On Call
Ouch! When the IT equipment is sound, but the setup is hole-y inappropriate
Let me draw a picture for you
25 Jun 07:30 | 20
Personal Tech
Personal Tech
Google: About that whole getting rid of third-party cookies thing – we're gonna need another year or so
Plan to reinvent advertising turns out to be more difficult than expected
25 Jun 00:46 | 10
Personal Tech
Chromebook boom won’t outlive COVID-19 pandemic, says IDC
Tablets also flattened as punters resume spending on real-world fun
24 Jun 02:54 | 21
Personal Tech
Google bestows improved device management tools, authentication options on Chrome OS admins
IT managers told when punished Chromebooks are about to die
23 Jun 20:15 | 3
Personal Tech
Price of Microsoft's Surface Duo plummets to better represent middling hardware ... but only if you're in the US
The Special Relationship in the form of Android foldables
23 Jun 14:12 | 10
Personal Tech
Indian Competition Commission launches antitrust probe into Google’s smart tellies
Pre-installation of Play Store and other apps on Smart TVs and Androids amounts to leveraging dominance, says watchdog
23 Jun 06:16 |
Personal Tech
From I'm feeling lucky to I'm feeling Brave: Browser maker erects web search engine beta
Even just to remind the world there's life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo
22 Jun 20:35 | 7
Review
Flexispot Deskcise Pro V9: Half desk, half exercise bike, and you're all sweaty. How much does it cost again?
Not ideal for when you rejoin colleagues in the office
22 Jun 10:01 | 26
Personal Tech
Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin
Let's just check BTC-USD, oh yeah, waaay down
22 Jun 02:07 | 123
Personal Tech
Germany's competition watchdog to investigate whether Apple's ecosystem damages other businesses
Joins queue of regulators peeking into iOS walled garden model
21 Jun 15:13 | 12
Personal Tech
New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill
Fair Repair Act targets all varieties of electronic devices
18 Jun 18:18 | 33
Review
Vissles V84: Mechanical keyboard hits all the right buttons for Mac power users
Ideal for Apple fans who appreciate little boxes made of clicky-clacky
18 Jun 12:01 | 40
Personal Tech
India’s ban on Chinese apps eases just a little as PUBG blasts back onto Google Play, maybe Korean Stock market too
Fragfest adds green blood, Azure cloud, shirts, and detailed rules about how to kill people politely to satisfy regulators
18 Jun 04:58 | 1
Personal Tech
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 | 36
Personal Tech
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 | 13
Personal Tech
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 | 12
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
Thailand bans joke cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens
Much bubble, none value, regulator excite
15 Jun 04:16 | 26
Personal Tech
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
Popular
Security
John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer
British-American infosec renegade faced trial in America for tax evasion
Applications
Apple scrambles to quash iOS app sideloading demands with 'think of the children' defense
And if that doesn't work, terrorism or satanic panic next?
Science
Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009
Perhaps instrument-halting failure is due to compute and interconnect hardware, not memory, after all
OSes
What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps
The operating system they said shouldn't exist
Security
Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it
We got hacked and we'll be right back, duo said ... two months ago
Networks
Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown
Great powers clash while the rest of us sigh and tut at data feed meddling
Bootnotes
Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills
For the 3% who craved sweet and sour pork balls, it might be time to stop drinking
Networks
Stop. Look... Install Linux? The Reg solves Microsoft's latest Windows teaser
Going backwards to the future
Personal Tech
Price of Microsoft's Surface Duo plummets to better represent middling hardware ... but only if you're in the US
The Special Relationship in the form of Android foldables
Security
Boffins promise protection and perfect performance with new ZeRØ, No-FAT memory safety techniques
Fast, easy to implement, and knocks attacks like Spectre on the head – what's the catch?
STORIES
Personal Tech
Samsung mulls delaying next 'fan edition' phone in light of semiconductor shortage
'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant
14 Jun 22:16 | 2
Personal Tech
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
14 Jun 16:17 |
Feature
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 | 148
Personal Tech
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
Delivery drives to get refund
11 Jun 23:08 | 44
Updated
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
'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
Video
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic
Don't call it growth
08 Jun 14:57 |
Personal Tech
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
07 Jun 18:24 |
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
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
Personal Tech
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
