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Don't despair. iFixit says you can still repair that iPhone Air
iFixit has given Apple's slimline new smartphone, the iPhone Air, a thumbs-up for repairability, praising its easy access to key components, despite being the thinnest handset Cupertino has built so far.…
EU’s cyber agency blames ransomware as Euro airport check-in chaos continues
The EU's cybersecurity agency today confirmed that ransonmware is the cause of continued disruption blighting major airports across Europe.…
Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering
Microsoft has added another entry to its growing list of problematic updates in the Windows Hall of Shame, this time causing Digital TV and Blu-ray applications to stutter and freeze when playing protected content.…
Car giant Stellantis says customer data nicked after partner vendor pwned
Car giant Stellantis is admitting that attackers targeted one of its third-party partners, spilling its own customers' details in the process.…
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
British boffins say they've discovered a way of taking one of the country's favorite pastimes – having a nice cup of tea – into outer space.…
Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push
Opinion The IT industry is not only full of sharks, it has shark nature itself. It must keep moving forward to survive. Not all sharks are obligate ram ventilators, and not all IT changes all the time, but without innovation the sector would curdle and die.…
'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'
The risk rating of the UK's crime intelligence database is being elevated to "Red" by the governments projects' watchdog as the DB struggles to migrate from a legacy Oracle platform.…
FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security
Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech - yet trying to do so in a way that the data of its 28 million customers is kept away from untested AI models developers might be tempted to deploy.…
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
Who, Me? The world of work can sometimes drive IT pros to drink, leaving them more likely to make the sort of mistakes that The Register celebrates each week in Who, Me? It’s our reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making a mess at work, and cleaning up afterwards to the best of your ability.…
Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs
Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…
Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic
Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.…
Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing
Asia In Brief Huawei last week revealed that China’s Zhejiang University used its Ascend 1000 accelerators to create a version of DeepSeek’s R1 model that improves on the original by producing fewer responses that China’s government would rather avoid.…