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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows updates released since October two thousand twenty six's Patch Tuesday are causing serious performance and stability problems in SQL Server. The company is actively investigating, and administrators running affected configurations should monitor Microsoft's support channels closely for guidance before applying further updates.
Across the security landscape, Google Cloud is warning customers running virtual machines on AMD Turin processors about three newly discovered side-channel vulnerabilities. Google has already patched the boundaries between virtual machines and host systems, but users still need a guest operating system update followed by a full stop-and-start of their instances to close the remaining exposure inside individual machines.
And in financial technology, London-based banking infrastructure startup Griffin has raised twenty million dollars in a Series B round led by Octagon Partners, pushing the company's valuation past one hundred million dollars. Griffin is using the capital to move into stablecoin payments, a bet that regulated infrastructure will become increasingly central to how digital assets settle in real-world financial systems.
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