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Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
Remember the FBI’s promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…
Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children
HP polishes the redundancy cannon, prepares to fire 16% of workforce
Buying a Chromebook? Don’t forget to check that best-before date
Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn’t use its software – Mistake, fishing expedition, or attempt to hold a company liable for its customers?
Remember the millions of fake net neutrality comments? They weren’t as kosher as the FCC made out
Apple has banned an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity claiming it facilitates illegal activity
Here’s that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y’all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store • The Register
This won’t end well. Microsoft’s AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles
Edge, Internet Explorer users Czech their settings after MSN ‘forgot’ their language
US immigration uses Google Translate to scan people’s social media for bad posts – Er, don’t do that, says everyone else
UK supermarket Tesco shuts down its parking validation web app after tens of millions of photos of cars with visible license plates were left unsecured online
Stallman's final interview as FSF president
123-Reg and NamesCo registered millions of .uk domains without asking customers
Facebook: Remember how we promised we weren’t tracking your location? Can’t believe you fell for that!
Teletext Holidays a) exists and b) left 200k customer call recordings exposed
Hong Kong ISPs beg Chinese govt not to impose Great Firewall on them: ‘Network censorship will only accelerate the loss of HK to competing cities’
Hey, it’s 2019. Quit making battery-draining webpages – say makers of webpage-displaying battery-powered kit
Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware
How four packets broke CenturyLink's network
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Partner boss explains yanking of free licences
Cisc-o-no! ‘We’re being uninvited to bid’ on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors • The Register
GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data
WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all
Jeff Bezos feels a tap on the shoulder. Ahem, Mr Amazon, care to explain how Capital One’s AWS S3 buckets got hacked?
Reddit · 3 months ago
Backdoors won’t weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he’s right. They won’t – they’ll fscking torpedo it
Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours
Amazon releases AWS Chatbot in beta, which integrates with Slack and Amazon Chime to alert users to AWS issues
Boeing’s 737 Max woes trigger billions in losses – and that’s just for the latest quarter
Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General
European Commission changes its mind on the .eu domain again, now says it will allow citizens of EU countries resident in the UK to use it after Brexit
Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it’s just 6Mbps? And you’re unhappy? Can’t imagine why
Brussels changes its mind AGAIN on .EU domains: Euro citizens in post-Brexit Britain can keep them after all
Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10m in store credits
DoJ charges former Microsoft developer, a Ukrainian citizen, for allegedly using a test account to steal $10M by purchasing and reselling Microsoft e-gift cards
FCC boosts broadband competition by, er, banning broadband competition in buildings – George Orwell’s got nothing on this lot with doublespeak
King's College London breached GDPR sharing list of activist students with cops
Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren’t for public viewing
Reddit · 4 months ago