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• Amazon's Twitch triumphs over bot-sellers

  23-01-2018 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The Amazon-owned games streaming service wins a court battle versus a service selling fake views.
  
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• Shocking twist after America's top exorcist claims UFOs are actually demons

  04-06-2026 14:05 via dailymail.com
  
  One of America's most prominent Catholic exorcists has found himself at the center of a growing controversy after claiming that many UFO sightings are demons.
  
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• Who will win the World Cup? Scientists calculate the chances for all 48 teams - with Spain the clear favourites to take home the trophy

  04-06-2026 12:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts from the University of Innsbruck have calculated the chances of winning for all 48 participating teams. And their findings will come as good news for Spain fans.
  
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• Millions of people hear a constant hum they can't explain - now scientists know why

  04-06-2026 12:41 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're constantly plagued by a bizarre humming noise, scientists now have an explanation for it.
  
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• GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

  04-06-2026 11:47 via theregister.com
  
  The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen as its processor for many payments made through its GOV.UK Pay service. Adyen will take over GOV.UK Pay card payments for local authorities, police forces and armed forces units from Stripe, as well as pay by bank services, under a three-year contract worth up to £25.3 million. According to the tender notice published in February 2025, the contract covers around 17 percent of payments made through
  
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• The taste of the afterlife: Scientists make sourdough BREAD using yeast collected from Otzi the Iceman's mummified body - and say it's 'really good'

  04-06-2026 11:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have found signs of life in the 5,300-year-old mummy - in the form of yeast.
  
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• The ominous sign a SUPER El Niño is inching closer: Satellite image reveals how large areas of the Atlantic Ocean are 5°C hotter than usual - suggesting the unusual climate event could be imminent

  04-06-2026 10:41 via dailymail.com
  
  Large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea are currently 5°C (9°F) hotter than usual, adding to mounting evidence a Super El Niño is imminent.
  
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• UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract

  04-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  The UK’s tax collector has chosen French consultancy giant Capgemini for a £600 million contact center deal, while pushing back the award and start of its £2.4 billion customer relationship management contract. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) awarded Capgemini’s UK unit its Contact Centre as a Service contract, worth £600 million including VAT and lasting up to 10 years, on 27 April. It received 13 bids and has also short-listed Canadian-headquartered CGI for the deal
  
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• The grains of sand that solve Stonehenge mystery after 5,000 years: Scientists uncover new evidence key stone was moved hundreds of miles by HUMANS - and not glaciers

  04-06-2026 10:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Stonehenge's most mysterious stone was transported hundreds of miles from Scotland by humans, according to a new study. 
  
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• A huge earthquake could strike in New Zealand: Scientists discover an active fault line running through Auckland - and warn it could spark a 6.8 magnitude tremor at any time

  04-06-2026 09:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have warned that a huge earthquake could strike in New Zealand - after finding an active fault line in the north of the country.
  
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• Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine

  04-06-2026 09:09 via theregister.com
  
  There's a lot of fear surrounding the bug-finding capabilities of super-advanced AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT 5.5-Cyber. But attackers are already using free, publicly available LLMs to hijack networks and worm through software supply chains at a much lower cost – to them at least. The latest example comes from University of Toronto researchers, who used an unnamed, publicly available open-weight model released in 2025 to develop a computer worm that they claim spread
  
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• Scientists at NIH charged with attempting to smuggle highly contagious pathogens from Africa into US

  04-06-2026 08:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Two top US government scientists have been charged with smuggling vials of viruses into the country - and then allegedly lying about it when questioned by officials.
  
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• All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

  04-06-2026 07:00 via theregister.com
  
  PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we talk about weak security policies and how to avoid them. Hopefully, we can learn from others’ mistakes – or at least have a good laugh at them. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at [email protected]. Anonymity is available upon request. This week, we have a tale of password passivity involving Active Directory. It comes to us courtesy of Rob Anderson, head of reactive consulting s
  
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• Tech CEOs Are Apparently Suffering From AI Psychosis

  04-06-2026 00:59 via technocracy.news
  
  What if tech CEOs are living in a bubble, separated from reality – AI psychosis? Would this throw their instrument panel into chaos? Would they start making really bad decisions, in spite of warnings from those outside their bubble?  This article rightly concludes that the “outcome of the ongoing CEO AI psychosis will simply be organizational chaos.” ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras
  
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• Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state

  04-06-2026 00:31 via theregister.com
  
  AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a "dark, dead" state after an attack, said Commvault Chief Technology Officer Brian Brockway. "The majority of cyber cases that we've seen in the customer base have moved well beyond the breaking inside, and encrypting and corrupting some of your key files and folders, to taking over control of your entire VM environment, wiping out
  
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• Americans urged to KILL four-foot lizards terrorizing the nation

  03-06-2026 23:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A destructive invasive lizard from South America is spreading through parts of the US, and officials want the public's help fighting back.
  
