Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?
Comment Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable
11 Jan 2021 | 221
Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable
Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops
7 Jan 2021 | 173
Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only
'There'll be no more work from external/unpaid contributors' – dev
5 Jan 2021 | 71
Indian telco that won Google and Facebook investments flatly denies it’s diversified into farming
Jio blames rivals for vandalising infrastructure in rural areas during protests
5 Jan 2021 | 4
Hong Kong's Hutchison Group, which runs mobile carrier ‘3’, protests as USA puts it on new China ban list
Trump administration is behind the times: used old name for Chinese company Hutchison sold ages ago
23 Dec 2020 | 54
Taiwan’s Wistron says iPhone factory riot won’t cause significant impact to its business
Dodges reports alleging Apple has put it on probation
22 Dec 2020 | 5
Why did Johnny and Jenny's exam grades yo-yo over the summer? Here's some of the code behind UK results chaos
Ofqual publishes for the sake of 'transparency' but it's clear as mud
14 Dec 2020 | 23
City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000
In brief Plus: Waymo stops in SF and vegan milk designed by machine-learning
7 Nov 2020 | 25
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
NCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case
4 Nov 2020 | 28
Doxxing nixed by Hong Kong courts, again
This time to protect judicial enforcement authorities, but previous bans on publishing Police's personal details haven't stopped the practice
2 Nov 2020 | 8
Thailand calls on telcos and ISPs to censor information about pro-democracy protests
Selfies of rallies can score fines or land you in the slammer
18 Oct 2020 | 16
Google adopts ‘value-neutral’ language to make selfies less about ‘beauty’
Kids are being horrible about photo filters, so developers are being asked to help protect mental health
2 Oct 2020 | 32
DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe
Pro-privacy upstart claims EU antitrust remedy is not fit for purpose
29 Sep 2020 | 35
Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'
So says ex-director of monetization, adding this led to 'unprecedented engagement and profits'
25 Sep 2020 | 32
Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths
As I walk through this world... born-in-the-cloud companies have legacy problems too
24 Sep 2020 | 9
Stop asking for Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud with 'no justification': US Library of Congress told to drop its 'brand-name'-tastic RFP
Oracle wins protest after agency failed to get it kicked out for not being a reseller
11 Sep 2020 | 23
The Wrath of Amazon: JEDI wars rage on after US Department of Defense affirms Microsoft contract
AWS claims 'blatant political interference'
7 Sep 2020 | 34
Makes sense, this does, says US appeals court as it swats away Oracle's protests in $10bn JEDI contract spat
Updated Seems the only things being generated by Pentagon deal are legal arguments
2 Sep 2020 | 13
Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content
Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs
1 Sep 2020 | 15
Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake
So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten?
29 Aug 2020 | 135
