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• 15-Minute Cities Are Technates In Disguise

  06-03-2023 15:59 via technocracy.news
  
  The 15-minute city is a cover for a data collection bonanza for Technocrats who would design and operate them. Cities designed for maximum “efficiency” always reveal Technocrat thinking that efficiency itself is the goal, and that maximum surveillance allows for maximum control to achieve even more efficiency. At its very root. this mechanistic thinking is anti-human. ⁃ TN EditorThe Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright recently discussed a new “international
  
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• Giant toxic jellyfish with 120-foot tentacles invade New England beaches as officials issue chilling warning

  14-07-2026 19:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Beachgoers have been warned as giant jellyfish with toxin-filled tentacles stretching up to 120 feet invade the coastline.
  
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• Giant toxic jellyfish with 120-foot tentacles invades New England beaches as officials issue chilling warning

  14-07-2026 18:44 via dailymail.com
  
  Beachgoers have been warned as giant jellyfish with toxin-filled tentacles stretching up to 120 feet invade the coastline.
  
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• DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

  14-07-2026 18:44 via theregister.com
  
  Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, according to him, artificial general intelligence (AGI) “is probably only a few short years away" and we've got to figure it out before it's too late. That “probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hassabis’ lengthy, early-morning Tuesday post on X. Like commercially viable fusion power and practical fault-tolerant quantum computing, AGI seems perp
  
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• Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen

  14-07-2026 18:09 via theregister.com
  
  A Welshman was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for his role in numerous swattings in the UK, US, and Canada. Callum Dare, 26, was an administrator of Doxbin, a dark web platform frequented by individuals that expose the personally identifiable information (PII) of people, usually to encourage harassment or to target them through swatting attacks. The Talbot Green man never actually carried out a swatting call himself, although investigators said "he was an active participant" in Doxbin's "#deadne
  
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• America's favorite strawberries accused of hiding cancer-linked 'forever chemicals'

  14-07-2026 17:46 via dailymail.com
  
  America's best-selling berry brand has been sued over allegations that its strawberries contained cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' that shoppers were never told about.
  
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• Extreme warning issued to millions as 'steam cooker' heatwave turns 25 states into a sauna

  14-07-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive 'steam cooker' heat wave is bringing potentially deadly humidity to half the US and sending temperatures in unlikely areas into the triple digits.
  
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• Scientists' fury as 67-million-year-old T. rex skeleton fetches record-breaking £37m - and disappears into private hands

  14-07-2026 17:42 via dailymail.com
  
  A fearsome T.rex that once ruled the Earth has found itself at the centre of a very modern battle - between scientists and the super-rich.
  
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• Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good

  14-07-2026 17:38 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has made good on a promise to make Windows Search less of a chore to use, making tweaks to remove "promotional content" from web results and options to focus on local results. The changes are currently limited to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. March Rogers, partner director for product design for Windows at Microsoft, stated that they were on their way when Microsoft announced the Windows 11 26H2 update, and the scope of the changes will delight Windows Search users who
  
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• America's favorite strawberries hit with 'highly toxic' allegations and claims of cancer-linked chemicals

  14-07-2026 17:09 via dailymail.com
  
  America's best-selling berry brand has been sued over allegations that its strawberries contained cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' that shoppers were never told about.
  
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• The futuristic pod that could help your family survive the apocalypse: £35,000 mobile Lifepod can fend off everything from bullets to bombings

  14-07-2026 17:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Momentum Technologies, a tech company based in France , has unveiled a mobile pod that can fend off everything from bullets to bombings.
  
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• RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet

  14-07-2026 17:01 via theregister.com
  
  Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative, or HFI for short, is simple and appealing in principle, but will be considerably harder to implement. From the project's own description, it aims to provide a BIOS-like experience, familiar from x86 PCs, for RISC-V hardware. When the machine starts, the firmware would identify the system and its hardware, list what peripherals are connected,
  
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• Flock Builds the Digital Police State While Americans Attend The Political Circus

  14-07-2026 16:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Flock’s initial funders included Arch-Technocrats Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel. They just ran it up the flagpole and skipped the consent part. Now Flock is embedded in every state in America – all 115,217 cameras, and growing. Kick Flock back to starting gate by joining the nationwide protest on August 16-22 by going to https://noalprs.com/. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound
  
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• Technocrats Are Closing In On Passage Of CLARITY Act

  14-07-2026 16:23 via technocracy.news
  
  President Trump wears many hats and one of them is Technocrat-in-Chief. He lobbies the Senate for the Arch-Technocrats in Washington, DC., not with a heavy-handed approach as before, but appealing to sentiment for the late Senator Lindsey Graham who was “a big supporter.” If passed, the CLARITY Act will cement Technocracy to the foundation of our country. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.The Senate returns to Washington on July 13, with the clock running down on the most consequential pi
  
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• IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock loses more than a quarter of its value

  14-07-2026 16:16 via theregister.com
  
  IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took the unusual step of publishing preliminary quarterly results alongside a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna explaining why the numbers fell short of expectations. The biggest disappointment came in Infrastructure, where revenue fell 7 p
  
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• IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic

