It's wild the lengths Facebook engineers will go to find new ways to show you inane ads about tat: This time, AR...
... and a lot of wrist action
11 Mar 2021 | 30
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.
Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft
See, regular expressions are hard
10 Mar 2021 | 16
As battle for future of .UK's Nominet draws closer, non-exec director hits a nerve with for-profit proposal
Suggestion to hand out shares in new registry dismissed as a non-starter
10 Mar 2021 | 48
Google, Facebook, Amazon et al look on nervously as Biden bumps anti-Big Tech warriors into key posts
Analysis Tim Wu, Lina Khan may be internet mega-corps' worst nightmares
10 Mar 2021 | 21
Cortana smokes Invoke: Redmond's chatty assistant bails from the only smart speaker it called home
Windows giant's withdrawal leaves market to Amazon, Apple, Google
09 Mar 2021 | 8
Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing
Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system
09 Mar 2021 | 3
Mobile World Congress seemingly serious about in-person Barcelona event in June, shares safety plan
Is Spain really ready for 50,000 people at one venue? Sounds like a super spreader event ready to happen
09 Mar 2021 | 25
McAfee to offload enterprise business for $4bn, focus on consumer security
While its namesake founder is indicted for fraud and money laundering
08 Mar 2021 | 23
It only took four years and thousands of complaints but ICANN finally kills off rogue Indian domain registrar
DNS oversight body accused again and again of chronic foot-dragging
04 Mar 2021 | 22
What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon
Logowatch Dodgy doppelganger not the first, won’t be the last
04 Mar 2021 | 153
Microsoft promises end-to-end encrypted Teams calls for some, invites you to go passwordless with Azure AD
Ignite When there are passphrases, there is inherent risk, says Redmond
03 Mar 2021 | 23
It’s back: America's net neutrality advocates begin push to return to pre-Trump internet protections
Lawmakers look to FCC to become a 'cop on the beat'
02 Mar 2021 | 16
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month
02 Mar 2021 | 66
President Biden weighs in on Amazon unionization efforts, warns giant to steer clear of threats, coercion
Stops well short of ordering govt action as fresh discrimination lawsuit filed
01 Mar 2021 | 18
Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds
Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim
01 Mar 2021 | 7
So, bye-bye mighty nerd haven Fry’s, took Silicon to the Valley... and now you must die
End of an era for iconic electronics shop chain
25 Feb 2021 | 34
California’s net neutrality rules good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit
Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal
24 Feb 2021 | 14
Federal Reserve falls over in massive hours-long tech outage, knocks down US inter-bank transfer system
Few details beyond 'operational error'
24 Feb 2021 | 12
Robocall bagmen admit they collected millions of dollars from victims scammed by bogus IRS officials, lenders
Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc
24 Feb 2021 | 9
Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to admit when they've been hacked
Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster
24 Feb 2021 | 28
US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry
Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much
23 Feb 2021 | 7
IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement
Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems
23 Feb 2021 | 28
Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO
Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged
23 Feb 2021 | 54
The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public
Check Point says Beijing 'reconstructed' Equation Group's hacking tool long before leak
23 Feb 2021 | 39
