Data

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