Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 6
TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on? Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 30
Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line Big is not always beautiful Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 13
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 17
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 25
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse' It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 29
For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now Opinion Is there a role for a poll for just Blue Tickers, not proles, or is this troll a social media own goal? Personal Tech28 Mar 2023 | 65
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 46
Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 20
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points? Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 71
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 47
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 127
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 102
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 111
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27
Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty Alert noise is 'loud and distracting' for drivers, claims filing Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 68
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets A reminder you can still opt-out
China urges Apple to improve security and privacy It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse' It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 42
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month Feature We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 145
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 31
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy Shocking! Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 113
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
Fewer bonuses for Apple staff in latest cost-cutting measure Don't worry about Tim – executive's rewards are reportedly unaffected. Phew Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 7
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise Sponsored Feature
Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in 10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop Hands-on Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing? Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 153
Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation? It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14
Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down Personal Tech09 Mar 2023 | 30
Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home Don't say you weren't warned Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 74
Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks Talk about off the back of a lorry Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11
Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users How will Elon conform to FTC decrees and EU laws? He probably doesn't know, either Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 15
Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired Updated This internet soap opera continues Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 130
IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025 Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29
Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5
EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble Crunch licensing talks with rivals may ease antitrust fears Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 10
'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail Once again, the status page is oblivious Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 61
Financial red tape blamed for London losing Arm IPO Chip outfit reportedly afraid it would have to report any transaction with a SoftBank company to UK regulator Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 35
Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022? Then they plunged properly like all other client devices Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 1
Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives Personal Tech04 Mar 2023 | 167
Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball Personal Tech03 Mar 2023 | 113
How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation? 977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores Personal Tech02 Mar 2023 | 5
Hybrid working is here to stay, but is the IT up to speed? With more employees than ever choosing where they work, the need for PCs fit for purpose has intensified Sponsored Feature
Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post? Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 34
PC price promos, flaky economy halve HP profits Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 |
Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 52
Europe trims Apple App Store probe after deciding in-app payments not a problem Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 8
Apple's outsourced Lightning cable plant in India goes up in flames Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 40
Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them Reminder: Elon spent $44 billion on this. Forty-four thousand million dollars Personal Tech27 Feb 2023 | 115
HMD offers Nokia phone with novel concept: Designed to be repaired by its owner With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less Personal Tech27 Feb 2023 | 46
Microsoft’s Mr Smith goes to Europe in quest to win Activision deal Analysis Trust us, we're no monopolists Personal Tech26 Feb 2023 | 6
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236
Rugged satellite messaging phone Bullitt fired out ahead of MWC MWC Plus Bluetooth gadget that gives your Android or iPhone the same ability Personal Tech24 Feb 2023 | 17
PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis On Call Customer with a magnetic personality also had a significantly magnetic wristband Personal Tech24 Feb 2023 | 216
Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff And jobs shift offshore, says source Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 14
The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 21
Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 2
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes Warrantless data harvesting, you say? Feds have their secret reasons and we're OK with that Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 27
Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone If a phone is as mighty as a laptop, why not make it convertible and use it as one Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 20
Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes Paid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line Personal Tech20 Feb 2023 | 40
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake Wow Harold, you could buy, like, 23 billion sliders with that Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 142
Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34
Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure How about the inside of the windshield instead? Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 75
Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 34
Unplug that Anker battery pack now: House blaze sparks recall Send them back? God no, throw them away, says maker Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 35
Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions From organizing plans to filing a watchdog complaint in just a day - that's gotta be some sort of record Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 76
Foxconn expands Vietnam factories, perhaps to help Apple diversify beyond China Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 5
Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it So Tesla's gonna open up its proprietary tech? Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 89
Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37
Musk says he ain't going anywhere as Twitter CEO until at least late 2023 Video Ignoring poll results is the new craze for some. At least that's daily entertainment guaranteed now Personal Tech15 Feb 2023 | 74
Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook European Commission satisfied joint venture won't create competitive problems for locals Personal Tech13 Feb 2023 | 63
IBM health benefits blackout leaves retirees footing the bill Medical payments expected to resume ... soon? Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 30
The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer FOSDEM Plus new developments in the world of the MNT Reform Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 55
Glasgow staff form UK's first Apple union after historic vote Hey, Glaswegians, care to share those negotiating secrets with your counterparts in the US? Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 27
Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops … probably Handy thing, that First Amendment. Now, about the Second … Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 19
Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids Old man yells at cloud, literally Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5
Microsoft-Activision deal will hurt UK gamers, says watchdog Competition and Markets Authority isn't buying promises of equal access to Call of Duty Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 3
Google pushes fake abortion clinic ads to lower-income women, report says At least those who live in Phoenix and Atlanta Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 33
FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within Meta said it plans to close deal soon Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 2
US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse Personal Tech07 Feb 2023 | 12
Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 8
Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ? Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 33
Musk, Tesla win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet 'Wisdom of the people has prevailed' SpaceX supremo beams Personal Tech04 Feb 2023 | 37
Activision-Blizzard pays $35m to send SEC away, Microsoft merger still in doubt Allegations of stifled whistleblowing and disclosure failures end with no admission of guilt, as usual Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 5
As Apple sales slide, Tim Cook says fanbois will tolerate higher iPhone prices As for Macs, CEO admits PC industry is shrinking Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 38
Hi, Pakistan? You do know anyone can edit Wikipedia, right? You don't have to ask Telecoms authority has 'degraded' access and threatened total ban while it waits for 'blasphemous' content to be removed Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 42
Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 21
FTC prescribes GoodRx a $1.5m pill after 'sharing health info' with web giants Facebook, Google, Twilio had a look-see of that data, we're told Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 8
Should Google location data be a tool for cops? Updated ACLU, EFF, public defenders say that's a hard no Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 57
Bankruptcy probe: Celsius cheated investors 'from the start' If it walks like a Ponzi, quacks like a Ponzi, guess what it is? Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 20
200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 32