Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 21
Seriously, what's with FBI, DEA vacuuming up people's money transfer records? Warrantless surveillance branded illegal, said to unfairly target the poor, immigrants, minorities Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 3
UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail Two years in the clink proposed for not thinking of the children Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 85
You can't handle the truth! Indian government suggests its own fact checkers judge what's right on social media Classy: slips obviously conflicted idea in alongside changed gaming rules on last day of consultation period Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 2
CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit Technology has the potential to make life better. This isn't it. Personal Tech06 Jan 2023 | 116
FTC floats rule to ban imposed non-compete agreements in US Miscreants would face the wrath of Khan Legal06 Jan 2023 | 15
Apple accused of censoring apps in Hong Kong and Russia to maintain market access Activists note absence of VPNs ponder whether Apple may put revenue above human rights in some markets Security22 Dec 2022 | 35
OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE AI + ML21 Dec 2022 |
Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization You're holding your staff meetings the wrong way Personal Tech16 Dec 2022 | 35
Let's spend $22m supporting survivors of tech-enabled abuse, lawmakers suggest And the corporations making the tools for stalking and harassment in the first place? Anyone? Security16 Dec 2022 | 5
China reportedly bars export of homebrew Loongson chips to Russia – and everywhere else Meanwhile, Moscow ponders a ban on offshore tech workers Systems15 Dec 2022 | 38
90+ groups warn US Senate of 'damaging consequences' from Kids Online Safety Act The kids aren't alright Personal Tech29 Nov 2022 | 11
International cops arrest hundreds of fraudsters, money launderers and cocaine kingpins $155,000-a-month lifestyle ends in cuffs for suspected crim Security29 Nov 2022 | 24
Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland 'Geopolitical environment' leads to spin-out of cloud, self-driving and other tech Personal Tech28 Nov 2022 | 36
San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots Asimov would like a word Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 67
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 |
US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes ACLU argues for the Fourth Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 105
Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected Systems16 Nov 2022 | 13
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
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
IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme Systems21 Oct 2022 | 38
Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 16
SolarWinds and Dynatrace directors resign over antitrust concerns DoJ cracks down on competing companies that share board members Software20 Oct 2022 | 3
Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars Hotwiring is so 2021 Cyber-crime18 Oct 2022 | 116
Optus data breach prompts pincer movement of twin regulatory probes Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings Security11 Oct 2022 | 4
South Korea cancels passport of Terraform Lab's Do Kwon Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 1
Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 14
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
VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked our downloads? Activists help pen letter to New Delhi demanding answers Software05 Oct 2022 | 10
IBM battles to settle yet more age discrimination claims While accused of already breaking terms of an earlier deal On-Prem04 Oct 2022 | 4
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
Teardown shows Apple iPhone 14 Pro is not pro-repair Who cares if they are authentic parts! Come to the iStore instead if you know what's good for you Personal Tech27 Sep 2022 | 23
NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship He always wanted to fight in the military – are his draft papers on the way? Bootnotes26 Sep 2022 | 77
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030 It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more Science26 Sep 2022 | 124
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
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
Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist So is that three or four stars? Cyber-crime19 Sep 2022 | 23
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
EU puts smart device manufacturers on the hook for cyber security Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters Systems16 Sep 2022 | 69
Chinese court OKs trading crypto, if it's considered a virtual asset This may not be in the spirit of Beijing's many bans on blockheads Software15 Sep 2022 |
Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality Bootnotes14 Sep 2022 | 21
Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230 White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 23
Google allows test of real-money gambling apps in India, but without its billing systems Local regulators think such apps should be banned because of incidents including suicides Software09 Sep 2022 | 3
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
Indian tech minister picks a fight with Wikipedia over cricketer's dropped catch Also separatism, nationalism, and whether Big Tech does enough to police user-generated content Bootnotes06 Sep 2022 | 17
Google tests alternative payment methods in Play store Pilot scheme running in Europe, APAC, sees ad giant still take its cut Software05 Sep 2022 | 4
Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site Escalation of targeted threats is an 'emergency' that required 'dangerous' decision 'we are not comfortable with,' says CEO PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2022 | 156
DeFi venture OptiFi permanently locks up $661,000 of assets in code snafu Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command Bootnotes02 Sep 2022 | 22
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
California lawmakers approve online privacy law for kids. Which may turn websites into identity checkpoints Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 63
Australian court overturns 'Google is a publisher' decision Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb Personal Tech17 Aug 2022 | 43
Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000 Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61
Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win Research16 Aug 2022 | 50
Samsung heir pardoned after doing time for bribery Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis Legal15 Aug 2022 | 15
Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior Legal15 Aug 2022 | 72
Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins Legal12 Aug 2022 | 26
FTC ponders proper punishment for commercial data 'surveillance' and shoddy security Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 4
Microsoft joins India's monopoly-busting e-commerce multi-mart The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant Software11 Aug 2022 | 3
Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 3