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IP/IT Law Academic - University of Edinburgh Law School

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Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.…

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

10.03.2026 14:11 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/

10.03.2026 15:00 👍 1762 🔁 291 💬 16 📌 21
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NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform The company's take on OpenClaw will likely be enterprise-focused.
10.03.2026 15:54 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

"SpaceX employees have been able to periodically sell stock options at private liquidity events, when SpaceX sought to raise money from the capital markets. Those shares will become even more valuable when the company goes public... ."

10.03.2026 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

10.03.2026 16:00 👍 1873 🔁 258 💬 47 📌 13
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Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts Rapid7 says crims compromised more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign page Cyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site of a US Senate candidate, turning them into launchpads for a global infostealer operation.…

Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts

10.03.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nintendo sues for full tariff refund after backlash over price hikes Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.
09.03.2026 18:28 👍 68 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

09.03.2026 19:04 👍 867 🔁 399 💬 166 📌 810
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down | TechCrunch Bluesky's board will search for a replacement while Graber becomes Chief Innovation Officer.

Bluesky's board will search for a replacement while Graber becomes Chief Innovation Officer.

09.03.2026 19:34 👍 60 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 12
Submissions | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society

✒️ Call for Papers!
Does your research engage with law, digital tech, IP, privacy, AI, data or society? We want to hear from you!
Submit through our new streamlined, transparent submission portal 👉 journals.ed.ac.uk/script-ed/ab...
No submission fees and peer-reviewed.
#CallForPapers #LawAndTech

09.03.2026 11:30 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"This is the complete commercial relationship database," Fulcrumsec wrote. "If you wanted to know exactly what Gibson Dunn pays for Lexis Advance, or what the SEC subscribes to, or which Newsdesk package the Ellen MacArthur Foundation uses – it is all here."

07.03.2026 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US state laws push age checks into the operating system Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS Many web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content. But now some US states want to require the operating system itself to check your age and that could cause big headaches for FOSS vendors.…

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

06.03.2026 15:18 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time, you are just expected to carry out the work."

06.03.2026 16:50 👍 61 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 7
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No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the places that have written variations of this headline, some which should quite honestly know better. Perhaps the most egregious example of this type of misinformation is…

No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted

If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the…

06.03.2026 16:15 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
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Il décide de devenir millionnaire pour échapper à l’impôt sur le revenu Lucien B. a eu une révélation : et s’il devenait millionnaire pour échapper à l’impôt sur le revenu ?

Il décide de devenir millionnaire pour échapper à l’impôt sur le revenu https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/05/il-decide-de-devenir-millionnaire-pour-echapper-a-limpot-sur-le-revenu/

05.03.2026 15:49 👍 395 🔁 137 💬 4 📌 7

"The Document Foundation says asking stakeholders to comment on CRA guidance using a proprietary spreadsheet format undermines the message."

06.03.2026 12:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has just published its report 'AI, copyright and the creative industries'. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

06.03.2026 05:22 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Law, Policy, and the Internet This innovative textbook edited by international experts in technology law and policy provides a comprehensive and accessible guide into the fast-evolving lands…

Wooo wooo ! you can now pre order and request inspection copies of Law Policy and the Internet, 2nd edn! w me, @mooseabyte.bsky.social and @cgoanta.bsky.social eds and an all star line up! Lots of AI but guaranteed no AI slop! Out August!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/law-polic...

06.03.2026 11:45 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…

ICYMI: LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go

03.03.2026 09:33 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

The findings have significant implications for online privacy, researchers say.

03.03.2026 20:15 👍 48 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 4

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

01.03.2026 05:20 👍 2641 🔁 1161 💬 30 📌 72
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Ford is recalling 4.3 million trucks and SUVs to fix a towing software bug An OTA update will be pushed out in a few weeks; owners can also go to a dealership.

Ford currently leads the NHTSA’s chart for recalls this year, with 10 on the books already—and its latest is a big one.

27.02.2026 18:24 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
The NFL Won A Lawsuit Over Its Bluesky Ban. Its Social Media Strategy Is Still A Loser Full disclosure up front: I sit on the board of Bluesky. That said, I had absolutely no idea this lawsuit existed until recently. Which, honestly, tells you something about how much of a legal non-event it was. But the underlying story here—about the NFL treating social media the way it treats television broadcast rights—is worth digging into, because it reveals something deeply broken about how major sports leagues think about the internet.

The NFL Won A Lawsuit Over Its Bluesky Ban. Its Social Media Strategy Is Still A Loser

Full disclosure up front: I sit on the board of Bluesky. That said, I had absolutely no idea this lawsuit existed until recently. Which, honestly, tells you something about how much of a legal non-event it was.…

27.02.2026 23:08 👍 63 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 7
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Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe Looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation’s anti-monopoly laws.…

FYI: Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe

28.02.2026 12:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

28.02.2026 21:11 👍 127 🔁 30 💬 10 📌 5

"[M]any companies are using open source repositories as if they were content delivery networks (CDNs). So, for example, a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next. This is unsustainable."

01.03.2026 13:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

👇A quick Friday reminder of the new online home of SCRIPTed, the journal of the @uoelawschool.bsky.social SCRIPT Centre. The archive carries all issues back to the journal's launch over 20 years ago in 2004. Do bear SCRIPTed in mind as a possible home for your next article commentary or book review!

27.02.2026 14:56 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Paris crowns Sri Lankan baker for best traditional baguette Sri Lankan‑born baker Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan was mobbed by congratulating customers on Friday (February 27) at his bakery in southern Paris, a day after winning the capital’s coveted best tradi...

www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

27.02.2026 20:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

On the complexe issue of joint-authorship, in this case in the context of academic articles.

01.03.2026 11:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The UK DPA has fined Reddit £14.47m after finding the company failed to use children’s personal information. See ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

24.02.2026 11:47 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1