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• AMI is tackling the knowledge gap in the IT retirement sector siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/phi…

  22-11-2017 11:00 via twitter.com
  AMI is tackling the knowledge gap in the IT retirement sector siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/phi…
  
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• Seven eerie signs a dead loved one is trying to contact you from the afterlife

  08-06-2026 20:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers who interviewed thousands of people who claimed they were visited by dead loved ones revealed the telltale signs of a visitation from the afterlife.
  
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• Flesh-eating parasite cases rise as fears intensify over US outbreak

  08-06-2026 17:59 via dailymail.com
  
  US outbreak fears are intensifying after federal officials confirmed two new detections of the flesh-eating New World screwworm in the nation, increasing case to four.
  
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• Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation

  08-06-2026 17:46 via theregister.com
  
  An Illinois high school won't reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware attack on Sunday, June 7. Evanston Township High School (ETHS), located 14 miles north of Chicago, said it would be closed today and tomorrow, and that the closure also affected summer school, sports camps, and on-campus activities, which are all canceled. "Upon discovering the incident, we immediately activated our incident response procedures and engaged external cyber breach attorneys and cyberse
  
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• US outbreak fears intensify after flesh-eating parasite cases rise to FOUR

  08-06-2026 17:39 via dailymail.com
  
  US outbreak fears are intensifying after federal officials confirmed two new detections of the flesh-eating New World screwworm in the nation, increasing case to four.
  
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• NASA will announce the four astronauts flying aboard Artemis III TOMORROW - here are the likely candidates

  08-06-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Just months after the success of Artemis II, NASA is poised to reveal its next generation of daring astronauts.
  
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• Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet

  08-06-2026 17:21 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon is set to miss its deadline to deploy half of its Leo satellite constellation by July 30, as required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The agency has, however, granted it a waiver of sorts – at the cost of priority status in spectrum licensing. The Bezos-founded behemoth got the go-ahead from the FCC for what was then known as Project Kuiper back in 2020. This was on the proviso that it had 50 percent of its planned constellation of 3,236 broadband satellites in orbit
  
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• Hurricane trackers monitor growing tropical threat in Gulf of America with possible US impacts

  08-06-2026 16:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Hurricane forecasters are monitoring the Gulf of America for a possible tropical system that could take shape in the coming days.
  
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• NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

  08-06-2026 16:21 via theregister.com
  
  NHS England is handing Microsoft Copilot to more than half a million staff after a pilot claimed the AI assistant could claw back 43 minutes a day from administrative work. On Monday, NHS England announced plans to roll out Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff. Its confidence comes from a pilot involving 30,000 staff across 90 organizations, which the health service says saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on admin, working out to roughly five working weeks over the course of a
  
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• Inside NASA's $1 BILLION plan to destroy the ISS: As the latest leak sparks evacuation fears, experts reveal how the doomed space station will be destroyed in 2030

  08-06-2026 16:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Over 25 years since the first astronauts floated aboard the International Space Station, time is now running out for Earth's orbiting outpost.
  
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• GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

  08-06-2026 15:56 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co-founder and CTO, Ashish Kurmi. Users reported issues quickly on Friday, after visits to those repos all resulted in the same mes
  
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• The World Cup could be a superspreader event: Experts warn the tournament will have the 'perfect conditions' for infectious diseases - including Ebola, Covid-19, and STIs

  08-06-2026 15:07 via dailymail.com
  
  The influx of tourists could spark outbreaks of everything from Ebola to STIs, according to Dr Andres Henao at the University of Colorado Anschutz.
  
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• Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed

  08-06-2026 14:45 via theregister.com
  
  The Python steering council has surprised onlookers by asking for the suspension of new development on the JIT (just in time) compiler project from the main branch of the Python code repository, pending creation and acceptance of a new PEP (Python enhancement proposal) for the project. Bug and security fixes for existing JIT code in main will continue to be accepted, but if no PEP is submitted and approved within six months, the JIT code will be removed from main. The announcement is unexpected
  
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• NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting

  08-06-2026 14:10 via theregister.com
  
  Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injunction ordering it to stop. In a blog post on Monday, Meta said it had disrupted "NSO-linked social engineering attempts" after investigating reports from users. According to the company, the activity involved attempts to lure targets into clicking malicious links that redirected them to websites outsid
  
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• UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers

  08-06-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  Britain's much-heralded scheme to attract top scientific talent has managed to attract a total of 18 takers, the government has admitted. The Global Talent visa program was launched last summer following announcements from the EU and France that they intended to tempt scientists unhappy with their lot in Trump's America and elsewhere. But while the EU was putting up €500 million ($575 million) in funding for foreign eggheads, the UK could only stump up a dedicated pot of £54 million (
  
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• Uber's robotaxis arrive in the UK: Self-driving cars will be available in London this summer

  08-06-2026 13:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Designed in collaboration with Wayve, the robotaxi is an all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-e, equipped with surround cameras and radar.
  
