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The big Ticketmaster anti-monopoly trial is spinning up: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-ticketmaster-monopoly-trial-starts

The Ticketmaster Monopoly Trial Starts
It's not a tech company, but Live Nation is one of the most prominent monopolists in the U.S. The government's case against the live entertainment firm will reverberate. And it started yesterday.

New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/mark

Mark Zuckerberg downplays Meta's own research in New Mexico child safety trial
Jurors in a New Mexico child safety trial heard testimony from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who downplayed the significance of the company's internal research.

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…

Elon Musk takes stand in shareholder trial in San Francisco over Twitter stock
A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter before he finally completed the takeover. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for $44 billion, or $54.20 pe…

I love a good Star Trek trial episode. Maybe there could be a series that is just trials... "Star Trek Law" or something.

aus der reihe "bemerkenswerte wissenschaftliche artikel" heute:
"‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’: a survey of views on human research ethics reviews"
https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-20…

Opening statements begin for the antitrust trial against Live Nation, which is accused of unfairly wielding its power over concert promotion, venues, and more (Isabella Gomez Sarmiento/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5728962/live-nation-ticketm…

OMG, this man with autism, who was accused of hacking, spent *nine years* in pretrial lockup with no trial.
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2026/04/north-royalton-hacking-suspect-released-after-9-years-…

OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-mac-app-free-trial/

OpenAI's Codex just got its own Mac app - and anyone can try it for free now
The new Mac app turns GPT-5.2-Codex into a multi-agent command center. Here's how.

Research across 1,372 participants and 9K trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/res

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Barcelona-based Biorce, which is developing an AI service to speed up clinical trials, raised a $52.5M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/02/biorce-raises-52m-to-support-…