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• 50 years of gadgets

  03-01-2017 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A look back at 50 years of technology launches at the giant CES tech show as it gets under way again in Las Vegas.
  
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• Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions

  22-06-2026 22:31 via theregister.com
  
  Never mind the fact that datacenter environmental concerns have come under growing scrutiny across the United States. Microsoft has just inked a deal with fossil fuel giant Chevron to supply one of the largest single-capacity additions to its datacenter fleet with 2.67 gigawatts of natural gas power for a full two decades. Chevron said today that it signed a two-decade power purchase agreement with Microsoft through its subsidiary Energy Forge One to supply 2.67 GW of power for a new datacenter
  
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• Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell bots from people

  22-06-2026 22:02 via theregister.com
  
  Cloudflare on Monday said that it has joined with the three leading commercial browser makers to create a privacy-preserving protocol that websites can use to separate desirable web traffic from undesirable network requests. Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by human or bot with legitimate inten
  
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• Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims

  22-06-2026 21:50 via theregister.com
  
  The list of Klue customers whose Salesforce data was stolen in the latest supply-chain heist keeps growing, with an increasing number of cybersecurity companies disclosing that they are among the victims of a new data-theft and extortion crew called Icarus. Klue, which provides market intelligence to more than 250,000 companies worldwide, hasn’t said how many of its customers were caught up in the breach and didn’t immediately respond to The Register’s inquiries. Huntress was o
  
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• Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames issues on 'fiber cut' in North America

  22-06-2026 21:32 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions are struggling to access popular websites on Monday after a major outage triggered widespread disruptions across the internet. Dozens of sites have gone offline.
  
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• Massive cloud of Saharan dust set to engulf parts of the US in DAYS with lung-penetrating particles

  22-06-2026 21:17 via dailymail.com
  
  A giant dust plume from the Sahara Desert is making landfall in the US in the coming days. The plume is carrying fine particles that can cause health issues when breathed in.
  
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• Growth spurt! Humans 'jumped' in size two million years ago, scientists reveal

  22-06-2026 21:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Early humans experienced a 'growth spurt' around two million years ago, making it easier for them to travel long distances, a new study has revealed.
  
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• Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research

  22-06-2026 20:15 via theregister.com
  
  Nvidia is pushing agentic AI for scientific computing, and says that this requires a new scientific computing stack, which the GPU giant is ready to deliver, of course. At the ISC High Performance 2026 event in Hamburg, Germany, Nvidia is lauding its own achievements in supercomputing, highlighting just how many of the world’s top compute clusters use its hardware these days. But just as agentic AI has become this year’s buzzword in the machine intelligence industry, so the GPU sling
  
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• Lost chapter of human evolution exposed after 300,000-year-old cave discovery

  22-06-2026 20:09 via dailymail.com
  
  A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.
  
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• I was in a coma for 18 days but spent a YEAR in hell where I was tormented by demons... the horrifying experience made me abandon the Catholic Church

  22-06-2026 19:56 via dailymail.com
  
  She was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city she compared to a ruined New York, with collapsed buildings, screaming people and chaos everywhere.
  
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• The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

  22-06-2026 19:43 via theregister.com
  
  FEATURE Today Postgres is one of the most widely used database systems, but its launch and subsequent development were inauspicious to say the least. If it weren’t for a league of exceptionally devoted open source contributors, it probably would be another forgotten also-ran just like Ingres, the database system on which it was based (“Postgres” was shorthand for “Post-Ingres”). The creator of both systems, Michael Stonebraker, is perhaps the preeminent database pio
  
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• Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart

  22-06-2026 19:19 via theregister.com
  
  Russia’s equipment losses in Ukraine are about to become the world’s gain, as Kyiv has decided to hand out its intel on seized Russian battlefield assets to its international partners. And it has launched a new site to do so. Announced on Friday by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, the TrophyLab is being billed as a place for Ukraine and its allies to analyze Russian military technology for the benefit of both Kyiv’s government in its current fight against Moscow, and for an
  
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• Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems

  22-06-2026 18:30 via theregister.com
  
  What do the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer and greeting cards that play musical jingles have in common? DARPA cites both of them as the inspiration for a project seeking low-resource computing paradigms to be used on future battlefields. DARPA on Friday put out a request for information (RFI) for new low-resource computing (LRC) paradigms and processes that haven't been utilized yet in microscale systems not unlike the tiny chip-and-battery combos found in greeting cards
  
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• The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

  22-06-2026 18:07 via theregister.com
  
  The global memory crisis has developed a new twist as buyers turn to "legacy" products such as DDR2 and DDR3 to meet demand, according to market watcher TrendForce. The Taiwanese firm says DRAM buyers are turning to older products to secure larger supply allocations, driving up prices for components including DDR2 and DDR3. As Reg readers will be well aware by now, the AI craze has led to memory chipmakers prioritizing production of more profitable HBM and server DRAM silicon to power AI infrast
  
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• Strange detail in 1977 Elvis concert photo fuels wild time-travel theories

  22-06-2026 18:04 via dailymail.com
  
  A shocking recording from 50 years ago shows what some are claiming is a piece of 21st century technology at the King of Rock and Roll's final performance.
  
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• I was a 'good Catholic girl' until I spent a YEAR in hell... being tormented by demons convinced me to leave the church once I'd cheated death

  22-06-2026 17:59 via dailymail.com
  
  She was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city she compared to a ruined New York, with collapsed buildings, screaming people and chaos everywhere.
  
