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• How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online

  29-03-2023 16:26
  
  Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.
  
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• I'm a sociopath... here are the three tricks I use to control men without them ever realizing

  10-09-2026 22:17 via dailymail.com
  
  A woman who describes herself has now revealed the calculated dating tactics she says can leave men emotionally hooked and desperate to prove themselves.
  
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• Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

  10-09-2026 21:50 via theregister.com
  
  With the release of Apple Watch Series 12, Apple has decided that it's ok to capture people's conversations without their consent. The latest Apple Watch comes with Audio Intelligence, a set of AI audio processing capabilities tuned for the company's S11 chip. Its features include: Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text," Apple explains in its technical summary [PDF]. "Siri R
  
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• Newly identified 'code' hidden in Egypt's Great Pyramid may finally reveal its true purpose

  10-09-2026 21:50 via dailymail.com
  
  The Great Pyramid has guarded its secrets behind millions of tons of stone, but a new paper claims its greatest message may have been hiding in plain sight.
  
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• Spotify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

  10-09-2026 21:43 via theregister.com
  
  Tailwind CSS may still be open source, but it’s not independent anymore: It’s now a Shopify product. Tailwind Labs CEO Aadam Wathan shared news of Shopify’s acquisition of his company in a blog post Thursday. Wathan said that he chose to sell to Shopify because the ecommerce platform was an early adopter of Tailwind CSS, and will serve as an ideal place for his open-source web development platform to “be developed in service of a real product.” “I believe deep
  
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• Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

  10-09-2026 21:43 via theregister.com
  
  Tailwind CSS may still be open source, but it’s not independent anymore: It’s now a Shopify product. Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan shared news of Shopify’s acquisition of his company in a blog post Thursday. Wathan said that he chose to sell to Shopify because the ecommerce platform was an early adopter of Tailwind CSS, and will serve as an ideal place for his open-source web development platform to “be developed in service of a real product.” “I believe deepl
  
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• Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

  10-09-2026 20:49 via theregister.com
  
  An unknown attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut MF/NG bugs and break into at least 395 organizations. The victims were concentrated in the US education sector, and the intrusions moved fast. In one case, an American high school went from initial access to domain admin in seven minutes. These agents, powered by OpenAI’s Codex harness and a DeepSeek model, also allowed the miscreant to attack organizations at scale, according to threat-intel firm GreyNoise, which trace
  
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• OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

  10-09-2026 20:15 via theregister.com
  
  Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one. Case in point: The OpenAI agent swarm that we reported last week had taken over an obscure German wiki appears to have written content to an additional 20 websites, and used 14 fetch services to do work for it, according to new research. The latest report, published Wednesday
  
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• NASA discovers mysterious holes punched into the surface of Mars - and scientists have no idea what created them

  10-09-2026 19:36 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA has discovered a series of mysterious holes punched into the surface of Mars.
  
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• Massive 3,000-mile plume of dust and toxic minerals set to engulf US coast within DAYS

  10-09-2026 19:22 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive plume of dust is set to cause breathing problems for millions in the US and neighboring territories within a matter of days.
  
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• Thousands of birds descend on Oregon church in chilling 'End of Days' scene

  10-09-2026 19:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Thousands of winged creatures were filmed swirling like a cyclone around a church steeple, sparking fears that the ominous spectacle was a sign of impending doom.
  
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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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• AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

  10-09-2026 18:21 via theregister.com
  
  Gartner forecasts that, by 2029, nearly a third of employees laid off because of AI will need to be rehired, often at significantly higher cost. The global research firm warned that workforce cuts could save money in the short term but risk weakening talent pipelines and eroding institutional knowledge over the longer term. With labor force growth flat or declining worldwide, competition for talent would drive up recruitment, training, and onboarding costs. "When business and IT executives look
  
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• NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

  10-09-2026 18:09 via theregister.com
  
  IBM and NASA have got together again and released an open source AI model of the Moon that could be used to make new discoveries about Earth’s natural satellite. The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model has been trained on an extensive lunar observation dataset curated by researchers at the two organizations, and is available now on Hugging Face. It is claimed as the first AI model to integrate observations captured in a range of modalities (data formats), and at different viewing angles
  
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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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• 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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