Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
When is an app not an app? When it’s a mini app inside another app
Personal Tech15 Nov 2025 | 6
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Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica
Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans
Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 64
The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta
Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year
Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 37
Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout
Opinion Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares
Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 100
Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut
The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump
Security13 Nov 2025 | 83
London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot
Updated Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours
Networks13 Nov 2025 | 21
To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived
Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download
OSes13 Nov 2025 | 29
Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut
Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry
AI + ML13 Nov 2025 | 57
Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps
Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually
Software13 Nov 2025 | 25
You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel
But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it
Personal Tech12 Nov 2025 | 23
Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line
Offbeat12 Nov 2025 | 70
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
End of support? Not quite
OSes12 Nov 2025 | 24
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows
Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
Applications12 Nov 2025 | 47
Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
Updated Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
Software12 Nov 2025 | 57
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase
Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation
Legal12 Nov 2025 | 36
Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying
Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run
Personal Tech12 Nov 2025 | 64
Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only
It's OK to look: New Canary channel build supports specific silicon while 26H2 remains the main 2026 update
OSes10 Nov 2025 | 42
De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
opinion Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...
OSes10 Nov 2025 | 160
Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart
Opinion AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones
Software10 Nov 2025 | 65
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share?
Networks09 Nov 2025 | 62
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SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew
Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft
Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand
Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research
Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time
Feature 'Stay in control and think for yourself'
De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
opinion Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving
Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’
AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
It sounds a lot like everything else
Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut
Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry
UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK
Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal
Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only
It's OK to look: New Canary channel build supports specific silicon while 26H2 remains the main 2026 update
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Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached
Behold the one trillion dollar man
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 67
'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it
Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
OSes07 Nov 2025 | 171
Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 24
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
Science06 Nov 2025 | 31
M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump
Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials
Cyber-crime05 Nov 2025 | 18
UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support
After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 125
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids
Offbeat04 Nov 2025 | 118
Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support
Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL
OSes04 Nov 2025 | 61
'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages
Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't
OSes04 Nov 2025 | 31
China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones
South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping
Security04 Nov 2025 | 22
Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs
Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching?
Software03 Nov 2025 | 50
Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0
Ubuntu Summit Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?
OSes03 Nov 2025 | 18
Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Summit Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg
OSes03 Nov 2025 | 38
Developer puts Windows 7 on a crash diet, drops it to down to 69 MB
Trim down for obsolete operating system leaves it booting, but not much else
OSes31 Oct 2025 | 48
International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb
Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit
Applications31 Oct 2025 | 62
O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it
Updated Ofcom 'disappointed' by decision that 'goes against the spirit of our rules'
Networks31 Oct 2025 | 82
Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again
Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye
Networks30 Oct 2025 | 22
Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market
Interview 'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles'
OSes30 Oct 2025 | 39
Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it
More convenient layout saves you a click
OSes29 Oct 2025 | 66
Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated
Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into
Security28 Oct 2025 | 24
X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com
Social media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement
Personal Tech27 Oct 2025 | 19
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
Who, Me? Four back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie
On-Prem27 Oct 2025 | 131
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act
Personal Tech25 Oct 2025 | 174
BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries
Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 73
Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease
Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling
Personal Tech23 Oct 2025 | 111
Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software
Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers
Cyber-crime23 Oct 2025 | 19
UK competition cops brand Apple, Google with 'strategic market status' for mobile
Designation hands CMA broad oversight of their app stores and platforms
Personal Tech22 Oct 2025 | 11
China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests
Wheeled wonder leaves European rail in the dust
Offbeat22 Oct 2025 | 85
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148
Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 45
Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized
Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 30
ZTE and DNS:NET partner to launch advanced Wi-Fi 7 tri-band solution in Germany
Next-generation XGS-PON Wi-Fi 7 Tri-Band solution debuts at Network X in partnership with DNS:NET
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Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode
Updated October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs
OSes20 Oct 2025 | 75
The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation
Opinion Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution!
