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 | 413
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 | 72
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 | 48
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
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Systems18 Apr 2024 | 1
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI + ML17 Apr 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
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing Legal11 Apr 2024 | 19
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse In depth It's the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 46
US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products Analysis In what other sphere does a bad supplier not feel pain for its foulups? Cyber-crime05 Apr 2024 | 21
Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 2
Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory's Bergstrom Devops31 Mar 2024 | 134
Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 58
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin' CSO26 Mar 2024 | 11
Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators Science22 Mar 2024 | 78
UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 128
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 44
Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity Security12 Mar 2024 | 5
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules Security12 Mar 2024 | 3
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 1
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 22
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4