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• Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution

  10-09-2026 16:47 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has entered the final phase of retiring Azure SQL Data Sync, blocking new deployments in subscriptions that have never used the service. The restriction took effect on September 9, ahead of the service's shutdown on September 30, 2027. Subscriptions that already use the service can continue creating, modifying, and managing sync groups and member databases until retirement. Other subscriptions can no longer adopt it. The service uses a hub-and-spoke model, with an Azure SQL database se
  
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• Board Of Peace Directors Kushner And Witkoff Meet With Putin

  10-09-2026 18:29 via technocracy.news
  
  Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, showed up with Jared Kushner in Moscow to meet with Russian President Putin about peace with Ukraine. Both are directors of the Board of Peace that Trump created earlier this year, making himself the Chairman for Life. First Gaza, then Iran, and now Russia? Kushner has no official role with our government. The journalists covering this story say nothing about the huge conflict of interest. Americans should be crying “Fowl!&rdqu
  
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• Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment

  10-09-2026 16:08 via theregister.com
  
  Nscale accounts for nearly two-thirds of the equity funding raised by UK datacenter infrastructure companies, according to a report from Tracxn. The market research firm identifies the rent-a-GPU operation as the only unicorn – a privately held company valued at more than $1 billion – in Britain's datacenter infrastructure sector. Nscale leads the pack with $3.7 billion raised, according to Tracxn, out of $5.7 billion across the sector. Other notable players identified by Tracxn incl
  
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• What do you hear? Baffling audio illusion leaves social media divided - as some hear 'no way, no way', while others hear 'well, well, well'

  10-09-2026 16:02 via dailymail.com
  
  In a viral clip, posted by the New Zealand-based podcast The Morning Shift, you can hear a strange repetitive sound being played. However, no one has been able to agree on what the message says.
  
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• Social media is sucking the life out of our holidays - here's how to travel without Instagram and TikTok ruining your next trip

  10-09-2026 15:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Social media has plenty of uses, but it can spoil the adventurous nature of a trip if used too much beforehand. Why not try one of these analogue tools on your next trip instead?
  
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• Revealed: The unhealthiest supermarket bacon products - with just two rashers of the saltiest option containing more than 40% of your daily salt limit

  10-09-2026 15:54 via dailymail.com
  
  The team at Which? have analysed 28 pork bacon products to find out the most and least healthy options.
  
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• ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson

  10-09-2026 15:13 via theregister.com
  
  McKesson's cyberattack last month affected roughly 6.4 million individuals, according to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The breach notification service added data leaked by serial extortionists ShinyHunters, revealing the scale of the attack for the first time. ShinyHunters initially claimed to have stolen 284 million documents from the medical and pharmaceutical supply company in August, although HIBP did not confirm that figure. The cybercriminals told The Register that they issued a $55.2 million
  
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• d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs

  10-09-2026 15:00 via theregister.com
  
  AI infrastructure startup d-Matrix on Thursday joined the growing list of chipmakers licensing Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect tech and rack-scale reference designs to make its high-performance inference platform more accessible to customers. Under the deal, d-Matrix will integrate support for NVLink Fusion, a high-speed chip-to-chip interconnect that Nvidia began licensing last year, into future chip designs, including its upcoming Raptor accelerators. As we’ve previously report
  
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• Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled

  10-09-2026 14:28 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government opposed a proposal to make air traffic control provider NATS reimburse airlines for passenger compensation arising from its failures, weeks before a massive tech glitch led to 2,000 flight cancellations. During a House of Commons debate, Liberal Democrat MP Luke Taylor pointed out that the government had opposed the amendment in the months before this week's computer outage, which disrupted travel for around 330,000 passengers. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) told affecte
  
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• Tyranno-SLOW-rus rex! King of the dinosaurs enjoyed a leisurely stroll at just 3.5mph, track analysis reveals

  10-09-2026 13:53 via dailymail.com
  
  In the movies, T.Rex is often shown tearing through the forest at great speed, obliterating any prey in its path. But a new study paints a very different picture of the king of the dinosaurs.
  
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• Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree

  10-09-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  Crypto hardware wallet maker Trezor Trezor says the third-party email service provider it uses to send newsletters has been breached, and customers are now being sent phishing messages. There is good and bad news. The good news is that the emails appear easy to spot. They are not bespoke to each recipient and resemble a spray-and-pray campaign rather than sophisticated targeting that uses customer-specific data to enhance the email's perceived authenticity. All known examples of the scam email a
  
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• AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

  10-09-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning a Cloudflare Error 1016 message when users attempted to chat with the bot. The outage lasted from 2225 UTC on September 9 until 0005 UTC on September 10. At around the same time, the Microsoft 365 Copilot team ran a resilience test that
  
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• German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

  10-09-2026 11:45 via theregister.com
  
  Zeiss Group has ditched plans for a greenfield ERP migration to latest S/4HANA platform from SAP following years of struggle trying to move off an ageing R/3 system. The industrial optics company with revenue of around €11.896 billion said it was seeking to “realign” its ERP migration plans by moving its existing landscape to the new platform, a so-called "brownfield” migration. SAP has long recommended that customers move to S/4HANA — a completely re-engineered vers
  
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• 'Let us know when you're done reheating our leftovers': Samsung pokes fun at Apple for launching its first foldable iPhone…seven years after its South Korean rival

  10-09-2026 11:18 via dailymail.com
  
  On social media, Samsung has been quick to poke fun at Apple for bringing out its first foldable - a full seven years after the Korean rival.
  
