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Why did Apple hamstring camera repairs on standard iPhone 12 but leave Pro Max module swappable? asks engineering group

Bug? iFixit muses in teardown of Cupertino's top-tier mobe

23 Nov 13:29 | 8

Cool stuff: MacBook Air and Pro teardowns show thermal changes and missing T2 chip

Plus: Lots of dead space in the new Mac Mini

20 Nov 15:02 | 28

The Nord N10 is OnePlus's cheapest 5G handset and, boy, does it show

Doesn't mean it's terrible, you just have to manage your expectations

20 Nov 10:28 | 10

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Not sunshine, moonlight or good times – blame it on the buggy

The system's playing up again. Infamy! Infamy!

20 Nov 09:30 | 69

When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop

In steps our hero: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

20 Nov 08:15 | 190

Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery

Driver and security guard tied up and 48 pallets stacked with Cupertino kit stolen

20 Nov 06:27 | 54

Facebook sues to shut down alleged Instagram clone maker over scraping and sharing personal info for cash

Developer in Turkey accused of using 30,000 accounts to nab Instagram files

20 Nov 01:59 | 10

YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience

Also bans devs from scraping the site for facial recognition fodder

20 Nov 00:34 | 66

Apple rummages through pockets, hands out $113m in change to US states to make iPhone slowdown row go away

Arizona-led fight over battery-gate ends in settlement

18 Nov 22:30 | 12

Dell online store charges 16 million dollars for new laptop with paint job

Black is free on the Inspiron 15. ‘Soft Mint’ is a very expensive option

18 Nov 05:01 | 60

US government clears debt collectors to go after Americans through their social media accounts

Phone calls are so 1970s says Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

17 Nov 21:26 | 39

OPPO showcases 'rollable' concept phone that turns into a tablet – no bending needed

'Yeah, that's how we roll,' an exec may have said at some point

17 Nov 16:40 | 14

Tablets and Chromebooks are hot, towers and desktops are not: El Reg combs through Q3 PC numbers

Flippin' Dell! All major vendors lifted by pandemic purchasing frenzy... except one

17 Nov 13:03 | 36

UK, Canada could rethink the whole 'ban Huawei' thing post-Trump, whispers Huawei

Veep needles British government: Without us, you'll 'widen the north-south digital divide'

17 Nov 08:56 | 33

Huawei sells low-end Honor handset business due to 'tremendous pressure' in supply chain

Consortium of dealers and resellers buys 70-million-a-year handset-maker

17 Nov 06:27 | 2

Max Schrems is back... and he's challenging Apple's 'secret iPhone advertising tracking cookies' in Europe

US giant breaks privacy law by generating per-user 'digital license plate' without permission – claim

17 Nov 06:03 | 109

As nearly everyone stays home for the pandemic, plunge in overseas charges dents Vodafone's revenues

Dare we say... telco fiddled while roam burned?

16 Nov 19:33 | 8

Qualcomm gets hall pass from Uncle Sam to supply Huawei with mobile chipsets. There's just one catch: It's for 4G only

Which is hardly a reprieve for Chinese company's throttled handset biz

16 Nov 17:22 | 4

Honey, I shrunk the iPhone 12: Mini teardown reveals same components, only smaller

And with better repairability than its big brother too

16 Nov 13:59 | 20

New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers

14 Nov 00:09 | 196

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Linus Torvalds worried Linux kernel might get messy around Christmas

LTS release 5.10 is currently unruly and looks like colliding with the holiday season

The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop

Image Manipulation Program spawned GTK, which begat GNOME

It's always DNS, especially when a sysadmin makes a hash of their semicolons

Remember the days when 'we made it up as we went along'?

