Monthly Archives: September 2022

Apple Settles ‘FlickType’ Developer Lawsuit Over App Store Treatment

Prominent developer Kosta Eleftheriou has settled his 2021 lawsuit against Apple over its App Store review actions that he said hindered his ability to distribute apps on the platform while allowing copycat competitors to flourish, reports TechCrunch. In his lawsuit, Eleftheriou complained that Apple repeatedly threw up “roadblock after roadblock” against his FlickType keyboard app…

Elon Musk’s legal troubles are now the subject of a law school class

Elon Musk holds hands out wide with fingers pointed toward the sky during SpaceX press conference JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images UCLA law school is offering a class called “Law of Elon Musk” on the billionaire’s business dealings. Taught by corporate law expert professor Stephen Bainbridge, the course covers lawsuits against Musk. “He’s generating a…

Security firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms website — known for hosting relentless online harassment campaigns — after a surge in ‘credible threats’

Close-up of logo on facade at headquarters of cyber security company Cloudflare in the South of Market (SoMA) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, June 10, 2019 Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Security firm Cloudflare on Saturday dropped a site known for hosting harassment campaigns from its service. Though Cloudflare faced pressure to drop Kiwi Farms for its content,…

NASA’s Artemis moon mission won’t launch anytime soon

NASA will not slingshot a spacecraft around the moon this week following two previous called-off launch attempts, officials confirmed at a news conference Saturday evening. That means the team will likely haul the gigantic, 322-foot Space Launch System rocket back to its hangar, the Vehicle Assembly Building, and perhaps take another shot at the moon…

Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen

Enlarge / NASA’s Space Launch System rocket at LC-39B on September 1st, 2022. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—America’s space agency on Saturday sought to launch a rocket largely cobbled together from the space shuttle, which itself was designed and built more than four decades ago. As the space shuttle often was delayed due to technical problems,…