Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted
Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 57
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Another ex-eBay exec admits cyberstalking web souk critics
David Harville is seventh to cop to harassment campaign
Cyber-crime13 May 2022 | 10
Warning: Windows update breaks authentication for some server admins
Microsoft probes complaints of domain controller headaches
OSes12 May 2022 | 10
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law
That bit in Ghostbusters when they shut off the containment unit? That, but with social networks
Personal Tech12 May 2022 | 59
Nvidia open-sources Linux kernel GPU modules. Repeat, open-source GPU modules
A Turing point for the graphics chip giant, perhaps?
Software12 May 2022 | 27
Google shows off immersive maps, AR-flavored search, Pixel 7, and more
Google IO Your essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 10
Google's Flutter app development framework now stable across platforms
Google I/O v3.0 has also gained a Casual Games Toolkit
Software11 May 2022 | 3
Email domain for NPM lib with 6m downloads a week grabbed by expert to make a point
Special report Campaign to coax GitHub-owned outfit to improve security starts showing results
CSO10 May 2022 | 45
Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide
Is winter coming already for the US tech sector?
Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 15
Europe's GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps
Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes
Applications09 May 2022 | 93
China plans to toss foreign-made PCs from government agencies 'in two years'
Just like it was supposed to do in 2019
Personal Tech07 May 2022 | 41
Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.'
Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops
SaaS06 May 2022 | 62
Shareholders turn the screws on IBM and its gag orders
In wake of dinobaby-gate, investors not happy with NDAs hushing up claims of harassment, discrimination
Legal05 May 2022 | 31
Cable giants, ISPs, telcos end legal fight against California's net neutrality law
If you can't beat the Golden State, try again at the federal level
Networks05 May 2022 | 5
Eggheads demo how to fool share-trading bots with carefully crafted retweets
Good thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right?
AI + ML05 May 2022 | 16
Google's FLoC flopped, boffins claim, because it failed to provide promised privacy
MIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued
Personal Tech05 May 2022 | 22
LinkedIn settles Dept of Labor charges it underpaid women
Microsoft's social network for thinkfluencers disagrees with Uncle Sam, coughs up $1.8m
Legal03 May 2022 | 2
Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff
Why make us commute all the way into buildings where we're not allowed to talk to each other anyway, workers ask
On-Prem03 May 2022 | 74
Google starts testing fenced frames to guard its Privacy Sandbox
Oh, serve me ads, lots of ads, under clouded eyes above, just fence me in
Security03 May 2022 | 7
John Deere tractors 'bricked' after Russia steals machinery from Ukraine
If true, a good use for DRM?
Personal Tech02 May 2022 | 129
Facebook's Meta, tracking code, and the student financial aid website
Also: Oculus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection
Research30 Apr 2022 | 15
Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut
Will they WF-other people's-H?
Off-Prem29 Apr 2022 | 15
MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design
Video The walls are alive with the sound of music
Science29 Apr 2022 | 35
US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'
Tech terms of service dissolve Fourth Amendment rights, EFF warns
Legal28 Apr 2022 | 57
Apple must fix its self-service repair program, say critics
A+ for marketing, F- for blocking aftermarket parts with serial number checks
Personal Tech28 Apr 2022 | 18
Google releases beta version of Android 13 'Tiramisu'
Chocolate Factory's latest mobile code confection refines permissions and error reporting
OSes27 Apr 2022 | 22
Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads
Updated Web giant milks advertisers with data harvested from digital assistant
Research27 Apr 2022 | 167
Smart contract developers not really focused on security. Who knew?
Comment Bugs cost $680m in 2021, academics say, as devs have other concerns
Software26 Apr 2022 | 28
Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C
Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine
Software26 Apr 2022 | 124
Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules
Special report Leaked Digital Markets Act language forbids limiting of Safari rivals
Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 97
Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets
Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off
Edge + IoT22 Apr 2022 | 60
Europe twists YouTube's arm to get better cookie consent popups
No dark patterns, no Google nonsense ... Wow, what a superpower
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 32
Machine-learning models vulnerable to undetectable backdoors: new claim
It's 2036 and another hijacked AI betrays its operators
AI + ML21 Apr 2022 | 16
Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible
Updated Webpage acceleration tech deemed harmful by rivals
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 47
Google 'Switch to Android' app surfaces in iOS App Store
After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply
Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 26
IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb
CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile
Edge + IoT19 Apr 2022 | 81
Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court
Latest LinkedIn blow / Profile harvesting legal / HiQ case rolls on
Software19 Apr 2022 | 66
UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups 'targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware'
UAE reportedly using 'legal' malware on erstwhile allies
Security18 Apr 2022 | 40
Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan
Comment Populist provocateur ponders partners to pay for platform prize
Personal Tech16 Apr 2022 | 117
GitHub's Dependabot learns to report bad news you can use
Instead of just raising the alarm, automated code-scold will flag where the fire is
Devops15 Apr 2022 |
Broken password check algorithm lets anyone log into Cisco's Wi-Fi admin software
Specially crafted credentials grant remote high-privilege access? That's a 10 out of 10 in severity
Networks14 Apr 2022 | 31
Cisco's Webex app phoned home audio telemetry even when muted
Study finds turning sound off in a range of applications doesn't always cut the mic
Security14 Apr 2022 | 42
IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case
Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires
Legal14 Apr 2022 | 26
Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll
Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price
Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 45
Stolen-data market RaidForums taken down in domain seizure
Suspected admin who went by 'Omnipotent' awaits UK decision on extradition to US
Security12 Apr 2022 | 16
Ex IT chief at Homeland Security watchdog stole US govt software to pirate
Murali Venkata found guilty of conspiracy to resell case management app
Applications12 Apr 2022 | 11
At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks
Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups
Devops11 Apr 2022 | 48
Perforce now pulls Puppet's strings: Takeover announced
What looked like Plan B is now Plan A for config management biz
Devops11 Apr 2022 | 3
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer
SaaS08 Apr 2022 | 24
Apple iOS privacy clampdown 'did little' to reduce tracking
Double-standard rules have strengthened iGiant's gatekeeper power
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 18
Russian media watchdog bans Google from advertising its services
Agency upset YouTube hasn't removed 'fake' videos about activities it won't call 'war'
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 90
Adobe Creative Cloud Experience makes it easier to run malware
Bundled version of Node.js simplifies executing downloaded code
Security07 Apr 2022 | 7
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
Special report Lawsuit accuses Big Blue of cheating investors by shifting systems revenue to trendy cloud, mobile tech
SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 84
Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on
'Routine maintenance script' blamed for derailed service for unlucky customers
SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 34
Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina
About 35-40% of iGiant's desktop OS installs potentially vulnerable, says Intego
Patches06 Apr 2022 | 70
Amazon internal chat app that censored talk of unions and ethics may 'never launch at all'
Filter list reportedly would block 'living wage,' 'pay rises,' 'restroom,' etc
Applications05 Apr 2022 | 41
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
Move is supposed to be double-plus good for supply-chain security
Devops05 Apr 2022 | 16
Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter, sends share price to the Moon
If your internet megaphone lands you in enough trouble, might as well own part of it
Personal Tech04 Apr 2022 | 66
Court erred in Neo4j source license ruling, says Software Freedom Conservancy
If decision is upheld, this 'could seriously harm FOSS and copyleft'
Software02 Apr 2022 | 30
GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts
Fixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea
Security01 Apr 2022 | 6
