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Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more

Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 7

Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality

Welcome back to the age of dark patterns

Legal09 Jul 2025 | 14

Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI

'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'

AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 38

Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff

Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled

Security08 Jul 2025 | 10

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed

Legal08 Jul 2025 | 2

TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

Comment Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

Legal07 Jul 2025 | 7

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 62

EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 42

Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

Public Sector04 Jul 2025 | 17

Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful'

'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then?

Personal Tech03 Jul 2025 | 65

23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time

Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter

Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 18

Huawei can't wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules

Dismissal bid denied as 16-count indictment moves toward court in May 2026

Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4

US imposes sanctions on second Russian bulletproof hosting vehicle this year

Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks

Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 10

International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign

Cyber-crime01 Jul 2025 | 4

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

Legal01 Jul 2025 | 28

Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open

Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy

Legal01 Jul 2025 | 18

DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code

Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s

Networks30 Jun 2025 | 5

Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material

Over 18? Prove it

Legal27 Jun 2025 | 49

Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins

Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’

Public Sector27 Jun 2025 | 29

More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case

Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers

AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 19

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Opinion Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it

Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

updated These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

No, really, those are the magic words

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

On Call First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation

AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly

Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs

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AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry

Updated The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022

Networks26 Jun 2025 | 23

French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins

Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes

Cyber-crime25 Jun 2025 |

Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues

The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy

Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8

WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1

SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order

Storage24 Jun 2025 | 19

Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules

CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country

Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 6

Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties

Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36

AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails

Regulator remains concerned about election integrity

Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4

EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine

Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue

Legal19 Jun 2025 | 7

Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders

Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless

Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 43

Apple dodges Optis patent payout for now as judge orders a do-over

Third time's a charm?

Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 7

AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights

UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case

Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2

Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop

Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Security16 Jun 2025 | 9

VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown

German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA

Legal16 Jun 2025 | 10

Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads

Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop

Legal12 Jun 2025 | 37

Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK

Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial

Legal12 Jun 2025 | 28

Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome

AI could bring a new round of browser wars

AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 21

ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement

Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements

Legal09 Jun 2025 | 3

Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?

Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks

Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 89

Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission

No wonder those products always rated so highly

Legal03 Jun 2025 | 18

Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents

Security30 May 2025 | 38

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

Storage30 May 2025 | 21

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots

Personal Tech29 May 2025 | 116

Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules

Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish

Applications29 May 2025 | 13

India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns

‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber

Legal29 May 2025 | 9

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam

Legal28 May 2025 | 50

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?

AI + ML27 May 2025 | 149

Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath

No, not Amazon. China’s SHEIN is in the spotlight for fake discounts, grubby greenery, and evading inquiries

Public Sector27 May 2025 | 66

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over

AI + ML22 May 2025 | 25

VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers

Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom

PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54

Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line

CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures

Security21 May 2025 | 5

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn

Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently

AI + ML20 May 2025 | 28

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech

Personal Tech20 May 2025 | 83

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo

Legal19 May 2025 | 8

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems

Cyber-crime19 May 2025 | 49

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities

Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 10

Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice

'We hope it makes attendees feel safe reporting violations'

Security16 May 2025 | 4

Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade

Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained

SaaS16 May 2025 | 7

Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing

AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat

Legal15 May 2025 | 30

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you

AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it

On-Prem15 May 2025 | 43

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'

AI + ML14 May 2025 | 71

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright

AI + ML12 May 2025 | 42

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI

AI + ML12 May 2025 | 113

TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade

Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more

Legal12 May 2025 | 4

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

On-Prem09 May 2025 | 74

Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed

Security07 May 2025 | 2

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62

Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle

Don't f&#k with Zuck

CSO06 May 2025 | 17

Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands

Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates

Legal02 May 2025 | 7

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them

PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

Minister, platform providers disagree on whether law would have helped avoid last summer's riots

Public Sector30 Apr 2025 | 75

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do'

Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 51

Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security

Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk

Security29 Apr 2025 | 70

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Updated UK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late?

AI + ML24 Apr 2025 | 45

Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online

Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb

Security24 Apr 2025 | 38

Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips

Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores

Systems24 Apr 2025 | 5

AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot

Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab

AI + ML23 Apr 2025 | 4

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship

Legal23 Apr 2025 | 54

India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs

Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 10

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous

AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 71

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions

Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant

Personal Tech22 Apr 2025 | 40

Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine

DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions

Security16 Apr 2025 | 23

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

Software16 Apr 2025 | 37

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 27

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 22

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 34

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 82

Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager

Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights

CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35

AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too

Security03 Apr 2025 | 148

Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling

Double-oh-sh...

CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10

Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence

Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue

PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 9

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer

Software01 Apr 2025 | 121

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

Not exactly Snowden levels of skill

Security01 Apr 2025 | 87

Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan

11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing

Legal31 Mar 2025 | 8

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

Software28 Mar 2025 | 22

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement

Virtualization26 Mar 2025 | 59

Judge halts DOGE's union personal data grab at OPM, Treasury, Education

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent

Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 58

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