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 | 3
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes Software18 Apr 2024 | 39
Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 16
Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 17
MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders? Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58
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
US 'considering' end to Assange prosecution bid Cryptic Biden hint came ahead of April 16 deadline for next step in extradition case Legal11 Apr 2024 | 88
US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you AI + ML10 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
Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case Amount sealed because it would result in 'serious injury,' say company lawyers AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 47
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
Musk burns bridges in Brazil after calling for senior judge to be impeached Tycoon threatens to ignore court order banning far-right accounts on X Legal08 Apr 2024 | 84
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion' Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27
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
Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 88
The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
Canadian arrested for 'stealing secret' to speedy Tesla battery production Special tech allegedly lets Musk's assembly lines produce 5-10 times more kit than rivals Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 57
India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |
Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter Section 230 on trial: Plaintiffs contend social media platforms are defective products, not protected message boards Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 95
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack
Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'
Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Legal19 Mar 2024 | 20
UK tech titan Mike Lynch's US fraud trial begins today 13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster Applications18 Mar 2024 | 10
US House goes bang, bang on TikTok sale-or-ban plan Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 61
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 |
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force iPhone giant's $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation Legal07 Mar 2024 | 16
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
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36
Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M Musk playbook described as 'Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him' Legal05 Mar 2024 | 49
Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims Feds allege EV maker talked up pre-orders for trucks it didn't have parts for Legal01 Mar 2024 | 6
Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87
Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17
Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction Trevor Milton bought it for cash and stock options, and he wants the cash back Legal28 Feb 2024 | 13
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27
EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 9
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26
Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint Lawsuit accuses contractor and co-defendants of 'pacify and delay' tactics Legal23 Feb 2024 | 31
India buys a third of the world's wearable devices Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too Fakers face the wrath of Khan AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 22
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
X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks Personal Tech16 Feb 2024 | 25
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit Who could possibly have predicted this backlash? Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO Could have been worse – IT giant was asking for five On-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 16
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
California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior' Legal09 Feb 2024 | 1
Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades Fourth conviction in South Africa-linked scheme Legal08 Feb 2024 | 9
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges What a surprise, said no one Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists – are essential for EUV lithography Legal06 Feb 2024 | 4
Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 16
DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts Legal29 Jan 2024 | 15
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? Legal29 Jan 2024 | 5
France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break' French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal Legal23 Jan 2024 | 13
Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Legal23 Jan 2024 | 26
India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained Legal16 Jan 2024 | 6
SpaceX snaps back at US labor board's complaint, calling it 'unconstitutional' It's the second time in a month a Musk firm has said that about a US regulator Legal05 Jan 2024 | 49
Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem Legal05 Jan 2024 | 5
Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB Updated Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with Legal04 Jan 2024 | 15
Former Adobe software engineering leader convicted of insider trading Another Silicon Valley Icarus flies too close to the Sun Legal04 Jan 2024 | 7
SpaceX accused of firing employees critical of free speech fan Elon Musk Rule 1: You do not criticize the boss. Rule 2: You do NOT criticize the boss Legal04 Jan 2024 | 59
DotAsia registry tries to put poll problems behind it and set new strategy Special report Home of the .asia gTLD has had a challenging year Legal28 Dec 2023 |
China bans export of rare earth processing kit Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home Legal22 Dec 2023 | 110
Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations Very Large Online Platform status means NSFW sites must clean up their acts Legal21 Dec 2023 | 66
GM's Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity Updated Robotaxi firm's car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators Legal14 Dec 2023 | 14
Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results Legal14 Dec 2023 | 18
ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community Legal12 Dec 2023 |
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world' Legal12 Dec 2023 | 53
Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request Legal11 Dec 2023 | 12
Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time Legal08 Dec 2023 | 53
US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security Legal08 Dec 2023 | 8
Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years Between a bloc and a hard place Legal07 Dec 2023 | 72
China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz I'm not a regular government, I'm a cool government Legal05 Dec 2023 | 9
Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls Shareholder claims company should have 'warned' about issue before stock price plunge Legal30 Nov 2023 | 10
Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert Legal28 Nov 2023 | 90
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum Legal28 Nov 2023 | 61
Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial Naughty engineers + inability to work email = $$$ Legal24 Nov 2023 | 10
UKFast founder Lawrence Jones convicted of rape Ex-hosting biz boss to be sentenced for historic offences after being found guilty of earlier sexual assault Legal24 Nov 2023 |
Singapore to deter crypto investors with tactics like those used on smokers, gamblers Buying on credit forbidden, affordability tests imposed, and accreditation required for big bets Legal24 Nov 2023 | 13
Veteran wingman wants $1.75M from Boeing over emotional turbulence Cites alleged ageist headwinds Legal22 Nov 2023 | 2
UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge OK gr8. CU down the pub Legal14 Nov 2023 | 17
48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes Legal13 Nov 2023 | 29
Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill Nothing is certain except death and taxes Legal06 Nov 2023 | 7
Digital Millennium Copyright Act celebrates a quarter century of takedown notices Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years Legal30 Oct 2023 | 8
It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement Minimum of $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers' fees. Justice is done! Legal27 Oct 2023 | 38
13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal Chocolate Factory agrees $23m guilt-free settlement Legal25 Oct 2023 | 14
33 AGs sue Meta for 'exploitative and harmful acts' against American children Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth Legal24 Oct 2023 | 15
Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else Legal24 Oct 2023 | 11
Beijing slaps Foxconn with a tax audit Asia In Brief ALSO: US may block clouds in China; Toyota reveals moon roover; Google expands Indian loan business; Xiaomi's new unifying OS; and more Legal23 Oct 2023 | 7
Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics You Can't Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin' in the (digital) Wind Legal20 Oct 2023 | 19
'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election Florida man gets 4,900 people to 'vote' via SMS after promoting it as an option Legal20 Oct 2023 | 73
Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times No word on motivation but pair face up to 5 years in the cooler Legal20 Oct 2023 | 79
Biotech exec sentenced to eight years for COVID-19 testing finger-stick fraud 100+ diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood – sound familiar? Legal19 Oct 2023 | 15
Winklevoss twins back in hot water after NY AG sues over $1B cryptocurrency fraud Updated SBF comes up like a bad penny Legal19 Oct 2023 | 21
US prosecutors slam Autonomy tycoon's attempt to get charges tossed Allege that 'greed and hubris' led Mike Lynch and co to 'pretend Autonomy thrived' Legal18 Oct 2023 | 27