Politics

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