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• Apple planning to launch an iPad Pro with wireless charging in 2022 and updated iPad mini this year 

  04-06-2021 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is reportedly working on an iPad Pro with wireless charging capabilities to be released in 2022 and a redesigned iPad mini for 2021, according to a media report.
  
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• Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns

  08-09-2026 14:00 via theregister.com
  
  Data theft and extortion crews are stealing companies’ proprietary AI data and threatening to leak it if the victim organizations don’t pay a ransom, according to Google’s threat hunters. In one case that Google’s Mandiant incident response team investigated, the crooks broke into a healthcare company and exfiltrated corporate data and drug research, including AI research and a proprietary AI model. The criminals then threatened to publish the data unless the company met
  
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• Revealed: The UK cities most vulnerable to extreme heat - with Portsmouth at the top of the list

  08-09-2026 13:18 via dailymail.com
  
  As the UK reaches the end of the hottest summer on record, new research from the Ordnance Survey (OS) has revealed which cities are most vulnerable to extreme heat.
  
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• UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award

  08-09-2026 13:17 via theregister.com
  
  Britain's publicly owned energy system operator has awarded Palantir a £21.2 million contract without competition, extending a relationship that began under private ownership three years earlier. The National Energy System Operator (NESO) handed the US spy-tech firm the £17.7 million contract – £21.2 million including VAT – to continue licensing and supporting two "critical business processes," Connections and Skip Rates, running on its Foundry platform. NESO said i
  
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• Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action

  08-09-2026 12:27 via theregister.com
  
  Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a UK class action alleging that it shared users' personal data, including information about their HIV status, with third parties. Grindr is a location-based dating and social networking app primarily aimed at gay and bisexual men, transgender people, and the wider queer community. According to Grindr's Form 8-K filing, the company will make two £13 million installments, due by December 31, 2026, and March 31, 2027. The se
  
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• Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall

  08-09-2026 11:46 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government has considered the evidence and concluded that it spends far too much time considering the evidence. In a letter sent to all ministers on Monday, Chancellor John Healey, First Secretary of State Louise Haigh, and Attorney General Ellie Reeves said "consultation culture" had become an "industry of dither and delay" and told departments that the default should be to make a decision and get on with it. The ministers argued that formal consultations too often fail to reach those wi
  
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• Melting Arctic glaciers are creating a climate 'doom loop' by flushing methane from rocks beneath the ice, study warns

  08-09-2026 11:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Melting Arctic glaciers are creating a 'doom loop' by flushing ancient methane out from the rocks beneath the ice, a study has found.
  
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• Why you should always close the lid before you flush the toilet: Disgusting study reveals how particles linger in your 'breathing zone' for at least 20 seconds

  08-09-2026 11:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from Flinders University have warned that flushing toilets can release particles into the surrounding air, at heights corresponding to adults' 'breathing zones'.
  
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• Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad

  08-09-2026 11:00 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government has corralled £7.8 billion of cross-departmental spending into a new space strategy intended to boost growth and national security through to 2030. The package covers orbital collision warnings, low Earth orbit communications, military intelligence, launch capabilities, and space science. The strategy brings together activity across government, including the newly created Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Dep
  
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• Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

  08-09-2026 10:35 via theregister.com
  
  Arm's latest smartphone platform is optimized for running AI agents on mobile devices and introduces neural graphics that it claims can deliver desktop-class gaming within a smartphone's power constraints. Announced at the Arm Everywhere China event in Shanghai today, Compute Subsystem (CSS) for Mobile 2 succeeds last year's Lumex CSS and reflects Arm's embrace of AI as a strategy for future growth. Arm sees itself as central to this shift, arguing that AI workloads currently run largely in the
  
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• HPE makes its “unified storage” claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA

  08-09-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  Storage vendors have been calling things “unified” for years. Sometimes that means one architecture. Sometimes it means several products sharing a management screen and a marketing budget. The term has accumulated enough baggage that a little skepticism is warranted. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Release 6, announced in May, is now generally available. It brings block and file onto the same disaggregated scale-out architecture and OS code base, with independent scaling of performance
  
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• ‘Global reckoning’ is coming for big tech, says Australian minister

  08-09-2026 07:51 via theregister.com
  
  Australia’s government will introduce legislation that tries to regulate digital services and impose a “digital duty of care.” “For too long, tech companies have been running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians,” Minister for Communications Anika Wells said today. “In the same way that we have safety standards for cars, for food, and for appliances, Australia is getting basic safety standards for the online tools and online services,” s
  
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• Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip

  08-09-2026 04:22 via theregister.com
  
  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 processing unit all feature its own designs. The SoC into which Huawei added them uses the "Tau Scaling” architecture that Huawei says arranges components closer to each other to reduce die size and improve performance without needing the kind of
  
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• Mystery beast launches string of attacks in New Hampshire as officials scramble to identify the animal at large

  07-09-2026 22:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Authorities are on the hunt for a mystery animal that has attacked at least three people in the span of just two days. One of the attacks was captured on camera.
  
