Legal Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict 03 Mar 01:55 | 8
Legal President Biden weighs in on Amazon unionization efforts, warns giant to steer clear of threats, coercion Stops well short of ordering govt action as fresh discrimination lawsuit filed 01 Mar 22:55 | 17
Legal UK government may force online retailers to pick up e-waste from consumers Future punters won't need to comb landfill for their bitcoin, we suppose 01 Mar 12:30 | 51
Legal Biden nixes Trump immigrant visa ban as clock runs down on H-1B suspension Keeping family members out of the country deemed harmful 27 Feb 01:42 | 10
Legal HPE urges judge to pick through Deloitte-bashing report it claims demolishes Autonomy founder's defence Plus: Full ruling in $5bn High Court case expected by end of Q1 26 Feb 13:39 | 48
Legal Zuck chucks Myanmar military out of Facebook and Instagram Is The Social Network™ finally declaring a stance in democracy and politics 26 Feb 05:57 | 32
Legal Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones Which? rides to the rescue of consumers and... er... Apple and Samsung? 25 Feb 10:06 | 51
Legal UKFast founder and ex-CEO Lawrence Jones denies rape and sexual assault charges Trial date set for February 2022 24 Feb 12:57 |
Legal UK taxman is supposed to know how IR35 reforms work but still lost appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams Observers say having multiple clients works in favour of techie contractors 22 Feb 13:46 | 38
Column Facebook and Apple are toying with us, and it's scarcely believable What to do when companies think they own their customers 22 Feb 11:26 | 116
Legal China's semiconductor self-sufficiency drive slid backwards in 2020 5.9 percent of silicon made at home now, goal is 70 percent in 2025 and the USA's sanctions seem to be biting 22 Feb 04:58 |
Legal Australian government fights Facebook news ban by threatening 0.01% of Zuck's ad revenue Talks continue but pay-for-news law won’t be amended 22 Feb 03:53 | 49
Legal Ex-American football player attempts to breathe life into failed lawsuit claiming Gears of War used his likeness First Amendment under the microscope 19 Feb 21:09 | 13
Legal Toxic: Intel ordered to pay chip fab worker almost $1m after he was gassed at its facility in 2016 Spouse to receive $250k over 'loss of consortium' following Arizona incident 18 Feb 15:46 | 43
Legal Now this is Epic: Fortnite maker takes Apple fight to the European Commission and... er... Bismarck, North Dakota Doesn't matter which court, Cupertino vociferously defends App Store terms 17 Feb 18:05 | 36
Legal UK tax collector won't probe businesses for compliance with IR35 rules unless there's reason to suspect naughtiness No penalties for contractor oopsies in first year, but you'll still have to pay what HMRC thinks you owe 17 Feb 10:21 | 25
Legal Does a national Digital Intelligence Unit sound a bit sinister? India's new one will co-ordinate action on SMS scams Maybe it can use the spatial data that India also liberalised yesterday to deliver promise of unplugging rogue operators 16 Feb 01:04 | 4
Legal Can we exhale yet? EU set to rule UK 'adequate' for data sharing in post-Brexit GDPR move Decision would mean less complicated situation for Blighty's digital economy 15 Feb 14:29 | 32
Column Hey, maybe we should all be cat-faced eco-warriors on our daily video chats IT can be measured to a high degree of accuracy – and what the world needs now is accurate data 15 Feb 09:30 | 58
Legal Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get back on the phone with Australia for more pay-for-news talks Compulsory arbitration code clears committee without amendments, but cracks show as one major local signs big Google deal 15 Feb 04:28 | 9
On-Prem Flagship Chinese chipmaker collapses before it makes a single chip or opens a factory Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor’s 7nm ambitions are dust
Applications Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform
Applications Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles
Software 'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed Bug keeps Mercedes, Venturi teams out of qualifying race
Ignite Microsoft previews Windows Server 2022: Someone took a spanner to core plumbing features New Windows Server ahoy - but the company would rather talk about Azure
Networks Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month
Security Perl.com theft blamed on social engineering attack: Registrar 'convinced' to alter DNS records by miscreants Network Solutions hasn't confirmed what happened, though
Ignite Excel-lent: Microsoft debuts low-code Power Fx language... but it is not really new Citizen development platform where everything looks like Excel
Security Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim
OSes Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team
Legal Facebook and Google’s Australian pay-for-news nightmare finds a European admirer MEP driving EU’s Digital Services Act backs down under cash dangle plan 10 Feb 06:08 | 32
Legal Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US Plus: Verdict will be delayed for High Court to pass judgment on HPE civil case 09 Feb 18:30 | 19
Legal India lifts 550-day Kashmir internet ban, tries to impose new Twitter ban Twitter flaps about between the law and the right to free speech 09 Feb 05:57 | 3
Legal You'd have told them they should have used Apple/Google app model, right? NHSX seeks willing humans to fill health tech and data roles £93k should help interested parties stomach challenge amid tumultuous change 08 Feb 13:03 | 16
Exclusive Missing GOV.UK web link potentially cost taxpayers £50m as civil servants are forced to shuffle paper forms medConfidential spots tiny yet staggering online blunder 01 Feb 09:30 | 69
Legal Satya Nadella spoke with Australian PM about opportunities created by pay-for-news-plan. Zuck called the Treasurer for a chat, too And the day after news of those talks emerged, Google said it never threatened to pull search from Australia 31 Jan 23:42 | 34
Legal A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI How do you license open-source hardware? Existing software licences will not do, says CERN 29 Jan 11:18 | 8
Legal Biden administration pauses ban on Chinese tech companies suspected of military entanglements Top telcos still designated as stooges, but they've perked up a bit 29 Jan 02:57 | 28
Legal Four cold calling marketing firms fined almost £500k by ICO That's 20 pence a pop for the 2.4 million calls made, many to Telephone Preference Service users 27 Jan 14:32 | 49
Legal Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours I’d love to sort out that issue for you, Steve, but it’s Saturday and I'd rather not commit a crime 27 Jan 07:32 | 149
Legal Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO Zoom is great for status update meetings, says big cheese, but as for inspiring a workforce... 18 Jan 11:30 | 158
Legal Xiaomi hit by US sanctions: Can't list on stock exchanges and investors can't invest Parting shot by Trump – but 'bi-partisan' push against China will continue, says analyst 15 Jan 21:02 | 26
Legal Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim 14 Jan 10:16 | 10
Legal Boss behind 'reset' of delayed, overbudget Emergency Services Network shifts to new 'digital' Cabinet Office role Three years at ESN would have been three years too many for most 13 Jan 16:59 | 21
Legal Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant 11 Jan 04:00 |
Legal US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax Officials instead probe similar levies mulled by UK, India, Europe 08 Jan 10:32 | 18
Legal New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle 04 Jan 04:57 | 13
Legal Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases 31 Dec 06:04 | 182
Legal Hong Kong's Hutchison Group, which runs mobile carrier ‘3’, protests as USA puts it on new China ban list Trump administration is behind the times: used old name for Chinese company Hutchison sold ages ago 23 Dec 03:03 | 54