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 58
Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle
Operating system's D-day resuscitates flatlining computer sector
Personal Tech17 Oct 2025 | 72
Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance
Updated Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned
Legal17 Oct 2025 | 79
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail
Personal Tech16 Oct 2025 | 13
Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards
Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems
Software16 Oct 2025 | 36
Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030
Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 17
Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros
Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done
Personal Tech15 Oct 2025 | 52
Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand
IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets
Personal Tech15 Oct 2025 | 22
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 65
What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!
Updated Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 71
Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb
Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights
Personal Tech13 Oct 2025 | 153
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers
Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page
Networks13 Oct 2025 | 73
End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail
Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected'
OSes13 Oct 2025 | 35
Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide
You can't always get what you want
Personal Tech11 Oct 2025 | 200
US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll
WORLD WAR FEE Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades
Personal Tech09 Oct 2025 | 28
China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths
New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China
Systems09 Oct 2025 | 9
Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD
Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January
Systems09 Oct 2025 | 7
Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends
Recyclers reckon millions of obsolete PCs could yield a small fortune in precious metals
Personal Tech08 Oct 2025 | 90
London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles
Met's year-long Operation Echosteep nets thousands of stolen devices and several arrests
Personal Tech07 Oct 2025 | 30
OpenAI IP promises ring hollow to Sora losers
analysis Altman promises copyright holders a cut of video revenue, if he ever figures out how to make some.
AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 15
EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX
Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first'
Networks06 Oct 2025 | 7
Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones
Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M
Systems06 Oct 2025 | 16
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
Who, Me? Big Blue turned the air blue
Software06 Oct 2025 | 156
Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal
Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris
Offbeat03 Oct 2025 | 9
Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride
Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2025 | 22
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials
Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling
Personal Tech02 Oct 2025 | 43
BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030
Because 100% would just be silly
Networks02 Oct 2025 | 32
Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy
It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?
Offbeat02 Oct 2025 | 16
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out
Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow
OSes01 Oct 2025 | 38
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory
Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year
Personal Tech01 Oct 2025 | 22
Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries
Rise of the machines DashCam's autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts... of delivery drivers
Offbeat30 Sep 2025 | 46
Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC
Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?
OSes30 Sep 2025 | 12
Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love
(Right) Hands On Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only
Personal Tech30 Sep 2025 | 48
Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it
Interview Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14
OSes30 Sep 2025 | 13
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink
Semicon Coalition presses European Commission for stronger funding, strategy, and skills drive
Systems29 Sep 2025 | 8
UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation
Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 67
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
Opinion Socio political backdrop is not what it once was....
Personal Tech29 Sep 2025 | 118
Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions
Updated Consumer org forces Redmond to expunge list of requirements for free ESU in Euro Economic Area, just need a Microsoft account
OSes26 Sep 2025 | 88
Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud
Apple prices meet Dell style
Personal Tech26 Sep 2025 | 18
The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD
HANDS ON Big performance on offer, but be prepared to spend $200
Personal Tech25 Sep 2025 | 112
iPhone 17 Scratchgate is real, iFixit warns – buy a case for your fancy phone
Video In good news, battery replacement is a lot easier than earlier models
Personal Tech24 Sep 2025 | 15
PC memory costs to climb as fabs chase filthy lucre in servers and HBM
TrendForce warns of Q4 hikes as suppliers squeeze consumer markets
Systems24 Sep 2025 | 6
Solar flair: Logitech's K980 Signature Slim keyboard runs on rays
HANDS ON Not one to keep in the dark, and light on features as a result
Personal Tech24 Sep 2025 | 37
Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance
Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: Doing something about people who walk while using their phones
Legal24 Sep 2025 | 43
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise
Watch out, Microsoft and Google
Public Sector24 Sep 2025 | 44
OnePlus leaves researchers on read over Android bug that exposes texts
Updated Rapid7 warns flaw could let any app peek at your SMS, but smartphone vendor won't pick up
Security23 Sep 2025 | 11
MX Linux 25 reaches beta testing – complete with systemd
Fancy a taste? The version based on Debian 'Trixie' is nearly ready, but not all the changes may be entirely welcome
OSes23 Sep 2025 | 17
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