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August 24, 2026
A Washington state judge considering Albertsons' mid-trial motion to dismiss allegations it fueled the state's opioid epidemic told lawyers for the state Monday that while they might have shown the pharmacy chain failed to implement an adequate monitoring system, she's still skeptical the company's conduct actually caused the overdose crisis.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-awaited plan to boost cryptocurrency offerings would clear the way for crypto projects to raise capital from retail traders, but the proposal already faces major questions from how it permits secondary trading to the limits it puts on states.
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August 24, 2026
Instagram's top data scientist told a Tennessee jury Monday that the company's goal is to increase the amount of "sessions" by teens, not their raw amount of time in the app, though he admitted the latter metric has been on the rise.
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August 24, 2026
A California state appeals court appears poised to declare that website tracking technologies generally qualify as pen registers under the state's wiretap law, while finding that the specific trackers at issue in a lawsuit against Variety Media LLC don't fall under this definition because they don't identify the destination of intercepted communications.
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August 24, 2026
A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect their personal information, which was exposed in an April 2025 breach, according to an order issued Friday.
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