NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral
Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience?
Security26 Mar 2025 | 8
Personal Tech
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year
At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE
Networks26 Mar 2025 | 14
London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban
Interview Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert
Networks25 Mar 2025 | 23
23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11
CEO steps down after multiple failed attempts to take the DNA testing company private
Cyber-crime24 Mar 2025 | 44
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'
Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups
Personal Tech24 Mar 2025 | 37
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states
Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism'
Legal21 Mar 2025 | 91
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims
Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising
AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 40
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder
Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues
AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 76
Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again
Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster
Personal Tech20 Mar 2025 | 144
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools
VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers'
Networks20 Mar 2025 | 30
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional
Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money
Legal19 Mar 2025 | 89
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list
Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS
Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 9
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 136
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry
Comment Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money
Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 45
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust
Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV
Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 148
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts
Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation
Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 97
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs
GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals
For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose
Personal Tech18 Mar 2025 | 6
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query
Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 54
M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair
Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says
Personal Tech17 Mar 2025 | 29
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There are perhaps 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial
Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod
Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants
Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays
$280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target
Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day
‘It's just pure incompetence’ confesses penguin emperor
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark
Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
Comment 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz
Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw
How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently
Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU
Updated Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up'
4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer
Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts
Kari, OK, we'll see you in court
STORIES
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?
Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience'
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 59
Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash
National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doors
Security14 Mar 2025 | 82
User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse
On Call The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory
Personal Tech14 Mar 2025 | 114
India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride
Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convinced
Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 19
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts
It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
Personal Tech13 Mar 2025 | 20
Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop
Try it out now on Pixel phones for some penguin on penguin fun
OSes13 Mar 2025 | 31
As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
Updated Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things right
Personal Tech13 Mar 2025 | 41
iRobot may be iDead in iYear
We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...
Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 47
Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update
Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 31
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 166
Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users
Updated Folks with LaserJets complain of error code even when using approved supplies
Personal Tech11 Mar 2025 | 72
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands
CSO10 Mar 2025 | 10
Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset
Updated Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless
Personal Tech10 Mar 2025 | 63
Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order
Comment With no allowance to sell and little room to buy, and markets on the slide, it's UB40 time: Red, red, whine
Personal Tech07 Mar 2025 | 108
Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less
Friday FOSS fest Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
Software07 Mar 2025 | 42
Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results
It's just an opt-in Labs curio for now, but so were those ever-present Overviews
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 34
JetZero teams up with Delta to drag aviation into the future
Startup needs tips on fitting its flying surfboard into existing infrastructure
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 18
Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul
Updated You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 139
101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader
FOSDEM 2025 Jailbreak it, or even gut it and turn its screen into a low-power portable display with a Modos e-ink controller
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 76
Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus
Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut
Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 17
Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order
Updated A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports
Security05 Mar 2025 | 119
Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite
Hat and scarf no longer needed for diminutive computer
Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 26
Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does
Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16
Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 12
Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves
But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out
Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 26
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent
Security04 Mar 2025 | 91
Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops
MWC Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day?
Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 9
The Register gets its claws on Huawei’s bonkers tri-fold phone
First Look It’s well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive
Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 22
Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims
Updated Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies
Personal Tech01 Mar 2025 | 59
Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM
Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?
Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 51
Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside
Some businesses sticking with Windows 10, AI boxes not reviving demand
Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 37
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 'droid 15
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 5
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...
Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference
Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative
Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 41
Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet
Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 36
HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges
That's down on last year in terms of financial compensation and – given ink price hike – the number of supplies he is valued at
On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 10
Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever
Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 22
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world
Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G
Networks25 Feb 2025 | 27
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?
Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 83
As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence
Asia in Brief Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more
AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 2
HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management
Personal Tech21 Feb 2025 | 165
Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements
Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 44
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
Updated Stalling tactics designed to push print or PC users to online support, sorry, 'self-solve'
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 249
Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think
Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 89
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G
NGMN reports what telcos want, but admits most can be delivered by 5G
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 47
HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'
Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers
Personal Tech19 Feb 2025 | 54
Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff
Analyst tells El Reg to expect more of this across hardware brands
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 56
Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you
What do Redditors think? Well, it wouldn't be Reddit if they were happy
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 54
Huawei to bring massively expensive trifold smartphone to world market
There's everything to play for, but there ain't no Play Store
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 26
Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs
Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 26
Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself
Germany's Federal Cartel Office voices concerns iPhone maker may be breaking competition law
Security14 Feb 2025 | 23
Reddit’s first public year shows growth, but Wall Street’s still not happy
User numbers fall short, triggering investor sell-off
Personal Tech13 Feb 2025 | 28
Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare
Interview Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully
Storage12 Feb 2025 | 16
Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information
Column If only the joy of missing out was easier to achieve
Personal Tech12 Feb 2025 | 78
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US
Updated So now everyone's happy
Personal Tech11 Feb 2025 | 194
Apple warns 'extremely sophisticated attack' may be targeting iThings
Cupertino mostly uses bland language when talking security, so this sounds nasty
Security11 Feb 2025 | 23
Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today
'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books
AI + ML10 Feb 2025 | 23
T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US
Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period
Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 23
The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
Opinion When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off
Software10 Feb 2025 | 157
Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not
Who, Me? That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic
Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 147
Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM
Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators
Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42
Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers
Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept
Personal Tech07 Feb 2025 | 37
Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims
OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries
Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 7
Coordinates of millions of smartphones feared stolen, sparking yet another lawsuit against data broker
Fourth time’s the harm?
Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 6
Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability
Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue
Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 48
Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet
57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping
Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 90
Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why
Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above?
Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 218
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft
Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery
Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket
Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab
Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 83
Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots
Comment Raymond Chen reflects on the never-ending cycle of updates and restarts
Personal Tech02 Feb 2025 | 123
Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling
Microsoft's latest OS claws back market share from Windows 10, but the finish line is a long way off
OSes01 Feb 2025 | 65
Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft
Makes you wonder, how bad could Windows-on-Arm really be?
Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 47
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles
Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing
Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK
Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims
Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 24
Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout
Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month
Cyber-crime30 Jan 2025 | 3
White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em
'Research and various other reasons' behind hullabaloo ... but why didn't someone say that a month ago?
Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 64
Garmin pulls a CrowdStrike, turns smartwatches into fancy bracelets
Blue Screen of Death becomes the Blue Triangle of Doom for your wrist
Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 15
Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade
If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely
Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 41
Microsoft signs eviction notice on Dev Home
Development dashboard destined for ditching
Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 7
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile
Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 58
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