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• Amazon bars Apple and Google TV devices

  02-10-2015 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon bars the sale of Apple and Google video-streaming devices
  
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• UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on

  02-09-2026 11:03 via theregister.com
  
  Legacy government systems would have posed a significant barrier to the UK's abandoned national digital ID scheme, according to the country's spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a review of the digital identity landscape and the lessons that should inform any future attempt to introduce a government-wide system. Drawing on its previous work on digital transformation, data, and identity, as well as evidence from international audit bodies, the NAO emphasized that digi
  
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• Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss

  02-09-2026 08:11 via theregister.com
  
  Arm servers won’t have significant market share in the enterprise for at least three to five years, according to Ram Velaga, the recently installed leader of Broadcom’s software business. That’s unwelcome news for hardware vendors contemplating Arm servers, because buyers will be less interested in the devices if they can’t manage them with the tools they already use. VMware remains the most commonly deployed enterprise server virtualization supplier, so its users won&rsq
  
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• Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025

  02-09-2026 03:34 via theregister.com
  
  Tape is still not dead, but it’s not in rude health either after shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025. That number comes from the LTO Program – the alliance of HPE, IBM, and Quantum Corp, that together tends the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format that accounts for around 85 percent of all tape sales. The Program delivers an annual data dump describing the previous year’s shipments, and this year’s effort landed on Tuesday with news that 160.3 exabytes worth of LTO tape wen
  
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• Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes

  02-09-2026 01:54 via theregister.com
  
  International law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a 23-year-old peer-to-peer botnet used to deliver malware to more than 15,000 machines worldwide. The botnet has operated since 2003 and distributed all types of malicious code to victims, spanning credential theft, spam distribution, proxy services, network exploitation, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. For the past eight years, Sality’s primary payload has
  
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• Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked

  02-09-2026 01:37 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic will provide zero data retention to enterprise customers who have been promised the perk, subject to approval, when using the company's Fable model. With the arrival of new versions of its high-end models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the Claudefather has announced a service called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) that combines the privacy of not storing customer data with model abuse detection. Under the new deal, enterprises do not receive zero data retention (ZDR) agreements automa
  
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• Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans

  01-09-2026 23:07 via theregister.com
  
  Security researchers reported that someone is exploiting CVE-2026-82329, a critical JFrog Artifactory authentication-bypass bug, just days after the vendor patched the 9.8-rated flaw. And we don't know if that someone is human. Artifactory is a widely used tool for managing software artifacts, packages, binaries, and AI models. It’s also popular with AI agents that go rogue and need to communicate with each other while remaining undetected by their human babysitters. In July, OpenAI and JF
  
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• Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks

  01-09-2026 22:45 via theregister.com
  
  AI model testing organization METR has disclosed two attacks that happened earlier this year, including one in which an attacker stole an API key and spent three weeks consuming public-model credits worth about $600,000. METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research) found no evidence that the attackers accessed sensitive information in either incident, and the org said it investigated both with security experts. METR researchers worked with OpenAI to investigate how its agents hacked Hug
  
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• Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads

  01-09-2026 22:17 via theregister.com
  
  After several weeks of anticipation, Mozilla has started rolling out ad blocking to the iOS version of its popular browser, but you can still expect to see ads on Mozilla's own pages, including the new tab page. The org officially rolled out the new native ad blocking feature for iOS Firefox on Tuesday, moving it out of the experimental phase, while explaining that it had to rethink its desire to give users control over their web experience on iOS due to differences in architecture between it an
  
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• Terrifying moment killer whale pod launches eight-minute attack on sailboat

  01-09-2026 22:06 via dailymail.com
  
  A sailing crew captured the terrifying moment a pod of three or four killer whales attacked their boat, tearing away half its rudder and forcing the crew to check for leaks.
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard makes US landfall with millions in its path

  01-09-2026 21:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall on US coast with millions in its path

  01-09-2026 21:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in

  01-09-2026 21:27 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic says it's taking steps to limit the misbehavior of its AI models after a review found Claude models going beyond the scope of fictional cybersecurity tests and gaining unauthorized access to real computer systems. The biz wants its partners to step up their security too, seeing as the incidents occurred in third-party environments that were insufficiently protected. The company's self-improvement confession represents a suddenly thriving form of corporate communication – the non-
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard slams US coast as 8ft surge and tornadoes threaten millions

  01-09-2026 20:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• How a small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again

  01-09-2026 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials in British Columbia say the floating island drifted towards the shoreline of a local lake. But its origins remain a mystery.
  
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• Met Office: Summer 2026 was UK's hottest ever

  01-09-2026 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK had a spring and summer of persistent heat with five widespread heatwaves and 40 days of temperatures above 30C (86F), smashing the previous record of 34 days.
  
