Siri

Hey Siri, are you still recording people's conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?

I’m sorry, I will continue ignoring that question

Personal Tech20 May 2020 | 48

Your phone wakes up. Its assistant starts reading out your text messages. To everyone around. You panic. How? Ultrasonic waves

Video Not OK Google: Android, Siri sink in SurfingAttack

Security28 Feb 2020 | 62

Apple programs Siri to not bother its pretty little head with questions about feminism

Cyber-assistant taught to duck sensitive topics

AI + ML07 Sep 2019 | 68

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

Devises three-point plan to up its privacy game

AI + ML29 Aug 2019 | 41

Apple: Ok, ok, we'll stop listening in on your Siri conversations. For now, but maybe in the future

Just don't ask us to stop recording and storing them, says tech privacy leader

AI + ML02 Aug 2019 | 26

German privacy probe orders Google to stop listening in on voice recordings for 3 months

Google bows to power of GDPR

Security02 Aug 2019 | 38

OK Google, er, Siri, um, Alexa, can you invalidate these digital assistant patents, please?

Yes. Killing effort to seize voice-controlled pal technology now

Science24 Jan 2019 | 18

Thanksgiving brings together Apple's Siri and Google Assistant

A divided tech nation embraces, uncomfortably

Personal Tech21 Nov 2018 | 33

2001 set the standard for the next 50 years of hard (and some soft) sci-fi

How movie magic was achieved long before the arrival of CGI

Bootnotes04 Apr 2018 | 119

Hey Alexa, Siri and Cortana: Cisco says you’re bad at business

VID Borg thinks own Spark voice assistant knows how to behave in the office, but we've seen it and … meh

AI + ML07 Mar 2018 | 9

Voice assistants are always listening. So why won't they call police if they hear a crime?

We've given away our privacy for the wrong rewards

AI + ML26 Feb 2018 | 126

You're decorating it wrong: Apple HomePod gives wood ring of death

'Please don’t tell me to oil my wood,' journo begs

Personal Tech14 Feb 2018 | 79

Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it

Voice assistants get samples of our voice that can be remixed and faked

AI + ML12 Feb 2018 | 71

When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa

Speech recognition systems seduced by masked messages

AI + ML30 Jan 2018 | 58

Aww: Apple won't be HomePod for Christmas

Sir Jony's nosey speakers delayed until 2018

Personal Tech18 Nov 2017 | 37

Bing fling sting: Apple dumps Microsoft search engine for Google

Safari, Spotlight to be powered by the Chocolate Factory

Personal Tech25 Sep 2017 | 45

Apple actually opens up about something – the R&D behind Siri's voices

But you'd have to start working for them to find out any more

Software24 Aug 2017 | 3

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Say what now, Gartner?

Software17 Aug 2017 | 35

Samsung stalls Bixby launch because it am English not so good

원숭이도 나무에서 떨어진다.

Personal Tech05 Jul 2017 | 35

Wowee, it's Samsung's next me-too AI gizmo: The Apple HomePod

WWDC Yet another belated entry into the creepy interactive snooping speaker world

Personal Tech05 Jun 2017 | 53

Huawei could rescue Amazon's Alexa from the smart home

Analysis Mobile integration a lifeline out of domestic drudgery

Networks26 Jan 2017 | 8

Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with character?

Machine-learning boffins debate making software human

AI + ML23 Sep 2016 | 28

Drowning Dalek commands Siri in voice-rec hack attack

Boffins embed barely-audible-to-humans commands inside vids to fool virtual assistants

Security11 Jul 2016 | 40

Apple struggles with the idea of intelligent life outside Cupertino

Siri opened up and AI expanded – but only to a point

AI + ML14 Jun 2016 | 16

So. Why don't people talk to invisible robots in public?

Some questions just answer themselves

Software07 Jun 2016 | 63

Shhhh! Facebook is listening

The great privacy farce continues

On-Prem31 May 2016 | 63

Siri's maker finally unveils dev-tastic universal AI interface Viv

Hops over Apple's garden wall to do it

Software10 May 2016 | 12

Microsoft pitches lobotomized Cortana for iOS, Android handsets

Don't be jealous, Siri. It's just an App

OSes09 Dec 2015 | 53

Amazon Echo: We put Jeff Bezos' always-on microphone-speaker in a Reg family home

Review You may be surprised by the results

Personal Tech16 Oct 2015 | 140

How French spooks can silently command Siri, Google Now on phones

Using headphones with a mic makes your mobe slightly hackable, in theory

Security15 Oct 2015 | 25

Tear teardown down, roars Apple: iFixit app yanked from store

Peek into Sir Jony's precious boxes, pay the price

Software01 Oct 2015 | 57

'Hey Siri, it's Obama, what should we do about Iran?'

