Swedish ISP spanked for sexist 'distracted boyfriend' advert for developer jobs Recruitment effort based on popular meme called out for gender discrimination Personal Tech27 Sep 2018 | 81
Boffins bash Google Translate for sexism Word shifting code shares Silicon Valley male chauvinism Science10 Sep 2018 | 66
Basic bigot bait: Build big black broad bots – non-white, female 'droids get all the abuse What the fsck is wrong with people... judging from this study Science03 Aug 2018 | 116
Make Facebook, Twitter, Google et al liable for daft garbage netizens post online – US Senator Yes, let's try to force the social media genie back in the bottle Personal Tech30 Jul 2018 | 39
Facebook's democracy salvage effort tilts scale in Mississippi primary Political ad rules come at a bad time for some politicians Personal Tech25 May 2018 | 39
Jupiter has the craziest storms seen yet, say boffins New pics make the gas giant's poles look like portals to hell Science08 Mar 2018 | 53
Facebook regrets asking whether it's OK to let adult men ask underage girls for smut pix 'It was a mistake,' says exec in understatement of the decade On-Prem06 Mar 2018 | 54
Watchdog: Uh, sit down, AriseBank. This crypto-coin looks more like a $600m crypto-con Updated SEC looks to freeze upstart to protect investors Science30 Jan 2018 | 13
Trebles all round! Intel celebrates record sales of insecure processors Siri, what's a monopoly? On-Prem25 Jan 2018 | 29
Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it On-Prem20 Dec 2017 | 111
Intel to slap hardware lock on Management Engine code to thwart downgrade attacks From version 12 onward, ME-equipped chips will defend against patch rollbacks Security13 Dec 2017 | 71
Oregon will let engineer refer to himself as an 'engineer' But it's not yet ready to rethink its professional licensing rules Devops08 Dec 2017 | 131
Uber, quit shoveling money into the fire for one second and explain that hack – US senators Lawmakers wonder if biz known for regulatory contempt flouted rules Applications28 Nov 2017 | 12
US govt to use software to finger immigrants as potential crims? That's really dumb – boffins Algorithms will label innocent people terrorists, DHS warned Devops16 Nov 2017 | 43
Now Oracle stiffs its own sales reps to pocket their overtime, allegedly Managers told staff to report 40 hour weeks even if they worked more, lawsuit claims On-Prem15 Nov 2017 | 39
Silverlight extinguished while Angular wins fans among developers What did ORM ever do to you that you just don't care anymore? Devops13 Nov 2017 | 21
Squeezing in little Quake between builds? Not any more: Facebook Bucks up Java compile tool Open-source offering faster, shorter bottlenecks Devops09 Nov 2017 | 8
More expensive, takes longer than usual, not particularly brilliant. Yes, it's your robot surgeon Also, AI isn't really doing much for the economy Science07 Nov 2017 | 21
Fake-news-monetizing machine Facebook lectures hacks on how not to write fake news that made it millions Team Zuck lays down journalism commandments Legal24 Oct 2017 | 27
Facebook, Google and pals may be hit with TV political ads rules Election security is national security, says senator as US law shakeup proposed Legal19 Oct 2017 | 24
US Senate stamps the gas pedal on law to flood America's streets with self-driving cars Foes flustered by 'dangerous' light-touch regulation Science04 Oct 2017 | 59
Facebook performs successful license surgery on React, GraphQL Feared patent bomb defused, for the time being Devops26 Sep 2017 | 2
Firemen fund sues Uber for dousing shares with gas, tossing in a match Group demands compensation after scandal after scandal burns '$18bn' in investment On-Prem26 Sep 2017 | 29
For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly Analysis See no evil, hear no evil, speak of no evil On-Prem22 Sep 2017 | 31
Crap cracked fat-attack Pact app chaps slapped in pact backtrack infract US watchdog raps breach-of-contract brats for retracted transacts Applications21 Sep 2017 | 14
Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence Image-recognition system posited as reporting tool AI + ML21 Sep 2017 | 25
Behold, says robo-mall-cop maker: Our crime-busting dune buggy packed with spy gear Pics Surveillance bots are just 'a very weird data center' Science20 Sep 2017 | 75
Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 19
Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas Research just isn't as effective as it used to be Science11 Sep 2017 | 93
Achievement unlocked: Tesla boosts batteries for Irma refugees Then by September 16 those a few extra miles will go On-Prem11 Sep 2017 | 45
Facebook will deny ads to repeat promoters of fake news Sharing network hopes to hit hoaxers where it hurts On-Prem28 Aug 2017 | 41
