Chicago options market goes nuclear, files $525 million patent suit
In a long war between two options exchanges, patents are the most dangerous weapon.
Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents
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Litigation nation
Time Warner's new $4 monthly modem rental fee incites class action suit
The company stands to earn $40 million per month from formerly-free modems.
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Lyft, SideCar, and Uber all slapped with $20K fines from CA regulator
Uber has even more worries, with a new class-action lawsuit from taxi drivers.
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Petraeus downfall illustrates scope of feds' e-mail snooping powers
America's ancient electronic privacy rules give scant protection to e-mail.
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Hangin' Tough
Samsung: We have no intention of settling with Apple
Samsung has been faring far better than HTC in court battles.
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If at first you don't secede...
90,000 Texans want to secede, trolls immediately mess with Texas
Democracy in its rawest form comes to whitehouse.gov.
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Large pizza, side of spam
Papa John's faces class-action suit for alleged barrage of spam texts
Plaintiffs say pizza chain hired company to serve thousands of unwanted texts.
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Dutch Sandwich with a side of tax relief may soon be off Google's menu
UK takes on shady shell companies, tax loopholes used by US tech.
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US gets more Google user data than all other countries combined
Paula Broadwell likely one of thousands of Americans subject to Gmail snooping.
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iOS apps hijack Twitter accounts, post false "confessions" of piracy
Dictionary app maker's move is the very definition of how not to fight theft.
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Put up or shut up
Judge blasts troll for "lack of interest in actually litigating"
Another judge becomes a skeptic of mass porn file-sharing lawsuits.
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Court to decide how much patent cash Motorola can get from Microsoft
Trial will define fair rate for standards-based patents used in Windows and Xbox.
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"Involuntary porn" site tests the boundaries of legal extortion
Site posts leaked nude photos without consent, charges $250 to take them down.
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Last Chance
Kodak gets life-saving loan of $793 million—if it can sell its patents
Patents may be bought by a coalition of competitors and patent aggregators.
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Devil's in the details
Notorious BitTorrent tracker Demonoid back online, website still down
The site's mysterious admins begin the next chapter of online Whac-A-Mole.
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Unbelizeable
McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
John McAfee left firm 20 years ago, moved to Belize to evade US lawsuit.
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OPSEC
Petraeus affair offers unintentional lesson on password reuse
Seriously, don't reuse your passwords.
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Say it ain't so, Elmo
Elmo's puppeteer disciplined by Sesame Street over Internet usage
Comes after accusations of inappropriate relationship.
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British justice
Apple to pay Samsung's UK legal fees due to "lack of integrity"
The judge says Apple engaged in "false innuendo" in its original notice.
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Pirate Bay cofounder now suspected of "attempted aggravated fraud"
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has already spent two months in detention.
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Mega fast switcheroo
Kim Dotcom has new “Mega” domain, says this one won’t be shut down
Dotcom turns to New Zealand to host his new website.
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Apple and HTC reach a sudden patent peace, but at what cost?
The Taiwanese handset maker isn't looking good, in court or in the marketplace.
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I spy
CIA Director's affair caught by FBI e-mail monitoring
Petraeus' explicit Gmail messages exposed by probe of mistress' e-mail threats.
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Week in Review
Week in review, civic duty edition
All eyes were on the US election, but Ars got some good tech news in, too.
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Seriously, WTF?
Ohio attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000
He altered pics of girls to be explicit in arguing against "overbroad" law.
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