US authorities warn on China's new counter-espionage law Almost anything you download from China could be considered spying, but at least one analyst isn't worried Security03 Jul 2023 | 4
H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online In depth How do you solve a problem like a visa? How do you catch a fraud and bring it down? On-Prem01 Jul 2023 | 18
Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun? AI + ML01 Jul 2023 | 43
Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view Analysis Web giant also hits back ... right as YouTube steps up war on advert blockers Personal Tech29 Jun 2023 | 68
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 22
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47
Europe seeks to punish Putin's infowar pals with bans on Russian tech firms Also slaps Chinese backdoor entities shipping forbidden tech to Moscow Legal26 Jun 2023 | 10
Google accused of urging Android devs to mislabel apps to get forbidden kids ad data Getting around the rules was as simple as not declaring software was 'intended for children', lawsuit states Personal Tech23 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay Judge sanctions attorneys for failed reality check AI + ML22 Jun 2023 | 98
'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101
Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff With now $150K to pay out, that's what we call fine dining Bootnotes21 Jun 2023 | 38
No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions AI + ML17 Jun 2023 | 29
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse Legal16 Jun 2023 | 14
Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs Populist politician pleads not guilty at Miami arraignment Security14 Jun 2023 | 449
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 53
Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype Claim: Billionaire banked big bread boosting bizarro-bucks Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 22
Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood' As spinoff quietly erases claim that average age in mainframe group was 35 On-Prem02 Jun 2023 | 54
Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search Here's a story with a twist Security31 May 2023 | 50
Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real AI + ML31 May 2023 | 19
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you Legal31 May 2023 | 29
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund regrets investment in crypto-villain FTX No fault found, but execs responsible punished with reduced compensation Software30 May 2023 | 9
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too Legal26 May 2023 |
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 17
PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers Python package packhouse ponders privacy position Devops25 May 2023 | 9
Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers Special report As one ousted staffer claims the IBM spin-off is in disarray On-Prem24 May 2023 | 53
Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 9
Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 19
Amazon a prime target of warehouse law protecting bathroom breaks Glad these lawmakers didn't bottle it On-Prem18 May 2023 | 31
Remember those millions of fake net neutrality comments? Fallout continues Trio of digital marketing firms cough up $600K to make astroturfing brouhaha just go away Networks15 May 2023 | 33
Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director Lawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page On-Prem13 May 2023 | 12
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case still on Software12 May 2023 | 18
Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters A new twist on fast food Legal03 May 2023 | 14
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest Dare we say that's a master stroke Bootnotes03 May 2023 | 74
Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud Gee, you mean that surge to 800,000 applications in one year isn't entirely legit? Shocking Legal01 May 2023 | 34
Europe floats patent overhaul, which obviously everyone's thrilled about Industry groups and biz aren't yet sold on reforms Legal01 May 2023 | 8
Brit politicians, Big Tech grumble about India tech laws Free trade agreement founders, and fears of government censorship rise Legal25 Apr 2023 | 10
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO OSes24 Apr 2023 | 28
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops Storage20 Apr 2023 | 16
Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 16
EU lawmakers fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators Rules proposed in EU AI Act are not enough to control 'very powerful AI' AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 24
IT boss arrested over Cash App exec Bob Lee death Updated Alleged killer said to be industry pal, faces one count of murder On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 13
Sanctions-busting exporters sent $2 billion of tech to Russia through China, Hong Kong, and the UK in 2022 Reports find shipments spiked since sanctions were imposed, feeding Moscow's appetite for high-end kit Legal12 Apr 2023 | 5
South Korea fines Google $32M for using market power to stymie rival app store Forced developers to sign exclusivity agreements in return for promises of going global Legal11 Apr 2023 | 5
Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit Pic So, like, three iPhones and a Mac keyboard Bootnotes07 Apr 2023 | 41
NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General Security31 Mar 2023 | 17
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points? Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 73
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112
Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 18
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking Security13 Mar 2023 | 298
Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives Personal Tech04 Mar 2023 | 167
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236
Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain rm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam CSO24 Feb 2023 | 33
Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court... Will Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that Legal22 Feb 2023 | 59
Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37
Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 21
Seriously, what's with FBI, DEA vacuuming up people's money transfer records? Warrantless surveillance branded illegal, said to unfairly target the poor, immigrants, minorities Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 3
UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail Two years in the clink proposed for not thinking of the children Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 85
You can't handle the truth! Indian government suggests its own fact checkers judge what's right on social media Classy: slips obviously conflicted idea in alongside changed gaming rules on last day of consultation period Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 2
CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit Technology has the potential to make life better. This isn't it. Personal Tech06 Jan 2023 | 116