Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13
South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 24
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting Security27 Feb 2024 | 5
Juniper sued over HPE buyout after allegedly ginning up execs' wallets Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed Networks23 Feb 2024 | 10
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37
Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 17
India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million Paytm's merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast Personal Tech19 Feb 2024 | 11
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 42
European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all Security15 Feb 2024 | 212
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great Public Sector26 Jan 2024 | 18
AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 27
Intuit ordered to use the word 'free' less freely in its ads FTC slams TurboTax's marketing as deceptive Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 10
How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 44
IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office Executives told comply or say goodbye On-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 40
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 13
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments Interview AI can't cite cases, fully grok the law, or reason about it effectively, study finds AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 44
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output' AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 125
Supreme Court supremo ponders AI-powered judges, concludes he's not out of a job yet Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 6
Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms Google accused of tracking you even when you think it won’t Personal Tech29 Dec 2023 | 44
China bans export of rare earth processing kit Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home Legal22 Dec 2023 | 110
Artificial intelligence is a liability Comment Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words AI + ML21 Dec 2023 | 97
Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations Very Large Online Platform status means NSFW sites must clean up their acts Legal21 Dec 2023 | 66
Japan to allow limited rideshare services starting April 2024 Like Uber, but with drivers overseen by cab companies … for now Software21 Dec 2023 | 5
India's long-awaited telecoms bill drops language that would have regulated social media OTT apps in the clear. Indian citizens, not so much – law proposes registration, surveillance, and shutdown powers Public Sector19 Dec 2023 | 7
Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning Someone needs to think of the children ... and the consequences of breaking encryption and trashing privacy Networks19 Dec 2023 | 59
Apple, Corellium settle iOS virtualization case iGiant was on the back foot after courts found virtual iPhones were fair use Virtualization18 Dec 2023 | 2
Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results Legal14 Dec 2023 | 18
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world' Legal12 Dec 2023 | 53
Trust us, says EU, our AI Act will make AI trustworthy by banning the nasty ones Big Tech plays the 'this might hurt innovation' card for rules that bar predictive policing, workplace emotion assessments AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 17
US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe Cyber-crime07 Dec 2023 | 2
Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam Judge finds plaintiff's claim – that Amazon knew about illicit usage – credible enough for case to proceed Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 102
Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks University says ties to Meta execs and a $500 million donation played no role Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 10
Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 56
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data Awkward hill to die on, but OK Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 22
US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed Security30 Nov 2023 | 16
Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white' Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15
Ex-IBM sales veteran sues for access to health benefits Complaint alleges age discrimination harms certain retirees On-Prem19 Nov 2023 | 24
HP sued over use of forfeited 401(k) retirement contributions If IT giant loses this lawsuit, it might just upset every plan in America On-Prem16 Nov 2023 | 46
Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids Perp said to have secretly recorded patients – and digitally undressed them using web neural networks AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 54
Date night from hell looms for Apple as Netherlands says: 'It's not me, it's you' Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 4
Now Russians accused of pwning JFK taxi system to sell top spots to cabbies Big Apple unlikely to get a bite out of them at this rate, though Cyber-crime31 Oct 2023 | 6
King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause It's now up to Ofcom to sort out this messy legislation Security27 Oct 2023 | 153
13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal Chocolate Factory agrees $23m guilt-free settlement Legal25 Oct 2023 | 14
Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal Worked 38 years and was stiffed at the end, tells El Reg age was a probably factor On-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 40
Winklevoss twins back in hot water after NY AG sues over $1B cryptocurrency fraud Updated SBF comes up like a bad penny Legal19 Oct 2023 | 21
California's Governor Newsom signs laws on right to repair and data deletion 'Digital emancipation proclamation' praised by tech tinkerers, but info brokers aren't happy Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 11
India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime Legal09 Oct 2023 | 15
US v Sam Bankman-Fried trial begins ... as imploded crypto-biz boss sues his insurer After people's funds go up in smoke, ex-CEO seeks cash to foot legal bills Cyber-crime03 Oct 2023 | 14
Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info So much for that free speech, huh? Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 67
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 5
Watchdog urges change of HART: Late, expensive US biometric ID under fire Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Security13 Sep 2023 | 3
When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out Analysis On one hand, it's private-public cooperation. On the other, it's heavy-handed state intervention. We take a look at this important unfolding case Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 125
SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone The Mate 60 Pro keeps making waves – this time worrying Korean chipmaker Legal08 Sep 2023 | 21
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered Amazon, Google, and Meta helped it to draft guidelines on preventing 'dark patterns' Software08 Sep 2023 | 19