FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 53
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests Beware support calls offering a fix Security27 Mar 2024 | 14
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 | 84
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 | 13
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 | 19
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 | 89
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 | 34
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 | 130
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
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
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
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs Some staff are worried – can't think why
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who Pics Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb One might say this is a wurst case scenario
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship Depending on planning permission being given for facility
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
Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Legal19 Mar 2024 | 20
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 | 13
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 | 12
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 | 15
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 | 54
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 | 20
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 | 16
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 | 65
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 | 75
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 | 22
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 | 93
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Updated 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
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 | 19
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 | 26
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 | 6
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 | 41
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