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10 Jul 2013, 9:20 am by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar According to a new letter from the Metropolitan Police, London is spending an average of £10,982 ($16,384) per day to stake out the Ecuadorian Embassy where Julian Assange has been holed up for the last 386 days. [read post]
21 Sep 2014, 11:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar RICHMOND, CA—Of all the places that have come up with a clever way to protest Yelp’s alleged aggressive advertising tactics, a small plucky Italian restaurant in a strip mall just northeast of San Francisco, is as unlikely as they come. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 12:00 pm
Titles on that relationship include the fairly recent The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov and The Internet of Elsewhere by Cyrus Farivar. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
”) Earlier on Defense Distributed “arms export” controversy here and here, and more from David Kopel and Cyrus Farivar on the lawsuit settlement. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
$101 million in Texas could be biggest trucking damages award in history; crash victim had “told the responding police officer he was not injured and continued on with his journey” [John Kingston, FreightWaves] “Lawyers For Texas Counties In Opioid Cases May Not Have Valid Contracts” [Daniel Fisher, earlier on Texas scramble here, here, here, and especially here] Arbitration defended [Economics21] “Madden NFL 19 Jacksonville shooting victim sues Electronic Arts,… [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 1:26 pm by Cyrus Farivar
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Newly revealed filings to the National Labor Relations Board show that attorneys for Google have been lobbying the agency to undo an earlier decision that required companies to let employees organize on the company's own email systems. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans want San Quentin State Prison inmates to learn basic computer programming as a way to better themselves. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 5:38 am by Timothy B. Lee
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Google has fired a staffer who allegedly leaked the names of Google employees and their personal details to the news media, Ryan Gallagher reports in a scoop for Bloomberg News. [read post]
12 May 2014, 5:35 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar Just days after HashFast’s CEO told Ars that his company was “as poor as church mice,” a group of five customers has filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the Bitcoin miner manufacturer-turned-chipmaker. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 4:08 pm by Cyrus Farivar
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) SAN FRANCISCO—Days after two leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus got Facebook to commit to hiring a black member to its board of directors, they again pressed major tech firms to diversify the hiring of executives and rank-and-file employees. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 2:05 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar On Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld the admissibility of images taken from red light cameras as evidence of traffic violations in the Golden State. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 10:43 am by Cyrus Farivar
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and two-year sentence of the California journalist who was found guilty under a federal anti-hacking law last year. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 3:40 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar On Monday, a federal court in Central California sentenced a 26-year-old to one year and nine months in prison for firing two different laser pointers at a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter over a six month period in 2013. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 3:30 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar PALO ALTO, CA—Speaking at the gym at the high school where he used to play basketball in the 1960s, Sen. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 7:34 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar OAKLAND, CA—Speaking over lunch last Friday, a Northern California man named Conal O'Rourke laid out what admittedly sounds like a crazy story: a year-long billing dispute over his home Comcast service that ultimately resulted in Comcast getting O'Rourke fired from his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in nearby San Jose earlier this year. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 7:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar The chairman of the major red light camera vendor, Redflex, has told the company's investors that North America is a "low/no-growth market," and that the company continues to face "potential legal risk as a result of the investigative findings. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 2:55 pm by Annalee Newitz
Join Ars Technica editors Cyrus Farivar and Annalee Newitz in conversation with Riana Pfefferkorn at the next Ars Technica Live on November 15 at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland. [read post]