UK farm ministry offers £27M to support legacy systems for another three years
Controversial payment systems set for another lease of life
Public Sector16 Aug 2024 | 19
Public Sector
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 31
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 33
India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters
Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12
Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks
Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks
Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 46
Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy
Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff
Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds
Science09 Aug 2024 | 51
US 'laptop farm' man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Korea to fund weapons programs
American and Brit firms thought they were employing a Westerner, but not so, it's alleged
CSO08 Aug 2024 | 19
NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station
Officials may overhaul next year's Dragon mission if Boeing's Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew
Science07 Aug 2024 | 90
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
Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots
The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 292
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes
Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 12
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3
San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords
Automated price-fixing software screwing over tenants? Fog off!
Software02 Aug 2024 | 39
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing
Hold that thought, citizen
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 34
Infosys denies it owes $4B in taxes to India
Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal
Off-Prem01 Aug 2024 | 6
Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister
Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license
Public Sector30 Jul 2024 | 21
US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices
Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 38
Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal
Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 50
China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'
Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 19
US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data
Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ
Legal29 Jul 2024 | 29
Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now
Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 10
Kamala Harris's $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan
FTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned
Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 109
UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendors
Framework deal set to run until 2029 as central govt transitions to new ERP SaaS model
Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 14
UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact
Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together
Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 12
Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI
Team America AI Police?
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 30
India ditches its 'Google Tax' after US waved a big stick
Stakeholders found it an 'ambiguous' compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to
Public Sector25 Jul 2024 | 19
Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud
What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth
Legal24 Jul 2024 | 19
'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea
Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play
Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 2
Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers
President apologizes in advance for job losses
Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 5
Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt
Analysis The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 51
Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia
Government doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 19
Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough
Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3
Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role
Read also served at UK's MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco
Public Sector22 Jul 2024 | 7
EU's renewable hydrogen plan needs a 'reality check'
Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs
CxO19 Jul 2024 | 78
DARPA slaps down credit card for 3D military chiplets – $840M ought to be enough?
UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it
Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 5
Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster
Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out
Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39
FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone
Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices
Research16 Jul 2024 | 115
Kaspersky culls staff, closes doors in US amid Biden's ban
After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab
CSO15 Jul 2024 | 25
China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids
Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff
Public Sector15 Jul 2024 | 3
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails
Security12 Jul 2024 | 21
Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production
Ice ICE, baby
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 28
Intuit decimates staff, hopes to hire same number in AI refocus
What's that Lassie? The IRS hopes to offer free direct tax filing for everyone next year?
Applications10 Jul 2024 | 6
FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots
RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin
Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 11
America's new Sentinel nukes mushroom 81% in cost. Pentagon says it's all good
Minuteman replacement to hit $141B as officials promise good ol' 'restructure'
Public Sector09 Jul 2024 | 46
Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout
Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose
Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin
Updated Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles
Security05 Jul 2024 | 59
Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray
Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation
Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 426
Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga
Investors will be hoping so anyway
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 12
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software
Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 38
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build?
Science04 Jul 2024 | 105
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 35
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized
Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 25
Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
Outdated tech at Bureau of Industry and Security leaves licensing open to human error
Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 6
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law
And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them'
How about a nice game of chess instead?
AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions
Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12
Brace for new complications in big tech takedowns after Supreme Court upended regulatory rules
Analysis Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not experts
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 64
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