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• Brace for weather chaos! El Niño is RAPIDLY strengthening, experts say - and the consequences could be catastrophic

  03-07-2026 06:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Super El Niño has officially begun in the tropical Pacific and is now rapidly strengthening, scientists warn.
  
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• Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

  03-07-2026 04:22 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the chance to do them. The service's name references an 18th-century machine that its inventor claimed could play chess - but which was actually operated remotely by a human. AWS launched Mechanical Turk in November 2005 – a time when the cloudy concern focused
  
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• In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical

  03-07-2026 03:00 via theregister.com
  
  Sustainability demands progress on several fronts at once. For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and ensure that communications equipment can operate off-grid to extend educational opportunities to children in remote areas. China-based telecoms giant ZTE pursues all of these. CDP, a non-profit that runs an environmental disclosure system, has included the company on its CDP A list for the last three years. ZTE's progress against ambitious goals for carbon emissions
  
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• Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

  03-07-2026 01:08 via theregister.com
  
  During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones's Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges - most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who runs programmatic SEO and insurance sites, told The Register that he doesn't have any workflow that generates AI images. Google suspended his account anyway. A suspension notification sent to Jones on June 7 justified the decision by stating his account "was engaged in abusive activit
  
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• Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage

  03-07-2026 00:47 via theregister.com
  
  MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the video conferencing and webinar startup to a Chinese corporate espionage operation. The legal complaint filed against Koi Security, its researchers, and Palo Alto Networks alleges that Koi used an LLM to generate the threat report, the AI system hallucinated findings about MeetingTV, and the security shop then published those as facts in a December 30 blog. It accus
  
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