Personal Tech
Apple presses pause on Pegatron: Major long-time supplier on naughty step over China labour violations
Don't worry, you'll still get your iPhone 12
09 Nov 15:11 | 2
Personal Tech
Review
Magic! If you have an entry-level iPad, the Combo Touch could make it your workhorse
If only cheaper-than-Apple Logitech kit could turn bog-standard slab into a Pro
09 Nov 10:28 | 11
Personal Tech
Plague, sanctions shrink Chinese smartphone sales but 5G keeps buyers in the hunt
Huawei appears to be rationing product, say analysts
09 Nov 02:55 | 1
Personal Tech
Apple wants privacy 'nutrition labels' on all new and updated apps in its software store from next month
How many grams of carbo-spy-drates are in your favorite applications?
06 Nov 21:27 | 20
Personal Tech
Straighten up the tie pin, dear! Razer slaps on a suit with its totally-not-gaming laptops
Meet the Razer Book 13
06 Nov 18:29 | 8
Personal Tech
Apple opens pre-orders of iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max models, the cheapest and most expensive in the lineup
Smaller handset £699 going up to £1,099 for top-tier flavour
06 Nov 14:02 | 17
On Call
Let's... drawer a veil over why this laser printer would decide to stop working randomly
Easiest call-out ever (after a pinch of sleuthing)
06 Nov 08:15 | 161
Review
We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox
Not sure if we should be honoured or offended, but the Series S is a huge step up from its predecessor
05 Nov 14:00 | 39
Review
Vivo pushes out X51 5G: Chipper whippersnapper, quite a battery-sapper, but at least the wrapper's dapper
Hip to be square and aimed at the Euro crowd
04 Nov 10:30 | 30
Personal Tech
What's for Christmas, Google? Oh, you're taking away free phone calls from our Nest speakers
Reach out to your loved ones - but in Great Britain you'll have to use your phone
03 Nov 18:30 | 16
Personal Tech
Third event in 3 months, Apple. There better be some Arm-powered Macs this time
Just One More Thing, eh?
03 Nov 15:45 | 21
Review
The Huawei Mate 40 Pro would be the best Android flagship on the market – were it not for the US-China trade war
App gap is painful so only true believers should buy it
02 Nov 10:15 | 73
Review
Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400
Blu Tack not included: The Reg pulls it apart, then puts it through its paces
02 Nov 09:30 | 123
Who, Me?
You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off
International adventure, crafty customs, and what not to pack in the hand luggage
02 Nov 07:06 | 150
Personal Tech
China’s found Huawei to spread its Digital Yuan
Flagship Mate 40 smartmobe adds a wallet for China’s electro-currency
02 Nov 03:58 | 1
Personal Tech
Right to repair? At least you still have the right to despair: Camera modules cannot be swapped on the iPhone 12
Not without Apple's proprietary System Configuration app anyway
30 Oct 19:15 | 42
Personal Tech
You might want to look Huawei now: Smartphone market returns to growth as Chinese giant's shipments plunge
Analyst figures add insult to injury for embattled comms biz
30 Oct 16:30 | 17
On Call
Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?
IT idiocy by government is as old as IT itself
30 Oct 08:15 | 437
Personal Tech
AMD claims high-end Big Navi Radeon GPUs leave Nvidia's ray-tracing cards in the dust
If you don't want to wait for new stock or splash out on the RTX 30 series, consider AMD's RX 6000s
29 Oct 11:45 | 25
Personal Tech
Samsung profits surge as the world starts buying smartphones again
Huawei stockpiling components helps too, but server memory sales go soft
29 Oct 07:44 | 1
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Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired
Orange is the new sacked
Software
Bad software crashed Boeings. Now it appears the company lacked a singular software supremo
Former SpaceX, Tesla, and Google site reliability leader steps into newly-created role
Security
Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu, and more
VMware warns of incoming security fix after attackers get root on host
Who, Me?
The day I took down the data centre- I mean, the day I saved the day. Right, boss?
How many hundred thousand customers?
