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Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS
He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses
15 Oct 16:29 | 143
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FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished
The Register is an amazing website, simply one of the very best out there. Extremely cool people. 10/10
14 Oct 14:30 | 43
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Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs
Report claims documents show employees abusing access
13 Oct 22:01 | 14
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Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws
Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker
13 Oct 20:03 | 35
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EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm
Investigation to continue into early 2022
13 Oct 07:30 | 30
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Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data
Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded
12 Oct 15:18 | 30
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Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts
Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code
12 Oct 04:01 | 53
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Nearly 140 nations – from US and UK to EU, China and India – back 15% minimum corporate tax rate
Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one
08 Oct 21:29 | 85
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Ireland signs up for plan to make Big Tech pay 15 per cent tax everywhere
OECD close to finalising implementation plan hoped to secure a share of revenue from digital multinationals
08 Oct 06:58 | 26
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Outgoing UK Information Commissioner issues warning about the independence of her office
Blasts proposals for Secretary of State to approve ICO guidance
07 Oct 16:33 | 9
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Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments
But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free'
06 Oct 03:27 | 11
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Infosys and Wipro employees charged with insider trading
Undisclosed information allegedly shared earns one $350k, but he doesn't get to keep it
05 Oct 11:13 | 15
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Former SAP leader's lawsuit claims she was canned for pushing corporate diversity
Company says 34.7% women in their workforce is pretty dang good
04 Oct 13:45 | 41
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Campaigners call on minister to secure funding to protect UK workers' rights
Including shielding techies against bad behaviour from dodgy umbrella firms
01 Oct 11:15 | 12
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Beijing explains what China's new data protection law really means – a month after it took effect
Orders annual data reviews to ensure compliance with rules on how to handle data that's terrifying to lose, or merely scary
01 Oct 05:59 | 5
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Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients' data
Royal Free Hospital saga continues as representative action brought
30 Sep 16:02 | 15
Autonomy Trial
Autonomy founder Lynch scores extradition decision delay as Home Sec ponders sending him to US
All eyes on Priti Patel as High Court case recedes into insignificance
30 Sep 13:59 | 24
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Oracle loses appeal against $3bn payment to HPE over withdrawal of Itanium support
Could one of the longest and dirtiest cases in tech history finally be over?
30 Sep 12:27 | 22
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BT sued by representatives of the dead over unbundled landline market abuse claims
2.4m living and non-living Britons could score a payout, reckons lawsuit starter
29 Sep 15:30 | 5
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Infosec outfit Group-IB's website was defaced in weeks before CEO's arrest over high treason claims
Co-founder takes over after Ilya Sachkov reportedly nabbed
29 Sep 13:33 | 8
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Opinion
Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics
Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
NSFW Who, Me?
What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls
Say what you mean
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Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse
Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'
Personal Tech
Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims
We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this
Personal Tech
Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors
x86 is an eighty-sixed ex
Science
Oops, they did it again – rogue Soyuz spurt gave ISS an attitude problem
Crew successfully de-orbited on Sunday carrying vital payload: footage for a movie shot in space
OSes
Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials
Saving the forests by making printing even harder
On-Prem
Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers
Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common
Security
Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law
Ongoing crackdown saw apps 1.83 million apps tested, 4,200 told to clean up their act, pop-up ads popped
Security
US gov claims ransomware 'earned' $590m in the first half of 2021 alone – mostly in Bitcoin
Names and bars crypto exchange SUEX, warns paying ransoms could spell trouble
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Azure Purview is a preview no more: Microsoft is ready to sniff your sensitive data
Governance and compliance are the watchwords here
28 Sep 17:45 | 4
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Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars
Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant
28 Sep 15:01 | 129
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Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
27 Sep 05:57 | 35
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California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas
AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health
23 Sep 23:52 | 14
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Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to '$4.9bn' to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege
A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs
23 Sep 18:15 | 21
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Two Northern Irish cops face Computer Misuse Act charges over Twitter trolling campaign
Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences
23 Sep 15:16 | 6
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Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on
High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon
23 Sep 11:26 | 28
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Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
22 Sep 03:58 | 5
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SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke
Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
21 Sep 18:32 | 19
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Eco-friendly warning from UK tech trade group: Some of you have dirty green credentials
IT sector at risk of public humiliation if CMA finds they're not up to code
20 Sep 19:01 | 3
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App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data
Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings
15 Sep 14:15 | 6
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Wikipedia bans seven Chinese users amid concerns of 'infiltration, physical harm'
Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preserving freedom to edit in the face of hostile regimes
15 Sep 03:58 | 26
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Australia gave police power to compel sysadmins into assisting account takeovers – so they plan to use it
Soon, authorities intend to flush out CSAM and the creeps who share it. After that … privacy types are worried
14 Sep 04:57 | 44
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IBM's former Chinese Power Systems partner sues for theft of customer data
Alleges IBM China staff had access to confidential info and took it with them to new Inspur operation
13 Sep 06:01 | 4
Updated
Search 'middle finger' on Giphy: Basically Facebook's response to UK competition concerns over merger
'Fundamental errors' in CMA's findings, claims The Social Network
09 Sep 13:43 | 17
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Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly
Yes, that Amazon. The one that's been fined for breaches of privacy and labor laws and accused of price-fixing, making life hell for unions …
09 Sep 07:58 | 62