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• 'Demonic' sea lions on West Coast spark alarm over insidious disease spreading to humans

  01-09-2026 19:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Dozens of sea lions have started washing up on US beaches, poisoned with an insidious neurotoxin that could kill people as well.
  
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• ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs

  01-09-2026 18:43 via theregister.com
  
  If you're pining away for the days when Windows ran well on 64 MB of RAM, there's a new version of open source NT clone ReactOS promising easier installation and fewer bugs. ReactOS 0.4.16 was announced over the weekend after a year and a half of development, and its list of improvements is substantial. For those unfamiliar with the ReactOS project, it’s a long-running effort (it spun up in 1996) to create an open source equivalent of Windows NT, with the aim of running Windows application
  
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• Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

  01-09-2026 18:06 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle is betting that AI coding will deliver "Star Wars" levels of software engineering productivity, CEO Mike Sicilia told investors last week. With its shares sharply down over the past year, Big Red claims its engineers' productivity will skyrocket as the company mainlines the AI wonder drug it prescribes to customers. Speaking at Deutsche Bank's 2026 Technology Conference, Sicilia insisted that AI would be a net positive for the software industry, despite fears of a so-called SaaSpocalypse
  
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• Has dark matter finally been found? Scientists may have spotted the first signs of elusive particles thought to make up 85% of the universe

  01-09-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists may have caught their first glimpse of dark matter - the mysterious substance thought to hold the universe together.
  
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• An electric summer! Maps reveal where 893,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Europe - with the Highlands named the lightning capital of the UK

  01-09-2026 17:19 via dailymail.com
  
  Incredible maps reveal exactly where all 893,000 lightning strikes were recorded - with the Highlands named the lightning capital of the UK.
  
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• Why 50 is the age Brits feel in control of life, revealed

  01-09-2026 17:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Do you feel in control of your life? If so, you're probably at least 50 years old. A new survey has revealed that 50 is the age when most Brits think they have their life sorted out.
  
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• Trump Blasts “Luddites” For Opposing Data Centers

  01-09-2026 17:03 via technocracy.news
  
  On Monday, the President of the United States told the people of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, and every other state now fighting hyperscale data centers exactly what he thinks of them. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backward and poor,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.” And then the w
  
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• Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

  01-09-2026 16:16 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has unveiled a service for privately linking Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), overcoming multicloud barriers the providers previously claimed barely existed. The Redmond biz says it is working with AWS on a solution that combines Azure Multicloud Interconnect with AWS Interconnect – multicloud, allowing customers to establish private, high-speed links between infrastructure running on the two platforms. But Azure Multicloud Interconnect is currently in preview, and feature av
  
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• One still missing after Grand Canyon floods kill two and prompt rescue efforts

  01-09-2026 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost everyone is now accounted for after dozens of hikers were airlifted to safety, an official says.
  
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• ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango

  01-09-2026 15:32 via theregister.com
  
  The European Space Agency's Cluster quartet is preparing for its final bow after Samba reentered Earth's atmosphere, with Tango due to follow tonight. Samba lost contact at 21:26 UTC on August 31 and reentered at 21:39:38 UTC. Tango is expected to follow at 21:30:31 UTC tonight. The other two satellites, Rumba and Salsa, reentered in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The final reentries close the book on a prodigiously long-lived quartet that exceeded even optimistic expectations, thanks in no small
  
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• The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft

  01-09-2026 14:45 via theregister.com
  
  US hospital operator Nutex Health says attackers stole private or confidential patient, employee, provider, business, and financial information during the cyberattack it disclosed last week. In an updated filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, Nutex also said an unauthorized third party had threatened to publish the stolen information. Nutex initially disclosed the intrusion on August 24 under Item 8.01 of Form 8-K, the catch-all category for "Other Events."
  
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• Tamagotchi is back! Bandai shrinks its classic digital pet into a wearable ring - 30 years after the original device hit shelves

  01-09-2026 14:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Bandai, the company behind the toy, has released a miniature version of the Tamagotchi, priced at ¥7700 (£35.54).
  
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• Hurricane watch issued along US Coast TODAY as storm Edouard takes aim at millions: 'This is a life-threatening situation'

  01-09-2026 14:38 via dailymail.com
  
  A hurricane watch has been issued for parts of the US Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Edouard rapidly strengthens ahead of landfall on Tuesday.
  
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• The sex scandal hidden in the Bayeux Tapestry: Scene depicting a naked man and a mysterious woman might have been a subtle nod to an affair, expert claims

  01-09-2026 14:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Amid the Bayeux Tapestry's bloodshed, battles and political intrigue lies a royal sex scandal, according to an expert.
  
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