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DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

Close-up of a black Xbox controller on a wooden surface.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. Pic: Purism website

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average

Individual working on programming project, retro PC. Pic credit: Pressmaster / Shutterstock

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs

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YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?

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Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3

Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

An $899 CPU? In this economy?

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England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one

90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life

Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown

Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration. pic: Sharomka/ Shutterstock

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think

Microsoft's Surface 6, normally a brisk peformer, can slow to a crawl for no apparent reason

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout

Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode

closeup of a wireless router and a man using smartphone on living room at home office

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh

Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows

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We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke

Hot DRAM! Who is going to drop nearly $400 on an underpowered Linux computer?

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China

Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean

Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers

AMD's newest flagship boasts 16 cores and 208MB of cache

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores

Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club?

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Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life

Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades

Precision repair toolset with multiple screw heads, pentalobe, phillips, flat, torx etc

Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra

Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown

Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

HP IQ with meetings, chats, and NearSense features

HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz

HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room.

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’

Cover image for Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus review

We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive

More cores, higher clocks, lower prices

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

The market is contracting

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months

Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China

Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 – even the Professional edition

Out of the Copilot and into the fire

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A render of an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 Series Processor

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh

Let them eat cores

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments

Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones

Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web

Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'

Cover image for MacBook Neo announcement

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection

nubia Neo 5 series launched at MWC Barcelona 2026 with the only built-in fan in its class

Professional-grade cooling, ultra-responsive triggers, and AI-powered features deliver champion-level gaming in a sleek, flat-design smartphone

Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut

No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple

As an AI-native phone pioneer, nubia reshapes the paradigm of human-device interaction at MWC Barcelona 2026

Innovating personal devices with AI that understands, acts, and connects

Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap

Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chains

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, Plus and base model

Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that

But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features

'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production

Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says

Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into production

Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers

Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case

Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad