Politics

Trump promises he won't put his boot on Musk's neck

We're all businesspeople here, right?

Public Sector24 Jul 2025 | 27

Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts

'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing

Science09 Jul 2025 | 26

US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies

Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 18

Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing

Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods

Public Sector01 Jul 2025 | 13

Dems hyperventilate about Palantir's work with the IRS in letter to CEO Karp

They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true

Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 41

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

They're fighting like cats and DOGEs

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 144

Senate dishes out second helping of SAMOSA to kill costly software licenses

House version of software license management bill introduced in March has yet to budge amid distractions

Public Sector05 Jun 2025 | 4

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62

Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted

House Oversight probes missing Musk disclosures, background checks, data mess at NLRB

Public Sector01 May 2025 | 101

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

Dem Sens demand action to stop SpaceX oligarch from turning watchdogs into corporate yes-men

Public Sector28 Apr 2025 | 71

State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China

Demotion of cyberspace policy team, closure of others, not a great look

Public Sector28 Apr 2025 | 12

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 33

China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'

World War Fee Middle Kingdom retaliates against White House's 'instrument and weapon to bully and coerce'

Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 93

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board

From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 6

Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin

Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job

Systems27 Mar 2025 | 21

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weather

Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 68

Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly

Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 33

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

GOP lawyer Sean Cairncross will be learning on the fly, as we also say hi to new intelligence boss Tulsi Gabbard

Public Sector12 Feb 2025 | 54

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

Funding freeze while Feds review priorities

Science07 Feb 2025 | 64

Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access

Final update Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented'

Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 28

Dems want answers on national security risks posed by hiring freeze, DOGE probes

Updated Are cybersecurity roles included? Are Elon's enforcers vetted? Inquiring minds want to know

Security06 Feb 2025 | 35

Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists

CxO05 Feb 2025 | 48

Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues

Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report

Research30 Jan 2025 | 21

Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign

Analysis Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she helped build aren’t going anywhere

Legal21 Dec 2024 | 18

US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests

Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter

AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 9

Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans

Analysis Pro-crypto lawmakers are in, but will that translate to action? Doubt it

Public Sector30 Nov 2024 | 63

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties

Systems26 Nov 2024 | 275

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season

Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13

Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 178

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random

Offbeat18 Nov 2024 | 70

Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff

Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days

Science14 Nov 2024 | 48

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

Comment 'Department of Government Efficiency' expected to do little more than suggest changes, Congress will still decide

Public Sector14 Nov 2024 | 192

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers

They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds

Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 90

Judge decides not to block Musk's $1M election giveaway

America PAC tells judge winners were preselected, raising a whole new set of legal questions

Legal05 Nov 2024 | 69

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

C'mon, do you really think ol' Elon’s handing out all that cash, day after day?

Personal Tech21 Oct 2024 | 129

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar

Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections

Security18 Oct 2024 | 8

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says

Bootnotes23 Sep 2024 | 41

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

'No one is trying' to kill Biden or Harris, mogul says after alleged second attempt on Trump's life

Offbeat16 Sep 2024 | 342

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Surely this duty will be executed without bias toward NHTSA, FAA, DOJ, NLRB

Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 146

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon

Software04 Sep 2024 | 67

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

Better late than never

Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26

Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can

Registry happy to chat about caps, just don't consider it a commitment to actually do anything

Networks06 Aug 2024 | 8

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

Updated It claimed to have one job and couldn't do it

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 46

ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay

Poll Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz....

AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 55

Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year

Because who needs disinformation research at times like these

Research14 Jun 2024 | 80

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector

On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 47

No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming

But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 10

Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech

Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move...

AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 11

Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS?

Personal Tech06 Jun 2024 | 107

TSMC mulled moving chip fabs from Taiwan over China threat

CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible

Systems04 Jun 2024 | 9

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot

Personal Tech01 Jun 2024 | 210

FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI

How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 6

What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations...

'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say

AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 13

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims biz stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe

Bootnotes28 Feb 2024 | 97

Iran's cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference

Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers

Security07 Feb 2024 | 25

OpenAI bans long-shot presidential candidate bot for breaking T&Cs

Biden's challenger model shot down despite super PAC support

AI + ML22 Jan 2024 | 3

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever

Analysis How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 21