Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine
Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China
Public Sector11 Jul 2025 | 2
Hardware
Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them
You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!
Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 22
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller
Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart
Offbeat27 Jun 2025 | 35
HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot
HPE Discover 2025 Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 1
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'
Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses
Networks20 Jun 2025 | 39
Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible
For that laptop feel without the laptop
Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 110
NARROWER TOPICS
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer
Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet
Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark
UPDATED Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down
Science05 Jun 2025 | 51
Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest
World War Fee Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research
Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 31
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Public Sector30 May 2025 | 24
Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry
Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes'
Systems29 May 2025 | 15
Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous
Google I/O Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact
Personal Tech21 May 2025 | 36
Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple
Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others
OSes21 May 2025 | 20
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 59
Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off
Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes
Systems14 May 2025 | 8
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
Updated ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit
Research13 May 2025 | 5
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
Price tag unknown
Public Sector09 May 2025 | 108
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'
Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper
Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13
90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control
United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts
Networks07 May 2025 | 58
New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant
Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less
On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79
What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight
Oh. You expected serious suggestions?
Personal Tech19 Apr 2025 | 78
The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s
Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend
Offbeat14 Apr 2025 | 19
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027
Science09 Apr 2025 | 15
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
World War Fee Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great
Personal Tech08 Apr 2025 | 15
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2
Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse?
Personal Tech27 Mar 2025 | 110
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members
Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies
HPC26 Mar 2025 | 5
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair
Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says
Personal Tech17 Mar 2025 | 29
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'
Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65
We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves
iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security
Research08 Mar 2025 | 17
Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater
Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it
Science07 Mar 2025 | 37
Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over
Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost
Science07 Mar 2025 | 35
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims
Updated Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies
Personal Tech01 Mar 2025 | 59
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction
Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements
Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 44
Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight
Updated Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too
Science19 Feb 2025 | 37
Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff
Analyst tells El Reg to expect more of this across hardware brands
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 56
Microsoft wants to quit building Army VR goggles, hand contract to Anduril
Will the Pentagon get Luckey with a new IVAS vendor?
Public Sector12 Feb 2025 | 10
RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101
Obit Engineer was behind the HEC series and more
Science11 Feb 2025 | 52
Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen
Interview Bot manufacturers should think outside the box of humanoid form – unless those makers are Engineered Arts
On-Prem27 Jan 2025 | 35
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
Tongue-zapping spoons, tea-cooling catbots, lazy vacuums and more from CES
CES All the consumer electronics weirdness you didn't want to see in person anyway
Personal Tech10 Jan 2025 | 40
Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025
ces The honors are dubious, but boy, so is the tech
Offbeat09 Jan 2025 | 78
Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast
CES D-Wave, Rigetti, others plummet nearly 50% after Huang says the obvious
On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 23
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery
Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap
Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 75
OneOdio Focus A5: Big battery, budget sound, and a bargain bin price
Review Inexpensive over-ear gear, but active noise cancelling won't block out the carol singers
Personal Tech23 Dec 2024 | 15
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business
Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members
Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service
Take this job and automate it
Offbeat15 Dec 2024 | 21
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling
Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Systems10 Dec 2024 | 10
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains
Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province?
Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block
Tunny and Colossus galleries re-roofed
On-Prem15 Nov 2024 | 22
EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance
US firm made OEMs, glass processors sign exclusivity deals, tattle on competitors, claims Euro Commish
Personal Tech06 Nov 2024 | 27
$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club
No specs and few details, but the promise of access to an exclusive community is still drawing buyers
Off-Prem24 Oct 2024 | 29
Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life?
But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push
Science19 Oct 2024 | 29
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Personal Tech14 Oct 2024 | 159
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 127
Gadget designers get chunky option as USB 20 Gbps controller arrives
Set to bring mighty performance in a small BGA package
Systems02 Oct 2024 | 7
Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board
Working from home, but missing the voice of Elinor Hamilton telling you all services are canceled?
Bootnotes27 Sep 2024 | 67
Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week
Return-to-office mandate reaches inevitable conclusion
CxO26 Sep 2024 | 119
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