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Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational

07 May 21:40 | 33

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

07 May 01:49 | 37

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

05 May 20:54 | 25

As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst

Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing

05 May 13:14 | 13

Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500

Which is a lot of money for this crap

05 May 09:12 | 17

Samsung stops providing security updates to the Galaxy S8 at grand old age of four years

Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on

04 May 16:47 | 72

Vietnam thanks Samsung for all its help, asks for more to go beyond mere manufacturing

Samsung in turn asks for access to clean 'leccy at high-level love-in

In China, the Smart TV watches you, shares IP address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, viewing habits, and more

Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service

04 May 04:55 | 25

Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger

Berkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple

03 May 04:01 | 153

Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss

Goodbye, Mr Chips

30 Apr 07:30 | 169

Appeals court nixes online blueprint sharing ban on 3D-printed 'ghost guns'

Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so

29 Apr 20:33 | 151

Richer each day, home and Huawei: Apple's hunger for Snapdragon modems, smartphone recovery pays off for Qualcomm

A certain Chinese juggernaut's woes helped a bit, too

Apple won't be sharing revenue guidance for rest of the year, but we can always guess what it'll look like

Cupertino brought in more for Q2 than HPE did for all of 2020 so go figure

29 Apr 13:49 | 9

Major shift in smartphone market sees Chinese kit win the middle while Apple and Samsung skim the cream

Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’

29 Apr 10:45 | 1

Samsung, Intel tease joint effort on new chip 'microarchitecture leveraging multiple types of XPU cores'

But for now, have some thin, light x86 Galaxy Pro laptops

29 Apr 02:32 | 6

What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India

#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis

29 Apr 00:54 | 18

Terror of the adtech industry iOS 14.5 has landed, and Siri can answer your calls ... though she/he can't hang up

Good news for users with disabilities, though there's room for improvement

27 Apr 14:24 | 25

Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for $550m

Oh what a dealing

27 Apr 04:58 | 14

PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst

Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record

26 Apr 15:32 | 50

From cash machines to commercial kitchen appliances, Doom really will run on almost anything

As long as the technical nous is there

23 Apr 08:30 | 20

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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

Bug of the week

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

Google will make you use two-step verification to login

World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence

No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...

Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes

Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure

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But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Blender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

22 Apr 08:45 | 71

Foxconn's showcase Wisconsin LCD factory becomes aspirational 'manufacturing ecosystem'

$10bn investment now $672m, jobs promised now 1,454 instead of 13,000

21 Apr 14:19 | 38

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

Is there a back button for reality?

20 Apr 23:56 | 61

iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat

Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product

20 Apr 16:20 | 52

Far-right internet haven Parler to be allowed back onto Apple's App Store with added content moderation

Social network for web outcasts can be downloaded again from next week for iThings, we're told

20 Apr 00:24 | 27

Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries

Trendy exercise gear 'poses serious risks to children', says CPSC

19 Apr 23:36 | 54

Google's FLoC flies into headwinds as internet ad industry braces for instability

Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult

17 Apr 08:07 | 67

Will tech show IFA really return this year as a 'full-scale' shindig? Place your bets now

Announcement light on safety details and the world still doesn't look ready

16 Apr 13:47 | 2

To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity'

16 Apr 07:15 | 206

Last chance to grab an iPhone Mini as savvy analyst reckons Apple will scrap it next year

Incoming iPhone 13 could be final slimline version

15 Apr 13:33 | 27

Irish privacy watchdog sticks GDPR probe into Facebook after that online giveaway of 533 million profiles

Oh, you mean the 'features that make it easier for people to find and connect with friends on our services'?

15 Apr 07:26 | 38

OMG! New free speech social network won’t allow members to take the Lord’s name in vain

‘Frank’ reckons it won’t follow Parler’s path to plug-pulling because it has its own servers and ‘the best security’. But it also uses Cloudflare …

15 Apr 06:17 | 80

Got $10k to burn? Ultra-rare Piet Mondrian-esque Apple laptop is up for grabs on eBay

Colourful PowerBook 170 was a one-off for Japanese women's golf tournament

14 Apr 10:02 | 24

After years of dragging its feet, FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

New law implementation, cease-and-desist letters, and mobile companies asked to detail free blocking tools

13 Apr 22:34 | 47

Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 now includes AMD options for biz customers, boasts up to 19 hours of battery life

Surface Headphones 2+ also available and a range of 'Modern' kit coming in the next few months

13 Apr 16:15 | 25

FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging

Effort to get accurate info gets more serious under new chairwoman

12 Apr 22:57 | 32

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