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• Apple could only release major iPhone updates every THREE years instead of two

  01-06-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Currently the tech giant unveils a new design every other year, with 'S' updates boosting speed and adding a few new features inbetween launches.
  
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• Britain's heatwave could be AGEING you: Study warns extreme heat pushes the body's internal clock forward by half a year

  03-08-2026 11:56 via dailymail.com
  
  If the sweltering nights and sweaty commutes weren't bad enough, Britain's scorching summer could also be speeding up how fast your body ages, according to a new study.
  
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• Eye in the sky: Drones are being used to help catch rail line trespassers at London Waterloo

  03-08-2026 11:27 via dailymail.com
  
  They're four words all commuters dread hearing - 'trespasser on the tracks'. But the days of lengthy delays could finally be a thing of the past, thanks to a new system at London Waterloo.
  
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• Earth records its LOWEST temperature in 14 years - as research station in Antarctica hits -84.1°C

  03-08-2026 11:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A remote research station in Antarctica has recorded Earth's lowest temperature in 14 years.
  
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• As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

  03-08-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle has told contributors to OpenJDK – the open source Java project it stewards – not to submit code or other material generated by AI. In a post tagged "legal," Oracle said it was drafting a full policy on generative AI but had set interim ground rules. It cited risks involving review workloads, safety, security, and intellectual property. "Contributions in the OpenJDK Community must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models, diffusion models, or
  
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• Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it

  03-08-2026 10:27 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION The UK's National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park (TNMoC) is a natural center of digital archaeology. It has restored, recreated, and documented landmark machines, from the wartime Colossus computer through to British mainframes of the '60s and '70s. Its collection from the dawn of the microprocessor age also attracts those who live to investigate such things. LLMs, still in their metaphorical diapers, might not sound like a good fit for the hallowed huts. But boy, are they ever. T
  
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• AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks

  03-08-2026 09:01 via theregister.com
  
  AI is becoming both an attack tool and a high-value target, with attacks by AI-enabled adversaries rising 89 percent in 2025, according to CrowdStrike. The security firm's annual Threat Hunting Report details criminal gangs and nation states using AI throughout the attack chain. Attackers are also targeting organizations' AI infrastructure and poisoning popular software packages to compromise their users. "AI is both the weapon and the target," CrowdStrike counter adversary division senior VP Ad
  
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• IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

  03-08-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  WHO, ME? Comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the aphorism "Never work with children or animals," which The Register mentions because half of it has some relevance to this week's edition of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column chronicling the ups and downs of working in tech. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Stockley" who shared a horror story that took place in the 1990s. At the time, Stockley worked for a company that ran an IBM RS/6000, one of Big Blue's brood of Unix
  
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• Microsoft says 8GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

  03-08-2026 06:40 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has added four new items to the to-do list it set itself to improve the quality of Windows 11. Redmond’s list landed in March 2026 in response to users’ anger at Windows 11 becoming increasingly flaky and needy. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s executive VP for Windows and Devices, promised “Improved memory efficiency, lowering the baseline memory footprint for Windows, freeing up more capacity for the apps you run.” Last Friday, Davuluri reviewed Microsoft&rsq
  
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• Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

  03-08-2026 06:40 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has added four new items to the to-do list it set itself to improve the quality of Windows 11. Redmond's list landed in March 2026 in response to users' anger at Windows 11 becoming increasingly flaky and needy. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive VP for Windows and Devices, promised "improved memory efficiency, lowering the baseline memory footprint for Windows, freeing up more capacity for the apps you run." Last Friday, Davuluri reviewed Microsoft's efforts in a new post that is u
  
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• Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

  03-08-2026 03:25 via theregister.com
  
  ASIA IN BRIEF Meta last week briefly took down an unremarkable video posted by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, earning itself days of criticism and regulatory trouble. The video featured Modi announcing a new task force that will reform the exams required to secure places in many Indian universities. Those exams have become a major factor in the sudden development of a major youth protest movement in India, after the cancellation of one test amid claims that questions had leaked. As
  
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• I visited America's 'most haunted' abandoned town... and captured a chilling 'anomaly' in its cursed forest

  02-08-2026 23:29 via dailymail.com
  
  An unpaved road festooned with 'No trespassing' signs in the hills leads to America's 'most haunted' ghost town.
  
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• New York skyscraper terror erupts 1,000 feet above city: See the two luxury buildings engineers fear could fall after Midtown high-rise crumbles

  02-08-2026 22:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Two skyscrapers with major design issues could be the next to spark a panic in New York City after a Midtown high-rise was found to be on the verge of collapsing.
  
