Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers Who, Me? Such a blatant offside the manager couldn't see a funny side Personal Tech03 Jul 2023 | 18
Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers Big $50,000 fines for misleading posts... unless it's political, natch Personal Tech30 Jun 2023 | 15
Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view Analysis Web giant also hits back ... right as YouTube steps up war on advert blockers Personal Tech29 Jun 2023 | 68
Where performance matters for the digital worker Sponsored Feature Specifying PCs to meet the exact needs of individual workers is key to boosting productivity, explains Intel Sponsored Feature
Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 11
SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard Another win for Musk: Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo have already announced plans to dump CCS Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 27
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 78
Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 29
One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim Analysis Data sales 'can do real harm' Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 90
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1 Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not? Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 53
Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 62
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47
'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix Streaming biz terms and conditions searches jump 1,524% Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 57
After decades contributing to science, John Goodenough powers down Obit The American lithium-ion battery inventor has died aged 100 Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 18
Near Field Communication to get longer, stronger – better at contactless Standards org's roadmap envisions three watt powerup and info sharing Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 33
Google accused of urging Android devs to mislabel apps to get forbidden kids ad data Getting around the rules was as simple as not declaring software was 'intended for children', lawsuit states Personal Tech23 Jun 2023 | 8
Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules Staff show up with the receipts – video footage of law-breaking bosses Personal Tech21 Jun 2023 | 30
One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers Devconf.cz 'Changing the world one PC at a time' sounds good to us Personal Tech21 Jun 2023 | 69
Where's my money?! Now USA Today publisher sues Google over online advertising That ads to hurt Personal Tech20 Jun 2023 | 54
Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries They're changing it wrong, aren't they Apple? Personal Tech20 Jun 2023 | 259
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Lenovo's Yoga 9 is flexible at home, but stretches the friendship at work Desktop Tourism Rotating sound bar sounds better in theory than in practice Personal Tech20 Jun 2023 | 24
Google searchers from years past can get paid for pilfered privacy $23 million set aside to compensate for leaking queries to websites Personal Tech17 Jun 2023 | 53
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim Racist tirade at delivery driver never actually happened Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 244
Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier Replacement components available in US, Canada, France only for now Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 14
The ZX81 finally gets the keyboard it deserves Chap posts free specs for posh build with Cherry MX switches Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 67
Logitech boss Bracken Darrell steps down, effective ASAP Like PCs, peripherals are on the decline – guaranteeing a tough slog for the next CEO Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 8
Europe teases breaking up Google over ad monopoly Oh dear, look who hasn't spent enough on lobbying? Personal Tech14 Jun 2023 | 20
US senators and spies spar over Section 702 warrantless surveillance Analysis 'Appropriately pissed off' lawmakers won't renew without safeguards Personal Tech14 Jun 2023 | 14
Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices As if billions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced Personal Tech12 Jun 2023 | 59
Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out Hands on Both create an aural oasis of sonic stillness. But only one let me watch John Wick 4 for free Personal Tech12 Jun 2023 | 108
Is it a drone? Is it a balloon? Whatever it is the US warns locals not to let them fly in Iran Some of this kit is ending up in Russia Personal Tech10 Jun 2023 | 67
Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas... Personal Tech09 Jun 2023 | 100
Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy Personal Tech09 Jun 2023 | 16
What do we make of the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? It doesn't take a magic leap to guess Register Kettle Tune in and hear us human-not-AI vultures get meta on the news Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 7
Australia to phase out checks by 2030 Bouncing them all – starting with government – but cash gets to stick around Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 123
Coinbase, don't feel left out. SEC has a lawsuit for you, too Rules are rules, say watchdogs. Well, there aren't any clear ones, biz shoots back Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 11
Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts Promoted bundled monitors are bargains, but actually sold them for above regular prices Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 12
M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout WWDC Workstations boosted, MacBook Air embiggened, iOS embraces web apps, and all the rest of Cupertino's new stuff Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 44
Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse WWDC iGiant's turn to roll the dice on VR next year after Facebook, Microsoft, Google blow billions on the unloved tech Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 173
Cry-pto: Feds bury Bitcoin exchange giant Binance in 13-count fraud lawsuit 'We are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro' Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 25
Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public Leaked documents show a 59% ad revenue decline last month – can a Yacc smack get Twitter back on track? Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 37
UK warned not to bother racing US, EU on EV subsidies Plus: Blackadder feels let down by the electric dream Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 88
Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file who, me? Pigs might fly before youngsters listened to IT instructions – so the IT manager made sure chickens came home to roost Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 92
The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023 Computex We crawled the gadget halls to save you the hassle Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 22
Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month CEO stands by decision to keep prices steady instead of scoring sweet, sweet, windfall profits Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 73
Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype Claim: Billionaire banked big bread boosting bizarro-bucks Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 22
Twitter loses second head of Trust and Safety under Musk And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 30
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55
Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 100
Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner Pay a bill or buy new phone? That lovely question facing some of us in 2023 Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 40
WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC Computex Very handy technology, literally Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 67
Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors... Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 72
Aggressive PC discounts might not be here for long, says HP After challenging Q2, CEO reckons channel inventory starting to finally clear Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 12
UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck As much as 30% increase for some jobs Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 36
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 93
BMW adds games to the 5 series but still ain't the Ultimate Gaming Machine Forget Grand Theft Auto. This is far tamer fare – controlled by a smartphone Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 39
Qualcomm imagines constellation of Snapdragons sharing AI workloads Computex PCs to chat with phones, watches, goggles – even the cloud when necessary Personal Tech30 May 2023 |
The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable Comment Try showing a remote clinician your injured foot without one Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 75
Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU Computex Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation Personal Tech29 May 2023 | 8
Arm announces Cortex-X4 among latest CPU and GPU designs Coming to silicon near you ... next year Personal Tech29 May 2023 | 3
US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead. Here's why you should care anyway My Body, My Data sounds reasonable enough, right? Personal Tech28 May 2023 | 20
Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad 'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...' Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 29
Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace Once it knows how to stop, anyway Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 15
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 17
Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31
AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us? Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 16
All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working Facial authentication, video meetings may have to wait, dead security cert blamed Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 38
Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 9
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive Bottom line weight driven by job cut costs Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 10
Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary Video Also: phones that fold through 360 degrees, rollable tablets, and an expanded OLED detector Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 11
SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras Officers said they didn't use live feed in the end. So that's all right then? Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 10
AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web? Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 7
Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 19
Meta forced to sell Giphy, takes 87% loss in Shutterstock deal Zuck and Co face Brexit bonus Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 8
Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it... Hands-on World's largest laptop vendor releases whizzy x86 - but we could do with a better Windows rescue party Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 121
WeChat makes facial recog payment systems talk to the hand Wave-to-pay tech seems ideal for Jedi cosplay – if palmprints and veins are the biometrics you're looking for Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 5
FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year Well, well, well, if it isn't the Leaning Tower of FISA again Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 37
That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US Zuckercorp says the EU-US Data Privacy Framework will pass before its penalties enacted, so why worry? Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 70
Digital transformation expert on mass layoffs: I would have expected more from tech Interview It doesn't add up when IT is 'not really in a dire situation financially' Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 15
Privacy Sandbox, Google's answer to third-party cookies, promised within months Winter in July for some of those in the web ad world Personal Tech20 May 2023 | 32
Phones' facial recog tech 'fooled' by low-res 2D photo Someone who looks a lot like you could also unlock it, says Which? Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 39
Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data? Basically everyone at this point. But developer Easy Healthcare has promised to stop Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 27
Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac On Call Making different generations of tech work in harmony sometimes requires a strange dance Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 162
SCOTUS rules Google and Twitter didn't contribute to terrorist attacks And holds off on Section 230 for another time Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 11
In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads Updated Dare we say, Broke App Mountain ... and yes, we know that was Wyoming Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 41
Ex-Twitter sextet sues Elon Musk for 'stiffing' them on severance Seems someone really is living in la-la-la land, but who... Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 42
Logitech, iFixit to offer parts to stop folks binning their computer mouse Stick with me and the mice live ... with pads, batteries and screws for two models Personal Tech17 May 2023 | 45
EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency Gone are the days of unlicensed exchanges and anonymous transactions – for EU citizens, at least Personal Tech17 May 2023 | 54
Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS It's 2023 so of course it involves machine learning Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 29
Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website Plaintiff claims they didn't consent to analytics tracking Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 16
Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note First Look And just about worth the pain of a cross-platform migration. Eventually Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 60
Boss fight cleared: Europe approves Microsoft's Activision takeover Completing a tough level doesn't mean squat if you can't defeat UK and USA Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 7
OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2
Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 102
Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun On call In cloudy Yorkshire, a ray of light can become the enemy Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 125
Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam Talk about going against the Grain Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 22
EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 8
India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios Where feature phones remain prevalent, Spotify is not an option and the 'net is little use in an emergency Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 58
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Just a small experiment – for now? Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 165
What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 8