Ad blocking basically doesn't exist on mobile We have the technology, we just don't use it Personal Tech25 Aug 2017 | 84
Sonos will deny updates to those who snub rewritten privacy terms Your data, or we cut you off Edge + IoT22 Aug 2017 | 85
No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court Judges frown upon fishing for incriminating data on phones Security18 Aug 2017 | 50
Smyte might brighten fraud plight: How machine-learning can be used to thwart crooks Analysis Security works better when you write your own rules AI + ML17 Aug 2017 | 1
Slurping people's info without a warrant? That's OUR JOB, Google, Facebook et al tell US Supreme Court Tech giants lobby against warrantless phone spying Legal15 Aug 2017 | 35
US prosecutors demand data to unmask every visitor to anti-Trump protest website DreamHost refuses to hand over 1.3m IP addresses, and more, says warrant too broad Legal14 Aug 2017 | 66
Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears Science14 Aug 2017 | 151
Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers Analysis A behind-the-scenes look at the cat and mouse game played by publishers and devs Software11 Aug 2017 | 218
Kalanick stations! Ex-Uber CEO sued for fraud by soured sugar daddy Benchmark Capital tries to thwart Troubled Travis' Jobs-style return to power On-Prem10 Aug 2017 | 6
Watch this nanochip reprogram cells to fix damaged body tissue Video We can't think of anything snarky to say about this cool biological repair kit Devops08 Aug 2017 | 62
Uber drivers game Uber's system like Uber games the entire planet App cabbies push back against controlling black-box computers Science02 Aug 2017 | 43
Cellphone kill switches kill cellphone snatchers Mobes no longer worth stealing, San Francisco DA declares Personal Tech28 Jul 2017 | 21
Intel loves the maker community so much it just axed its Arduino, Curie hardware. Ouch Translation: It's all yours, ARM. Take it away Edge + IoT25 Jul 2017 | 38
AI bots will kill us all! Or at least may seriously inconvenience humans Analysis Elon Musk again demands govt intervention to halt crazed computers Devops17 Jul 2017 | 27
Robo-surgeons, self-driving cars face similar legal, ethical headaches Like transportation, medicine is becoming more automated, for better or worse Science13 Jul 2017 | 8
Trump tramples US Constitution by blocking Twitter critics – lawsuit Tweet-addicted President treats website as a public forum so cannot exclude views Legal11 Jul 2017 | 113
Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal Anti-piracy DRM gets the green light, for now Security07 Jul 2017 | 117
It's time for a long, hard mass debate over sex robots, experts conclude Society has yet to – and perhaps never will – come to terms with creepy kid love dolls Science06 Jul 2017 | 120
Sergey Brin building humanitarian blimp for lifesaving leisure You may have to wait a decade or more to join him aloft Science27 May 2017 | 30
What could go wrong? Delta to use facial recog to automate bag drop-off Just make sure you still resemble your passport photo Science16 May 2017 | 31
BDSM sex rocks Drupal world: Top dev banished for sci-fi hanky-panky Gor blimey, guvnor! Legal29 Mar 2017 | 127
As a shock to absolutely no one, Uber is mostly pasty, male at the top Rain is wet, sky is blue, Oracle is expensive, etc On-Prem29 Mar 2017 | 24
DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like Red alert: Science mixed with marketing detected Science25 Mar 2017 | 49
Did you know? Amazon does film production – and it treats those workers like dirt, too* * Allegedly! On-Prem03 Mar 2017 | 27
Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up Putting the US of A first could require arms from Europe Bootnotes23 Jan 2017 | 114
Could YOU survive a zombie apocalypse? Uni eggheads say you'd last just 100 days Model assumes you'd all wave the white flag Science06 Jan 2017 | 103
Uber to Cali DMV: Back off, pal, our 'self-driving cars' aren't self driving Upstart defies permit demand, offers autonomous rides in San Francisco Science15 Dec 2016 | 46
Give us encrypted camera storage, please – filmmakers, journos Photojournalists plead for secured data in professional cams Security14 Dec 2016 | 65
Microsoft boffins think VR visions will rival drugs by 2027 No more search boxes, no work benefits, and your social value will be your data trail On-Prem06 Dec 2016 | 25
Self-driving cars doomed to be bullied by pedestrians Programmed for safety, automated vehicles promise slow going AI + ML27 Oct 2016 | 174
Third of Donald Trump's debate deplorables are mindless automatons Twitter bots make a lot of noise but thankfully can't vote in elections Legal19 Oct 2016 | 49