Government

Beijing official says crackdown on tech companies is over

We might be looking at a new China for 2023 and the Year of the Rabbit

Legal10 Jan 2023 | 3

India partners with private company to sell ads to commuters via railway Wi-Fi

Dangerous without a data protection law in place, says rights org

Personal Tech06 Jan 2023 | 4

FTC floats rule to ban imposed non-compete agreements in US

Miscreants would face the wrath of Khan

Legal06 Jan 2023 | 15

Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on

Freeze, Muskhole!

AI + ML04 Jan 2023 | 173

Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system

Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee

Security20 Dec 2022 | 24

Eurozone plans to formalize passenger data, improve security

Central hub will make things smoother and safer but not store details

Security20 Dec 2022 | 25

NIST says you better dump weak SHA-1 ... by 2030

How about right now? Right now is good

Security16 Dec 2022 | 31

IT recruiter settles claims it snubbed American workers

It's a Jersey thing, and the $26,000 can be filed under business expenses

On-Prem15 Dec 2022 | 16

Apple preps for 'third-party iOS app stores' in Europe

Despite dire predictions about sideloading, iGiant said to be ready to comply with EU law

Software14 Dec 2022 | 116

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud by just about everyone

Billions in people's private funds siphoned off to bankroll hedge fund, watchdogs say

Personal Tech13 Dec 2022 | 54

US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

Updated If Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy

Science13 Dec 2022 | 100

CERN, Fermilab particle boffins bet on AlmaLinux for big science

CentOS tossed

OSes08 Dec 2022 | 15

Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights

Schrems strikes again

Personal Tech08 Dec 2022 | 29

Egad, did Apple do something right? End-to-end encryption for (most) iCloud services

And remember CSAM scanning plan? Forget that was ever a thing

Security08 Dec 2022 | 14

Get ready for $10,000 apps in Apple's software souk

With Tim taking his third, natch

Software07 Dec 2022 | 17

Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages

Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation

Science06 Dec 2022 | 14

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

You don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around

Security05 Dec 2022 | 149

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'

Security03 Dec 2022 | 184

Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team

Personal Tech02 Dec 2022 | 32

Google warns of commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Defender

Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones

Security01 Dec 2022 | 3

Twitter search spam campaign hides China riots, researchers say

Elon Musk meanwhile muses whether Apple 'hate[s] free speech in America' because the company mostly stopped advertising on Twitter

Personal Tech29 Nov 2022 | 28

Block Fi seeks bankruptcy protection as 'shocking' FTX contagion spreads

Crypto lending biz wants its money back "as promptly as practicable"

Personal Tech28 Nov 2022 | 72

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

Asimov would like a word

Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 67

FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots

US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash

Software23 Nov 2022 | 87

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone

Software22 Nov 2022 | 81

IBM manager sues for $5m claiming postnatal demotion

Congratulations on the twins! By the way, our discrimination laws are 'subject to interpretation'

On-Prem21 Nov 2022 | 15

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

ACLU argues for the Fourth

Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 105

Security firms hijack New York trees to monitor private workforce

Employee management tech raises eyebrows in the Big Apple

Security17 Nov 2022 | 57

Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict

Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected

Systems16 Nov 2022 | 13

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out

Security16 Nov 2022 | 70

After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report

Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve

Legal16 Nov 2022 | 4

FTX collapse prompts other cryptocurrency firms to suspend withdrawals

Bankruptcy filing for $32 billion firm follows inability to give customers their money

Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 89

You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors

'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 47

Feds accuse Ukrainian of renting out PC-raiding Raccoon malware to fiends

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal

Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 1

Uncle Sam says Chinese agents tried to interfere with Huawei criminal case in US

Beijing also sought to recruit academics and officials in America, and more claimed

Security24 Oct 2022 | 9

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

Science17 Oct 2022 | 40

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

Exclusive Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids

Security13 Oct 2022 | 142

Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone

Judge rejects defense effort to toss warrantless device search on privacy grounds

Security13 Oct 2022 | 29

Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 73

PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea

It'll just go back to randomly shutting down accounts

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 85

That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? Here's how to break it

RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Cyber-researchers suggest ways to potentially defeat it

Security09 Oct 2022 |

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

How's your day going?

Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 58

American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China

LA DA ain't happy about handling of poll workers' info

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 23

From today, America and UK follow new rules on how they can demand your data from each other

Cops and Feds get easier info sharing, Britain benefits most

Security03 Oct 2022 | 19

Federal agencies buying Americans' internet data challenged by US senators

Maybe we don't want to go with the netflow, man

Networks22 Sep 2022 | 14

Alert: 15-year-old Python tarfile flaw lurks in 'over 350,000' code projects

Oh cool, a 5,500-day security hole

Patches22 Sep 2022 | 53

Look who's fallen foul of Europe's data retention rules. France and Germany

'Indiscriminate' preemptive harvesting of personal info a big no-no. What a novel concept

Security21 Sep 2022 | 12

Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law

Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful

Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 112

Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work

If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something

Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 18

Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230

White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform

Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 23

CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy

Particle accelerators could be next casualty of Russia's war on Ukraine

Science07 Sep 2022 | 74

US wants to give global chipmakers a 25% tax credit on new fabs

Plus $39 billion in subsidies for 'domestic' effort that will welcome foreign semiconductor players

Systems06 Sep 2022 | 8

California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings

Legislation also aims to tackle wage gaps around gender, race, and ethnicity

Legal06 Sep 2022 | 64

Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech

Teams too big, operate in silos, lack subject matter experts and C-suite exec buy-in

On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 32

Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

Doxing and hate-spreading websites deserve as much space on the internet as you or I, says CEO

Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 64

Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks

Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed

Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 82