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• Mysterious seven-mile 'sunken city' spotted near the Bermuda Triangle

  07-09-2026 22:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Seafloor data shows patterns resembling the sprawling ruins of a 'sunken city' beneath waters near the Bermuda Triangle.
  
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• Blind 'psychic' Baba Vanga's prophecy warns humanity is on the brink of a terrifying change

  07-09-2026 19:39 via dailymail.com
  
  A blind psychic credited by followers with foreseeing 9/11 and the Covid pandemic has a chilling prophecy about a change in humanity.
  
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• The Bayeux Tapestry's biggest remaining mysteries: The five key unanswered questions about the medieval artwork - including exactly how many penises it depicts

  07-09-2026 18:41 via dailymail.com
  
  For the first time in almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on British soil for a special exhibition at the British Museum.
  
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• Wine expert reveals the mistakes damaging your bottles - and which ones REALLY belong in the fridge

  07-09-2026 18:27 via dailymail.com
  
  A UK court ordered master tailor and wine connoisseur Tom Reimer to pay £110,000 after it found he had ruined his own £1.5million collection by turning off his fridges at his £8mllion flat in London.
  
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• Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

  07-09-2026 18:02 via theregister.com
  
  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 government's AI strategy, said in a LinkedIn post on Monday that he would leave ARIA, less than a week after his appointment as Anthropic's managing director of international affairs prompted warnings of a "clear conflict of interest." "Having completed
  
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• US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification

  07-09-2026 17:53 via theregister.com
  
  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 into Tesla's self-certification of the vehicle at the weekend. Central to the probe is the fact that the Cybercab famously lacks conventional controls. The NHTSA says there are "clear vehicle performance requirements" – stuff like brake controls
  
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• DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3

  07-09-2026 17:20 via theregister.com
  
  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 percent quarter-on-quarter jump in industry revenue to $154.73 billion in calendar Q2. The analyst now expects conventional DRAM contract price growth to "moderate" to 13 to 18 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q3. That reflects a shift in demand away fr
  
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• 'Godfather of AI' warns superintelligent systems could 'lead to human extinction' - as he calls for the government to ban their development

  07-09-2026 17:19 via dailymail.com
  
  The man dubbed the 'godfather of AI' has issued a warning over powerful AI systems.
  
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• Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register

  07-09-2026 16:43 via theregister.com
  
  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,” appears to have accidentally sent a for-employees'-eyes-only message from its chief executive to its media distribution list, giving journalists a brief and unsolicited glimpse into life at "Team Nightwing." The email, seen by The Register beca
  
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• Panic buying empties shelves as Category 3 hurricane closes in on Hawaii TODAY

  07-09-2026 16:42 via dailymail.com
  
  A monster hurricane threatening nearly one million Americans has sparked panic buying, emptying shelves and sending drivers scrambling for gas.
  
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• Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal

  07-09-2026 15:56 via theregister.com
  
  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 the Commission accepting legally binding commitments from the German company to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees, among other concessions. MLex is now reporting that the EC – the EU's executive arm – has started
  
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• Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys

  07-09-2026 15:26 via theregister.com
  
  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 institutions, said in a post on X on Sunday that around 4,000 BTC had been withdrawn from its federation wallet by what it cautiously described as "purported white-hat hackers." The wallet held about 4,200 BTC before the incident, meaning whoever was behind the
  
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• Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts

  07-09-2026 15:01 via theregister.com
  
  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 are, however, some substantial caveats. Want performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration from the GPU? You'll need to wait a bit. How about the HDMI port? "The lack of DCP support means that the HDMI port on equipped MacBooks is currently disabled."
  
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• Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice

  07-09-2026 14:30 via theregister.com
  
  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 continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly." XCancel, a public instance built on Nitter, was operational again. Nitter is a free, open source front end for reading posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter before it
  
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• Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

  07-09-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  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 bloc must include a mandatory self-reported repairability score, and the device maker has an obligation to publish information to help users repair their kit. These requirements came into force from June 2025. Yet a review of the European Product Reg
  
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• The Super El Niño survival kit: Scientist reveals the food items Brits should stockpile as the extreme weather event ramps up

  07-09-2026 13:19 via dailymail.com
  
  According to Professor Elizabeth Robinson, an environmental economist at the London School of Economics, households should keep two weeks' worth of foods and water stored at home.
  
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