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Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 61
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The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver
Friday FOSS Fest OK, here's my question: Would you like to have it on x86 Linux?
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 42
Sony Semiconductor sinks Simoleans into Raspberry Pi to advance edge AI
Raspboss Eben Upton teases products built on ML-enabled edge sensors
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 12
Google Pay mistakenly rains free cash on netizens
Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice)
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 3
America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs
Maybe soon all our friends are electric
Personal Tech12 Apr 2023 | 86
Colorado sends agricultural right to repair bill to governor
Updated If passed, it'll be the first law in the US to require tractor makers to hand over documentation and parts
Personal Tech12 Apr 2023 | 9
Ex-Twitter execs sue over $1M+ in unpaid legal expenses
Lawsuits keep piling up for Musk-owned 'trending to breakeven' platform
Personal Tech11 Apr 2023 | 39
Three quarters of UK tech pros are ready to leave their jobs
Despite layoff trend, IT staff seek mobility over security
Personal Tech11 Apr 2023 | 50
Chinese state media hails Tesla megafactory in Shanghai as sign foreign business is on board
ASIA IN BRIEF Also: India gets an Apple store; ZTE sells next-gen servers outside China; Foxconn invests in EVs; and more
Personal Tech11 Apr 2023 | 6
Mac shipments slump as Apple finally bitten by glum PC demand
On the bright side, higher inventories will give 'puter makers opportunity to flee China, IDC says
Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 17
Twitter users complain 'private' Circle posts aren't
Sorry, make that Titter. We can explain
Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 27
Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month
Or else!
Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 74
Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff'
Intimate, disturbing moments became message board memes, probably
Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 52
That sound you hear is VCs shutting wallets, tucking them back into Patagucci vests
OpenAI and Stripe snaffled a lot of what cash was dished out, or so this report claims
Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 5
Google: If your Android app can create accounts, it better be easy to delete them, too
Awoogah, awooooogah, new policy coming for developers
Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 14
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Tributes paid to former Square CTO Bob Lee, 43
Personal Tech06 Apr 2023 | 31
Twitter scores legal hat trick with three cases filed against it in one day
Germany alleges systemic moderation failure, more vendors sue over unpaid bills, and a new WARN Act suit
Personal Tech05 Apr 2023 | 13
Why UK watchdog abandoned its Apple monopoly probe
Analysis You win this round, Cook – but Europe has already lined up changes Britain fluffed
Personal Tech04 Apr 2023 | 31
Tesla Semi, out since December, already facing a recall over brakes
Only 35 of the trucks affected, but that might be most of the ones on the road
Personal Tech03 Apr 2023 | 55
New models of IBM Model F keyboard Mark II incoming
New layouts for the original 'clickier than the Model M' keyboard
Personal Tech03 Apr 2023 | 33
Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again
Manifest V2 will die another day
Personal Tech01 Apr 2023 | 26
Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses
Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 42
TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?
Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 45
Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line
Big is not always beautiful
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 15
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up
Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers
iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 25
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'
It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce
Defense Tech Week29 Mar 2023 | 30
For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now
Opinion Is there a role for a poll for just Blue Tickers, not proles, or is this troll a social media own goal?
Personal Tech28 Mar 2023 | 65
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle
Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49
Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works
What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 20
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action
Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 73
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 47
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 127
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment
Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 105
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27
Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty
Alert noise is 'loud and distracting' for drivers, claims filing
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 68
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices
Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war
The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet
Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 43
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month
Feature We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 145
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly
Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 31
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy
Shocking!
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 112
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B
Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
Fewer bonuses for Apple staff in latest cost-cutting measure
Don't worry about Tim – executive's rewards are reportedly unaffected. Phew
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 7
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space
Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
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Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies
The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works
Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop
Hands-on Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 153
Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?
It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14
Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection
Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down
Personal Tech09 Mar 2023 | 30
Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home
Don't say you weren't warned
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 75
Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks
Talk about off the back of a lorry
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11
Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users
How will Elon conform to FTC decrees and EU laws? He probably doesn't know, either
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 15
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