Tag: lawyer’s
Holly and Phil saga steps up a notch as Schofield ‘brings in the lawyers’
Dbrand’s Zelda skin turns your Switch into a giant middle finger to Nintendo lawyers
Dbrand just made another quick buck by flipping off Nintendo. You can now preorder a $50 skin for your Nintendo Switch that’s a dead ringer for the $359 Nintendo Switch OLED Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition — at least until you look closely.
At first, the “Clone of the Kingdom” seems like just that. But then you realize that Dbrand replaced the Triforce with The Eye of Providence, a symbol often as famous for its connections to conspiracy theories and the Illuminati as for its benign appearance on the back of a US Dollar. (Admittedly, the crest of the Sheikah is an eye with three pyramids for eyebrows.)
Then, you might notice the runes. What might they read? “Go fuck yourself, lawyers” is the first one I decoded; I won’t…
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Do Kwon’s Lawyers Ask for His Release on $436,800 Bail
Do Kwon, notorious crypto entrepreneur and recent international fugitive, spent months evading arrest—despite claims that he was “not on the run.” Yet now that he’s been detained, his attorneys are hoping for the flitting fugitive’s release on bail.
Palace threatened to bring in lawyers after becoming ‘frustrated’ with NGN over settling phone-hacking claims
Musk’s Tesla safety boasts could be deepfakes, his lawyers say
Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long warned about the potential dangers of AI.
In court filings reported by Reuters on Wednesday, Tesla’s lawyers echoed Musk’s warnings to claim that the billionaire’s own words could possibly be deepfakes. They argue that the mere possibility of digital alterations of Musk’s statements somehow overrides any need for him to testify about them in a legal setting.
Tesla is currently being sued by the family of Apple engineer Walter Huang, who was killed in a car crash while driving his Tesla Model X in 2018. According to his family, Huang’s death was the result of a malfunction with Tesla’s automated driving feature, Autopilot. Tesla has argued that Huang was playing video games, despite warnings from Tesla, right before the crash occurred.
Musk’s previous claims about Tesla’s safety have come up in the lawsuit. For example, in 2016, during an interview with tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, Musk claimed that the “Model S and Model X, at this point, can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person. Right now.”
The video of that particular interview, which was uploaded in June 2016 by the now-defunct Vox-owned tech website Recode, is still viewable on YouTube.
In order to argue that an interview with Musk about such claims, under oath, wasn’t needed, Tesla’s lawyers claimed that Musk could not recall saying such words and any purported evidence that he did could be a deepfake, or AI-generated manipulated media.
The judge wasn’t buying it.
“Their position is that because Mr. Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune,” said Judge Evette D. Pennypacker of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. “In other words, Mr. Musk, and others in his position, can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do.”
Judge Pennypacker ordered that Musk be interviewed in a tentative 3-hour deposition. Although, some details could change. The trial is set to begin on July 31.