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• Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims

  08-06-2026 12:48 via theregister.com
  
  UK insurer Aviva is receiving tens of thousands of reports from scammers looking to profit from claims embellished using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Aviva and its wider brand portfolio received an estimated 18,400 plus fraudulent claims in 2025, backed by doctored evidence includeding AI-generated car accident scenes, fake official documents, and fabricated images exaggerating damage. If approved, the sum of these claims would have amounted to £233 million ($310.3 million) across t
  
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• UK's answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV

  08-06-2026 12:02 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is about to unleash an AI-powered CV writer on jobseekers in the hope that the technology taking jobs can also help people to find them. Prime minister Keir Starmer used London Tech Week to announce a three-month trial of an "AI Work Assistant" that officials say will put "a job centre in your pocket," offering around-the-clock help with CV writing, applications, job searches, and career advice. The service is already live online, though the government would like users to keep
  
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• UK gov's answer to AI job fears: An AI bot to polish your CV

  08-06-2026 12:02 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is about to unleash an AI-powered CV writer on jobseekers in the hope that the technology taking jobs can also help people to find them. Prime minister Keir Starmer used London Tech Week to announce a three-month trial of an "AI Work Assistant" that officials say will put "a job centre in your pocket," offering around-the-clock help with CV writing, applications, job searches, and career advice. The service is already live online, though the government would like users to keep
  
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• Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV

  08-06-2026 12:02 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is about to unleash an AI-powered CV writer on jobseekers in the hope that the technology taking jobs can also help people to find them. Prime minister Keir Starmer used London Tech Week to announce a three-month trial of an "AI Work Assistant" that officials say will put "a job centre in your pocket," offering around-the-clock help with CV writing, applications, job searches, and career advice. The service is already live online, though the government would like users to keep
  
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• Great white shark is recorded underwater in the Mediterranean for the first time ever

  08-06-2026 11:44 via dailymail.com
  
  The footage is believed to be the first ever captured of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea in his natural habitat.
  
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• A great white shark has been recorded underwater in the Mediterranean for the first time ever

  08-06-2026 11:29 via dailymail.com
  
  The footage is believed to be the first ever captured of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea in his natural habitat.
  
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• Super El Niño to be the strongest EVER recorded: New predictions suggest global sea temperatures could be 4˚C above average later this year

  08-06-2026 11:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The brewing super El Niño will likely be the strongest ever recorded, new predictions suggest.
  
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• History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

  08-06-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  INTERVIEW Gregory Kurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone was born of a small group of rebuild hackers and Linux fans who were angry that Red Hat Enterprise Linux had replaced Red Hat Linux and convinced they could do better. Back in 2003, Linux fans were ticked off at Red Hat because they were replacing the end-user-friendly Red Hat Linux with the business-oriented Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It was a smart move for Red Hat, but users were pisse
  
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• Great White Shark spotted in the Mediterranean for the first time ever

  08-06-2026 10:54 via dailymail.com
  
  The footage is believed to be the first ever captured of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea in his natural habitat.
  
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• Yes! It’s true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

  08-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION In the time zone of the keynote, it's dystopia o'clock. These days, it always is. The fervent CEO prophet strolls around an empty stage, backlit by a giant altar of light on which they display their magic and impart visions of a future that address none of our fears, choosing instead to add to them. The format has as little variation as a church service, the whoops and cheers of the faithful as predictable as psalms. There are no industry awards for keynotes, even the most brazen hype ma
  
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• Yes! It’s true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform.

  08-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION In the time zone of the keynote, it's dystopia o'clock. These days, it always is. The fervent CEO prophet strolls around an empty stage, backlit by a giant altar of light on which they display their magic and impart visions of a future that address none of our fears, choosing instead to add to them. The format has as little variation as a church service, the whoops and cheers of the faithful as predictable as psalms. There are no industry awards for keynotes, even the most brazen hype ma
  
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• Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

  08-06-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  WHO, ME? Is showing up for work every Monday a mistake? While you ponder that question, dive into a new installment of Who, Me? – The Register's weekly column that shares readers' stories of escaping their errors. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Evan," who wrote to us from the side of a pool while his kids had a swimming lesson! "I work in test automation as a consultant and for one client I had to record test evidence as video," he explained, adding that the client's test mana
  
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• Rare footage captured of Great White shark in Mediterranean Sea

  08-06-2026 08:09
  
  A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily.
  
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• Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI

  08-06-2026 01:00 via theregister.com
  
  KETTLE El Reg's systems editor Tobias Mann has been in Taipei for the past week getting the skinny on the hottest new chips, and what he's heard has been less about actual hardware announcements and more about how chipmakers are rushing to meet the demands of AI, other customers be damned.Tobias joins host Brandon Vigliarolo to discuss what he noticed at Computex 2026, how AI has taken over yet another industry event, and whether the world is going to have to adjust to new, more expensive hardwa
  
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