'Unmute' named one of Oxford Dictionary's words of the year

Stop doomscrolling through Blursday and take a Workation

US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base

China offers world its COVID QR Code movement passport at G20 Leaders' Meeting

Declaration puts a handbrake on global digital currencies, includes usual 'let's use the internet and AI to make the world a better place' stuff

Millions wiped off value of Capita outsourcing deal with English councils amid 'further contract variation agreement'

Procurement services? Not any more. Exchequer services? No thanks. IT Services? Reduced

European recommendations following Schrems II Privacy Shield ruling cast doubt on cloud encryption practices

Bring-your-own-key may no longer be enough for EU data protection body

Head thumping, heart racing? Here’s how not to panic when you’re under cyber attack

No incident response plan? We can help you there…

Why did Apple hamstring camera repairs on standard iPhone 12 but leave Pro Max module swappable? asks engineering group

Bug? iFixit muses in teardown of Cupertino's top-tier mobe

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Nokstalgia: HMD Global introduces yet another homage to the past – a 4G rework of the Nokia 6300

Remake of noughties classic

13 Nov 10:28 | 28

Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it

Throw in a clipboard and you look like you're the business

13 Nov 08:15 | 88

Someone's not Biden their time... Trump administration bars US investment in top Chinese tech giants

Because they’re military pawns of evil commies, says president de-elect

13 Nov 00:13 | 20

Android without Google – and yes it has apps: The Reg talks to founder about the /e/ smartphone

How the de-Googled phone works

12 Nov 19:30 | 57

Geekbench stats show Apple Silicon MacBook Air trouncing pricey 16-inch MacBook Pro

Native wit... but let's see what the 13-inch brings

12 Nov 14:45 | 40

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

EFF on the attack as IT giant tries to claim free supplies during 'device lifetime' just an introductory offer

12 Nov 11:45 | 180

YouTube to world: Move along, nothing to see here … because we’re having an outage

Cute animals rendered useless for two hours as streaming site got the wobbles

12 Nov 04:56 | 8

India has 1.3 billion people. They bought 3.4m PCs in Q3

Best result for seven years comes as tragedy shows tech remains out of reach for many

12 Nov 03:59 | 13

Wondering what to do over the holiday season? How about aiming a laser at commercial aircraft and then spending years of your life in prison?

Another one collared by FBI, indicted

12 Nov 02:50 | 54

Apple suffers setback in epic Epic Games games fight: Federal judge zaps damages counterclaim

Plenty of money left to play for

12 Nov 00:33 | 21

FCC sucked deeper into partisan politics, Trumpism: Nominated commissioner sparks conflict-of-interest row

Will Section 230 become the new net neutrality?

11 Nov 23:41 | 4

Roku adds HomeKit, AirPlay2 support as Apple loosens control-freak tendencies in the smart-home world

Big battle still raging between Apple, Google, Amazon

11 Nov 21:43 | 4

Cool, cool, cool: Screwdriver-wielders delve into the guts of an Xbox Series X

'Like an air conditioner with a graphics card'.... Lessons in heat management from Microsoft

11 Nov 19:32 | 11

Samsung asks New Jersey court to sink class action suit about Galaxy S7 waterproofing woes

Make it swim with the fishes

11 Nov 10:15 | 23

Mr President? Donald?! Any chance you can actually decide if Oracle can buy us or do we have to leave?

TikTok asks court to intervene as administration says injunction preventing closure means its hands are tied

11 Nov 08:01 | 47

Apple now Arm'd to the teeth: MacBook Air and Pro, Mac mini to be powered by custom M1 chips rather than Intel

ARM64 5nm TSMC-made silicon to ship next week, Cupertino claims apps are ready

10 Nov 22:04 | 168

Not fade Huawei: Hard pressed Chinese tech biz to flog Honor mobile unit for $15bn

Offloaded to local Shenzhen government and Digital China

10 Nov 17:30 | 5

MediaTek's latest chip promises 5G for the proles: Destined for those not-so-high end smartmobes

Pops head around door into party: Oh Qualcomm, you're here too?

10 Nov 16:00 | 7

What's that about Apple hardware? Pfft, says Intel as it intros magical self-healing PC

No cure for self-inflicted manufacturing wounds though, sadly

10 Nov 12:25 | 18

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