Michigan Attorney General
Dana Nessel on Friday
filed an antitrust lawsuit against four major oil companies,
asserting they have colluded for decades to forestall competition from renewable energy,
including electric vehicles.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in western Michigan
names BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute.
The suit said the companies acted
"as a cartel, agreeing to reduce the production and d…
Great post about the Project Hail Mary movie:
"Competent people overcome their differences to work together—that’s really the perfect movie for 2026.
Competency, science, countries working together toward a vital common goal, get to know the stranger so as not to be afraid of it anymore...
It's an antidote."
https://bsky.app/profile/thespaceshipper.com/post/3mhq46qvbcd2q
Canal , ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
Attorney General Nessel Files Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Defendants for Violations of Antitrust Laws (State of Michigan)
https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2026/01/23/attorney-general-nessel-files-lawsuit-against-fossil-fuel-defendants
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p84#a260123p84
Canal , ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
For #IIIF / digital collections folk, 'Requirements for core Annotation properties' need review/input 'to define the requirements for relationships like body, target, motivation, source... these four are very inconsistent in the way they're used in Annotation documents'
California AG Rob Bonta says his office will give Netflix and Paramount bids for WBD a full and robust review; Netflix says 13-14 state AGs are probing the deal (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/california-attorney-general-…
US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/justice-antitrust-chief-gail-slateer-resigns
Paramount's $108bn bid for Warner Bros clears US antitrust hurdle (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/41c51286-ff0d-45d5-aefe-624b5049e01d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p59#a260220p59
The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ado…