Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing
And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide
12 Oct 2020 | 125
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.
ICANN begs Europe: Please fill in the blanks on this half-assed GDPR-compliant Whois we came up with
We can’t get our community to agree, perhaps you’ll do our job for us?
08 Oct 2020 | 75
After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court – and we listened in
Special reportDon’t worry, it’s only the future of software development at stake
07 Oct 2020 | 236
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court
AnalysisFive-year legal battle pays off. Now countries have to figure out what to do
07 Oct 2020 | 98
Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google
'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'
06 Oct 2020 | 58
President Trump to slap fresh restrictions on H-1B work visas, refuses to hear public comment on changes
Tech industry may limber up for war
06 Oct 2020 | 28
Nominet refuses to consider complaint about its own behaviour, claims CEO didn’t mean what he said on camera
Dot-UK overlord descends into farce
06 Oct 2020 | 57
Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents
Centripetal Networks uses lawsuit against Switchzilla. It's super effective
05 Oct 2020 | 34
China takes TikTok-WeChat ding-dong to World Trade Organization, accuses US, India of breaking global rules
One person still believes forced sale is a good idea. Hint: He’s in hospital
05 Oct 2020 | 20
Sonos turns patent war with Google up a notch with fresh lawsuit timed to coincide with Pixel, Nest jamboree
Chromecast this, says smart speaker slinger
01 Oct 2020 | 9
What price your home delivery? Amazon accused of hiding real injury rate in its overworked warehouses
Internal docs tell a different story to public pronouncements
30 Sep 2020 | 34
Russian hacker, described as 'brilliant' by judge, gets seven years in a US clink for raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox
Yevgeniy Nikulin, grabbed in Prague, unlikely to see his mother alive again after swiping 200m+ user records
30 Sep 2020 | 27
I love my electricity company's app – but the FBI says the nuclear industry bribed politicians $60m to kill it
Special reportIncredible tale that starts with smart home software being axed and ends with senior lawmaker denying taking a super-bung
30 Sep 2020 | 63
Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery
Meanwhile the console’s chief architect is still chasing payment
30 Sep 2020 | 26
NATO's at risk if you go your own Huawei on 5G, US government warns Germany
Undersecretary pays a visit to Berlin, Merkel’s not moving despite pressure
29 Sep 2020 | 68
Amazon bean-counter, her husband, father-in-law cough up $2.6m after SEC collars them on insider-trading rap
Criminal charges to follow
29 Sep 2020 | 14
Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it
AnalysisRight, we own cloud, shipping, what's next? The home
28 Sep 2020 | 59
With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff
Department of Labor puts $150m into computer, cyber-security training grants to plug visa hole
28 Sep 2020 | 37
TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments
Video-sharing app appears to have had enough of presidential posturing
24 Sep 2020 | 44
Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings
Federal versus state action – the endless conundrum for the United States
24 Sep 2020 | 58
Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear
AnalysisProposed Section 230 overhaul shockingly free of hyperbole
23 Sep 2020 | 18
.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics
It’s always important for us to understand your views. That's why we’re shutting them down
23 Sep 2020 | 68
FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized
Operation DisrupTor will 'significantly disrupt the online opioid trade'
23 Sep 2020 | 20
UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition
Ambitions to see the rise of a Brit equivalent to Apple is cool and all but that strategy must include safeguarding chip designer, says union
22 Sep 2020 | 48
