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• Melting Antarctic ice will slow down a major global deep ocean current by 40% by 2050

  30-03-2023 11:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian scientists have made dire projections about what Antarctica's melting ice will do to global ocean health without rapid emissions cuts this...
  
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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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• 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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• iPhone Duo officially unveiled: Apple's first foldable smartphone features a book-like design - but at £1,999 it is Apple's most expensive smartphone ever

  09-09-2026 22:25 via dailymail.com
  
  The moment tech fans have been waiting for is finally here, as Apple officially unveils the iPhone Duo.
  
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• Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain

  09-09-2026 22:18 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI will design its next-generation AI accelerators with the help of South Korean foundry giant Samsung Electronics. This move could help the ChatGPT maker with memory, process tech, or other key things it needs to succeed. The announcement, made by OpenAI Korea general manager Harrison Kim in a press conference Wednesday, comes just weeks after the company showed its first-generation “Jalapeño” accelerators besting Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs across a slew of inference w
  
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• Scientists make discovery that matches the Bible's account of how God created the heavens

  09-09-2026 21:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A discovery about how Earth's moon formed has sparked claims that the Bible's creation story has been proven.
  
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• Long-lost supercontinent is pieced together after 550 million years: Incredible map reveals how Gondwana represented 80% of Earth's landmass

  09-09-2026 20:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The long-lost supercontinent Gondwana has finally been pieced together after 550 million years.
  
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• Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit

  09-09-2026 19:23 via theregister.com
  
  Zero-day researcher Nightmare Eclipse, aka MSNightmare, published yet another Microsoft Defender proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day dubbed ShieldCrash, which they claim will allow attackers to bypass the earlier ShieldBreak patch and read files as SYSTEM. “I might rework this later into a full SYSTEM PoC but for now I'm dropping this skeleton PoC because I'm feeling a bit lazy,” the prolific Microsoft bug hunter and thorn in Redmond's side said in their latest zero-day exploit's
  
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• Google picks Finland for its largest single investment in Europe

  09-09-2026 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.
  
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• Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft

  09-09-2026 18:56 via theregister.com
  
  There’s a lot of garbage floating around in low Earth orbit that threatens both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, but a new idea based on one of nature's enduring shapes could offer better protection against debris impacts that's no yolk. Bad puns aside, and we do beg your forgiveness, Chinese researchers at Dalian University of Technology have developed a new spacecraft armor design that, according to a research paper published on Tuesday, offers considerably more protection by taking inspi
  
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• Gargantuan 1,200-pound bears pitted against each other in competition... so which is your winner?

  09-09-2026 18:55 via dailymail.com
  
  The heavyweight contenders battling to be crowned during America's Fat Bear Week have been announced.
  
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• Secret space-age weapon built to spy on Americans spotted at China's Area 51

  09-09-2026 18:08 via dailymail.com
  
  A mysterious aircraft has been spotted at a secret base which been compared to America's infamous UFO research capital.
  
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• Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion

  09-09-2026 18:00 via theregister.com
  
  Google plans to invest at least €13 billion ($15 billion) in digital infrastructure and supporting projects in Finland over the next two years. The cloud and search services giant says it is deepening its long-term commitment to Finland and to Europe through additional datacenters and investments in low-carbon electricity generation, onshore wind, and battery storage. Google already has a massive campus at Hamina, on Finland's south coast, which houses seven separate data halls. This is jus
  
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• Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

  09-09-2026 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.
  
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• Say What? Greenland’s Icecap GREW This Year

  09-09-2026 17:28 via technocracy.news
  
  Man-made climate change was the con job of the ages. Remember when Vice President Al Gore was braying in 2009 that the polar ice caps would be ice-free in 5 to 7 years? Organizations like the Club of Rome picked up and pushed that trope as far back as 1972, just as the Trilateral Commission was being conceived by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They fed it to the United Nations in 1974, where it became a mainstay of Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, and Sustainable Development. All bunk. ⁃
  
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