Government

Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech

Her legacy hinges on her successor – will they double down?

Public Sector20 Aug 2024 | 5

California trims AI safety bill to stop tech heads from freaking out

Anthropic boss meanwhile reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things'

AI + ML16 Aug 2024 | 27

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better

Software15 Aug 2024 | 114

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth

Networks12 Aug 2024 | 80

Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff

Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds

Science09 Aug 2024 | 51

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Exclusive Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots

Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 378

South Korea to force e-commerce marketplaces to pay vendors faster

Platforms owe billions after they stopped paying and sent thousands of SMEs into cashflow crunches

Software07 Aug 2024 | 9

Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can

Registry happy to chat about caps, just don't consider it a commitment to actually do anything

Networks06 Aug 2024 | 8

IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

'They actually replaced me with a younger employee'

Channel04 Aug 2024 | 34

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?

Research03 Aug 2024 | 146

San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords

Automated price-fixing software screwing over tenants? Fog off!

Software02 Aug 2024 | 39

Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged

First delays, then data leaks – now fraud detection needed at point of use

Security02 Aug 2024 | 36

Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing

Hold that thought, citizen

AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 34

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously

AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 181

Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+

Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims

Research31 Jul 2024 |

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

E-super-souk isn't having any of it

Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92

Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister

Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license

Public Sector30 Jul 2024 | 21

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans

Applications25 Jul 2024 | 38

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose

Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56

Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers

Interview What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages

AI + ML06 Jul 2024 | 19

Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS

That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends

Legal05 Jul 2024 | 57

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation

Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 426

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway

Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 35

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?

Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73

RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76

Obit Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion

Applications03 Jul 2024 | 51

EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law

And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow

Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13

Brace for new complications in big tech takedowns after Supreme Court upended regulatory rules

Analysis Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not experts

Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 64

Supreme Court orders rethink on Texas, Florida laws banning web moderation

Sites and apps aren't given a say? That doesn't seem very free speech

Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 21

CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?

So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies

Research28 Jun 2024 | 81

Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies

Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking

AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3

How Europe can force Apple to support competition

Exclusive Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant's rules

Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 56

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

Analysis Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes?

Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 49

US Surgeon General wants cigarette-style health warning labels on social networks

Something like ... Side effects may include low self esteem, short attention span, and intrusive ads?

Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 31

Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers

As more than 70 civil society groups sign open letter slamming 'intimidation'

Personal Tech16 Jun 2024 | 35

Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline

We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate

Public Sector06 Jun 2024 | 17

India's IT minister defeated in bid for lower house seat

Probably won't cost him his job, meaning India's messy tech to-do list remains his problem

Public Sector05 Jun 2024 | 2

OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops

That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce

AI + ML30 May 2024 | 11

Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you

Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 7

MIT professor hoses down predictions AI will put a rocket under the economy

It's easier to foresee growing inequality than surging growth

AI + ML29 May 2024 | 38

Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications

Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software

Public Sector28 May 2024 | 14

Uncle Sam's had enough of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, sues to end monopoly

Music to everyone's ears

Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 19

Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade

Luckily we have the Wayback Machine

Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27

Google I/O is Google A/I as search biz goes all-in on AI

Chrome is getting an onboard artificial intelligence model that devs can query

AI + ML14 May 2024 | 5

Critical infrastructure security will stay poor until everyone pulls together

Interview Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks

Public Sector11 May 2024 | 12

And it begins. OpenAI mulls NSFW AI model output

That's a new twist on open, then

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 29

Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion

Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly'

Personal Tech03 May 2024 | 18

Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe

Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web

Security30 Apr 2024 | 42

UK government faces £17.5M shortfall from UKCloud liquidation

Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project

Public Sector29 Apr 2024 | 20

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 18

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

The software redemption

Devops25 Apr 2024 | 29

Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs

Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape

AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 21

Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism'

Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays

Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 27

Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors

Lachwani faked it but didn't make it

Applications22 Apr 2024 | 7

UK data watchdog questions how private Google's Privacy Sandbox is

Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short

Security22 Apr 2024 | 3

Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release

VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking

AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 44

IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay

Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims

On-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 31