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Ad blockers altering website code is not a copyright violation, German court rules

Browser filter biz Eyeo defeats Axel Springer – but case against Google poses similar risks

19 Jan 08:22 | 67

AMD returns to smartphone graphics with new Samsung chip for your pocket computer

We're back in black

18 Jan 23:36 | 7

Apple grabs smartphone crown as iPhone 13 wakes up the fanbois, leaves Chinese rivals eating dust

But smartphone shipments globally edge up just 1% for total market as demand outweighs supply

18 Jan 18:48 | 14

Buy 'em by the punnet: Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk

'Reel'-y cheap – like $0.70 a pop

17 Jan 17:28 | 21

EthereumMax, a Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr sued over alleged 'pump and dump' cryptocurrency scam

Angry punter wants his money back

13 Jan 01:58 | 55

US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC

12 Jan 23:34 | 9

Even desktops showed up on growth radar in global PC shipment stakes for 2021

341 million units sold last year, up 15%

12 Jan 15:31 | 5

LAPD cops who preferred playing Pokémon Go to tackling robbery can be fired, appeals court rules

Call of duty? Not when there's a Snorlax about

11 Jan 20:12 | 32

Back to school for Microsoft as it prises apart the repairable Surface Laptop SE

Repairability – check. Upgrades? Must try harder

11 Jan 18:15 | 19

Logitech Signature M650: A mouse that will barely emit a squeak or a clickety-click

Ideal for when you need to stealthily click through memes

11 Jan 14:03 | 55

California files appeal in latest bid to intervene in Activision Blizzard's $18m discrimination lawsuit settlement

Super Cali goes ballistic, this deal is atrocious

11 Jan 01:39 | 10

Who's Intel Inside and Outside today: PC chip boss installed after EVP heads for exit – plus next CFO named

25-year veteran Michelle Johnston Holthaus appointed alongside beancounter from Micron

Spruce up your CV or just bin it? Survey finds recruiters are considering alternatives

Shock: Nobody likes whiteboard interviews either

10 Jan 15:29 | 66

Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

And also an import ban

08 Jan 01:08 | 60

Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable

Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further

07 Jan 22:50 | 94

Friday FOSS Fest

Never mind the Panic button – there's a key to Compose yourself

How to type foreign languages without looking stuff up or memorising half of Unicode

07 Jan 19:15 | 63

New batch of AstroPis relieve Ed and Izzy of duty on board the International Space Station

If you can't find a Pi on Earth, you could run your code on orbit instead

07 Jan 14:04 | 9

Snap continues to make a spectacle of itself as it tries to trademark the word spectacles

How about 'idiot goggles'?

07 Jan 13:19 | 74

India says: Xiaomi the $88m in missing import taxes, please

Investigation finds royalty and licensing fees excluded from transaction values

07 Jan 12:37 | 5

Two sides of the digital coin: Ill-gotten gains in cryptocurrencies double, outpaced by legit use – report

Will these figures wash?

07 Jan 01:33 | 25

Popular

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?

SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it

For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away

APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent

'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug

Need to prioritize security bug patches? Don't forget to scan Twitter as well as use CVSS scores

Exploit, vulnerability discussion online can offer useful signals

Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future

'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'

Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security

Edict follows widespread bank phishing scam claiming well over $6.3 million

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Apple custom chip guru jumps ship to rejoin Intel

Jeff Wilcox led efforts to build M1 and T2 processors

06 Jan 23:29 | 27

GPU makers promise relief is at hand over chip shortages, prices expected to fall in second half of the year

Maybe the days of entering lotteries for graphics cards will be over

06 Jan 22:36 | 16

DIY Sinclair clones: Left it too late to back the Next? Build your own instead

We all make mistakes, but we just need to solder on

06 Jan 09:34 | 39

At 9 for every 100 workers, robots are rife in Singapore – so we decided to visit them

They're guiding kids through museums, moving food in mega-kitchens – and cleaning where you can't see them

05 Jan 13:45 | 20

How can we push more chips, Nvidia thinks: Ah yes, free 3D metaverse-slash-omniverse tools for creators

Plus teases 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti graphics chip

05 Jan 01:22 | 8

AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals

Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it

04 Jan 22:20 | 36

AMD claims up to 24 hours of laptop battery life with its latest Ryzen 6000 silicon

Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue

04 Jan 21:39 | 17

Intel rolls out new Alder Lake chips for laptops, desktops

CPUs will compete with AMD's Ryzen and Apple's Arm-based M1

04 Jan 18:01 | 12

Chip manufacturing equipment vendor ASML reports fire at Berlin factory

'Too early to make any statement on the damage'

04 Jan 16:29 | 9

ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors

Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine

04 Jan 07:04 | 81

Samsung adds non fungible token trading app to its tellies

Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art

04 Jan 03:01 | 30

You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now

Scrub-a-dub-dub, we work in a fug

31 Dec 11:21 | 161

You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?

Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it

27 Dec 14:00 | 96

Can you get excited about the iPhone 13? We've tried

It’s brilliant and lovely. But it doesn't quite meet the moment with a new experience that satisfies

26 Dec 14:01 | 94

Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion

Hey Elon, it's no secret that distracted driving is a major cause of US car fatalities

24 Dec 03:28 | 111

Online retailers delaying sales of Raspberry Pi 4 model until 2023, thanks to a few good chips getting scarce

Santa leaving coal in enthusiasts' stockings

20 Dec 21:32 | 48

Luxembourg judge hits pause on Amazon's daily payments of disputed $844m GDPR fine

Box shifter argues it's not clear what it is supposed to change

20 Dec 13:33 | 41

The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC

WfH kit has all been bought, but the pressure is now on to upgrade

20 Dec 06:04 | 54

Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation

Gullible conspiracists find that stupid is as stupid does

17 Dec 20:38 | 182

The Filth Filter is part of the chipset, honest. Goes between the TPM and SEP. No, really

One to wheel out when those friend tech support calls get too much

17 Dec 09:30 | 46

US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

Alleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority

17 Dec 00:48 | 82

Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report

Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds

16 Dec 21:31 | 54

Apple quietly deletes details of derided CSAM scanning tech from its Child Safety page without explanation

Non-consensual on-device image analysis perhaps was difficult to reconcile with privacy protests

16 Dec 00:44 | 24

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here

15 Dec 08:24 | 29

If you never actually own a server or a posh watch, shouldn’t it be the same for laptops and tablets?

DaaS cleans up balance sheets, makes techies’ lives brighter

Oppo joins the 'we designed our own chips' club, announces MariSilicon X

Chinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle

15 Dec 05:32 | 1

Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy

15 Dec 04:25 | 20

Return of the Mac (mechanical): Vissles keyboard for fans of keeping a low profile

A little bit more QWERTY never hurty

13 Dec 10:23 | 25

The secret ingredient to digital transformation? Not having to worry about your digital devices

Learn how DaaS can clean up your IT lifecycle

Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?

Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite sees Reg hack's fondleslab get a rest

13 Dec 06:01 | 94

International Monetary Fund warns crypto-related risks could soon become systemic

Wants comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulation to avoid instability

10 Dec 06:57 | 40

PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing

Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid

09 Dec 06:02 | 9

Open hardware smartphone PinePhone Pro starts to ship – to developers only, for now

New e-ink tablet, too. Open mobiles, tablets and laptops are coming... slowly

08 Dec 11:30 | 11

Facebook slapped with an eyepopping $150B lawsuit for spreading hate speech against Rohingya refugees

Lawsuit claims social media giant's algos helped Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya

07 Dec 23:04 | 24

Samsung splits itself in two... internally: Semiconductor biz and then everything else

Smartphones and consumer electronics now under one roof

07 Dec 13:20 | 1

The nub of the issue: Has your ThinkPad's TrackPoint gone TITSUP*? You aren't alone

A post-Halloween spooktacular as users face the 'Ghost in the Machine'

07 Dec 10:00 | 38

Microsoft to 600 million Indians: feel free to hand over some data

LinkedIn adds Hindi service to target the world's third-most-spoken language

06 Dec 03:30 | 4

Qualcomm doesn't fear custom chips – in a weird way its modems matter more

Carriers covet fast, reliable modems, and when they're baked into SoCs it's hard to ignore 'em

03 Dec 05:31 | 7

Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge

Enforcing rules on content is in everybody's interest, court decides

02 Dec 22:05 | 13

You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case

How to coordinate 16 Arms

02 Dec 22:03 | 7

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Specs appeal: Qualcomm and Meta insist headgear to plug you into the metaverse will 'supersede mobile'

'You're on the go, you take it with you, it's always contextually relevant, you don't have to take it out of your pocket'

02 Dec 12:15 | 16

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer

01 Dec 23:00 | 5

Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs

Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM

01 Dec 07:56 | 30

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Do you want a smartphone to know you that well?

