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
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
Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models Unless you've got a lawyer, that is AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 60
As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 15
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Hong Kong authorities halt alleged smuggler shifting 596 'high-end' CPUs to China Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons – perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions Systems19 Jun 2024 | 15
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security Security18 Jun 2024 | 75
Feds sue Adobe and execs for stinging subscribers with 'hidden' cancellation fees Graphic design giant slammed for using graphic design to bury T&Cs Applications17 Jun 2024 | 24
Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year Because who needs disinformation research at times like these Research14 Jun 2024 | 85
IBM dream to gobble up HashiCorp challenged in court Updated This benefits management, but not us shareholders! Software11 Jun 2024 | 3
'Building AI co-workers going to be largest opportunity of tech in our lifetime' Or so this Thomson Reuters bot boss claims AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 32
Meta algorithms push Black people more toward expensive universities, study finds Special report Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 44
Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7
IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability Exclusive Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog CSO30 May 2024 | 18
Uncle Sam's had enough of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, sues to end monopoly Music to everyone's ears Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 19
Read AI about it... OpenAI does deal with News Corp Pact made with WSJ, New York Post, Sunday Times, Australian publisher as lawsuit bullets ping around the industry AI + ML23 May 2024 | 24
Open Source Initiative tries to define Open Source AI Meanwhile, the creator of Open Source Definition argues the real problem is unauthorized copying AI + ML16 May 2024 |
Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire You've got to fight for your right to personalize Personal Tech02 May 2024 | 47
Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License Interview Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing Software30 Apr 2024 | 135
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers Personal Tech29 Apr 2024 |
Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison The software redemption Devops25 Apr 2024 | 29
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 109
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
Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 88
Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight +Comment Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 62
House passes bill banning Uncle Sam from snooping on citizens via data brokers Vote met strong opposition from Biden's office Security18 Apr 2024 | 21
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
US legislators propose American Privacy Rights Act - and it looks quite good After two decades of calls for national protections, something may actually happen Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 39
Google will delete data collected from 'private' browsing Declares victory in settlement of class action lawsuit, but individual claims remain possible Personal Tech01 Apr 2024 | 30
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 20
After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
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
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 20
South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
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
IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 24
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting Security27 Feb 2024 | 5
Juniper sued over HPE buyout after allegedly ginning up execs' wallets Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed Networks23 Feb 2024 | 11
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37
Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 17
India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million Paytm's merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast Personal Tech19 Feb 2024 | 11
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 43
European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all Security15 Feb 2024 | 215
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great Public Sector26 Jan 2024 | 18
AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 27
Intuit ordered to use the word 'free' less freely in its ads FTC slams TurboTax's marketing as deceptive Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 10
How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 44
IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office Executives told comply or say goodbye On-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 40
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 13
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments Interview AI can't cite cases, fully grok the law, or reason about it effectively, study finds AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 44
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output' AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 125
Supreme Court supremo ponders AI-powered judges, concludes he's not out of a job yet Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 6