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Hackers work 24 hours a day – when will you schedule your security training?
It’s SANS training time in Tokyo, Singapore, and India
Review
Magic! If you have an entry-level iPad, the Combo Touch could make it your workhorse
If only cheaper-than-Apple Logitech kit could turn bog-standard slab into a Pro
Emergent Tech
Uber is now a food delivery company with a substantial sideline in taxis
Delivery is even profitable in some places, whole company be kind-of in the black by 2021
Policy
India slashes red tape to make life much easier for outsourcers and outsourcing
Makes work-from-home legal and lowers barriers to entry for smaller players and multinationals' use of Indian workers
Cloud
You can forget your fancy ERP customisations because that's not how it works in the cloud, SAP's Oliver Betz tells users
But that's where German software giant wants its on-prem customers to go
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Windows 10 quite literally projects its deepest, darkest fears on to New Zealand
It may have escaped the worse of coronavirus, but no one is immune to bork
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Personal Tech
Another eBay exec pleads guilty after couple stalked, harassed for daring to criticize the internet tat bazaar
Former cop admits conspiracy to tamper with witnesses, too
28 Oct 22:28 | 41
Comment
Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim
With few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment
28 Oct 21:37 | 31
Personal Tech
Brave browser first to nix CNAME deception, the sneaky DNS trick used by marketers to duck privacy controls
Next release will block third-party trackers posing as first-party resources
28 Oct 19:40 | 29
Personal Tech
Planet Computers throws Linux fans a bone, improves calls, and adds virty trackpad to Cosmo Communicator
Update tips more functionality on gizmo's second display
28 Oct 10:04 | 12
Personal Tech
Touchscreen holdout? This F(x)tec Pro1 X phone with sliding QWERTY keyboard might push your buttons
Choice of LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch as well as Android
27 Oct 17:38 | 41
Personal Tech
What will you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 this week? RISC it for a biscuit perhaps?
Open-source RISC OS 5.28 brings support for latest ickle 'puter as well as hundreds of fixes
27 Oct 09:02 | 26
Personal Tech
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything
27 Oct 06:28 | 92
Personal Tech
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection
27 Oct 01:22 | 40
Personal Tech
Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery
Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface
26 Oct 12:29 | 33
Personal Tech
OnePlus 8T review: Solid performance and a great screen make this 5G sub-flagship a delight
Do you really need so much RAM, though?
23 Oct 10:28 | 44
On Call
The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget
The 'S' in SX, stands for 'Sporty', ok?
23 Oct 07:15 | 75
Personal Tech
Love Minecraft: Java? You'll have to learn to love your Microsoft account as well – it will be required next year
Mojang bows to the inevita... oh, look – a free cape!
22 Oct 19:28 | 74
Personal Tech
Out to launch: Huawei rolls out speedy charging Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro flagships
Mate 40 family could be the company’s ‘last hurrah’ in smartphones outside China - analyst
22 Oct 16:23 | 10
Personal Tech
Congrats, Meg Whitman, another multi-billion-dollar write-off for the CV: Her web vid upstart Quibi implodes
$2bn Alt-Netflix for those with short attention spans closes after short lifespan
22 Oct 00:22 | 101
Personal Tech
Vivo Las Blowers: Chinese smartphone brand hops into Europe's crowded mobe market
Well, there's a Huawei-shaped opening thanks to Mr Trump and co
21 Oct 09:15 | 8
Personal Tech
Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks
In case you've forgotten: Google sends Mozilla about $400m a year
21 Oct 08:02 | 35
Personal Tech
Is Google fudging search rankings to benefit pages that embed YouTube vids? Or is this just another ‘bug’?
Websites featuring get super-fast rating despite slower reality
21 Oct 06:56 | 30
Analysis
What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo
Some state AGs feel US govt lawsuit is limited, tech groups worry about implications
20 Oct 22:45 | 48
Analysis
Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn
Search engine giant has officially become 1990s Microsoft
20 Oct 18:31 | 105
