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A Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday in favor of Tesla shareholders who sued to block the pay package that helped make Elon Musk, the carmaker’s chief executive, a billionaire many times over and the world’s wealthiest human being.“The process leading to the approval of Musk’s compensation plan was deeply flawed,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery said in the decision. She ordered that the contract that provided his record pay be voided.A group of Tesla shareholders had challenged a stock options package that ended up giving Mr. Musk the right to acquire Tesla shares that were worth over $70 billion when the stock price was higher. To receive the award, which was one of the largest of its kind and widely imitated by other corporations, Tesla had to meet c...

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, said that it would stop letting police departments request users’ footage in its app amid longstanding concerns from privacy advocates about the company’s relationship with law enforcement.Eric Kuhn, the general manager of subscriptions and software for the Ring app Neighbors, announced on Wednesday that the company was shutting down a feature that allowed the police to request and receive videos from users of the app, a social platform similar to Nextdoor and Citizen where people can share alerts about crime near their home.Mr. Kuhn did not say why Ring was eliminating the app feature, which allowed the police to ask the public for help with active investigations under a special category of posts called “Request for Assistance.”People ...