The Register1d ago
Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/smartphone-market-to-shrink-15-percent-this-year-due-to-memory-crisis/5257652 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis

Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead

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The Register1d ago
Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499 https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/surface-tension-rises-as-microsofts-latest-kit-starts-at-a-pricey-1499/5257598 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499

Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so

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The Register1d ago
Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/brit-competition-cops-order-google-to-make-search-rankings-less-mysterious/5257506 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious

New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing

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The Register1d ago
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/windows-update-leaves-third-party-office-document-launches-in-limbo/5257425 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter

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The Register1d ago
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/system76-boss-reckons-he-can-liberate-the-entire-pc-stack-just-give-him-another-15-years/5255258 #theRegister #PersonalTech
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years

Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything

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The Register2d ago
Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback' https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/16/commodore-gets-into-the-phone-biz-with-sailfish-powered-retro-callback/5256186 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'

Ships sans email, web, or socials, but with plenty of beige plastic

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The Register3d ago
Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/15/britain-plots-digital-bedtime-after-kicking-under-16s-off-social-media/5255341 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

UK plans to go further than Australia, while also targeting stranger contact, livestreaming, and addictive platform features

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The Register4d ago
Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/14/scientists-pour-cold-water-on-claims-phones-are-rewiring-kids-brains/5254792 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited

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The Register6d ago
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/12/this-is-your-bios-speaking-please-fix-me-your-pc-is-broken/5245619 #theRegister #PersonalTech
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy

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The RegisterJun 11
Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/11/trump-phone-has-htc-guts-tremendous-guts-the-best-guts/5254276 #theRegister #PersonalTech
Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

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