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• How artificial intelligence can radically transform your business

  04-02-2019 10:59
  
  Artificial intelligence is the future of business technology, from finance and administration to agriculture and medical research.
  
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• Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

  02-08-2026 09:11 via theregister.com
  
  Tom Evslin drove the WorldNet project at AT&T and helped develop what became Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. He was at Microsoft when the company was still working out what to do about this newfangled internet thing. Evslin describes himself as one of Microsoft's "internet radicals" in the early 1990s, when the company was developing Exchange Server to fend off the threat from Lotus Notes. "Bill Gates was willing to put lots of effort and money into Exchange because he was very afraid of Lot
  
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• Britons with green fingers are drawn overwhelmingly to brightly-coloured flowers - with red the most popular

  02-08-2026 01:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists at the Royal Horticultural Society have found that those with green fingers are drawn overwhelmingly to vivid, saturated flower colours, with red topping the list.
  
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• Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932

  02-08-2026 00:17 via technocracy.news
  
  In my tattered copy of Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy (1932), an early reader drew a careful bracket around a single passage on page 72. It reads: “Radical and immediate changes in both our political and economic systems will be necessary. This can best be accomplished by vesting supreme and emergency power in some one man who has the confidence and respect of a majority of the American people. That man is FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT — to whom should be given dictatorial
  
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• How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Microbiologist finally settles the debate - so, are you doing it enough?

  01-08-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Dr Primrose Freestone, Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leicester, has settled the debate.
  
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• What a drag: Shocking images reveal the strain PULLING a suitcase has on your body - as experts advise pushing your cases instead

  01-08-2026 13:01 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're one of the millions of holidaymakers dragging a suitcase behind you though the airport, you could be putting unnecessary strain on your body.
  
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• Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in

  01-08-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Weary travelers making their way through airports have enough to contend with these days without some Microsoft borkage popping up over departure information. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader identifying themselves as Ethel Grapefruit (Mrs), one of the information boards at Heathrow Terminal 5's check-in area has decided that whatever is running behind the scenes does not meet with Microsoft's approval, and requires activation. The message is familiar to many Windows users, and appears a
  
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• A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

  01-08-2026 11:02 via theregister.com
  
  DEEP DIVE For the first time, Nvidia has directly challenged Intel and AMD's CPU dominance. With the launch of Vera, the AI arms dealer aims to flog its standalone CPUs to as many hyperscalers and other cloud providers as it can. Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and NScale have already signed up to deploy the chips in their respective clouds. The follow-on to Nvidia's Grace CPU promises 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory,
  
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• Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing

  01-08-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  Cloud infrastructure services grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure passed $143 billion in Q2, a year-on-year growth rate of 43 percent. This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size. Synergy says that total ma
  
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• One of Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rockets will crash into the moon at 5,400 mph next week - and is set to carve out a new crater on the lunar surface

  01-08-2026 01:27 via dailymail.com
  
  The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, with the explosive impact expected to be the equivalent to three tons of TNT.
  
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• Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop'

  31-07-2026 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.
  
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• Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

  31-07-2026 21:12 via theregister.com
  
  HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto has launched a new startup to build a server-side terminal multiplexer that allows programmers to switch between multiple persistent work sessions. Superlogical promises its terminal multiplexer will be faster and keep better track of user jobs. And it could be instrumental to building durable agentic layers into future systems. The problem with traditional multiplexers – such as tmux, Zellij and GNU Screen – is that they are all too slow, expla
  
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• Secretive US nuke factory's radioactive contamination of three workers exposed

  31-07-2026 21:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Radioactive contamination mysteriously spread beyond a restricted laboratory at one of America's largest nuclear complexes.
  
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• Three people exposed to radioactive material at secretive US nuke factory

  31-07-2026 20:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Radioactive contamination mysteriously spread beyond a restricted laboratory at one of America's largest nuclear complexes.
  
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• AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company

  31-07-2026 20:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".
  
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• Scientists uncover terrifying future West Coast earthquake scenario that would put millions at risk in hours

  31-07-2026 19:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers have discovered alarming signs that one massive earthquake could trigger another, putting millions along the US West Coast at risk.
  
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• CLARITY Act: Will It Pass, Or Not?