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• The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

  22-06-2026 17:40 via theregister.com
  
  Google Cloud Summit came to London last week, and we took the opportunity to sit down with database execs Sailesh Krishnamurthy (VP engineering) and Yasmeen Ahmad (product executive Agentic Data Cloud). The event was wall-to-wall agentic AI, and true to the theme, Ahmad told us that "we're putting agents at the center ... with the goal that humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years. It’s going to be humans orchestrating agents, and agents actually doin
  
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• Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames major outage on 'fiber cut' in North America

  22-06-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions are struggling to access popular websites on Monday after a major outage at Cloudflare triggered widespread disruptions across the internet. Dozens of sites have gone offline.
  
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• AI Rebels: Americans Turning Against AI In Incredible Numbers

  22-06-2026 17:08 via technocracy.news
  
  Familiarity breeds contempt: the heaviest users are the most hostile. That’s the opposite of the adoption curve the entire AI industry’s valuations are priced on, where familiarity is supposed to breed dependence and then acceptance. The CEOs driving the AI buildout are starting to panic as public sentiment is turning against them. The keyword here is “loathe”.
  The people with the most direct exposure to AI return the lowest positive score in the entire survey, meaning th
  
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• X is DOWN: Elon Musk's social media app crashes for thousands around the world

  22-06-2026 16:34 via dailymail.com
  
  X, formerly known as Twitter, has crashed this afternoon in an outage affecting thousands of users around the world.
  
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• Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid

  22-06-2026 16:24 via theregister.com
  
  A Canadian power utility says customer data may have walked out the door during a security incident, but isn't yet saying whether the intruders got anywhere near the systems responsible for keeping the lights on. London Hydro, which distributes electricity to more than 160,000 customers in and around London, Ontario, said on Saturday that it is investigating a data security incident that "may have impacted a portion of personal information on some accounts" and has started notifying affected cus
  
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• Heatwave hack could prove DEADLY: 'DIY AC unit' trend leaves users at risk of electric shocks, experts warn

  22-06-2026 16:14 via dailymail.com
  
  While you might be tempted to give viral heatwave hacks a go, experts from Electrical Safety First have warned that they could prove fatal.
  
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• Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1

  22-06-2026 15:57 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has issued a stark warning for Windows users everywhere: "Get ready for Windows 11, version 26H2." Unless, of course, you're running Windows 11 26H1, in which case 26H2 will not be offered and you'll have to wait for a later upgrade path. 26H2, due for general availability in the coming months, uses the same Windows core as Windows 11 25H2 and Windows 24H2. As such, it will be delivered via an enablement package that switches on the new features and updates the versioning. 26H1 is an a
  
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• World Cup travel chaos as flash flooding threatens millions in two US states TODAY

  22-06-2026 15:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions are facing the threat of flash flooding today as severe storms target the Northeast during the World Cup.
  
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• As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

  22-06-2026 15:05 via theregister.com
  
  Long have we known that technology speeds up everything, and it's no different with British prime ministers. In the last ten years, the UK has gone through six prime ministers; it took 34 years to get through the previous six. Nonetheless, Sir Keir Starmer had hoped to make an impact on the UK tech industry and the government's use of technology during his tenure. Given the results, it may be a mixed blessing that, after nearly two years, he has achieved little. The signs were not good from the
  
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• The tiny artefact that shakes up Sutton Hoo helmet's origin story: Die stamp found in Kent suggests the Anglo-Saxon treasure was manufactured nearby - and NOT in Scandinavia

  22-06-2026 14:57 via dailymail.com
  
  The history of an iconic British treasure could be rewritten after a tiny artefact was unearthed in a field in Kent.
  
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• Scientists predict how the world will end - and say Earth may NOT be swallowed by the sun after all

  22-06-2026 14:57 via dailymail.com
  
  For years, it's been believed that the sun will expand in five billion years, swallowing our planet in the process.
  However, a new study suggests that this might not be the case after all.
  
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• Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert

  22-06-2026 14:49 via theregister.com
  
  The Brazilian National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense (SEDEC) and Federal Police (PF) are investigating a suspected hack of the country's emergency alert system after an unauthorized "extreme" alert pinged devices across the country. Defesa Civil Nacional confirmed that its dispatch platform, often used to inform the public about severe weather events, was taken offline in the early hours of Saturday, June 20, after Brazilians reported the alert, which read: "Alerta extremo - Defes
  
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• Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

  22-06-2026 14:14 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has managed to break a very basic Outlook function – the ability to include the previous email in a reply. The issue, which afflicts Outlook for Mac, was introduced in version 16.110, build 26061317, which rolled out to users last week. Before the update, the original message appeared in the reply window. After the update, nothing. One affected user said: "It makes it impossible to have a proper email thread because the recipient can't see the conversation history." Another remar
  
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• Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day

  22-06-2026 13:27 via theregister.com
  
  A Canadian healthcare organization has apologized after its IT team carried out a phishing test falsely offering staff an additional paid day off work. Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services said the phishing test was sent to employees and physicians, acknowledging the theme was inappropriate. "We acknowledge the approach taken in this particular exercise was not appropriate, and we sincerely apologize to employees, physicians, and union representatives," said Ron Johnson, interim CEO at NL H
  
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