Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law
Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 60
Personal Tech
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?
The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 48
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'
Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 46
Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9
Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.
Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice
Applications12 Aug 2024 | 100
Twitter's former chairman sues X over unpaid options
Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills
Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 31
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer
A career and life so classically Silicon Valley
Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 28
Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction
Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes
Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 27
HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents
Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility
Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 9
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 lands with (drum roll) RISC-V cores
Beefier Arms next to RV rival CPUs, offering a glimpse of the future
Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 32
Nokia goes from phones to drones with Swiss service rollout
No pricing disclosed but plan allows users to order hands-off flights without operating any units
Networks08 Aug 2024 | 3
Report: Tech misconceptions plague the IT world
Just snapping the webcam shutter closed won't keep a user safe online
Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 74
UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort
There's gold in them thar boards
Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 62
AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback
Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts
Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 5
Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign
Exclusive Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots
Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 378
Tesla recalls over 1.6M electric cars in China for faulty hood lock
Across China and the US, more than 3.5 million cars have been recalled
Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 37
Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off
Updated CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 205
All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant
And you're replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That's a logical step for the evolving landscape of ...
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 14
EVs continue to grow but private buyers are steering clear, say motor trade figures
Hybrids snap at heels of battery-only vehicles in UK, but petrol is still king... for now
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 207
Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account
A de-Googled Android phone with extra security – and a subscription
Personal Tech05 Aug 2024 | 34
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Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth
Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy
Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others
Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action
Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?
Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious
Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'
Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?
US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years
Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls
Intel, already adrift, now Armless too
Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?
The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?
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Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco
It’s starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it’s losing some credibility
Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 8
Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids
Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors
Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 30
First-time buyers, especially in China, help Apple to quarterly revenue record
iPhone cash is a little off, but AI might just turn that around
Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 4
Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road
Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no?
Networks02 Aug 2024 | 8
Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds
Lobbyists would love for rumors of a monopoly probe into GPU goliath to become reality
Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 11
Uber and China's BYD agree deal to roll out 100,000 EV fleet
No timeline yet, but drivers beware: Plans include collaboration on autonomous-capable vehicles
Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 32
Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October
Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious
Personal Tech01 Aug 2024 | 3
Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode
28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously
AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 180
Samsung confirms Exynos 2500 chip as profit skyrockets on back of AI memory boom
Strikes? What strikes?
Personal Tech31 Jul 2024 | 1
Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks
E-super-souk isn't having any of it
Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage
Shut the Front Door!
PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends
Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals
AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 16
Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset
Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets
Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 |
Apple agrees to terms with US store union for first time
Funny what threatening to walk off the job and shutter a retail store can do
Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 11
Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators
Khaan! Khaaaaaan!
Personal Tech29 Jul 2024 | 44
US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices
Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 38
Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality?
Review A headset for workers who want to stride around the room bellowing
Personal Tech29 Jul 2024 | 18
US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data
Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ
Legal29 Jul 2024 | 29
No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged
Previous outlawing attempt flew off, will this one stick the landing?
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 70
iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back
Chinese brands ascendant in the country’s phone market, but Apple’s exile might only be temporary
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 18
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos
The wild world of wrecking our tech
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 91
Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it
On Call There's a difference between a warranty and insurance. In this story the latter could fight back
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 126
OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you're allowed to use it yet
Launching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone
Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas
Personal Tech25 Jul 2024 | 22
AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality
Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy?
Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 19
Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech
Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk isn't as high as feared
Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 8
Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud
What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth
Legal24 Jul 2024 | 19
Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case
Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable
Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 23
Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made 'unstable' by voltage snafu
Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade!
Personal Tech23 Jul 2024 | 32
Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough
Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3
The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard
Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new
Personal Tech22 Jul 2024 | 69
FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81%
This is exactly what we said would happen post-Blizzard merger, laments watchdog, as its appeal continues
Personal Tech20 Jul 2024 | 30
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved
Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble
Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
Tesla sales, market share dip in EU while other EV makers grow
Tesla doesn't just have an US problem: It has one with EU, too
Personal Tech18 Jul 2024 | 78
Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch
Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities
AI + ML18 Jul 2024 | 15
Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California
Comment Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration!
