A defect in Intel central processing units (CPUs) can only be “fixed” by adopting a patch that slows CPU performance by as much as half, said a fraud complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05761) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

FCC and industry officials don’t expect a 2018 Quadrennial Review vote by the Dec. 27 deadline ordered by the D.C. Circuit (see 2309290056) and the item isn’t expected to be part of the December meeting agenda, they said in interviews this week.

Sewell, New Jersey, physician Sydney Tyson maintained a Coinbase account for nearly 10 years, spending roughly $75,000 to accumulate bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that increased in value to well over $200,000 until his account was hacked July 18, alleged Tyson’s fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-22066) against Coinbase in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Camden. The complaint also names “unknown party” John Doe 1 as a co-defendant, alleging he operates under the fictitious name Paul Reed and “has engaged in cybercrime and fraud.”

Two privacy class actions filed this week in federal courts in New York and California allege defendants violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing plaintiffs’ identities and video-viewing history to Facebook parent Meta via tracking pixels.

U.S. District Judge Michael Anello for Southern California in San Diego denied Ford’s motion to compel the 3G telematics claims of four class-action plaintiffs to arbitration (see 2304170047), said his signed order Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-01716).

A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the complaint of Darrell Seybold, a former Charter Communications sales manager, who alleged that Charter violated the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act’s whistleblower protections when it fired him for reporting that the company was cooking the books (see 2304040022). Charter asserts it properly terminated Seybold for his unprofessional conduct.

Defendants Telco Solutions, Telco Enterprise and Voister received VoIP minutes from Milan-based Golem under “misrepresented pretenses” and didn’t pay for them, alleged subrogee Belgian insurer Credendo-Short-Term Non-EU Risks in a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-24258) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

U.S. District Judge Steven Logan for Arizona in Phoenix issued nearly identically worded orders Friday in two separate Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases -- Crawford v. National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (docket 2:23-cv-00903) and Howard v. Republican National Committee (docket 2:23-cv-00993) -- in which he granted the defendants' motions in both cases to dismiss with prejudice and without leave for the plaintiffs to amend.

The court should deny defendants’ October motion to dismiss a robocall case (see 2310100001) brought by the attorneys general of 48 states in May, said plaintiffs’ Monday response (docket 4:23-cv-00233) to the motion by VoIP provider Avid Telecom, CEO Michael Lansky and Vice President Stacey Reeves in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson.

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