  31-07-2026 19:06 via technocracy.news
  
  The bum’s rush is on. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis just slammed Democrat lawmakers for dragging their feet over the Clarity Act. CNBC is pimping hard for it. Arch-Technocrats are in a sweat over it. Trump has been pressuring Senators to pass it, and is expected to pick up the phone to whip dissenting Senators into line. What’s the rush? This is the last piece of legislation needed to cement America’s privatized financial system in place. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
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• The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

  31-07-2026 18:27 via theregister.com
  
  A leading name in home and business physical security, Brinks Home, recently said it identified unauthorized access to a portion of its IT systems, an intrusion ShinyHunters claims it carried out to steal millions of records from the security provider's Salesforce instance. Brinks Home hasn’t named the intruder or identified the affected system, but said the responsible party has threatened to leak information it claims to have taken. “Brinks Home is working diligently to determine w
  
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• Monster heat dome engulfs half the US as 70 million face record-breaking temperatures that can turn cars lethal

  31-07-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive heat wave affecting roughly 70 million people is expected to set multiple temperature records and cause life-threatening conditions.
  
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• US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data

  31-07-2026 17:41 via theregister.com
  
  Would you trust a ransomware extortionist to delete the data they stole? One bank certainly wants you to. Well over a month into a ransomware cleanup job, River Financial Corporation tells regulators that it “took steps to attempt to suppress the affected data, including obtaining representations from the threat actor that it deleted the data in its possession.” For context, placing this kind of trust in this kind of individual has been proven to be a bad idea. When globo-cops took d
  
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• England and Wales on course for driest July on record

  31-07-2026 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Met Office records indicate England and Wales are likely to have had their driest July since records began 190 years ago.
  
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• Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

  31-07-2026 17:04 via theregister.com
  
  One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures. Readers who tuned in earlier today saw the latest episode in the drama – or sitcom – as Anthropic tried to outdo OpenAI's appropriation of the Mythos marketing playbook and made itself the punchline. Since first teasing Mythos in April, Anthropic has marketed the model through fear – declaring its cybersecurity m
  
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• England and Wales on course to record their driest July in 190 YEARS, figures show - as some places see 44 days with no rain

  31-07-2026 16:49 via dailymail.com
  
  England and Wales are on course to record their driest July in almost two centuries after weeks of scorching temperatures and barely a drop of rain.
  
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• Lethal temperatures that can kill in minutes threaten millions as massive heat dome blankets 15 states

  31-07-2026 16:48 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive heat wave affecting roughly 70 million people is expected to set multiple temperature records and cause life-threatening conditions.
  
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• Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar

  31-07-2026 16:30 via theregister.com
  
  Teams mobile users now have even less time to update the app before older versions lose calendar access. Microsoft originally set a late-October deadline in its message, but we're guessing someone familiar with the impending demise of Exchange Web Services (EWS) had a quiet word. The date has been brought forward to the beginning of October, leaving users until the end of September to update the Teams mobile app. The October deadline applies only to the iOS and Android apps. The web and desktop
  
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• Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts

  31-07-2026 15:55 via theregister.com
  
  A week after suspending online banking, CAF Bank still has no timetable for restoring access to its 14,000 UK charity customers. The bank updated customers on Thursday about the outage, which has disrupted payments to staff and suppliers. Little had changed. In a message seen by The Register, CAF Bank said it was not yet able to restore the service safely. As it had earlier in the week, the bank said it detected attempted fraud on some accounts and acted quickly to stop it. Its investigation unc
  
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• Monster 'Sharkzilla' leaves trail of carnage off New York coast as scientists probe nuclear mutant theory

  31-07-2026 15:10 via dailymail.com
  
  A mysterious predator dubbed 'Sharkzilla' is prowling waters off New York, parking a dangerous hunt for a monster capable of ripping apart the ocean's largest beasts.
  
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• Your dog's PERFECT walk lasts exactly 67 minutes - and must include 16 sniffs and a splash in water, study reveals

  31-07-2026 14:58 via dailymail.com
  
  A dog's perfect walk should last exactly 67 minutes, include 16 opportunities to sniff and even feature a splash in water, according to a new survey.
  
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• NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin

  31-07-2026 14:41 via theregister.com
  
  Katalyst Space has confirmed that problems with its LINK spacecraft have delayed its attempt to rescue NASA's Swift observatory, with rendezvous now targeted for the end of August. Katalyst disclosed the delay in an update on the spinning spacecraft. Engineers used a thruster to cut LINK's rotation rate from 9 degrees per second to approximately 4 degrees per second, with further burns planned. Katalyst and NASA are also developing a new attitude controller suited to the spacecraft's reduced cap
  
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• Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner

  31-07-2026 14:11 via theregister.com
  
  Vodafone has paid £4.3 billion ($5.78 billion) for the remaining 49 percent of VodafoneThree, taking full ownership of the UK's largest mobile operator. The telecoms giant announced that it planned to buy the stake held by Three's former parent, CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings, in May. The acquisition comes just over a year after Vodafone UK and Three UK completed their merger following conditional approval from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The merger reduced the UK mar
  
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