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 | 42
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 | 2
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 | 18
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
Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
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
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker Updated Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences Security01 Mar 2024 | 48
Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more Public Sector29 Feb 2024 | 10
White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual? Public Sector29 Feb 2024 | 14
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals Security28 Feb 2024 | 32
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption State government says it's thinking of the children Security26 Feb 2024 | 37
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
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
How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets Research17 Feb 2024 | 24
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 | 42
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency Public Sector09 Feb 2024 | 152
In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser Software08 Feb 2024 | 60
Rust can help make software secure – but it's no cure-all Security is a process, not a product. Nor a language Security08 Feb 2024 | 36
Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar Firefox maker promises to lean on personal info brokers to scrub records Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 15
AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war 'We have it! Let’s use it' proclaims the most warlike GPT-4-Base AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 73
Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US American public is way ahead of them Security01 Feb 2024 | 83
'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people' Public Sector31 Jan 2024 | 70
It's true, LLMs are better than people – at creating convincing misinformation More human than human, eh? AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 26
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63
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
Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service Tough luck non-Americans, the cops can still see your footage Personal Tech25 Jan 2024 | 57
Intuit ordered to use the word 'free' less freely in its ads FTC slams TurboTax's marketing as deceptive Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 10
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
Future of America's Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict Security18 Jan 2024 |
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom Science13 Jan 2024 | 100
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? Kettle Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three Public Sector13 Jan 2024 | 111
What to make of Google backing Right-to-Repair in Oregon? 'It gives me hope' Anything to slow down the tech trash treadmill welcome at this point Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 7
Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT We've heard of bored penpushers hallucinating at their desks, but this is something else AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 9
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
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors $ gig revert HEAD && gig commit -e 'Biden was here' Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 78
Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe From whom, exactly, we wonder Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 49
NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? AI + ML05 Jan 2024 | 20
Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30 million Chrome users One of the ad APIs that will fill the void – Protected Audience – arguably may offer better privacy anyway Personal Tech04 Jan 2024 | 46
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
Artificial intelligence is a liability Comment Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words AI + ML21 Dec 2023 | 97
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling 'Water? Like out of the toilet?' It will get cleaned first and it'll be better than Brawndo Bootnotes19 Dec 2023 | 46
Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning Someone needs to think of the children ... and the consequences of breaking encryption and trashing privacy Networks19 Dec 2023 | 59
Adobe ditches $20B Figma takeover under pressure from monopoly cops Now Photoshop giant needs to cough up that $1B break-up fee Applications18 Dec 2023 | 1
Google hopes to end tsunami of data dragnet warrants with Location History shakeup Android giant follows Apple's lead, will store whereabouts on device and delete info earlier by default Personal Tech15 Dec 2023 | 24
Four more months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill Congress renews warrantless spying tool scribbled on back of huge check for Pentagon Public Sector14 Dec 2023 | 39
Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it'll be classified as a job Personal Tech14 Dec 2023 | 170
Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses Expanded service provider definition could force cafes and hotels to spy for the feds Security12 Dec 2023 | 10
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance Security08 Dec 2023 | 8
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either Security08 Dec 2023 | 88
Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes Security08 Dec 2023 | 7
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China Indictments allege plot to shift FPGAs, accelerometers, and spycams Security07 Dec 2023 | 13
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 185
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data Awkward hill to die on, but OK Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 22