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 | 7
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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 | 32
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 | 10
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 | 51
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 | 34
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 | 59
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 | 75
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 | 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
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US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans
Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers
Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed
UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals
It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay
Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week
AI assistant turns up via Edge update. It was an accident. This time...
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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 | 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
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