YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 2
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 11
Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13
Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI Personal Tech16 Mar 2024 | 49
Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool If you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 19
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 14
Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok SteveTok? TikMnuch? Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 20
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... Applications14 Mar 2024 | 64
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 74
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 37
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 18
Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals IP sold to founders in pre-pack administration, product warranties unaffected Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 4
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction No more creepy snooping? Be my guest Personal Tech11 Mar 2024 | 32
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 21
Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 92
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12
IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 24
HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 94
US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so Who, Me? Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Infosec in brief Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 18
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 15
Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI Review Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 22
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing Just a little FYI Personal Tech05 Mar 2024 | 33
Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo What will happen first by 2026? Model A in production or end of the world? Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 32
Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 25
Ruggedized phone group takes the Bullitt, calls in PWC as administrative receiver Website 404ing, calls to switchboard go dead, 'sad reflection' of how tough it is to make money in smartphones Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 26
HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers' Want all-FOSS 120Hz 4K video on Linux, or 5K at 240Hz? Bad news… Personal Tech02 Mar 2024 | 69
EU-turn! Now Apple says it won't banish Home Screen web apps in Europe So, er, how will WebKit-only applications work under latest Euro antitrust laws? Anyone? Tim? Applications02 Mar 2024 | 38
Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 22
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87
Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom' Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew Personal Tech29 Feb 2024 | 11
Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan Personal Tech29 Feb 2024 | 51
Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp Security29 Feb 2024 | 24
Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen? Personal Tech28 Feb 2024 | 28
Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release Factoring in the deposit, you'd be better off running away with it Personal Tech27 Feb 2024 | 5
Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that's now worth well over half a billion Personal Tech27 Feb 2024 | 11
Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 51
Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone? Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle' Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 40
Lenovo debuts AI PCs that have specs a lot like vanilla PCs with this year's accelerated CPUs While you ponder that, look – or try to – at a concept transparent lappie Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 16
It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 60
Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain Oodles of problems with data decompression and suchlike, depending on system settings Personal Tech23 Feb 2024 | 25
Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data A name that's commonly shouted by pirates might be a clue, me hearties! Security23 Feb 2024 | 18
Reddit signs AI training deal with Google – and why OpenAI's Altman could be the winner IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 5
DoorDash coughs up a few bucks after California accuses it of spreading around customer info Food delivery giant promises to drop off $375,000, no tip Personal Tech22 Feb 2024 | 3
Rivian decimates staff to put a brake on spending With only enough cash on hand to keep the lights on until 2025, loss-making automaker may soon be next casualty of the EV revolution Personal Tech22 Feb 2024 | 46
Employees saved Musk from himself over Twitter Files Unfettered access to non-public info would have violated FTC order Personal Tech22 Feb 2024 | 35
Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers Easy to defend against stuff that may never actually work – oh there we go again, being all cynical like Research21 Feb 2024 | 30
Duo face 20 years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back Personal Tech21 Feb 2024 | 19
Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple Old wives revise their official advice Personal Tech21 Feb 2024 | 73
Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite UK demonstrates prowess at nuking the ocean Offbeat21 Feb 2024 | 139
Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 45
Hackers mod a Sony PlayStation Portal to run PSP games Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running 'very smoothly' Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 10
Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024 Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 38
Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 17
Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July OSes19 Feb 2024 | 10
India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million Paytm's merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast Personal Tech19 Feb 2024 | 11
India buys a third of the world's wearable devices Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2
Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision Applications16 Feb 2024 | 113
X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks Personal Tech16 Feb 2024 | 25
Apple Vision Pro units returned as folks just can't see themselves using it Headaches, eyestrain, lack of killer apps cited as some seek refunds Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 98
Worried about the impending demise of Windows 10? Google wants you to give ChromeOS Flex a try Hello, Mr. Frying Pan, meet Mr. Fire Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 61
HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 32
European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all Security15 Feb 2024 | 212
'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations' Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 43
Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 2
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit Who could possibly have predicted this backlash? Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation Of course it's bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop? Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping Demands investigation into iPhone maker for potentially breaching regulations over Beeper Mini Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 16
Flipper Zero takes to the big screen RP2040-based Video Game Module brings game controller functionality and video output Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 6
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve Leaves it to carriers, promoting a complaint to Irish data cops from Big Tech's bête noire Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 107
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments I'd buy that for a $0.00000001 Applications13 Feb 2024 | 105
Thar be safe harbor: Reddit defeats third attempt to unmask digital pirates First Amendment is a rule, not a guideline, says judge Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 12
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi FOSDEM 2024 Who needs the present when you can relive the '80s at warp speed? Personal Tech12 Feb 2024 | 34
Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories Interview AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 19
Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 46
AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation Personal Tech09 Feb 2024 | 21
Google silences Bard, restrings it as Gemini with optional $20-a-month upgrade Say Gemini again, I dare you. I double dare you. Say Gemini one more goddamn time AI + ML09 Feb 2024 | 16
Fake LastPass lookalike made it into Apple App Store No walled garden can keep out every weed, we suppose Cyber-crime08 Feb 2024 | 10
Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award Personal Tech08 Feb 2024 | 11
OpenAI latest to add 'Made by AI' metadata to model work Content Credentials: It's better than nothing™ AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 8
Apple Vision Pro has densest display iFixit's ever seen, and almost-OK repairability You can fit more than 50 Virgin Bro pixels into a single iPhone one while angular resolution remains a little low Personal Tech07 Feb 2024 | 46
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute Windows encryption feature defeated by $10 and a YouTube tutorial Research07 Feb 2024 | 142
Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts Preliminary investigation confirms pilot chat was overwritten but doesn't mention attempts to recover data Personal Tech07 Feb 2024 | 86
America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 11
Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar Firefox maker promises to lean on personal info brokers to scrub records Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 15
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 89
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
EU repair rights bill tells manufacturers to fix up or ship out Provisional deal will mean companies cannot 'hinder repair' Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 49
Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries Supplier to beleagered US aerospace giant spots problem, which would not be an 'immediate flight safety issue' Personal Tech05 Feb 2024 | 127
iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird Personal Tech05 Feb 2024 | 57
Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024 Personal Tech01 Feb 2024 | 1
Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars Personal Tech01 Feb 2024 | 10
The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk $423K luxury motor makes the Spirit of Ecstasy want to fly away Personal Tech30 Jan 2024 | 54
Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready' Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge Personal Tech30 Jan 2024 | 55
Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer Personal Tech30 Jan 2024 | 35
X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh? Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 27
Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 15