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• Predatory fish that walks on land spreads to new US states as officials urge locals to cut their heads off

  04-10-2026 19:13 via dailymail.com
  
  An invasive land-walking fish from Asia is spreading into new US states, leading officials to ask Americans to take matters into their own hands.
  
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• Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it

  04-10-2026 17:15 via theregister.com
  
  Fulcrum faces an identity crisis, even as it works on creating one by enabling anyone to imitate another person's writing style. The AI startup, founded in 2025 and previously operating at fulcrumresearch.ai, now uses fulcrum.inc and could easily be confused with one of the handful of other companies named Fulcrum or some variation of that. There's Fulcrum (withfulcrum.com), Fulcrum (fulcrumapp.com), Fulcrum AI (fulcrumai.us), Fulcrum Digital (fulcrumdigital.com), Fulcrum Labs (fulcrumlabs.ai),
  
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• I was an atheist until Satan appeared and tried to convince me that Christianity is a cult. Now I'm a pastor... there are signs everywhere that we are living in the final days

  04-10-2026 15:02 via dailymail.com
  
  A Christian pastor who believed there was no God and was desperately trying to stay out of jail as a teenager has described how a terrifying encounter with Satan changed his life forever.
  
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• Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care

  04-10-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  In 1942, Isaac Asimov formulated three laws of robotics. 58 years later, Jef Raskin responded with three laws of human-computer interface design. They haven’t been bettered yet. There are rules, and even laws, about designing computer user interfaces. Even after 35 years of Linux, which has brought Unix to the masses, the FOSS world has not yet really grasped this. In the meantime, the proprietary software world is busily forgetting everything it once knew. Sometimes these rules surface to
  
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• How often do you wash your clothes? As social media is left divided, experts settle the debate once and for all

  04-10-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A huge debate has erupted on X (formerly Twitter) over how often you need to wash your clothes.
  
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• After the BBC's 'racist nude nails' row, expert reveals what your favourite polish says about you

  04-10-2026 11:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The humble manicure has unexpectedly become the latest battleground in Britain's culture wars. Now, a beauty expert has revealed what your nail colour says about you.
  
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• Could AI really kill all humans? Scientists say an AI armageddon is unlikely - but warn 'enfeeblement' could cause our demise

  04-10-2026 10:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Leading AI researchers are now sounding the alarm over the growing threat of 'enfeeblement'.
  
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• Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40

  04-10-2026 10:29 via theregister.com
  
  Decades before the modern web, the BBC Domesday Project dared to archive an entire nation using…. what else – massive LV-ROM (LaserVision Read Only Memory) LaserDiscs. To mark the impending 40th anniversary of the BBC Domesday Project's release, the UK's Centre for Computing History (CCH) hosted a celebration at its museum on September 19, bringing together several of the original team members responsible for the system. One was Mike Tibbetts, an assistant to Peter Armstrong, the BB
  
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