Huawei has launched a new processor it claims is free of US technology and is using it to drive a new three-screen folding phone. The Chinese giant dubbed the new processor the Kirin 950 Pro and says its LinxiCore processor cores, GPU, and neural pr...
The Xiaomi 18 Fold and its Xring O3 chip. China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics p...
Matt Clifford is stepping down as chair of the UK's taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), just days after saying he intended to keep the job while working for AI giant Anthropic. Clifford, one of the architects of the UK gov...
Tesla's Cybercab's wheels have only just hit the asphalt for its commercial launch and the autonomous vehicle has already attracted the attention of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The body announced an investigation i...
The relentless rise in memory prices may finally be losing steam, as PC and smartphone buyers reach the limits of what their budgets will allow them to pay. Taiwanese market watcher Trend Force estimates that rising DRAM contract prices drove a 59.5...
Nightwing CEO Bob Coleman wanted to thank his employees for their hard work over the Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, he also thanked The Register. The cybersecurity and intelligence contractor, which prides itself on “secure communications,” appea...
When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range los...
The European Commission (EC) may be laying the groundwork for an investigation into Oracle's software licensing practices, according to reports. The scrutiny follows the EC's investigation into fellow enterprise software vendor SAP, which ended with...
Hackers have drained roughly $320 million in Bitcoin from the federation wallet backing the Liquid Network, while claiming to be the good guys. Liquid, a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream and used by exchanges and other financial institutio...
The Asahi Linux gang has announced support for Apple's M3 silicon, with a few ifs and buts for owners that want to try out the code on their hardware. According to the project, "Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!" There...
The Nitter project will continue "following legal advice," meaning XCancel, a public service built on its open source code, is back online. As of September 7, nitter.net displayed the announcement: "Following legal advice, the Nitter project will co...
One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information, Right to Repair Europe reports. The campaign group says that mobile devices available in the trading...
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a classic Freedom of Information (FoI) blunder. The W...
A UK watchdog is warning that cyber criminals making moves against online systems in the food supply chain could cause serious upset, following damaging attacks on the Co-op and Marks & Spencer last year. The National Audit Office (NAO) named cyber-...
The XM4C (in white) have the exact same visual design as the XM4 (in black) from 2020. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge Six years ago Sony and Bose were in the middle of a noise-canceling battle, with each new model of headphones better than...
Kumander Linux has been around for a few years now and version 3.0 is nearly ready, with some strong nostalgic appeal. We recently came across Kumander Linux and thought it was an interesting distro – although not technologically "interesting," whic...
Peers have questioned why the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill does not allow regulators to penalize senior executives when an organization's failure to comply involves their consent, connivance, or deliberate or careless neglect. Echoing arg...
The River 260 Gen4 (on the table) powering a portable fridge, Starlink Mini, and charging a phone. | Image: EcoFlow If you're in the market for a tiny power station that punches well above its size and weight then have a look at EcoFlow's new...
OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Huggi...
Two runways are currently closed at Miami International Airport after an Amazon-branded cargo plane overran a runway, resulting in five fatalities. The leased 767, which bears the “Prime Air” brand Amazon uses for its air freight and drone operation...