So what can we expect from a Joe Biden White House when it comes to tech? We'll try to answer that right now
As Amazon tells the President: Vaccinate our staff, and we'll help you distribute it to everyone else
21 Jan 2021 | 41
Kieren is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and covers internet infrastructure and governance, the domain name system, the Internet of Things, and many other topics.
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
Analysis A last gasp for the era of alternate facts
20 Jan 2021 | 86
Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch
Updated Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having
19 Jan 2021 | 27
Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol
Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'
19 Jan 2021 | 78
FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion
Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems
19 Jan 2021 | 17
Qualcomm pays $1.4bn to acquire ex-Apple and AMD Arm server chip engineers (and the biz they set up)
Purchase of Nuvia raises eyebrows
14 Jan 2021 | 5
It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol
Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe
14 Jan 2021 | 124
Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'
CEO says he is 'truly sorry for painful but necessary' cuts
13 Jan 2021 | 65
World’s largest dark-web marketplace shuttered after Euro cybercops cuff Aussie
20 DarkMarket servers seized and probed in international raids
13 Jan 2021 | 23
What’s that in CES heaven, is it a star? Or is it that damned elusive flying car?
CES For 20 years now, El Reg has been looking for proof – is this finally it?
13 Jan 2021 | 49
Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements
With just a week left of the administration, here we go again
12 Jan 2021 | 33
Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say
CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud
12 Jan 2021 | 60
Dems to ISPs: You're not gonna hike broadband prices, slap restrictions on folks in a pandemic, are you?
Now wouldn't be the time to exploit millions stuck at home, yeah? Maybe restrain the profiteering a little?
12 Jan 2021 | 16
Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?
Comment Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable
11 Jan 2021 | 221
Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?
Comment We may finally get that privacy legislation, net neutrality
07 Jan 2021 | 155
Amazon turns Victorian industrialist with $2bn building project to house workers near new headquarters
Welcome to the digital 1800s
07 Jan 2021 | 45
United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted
Updated Images of evacuated and invaded offices, Senate PCs still left switched on shared online
06 Jan 2021 | 303
Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine
Everyone’s favorite social media giant ordered to pay 3.8m euros
06 Jan 2021 | 43
3G ain’t totally dead yet: Verizon pushes back cut-off plans to some unspecified future date
It’s hard to kill off a trusted, stable technology that works
06 Jan 2021 | 14
Ah, right on time: Hacker-slammed SolarWinds sued by angry shareholders
Plus: US intelligence names and shames Russia as probable culprit
05 Jan 2021 | 27
Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls, Biden may just throw the web legal shield on the bonfire anyway
FCC won't mull law reform this month
05 Jan 2021 | 39
Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back
After years of waffle, potentially thousands of web addresses suspended
05 Jan 2021 | 205
Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas
Applicants will need to hold off until March at the earliest
04 Jan 2021 | 12
Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password
And no, we’re not going to prosecute the bloke who found out
17 Dec 2020 | 150
