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Ganja believe it? The customer couldn't when their box went up in smoke

On Call  The Register understands that by Friday afternoon readers may reasonably contemplate a drink or two. So to give you something to talk about should you visit a pub in search of such libations we therefore present a fresh instalment of On Call, the column in which you share your stories of tech support jobs that left you a little worse for wear.…

iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision

Apple confirmed on Thursday it will not support Home Screen web apps – commonly referred to as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) – on iOS devices in European Union member states under its forthcoming iOS 17.4 release.…

What's the wurst that could happen?

Microsoft has promised to splash €3.2 billion (£2.7 billion, $3.4 billion) on AI infrastructure and datacenters in Germany over the next two years.…

Calls for collaborators willing to play buzzword bingo on project – 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, blockhain, Web3, and plenty more besides

India's government has created a project it hopes will result in creation of a city-scale digital twin to help the nation improve future urban planning.…

$10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029

India's drive to become a semiconductor superpower is likely to result in the creation of just five chip fabs by the year 2029, and the most sophisticated output from those facilities will be chips built on a 28nm process, according to US think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).…

Will cough up less than two days of annual profit in settlement – and California calls this a win

Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay almost $5 million to settle allegations it illegally dumped protected health information – and hazardous waste – at its facilities across California.…

Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks

Elon Musk's X has been accused of flouting US sanctions by providing verified accounts to individuals and entities affiliated with Hezbollah, Iran, Russia, Houthi rebels, and other personae non gratae.…

Headaches, eyestrain, lack of killer apps cited as some seek refunds

The 14-day return-for-full-refund-no-questions-asked deadline for early adopters of Apple’s Vision Pro “spatial computing” headgear is approaching, and some buyers are openly sharing their decision to return the $3,499 device.…

OpenAI meanwhile teases experimental text-to-vid system Sora

Google on Thursday introduced Gemini 1.5, a multi-modal model family for text, image, and audio interaction said to best rival models in benchmarks.…

Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

Air Canada must pay a passenger hundreds of dollars in damages after its online chatbot gave the guy wrong information before he booked a flight.…

Beijing, now Moscow.… Who else is hiding in broadband gateways?

The US government today said it disrupted a botnet that Russia's GRU military intelligence unit used for phishing expeditions, spying, credential harvesting, and data theft against American and foreign governments and other strategic targets.…

Dungeons and Dragons, high-waisted jeans, Cold War sabre rattling – the '80s are back, baby

Updated  Last night's launch of six Pentagon missile-detection satellites was well timed as fears mount that Russia is considering putting nuclear weapons into space.…

Rolling back will cause data loss, Windows Insiders told

Microsoft released a fresh Windows 11 build to the Canary and Dev Channels of the Windows Insider Program with a warning for developers - back up or risk losing data because a known issue with rolling back and Dev Drive is still there.…

SpaceX doing some spring cleaning to deal with aging models before they fail

SpaceX is set to deorbit about 100 of its older Starlink broadband satellites after identifying an issue that could cause them to malfunction and become unresponsive to ground control.…

'They want a closed shop,' claims service provider

Broadcom and Google have announced a license portability scheme for biz customers to run VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Broadcom is also trying to reassure VMware partners and users that all the changes are for the best, as rivals circle to scoop up any defectors.…

Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes

NASA is taking another crack at a commercial mission to the Moon with the launch of the Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission this morning.…

Hello, Mr. Frying Pan, meet Mr. Fire

Google has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Microsoft's plans to render millions of Windows 10 PCs obsolete in 2025 by urging users to pop on a copy of ChromeOS Flex instead.…

All desktop and mobile apps vulnerable to at least one of the vulnerabilities

Video conferencing giant Zoom today opened up about a fresh batch of security vulnerabilities affecting its products, including a critical privilege escalation flaw.…

After March, devs won’t be able to create new application resources, in 2027 the system will be shut down

Exclusive  Out of the blue Microsoft has decided to retire a key plank of its Azure IoT platform, leaving developers currently building systems high and dry.…

Deepfake-enabled attacks against Android and iPhone users are netting criminals serious cash

Cybercriminals are targeting iOS users with malware that steals face scans from the users of Apple devices to break into and pilfer money from bank accounts – thought to be a world first.…