US senators seek input on their cryptocurrency law via GitHub – and get some
Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day
Personal Tech25 Jun 2022 |
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Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America
We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 4
Startup rattles tin for e-paper monitor with display fast enough to play video
In grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 4
Teslasuit demo: Taking a crack at force feedback with the 'Glove'
A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 7
Lenovo reveals small but mighty desktop workstation
ThinkStation P360 Ultra packs latest Intel Core processor, Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU, support for eight monitors
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 9
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 140
Amazon can't channel the dead, but its deepfake voices take a close second
Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 18
Toshiba shares up as buyers prepare to shell out $22b
Japanese tech conglomerate has reportedly received 10 offers, each with a different idea about how to do things
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 1
Samsung fined $14 million for misleading smartphone water resistance claims
Promoted phones as ready for a dunking – forgot to mention known problems with subsequent recharges
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 36
Brave Search leaves beta, offers Goggles for filtering, personalizing results
Freedom or echo chamber?
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 8
Meta agrees to tweak ad system after US govt brands it discriminatory
And pay the tiniest of fines, too
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 11
Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024
Internal research says the hiring pool has already dried up in a number of locations stateside
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 80
Meta now involved in making metalevel standards for the metaverse
So are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 17
Spain, Austria not convinced location data is personal information
Privacy group NOYB sues to get telcos to respect GDPR data access rights
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 50
Top chip foundries grow amid electronics spending slowdown. Except Samsung
Chaebol hit by lower demand for smartphones and TVs plus 4nm yield issues
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 |
Toyota wants 'closed loop' EV batteries in its future cars
Automaker wants to develop recycling, remanufacturing processes
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 24
Investors start betting against Bitcoin with short-trade products
Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 46
Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams
Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 13
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio: Too edgy for comfort?
Desktop Tourism And perhaps too heavy, which is a weighty issue for a machine that turns into a tablet
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 28
AMD to end Threadripper Pro 5000 drought for non-Lenovo PCs
As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 16
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Linus Torvalds says Rust is coming to the Linux kernel 'real soon now'
Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out
The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
On Call And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks!
Don't ditch PowerShell to improve security, say infosec agencies from UK, US, and NZ
Use it sensibly instead – which means turning on the useful bits Microsoft doesn't enable by default
Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 is coming: Do you have one of the older model phones that can test it?
Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro
Windows 11 22H2 is almost here. Is it ready for the enterprise?
The Start Menu has been tweaked, but Smart App Control will appeal to the security conscious
Halfords suffers a puncture in the customer details department
I like driving in my car, hope my data's not gone far
Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time
Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend
NSO claims 'more than 5' EU states use Pegasus spyware
And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says
If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent
Column Start by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access
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Workers win vote to form first-ever US Apple Store union
Results set to be ratified by labor board by end of the week
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 20
If Twitter forgets your timeline preference, and you're using Safari, this is why
Privacy through amnesia not ideal for remembering user choice
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 16
Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping
But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 24
Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account
95% of SOL deposits from 1 person, so margin selloffs could mean collapse
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 58
Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop
Who, Me? Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 150
Never fear, the White House is here to tackle web trolls
'No one should have to endure abuse just because they are attempting to participate in society'
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 83
US must adopt USB-C charging standard like EU, senators urge
Tangle of cables creates headaches and electronic waste, warn senators
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 82
Big Tech falls in line with Euro demands to fight bots, deepfakes, disinformation
Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 24
Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception
Search biz hits back at 'misleading' claims, saga lifts lid on Microsoft's web tracking advice
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 29
Apple may have to cough up $1bn to Brits in latest iPhone Batterygate claim
Lawsuit took its time, just like your older iOS handset
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 35
Samsung accused of cheating on hardware benchmarks ... again
South Korean giant says it's in no way goosing TV HDR brightness
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 17
America edges closer to a federal data privacy law, not that anyone can agree on it
What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help!
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 6
Threat of cross-border data tariffs looms over WTO
Some countries call for moratorium to be lifted, tech industry not keen on potential costs
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 21
Meta mostly fails in appeal against order from UK watchdog to sell Giphy
Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9
Intel delivers first discrete Arc desktop GPUs ... in China
Updated Why not just ship it in Narnia and call it a win?
