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If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy

Personal Tech07 Oct 2024 | 98

Post-IPO Raspberry Pi results in: So you can make money in tech without added AI

The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases

Personal Tech24 Sep 2024 | 13

Telegram will now hand over IP addresses, phone numbers of suspects to cops

Maybe a spell in a French cell changed Durov's mind

Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 36

iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years

A low bar, for sure, but a move in the right direction

Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 15

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

Opinion Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses

Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 68

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans

Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 83

There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?

Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22

Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports

Personal Tech20 Sep 2024 | 94

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals

Personal Tech19 Sep 2024 | 26

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue

Software19 Sep 2024 | 32

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted

AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 88

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky

Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 13

Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?

Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 1

IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer

Big Blue’s Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant

Applications17 Sep 2024 | 12

Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers

Removing de minimis exemption could stymie Beijing’s plans to grow its cyber-bazaar abroad

Personal Tech16 Sep 2024 | 22

Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training

I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind

Personal Tech14 Sep 2024 | 33

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA

You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino

Personal Tech13 Sep 2024 | 85

Feeld dating app's security too open-minded as private data swings into public view

No love for months-long wait to fix this, either

Research13 Sep 2024 | 8

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Oh and about those AI computers... analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases

Personal Tech13 Sep 2024 | 88

UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status

Dedicated support to be assembled to prevent cyberattacks, IT outages, and bad weather from affecting availability

On-Prem12 Sep 2024 | 16

If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM

Academically interesting technique for poking holes in paywalled tech specs

Research12 Sep 2024 | 37

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

Augmented reality meets warped reality

Personal Tech12 Sep 2024 | 36

Samsung faces strikes in India, amid reports of global layoffs

Union alleges work conditions are like solitary confinement and violence is common at Tamil Nadu plant

Legal12 Sep 2024 | 1

Wanna watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park the lounge room

Foxcon and Sharp imagine a sofa and television in a connected electric van

Personal Tech11 Sep 2024 | 9

The future everyone wanted – in-car ads tailored to your journey and passengers

Correction, no one wanted – well, except perhaps these patent filers at Ford

Personal Tech10 Sep 2024 | 88

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

Final judgment handed down by Court of Justice of the European Union

Personal Tech10 Sep 2024 | 146

Huawei debuts triple-folding Mate XT smartphone

Asia In Brief Plus: 550MW more DCs for India; Australia poised to use decryption powers; Indonesia creates cyber warfare unit

Personal Tech09 Sep 2024 | 9

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Feature Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco

AI + ML07 Sep 2024 | 159

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

Some brick devices they'd rather not support, kill apps that drive functions, or add post-sale subscriptions

Personal Tech06 Sep 2024 | 174

Competition watchdog accuses Google of abusing ad dominance

Provisional findings echo worries in the US and EC about the search giant's dominance

Personal Tech06 Sep 2024 | 7

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

Sorry, no, you can’t just digitize, share copyrighted books without permission

Personal Tech05 Sep 2024 | 93

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases

Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

Part 3 And you may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that large computer?'

Personal Tech04 Sep 2024 | 109

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

The signal may not rot your mind, we can't say the same for the content

Science04 Sep 2024 | 105

O2 punters lose cool over Google Pixel 9 delays

Shipments held up following warehouse migration tech glitches, can't cancel orders either

Personal Tech02 Sep 2024 | 19

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

Cost of the hardware as well as range and lack of charging infrastructure to blame

Personal Tech30 Aug 2024 | 369

Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard

Time to make e-commerce great again instead?

Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 7

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

Part 2: The 16-bit era As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive

Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 121

HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences

Major funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 10

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 19

As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility

Opinion Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 10

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

Part 1: The eight-bit era A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 215

Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 109

A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction

A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds

Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 37

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier

Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator

Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 68

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

'The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,' says Facebook founder

Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 182

Netherlands fines Uber €290M for improper EU-US driver data transfers

The ride-sharing provider insists it broke no rules during the three-year legal gap

Off-Prem26 Aug 2024 | 17

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

Who, Me? Buying PCs off the gray market can (literally) blow up in your face

Personal Tech26 Aug 2024 | 154

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If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

Tesla trounces shareholders who alleged Autopilot was all share-pumping lies

Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2

Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory

Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban

FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions

Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets

Post-IPO Raspberry Pi results in: So you can make money in tech without added AI

Telegram will now hand over IP addresses, phone numbers of suspects to cops

iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com

IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer

Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers

Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA

Feeld dating app's security too open-minded as private data swings into public view

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status

If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

Samsung faces strikes in India, amid reports of global layoffs

Wanna watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park the lounge room

The future everyone wanted – in-car ads tailored to your journey and passengers

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

Huawei debuts triple-folding Mate XT smartphone

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

Competition watchdog accuses Google of abusing ad dominance

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

O2 punters lose cool over Google Pixel 9 delays

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Netherlands fines Uber €290M for improper EU-US driver data transfers

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

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