Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director
Lawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page
On-Prem13 May 2023 | 12
Law
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote
It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology
AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit
Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case still on
Software12 May 2023 | 18
Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters
A new twist on fast food
Legal03 May 2023 | 14
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest
Dare we say that's a master stroke
Bootnotes03 May 2023 | 74
Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud
Gee, you mean that surge to 800,000 applications in one year isn't entirely legit? Shocking
Legal01 May 2023 | 34
NARROWER TOPICS
Europe floats patent overhaul, which obviously everyone's thrilled about
Industry groups and biz aren't yet sold on reforms
Legal01 May 2023 | 8
Brit politicians, Big Tech grumble about India tech laws
Free trade agreement founders, and fears of government censorship rise
Legal25 Apr 2023 | 10
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff
Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO
OSes24 Apr 2023 | 28
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot
Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot'
AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops
Storage20 Apr 2023 | 16
Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee
Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users
Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 16
EU lawmakers fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators
Rules proposed in EU AI Act are not enough to control 'very powerful AI'
AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 24
IT boss arrested over Cash App exec Bob Lee death
Updated Alleged killer said to be industry pal, faces one count of murder
On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 13
Sanctions-busting exporters sent $2 billion of tech to Russia through China, Hong Kong, and the UK in 2022
Reports find shipments spiked since sanctions were imposed, feeding Moscow's appetite for high-end kit
Legal12 Apr 2023 | 5
South Korea fines Google $32M for using market power to stymie rival app store
Forced developers to sign exclusivity agreements in return for promises of going global
Legal11 Apr 2023 | 5
Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit
Pic So, like, three iPhones and a Mac keyboard
Bootnotes07 Apr 2023 | 41
NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules
Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General
Security31 Mar 2023 | 17
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle
Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 73
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112
Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live
Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable
Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 18
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
Security13 Mar 2023 | 298
Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites
Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives
Personal Tech04 Mar 2023 | 167
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away
Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236
Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain
rm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam
CSO24 Feb 2023 | 33
Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...
Will Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that
Legal22 Feb 2023 | 59
Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere
Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere
Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37
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 | 104
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
