tenant to opt out of paying for any …
Oct 17, 2025, 12:21 PM
If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.
Oct 13, 2025, 5:30 PM
America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That’s literally not something people in most serious countries have to deal with. Yet we’ve …
Oct 8, 2025, 12:28 PM
A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration's efforts to merge personal data
Jude Joffe-Block, NPR
A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violates privacy laws and the Constitution.
Sep 30, 2025, 8:11 PM
Why is everyone buying groceries in bulk? BI's Steve Russolillo unpacks Costco's chokehold on America.
Steve Russolillo, Business Insider
In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about America's Costco craze. BI's Steve Russolillo doesn't get the hype.
Sep 28, 2025, 10:44 AM
Verizon Remains On The Legal Hook For Illegally Spying On You And Selling Your Movement Data (For Now)
Karl Bode, Techdirt
For decades, major U.S. wireless providers have collected sensitive customer movement and location data (often down to the meter), then sold it to a long list of random dipshits — usually without bothering to clearly inform customers or get their consent. Fiv…
Sep 26, 2025, 4:30 PM
Amazon Will Pay Up $2.5 Billion in Settlement Over Allegedly Tricking People Into Prime Subscriptions
Bruce Gil, Gizmodo.com
Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty—the largest ever in an FTC rule-violation case—and provide $1.5 billion in refunds to customers.
Sep 25, 2025, 5:50 PM
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle claims about deceptive Prime practices
Brent D. Griffiths, Business Insider
The FTC announced that the company will pay $1.5 billion in customer refunds.
Sep 25, 2025, 4:04 PM
Disney sure picked a terrible time to raise prices
Emma Roth, The Verge
Disney is in a tangled web of its own making. In just one week, the entertainment giant managed to anger both sides of the political spectrum, and then topped it all off with a Disney Plus price hike that made just about everyone mad. Now, Disney's facing cri…
Sep 24, 2025, 2:14 PM
Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial
Alina Selyukh, NPR
The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.
Sep 23, 2025, 9:01 AM
A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime -- and made it hard to leave
GENE JOHNSON and SALLY HO, Yahoo Entertainment
A federal trial beginning in Amazon's hometown this week is set to examine whether the online retailing giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime...
Sep 22, 2025, 8:20 PM
The Trump Admin Is Suing Amazon for Tricking People Into Prime Subscriptions. Here’s How That Might Affect You
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
The FTC is claiming that Amazon made cancelling a subscription tough on purpose.
Sep 22, 2025, 7:10 PM