UN warns of global e-waste wave as amount of gadgets dumped jumps 21% in 5 years
Record 53.6 million tonnes produced last year - that's 7.3kg per person on the planet
02 Jul 2020 | 39
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.
Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now
Golden State AG prepares crackdown
01 Jul 2020 | 22
It’s happened again: AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim's number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist
Man claims life savings lost in theft aided by telco staff
01 Jul 2020 | 22
The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com
AnalysisLawyers lick their lips at litigation to come
30 Jun 2020 | 34
You've accused Apple of patent infringement. You want to probe the iOS source in a closed-room environment. What to do in a pandemic?
Judge lays out rules from one-time passwords to window snooping
30 Jun 2020 | 23
Someone must be bricking it: UK govt website for first-time home buyers snapped up for £40,000 after left to expire
About the same as a deposit on a nice house
30 Jun 2020 | 43
Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law
Look, we wrote it! You're all wrong!
25 Jun 2020 | 27
Internet Society, remember your embarrassing .org flub? The actual internet society would like to talk about it
Non-profits call for independent probe into disastrous effort to sell TLD registry
24 Jun 2020 | 35
Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'
WWDCHomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction
24 Jun 2020 | 27
The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired
Sorry, I was busy, came the reply
24 Jun 2020 | 24
Wired: China's Beidou satnav system, 35th bird in orbit. Tired: America's GPS. Expired: Britain's dreams of its own
Middle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system
23 Jun 2020 | 25
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests
23 Jun 2020 | 70
Big Tech on the hook for billions in back taxes after US Supreme Court rejects Altera stock options case hearing
Stop! In the name of tax! Before you break my bank!
22 Jun 2020 | 93
For years, the internet giants have held on dear to their get-out-of-jail-free card. Here are those trying to take that away
AnalysisSoon it'll be known as Section 230 because there are 230 suggested solutions to overhaul it
18 Jun 2020 | 35
FCC boss orders probe into 'unacceptable' T-Mobile US outage after carrier plays dog-ate-my-homework card
Yup, the old 'leased fiber line broke' excuse
17 Jun 2020 | 7
Yahoo! owes! us! one! billion! dollars! in! back! taxes! say! US! govt! beancounters!
IRS willing to settle for a seventh of what it asked for - it's nice to be rich
17 Jun 2020 | 7
NY Attorney General warns Apple, Google to police COVID-19 tracing apps in their souks – or she will herself
Worry about user privacy also results in Norway pulling its virus tracker
17 Jun 2020 | 39
Meet the dog that's all byte and no bark: Boston Dynamics touts robo-pooch Spot with $75k-a-pop price tag
VideoWhat's that Lassie? You need a 400MB firmware update and a reboot?
17 Jun 2020 | 19
Dropbox attempts to muscle into password manager market with passphrase wrangler, document vault
Another set of ideas from storage firm – but can it pull it off this time?
16 Jun 2020 | 16
Whose side you on, Nominet? Registry floods .co.uk owners with begging emails to renew unwanted .uk domains
Quick! You need to pay for that web address you never asked for so we can make more money
16 Jun 2020 | 54
US govt: Huawei is a national security risk and a menace, except, you know, when we need it for 5G standards work
Commerce Department changes rules because... something, something... innovation
16 Jun 2020 | 8
Watchdog snubs General Dynamics' gripe over Navy's $8bn IT network overhaul sub-contract decision
What time is it? Time to pore over contested multibillion-dollar US military tech deals
15 Jun 2020 | 1
Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021
If you're not registered somewhere in the union, you can't use the TLD
04 Jun 2020 | 212
California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes
Sure, companies will probably just ignore its most important component, but what you gonna do?
03 Jun 2020 | 19
