Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' Cash to go out as refunds to punters Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 5
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 11
FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead Law responds again to pings Networks25 Apr 2024 | 1
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 140
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher Opinion It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 75
Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 65
European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 44
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Research24 Apr 2024 | 93
Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 79
White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 21
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists Strange tales from San Francisco AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 54
iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end From first place to third as local brands grow Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 15
Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 26
European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world’s toughest digital law Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 6
Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight +Comment Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 59
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet Because nothing reassures investors like discounting some inventory Personal Tech22 Apr 2024 | 85
Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal Riveting conclusion to Tesla recall saga Personal Tech22 Apr 2024 | 73
Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage' Personal Tech20 Apr 2024 | 167
A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 57
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything
Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 13
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake Personal Tech18 Apr 2024 | 57
AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 37
Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua Stymied by sanctions, it had to go … but where? Security18 Apr 2024 |
Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause Updated Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 60
Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 79
Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 15
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 18
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' Applications16 Apr 2024 | 67
Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 10
CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Security15 Apr 2024 | 49
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 67
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 85
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content' AI + ML13 Apr 2024 | 36
Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs Slow but bona fide made in China Personal Tech13 Apr 2024 | 71
Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now Another one bytes the dust Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 8
Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 18
IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive! Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 10
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here Security11 Apr 2024 | 41
Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts 'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges' Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 15
Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro But for how much longer? Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 1
We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 229
India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 5
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels ISPs are just going to have to swallow it Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20
TSMC sees semiconductor bounce as Q1 revenues rise 16.5% Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 1
Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee Cloud Next Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Security10 Apr 2024 | 33
Microsoft brings World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles back to China Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions Software10 Apr 2024 | 6
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit Personal Tech09 Apr 2024 | 6
Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff Chip designer legging it after Arm Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more Self-driving to the nearest job center Personal Tech05 Apr 2024 | 12
Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus Security05 Apr 2024 | 30
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs Today's lesson covers the potential for Loongson's made-in-China architecture to hurt Microsoft and Intel Public Sector05 Apr 2024 | 29
Thank the bots, your blue check is back on X If you're popular enough at Elon's party, that is Personal Tech04 Apr 2024 | 37
Microsoft's playdate in Google's Privacy Sandbox gets messy Analysis Targeted ads in Edge may be blocked before they even arrive Applications04 Apr 2024 | 6
Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo First they came for the taxis and I did nothing because I was not a taxi driver Personal Tech03 Apr 2024 | 37
Outlook.com trips over Google's spam blocking rules Microsoft has a workaround but it's not a great look Personal Tech03 Apr 2024 | 27
Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks And Diameter, too, for good measure Networks02 Apr 2024 | 22
X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse Elon controversial? No way AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 37
Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 2
Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you're mostly grown up – now fix the spam Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 52
Google will delete data collected from 'private' browsing Declares victory in settlement of class action lawsuit, but individual claims remain possible Personal Tech01 Apr 2024 | 30
Why Microsoft's Copilot will only kinda run locally on AI PCs for now Comment Redmond’s strategy for blending cloud and client is finally taking shape AI + ML31 Mar 2024 | 38
The Register meets the voice of Siri Down Under Interview Karen Jacobsen had no idea what she was getting into when she applied for a very odd job in 2002 Personal Tech30 Mar 2024 | 47
Can a Xilinx FPGA recreate a 1990s Quake-capable 3D card? Yup! Meet the FuryGpu The 'most painful' part? Coding the Windows drivers Personal Tech30 Mar 2024 | 26
Sega grabs tech layoff baton and dumps couple hundred Euro staff Gaming industry clings to 'Survive 2024' Personal Tech30 Mar 2024 | 25
Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 58
Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard On Call: Dirt File PLUS: Dodging rats the size of cats while repairing chewed-through cabling Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 97
FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 107
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests Beware support calls offering a fix Security27 Mar 2024 | 18
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know Security27 Mar 2024 | 114
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange Applications27 Mar 2024 | 2
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3 The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4
Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs Does anyone actually want one? Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 15
Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 20
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds OSes26 Mar 2024 | 16
Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards But not, we repeat, not on the desktop Personal Tech26 Mar 2024 |
Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 88
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works' Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage Be careful where you click Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 35
Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy' Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 66
The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? On Call Nothing, according to its user. But the techie who tried to fix it found a sweet solution Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 131
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 18
Vigorous US lobbying reportedly reversed India PC import license scheme Washington was most displeased and New Delhi knew it made a mistake Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 5
Indian court halts operations of government-run social media fact checker Rights groups protested potential for sneaky censorship of political rivals Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 1
Microsoft's first AI PCs Surface with Intel cores and a Copilot key Upgraded fondleslab and laptops limited to business buyers only, for now Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 26
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 127
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Hong Kong promises its latest national security law is not a ban on social media Trust us – we're the government Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 9
Canadian arrested for 'stealing secret' to speedy Tesla battery production Special tech allegedly lets Musk's assembly lines produce 5-10 times more kit than rivals Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 57
How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker Sales are down at home and poor compared to other nations Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 | 21
India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |
Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter Section 230 on trial: Plaintiffs contend social media platforms are defective products, not protected message boards Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 95
Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 24