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Archives for June 2026

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
DJI and Insta360 are suing each other over baby steadicams.

DJI sued in China when Insta360 muscled in on drones, and both companies are Spider-Man Pointing in US lawsuits now they’re competing on stickcams. Recall: Insta360 just launched its Osmo Pocket competitor Luna Ultra in the US, but DJI can’t sell its Osmo Pocket 4 here.

Find the complaints here, here, here, and here.

An Osmo Pocket and an Insta360 Luna baby stabilized gimbal camera face off in the spiderman pointing meme image.
DJI is suing over both visual similarities and control methods; Insta360 is suing over stabilization methods and location sharing.
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Google is suing to dismantle a phishing kit operation it says has scammed hundreds of thousands of people.

“Outsider Enterprise” allegedly distributes phishing templates that have scammed people out of millions of dollars. Google says over a million fraudulent URLs are linked to the group, and that over just two weeks, it sent 2.5 million messages to Android users with links to fraudulent websites.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Seattle officially enacted an emergency one-year moratorium on new data centers.

Among the moratorium’s fiercest supporters were Amazon employees, who joined others to testify in support of the policy in multiple Seattle city council hearings.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Russia has lifted its ban on Roblox.

Russia banned Roblox last year over “LGBT propaganda” and “extremist” content, but the platform “has fully complied with Russian legislation on ensuring user safety,” according to a statement from the country’s Digital Development Ministry reported on by Interfax.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The all-too-predictable Flock stalking problem.

A report from 404 Media shows how more than a dozen cases around the US have shown police using Flock to illegally stalk victims. Flock acknowledged it’s aware of 15 incidents, claiming“each surfaced because of the transparency and accountability features deliberately built into our platform.”

But that doesn’t reflect how some victims only found out by using the HaveIBeenFlocked.com website that Flock has tried to have taken down, or the many years of similar reports with other surveillance tech, a problem the NSA tagged “LOVEINT.”

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
A German court says Google’s responsible for false AI search results.

The early decision found AI summaries are different from conventional search:

A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate “independent, new, and substantive statements” by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites. And only Google can check those statements, the court said, “at least by comparing the underlying third-party websites with its own statements based on them.”