17% of Spotify employees face the music in latest cost-cutting shuffle This despite hitting profit high note – and right on time for Christmas Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 35
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers Funny how marketing messages change depending on the audience Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 148
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 | 189
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 | 9
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 | 148
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 | 22
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 | 42
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 | 335
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 | 22
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 | 131
Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition Review Or your wallet Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 46
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 | 90
Lenovo's USB-C Power Banks pack more heat than expected Recall issued for fiery surprise Personal Tech23 Nov 2023 | 17
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 | 69
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 | 113
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 | 74
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 | 97
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 | 183
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