Science17 Jul 2024 | 121
Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac
Got a G3 iMac? Want to run NT? Now you can!
Personal Tech17 Jul 2024 | 46
On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'
Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm
Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 44
Qualcomm sues Chinese handset-maker in India to defend African market
There's a lot of territory to cover here
Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 6
Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'
Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon
Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 82
FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone
Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices
Research16 Jul 2024 | 115
China's Honor debuts laptop with bonkers removable camera that lives in a little slot
Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond
Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 16
Smartphones sales bounce, Xiaomi biting at Apple's heels
Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan
Personal Tech15 Jul 2024 | 16
China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids
Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff
Public Sector15 Jul 2024 | 3
Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs
High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD
Systems13 Jul 2024 | 56
EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law
Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access
Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 76
Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta
Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard
Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 71
Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production
Ice ICE, baby
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 28
With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to
And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 62
European Commission accepts Apple's 'tap and go' promises
Makes third-party wallets getting iOS NFC access a 'legally binding' thing
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 7
Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign
Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them
Cyber-crime11 Jul 2024 | 64
Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union
Get ready for a cacophony of beeps at least if you're a bit heavy on the go pedal
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 517
Apple, Google, ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch
The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers
Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
China’s homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs
Devs of OS named for a mythical beast join in the 'local models will will deliver legendary productivity' trope
AI + ML11 Jul 2024 | 8
Anonymous 'ask me anything' chat app NGL ordered to knock it off targeting kids
Hitting youngsters with faked texts and calling them suckers is a bit of a no-no, watchdog sniffs
Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 9
South Korean Samsung union strikes again in bid to chip away at production
It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU
Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 1
How low can you go: Tesla's US market share dips below 50% for the first time
Electric car sales break records, but Elon's luster is tarnished
Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 69
PC sales inch upwards as market starts to upgrade its hardware
Analysts hoping Windows 11 refresh adds fuel to fire, as OS market share finally on rise
Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 7
Twitter grew an incredible '1.6%' since Musk's $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow
No doubt thanks to Vladi5555, KremLinda1776, RealAmericanPat22, etc etc
Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 50
Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR
Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges
SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8
64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service
Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the 'wrong answers'
Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 54
HP to discontinue online-only e-series LaserJet amid user gripes
Updated Printers were locked into HP+ cloud service, which is also getting the chop
Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 60
Tesla parental controls keep teenage lead feet in check
Because trusting your kid with 300 horsepower should come with a curfew
Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 83
Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers
Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems
Personal Tech08 Jul 2024 | 31
Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card
After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino 'must be stopped'
Personal Tech06 Jul 2024 | 40
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin
Updated Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles
Security05 Jul 2024 | 59
Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time
Updated Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem
Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 26
We've banned Chinese telco kit and drones. Next: Mountain bikes?
DJI builds a power pack for off-road two-wheelers
Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 60
EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials
Comment 'We're not there yet' on development of motors without them
Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 74
Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency
There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high
Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 15
Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China
Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online
Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 11
War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court
Talk about painfully invasive processes
Bootnotes02 Jul 2024 | 51
Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions
Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12
YouTube confirms it'll pull AI fakes in 48 hours if a complaint's upheld
As ever, terms and conditions apply
Personal Tech02 Jul 2024 | 13
Supreme Court orders rethink on Texas, Florida laws banning web moderation
Sites and apps aren't given a say? That doesn't seem very free speech
Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 21
Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans
Facebook, Instagram gobble up same data whether you hand over cash or not
Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 40
Boeing to reacquire spun-off supplier Spirit AeroSpace to shore up safety
Because the best place for a troubled supplier is beneath the wing of original parent company
Bootnotes01 Jul 2024 | 25
Verizon hit with whopping $847M verdict for infringing 5G and hotspot patents
Must be hard to face a huge, unexpected bill, amirite?
Networks01 Jul 2024 | 11
Beijing says state owns China's rare earth metals
Better management of critical materials or retaliation for sanctions?
Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 31
Antitrust latest: Europe's Vestager warns Microsoft, OpenAI 'the story is not over'
I'll get you next time, Gadget, next time!
Personal Tech29 Jun 2024 | 4
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