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9
Coinbase CEO cuts 1,100 jobs, warns of 'crypto winter'
The buck stops with me, says Armstrong, but I still have a job
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 27
Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'
In truth, a non-tape media player for Gen Xers with more money than sense
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 45
EV battery can reach full charge in 'less than 10 minutes'
Silicon-anode power units could come to market soon, accelerating adoption of electric vehicles
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 147
Impressive recharge power doesn't have to be big in size
The Bluetti EB3A solar generator packs plenty of juice into a compact, 10lb device
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Telegram criticizes Apple for 'intentionally crippling' web app features on iOS
Native code or nothing thanks to Safari's approach to web apps
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 25
The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does
Retro fun and games in Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 31
Woman accused of killing boyfriend after tracking him down with Apple AirTag
New meaning for accessory to murder
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 60
Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news
Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam
Personal Tech13 Jun 2022 | 42
Toyota battles Tesla, Ford with own residential energy storage battery
Another assault in the battery market as automakers race to translate EV tech to the home
Personal Tech13 Jun 2022 | 9
Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables
The Obegränsad is the company's first record player since 1973
Personal Tech11 Jun 2022 | 248
Activision to begin union negotiations with workers from Raven Software
Biz trying to clean up shop to close $68.7bn buyout by Microsoft
Personal Tech10 Jun 2022 | 11
Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon
Wave of replacements needed as Samsung and Microsoft team to stream Xbox games to smart displays and tellies
Personal Tech10 Jun 2022 | 26
Dell unveils new XPS 13 devices with Alder Lake CPUs
Best hedge against a slowing PC market? Take some design tips from Apple
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 9
PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions
320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 5
HP pilots paper delivery service for Instant Ink subscribers
'Having to go buy paper is very painful' for customers, says CEO. Let's just say the profit margins aren't
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 58
Microsoft confirms HoloLens boss Alex Kipman to be reorganized out the door
Mixed Reality to cold reality
Personal Tech08 Jun 2022 | 9
Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near
Special report Overhaul of Chrome add-ons set for January, Google says it's for all our own good
Personal Tech08 Jun 2022 | 155
Next six months could set a new pace for work-life balance
Poll The only way to ease transition back to office is reduce the time in the office
Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 36
Tough news for Apple as EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices
Commissioner to device makers: 'We're not forcing anybody to enter the internal market, but if they want to do so, they must comply'
Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 277
Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones
Flying weapons offered as solution to US school shootings
Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 77
We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to
WWDC M2 chip teased plus MacBooks, iOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and more
Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 77
Musk repeats threat to end $46.5bn Twitter deal – with lawyers, not just tweets
Right as Texas AG sticks his oar in
Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 33
Higher spec machines lift US PC revenues 40% even as shipments drop
Desktops, inflation and other factors also shaping American demand
Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 6
Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it
Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond?
Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 63
New York to get first right-to-repair law for electronics
Hey, big Apple, how'd you like them Big Apples?
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 63
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings
For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China
Local authorities insist the next chapter is not a collapse in foreign investment
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 24
Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills
And no, I'm not throwing out this lawsuit, says judge
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 138
Tim Hortons collected location data constantly, without consent, report finds
Hortons hears a sue
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 64
Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones
First Look De-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges
Personal Tech02 Jun 2022 | 35
Amazon not happy with antitrust law targeting Amazon
Updated We assume the world's smallest violin is available right now on Prime
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 27
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go 2: $599 for 11th gen Intel CPU
Want a Surface badge, but don't have Surface Laptop money? Step this way
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 19
Reg hack attends holographic WebEx meeting, blows away Zoom fatigue
Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 28
Big Tech's maps led ride-sharing giant Grab astray
It now builds its own and says it has become the largest contributor to OpenStreetMap in Southeast Asia
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 4
California Right-to-Repair bill quietly killed in committee
Despite public support for more repairable gear, tech lobbying may have kept that from happening
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 72
US Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold
Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20
Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 37
Logitech's MX Mechanical keyboard, Master 3S mouse
Review All the the rage with gamers, mechanical type comes to office users – where cool goes to die
Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 33
France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words
Goodbye cloudy retro-gaming, bonjour ‘rétrojeu video en nuage’
Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 168
Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes
China needs this as much as the rest of the world
Personal Tech30 May 2022 | 21
Big Tech loves talking up privacy – while trying to kill privacy legislation
Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules
Personal Tech27 May 2022 | 15
SEC probes Musk for not properly disclosing Twitter stake
Meanwhile, social network's board rejects resignation of one its directors
Personal Tech27 May 2022 | 19
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble
Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 12
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 | 3
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 | 37
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 | 35
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 | 51
Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy
Desktop Tourism Survives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits
Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 53
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 | 25
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 | 74
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
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
