Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230
White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform
Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 23
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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 | 32
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 | 41
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 | 307
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
Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese
How to make friends and influence people, 2019 Edition
Software31 Oct 2019 | 106
GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers
There's a line somewhere and we may just draw it, says code-hosting biz
Devops17 Oct 2019 | 49
Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship
Presenters withdraw from the PHP Central Europe conference, show organizers call it quits
Software27 Aug 2019 | 209
It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat
Top court undoes snub for provocatively named clothing brand
Bootnotes24 Jun 2019 | 54
No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences
Analysis No cybersecurity rules means networks are destined to be balkanized
Networks23 May 2019 | 239
Wednesday: Facebook sparks another privacy brouhaha. Thursday: Facebook axes Iranian disinfo bods. Fancy that!
Analysis Never mind these scandals, says social media giant. We're the good guys!
Legal01 Feb 2019 | 14
Europe taps Facebook, Google, Twitter on the shoulder. So about those promises to stamp out lies, bots, dodgy ads?
Internet giants hand in their homework – here's a summary
Legal30 Jan 2019 | 22
Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law
Analysis Evidence-based policy? What a novel idea...
Science16 Jan 2019 | 18
Facebook's CEO on his latest almighty Zuck-up: OK, we did try to smear critics, but I was too out-of-the-loop to know
Analysis Mark promises independent oversight and AI as Sheryl leans far, far away
Personal Tech15 Nov 2018 | 45
Watchdog slams political data slurpers' 'disturbing disregard' for voters' privacy
ICO's second report into data analytics in campaigning lands with a thud
Databases07 Nov 2018 | 8
Facebook quietly admits role in Myanmar killing fields – but fret not, it will do better next time
Social networks played key role in genocide says UN, Amnesty
Personal Tech06 Nov 2018 | 25
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