As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears, workers step up their organizing
This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more
Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 1
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DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers
Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw
Personal Tech25 May 2022 | 14
Leica and Huawei terminate trading agreement amid US sanctions
German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead
Personal Tech24 May 2022 | 14
FTC urged to protect data privacy of women visiting abortion clinics
Updated As Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, safeguards on location info now more vital than ever
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 30
Zuckerberg sued for alleged role in Cambridge Analytica data-slurp scandal
I can prove CEO was 'personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect privacy', DC AG insists
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 18
Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says
So cool you're into free speech because that includes taking down misinformation
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 47
Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy
Survives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 54
AMD reveals 5nm Ryzen 7000 powered by Zen 4 cores
AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 15
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data
Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 9
Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost
With any other portable, this would be bad news for existing owners
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 24
Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range
Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 16
America bucks global smartphone decline with help from Apple
Cupertino's 51% control is why NA market grew while the world shrunk, says Canalys
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 7
Acer's TravelMate laptops arrive – complete with Microsoft Pluton chips
MS's TPM tip finally gets a grip – but shh – don't mention the Chromebooks
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 3
Logitech Pop: Stylish, portable, but far from the best typing experience
For tiny Venn diagram wedge who want the feel of a mechanical keyboard plus, er, emoji keys
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 68
Google's first report on Privacy Sandbox hits UK watchdog's inbox
No 'reportable concerns' yet plenty of concerned feedback
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 2
Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched
We're shutting down as we can no longer pay staff, bills, web giant says
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 73
Will this be one of the world's first RISC-V laptops?
Pic A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 55
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint?
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 84
Google keeps legacy G Suite alive and free for personal use
Phew!
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 42
China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players
CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 1
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Patch now: Zoom chat messages can infect PCs, Macs, phones with malware
Google Project Zero blows lid off bug involving that old chestnut: XML parsing
Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
What's Mandarin for 'Where's my money?'
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers
Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively
Version 251 of systemd coming soon to a Linux distro near you
'Experimental' systemd-sysupdate feature likely to get the most attention
Microsoft shows off Windows updates at Build dev event
Microsoft Build Amazon Appstore preview goes wider, plus Windows on Arm platform with Neural Processing Units – Project Volterra
If you're using the ctx Python package, bad news: Vandal added info-stealing code
Updated Domain associated with maintainer email expired, taken over in supply-chain attack
DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers
Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw
About half of popular websites tested found vulnerable to account pre-hijacking
In detail: Ocean's Eleven-grade ruse in which victims' profiles are rigged from the start
It's 2022 and there are still malware-laden PDFs in emails exploiting bugs from 2017
Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times
ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles
CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more
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Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled
A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44
AMD claims its GPUs beat Nvidia on performance per dollar
* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 8
Turing Pi 2 crowdfunding goal smashed within a day
Go host yourself with a tiny low-powered Arm cluster in a box for $219
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 14
Infusion of $3.5bn not enough to revive Terra's 'stablecoin'
Estimated $42bn vanished with collapse of UST, Luna – we explain what all this means
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 55
Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted
Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 90
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19
Coinbase CEO says everything's OK after SEC filing gives netizens the jitters
OK includes an outage, plummeting cryptocurrencies, falling stock price
Personal Tech13 May 2022 | 27
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law
That bit in Ghostbusters when they shut off the containment unit? That, but with social networks
Personal Tech12 May 2022 | 59
Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims
Please season with pinches of salt as necessary
Personal Tech12 May 2022 | 71
Google shows off immersive maps, AR-flavored search, Pixel 7, and more
Google IO Your essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 10
LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality
Column The cost of kit to capture the real world is plummeting, thanks to Apple
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 35
Indian government accuses Uber of jacking up prices for loyal customers
Six ride sharing companies forced into consumer redress scheme
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 4
The end of the iPod – last model available 'while supplies last'
The day the music died … was probably 2007, when the iPhone made standalone music players redundant
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 57
Intel blames software, COVID lockdowns for Arc GPU delays
Intel Vision And China to get first dibs when graphics chips do ship
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 3
Intel puts ‘desktop-caliber’ CPUs in laptops with 12th-gen Core HX
Intel Vision And puts the usual claims of world-beating performance in its marketing
Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 7
Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide
Is winter coming already for the US tech sector?
Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 15
Biden deal with ISPs: Low to no cost internet for 40% of US
$30 plans from ISPs and 'up to' $30 monthly credit means free internet for some
Personal Tech09 May 2022 | 29
China plans to toss foreign-made PCs from government agencies 'in two years'
Just like it was supposed to do in 2019
Personal Tech07 May 2022 | 41
Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses
DingTalk goes into 'extended reality'
Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5
Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk
With funding from database billionaire, will Oracle-style licensing follow? $50k per like? $1m for 420-character limit?
Personal Tech05 May 2022 | 81
BLUETTI shares gift ideas to celebrate Mother’s Day
Bluetti Mother's day deal lets you soak up the solar
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Tablet PC sales decline as consumers consider inflation
Panic buying is over, but the market's still well above pre-pandemic norms
Personal Tech05 May 2022 | 2
Google's FLoC flopped, boffins claim, because it failed to provide promised privacy
MIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued
Personal Tech05 May 2022 | 22
Logitech's sales plunge 20% as demand for PCs slows
Peripherals-maker CEO lowers forecast, citing ongoing war in Ukraine as cause of uncertainty
Personal Tech04 May 2022 | 22
Elon Musk wants to take Twitter public again 'within 3 years'
Tesla chief courts private equity with promises of future IPO, says report
Personal Tech04 May 2022 | 63
Volkswagen to put Qualcomm tech under the hood across all brands
CEO says Intel may yet end up inside, through its Mobileye tech
Personal Tech04 May 2022 | 3
Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers
Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now?
Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5
Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans
We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request
Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 111
After historic win, Amazon workers at another NYC warehouse reject unionization
Campaigners again say web giant again held mandatory anti-union meetings
Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 16
Qualcomm ‘on track’ for Apple M-level Nuvia chips in late 2023
Too bad everyone else is pretty much on track with their processors
Personal Tech02 May 2022 | 7
John Deere tractors 'bricked' after Russia steals machinery from Ukraine
If true, a good use for DRM?
Personal Tech02 May 2022 | 129
ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC
Interview Plus: A look at some of the Centre for Computing History's most exciting machines
Personal Tech30 Apr 2022 | 59
Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama
Plus: He reportedly wants to oust CEO, shake up site features
Personal Tech29 Apr 2022 | 82
Apple CEO: Silicon shortages and C-19 lockdowns to hurt sales by up to $8 billion
That Mac you ordered? Lead times stretch to June, but Apple warns 'most products affected' over next 3 months
Personal Tech29 Apr 2022 | 11
Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode
On Call Code so clever it is like perpetual motion. In C++
Personal Tech29 Apr 2022 | 169
Apple must fix its self-service repair program, say critics
A+ for marketing, F- for blocking aftermarket parts with serial number checks
Personal Tech28 Apr 2022 | 18
Apple's self-repair service finally launches after months of silence
The company kept quiet on progress since it announced plan in November
Personal Tech27 Apr 2022 | 19
Huawei re-orgs to formalize business PC sales
Consumer kit now sits under business dedicated to 'terminals' and alongside B2B org
Personal Tech27 Apr 2022 | 1
Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules
Special report Leaked Digital Markets Act language forbids limiting of Safari rivals
Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 97
Meta physical: Facebook parent to open its first real-world store
To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people...
Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 5
Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff
Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one
Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 159
Elon Musk's Twitter mega-takeover likely imminent
Updated Report says social media platform's board close to accepting $54.20-a-share offer
Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 47
Microsoft exposes glue-free guts of the Surface Laptop Studio
Broken your headphone jack? No problem. Want some more RAM? Er, about that...
Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 62
SoftBank aims to keep control of Arm after IPO – report
Japanese owner may not believe it would get the valuation it has been seeking for a full sale
Personal Tech22 Apr 2022 | 14
ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe onto PCs, is 40
Hey hey 16k, what does that get you today?
