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Synology has released an update to its Disk Station Manager software that removes verified drive requirements from its 2025 model-year Plus, Value and J-series DiskStation network-attached storage devices. The change allows users to install non-validated third-party drives and create storage pools without restrictions. The company had expanded its verified drive policy to the entire Plus line a few months earlier. Synology-branded drives carried substantial price premiums over commodity hardware. The HAT5310 enterprise SATA drive costs $299 for 8TB compared to $220 for an identically sized Seagate Exos disk. Users who installed non-verified drives in affected models faced reduced functionality and persistent warning messages in the DSM interface. Synology said today it is collaborating with third-party drive manufacturers to accelerate testing and verification of additional storage drives. Pool and cache creation on M.2 disks still requires drives from the hardware compatibility list. Synology did not clarify whether the policy change applies to previous-generation products.

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CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags

Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…

Malgorzata Wnuczek disappeared on her way home from her job at a logistics company in Leicester in May 2006.

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks

The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee has warned of the dangers of a sudden correction in the financial markets, owing to the value of tech and AI stocks, and has compared the risks to the dotcom bubble.…

An entitled woman has sparked fury by holding up an entire flight, claiming she was waiting for her daughter to meet her at the front of the line to get off the plane first.

Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge

Microsoft's latest attempt to make the dreaded "mailbox full" response a thing of the past is rolling out in October and November. Threshold-based auto-archiving is coming to Exchange Online.…

American companies have begun cutting middle management positions at rates not seen in years. Google eliminated 35% of managers overseeing teams of fewer than three in August. Fiverr announced in September it would shed managers to focus on AI. Amazon trimmed its management ranks throughout the year and cut positions at its cloud-computing division in July. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has complained about managers managing managers since 2023. Phrases relating to reducing management layers appeared 98 times on earnings calls of companies in the S&P global index this year, twice the frequency of all of 2022. The cuts stem partly from an uncertain economic environment and President Donald Trump's tariff regime, Economist writes. The pandemic created the conditions for the current retrenchment. Companies furloughed staff during Covid-19 and then hired rapidly to meet demand for e-commerce and digital services. They promoted employees to management positions to retain talent even when those managers supervised only one or two subordinates. Between 2019 and 2024, five of the ten fastest-growing job categories were management roles. Since November 2022, listed American companies have cut middle-management positions by around 3% on average.

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The new branch will have indoor dining and a drive-thru

Fair Hill, located on the enviable road near Hampstead Heath, North London, is on the market for a cool £20 million, according to Channel 4's Britain's Most Expensive Homes.

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is by far the world's largest ocean current. But this key system is grinding to a halt, a new study warns.

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Victoria Beckham has created a pop-up shop in Selfridges ahead of the release of a Netflix documentary about her fashion brand on Thursday.

Parton, 79, sparked worldwide concern when she announced she was postponing six shows for her from her upcoming Dolly: Live in Las Vegas residency.

Millions of motorists who took out car loans from dealerships are in line for compensation worth an average £700.

Last month, hundreds of Britons took to social media warning they had suddenly developed 'agonising' rashes and burns from the brand's roll-on deodorants.

Around 10 million Britons live with osteoarthritis, yet Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Mazin Ibrahim says knee pain often doesn't start in the knee at all.

Neeta, a trained GP, drew her daughter in for a hug and instant noticed an anomaly that would end up saving her daughter's life.

The condition, where there is leakage of urine, is extremely common, with one in three people experiencing it at some point in their lives.

The store promises to create a 'bold new experience' for customers

Using a combination of 3D modelling and real-life experiments, scientists have confirmed the impossible.