- + Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights—Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced new rules for the airline industry that will require airlines to automatically give ca...
- + Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type—An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loop...
- + Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI—A lawsuit is alleging Amazon was so desperate to keep up with the competition in generative AI it was willing to breach its own copyright rules. From ...
- + How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On—General Motors (GM) has been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to insurance companies, leading to higher premiums for some...
- + Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo—In a huge move for the mixed reality industry, Meta announced today that it's opening the Quest's operating system to third-party companies, allowing ...
- + Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk—This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight conc...
- + Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud—The co-founder of Silicon Valley-based software testing startup HeadSpin was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and a $1 million fine, reports SF...
- + EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay'—The EU's European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that nearly two dozen ...
- + Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage—"Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line," reports the Associated Press, knocking out 911 phone service "for emergency agenc...
- + US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years—Late Friday night the U.S. Senate "reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a key. U.S. surveillance authority," reports Axios, "shortl...
- + Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives—The U.S. House of Representatives just passed its long-delayed Ukraine aid bill. But along with it they also approved a bill banning TikTok "if its Ch...
- + Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders—An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: U.S. government officials were scrambling Friday night to prevent what they fear co...
- + Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations shoul...
- + Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit p...
- + Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email a...
- + Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme—A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Market...
- + Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist—An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of ...
- + House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from t...
- + Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office—CNBC reports that nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night in protest of the company's $1.2 billion contract providing c...
- + Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name—Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, can't be registered as a trademark in the European Union after judges said that approving ...
- + A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages—404 Media: An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity across servers including what v...
- + Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat—Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of threatening to censor content on smartphones [YouTube ...
- + SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones—The SEC has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees' work phones, "bringing its own practices closer to the standards it's enforci...
- + Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California,...
- + Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side—According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's initial set of AI-related features in iOS 18 "will work entirely on device," and won't connect to cloud ...
- + Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick—Richard Currie reports via The Register: A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple. An employee at V...
- + US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'—The United States Senate is poised to vote on legislation this week that, for the next two years at least, could dramatically expand the number of bus...
- + Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation—The Justice Department is preparing to sue Live Nation as soon as next month [non-paywalled link], an antitrust challenge that could spur major change...
- + The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Biden administration marked the close of tax season Monday by announcing it had met ...
- + Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned—Roku has made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users following two credential stuffing attacks that compromised approximately 591,000...
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