Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an 'informed voter' Comment Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 10
Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 19
US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58
Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 30
Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight Networks11 May 2023 | 10
Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone' Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass' Bootnotes10 May 2023 | 219
Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13
Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho Devops15 Feb 2023 | 62
Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids Old man yells at cloud, literally Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5
Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce Boffins find Twitter foreign influence campaign didn't have much pull Security10 Jan 2023 | 60
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim Science02 Nov 2022 | 38
Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting Bootnotes17 Oct 2022 | 77
Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230 White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 22
Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8
Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street Research25 Aug 2022 | 38
TikTok wants your trust around US midterm elections data Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried CSO17 Aug 2022 | 4
The trade ban that wasn't: US allows 94% of restricted tech exports to China anyway 谢谢 美国! On-Prem17 Aug 2022 | 26
Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 63
Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 58
President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby! Legal09 Aug 2022 | 17
Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town Comment Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise Off-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 6
US net neutrality bill is only two pages long. And that's potentially a good thing May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 17
National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle ADPPA doesn't make everyone happy, particularly California Legal21 Jul 2022 | 14
Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P Science15 Jul 2022 | 62
Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary Systems15 Jul 2022 | 30
Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 34
US senators seek input on their cryptocurrency law via GitHub – and get some Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day Personal Tech25 Jun 2022 | 19
Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction $20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy Systems23 Jun 2022 | 18
Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc Systems15 Jun 2022 | 24
Revealed: The semi-secret list of techs Beijing really really wishes it didn't have to import I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows On-Prem27 May 2022 | 26
Quad nations pledge deeper collaboration on infosec, data-sharing, and more But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well Security25 May 2022 | 8
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint? Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 84
'Peacetime in cyberspace is a chaotic environment' says senior US advisor Black Hat Asia The internet is now the first battleground of any new war – before the shooting starts Cyber-crime13 May 2022 | 2
Growing US chip output an 'expensive exercise in futility', warns TSMC founder Production talent isn't here, costs are high ... so how's that multi-billion-dollar Arizona plant coming, eh? Systems20 Apr 2022 | 42
US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China Was no one else available? No one? On-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 37
Midwest tornado destroys Amazon warehouse, killing six after worker 'told not to leave' Updated More than eighty feared dead across multiple US states hit by super storms On-Prem13 Dec 2021 | 44
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob' Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity Software15 Oct 2021 | 306
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 194
Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot Hash cracking reveals verboten slurs, terms like 'liberals, 'Palestine,' and 'socialist' ... and Quake's famous Fast InvSqrt AI + ML02 Sep 2021 | 94
Facebook takes bold stance on privacy – of its ads: Independent transparency research blocked Updated Heaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation Personal Tech04 Aug 2021 | 49
Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone Market dominance of tech giants in President's cross-hairs Personal Tech09 Jul 2021 | 77
Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely Donald, you're fired. Again Personal Tech04 Jun 2021 | 82
First Coinbase, now Basecamp: Should workplaces ban political talk on internal corporate platforms? Updated 'You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target' Software27 Apr 2021 | 54
Absolutely fab: As TSMC invests $100bn to address chip shortage, where does that leave the rest of the industry? Analysis Semiconductor sovereignty, meet supply chain security On-Prem02 Apr 2021 | 52
Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection Hosts, guests paid off to 'ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community' Personal Tech13 Jan 2021 | 19
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting Updated And no, Parler wasn't hacked either. Its public posts were simply scraped SaaS11 Jan 2021 | 141
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem Don't worry, Mr President, we've found another platform for you: /dev/null Personal Tech09 Jan 2021 | 348
HPE to move HQ from Silicon Valley to Texas, says Lone Star State is 'attractive' for recruitment, retaining staff Houston, we had a problem... in San Jose SaaS02 Dec 2020 | 65
Election security fears doused with reality: Top officials say Nov 3 'was the most secure in American history.' The end 'No evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised' Security13 Nov 2020 | 177
Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report Bought 'estimated onomastic data' tagged onto data of millions of Brit voters Security12 Nov 2020 | 43
Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board What are the chances? Personal Tech09 Oct 2020 | 44
UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news Voters need to know who they are being targeted by, says MP Legal12 Aug 2020 | 84
Fancy some fishy-chips? Just order one of these sensors: Research shines light on suspect component sources Counterfeit and repurposed semiconductors still a problem Science14 Jul 2020 | 28
Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now As a colossal commit count crashes into Linux 5.8-rc5 OSes13 Jul 2020 | 272
The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references We wanted flying cars and space travel for 2020 but instead we got re-runs of fascist propaganda Personal Tech18 Jun 2020 | 156
Developers renew push to get rid of objectionable code terms to make 'the world a tiny bit more welcoming' 'Blacklist' and 'master' keep getting removed from source code Software08 Jun 2020 | 235
As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother Whitehat and blackhat next? Bootnotes02 May 2020 | 262
Google says no more shady anonymous web ads – if you want your billboard up, you've got to show us some valid ID Um, it wasn't doing this already? That explains a lot Personal Tech23 Apr 2020 | 29
Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into? Ah, bless Bootnotes15 Feb 2020 | 116
Oh this 2019 timeline. Finish this sentence: Austrian politico accused of spending €3,000 a month on ... Nobody at The Reg guessed (alleged) Clash of Clans microtransactions Bootnotes23 Dec 2019 | 26
From July, you better be Putin these Kremlin-approved apps on gadgets sold in Russia New law calls for pre-in-Stalin nationally mandated code Personal Tech23 Nov 2019 | 66