Category: Business

Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch […]

Today at COP31 Climate finance: Guterres calls for reforms to an international financial system he says is failing vulnerable countries. New investments: A $10 billion initiative aims to finance climate projects in emerging markets. On the ground: UN experts highlight support for disaster-hit communities, farmers and innovative insurance schemes. Negotiations: COP31 Presidency circulates first outline of a possible political […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities have secured court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from global exchange Binance last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The recovery forms part of a broader public-private crackdown that has frozen over $2.7 billion of the roughly $6.3 […]

FRANKFURT — Mercedes-Benz has halted all further investment at its German manufacturing sites and is formally weighing plant closures after months of stalled negotiations with labor unions over cost reductions. The decision was announced on Thursday, November 12, 2026, in an executive memo posted on the automaker’s internal intranet. The move reflects mounting financial strain […]

TOKYO — SoftBank Group reported a net loss of approximately $7 billion (1.12 trillion yen) for the July–September quarter, marking its first quarterly loss in nearly two years and highlighting mounting financial strains behind the global artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. The reversal starkly contrasts with the firm’s previous quarterly profit of 2.5 trillion yen, underscoring […]

“Foreign Ministers and partners have assured me of support, but also repeatedly said that progress would be hard until after Israeli elections. Now we’re told to wait for the formation of a Government,” he said.  ‘Not an acceptable excuse’ “In case anyone has any doubt about international humanitarian law: this is not an acceptable excuse, as […]

Today at COP31 Leaders’ Summit: Guterres calls for climate justice and taxes on oil giants. Negotiations: Disagreements persist over adaptation finance. Zero Waste Day: Methane and innovative solutions headline the discussions. Today saw packed corridors at the COP31 conference venue in Antalya as world leaders arrived for a two-day high-level Summit, bringing tighter security, road […]

The number of petitions being filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has collapsed. That’s not reason for celebration. The PTAB is an important line of defense against low-quality software patents being used in lawsuits against people and companies. The drop didn’t happen because suddenly patents have become higher quality. It’s simply because […]

Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Sturdivant, a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. Our brief details the vast, interconnected network of ALPRs that constantly track drivers around the country and […]

For the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly weakening the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a key human rights law that allows foreign nationals to sue persons or entities in civil court for harms resulting from violations of international law. The court’s recent ruling in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I dealt […]