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FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network
Comment Facebook’s controversial policy to exempt political ads from factual review has taken another dive after the social media giant appeared to state it gets to decide which politicians the policy applies to.…
From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are today busy deleting the personal profiles of employees at NSO Group amid an ongoing legal battle.…
While Apple fanbois rage at Catalina, iGiant quietly drops iOS and macOS security patches
Apple has released patches for the hated macOS Catalina – but not to fix the operating system's UI failures. These are security updates also affecting iOS and Apple Watches, and include one that prevents a remote attacker from executing code on your iThings.…
Q3, phone home: Guess who's run Huawei with China's domestic smartphone market?
The disruptive campaign against Huawei might be in full flow in the US and to an extent Europe, but in its homeland of China, the company's smartphone business is swelling to record proportions.…
Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun
Yesterday, at its developer conference, Samsung announced three new laptops: a pair of notebooks certified by Intel's Project Athena programme, the Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion, as well as a machine that uses Intel's new Lakefield chipsets, the Galaxy Book S.…
GitLab pulls U-turn on plan to crank up usage telemetry after both staff and customers cry foul
GitLab has swiftly backtracked on plans to add telemetry services to track usage of its products.…
Facebook ends appeal against ICO micro-fine: Admit liability? Never. But you can have £500k
Facebook has ended its appeal against the UK Information Commissioner's Office and will pay the outstanding £500,000 fine for breaches of data protection law relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
Calling all financial services gurus: Help us understand your world... Tell us how you tackle unstructured data
Reader survey Do you work in financial services? Are you plugged into conversations about all of the extra unstructured content flying around your organization as a result of everything "going digital?"…
Up in the heir: Inheritors enduring huge delays after botched migration at UK probate service
An IT glitch has contributed to a backlog in the number of UK probate applications, with users still reporting huge delays in the processing of their wills and probate grants.…
Trello starts waving AI around as collab outfit hits 50m registrations
Atlassian-owned list-maker Trello is in celebratory mood as it trumpets the 50 millionth user registration as well as the advent of more templates, automation and the dead hand of AI.…
Linux kernel is getting more reliable, says Linus Torvalds. Plus: What do you need to do to be him?
Linux inventor (and chief maintainer) Linus Torvalds says that the kernel is getting more reliable, and he is not anxious about it being used in safety-critical systems.…
Digital Realty chucks $8.4bn at Interxion for colocation mega-merger
US data centre biz Digital Realty is proposing a takeover of Dutch colocation flogger Interxion for an eye-popping $8.4bn.…
So how do you reckon you did on stopping fake news, Google and Facebook? Firms turn in self-assessment homework to Europe
The European Commission has published its first year of reports from platforms including Google, Microsoft, Twitter and seven European trade associations on how they are countering disinformation.…
UK ads watchdog slaps Amazon for UX dark arts after folk bought Prime subs they didn't want
Amazon has been rapped by Britain's advertising watchdog after its baffling online payments page duped customers into signing up for an Prime subscription as they tried to pay for goods.…
'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)
The wearables market is popping, if you believe the latest report from entrail prodders at Gartner: the sector will might be worth an impressive $52bn by 2020, up from $32bn in 2018.…
Security, vendor lock-in, platform choice... All hot topics in serverless. All answered next month at our conference
Event Our Serverless Computing London conference opens in a week, which means you’ve got plenty of time to secure your spot.…
Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored
Security flaws have been found in the European Union's electronic identity system that could have been exploited by miscreants to impersonate member states' citizens online.…