Vid Apple assistant butts in on White House press conference

Bootnotes11 Sep 2015 | 13

New low for humanity: ONE BEELLION lost souls log on to Facebook in one day

Free content ad network reveals Siri-slaying shopbot named 'M'

Software28 Aug 2015 | 43

Apple will reveal new iPhone on Sept 9 – this is what it may look like

Pics Hint: It looks like a bleedin' iPhone

Personal Tech27 Aug 2015 | 42

Hey, Apple! 1999 just called and it wants its voicemail avatar back

Wildfire-esque functionality to be added to Siri

Networks03 Aug 2015 | 25

Apple's iOS 9 public beta lands: El Reg pops it on a slab, strokes it up

First look Cupertino's unfinished update – hey, the price is right

Software10 Jul 2015 | 14

'Please, choose to be a good citizen and DON’T ask Siri about 9/11'

QuoTW Plus: Capita has had enough of you moochers bringing in your own spoons

Bootnotes28 Jun 2015 | 13

Hey devs. Forget Siri – Amazon's Alexa will show you a $100m good time

Online bazaar provides APIs and SDK for voice assistant

SaaS25 Jun 2015 | 4

Wake up, sheeple! If you ask Siri about 9/11 it will rat you out to the police!

Also, shill scientists refuse to research whether jet fuel can melt steel beams

On-Prem24 Jun 2015 | 144

Siri, please save my iPhone from the messages of death

Apple's iMessage bomb bug blasts iOS versions of Snapchat and Twitter, too

Personal Tech29 May 2015 | 17

Siri, is it true that you're totally in love with Apache Mesos?

Open-source cluster is behind iThingies' voice queries

On-Prem27 Apr 2015 | 1

Samsung forgets fingerprints, focuses its eye on YOURS

Iris-scanning tech coming to Galaxy gear starting with special Tab Pro

Personal Tech26 Mar 2015 | 18

Siri? Are you seeing another man?

Steganographic man-in-the-middle diddle can force Apple's digital assistant to spill secrets

Security19 Jan 2015 | 12

Siri ... why is this semi headed RIGHT AT ME? Phone apps distracting as ever – new study

Hands-free tech still not so safe, claim researchers

Personal Tech07 Oct 2014 | 26

Siri: Helpful personal assistant or SERIAL APP KILLER?

Comment Will we even need apps any more?

Software29 Aug 2014 | 59

Murder accused DIDN'T ask Siri 'how to hide my roommate'

Updated US court hears of cached browser image - not actual request

Bootnotes14 Aug 2014 | 74

Yosemite Siri? Apple might plonk chatty assistant on your desktop - report

Patent prompts rumou... WTF is THAT? Whose finger?

Software11 Aug 2014 | 35

OK Google: Gobble chat app Emu. OK Google, now shut down Emu

Let's say this acquisition moved me ... to a BIGGER house

On-Prem06 Aug 2014 | 10

Move up, Siri and Cortana: BlackBerry's new... 'Assistant' is here

Did BB use up its creativity building the software?

Networks17 Jul 2014 | 10

Siri, did we just take a hit in that voice-recog patent fight?

Yes, Apple, you did, says this Beijing court

Legal09 Jul 2014 | 28

Devs: Fancy a job teaching Siri to speak the Queen's English?

Spik propa lyk dis blud innit, ya get me?

On-Prem27 Jun 2014 | 25

Google Glass? Feh. Behold Dyson's 2001 pocket 'puter techno specs with own 'Siri'

Pics Shaggy was topping the charts at the time

Personal Tech02 Jun 2014 | 18

Microsoft's naughty Cortana NOT ALLOWED NEAR CHILDREN

But she's not alone...

Software25 Apr 2014 | 53

Shut up, Siri, I'm watching telly! iOS 7.1 code reveals new role for Apple's PA

SDK uncloaks mysterious new device family

Software24 Apr 2014 | 25

Siri set to rival Windows beauty Cortana after Apple eats Novauris

Speech recognition firm could help fruity firm take Siri offline

On-Prem04 Apr 2014 | 11

Back off, Siri! Microsoft debuts Halo beauty Cortana

Build 2014 Major Microsoft mobile OS update to arrive in coming months

Software02 Apr 2014 | 67