Hardware

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 | 64

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 | 18

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

NARROWER TOPICS

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

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

India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech

And hints at revised rules to come later this year

Systems26 Sep 2024 | 7

AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand

Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts

AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 33

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue

Software19 Sep 2024 | 32

Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers

Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume

Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

Part 3 And you may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that large computer?'

Personal Tech04 Sep 2024 | 109

OpenAI allegedly wants TSMC 1.6nm for in-house AI chip debut

Another job for Broadcom, then

AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5

NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers

Gadget gladiators line up to supply world's largest healthcare org

Public Sector02 Sep 2024 | 31

Microsoft PC accessories rise from the grave just in time for Christmas

Incase revives Windows giant's abandoned peripherals range

On-Prem30 Aug 2024 | 33

Intel enlists Morgan Stanley to defend against activist investors

Multiple lawsuits doesn't mean investors are coming for the board yet, but better safe than sorry, right?

Systems26 Aug 2024 | 11

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed

Systems23 Aug 2024 | 37

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

DEF CON Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?

Black Hat and DEF CON13 Aug 2024 | 38

UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort

There's gold in them thar boards

Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 66

Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

Black Hat Let's get physical, physical ... I don't wanna hear your MMU talk

Black Hat and DEF CON07 Aug 2024 | 48

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to

And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told

Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 64

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?

Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73

Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors

It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup

AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39

Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time

'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile

Research18 Jun 2024 | 27

HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights

Customers not amused

Personal Tech10 Jun 2024 | 41

Airbus shows off uncrewed AI-powered Wingman for fighter pilots

Updated I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone

AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 27

Contrary to its fine print, Google says it won't confiscate repair returns that have unapproved parts

'We are updating our terms to clarify this' Pixel giant tells The Reg

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 27

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC

Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7

Check Point warns customers to patch VPN vulnerability under active exploitation

Infosec in brief Also, free pianos are the latest internet scam bait, Cooler Master gets pwned, and some critical vulnerabilities

Security03 Jun 2024 | 2

Colorado governor signs 'best in the world' right-to-repair law

But the repairability war isn't over, says iFixit's Kyle Wiens

Personal Tech29 May 2024 | 9

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit

Cyber-crime09 May 2024 | 35

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push

Exclusive Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes

On-Prem08 May 2024 | 81

Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K

And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation

HPC06 May 2024 | 27

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results

Systems01 May 2024 |

Razer made to pay $1.2M over 'N95' face mask that wasn't

Customers to get their light-up cyberpunk respirators refunded

Offbeat30 Apr 2024 | 22

Novel vitrimer plastics promise greener PCBs

Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time

Science30 Apr 2024 | 4

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Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater

Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over

Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

NARROWER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements

Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight

Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff

Microsoft wants to quit building Army VR goggles, hand contract to Anduril

RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101

Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

Tongue-zapping spoons, tea-cooling catbots, lazy vacuums and more from CES

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

OneOdio Focus A5: Big battery, budget sound, and a bargain bin price

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

Intel sued again over struggling foundry business

Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service

AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling

Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains

The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block

EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club

Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life?

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Gadget designers get chunky option as USB 20 Gbps controller arrives

Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech

AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

OpenAI allegedly wants TSMC 1.6nm for in-house AI chip debut

NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers

Microsoft PC accessories rise from the grave just in time for Christmas

Intel enlists Morgan Stanley to defend against activist investors

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort

Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors

Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time

HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights

Airbus shows off uncrewed AI-powered Wingman for fighter pilots

Contrary to its fine print, Google says it won't confiscate repair returns that have unapproved parts

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

Check Point warns customers to patch VPN vulnerability under active exploitation

Colorado governor signs 'best in the world' right-to-repair law

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push

Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

Razer made to pay $1.2M over 'N95' face mask that wasn't

Novel vitrimer plastics promise greener PCBs

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