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• Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers

  10-09-2026 11:05 via theregister.com
  
  After years of governments and tech vendors banging the digital sovereignty drum, most large organizations have concluded that true technological independence is beyond their reach. That's according to new research from Capgemini, which found that 59 percent of organizations regard complete digital sovereignty as unrealistic. Instead, two-thirds define it in terms of what the consultancy calls "resilient interdependence" – accepting continued reliance on outside technology providers while
  
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• Want the new iPhone Duo in the UK? Fly to the US to buy it! Apple's first foldable costs £800 more in Britain - enough to pay for a flight and STILL save money

  10-09-2026 10:57 via dailymail.com
  
  If you want to get your hands on Apple's new iPhone Duo, you'll need to splash the cash - particularly if you live in the UK.
  
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• A revolutionary device or a let-down? Apple's £1,999 iPhone Duo is criticised for its lack of innovation - as fans vent it 'might be the most useless phone ever made'

  10-09-2026 09:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Apple has just leapt into the world of foldable devices with the exciting launch of the new iPhone Duo.
  
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• Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company

  10-09-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight examples of how not to handle your security. This week’s tale of woe comes from a very unhealthy part of the healthcare sector. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at [email protected]. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes courtesy of Chris Kirksey, founder and CEO of Direction, a digital marketing and SEO company that works in the healthcare industry. He also do
  
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• Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM

  10-09-2026 08:23 via theregister.com
  
  Laptop-maker Framework has decided to refund some of its customers who paid high prices for its model 13 Pro laptop due to the soaring cost of RAM. In July, the company told some customers who had ordered its very repairable machines that if they ordered 64GB of RAM, they would get just 32GB. “We recently received a cost update from our LPCAMM2 supplier that goes far beyond anything we had predicted and anything we’re able to absorb without placing our ability to operate at real fina
  
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• Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

  10-09-2026 06:53 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has found another use for AI: providing an off-ramp for Salesforce customers. The software giant on Wednesday gave the world “Dynamics 365 Activate,” software that executive veep for Apps and Agents Jeff Teper described as “a comprehensive, AI-powered tool that can help partners and customers move to Dynamics 365 faster, with less manual effort and lower migration risk.” Microsoft has made the tool available as a public preview that can convert Salesforce implem
  
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• August was the warmest month EVER recorded globally - as climate scientists warn El Niño is being 'supersized before our eyes'

  10-09-2026 04:26 via dailymail.com
  
  New data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has confirmed that August was the warmest month ever recorded globally.
  
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• VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals

  10-09-2026 04:05 via theregister.com
  
  VMware has defended its decision to end public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). VDDK is an SDK that a Broadcom technical document describes as “a set of libraries and utilities that enable software developers to create applications that can access and manipulate virtual disks used” and also “provides APIs for backup and recovery, cloning, and other operations on virtual disks.” Those qualiies mean VDDK is also useful when moving VMs from VMware to ano
  
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• VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups– or migrations to rivals

  10-09-2026 04:05 via theregister.com
  
  VMware has defended its decision to end public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). VDDK is an SDK that a Broadcom technical document describes as “a set of libraries and utilities that enable software developers to create applications that can access and manipulate virtual disks used” and also “provides APIs for backup and recovery, cloning, and other operations on virtual disks.” Those qualiies mean VDDK is also useful when moving VMs from VMware to ano
  
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• UK needs new laws for AI in healthcare, says watchdog

  10-09-2026 02:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The technology will soon be routinely used within the NHS, MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon tells the BBC.
  
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• Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

  10-09-2026 01:20 via theregister.com
  
  Amid industry soul-searching¹ about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated by a person. The AI biz published "an alignment assessment" detailing four times Claude models accessed third-party systems without authorization. The company has already reported three of the incidents. Evidence of the fourth was lurking in a session transcript dating back to January 2026 whe
  
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• Giant 'megalith structure' spotted on ocean floor sparks alien base theories

  10-09-2026 01:02 via dailymail.com
  
  An enormous rectangular-shaped 'structure' has been spotted on a map of the seafloor, sparking theories that an alien base could be hiding deep below the surface.
  
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• Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits

  10-09-2026 00:28 via theregister.com
  
  At least four espionage groups, most with suspected links to China, are using a new exploit kit that chains two Chromium-based browser flaws and one Microsoft Windows bug to break into organizations' networks in the US and Southeast Asia. Mark Kelly, a threat researcher at email security shop Proofpoint, told The Register that the researchers don't know exactly who was targeted, nor how, and so far the damage appears limited. “In terms of organizations targeted, we saw fewer than 20 organi
  
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• AI models don't kill people – people kill people

  09-09-2026 22:44 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly announced his resignation on X late Monday over concerns that AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." A lot of people have expressed opinions about his point of view, leading to more than 110 million views of the message in less than 24 hours, perhaps helped along by X algorithms that boost messages critical of owner Elon Musk's AI rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI. But the real problem isn't the models themselves, but the companies who carel
  
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• A revolutionary device or a let-down? Apple's £1,999 iPhone Duo is criticised for its lack of innovation - as fans vent 'iPhone duo might be the most useless phone ever made'

  09-09-2026 22:44 via dailymail.com
  
  Apple has just leapt into the world of foldable devices with the exciting launch of the new iPhone Duo.
  
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• Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab

  09-09-2026 22:38 via theregister.com
  
  It’s been a long time since Apple introduced a truly new product. The world finally got one today in the form of the folding iPhone Duo, and while it's new for Apple, it's not new for the industry. Nonetheless, Apple is once again hoping to validate a mostly moribund market as it did with tablets and smartwatches – folding phones only made up 1.6% of total smartphone sales last year, according to Counterpoint Research. Apple announced the iPhone Duo – did no one check the list
  
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