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Blizzard president, HR chief exit games giant in wake of sexual harassment uproar

Lawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath

03 Aug 23:18 | 1

'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction

The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks

03 Aug 10:38 | 20

Vivo X60 Pro: Branding was plastered all over the Euros, but does the phone perform better than the English team?

We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera

03 Aug 08:30 | 14

Chromebooks fighting for mind share at PC makers with higher-margin Windows 11 machines in the lead, says IDC

Colour us surprised

02 Aug 14:00 | 9

Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

Gatekeeper capitalism at its most odious

02 Aug 09:27 | 186

Jack Dorsey's side hustle – payments outfit Square – acquires buy now pay later darling Afterpay for $29bn

Plans to make partial payments for almost anything the new normal

02 Aug 00:47 | 21

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

You miss every shot you don't take, we guess

30 Jul 22:33 | 41

Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches

ZX Spectrum was pretty cool too

30 Jul 14:01 | 82

London class-action sueball against Google is a lot like Epic's case except fandroids might win enough for a pint

Hundreds of millions in damages, Play Store in the sights etc. etc.

30 Jul 11:30 | 25

Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0

30 Jul 07:59 | 20

Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads

Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed

30 Jul 01:58 | 18

Huawei says its latest flagship smartphones lack 5G, blames US sanctions

Qualcomm tells us it has permission to provide 4G-only Snapdragon 888 chip

29 Jul 22:38 | 9

Qualcomm's bumper Q3 growth comes with supply constraints warning, but Intel may ride to the rescue

Company confirms it's investigating adding Chipzilla to multi-source vendor list, alongside TSMC and Samsung

Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts

Legal eagles determined to overturn decision to throw out antitrust lawsuit targeting Instagram, Whatsapp acquisitions

28 Jul 23:16 | 7

Apple boasts of record quarter, but warns supply shortages will get worse before they get better

'The road to recovery will be a winding one' Cook predicts

28 Jul 11:29 | 3

Looks like we all can't stop pouring billions of dollars into AMD, Google, Apple, Microsoft

iPhones, iPads about to hit global chip supply wall others have felt, though

28 Jul 02:32 | 5

Facebook tries to save face by recalling itch-inducing Oculus Quest 2 VR headset foam

Reports of skin problems and a recall in Australia move social ad biz to action

27 Jul 19:05 | 10

Samsung confirms no new Note this year, but does have a pen for foldables up its sleeve

Hints at new Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip models too

27 Jul 11:29 | 1

Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations

Energy efficiency rules appear to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs

26 Jul 21:35 | 228

For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5

Litre of the office essential costs as much as £2,410 – up from £1,700 in 2003, finds Which?

26 Jul 11:24 | 97

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Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

Gatekeeper capitalism at its most odious

Huawei to America: You're not taking cyber-security seriously until you let China vouch for us

Slams Biden's Executive Order on improving infosec, calls for multilateral trust framework

Following Torvalds' nudge, Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel

Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here'

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more

Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally

Two little letters is all it takes

Redpilled Microsoft does away with flashing icons on taskbar as Windows 11 hits Beta

Also: Why new OS looks this way, and easier install for Linux subsystem

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings

IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls

Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month

We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting

Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative

Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool

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Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Is it broken yet? Is it? Is it? Ooh that means I can buy a sparkly, new but otherwise hard-to-justify replacement!

I may consider offering you cash to break it for me

23 Jul 08:30 | 110

Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere

Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit

23 Jul 00:29 | 21

Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable

Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering

22 Jul 06:25 | 68

Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death

Creator of QWK format suffered fatal heart attack as cops surrounded home

22 Jul 05:11 | 100

We clock what you're trying to do here: El Reg strokes a claw across the OnePlus 9 Pro

Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on

20 Jul 09:15 | 10

Microsoft adds cloud enablement to 1970s Altair 8800 tech

Back to an era when 'cloud' meant 'it's probably going to rain'

16 Jul 15:45 | 17

Xiaomi parties like a winner after coming second on world smartphone sales charts

CEO predicts ‘many vicious and fierce battles coming', bulks R&D budget by 30 percent and hires 5,000 engineers to chase top slot

16 Jul 08:02 | 38

Try placing a pot plant directly above your CRT monitor – it really ties the desk together

Actually, no. Don't do this

16 Jul 07:30 | 192

All hands on Steam Deck: Fancy a handheld Linux PC that runs Windows apps, sports a custom AMD Zen APU and a touch screen?

Steam just announced one for gamers on the go, but it can also behave like any other PC

16 Jul 06:12 | 64

BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah?

15 Jul 07:31 | 84

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

14 Jul 09:15 | 27

Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web

If the Chocolate Factory doesn't play ball soon it'll be an extra €1m a day

14 Jul 07:41 | 40

Samsung's latest spin on ISOCELL shifts camera tech from smartphones into autonomous vehicles

Promises better images, improved safety through 'CornerPixel' technology

Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 midranger makes premium phones feel frivolous

Biometrics could be better but workhorse otherwise does the job

13 Jul 13:15 | 41

NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline

£200m tender is latest step in never-ending journey toward a paperless utopia

13 Jul 11:30 | 13

Paper Tiger Lake? El Reg gets its talons on the first Intel Core i7 Honor MagicBook 14

Impressive Chipzilla-powered ultrabook has plenty going for it

13 Jul 10:00 | 17

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