Politics

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector

On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 47

No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming

But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 10

Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech

Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move...

AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 11

Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS?

Personal Tech06 Jun 2024 | 107

TSMC mulled moving chip fabs from Taiwan over China threat

CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible

Systems04 Jun 2024 | 9

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot

Personal Tech01 Jun 2024 | 210

FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI

How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 6

What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations...

'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say

AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 13

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims biz stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe

Bootnotes28 Feb 2024 | 97

Iran's cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference

Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers

Security07 Feb 2024 | 25

OpenAI bans long-shot presidential candidate bot for breaking T&Cs

Biden's challenger model shot down despite super PAC support

AI + ML22 Jan 2024 | 3

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever

Analysis How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 21

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

So much for that free speech, huh?

Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 67

California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks

Route 404: Human driver requirement not found

AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 60

Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an 'informed voter'

Comment Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this

Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 10

Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency

Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar

Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 19

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams

Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 30

Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos

It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers

Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31

So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet

As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight

Networks11 May 2023 | 10

Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'

Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass'

Bootnotes10 May 2023 | 220

Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads

In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI

AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho

Devops15 Feb 2023 | 62

Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids

Old man yells at cloud, literally

Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5

Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce

Boffins find Twitter foreign influence campaign didn't have much pull

Security10 Jan 2023 | 61

Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds

Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim

Science02 Nov 2022 | 38

Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven

Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting

Bootnotes17 Oct 2022 | 77

Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230

White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform

Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 23

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8

Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts

It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street

Research25 Aug 2022 | 38

TikTok wants your trust around US midterm elections data

Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried

CSO17 Aug 2022 | 4

The trade ban that wasn't: US allows 94% of restricted tech exports to China anyway

谢谢 美国!

On-Prem17 Aug 2022 | 26

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation

Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 63

Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters

Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 58

President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law

American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!

Legal09 Aug 2022 | 17

Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town

Comment Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise

Off-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 6

US net neutrality bill is only two pages long. And that's potentially a good thing

May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done

Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 17

National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle

ADPPA doesn't make everyone happy, particularly California

Legal21 Jul 2022 | 14

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P

Science15 Jul 2022 | 62

Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it

Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary

Systems15 Jul 2022 | 30

Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin

Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters

Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 34

US senators seek input on their cryptocurrency law via GitHub – and get some

Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day

Personal Tech25 Jun 2022 | 19

Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction

$20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy

Systems23 Jun 2022 | 18

Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill

This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc

Systems15 Jun 2022 | 24

Revealed: The semi-secret list of techs Beijing really really wishes it didn't have to import

I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows

On-Prem27 May 2022 | 26

Quad nations pledge deeper collaboration on infosec, data-sharing, and more

But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well

Security25 May 2022 | 8

Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law

Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint?

Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 84

'Peacetime in cyberspace is a chaotic environment' says senior US advisor

Black Hat Asia The internet is now the first battleground of any new war – before the shooting starts

Cyber-crime13 May 2022 | 2

Growing US chip output an 'expensive exercise in futility', warns TSMC founder

Production talent isn't here, costs are high ... so how's that multi-billion-dollar Arizona plant coming, eh?

Systems20 Apr 2022 | 42

US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China

Was no one else available? No one?

On-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 37

Midwest tornado destroys Amazon warehouse, killing six after worker 'told not to leave'

Updated More than eighty feared dead across multiple US states hit by super storms

On-Prem13 Dec 2021 | 44

Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity

Software15 Oct 2021 | 306

Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit

Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional

Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 194

Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot

Hash cracking reveals verboten slurs, terms like 'liberals, 'Palestine,' and 'socialist' ... and Quake's famous Fast InvSqrt

AI + ML02 Sep 2021 | 94

Facebook takes bold stance on privacy – of its ads: Independent transparency research blocked

Updated Heaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation

Personal Tech04 Aug 2021 | 49