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
Law
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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
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