Personal Tech22 Apr 2022 | 160
Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real
x86 giant hopes for 'open, collaborative and forward-looking' relationship with (checks notes) Nvidia and AMD
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 9
Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter
This speech isn't free
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 63
Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers
Who will win? Staff unions or $1bn of venture capital?
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 14
Europe twists YouTube's arm to get better cookie consent popups
No dark patterns, no Google nonsense ... Wow, what a superpower
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 32
Apple geniuses in Atlanta beat New York to the punch, file petition to unionize
Cannot confirm reports of Tim Cook on the Midnight Train to Georgia
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 26
Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible
Updated Webpage acceleration tech deemed harmful by rivals
Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 47
Ex-eBay security director to plead guilty to cyberstalking
James Baugh faced trial over campaign against newsletter couple
Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 9
Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options
Streaming giant plans to grow by adding new subscription tier and building up games unit
Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 144
Google 'Switch to Android' app surfaces in iOS App Store
After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply
Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 26
Big Apple Apple Store workers hope to form union
Amazon staff success spurs similar spirit in NYC for a sporting share of super-profits
Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 19
Intel promotes graphics chief Raja Koduri weeks after Arc discrete GPU reveal
Exclusive CEO memo confirms ex-AMD veteran's bump up to executive veep
Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 3
Smartphone shipments expected to drop again for Q1 2022
Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty
Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 1
Logitech Lift: Vertical mouse for those with small hands
Hands on It's the MX Vertical... only smaller
Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 25
Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist
A lesson learned the very hard way
Personal Tech18 Apr 2022 | 93
Uncle Sam probes Activision for any insider trading
Troubled games maker reveals investigation amid Microsoft takeover
Personal Tech18 Apr 2022 |
Apple dev logs suggest 'nine new M2-powered Macs'
'Widespread internal testing' of four processor types
Personal Tech16 Apr 2022 | 29
Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan
Comment Populist provocateur ponders partners to pay for platform prize
Personal Tech16 Apr 2022 | 117
COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered
COVID Logfile IV Privacy fears didn't materialise, but bungling did
Personal Tech15 Apr 2022 | 62
Review: Huawei's Matebook X Pro laptop is forgetful and forgettable
Desktop Tourism Blows hot and cold, and gets right up your nose
Personal Tech15 Apr 2022 | 43
Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover
Updated $54.20 per share in cash so that Musk can help 'unlock' its 'potential'
Personal Tech14 Apr 2022 | 133
Microsoft discounts HoloLens 2 devices for educators
Far from cheap but discounts could put HoloLens in closer reach for schools
Personal Tech14 Apr 2022 | 1
Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll
Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price
Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 45
Raspberry Pi goes back to the future with the CM4S
SODIMM fans rejoice – the familiar form factor returns with a speedier CPU
Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 10
Blood pressure monitor won't arrive for Apple Watch before 2024 – report
Plus: Watchdog approves Fitbit's algorithm for detecting a dodgy ticker
Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 24
AI hardware, PC gaming rig maker partner on powerful AI/ML laptop
Lambda, Razer take on Apple with Tensorbook for ML engineers
Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 3
Beijing approves first new video games in nine months
14,000 small developers reported to have gone out of business during approval hiatus
Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 15
Chip supply relief coming in 2024 when wafer plants open
Another reason why this year and next will suck
Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 6
Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all
Management promises it will keep listening, and Elon shows no sign of going quiet
Personal Tech11 Apr 2022 | 49
PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC
Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions
Personal Tech11 Apr 2022 | 19
Google to sell replacement Pixel phone parts via iFixit
Batteries, displays, cameras and more, apparently
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 14
Apple iOS privacy clampdown 'did little' to reduce tracking
Double-standard rules have strengthened iGiant's gatekeeper power
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 18
Russian media watchdog bans Google from advertising its services
Agency upset YouTube hasn't removed 'fake' videos about activities it won't call 'war'
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 90
Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless
On Call Back up your data, it's later than you think
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 227
Google must pay €150 million fine to French Competition Authority, court orders
'Opaque and difficult' ad rules cost biz 20 hours of annual profit
Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 12
European Right to Repair resolution headed for vote
Motion calls for repairability ratings and expected lifetime of products
Personal Tech07 Apr 2022 | 64
