Politics

Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff

Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days

Science14 Nov 2024 | 48

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

Comment 'Department of Government Efficiency' expected to do little more than suggest changes, Congress will still decide

Public Sector14 Nov 2024 | 194

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers

They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds

Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 91

Judge decides not to block Musk's $1M election giveaway

America PAC tells judge winners were preselected, raising a whole new set of legal questions

Legal05 Nov 2024 | 69

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

C'mon, do you really think ol' Elon’s handing out all that cash, day after day?

Personal Tech21 Oct 2024 | 129

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar

Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections

Security18 Oct 2024 | 9

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says

Bootnotes23 Sep 2024 | 41

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

'No one is trying' to kill Biden or Harris, mogul says after alleged second attempt on Trump's life

Offbeat16 Sep 2024 | 353

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Surely this duty will be executed without bias toward NHTSA, FAA, DOJ, NLRB

Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 146

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon

Software04 Sep 2024 | 67

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

Better late than never

Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26

Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can

Registry happy to chat about caps, just don't consider it a commitment to actually do anything

Networks06 Aug 2024 | 8

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

Updated It claimed to have one job and couldn't do it

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 46

ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay

Poll Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz....

AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 57

Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year

Because who needs disinformation research at times like these

Research14 Jun 2024 | 85

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector

On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 47

No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming

But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 10

Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech

Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move...

AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 11

Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS?

Personal Tech06 Jun 2024 | 107

TSMC mulled moving chip fabs from Taiwan over China threat

CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible

Systems04 Jun 2024 | 9

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot

Personal Tech01 Jun 2024 | 210

FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI

How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 6

What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations...

'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say

AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 13

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims biz stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe

Bootnotes28 Feb 2024 | 97

Iran's cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference

Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers

Security07 Feb 2024 | 25

OpenAI bans long-shot presidential candidate bot for breaking T&Cs

Biden's challenger model shot down despite super PAC support

AI + ML22 Jan 2024 | 3

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever

Analysis How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 21

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

So much for that free speech, huh?

Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 67

California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks

Route 404: Human driver requirement not found

AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 60

Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an 'informed voter'

Comment Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this

Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 9

Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency

Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar

Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 19

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams

Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 30

Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos

It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers

Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31

So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet

As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight

Networks11 May 2023 | 10

Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'

Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass'

Bootnotes10 May 2023 | 220

Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads

In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI

AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho

Devops15 Feb 2023 | 62

Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids

Old man yells at cloud, literally

Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5

Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce

Boffins find Twitter foreign influence campaign didn't have much pull

Security10 Jan 2023 | 61

Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds

Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim

Science02 Nov 2022 | 38

Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven

Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting

Bootnotes17 Oct 2022 | 77

Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230

White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform

Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 23

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8

Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts

It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street

Research25 Aug 2022 | 38

TikTok wants your trust around US midterm elections data

Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried

CSO17 Aug 2022 | 4

The trade ban that wasn't: US allows 94% of restricted tech exports to China anyway

谢谢 美国!

On-Prem17 Aug 2022 | 26

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation

Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 63

Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters

Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 58

President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law

American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!

Legal09 Aug 2022 | 17

Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town

Comment Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise

Off-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 6

US net neutrality bill is only two pages long. And that's potentially a good thing

May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done

Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 17

National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle

ADPPA doesn't make everyone happy, particularly California

Legal21 Jul 2022 | 14

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P

Science15 Jul 2022 | 62

Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it

Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary

Systems15 Jul 2022 | 30