Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses
Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 6
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TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?
Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 30
Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line
Big is not always beautiful
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 13
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up
Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 17
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers
iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 25
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'
It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 29
For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now
Opinion Is there a role for a poll for just Blue Tickers, not proles, or is this troll a social media own goal?
Personal Tech28 Mar 2023 | 65
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle
Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 46
Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works
What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 20
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 71
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 47
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 127
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment
Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 102
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 111
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27
Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty
Alert noise is 'loud and distracting' for drivers, claims filing
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 68
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices
Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
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Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious
Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers
iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity
How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival
Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets
A reminder you can still opt-out
China urges Apple to improve security and privacy
It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now
Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid
Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'
It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce
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Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war
The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet
Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 42
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month
Feature We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 145
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly
Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 31
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy
Shocking!
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 113
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B
Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
Fewer bonuses for Apple staff in latest cost-cutting measure
Don't worry about Tim – executive's rewards are reportedly unaffected. Phew
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 7
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space
Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
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Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies
The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works
Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop
Hands-on Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 153
Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?
It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14
Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection
Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down
Personal Tech09 Mar 2023 | 30
Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home
Don't say you weren't warned
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 74
Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks
Talk about off the back of a lorry
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11
Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users
How will Elon conform to FTC decrees and EU laws? He probably doesn't know, either
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 15
'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week
Sorry, you're Zucked
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 26
Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired
Updated This internet soap opera continues
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 130
IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales
Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29
Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services
Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5
EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble
Crunch licensing talks with rivals may ease antitrust fears
Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 10
'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail
Once again, the status page is oblivious
Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 61
Financial red tape blamed for London losing Arm IPO
Chip outfit reportedly afraid it would have to report any transaction with a SoftBank company to UK regulator
Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 35
Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022?
Then they plunged properly like all other client devices
Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 1
Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites
Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives
Personal Tech04 Mar 2023 | 167
Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again
Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball
Personal Tech03 Mar 2023 | 113
How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation?
977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores
Personal Tech02 Mar 2023 | 5
Hybrid working is here to stay, but is the IT up to speed?
With more employees than ever choosing where they work, the need for PCs fit for purpose has intensified
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Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy
No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post?
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 34
PC price promos, flaky economy halve HP profits
Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 |
Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life
Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 52
Europe trims Apple App Store probe after deciding in-app payments not a problem
Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 8
Apple's outsourced Lightning cable plant in India goes up in flames
Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 40
Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them
Reminder: Elon spent $44 billion on this. Forty-four thousand million dollars
Personal Tech27 Feb 2023 | 115
HMD offers Nokia phone with novel concept: Designed to be repaired by its owner
With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less
Personal Tech27 Feb 2023 | 46
Microsoft’s Mr Smith goes to Europe in quest to win Activision deal
Analysis Trust us, we're no monopolists
Personal Tech26 Feb 2023 | 6
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away
Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236
Rugged satellite messaging phone Bullitt fired out ahead of MWC
MWC Plus Bluetooth gadget that gives your Android or iPhone the same ability
Personal Tech24 Feb 2023 | 17
PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis
On Call Customer with a magnetic personality also had a significantly magnetic wristband
Personal Tech24 Feb 2023 | 216
Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff
And jobs shift offshore, says source
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 14
The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch
What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 21
Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes
Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 2
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider
Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes
Warrantless data harvesting, you say? Feds have their secret reasons and we're OK with that
Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 27
Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone
If a phone is as mighty as a laptop, why not make it convertible and use it as one
Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 20
Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes
Paid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line
Personal Tech20 Feb 2023 | 40
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake
Wow Harold, you could buy, like, 23 billion sliders with that
Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 142
Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy
Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements
Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34
Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure
How about the inside of the windshield instead?
Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 75
Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales
World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices
Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 34
Unplug that Anker battery pack now: House blaze sparks recall
Send them back? God no, throw them away, says maker
Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 35
Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions
From organizing plans to filing a watchdog complaint in just a day - that's gotta be some sort of record
Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 76
Foxconn expands Vietnam factories, perhaps to help Apple diversify beyond China
Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still
Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 5
Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it
So Tesla's gonna open up its proprietary tech?
Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 89
Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere
Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere
Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37
Musk says he ain't going anywhere as Twitter CEO until at least late 2023
Video Ignoring poll results is the new craze for some. At least that's daily entertainment guaranteed now
Personal Tech15 Feb 2023 | 74
Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook
European Commission satisfied joint venture won't create competitive problems for locals
Personal Tech13 Feb 2023 | 63
IBM health benefits blackout leaves retirees footing the bill
Medical payments expected to resume ... soon?
Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 30
The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer
FOSDEM Plus new developments in the world of the MNT Reform
Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 55
Glasgow staff form UK's first Apple union after historic vote
Hey, Glaswegians, care to share those negotiating secrets with your counterparts in the US?
Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 27
Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops … probably
Handy thing, that First Amendment. Now, about the Second …
Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 19
Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids
Old man yells at cloud, literally
Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5
Microsoft-Activision deal will hurt UK gamers, says watchdog
Competition and Markets Authority isn't buying promises of equal access to Call of Duty
Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 3
Google pushes fake abortion clinic ads to lower-income women, report says
At least those who live in Phoenix and Atlanta
Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 33
FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within
Meta said it plans to close deal soon
Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 2
US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying
Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse
Personal Tech07 Feb 2023 | 12
Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff
Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough
Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 8
Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban
Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ?
Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 33
Musk, Tesla win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet
'Wisdom of the people has prevailed' SpaceX supremo beams
Personal Tech04 Feb 2023 | 37
Activision-Blizzard pays $35m to send SEC away, Microsoft merger still in doubt
Allegations of stifled whistleblowing and disclosure failures end with no admission of guilt, as usual
Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 5
As Apple sales slide, Tim Cook says fanbois will tolerate higher iPhone prices
As for Macs, CEO admits PC industry is shrinking
Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 38
Hi, Pakistan? You do know anyone can edit Wikipedia, right? You don't have to ask
Telecoms authority has 'degraded' access and threatened total ban while it waits for 'blasphemous' content to be removed
Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 42
Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping
Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not
Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 21
FTC prescribes GoodRx a $1.5m pill after 'sharing health info' with web giants
Facebook, Google, Twilio had a look-see of that data, we're told
Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 8
Should Google location data be a tool for cops?
Updated ACLU, EFF, public defenders say that's a hard no
Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 57
Bankruptcy probe: Celsius cheated investors 'from the start'
If it walks like a Ponzi, quacks like a Ponzi, guess what it is?
Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 20
200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push
Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory
Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 32
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