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 | 6
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 | 24
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 | 5
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 | 31
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 | 166
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 | 63
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
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder For the want of an underscore
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos The wild world of wrecking our tech Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 90
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 | 122
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 | 19
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 | 31
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 | 24
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 | 8
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 | 47
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
American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 152
Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 13
FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock cellphones 60 days after activation Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 40
'One Less Car' Uber bets a grand you'll ditch your wheels Comment Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 88
Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages Updated Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Networks27 Jun 2024 | 13
Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 15
Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation Public Sector26 Jun 2024 | 26
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 26
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now OSes26 Jun 2024 | 22
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill What's the matter, you want China to win, huh? Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
And that's 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 52
Airbn-bye: Barcelona bans short-term apartment rentals for tourists Spanish sublet shock solution to housing crisis Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 58
America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good Analysis 'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 32
Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion Updated Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 50
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91
Microsoft's latest Surface devices almost as easy to fix as they are to break iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 14
China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation Tit for tat spat could be avoided Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 15
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Research23 Jun 2024 | 34