Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response Software09 Mar 2023 | 11
Leave your data where it is, we'll look at it there, says SAP German software giant opens analytics up to external sources Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |
UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir Databases28 Feb 2023 | 25
Seeing as GPT-3 is great at faking info, you should lean into that, says Microsoft When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade AI + ML27 Feb 2023 | 26
What Mary, Queen of Scots, can teach today’s cybersec royalty Opinion Tech has changed in 400 years. The rules haven’t Security20 Feb 2023 | 33
While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash Databases10 Feb 2023 | 3
Microsoft teases how it'll make Sentinel a bit easier to monitor and audit For those relying on this cloud-based security thing Software10 Feb 2023 | 1
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law And no more geofencing around health clinics either Security18 Jan 2023 | 9
AI may finally cure us of our data fetish Column There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 27
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57
FTC urged to clamp down on businesses' voracious appetite for data ACLU agrees that the only way to protect consumers is to control what can be collected Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds Legal22 Nov 2022 |
Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings Security20 Oct 2022 | 4
Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6
Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records Applications27 Sep 2022 | 4
Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023 Even those with older devices will have to sign in if they want to activate new features Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 27
Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard 'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges' Software15 Sep 2022 | 9
SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment Software15 Sep 2022 | 24
Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision Security14 Sep 2022 | 4
Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k? How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 36
Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5
Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years Oh what a failing! Legal03 Aug 2022 | 27
South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese Legal25 Jul 2022 |
UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130
Need baby formula? Buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens Updated Data privacy, data schmivacy Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 10
Russia fines Apple and Zoom for failure to prove domestic data storage Also: Ministry of Digitalization proposes new fine structure for data leaks Legal13 Jul 2022 | 25
UK Info Commissioner slams use of WhatsApp by health officials during pandemic Sure, stuff got done fast – but personal information was put at risk Security12 Jul 2022 | 41
China's cyberspace regulator details data export requirements The countdown to compliance began in January – last year Legal08 Jul 2022 | 1
IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else Software06 Jul 2022 | 22
Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies Software30 Jun 2022 | 1
Moscow court fines Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitch, UPS for not storing data locally Data sovereignty is more important than Ukrainian sovereignty Legal30 Jun 2022 | 32
Xi Jinping himself weighs in on how Big Tech should deploy FinTech Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data Legal24 Jun 2022 | 11
US senators seek ban on sale of health location data With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, privacy is key Research17 Jun 2022 | 32
America edges closer to a federal data privacy law, not that anyone can agree on it What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help! Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 7
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion 'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value Networks30 May 2022 | 43
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts Security25 May 2022 | 29
Bank for International Settlements calls for reform of data governance Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals Security06 May 2022 | 10
Ex-Google, Uber AI heads launch ML error-detection platform 'Soul-sucking' data problems were impetus for the founding of Galileo AI + ML04 May 2022 | 1
Don’t expect to get your data back from the Onyx ransomware group The cybercriminals trash files larger than 2MB, forever losing them to the void Security29 Apr 2022 | 13
AWS fixes strange clunks in its on-prem data-crunchers Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management Edge + IoT28 Apr 2022 | 1
Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court Latest LinkedIn blow / Profile harvesting legal / HiQ case rolls on Software19 Apr 2022 | 66
Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model? Yes and no. It's complicated. AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 7
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
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection Interview Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says Storage12 Apr 2022 | 14
EU, US agree on Privacy Shield enhancements Transatlantic data sharing deal confirmed but court challenges ahead, warn lawyers Legal25 Mar 2022 | 41
F-Secure spins out new enterprise security business: WithSecure CEO tells The Reg of new branding ahead of Finnish vendor's corporate split Security24 Mar 2022 | 5
Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended Security23 Mar 2022 | 33
China declares a new era of digitization has begun Xi's vision for once-in-a-lifetime transformation includes singular identity cards, shared data, and huge clouds Software18 Mar 2022 | 20
Googlers and co offer video dataset-generating Kubric How your computer-vision model learned to stop worrying and love the Python AI + ML15 Mar 2022 | 1
Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told Updated Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from regulators Personal Tech07 Mar 2022 | 78
Americans far more willing to hand over personal data As long as it translates into a better user experience Personal Tech23 Feb 2022 | 49
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok Age verification for large chunks of WWW to be mandatory Security08 Feb 2022 | 252
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it? Opinion Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it Personal Tech27 Dec 2021 | 97
Would you like a side of data with your chips? Silicon-slingers start bundling info with their hardware Intel, Nvidia, and others have figured out you need help getting started with AI AI + ML23 Dec 2021 | 2
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard But still allows limited harvesting Security16 Dec 2021 | 6
Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions Databases15 Dec 2021 | 1
UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy They'll even run a competition to help this along Legal09 Dec 2021 | 39
Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance' Off-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 6