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• Life's too short! Women over 50 prioritise enjoyment over longevity, new study reveals

  02-08-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  You can't stop the clock, so you might as well enjoy the time you've got. That's the philosophy women over the age of 50 appear to share, according to a new study.
  
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• Scientists reveal the most scientifically accurate VOLCANO movies ever made - with Dante's Peak topping the list

  02-08-2026 15:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Much to volcanologists' dismay, Hollywood's enthusiasm for special effects often gets in the way of scientific accuracy when it comes to making a volcano movie.
  
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• The new Japanese knotweed: Urgent warning over 'bombsite plant' that can force apart brickwork, chimneys and roofs

  02-08-2026 11:32 via dailymail.com
  
  A little-known 'bombsite plant' can wreak havoc on homes by forcing apart brickwork, chimneys and even roofs, experts have warned.
  
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• Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

  02-08-2026 09:11 via theregister.com
  
  Tom Evslin drove the WorldNet project at AT&T and helped develop what became Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. He was at Microsoft when the company was still working out what to do about this newfangled internet thing. Evslin describes himself as one of Microsoft's "internet radicals" in the early 1990s, when the company was developing Exchange Server to fend off the threat from Lotus Notes. "Bill Gates was willing to put lots of effort and money into Exchange because he was very afraid of Lot
  
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• Britons with green fingers are drawn overwhelmingly to brightly-coloured flowers - with red the most popular

  02-08-2026 01:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists at the Royal Horticultural Society have found that those with green fingers are drawn overwhelmingly to vivid, saturated flower colours, with red topping the list.
  
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• Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932

  02-08-2026 00:17 via technocracy.news
  
  In my tattered copy of Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy (1932), an early reader drew a careful bracket around a single passage on page 72. It reads: “Radical and immediate changes in both our political and economic systems will be necessary. This can best be accomplished by vesting supreme and emergency power in some one man who has the confidence and respect of a majority of the American people. That man is FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT — to whom should be given dictatorial
  
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• How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Microbiologist finally settles the debate - so, are you doing it enough?

  01-08-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Dr Primrose Freestone, Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leicester, has settled the debate.
  
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• What a drag: Shocking images reveal the strain PULLING a suitcase has on your body - as experts advise pushing your cases instead

  01-08-2026 13:01 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're one of the millions of holidaymakers dragging a suitcase behind you though the airport, you could be putting unnecessary strain on your body.
  
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• Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in

  01-08-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Weary travelers making their way through airports have enough to contend with these days without some Microsoft borkage popping up over departure information. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader identifying themselves as Ethel Grapefruit (Mrs), one of the information boards at Heathrow Terminal 5's check-in area has decided that whatever is running behind the scenes does not meet with Microsoft's approval, and requires activation. The message is familiar to many Windows users, and appears a
  
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• A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

  01-08-2026 11:02 via theregister.com
  
  DEEP DIVE For the first time, Nvidia has directly challenged Intel and AMD's CPU dominance. With the launch of Vera, the AI arms dealer aims to flog its standalone CPUs to as many hyperscalers and other cloud providers as it can. Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and NScale have already signed up to deploy the chips in their respective clouds. The follow-on to Nvidia's Grace CPU promises 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory,
  
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• Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing

  01-08-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  Cloud infrastructure services grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure passed $143 billion in Q2, a year-on-year growth rate of 43 percent. This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size. Synergy says that total ma
  
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• One of Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rockets will crash into the moon at 5,400 mph next week - and is set to carve out a new crater on the lunar surface

  01-08-2026 01:27 via dailymail.com
  
  The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, with the explosive impact expected to be the equivalent to three tons of TNT.
  
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• Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop'

  31-07-2026 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.
  
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• Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

  31-07-2026 21:12 via theregister.com
  
  HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto has launched a new startup to build a server-side terminal multiplexer that allows programmers to switch between multiple persistent work sessions. Superlogical promises its terminal multiplexer will be faster and keep better track of user jobs. And it could be instrumental to building durable agentic layers into future systems. The problem with traditional multiplexers – such as tmux, Zellij and GNU Screen – is that they are all too slow, expla
  
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• Secretive US nuke factory's radioactive contamination of three workers exposed

  31-07-2026 21:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Radioactive contamination mysteriously spread beyond a restricted laboratory at one of America's largest nuclear complexes.
  
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• Three people exposed to radioactive material at secretive US nuke factory

  31-07-2026 20:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Radioactive contamination mysteriously spread beyond a restricted laboratory at one of America's largest nuclear complexes.
  
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• AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company

  31-07-2026 20:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".
  
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