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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 | 30

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 | 11

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 | 11

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

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

Thailand bans joke cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens

Much bubble, none value, regulator excite

15 Jun 04:16 | 25

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

Samsung mulls delaying next 'fan edition' phone in light of semiconductor shortage

'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant

14 Jun 22:16 | 2

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

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

FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips

Delivery drives to get refund

11 Jun 23:08 | 43

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic

Don't call it growth

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

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Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers

Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

Why? Because the Mac has lost its way and modern OSes are too controlled and too complex, creator argues

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!

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'

UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets

Like the massive ships with miniguns

Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps

Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software

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?

Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks

Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book'

VMware’s ESXi-on-Arm adds support for two-socket servers, Nvidia boards

Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there

Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation

Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vietnam asks Samsung to find it some COVID-19 vaccines

Double-mutant strain puts electronics factories at risk

31 May 01:59 | 11

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

Refurb your enthusiasm: Apple is selling an 8-year-old desktop for over £5k

Yes, you read that right

28 May 12:28 | 33

Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts

Lenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling'

28 May 10:05 | 25

The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?

The sound of silence? No, no, it's stupidity

28 May 07:30 | 173

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