30 Nov 23:00 | 7

If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed

30 Nov 21:17 | 24

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits

29 Nov 21:14 | 30

Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours

A British success story... what happens next?

29 Nov 17:21 | 23

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

29 Nov 06:58 | 38

Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops

When vendors don't update old models, someone must step up

26 Nov 11:28 | 40

LG Electronics anoints new CEO, elevates exec who grew laptop biz too

M&A department elevated in importance, gets more resources

26 Nov 00:58 | 1

Seaberry carrier board turns a Raspberry Pi into a desktop PC with 11 PCIe slots

It's a bit pricey, though

25 Nov 19:09 | 36

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them

25 Nov 00:44 | 130

Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away

24 Nov 16:32 | 7

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it

This is likely what the IT dept would chuck the regular user

24 Nov 10:15 | 121

Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales

Trillion-dollar giants vow to appeal against penalties that amount to just a few hours of profit

24 Nov 08:29 | 34

Lawsuit accusing Robinhood and Citadel Securities of colluding to stop GameStop shares from skyrocketing thrown out by judge

There's not enough evidence, judge ruled

19 Nov 23:28 | 40

Psst. Hey kid. Want a lipstick? Huawei slips new earbuds into cosmetics case

New products out as firm attempts to stay relevant in face of US sanctions

19 Nov 17:15 | 10

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent

19 Nov 09:30 | 12

Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt

Ford taking control of chip supply in Globalfoundries deal

Sick of taking second best, car industry makes its own deals

18 Nov 21:18 | 9

Activision shareholders demand Kotick's head after CEO 'failed' to take claims of staff sex assault seriously

Plus workers stage walk out in protest against games giant's big cheese

17 Nov 23:32 | 8

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

Have fun with those Cupertino-set prices, friends

17 Nov 21:33 | 40

Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

January cutoff postponed... for now cardholders can keep buying things they can't afford

17 Nov 16:15 | 302

MediaTek's flagship 5G chip for top-of-the-line Android smartphones is coming right up

And ready to go toe-to-toe with Qualcomm's finest next year

17 Nov 08:36 | 10

'We are not people to Mark Zuckerberg, we are the product' rages Ohio's Attorney General in Facebook lawsuit

Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors

17 Nov 02:26 | 27

Amazon cuts a relatively tiny check to disappear claims it broke the law by withholding COVID-19 data from staff

Settlement is little more than a minor cost-of-business expense

16 Nov 23:20 | 4

Arm'd with ex-Apple engineers from Nuvia, Qualcomm hopes to make Apple M1-matching chips for Windows PCs

Funny how these things turn out

16 Nov 22:35 | 6

Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

Another nice Nest you've got me into, Google

16 Nov 12:28 | 60

US states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's advertising business keeps growing

Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world

16 Nov 05:29 | 10

Smartphone chip house Ziguang Zhanrui records 14,726.1% growth in China

That's year on year from a base close to zero ... but still, that makes it the fifth biggest in the Middle Kingdom right out of the blue

15 Nov 22:29 | 6

What do you mean, 'Microsoft doesn't care about Windows on Arm'? Here's a cheap, underpowered test rig

For all your Windows-on-Snapdragon developer needs

15 Nov 14:47 | 28

Tech bro CEOs claim their crowns because they fix problems. Why shirk the biggest one?

Saving the planet is sexier than the next iPhone

15 Nov 09:30 | 78

Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market

What a difference a year makes?

12 Nov 20:28 | 93

HP's solution to running GPU-accelerated Linux apps on high-end Z workstations: Rely on Microsoft's WSL2

Because Windows is what Linux users really want, right?

12 Nov 10:15 | 32

The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom

Weekend upgrade shows how many MoD staff made personal use of tech

12 Nov 08:30 | 206

What, Uber charges disabled people fees for taking a while to get into their ride? Doesn't seem fair, says Uncle Sam

Plus: Trips now more expensive in the UK to woo new drivers, tackle demand

11 Nov 23:00 | 27

Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens

iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block

09 Nov 22:56 | 39

Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms'

Move over 'dog ate my homework', there's a new excuse in town

09 Nov 14:19 | 58

Linux 5.16 to bring mainline support to Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module – and the nifty devices built around it

Plus further step toward a full desktop on Apple M1 Arm Macs

09 Nov 08:07 | 10

Super-rare wooden Apple 1 hand built by Jobs and Wozniak goes to auction

Expect to shell out around $500k to take it home

09 Nov 07:27 | 31

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