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• Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

  03-06-2026 22:57 via theregister.com
  
  Wireless jamming attacks are on the rise. Rice University researchers have shown how self-curving radio beams can make a jammer appear to be somewhere it isn't, potentially undermining some anti-jamming defenses. Jamming relies on flooding a wireless receiver with noise that denies service. Some modern receivers identify and block jamming attempts using direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation technology that pinpoints the jammer's direction and directs an array null that blocks signals emanating i
  
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• NASA declares probe DEAD after it tracked mysterious visitor in our solar system

  03-06-2026 21:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.
  
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• Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

  03-06-2026 21:04 via theregister.com
  
  Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the
  
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• The number one sign you were raised by a narcissistic parent, according to top family therapist

  03-06-2026 20:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The biggest issue people with narcissistic parents face is not from their mother or father, but from a crippling condition their childhood has created.
  
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• NASA declares Mars probe officially lost months after close encounter with interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS

  03-06-2026 20:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.
  
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• Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent

  03-06-2026 20:06 via theregister.com
  
  Perhaps you stopped by a friend's house and rang their Ring doorbell. Or maybe you walked past a neighbor's front door on your way somewhere else. According to a new class action lawsuit, Ring's Familiar Faces feature may have captured your face and generated facial-recognition data from it without your knowledge. A Virginia man is now suing Amazon and its home security subsidiary, alleging violations of state laws. Charles Sigwalt claims that Ring's Familiar Faces, an AI-powered facial-recognit
  
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• Why whales don't get cancer, do go through the menopause - and can hear each other singing 4,000 miles away

  03-06-2026 19:24 via dailymail.com
  
  We are only now beginning to realise how much we still don't know about whales - and why they are in many people's view the most extraordinary beasts alive.
  
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• No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

  03-06-2026 18:49 via theregister.com
  
  Move over, Copilot: Microsoft is introducing a new category of agentic AI called "Autopilot," starting with Scout, its first agent. And it doesn't take much guessing to understand how Microsoft expects these things to operate: By constantly watching your every move and taking action in the background to ostensibly streamline your workday. Microsoft announced Autopilot, and the first Autopilot agent, Scout, at Microsoft Build on Tuesday, describing it and other future Autopilots as “always-
  
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• Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node

  03-06-2026 18:20 via theregister.com
  
  Intel is keen to reassure investors that its troubles with the 18A manufacturing process were a one-off, and that it is better positioned to capitalize on what it expects will be growing demand for CPUs used in AI inference workloads. Speaking at the Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, Chipzilla’s chief financial officer David Zinsner claimed that the firm simply bit off more than it could chew in trying to move too fast with the new process node. “I w
  
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• Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

  03-06-2026 18:09 via theregister.com
  
  A body that represents mobile operators wants the migration to 6G networks to be as smooth as possible, learning lessons from the fractious 5G introduction that has left countries like the UK with a less than satisfactory service. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) says that 6G requires a different standardization approach in order to prevent complexity and market confusion, alongside a smooth and cost-effective migration path for its members. What exactly defines 6G is still be
  
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• The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company

  03-06-2026 17:24 via theregister.com
  
  COMPUTEX 2026 The sun is slowly but surely setting on copper interconnects, Marvell CEO Matt Murphy claimed in his Computex keynote this week. Within the next decade the IP house expects photons to take the place of electrons and change the way datacenters are built and run in the process. And, if Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is right, the widespread transition to silicon photonics technologies could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company. With a market cap of $191 billion, Marvell still has a
  
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• AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?

  03-06-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Your customer service agent just wrote to a database it should have been reading from, and nobody told it to do so. Somewhere upstream, a poisoned support ticket had convinced the agent that the user was an admin, and being helpful, it obliged. This is the working day for anyone running autonomous AI in production. Prisma AIRS from Palo Alto Networks Networks sits in the middle of that traffic, inspecting tool calls and network flows rather than only the natural-language prompts on the surface,
  
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• Bain: “The (AI) Value Didn’t Arrive”

  03-06-2026 16:46 via technocracy.news
  
  The wheels are coming off the bus. The “Great AI Con” is about to go down in history as the biggest scam ever. Corporate executives worldwide followed the pied pipers (those that “offer strong but delusive enticement”) like Sam Altman into a multi-trillion-dollar black hole, only to find that they should have done ROI (Return on Investment) studies before spending billions more.
  What have the Arch-Technocrats done to our government?  Thanks to DOGE, they have replace
  
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• Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

  03-06-2026 16:30 via theregister.com
  
  Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product after becoming disillusioned with the company’s handling of security reports. Ammar Askar dropped a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) flaw within just an hour of disclosing it to “an old contact” at the open source platform, according to his account of things. The vulnerability he exposed involves attackers configuring repos, either of their own making or th
  
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