  14-07-2026 16:16 via theregister.com
  
  IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took the unusual step of publishing preliminary quarterly results alongside a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna explaining why the numbers fell short of expectations. The biggest disappointment came in Infrastructure, where revenue fell 7 p
  
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• Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy

  14-07-2026 15:40 via theregister.com
  
  NASA has performed a rocket switcheroo and will launch its SunRISE mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur on which it was originally booked to fly. The mission is flying as a rideshare sponsored by the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command, which might go some way to explaining the decision to change the launch vehicle. In February, the fourth Vulcan Centaur flight experienced a booster anomaly during a US Space Force launch. The p
  
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• Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole

  14-07-2026 15:03 via theregister.com
  
  "Can it run Linux?" has joined "Can it run Doom?" as the benchmark for coaxing unlikely hardware into doing complicated things. One enterprising engineer has now brought penguins to the Sega 32X. Fresh from wrangling Linux into life on the ill-fated Atari Jagua games console, a Spanish engineer calling himself cakehonolulu has performed the same trick with Sega's equally unsuccessful 32X and managed to run the operating system on hardware designed for gaming in the 1990s. The Sega 32X was an add
  
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• Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

  14-07-2026 14:39 via theregister.com
  
  The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted. AI safety researcher Cereblab published a report on Sunday about their investigation into Grok Build, SpaceXAI's command-line interface (CLI), and the data exchanged between the CLI and SpaceXAI's servers. Cereblab found that when Grok Build reads or process
  
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• 'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

  14-07-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE A jailbroken Google Gemini did 90 percent of the work in a credential- and cryptocurrency-stealing spree, including spinning up a new command-and-control (C2) server in just six minutes, according to a TrendAI report shared exclusively with The Register. The human behind the heist – a solo Russian-speaking miscreant known as “bandcampro” – acted as the manager of the cyber-fraud operation, which targeted hardcore Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists. Meanwh
  
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• Scientists reveal the most attractive facial features in men and women - and David Gandy and Margot Robbie are the closest real-life examples

  14-07-2026 14:01 via dailymail.com
  
  They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but scientists believe they have identified the facial features most people find irresistible.
  
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• Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

  14-07-2026 13:59 via theregister.com
  
  Privacy campaigners, browser makers, and VPN providers have united to warn the UK government against restricting virtual private networks, saying age-gating the technology would weaken online security while doing little to stop kids dodging social media bans. The Open Rights Group on Tuesday published an open letter signed by more than 20 organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ExpressVPN, the Internet Society, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, and the Tor Project. It urges minister
  
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• A-head of the game! England is the most dangerous team in the AIR at the World Cup - with impressively accurate headers, study reveals

  14-07-2026 13:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from Northeastern University have analysed the headers performed by teams at the World Cup so far.
  
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• Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites

  14-07-2026 13:06 via theregister.com
  
  CISA has added two critical Joomla extension bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after attackers were caught exploiting both flaws to upload malicious code onto vulnerable websites. The newly listed bugs affect iCagenda, an events calendar extension for the open source Joomla content management system, and Balbooa Forms, a popular form builder used to collect contact requests, registrations, surveys, and file uploads. Joomla powers roughly 1.2 percent of all websites – arou
  
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• WhatsApp has quietly introduced a new message animation that has left users FURIOUS - as one vents 'there has to be some way to get rid of that'

  14-07-2026 12:39 via dailymail.com
  
  The Meta-owned app has quietly introduced a new animation for sent message bubbles.
  
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• Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly

  14-07-2026 12:37 via theregister.com
  
  Wayland is dominating the recent news about FOSS GUIs – even dignified elder Xfce’s official support is getting close. However, X11 is very much not dead yet, and new developments keep appearing. Last week, Norwegian FOSS developer Geir Isene announced his all-new server for the venerable X11 display protocol. Its description is in the title of the announcement post: Frame - the first Linux Assembly X server. Isene explains his motivation thus: “On my quest to own my software,
  
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• WhatsApp has made a subtle change that has left users FURIOUS - as one vents 'there has to be some way to get rid of that'

  14-07-2026 12:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The Meta-owned app has quietly introduced a new animation for sent message bubbles.
  
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• India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch

  14-07-2026 11:57 via theregister.com
  
  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested systems it plans to use on the nation's first crewed space mission, but when that mission will launch remains a mystery. ISRO's crewed mission program, "Gaganyaan," is intended to carry astronauts on a rocket called the Human-Rated Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (HLVM3) into orbit. The space agency has already launched the cargo-rated version of the three-stage LVM3 rocket nine times and has a perfect success rate. When India launches huma
  
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• 'Franken-trout' are infesting Scottish lochs: Artificially enlarged fish are 20 TIMES heavier than normal

  14-07-2026 11:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Artificially enlarged 'Franken-trout' that have ballooned to 20 times their usual weight are taking over Scottish lochs, activists claim.
  
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• Trying to beat the heat? Scientists claim applying YOGHURT to the outside of your windows can cool your home by as much as 3.5°C

  14-07-2026 11:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, claims Brits should apply yoghurt to the outside of their windows.
  
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