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Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

Kettle First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal

Personal Tech02 Dec 2023 | 46

UK competition watchdog wins appeal – investigation into Apple will go on

iPhone maker tried to legally kill mobile browser, gaming probe by CMA

Personal Tech02 Dec 2023 | 4

Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability

Legacy auto makers struggle with new tech, and upstarts suffer teething problems with first cars

Personal Tech01 Dec 2023 | 89

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data

Awkward hill to die on, but OK

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 21

Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite

A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 38

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Comment Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 316

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity

Plans buffet of components you can assemble into a dream machine

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 36

Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 6

Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing

Personal Tech29 Nov 2023 | 20

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups

Personal Tech29 Nov 2023 | 119

Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition

Review Or your wallet

Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 45

Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next

Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future

Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2

Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream?

TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack

Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1

Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds

Your brain and heart do not enjoy Zooming, Teamsing, or Webexing

Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 34

IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups

Who, Me? Kid escaped from the executive suite without screwing things up

Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 89

Lenovo's USB-C Power Banks pack more heat than expected

Recall issued for fiery surprise

Personal Tech23 Nov 2023 | 15

Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

Decision means family of man killed in 2019 cross-traffic collision can take carmaker to trial

Personal Tech22 Nov 2023 | 68

HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

What is double of 15% sales shrinkage?

Personal Tech22 Nov 2023 | 6

Lenovo sues Asus for patent infringement, seeks US ZenBook ban

Updated Why can't we be FRANDS?

Personal Tech22 Nov 2023 | 11

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV

Personal Tech21 Nov 2023 | 112

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No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data

Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can

Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit

Supply chain attacks: The gift that keeps on giving

Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness

On Call At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated

UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images

Exploits bypass most secure boot solutions from the biggest chip vendors

Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data

This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind

Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious

Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers

Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability

Legacy auto makers struggle with new tech, and upstarts suffer teething problems with first cars

Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect

Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth

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X's legal eagles swoop on Media Matters over antisemitic content row

Case filed in Texas, where anti-SLAPP provisions don't apply in federal court

Personal Tech21 Nov 2023 | 70

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

Ad execs have reportedly urged CEO Yaccarino to step down in protest to save her reputation

Personal Tech20 Nov 2023 | 88

What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work

Special report Manifest V3 transition deemed 'far from terrible' and yet not great for content filters

Personal Tech18 Nov 2023 | 96

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules

Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am?

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 11

Apple's quest for modem independence from Qualcomm is going nowhere fast

iPhones could still be running Snapdragons into 2026

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 26

Watchdog bites back against blockage of $9M fine on US selfie-scraper Clearview AI

Updated Britain's ICO claims tribunal misinterpreted law, wants case revisited

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 11

Qualcomm promises 'premium performance' in Gen 3 Snapdragon 7 phone chips

Higher end SoCs for midrange mobes as Honor and Vivo sink it into their next devices

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 6

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27

Rights warriors claim online ad auction data a danger to national security

'The industry can not be allowed to put elected leaders, military personnel at risk'

Personal Tech16 Nov 2023 | 18

Google, Amazon, Microsoft make the Mozilla naughty list for Christmas shopping

Big Tech's toys have privacy problems. Why not buy utterly unconnected dead-tree books instead?

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 11

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Facebook: If only we had a national law to ensure kids get parental permission to indulge in damaging social media

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 31

Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears

Roadblocks ahead as external watchdog hired for full audit of self-driving biz

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 15

Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024

Bonfire of the web trackers is coming, industry ready or not

Personal Tech14 Nov 2023 | 20

X fails to remove hate speech over Israel-Gaza conflict

98% of posts reported stay up, and Musk's response is to sue the messenger

Personal Tech14 Nov 2023 | 84

When it comes to personal data, we're on a highway to hell

Kettle Register journos tackle cars harvesting info, Meta and YouTube being taken to task over privacy, and more

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 16

Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify

Biz races to fix broken systems

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 11

Amazon's retail wing tops list of take-down demands from Europe under new DSA law

Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems though

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 5

Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking

Exclusive Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc

Personal Tech11 Nov 2023 | 95

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Exclusive Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims

Personal Tech11 Nov 2023 | 44

Qualcomm and Iridium's satellite link-up loses signal

Updated Tech was proven, but nobody wanted to put it in their Snapdragon devices

Personal Tech10 Nov 2023 | 9

Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device

Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALL•E-esque products in the near future

Personal Tech09 Nov 2023 | 10

Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

8,388,608KB ought to be enough for anybody, huh?

Personal Tech09 Nov 2023 | 182

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage

Personal Tech08 Nov 2023 | 24

Microsoft scratches Surface device policy – some get extensions of up to 6 years

See? It's not just Chromebooks. Now how about some flexibility around Win 10?

