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 | 33
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 | 14
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 | 55
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 | 55
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 | 14
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 | 66
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 | 66
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 | 35
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 | 7
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 | 17
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
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack
Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'
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 | 30
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 | 54
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
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 | 20
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 | 68
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