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	Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses	18	By tiggity Monday 10th August 2026 08:59 GMT
	China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'	4	By Conor Stewart Thursday 6th August 2026 02:26 GMT
	Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button	10	By Anonymous Coward Monday 3rd August 2026 01:45 GMT
	Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law	25	By amanfromMars 1 Sunday 2nd August 2026 15:43 GMT
	Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine	13	By X5-332960073452 Tuesday 28th July 2026 17:28 GMT
	Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods	36	By Mark 65 Tuesday 28th July 2026 20:17 GMT
	Even HP resellers think the price of toner and ink is too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel	16	By druck Sunday 19th July 2026 11:03 GMT
	Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets	10	By Dinanziame Wednesday 15th July 2026 06:42 GMT
	Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed	3	By Tim99 Wednesday 15th July 2026 10:34 GMT
	EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account	7	By Aladdin Sane Monday 6th July 2026 14:15 GMT
	Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage	14	By edumusik Monday 6th July 2026 08:25 GMT
	Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore	6	By Peter Gathercole Tuesday 7th July 2026 11:38 GMT
	Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys	6	By Jason Hindle Wednesday 1st July 2026 15:12 GMT
	Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data	22	By MachDiamond Wednesday 1st July 2026 20:29 GMT
	European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status	6	By Paul Herber Friday 26th June 2026 09:28 GMT
	Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response	3	By An_Old_Dog Thursday 11th June 2026 05:32 GMT
	Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY	14	By dmesg Friday 12th June 2026 19:48 GMT
	Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search	30	By tiggity Saturday 6th June 2026 11:43 GMT
	23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach	8	By Blazde Monday 1st June 2026 14:41 GMT
	Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday	13	By Fruit and Nutcase Friday 29th May 2026 22:48 GMT
	Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices	10	By ChoHag Wednesday 27th May 2026 06:39 GMT
	GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt	13	By xyz123 Saturday 9th May 2026 17:54 GMT
	Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb	22	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 7th May 2026 22:13 GMT
	Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs	30	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 7th May 2026 08:41 GMT
	Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages	23	By Eric 9001 Thursday 7th May 2026 10:30 GMT
	Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges	8	By collinsl Friday 1st May 2026 10:20 GMT
	Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers	42	By Mark 65 Thursday 28th May 2026 02:53 GMT
	China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus	12	By Roland6 Tuesday 28th April 2026 14:27 GMT
	Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars	15	By Fruit and Nutcase Friday 17th April 2026 21:05 GMT
	Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment	3	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 16th April 2026 09:13 GMT
	California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says	117	By Slow Joe Crow Monday 27th April 2026 15:22 GMT
	IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz	44	By Anonymous Coward Monday 11th May 2026 14:06 GMT
	Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban	60	By TheWeetabix Tuesday 7th April 2026 18:30 GMT
	China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country	11	By Alan Brown Thursday 2nd April 2026 15:39 GMT
	FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again	9	By ElReg!comments!Pierre Friday 20th March 2026 21:10 GMT
	ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says	14	By tmTM Friday 20th March 2026 13:07 GMT
	Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds	27	By David Hicklin Tuesday 10th March 2026 14:21 GMT
	Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it	12	By doublelayer Thursday 5th March 2026 18:17 GMT
	China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy	20	By Yet Another Anonymous coward Sunday 1st March 2026 04:05 GMT
	Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe	5	By LumKitty Thursday 26th February 2026 14:59 GMT
	SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping	21	By Eric 9001 Wednesday 25th February 2026 00:21 GMT
	Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents	5	By elsergiovolador Monday 9th February 2026 11:57 GMT
	Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing	87	By Neoc Friday 13th February 2026 00:37 GMT
	UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law	29	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 5th February 2026 15:22 GMT
	Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups	21	By TimMaher Wednesday 4th February 2026 18:14 GMT
	Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google	35	By witty user name Friday 6th February 2026 19:35 GMT
	Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide	18	By Alan Brown Tuesday 27th January 2026 00:30 GMT
	UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads	43	By Alan Brown Tuesday 27th January 2026 00:48 GMT
	Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone	12	By Anonymous Coward Wednesday 21st January 2026 07:03 GMT
	Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine	158	By dik.bozo Sunday 18th January 2026 00:06 GMT