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
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.
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
Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages
12,000 people waiting for hardware, 500 might get it this month. Might
03 Jun 2020 | 33
Watchdog slams Pentagon for failing – for a third time – to migrate US military to IPv6
There’s four checkboxes, auditors point out, and you’ve ticked one of them
03 Jun 2020 | 41
As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence
CommentThe confusion of physical and online protests merge
02 Jun 2020 | 62
As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks
Just what will happen to all that tasty location and contact data?
02 Jun 2020 | 18
Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system
Yeah, we know 'just' is doing a lot of hard work, we're being flippant
01 Jun 2020 | 3
Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'
UpdatedCopyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org
01 Jun 2020 | 76
Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread
Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version
28 May 2020 | 49
Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?
OpinionTrump's throwing everything at the social wall to see what will stick
28 May 2020 | 194
Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out
Just don't expect a full battery
27 May 2020 | 38
US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough
AnalysisLawsuit claims Charter's 'fixed' monthly fees are anything but
27 May 2020 | 37
Frontier: Yes, yes, we've filed for bankruptcy protection, but that's not stopping us giving key staff $38m in bonuses
Judge tells US ISP: OK, seems fair
27 May 2020 | 28
US lawmakers get a second shot at forcing FBI agents to obtain a warrant before they leaf through web histories
Bi-partisan amendment aims to take away easy access to your online life
26 May 2020 | 15
AT&T slapped down for its '5GE' ads: You don’t have a proper 5G network, so stop saying so, says watchdog
Pah, fine, OK, we’ll do what you say... in marketing, pouts telco to NARB
21 May 2020 | 11
Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled
It was a software bug, insists telco, as attorneys walk with most of the money
21 May 2020 | 7
Hey Siri, are you still recording people's conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?
I’m sorry, I will continue ignoring that question
20 May 2020 | 49
You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?
50-plus advocacy groups call on US House of Reps to slap limits on surveillance law
20 May 2020 | 37
Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl
Lawsuits filed after alarm biz admits worker snooped on victims
19 May 2020 | 71
