We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 42
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 20
Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball $1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless Applications10 Mar 2025 | 34
Alleged cyber scalpers Swiftly cuffed over $635K Taylor ticket heist I knew you were trouble, Queens DA might have said Cyber-crime07 Mar 2025 | 6
Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China Accused face up to 20 years in prison On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 18
Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect Experts warned the UK’s recent 'victory' over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect Security26 Feb 2025 | 119
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 33
Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year Security20 Feb 2025 | 18
2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times' Security14 Feb 2025 | 21
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 95
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits With drivemaker poised to become 2 publicly traded companies, judge says he has 'concerns' over restructuring Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic CxO13 Feb 2025 | 291
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
Man who SIM-swapped the SEC's X account pleads guilty Said to have asked search engine 'What are some signs that the FBI is after you?' Cyber-crime11 Feb 2025 | 9
Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track' Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 2
Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 7
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Legal06 Feb 2025 | 110
Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset Updated Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract Updated Election infosec advisory center also shuttered
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands
Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices Infosec in Brief Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory' AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 16
US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' Legal04 Feb 2025 | 24
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two? Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 185
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Legal22 Jan 2025 | 136
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 42
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 10
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board Analysis That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do Security14 Jan 2025 | 153
Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules Infosec in brief PLUS: Data broker leak reveals extent of info trading; Hot new ransomware gang might be all AI, no bark; and more Security13 Jan 2025 | 15
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
Two accused of COVID-19 vaccine fraud under Computer Misuse Act Investigation says scheme allegedly raked in £145k and sold nearly 2,000 fake records to the unvaccinated Legal10 Jan 2025 |
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case? CxO09 Jan 2025 | 75
What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This... Ex-politician in UK claims he's been defamed – and goes to court in US for answers Legal09 Jan 2025 | 89
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes Not just making them, but sharing them too Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers Regulator will see a 'participative' approach before imposing fines Public Sector08 Jan 2025 | 13
Report claims FAA ignores most whistleblower complaints analysis Officials beg to differ, claiming the author misinterpreted Congressional reports Legal31 Dec 2024 | 24
UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition To the surprise of no one, a multi-billion dollar deal comes under CMA scrutiny Legal31 Dec 2024 | 3
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial Analysis The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round Legal23 Dec 2024 | 15
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
Supreme Court to hear TikTok's appeal against law that would force it to shut, or sell Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out Legal19 Dec 2024 | 40
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday Legal16 Dec 2024 | 11
North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers Cyber-crime13 Dec 2024 | 2
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks Security11 Dec 2024 | 17
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands Networks11 Dec 2024 | 34
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations Software11 Dec 2024 | 34
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 132
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration Legal10 Dec 2024 | 22
Microsoft learned of fresh antitrust probe from the news Never mind our alleged cheating of customers – you guys are a bunch of leakers, Redmond tells watchdog Legal04 Dec 2024 | 2
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiff Legal02 Dec 2024 | 8
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth' Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 17
Google earns fresh competition scrutiny from two nations on a single day India unhappy about treatment of some games, Canada upset by adware monopoly Legal29 Nov 2024 | 13
Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting Legal28 Nov 2024 | 84
Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online 'See you in court', defendant posts Legal28 Nov 2024 | 29
Microsoft informed of yet another antitrust probe by US authorities Investigation is apparently sweeping, but keen on info about AI, security, and cloud Legal28 Nov 2024 | 5
Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82
Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly Legal18 Nov 2024 | 71
WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size Software15 Nov 2024 | 23
Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim Systems06 Nov 2024 | 15
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
That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled Turns out it's perfectly legal to waste applicants' time, use posts to squeeze more productivity out of employees Legal03 Nov 2024 | 132
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Don't hold your breath Putin Software29 Oct 2024 | 260
iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines Burger me! Partial success in chipping away at insane DMCA rules Software29 Oct 2024 | 59
Billionaire SaaS CEO loses title after week of sleaze allegations Not much more than a slap on the wrist as WiseTech boss stays on in new role and keeps salary Legal25 Oct 2024 | 6
Penn State pays DoJ $1.25M to settle cybersecurity compliance case Fight On, State? Not this time Security23 Oct 2024 | 3
AI firms and civil society groups plead for passage of federal AI law ASAP Congress urged to act before year's end to support US competitiveness AI + ML23 Oct 2024 | 8
Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses Qualcomm brands ploy as 'unfounded' cash grab Legal23 Oct 2024 | 48
Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster No losses caused – except the intern's job – says TikTok parent AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 18
Drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over ‘Chinese military company’ label Pending CCP drone ban could render the suit irrelevant Legal22 Oct 2024 | 14
Server-maker Wiwynn expands $61M lawsuit against X Finds two more reasons Musk should have known he was on the hook for datacenter kit Legal18 Oct 2024 | 21
FTC drops hammer on unwanted subscriptions with 'click to cancel' rule It 'will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money' Legal16 Oct 2024 | 18
Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July Vendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren’t valid obligations Software15 Oct 2024 | 65
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too Software14 Oct 2024 | 24
US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival Legal09 Oct 2024 | 5
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 21
Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot Legal04 Oct 2024 | 77
FBI claims corrupt LA cops helped crypto CEO's cash grab Feds tell thrilling tale of crypto crooks, Facebook scams, fast cars, guns, betrayal … and leg extensions? Legal02 Oct 2024 | 22
Cruise fined $1.5M for failing to report right away its robo-car dragged a pedestrian Code-controlled taxi biz tiptoes back with supervised driving in Phoenix and Dallas AI + ML01 Oct 2024 | 12
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant Software01 Oct 2024 | 34
Epic Games starts Battle Royale with Samsung, Google over app store practices Updated Alleges Korean giant's app store lockdown is no accident, and anticompetitive Software01 Oct 2024 | 12
Short sellers rejoice on report of Supermicro DoJ probe Comment Alleged inquiry comes amid claims server maker cooked its books Systems26 Sep 2024 |
Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim iThing-maker is Putin Kremlin repression ahead of privacy, rights orgs argue Software26 Sep 2024 | 27
Uncle Sam accuses Aussie AI startup boss of financial fakery that duped investors Crikey! $40M of investments in 'digital employees' allegedly went down faster than a frosty Fosters Legal26 Sep 2024 | 14
WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk Updated That escalated quickly Software26 Sep 2024 | 59
Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get £240M+ damages Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Legal25 Sep 2024 | 2
VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops Updated Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Virtualization25 Sep 2024 | 6
SBF's right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions Legal25 Sep 2024 | 32
WP Engine hits back after Automattic CEO calls it 'cancer' Updated Cease'n'desist letter claims top boss demanded tens of millions for trademark license Software24 Sep 2024 | 18
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate Virtualization23 Sep 2024 | 31
Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue Software19 Sep 2024 | 32
Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 13