11 h. ago Google settles privacy lawsuit for $68m over voice assistant

Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted adsGoogle agreed to pay $68m to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy.A preliminary class action settlement was filed late on Friday night in the San Jose, California federal court, and requires approval by US district judge Beth Labson Freeman. Smartphone users accused Google, a unit of Alphabet, of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered, in order to send them targeted advertising. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Philip Young pleads guilty to drugging and raping his wife over 13

He admitted 48 charges at Winchester Crown Court on Friday

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4 d. ago Illinois surgeon charged in Ohio couple's killings due in court Friday

An Illinois doctor indicted on murder charges in the December slayings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in their Columbus home is due in an Ohio courtroom

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5 d. ago Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals

Trump administration acknowledges that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting operation accessed Americans’ sensitive dataAfter months of denials, the Trump administration has acknowledged in a federal court filing that employees working for Elon Musk’s supposed cost-cutting operation accessed and improperly shared Americans’ sensitive social security data.The justice department court filing, submitted on Friday in an ongoing lawsuit, reveals that a member of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) signed a secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states. Continue reading...

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1 week ago NHS manager who gambled away £92,000 of trust’s budget is jailed

The former NHS manager was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday

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1 week ago Killer husband refuses to attend court to be sentenced for wife’s murder

Robert Rhodes refused to attend Inner London Crown Court for the sentencing hearing on Friday, but sent a message that he ‘maintains his innocence’.

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1 week ago Defendant in Charlie Kirk's killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors

The 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to disqualify prosecutors in the case

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1 week ago Michael Jackson estate executors say they're owed $115K in fees amid row with Paris Jackson

The legal team for John McClain and John Branca entered paperwork into Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday in connection with the request.

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2 w. ago Met Police officer sexually assaulted boy, 17, in hotel while watching Love Island

Former Police Constable Grant Fulker, 32, was convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, January 9, of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault

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2 w. ago Mum strangled by husband as kids slept ‘because she planned on leaving’, claims dad

Knight finally admitted the killing at Northampton Crown Court on Friday. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on January 29

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks White House freeze of childcare subsidies in Democratic states

Funding was paused because health department said benefits were going to people in country illegallyA federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for childcare subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now.The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced on Tuesday to freeze billions of dollars in funds for three grant programs was having an immediate impact on them and creating “operational chaos”. In court filings and a hearing earlier on Friday, the states contended that the government did not have a legal reason for withholding the money from them. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Luigi Mangione back in court to fight death penalty as lawyers insist arrest was turned into ‘Marvel movie’ spectacle

Friday's hearing, Mangione’s first trip to Manhattan federal court since his arraignment, is also expected to cover his bid to exclude certain evidence

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2 w. ago Alleged small boat migrant first to be charged under new Channel crossings law

The 18-year-old is the first to be charged with the offence and will appear at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday

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2 w. ago Police release footage of a person of interest in the killing of an Ohio couple

Authorities have released security footage of a person of interest in the killing of an Ohio couple

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3 w. ago California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules

Ninth circuit sides with gun owner that ban in counties with more than 200,000 people violates second amendmentA US appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.A panel of the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated the US constitution’s second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Continue reading...

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