Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
Many Fortune 500 companies use CrowdStrike products to detect and defeat “hacking threats,” but a mid-July update to CrowdStrike’s signature Falcon software was released with “problematic content data” incompatible with Windows, which caused up to 8.5 million computers to crash.
“Unbeknownst to most Texans,” state Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in court documents, “Meta ran facial recognition software on virtually every face contained in the photographs uploaded to Facebook, capturing records of the facial geometry of the people depicted.”
A Florida judge has rejected ABC News’ motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump. Attorneys for Trump filed the initial complaint against the network earlier this year, with claims centering on a series of statements made by anchor George Stephanopoulos in a March 10 airing of “This Week.” During the
“For years, StubHub has illegally deceived District consumers through its convoluted junk fee scheme,” D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a press release. “StubHub lures consumers in by advertising a deceptively low price, forces them through a burdensome purchase process, and then finally reveals a total on the checkout page that is vastly higher than the originally advertised ticket price.”
The Department of Justice is allegedly concerned that RealPage’s products act as a shield for landlords, who can use the company’s services to share information about rental prices and vacancy rates to artificially limit supply and thereby inflate costs.
The parents of an Arizona teenager who was beaten to death at a Halloween party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against seven individuals suspected of participating in the assault. According to The Huffington Post, 16-year-old Preston Lord died at the hospital on October 28 after being attacked at the Queen Creek home of Roberto
“The defendants charged about $10 for each chip, $10 for the chip that killed Harris, $10 for his life,” attorney Douglas Sheff said. “Isn’t it clear that these defendants knew full well that this chip was unreasonably dangerous? And isn’t this an obvious marketing campaign designed to attract kids to that very danger?”
“Moab still doesn’t get it,” Joseph Petito said in a statement. “The case has never been about money. […] It has always been about seeking accountability and fighting for change that will save lives.”
Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, the joint statement indicated that the university will create a new position—that of “Title VI Coordinator”—to oversee how the school responds to complaints of discrimination related to protected characteristics such as race, religion, and national origin.
Black students in Pinckney schools, the lawsuit says, “have suffered emotional trauma and substantial disruption to their education.” Some have since left the district “out of fear for their physical, personal and educational well-being.”