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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, plus their four individual social media user co-plaintiff-respondents in Missouri v. Biden, oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two co-plaintiffs' Oct. 26 motion in Kennedy v. Biden to intervene in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the social media injunction against the White House and four federal agencies, said their responding brief Monday (docket 23-411).

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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.