Donald Trump

Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt

Analysis The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech

Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 51

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

Updated If you were wondering how the US White House race is going in 2024, it's going like this...

Bootnotes11 Jul 2024 | 185

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

It’s definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry

Bootnotes14 May 2024 | 283

Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration

Orange candidate has been known to use protectionist policy against allies

AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 12

Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant

Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day...

Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8

Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

Talk about an unholy social media alliance

Offbeat12 Mar 2024 | 96

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg

Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 93

Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters

Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve

AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 40

Florida man slams 'tyranny' of central bank digital currencies in re-election bid

Talking points echo those of Ramaswamy and DeSantis as they drop out of the race

Personal Tech22 Jan 2024 | 157

Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an 'informed voter'

Comment Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this

Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 10

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers

Cyber-crime15 Aug 2023 | 306

TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year

Legal20 Jun 2022 | 9

US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails

Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed

SaaS03 May 2022 | 62

Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

Golf fan has opinions on America's First Amendment and Section 230

Personal Tech07 Jul 2021 | 154

A real go-GETTR: Former Trump aide tries to batter Twitter by ripping off its UI

Critic points out that restrictive T&Cs just make it 'Twitter without the porn'

Bootnotes02 Jul 2021 | 50

Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'

Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever

Legal05 May 2021 | 32

Foxconn and Wisconsin reach new deal to do something different at Donald Trump's favourite (flop of a) factory

Speculation of shift to EVs swirls as governor who once said $3bn subsidy plan was a con now thinks it 'works for taxpayers'

On-Prem20 Apr 2021 | 19

US Office of National Intelligence says Russia, Iran tried to mess with 2020 elections, China sat it out

Security precautions held up, but Putin himself signed off on efforts to scare the public with claims of voting system compromise

Security17 Mar 2021 | 12

Twitter sues Texas AG to halt 'retaliatory' demand for internal content-moderation rulebook in wake of Trump ban

Lone Star state and web biz clash over First Amendment rights

Personal Tech09 Mar 2021 | 48

Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election

Turns out words have consequences

Security05 Feb 2021 | 95

Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas

But that's fake news

Personal Tech21 Jan 2021 | 107

Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president

As recommended by Peter Thiel

AI + ML20 Jan 2021 | 131

Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply

And them good ol' boys revokin' sanction to buy, singin', 'Soon will come the day that we fly'

Security18 Jan 2021 | 39

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Trump ban means the service has failed

‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump’ says @Jack

Personal Tech14 Jan 2021 | 92

Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements

With just a week left of the administration, here we go again

On-Prem12 Jan 2021 | 33

Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?

Comment Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable

Personal Tech11 Jan 2021 | 221

Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal

Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant

Legal11 Jan 2021 |

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Updated Images of evacuated and invaded offices, Senate PCs still left switched on shared online

Security06 Jan 2021 | 303

Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls, Biden may just throw the web legal shield on the bonfire anyway

FCC won't mull law reform this month

Networks05 Jan 2021 | 39

Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas

Applicants will need to hold off until March at the earliest

On-Prem04 Jan 2021 | 12

File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result

Legal geniuses behind case ask for extra time to convert between Google Docs and MS Word

SaaS04 Jan 2021 | 106

Trump administration says Russia behind SolarWinds hack. Trump himself begs to differ

Microsoft’s analysis of hack suggests someone else had a crack at SolarWinds in 2019 when next-level 'DLL hell' followed likely developer pipeline compromise

Security20 Dec 2020 | 124

Atlantic City auctions off chance to hit Big Red Button and make grotesque Trump Plaza casino go boom

Can we do Trump Tower next?

Bootnotes18 Dec 2020 | 64

Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

And no, we’re not going to prosecute the bloke who found out

Security17 Dec 2020 | 150

Judge strikes down another attempt by President Trump to force a TikTok US sale

Donald-appointed jurist says Uncle Sam 'likely overstepped' authority, 'acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner'

Personal Tech08 Dec 2020 | 25

New twist in H-1B saga as US Senate moves to abolish per-country visa caps

Means India no longer has the same number of visas to bid for as tiny countries

Legal03 Dec 2020 | 12

When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way

With Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time

SaaS02 Dec 2020 | 65

President Trump's rushed-through H-1B techie visa crackdown halted by federal judge

Super Cali goes ballistic, process was atrocious

Science02 Dec 2020 | 52

Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

Terminated by presidential tweet that piled on the baseless election-rigging allegations CISA director sought to counter

Security18 Nov 2020 | 224

UK, Canada could rethink the whole 'ban Huawei' thing post-Trump, whispers Huawei

Analysis Veep needles British government: Without us, you'll 'widen the north-south digital divide'

Personal Tech17 Nov 2020 | 33

Mr President? Donald?! Any chance you can actually decide if Oracle can buy us or do we have to leave?

Updated TikTok asks court to intervene as administration says injunction preventing closure means its hands are tied

Personal Tech11 Nov 2020 | 47

Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired

Orange is the new sacked

SaaS07 Nov 2020 | 370

Trump H-1B visa crackdown hit with legal double whammy: Tech giants, Chamber of Commerce challenge rules

'Foreign-born scientists, engineers, developers of emerging technology, other highly skilled workers' locked out of America

Science03 Nov 2020 | 33

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

Rule change to encourage American orgs to hire American workers over foreign talent

Science03 Nov 2020 | 64

TikTok wins right to stay in America past current Art of the Deal deadline on November 12th

Court ponders keeping it alive for three plaintiffs before deciding Made-in-China app can keep amusing everyone

Legal02 Nov 2020 | 14

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

Well, that narrows down the list of suspects to just a few billion people

Security28 Oct 2020 | 170

After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'

It's saying something when it's easy to believe the US President's passphrase was maga2020!

Security23 Oct 2020 | 43

Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined

Surreal tales from the Midwest

Science20 Oct 2020 | 181

US-China trade war worse for tech business than COVID-19, says VMware's Asia boss

VMworld Buyers aren't super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops

Virtualization01 Oct 2020 | 6

Putin to Trump: Let's collude to stop election hacking

Russia wants no-hack pact, CERTs and nuclear agencies to conduct regular chit-chats

Security28 Sep 2020 | 44

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

That’s China’s view of the Oracle/Walmart TikTok takeover. Now to see if that translates into a ban on the sale

Legal25 Sep 2020 | 34

TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments

Video-sharing app appears to have had enough of presidential posturing

Personal Tech24 Sep 2020 | 44

Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear

Analysis Proposed Section 230 overhaul shockingly free of hyperbole

Personal Tech23 Sep 2020 | 18

Have no idea WTF is going on with the Oracle-Walmart TikTok deal? Don’t sweat it, here’s our latest rundown

Analysis TL;DR: Trump is confusing everything to stay in the spotlight

SaaS21 Sep 2020 | 35

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

Deal dilutes Chinese stake enough for Trump to tentatively approve

On-Prem20 Sep 2020 | 34

Oracle hosting TikTok US data. '25,000' moderators hired. Code reviews. Trump getting his cut... It's the season finale

Comment Reality TV has now come to international business deals

SaaS16 Sep 2020 | 61