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Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook says

Antisocial giant surprisingly vocal in dismissing chat app rival's 'stunt'

As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst

Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing

05 May 13:14 | 8

Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500

Which is a lot of money for this crap

05 May 09:12 | 14

Dell, Foxconn sign up for Indian servers-and-PCs manufacturing subsidies

India wanted five global players. And it got only five applications from qualifying companies

05 May 06:31 | 1

India approves 5G trials – if they don't use Chinese 5G kit

Government department wants carriers to facilitate testing of homegrown tech for India-specific use cases

05 May 04:44 | 1

Norwegian telco Telenor writes off its Myanmar operation

Military coup creates such a nasty environment it’s hung up on $780 million of assets

05 May 02:04 | 2

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble

05 May 00:11 | 10

Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona

Copper State turns silicon?

04 May 22:24 | 12

Samsung stops providing security updates to the Galaxy S8 at grand old age of four years

Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on

04 May 16:47 | 67

HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra

The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.

04 May 15:00 | 1

Vietnam thanks Samsung for all its help, asks for more to go beyond mere manufacturing

Samsung in turn asks for access to clean 'leccy at high-level love-in

In China, the Smart TV watches you, shares IP address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, viewing habits, and more

Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service

04 May 04:55 | 25

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!

03 May 20:57 | 29

Terminal trickery, or how to improve a novel immeasurably

When contractors go bored: Stuffing the timesheet with shenanigans

03 May 07:30 | 99

Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger

Berkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple

03 May 04:01 | 150

Intel laid me off for being too old, engineer claims in lawsuit

'If you think age is an advantage in this job, you are mistaken'

30 Apr 21:03 | 41

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

So what if I pay peanuts for my home broadband? I demand you fix it NOW!

The Zoom meeting I’m missing is already miles away

30 Apr 09:06 | 86

Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss

Goodbye, Mr Chips

30 Apr 07:30 | 167

Samsung to soothe semiconductor drought with new Pyeongtaek production line

Chaebol's Q1 revenue reaches new all-time high of US$59bn

30 Apr 04:59 | 3

Appeals court nixes online blueprint sharing ban on 3D-printed 'ghost guns'

Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so

29 Apr 20:33 | 150

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'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely

Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code

Googler demolishes one of Apple's monopoly defenses – that web apps are just as good as native iOS software

Safari savaged for falling behind in web APIs

Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage

We know the pandemic has been tough on relationships but...

WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple....

76.23kWh per-transaction footprint... WTF, people?

In China, the Smart TV watches you, shares IP address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, viewing habits, and more

Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service

House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason

Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!

Apple patches iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, kitchen-sinkOS bugs said to be exploited in the wild

Plus: Micro-op CPU caches abused to leak data, and more

Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source

Which is good because that's why the audio editing software is so popular

File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar

How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt

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Richer each day, home and Huawei: Apple's hunger for Snapdragon modems, smartphone recovery pays off for Qualcomm

A certain Chinese juggernaut's woes helped a bit, too

Apple won't be sharing revenue guidance for rest of the year, but we can always guess what it'll look like

Cupertino brought in more for Q2 than HPE did for all of 2020 so go figure

29 Apr 13:49 | 6

Major shift in smartphone market sees Chinese kit win the middle while Apple and Samsung skim the cream

Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’

29 Apr 10:45 | 1

Oh no it isn't... Oh yes it is... Microsoft confirms OneDrive lives on under Windows 7

Panto season comes early in Redmond as TLS tweaks revive software

29 Apr 07:02 | 6

Huawei revenue dips 16 per cent to $23.5bn. Bosses aren't worried because decline was a matter of (selling smartphone brand) Honor

$600m in patent royalty payments pour in to help margins pop

29 Apr 03:57 | 1

Samsung, Intel tease joint effort on new chip 'microarchitecture leveraging multiple types of XPU cores'

But for now, have some thin, light x86 Galaxy Pro laptops

29 Apr 02:32 | 6

What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India

#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis

29 Apr 00:54 | 18

What’s the biggest roadblock to data centre automation? The network

Your first step towards the self-driving data centre is choosing the right co-driver, says Huawei

FCC gives SpaceX the go-ahead to drop Starlink satellite orbits by 500 kilometres or so

Low enough to witness Musk's Twitter trolling of Jeff Bezos?

28 Apr 18:49 | 30

Why mission-critical storage needs more intelligence

How to predict - and prevent - errors

UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units

Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services

28 Apr 11:30 | 6

Ofcom 5G auction ends with UK carriers spending £23m for choice spectrum positionings

What's £23m compared to £1.35bn?

28 Apr 11:01 | 6

FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices

Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe)

28 Apr 08:30 | 6

Singapore goes Cray-cray in the best way, picks HPE for new 10 PFLOPS super 'puter

$30m, 100,000-core beast will use third-gen AMD EPYCs and 352 – count 'em – Nvidia A100 GPUs

28 Apr 07:58 | 7

In case you were wondering, no, AMD hasn't managed to fsck everything up. It's still making lots of money

Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic

28 Apr 04:40 | 7

Beijing offers tax credits to patent-packing, R&Ding chip outfits great and very small

Big list of requirements to get the financial boost – and no mention of 'cut and paste from the West'

28 Apr 01:57 | 8

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