Politics

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 | 94

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 | 64

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 | 187

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 | 194

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers

They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds

Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 91

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 | 352

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 | 57

Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year

Because who needs disinformation research at times like these

Research14 Jun 2024 | 85

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

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

So much for that free speech, huh?

Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 67

California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks

Route 404: Human driver requirement not found

AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 60

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 | 9

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 | 220

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