Personal Tech
New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill
Fair Repair Act targets all varieties of electronic devices
18 Jun 18:18 | 25
Personal Tech
Review
Vissles V84: Mechanical keyboard hits all the right buttons for Mac power users
Ideal for Apple fans who appreciate little boxes made of clicky-clacky
18 Jun 12:01 | 36
Personal Tech
India’s ban on Chinese apps eases just a little as PUBG blasts back onto Google Play, maybe Korean Stock market too
Fragfest adds green blood, Azure cloud, shirts, and detailed rules about how to kill people politely to satisfy regulators
18 Jun 04:58 | 1
Personal Tech
Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive
Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?
17 Jun 00:04 | 35
Personal Tech
Lenovo refreshes workstation ThinkPads with 11th-gen Intel CPUs, RTX graphics, 5G
For those who like a bit of oomph under the bonnet
16 Jun 19:14 | 13
Personal Tech
Linux gods at last turn their gaze to Pi 400: Computer-in-a-keyboard receives mainline kernel support with v5.14
Also: Overclocked Pi 4s in the cloud, anyone?
15 Jun 17:33 | 12
Personal Tech
There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house
It's Crookedgate! Folks report receiving whizzy Apple gear with slightly wonky displays
15 Jun 16:02 | 59
Personal Tech
UK competition watchdog begins probe into Apple and Google's total domination of the mobile landscape
Authority investigating whether duopoly is harming consumers
15 Jun 14:15 | 18
Personal Tech
Thailand bans joke cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens
Much bubble, none value, regulator excite
15 Jun 04:16 | 26
Personal Tech
US Supreme Court gives LinkedIn another shot at stymieing web scraping
LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk
15 Jun 00:08 | 7
Personal Tech
Samsung mulls delaying next 'fan edition' phone in light of semiconductor shortage
'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant
14 Jun 22:16 | 2
Personal Tech
Mobile market to recover 12% this year. No, not you, small smartphone outfits
Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage
14 Jun 16:17 |
Feature
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
14 Jun 02:25 | 140
Personal Tech
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
Delivery drives to get refund
11 Jun 23:08 | 44
Updated
New York State Senate first to pass landmark right-to-repair bill – but don't go popping the Champagne just yet
... lower house, the State Assembly, is not likely to pass the bill
11 Jun 17:38 | 11
Personal Tech
Samsung brags that its latest imaging sensor has the ittiest-bittiest cam pixels in the world
It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it
10 Jun 16:02 | 27
Personal Tech
Pre-orders open for the Mini PET 40/80, the closest thing to Commodore's classic around
Upgraded build-it-yourself kit now includes 80-character mode, improved video output options
10 Jun 13:45 | 48
Personal Tech
'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed
Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses
10 Jun 03:06 | 17
Video
The Newton lives, kinda: Boffin turns Apple eMate 300 into Raspberry Pi laptop
Impressive working computer from the corpse of a rarity
09 Jun 18:42 | 7
Personal Tech
Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility
Yup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation
09 Jun 02:14 | 15
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Feature
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
Bootnotes
Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
OSes
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...
Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
Security
Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!
In brief
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more
Security
Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
OSes
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now
Panic over for users as others step up to take his place
Comment
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations
Hands on
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
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Personal Tech
China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips
Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time
08 Jun 19:16 | 18
Personal Tech
Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic
Don't call it growth
08 Jun 14:57 |
Personal Tech
iFixit voids yet another warranty tearing down the 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro
Not too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle
07 Jun 18:24 |
Personal Tech
Can a 21.5-inch iMac beat the latest-and-greatest M1 model in performance? Kinda
Extra performance wrung out, but we wouldn't rush to eBay
07 Jun 10:01 | 18
Personal Tech
Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely
Donald, you're fired. Again
04 Jun 23:31 | 82
Personal Tech
Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America
Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing
04 Jun 21:26 | 113
First Look
Twitter’s new subscription service costs the same as a cup of coffee a month – though much less stimulating
Twitter Blue only works properly on iOS and just one feature is useful
04 Jun 14:06 | 19
Analysis
China reveals plan to pump out positive news about itself. Let's see what happens when that lands with social media fact-checkers
Xi Jinping says it’s time the world learned Marxism works, socialism is good, and China is really nice, but some 90s indie pop shows another way to get the message across
03 Jun 04:57 | 51
Personal Tech
Amazon warehouse workers are seriously injured more frequently than those at similar companies – unions
Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks
02 Jun 01:55 | 25
Computex
Nvidia refreshes GeForce RTX GPUs: More CUDA cores, crippled crypto mining
3070 Ti, 3080 Ti available this month ... well, in theory
01 Jun 22:00 | 5
Personal Tech
Xiaomi touts Hypercharge 200W charging tech, claims 4,000mAh battery goes from 0 to full in 480 seconds
One of the few differentiators left in the smartphone arena
01 Jun 13:46 | 17
Feature
Why did automakers stall while the PC supply chain coped with a surge? Because Big Tech got priority access
Cars are becoming computers on wheels tho manufacturers aren't tuned into the silicon innovation cycle
01 Jun 07:58 | 101
Personal Tech
Twitter given three weeks to comply with Indian content code
Appears to have taken first step by appointing grievance officer
01 Jun 01:45 | 15
Computex
Intel finds a couple more 11th-gen Core chips, one hits 5.0GHz in laptops
Teases Alder Lake architecture – which mixes different types of CPU – in mobile PCs. Also reveals some 5G fun
31 May 03:58 | 18
Personal Tech
Vietnam asks Samsung to find it some COVID-19 vaccines
Double-mutant strain puts electronics factories at risk
31 May 01:59 | 11
Personal Tech
Big Tech has a big problem with Florida passing a law that protects politicians from web moderation
Disney and Comcast get a pass from the Sunshine State, though
28 May 19:50 | 122