Personal Tech06 Nov 2023 | 3

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Opinion Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness

Personal Tech06 Nov 2023 | 198

Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals

Watchdog on a tear to level the playing field

Personal Tech04 Nov 2023 | 40

Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle

Whinges about Chrome maker's privacy stance while taking billions to, er, use its search engine

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 41

We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

Kettle Meta faces personal info processing ban, needs to Thread the trademark needle in the UK, while Musk loses out

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 9

Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs

Can't RISC losing them to another ISA

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 39

Apple's year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next

Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but 'emerging markets' are getting Apple fever

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 2

Uber, Lyft to hand back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers

So much for appy cabbies being 'partners' - Big U kept fares low by making 'em pay fees that riders should have picked up

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 13

Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight

More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this may have been anything but a 'scrapped' project

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 16

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims

Interview Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 13

Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case

24 million more angry iPhone users get their turn to give iGiant a kicking

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 47

Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes

The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 17

Europe bans Meta from using personal data to target ads

EU folks have no chill, not that we're complaining

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 73

Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters

Refresh rate glitch could leave MacBook Pro 14" and 16" models unbootable

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 25

Date night from hell looms for Apple as Netherlands says: 'It's not me, it's you'

Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 4

Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model

Comment Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 59

Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

Software house says it's had UK trademark since 2012 as Zuck & Co know full well

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 23

X says it's only worth $19B after year of Muskmanagement

Everything's down, except Elon's engagement, and that's what really matters, right?

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 32

Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 3

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 102

Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more

Personal Tech30 Oct 2023 | 17

Biden's facing the clock to veto Apple Watch import ban after ITC patent ruling

I'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down

Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 34

Microsoft enlists iFixit to extend Surface spare parts program

Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations

Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 9

Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses 'pretty insignificant' Arm PC challenge

Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps

Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 18

On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity

Oh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get hold of him, it seems

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 51

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 47

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Interview Irish eyes may not be smiling

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 177

Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds

Make Webex more collaborative and secure, while you enjoy its AI additions and active noise cancellation

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 14

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

Two thumbs down as ACLU lawsuit yields uncomfortable results

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 66

World checks it's not April 1 as Apple signals support for full US right-to-repair rule

But beware geeks bearing gifts

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 29

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Shareholders rejoice! Apple TV+, News+ raises prices over 40%

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 73

The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available ... if you pre-ordered

Will there be tinkering under the Christmas tree?

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 43

Red light for robotaxis as California suspends Cruise's license to self-drive

Updated Indefinite ban due to 'public safety'

Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 22

iFixit pries open Google Pixel 8 Pro with clamps and picks

Could be easier to get into, but check out that 7-year update commitment

Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 13

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

'It looks like even Sundar Pichai is confused about how this control works'

Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 38

A cheap Chinese PC with odd components. What could go wrong?

Desktop Tourism Surprisingly little, but the KAMRUI GK3 Plus doesn't inspire confidence

Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 48

No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much?

Personal Tech23 Oct 2023 | 35

Still got a job at the end of this week? You're lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry

Kettle 'Beatings will continue until morale improves'

Personal Tech21 Oct 2023 | 69

Web Summit CEO's comments on Israeli conflict 'war crimes' sparks boycott

Intel, Siemens, Google, Meta, and Stripe among event walkouts

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 79

Look ma, no fans: Mini PC boasts slimline solid-state active cooling system

Hong Kong-based maker claims cooler is 'silent'

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 45

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 39

US government's Login.gov turns frown upside down, now smiles on facial recognition

Authentication portal to match snaps on existing IDs with user-provided snaps

Personal Tech19 Oct 2023 | 23

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Comment Plus: Working from home is 'detached from reality' says world's richest man

Personal Tech19 Oct 2023 | 227

What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court

Arson case produces a very tricky precedent for anyone who values digital privacy

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 24

Sony, Honda tease EV that aims to be a lounge on wheels

Video 'Afeela' packs Qualcomm kit, screens galore, runs Android and will have an app ecosystem

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 37

Apple finds another use for USB-C – a cheaper Pencil

It’s also shorter, lousy under pressure, and needs a dongle on the cheapest iPad

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 11

Google and Qualcomm to bring RISC-V to the wrist in next-gen wearable platform

Wear OS is basically Android, so this effort may do some heavy lifting to evade Arm SoCs in future phones

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 3

Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial

Perfect antidote to range anxiety ... if it works and they can sort compatibility

Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 32

iPhone 15 Pro Max users report seeing ghostly OLED apparitions

A Weekend at Burn-ins

Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 21

Raspberry Pi 5: Hot takes and cooler mistakes

How does the device fare as a daily driver, and is cooling really optional?

Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 73

Meta Quest 3 is a virtual reality of repair insanity

Bravery and a bucket for the screws required to service latest idiot visor

Personal Tech16 Oct 2023 | 10

Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users

Accessibility features help everybody… and one day, you might need them too

Personal Tech16 Oct 2023 | 20

A $353M question: Did Meta muzzle a VR venture?

Quest for control as AEI alleges Meta's monopolistic missteps

Personal Tech12 Oct 2023 | 7

Google's third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 ... for 1% of Chrome users

And in full swing starting Q3

Personal Tech12 Oct 2023 | 11

California's Governor Newsom signs laws on right to repair and data deletion

'Digital emancipation proclamation' praised by tech tinkerers, but info brokers aren't happy

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 11

EU threatens X with DSA penalties over spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation

Final update Meta also told to clean out election-bothering deepfakes from its empire – or face the music

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 81

Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now

Analysts 'put stake in the ground' to say tech will hit market in matter of years

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 18

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