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• Are you rubbish at recycling?

  23-08-2016 07:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There has been a massive spike in the amount of recycling that gets rejected.
  
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• MySpace reveals surprise plans to relaunch the social network

  03-08-2026 23:57 via dailymail.com
  
  For anyone who spent hours customizing their Myspace page and ranking their Top 8 friends, its planned comeback will be welcome news.
  
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• Myspace is coming back as owners reveal plans to revive the iconic social network

  03-08-2026 22:47 via dailymail.com
  
  For anyone who spent hours customizing their Myspace page and ranking their Top 8 friends, its planned comeback will be welcome news.
  
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• Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence

  03-08-2026 22:30 via theregister.com
  
  In what they call the first-ever real-world agent-to-agent exploitation method, Pillar Security researchers say they discovered an exploit in the repository behind Google's Agent Development Kit for Python that could allow attackers to compromise supply chains. In other words, now we know that one AI agent can be used to control and compromise another one that has more privileges. The security snafu existed in google/adk-python, an open source Python toolkit with more than 90 million downloads u
  
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• NASA Mars photo captures mysterious 'walking man' on the Red Planet

  03-08-2026 21:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A sweeping view of Mars appears to reveal a mysterious human-like shape striding across the landscape.
  
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• Part II: Technocrats Call For Dictatorship And Technocracy In 2026

  03-08-2026 20:11 via technocracy.news
  
  On my desk are two texts separated by seventy-five years and joined by a single idea. The first is a physical object: Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy, published by a small Los Angeles house in 1932, in which a self-described “Nationally known Economist and Financial Analyst” urged the incoming president to accept “dictatorial powers in the approaching crisis,” dismiss the machinery of representative government, and install Technocrats from top to bottom.
  
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• Doomsday warnings erupt as trinity of cosmic events are set to show themselves to Earth

  03-08-2026 19:28 via dailymail.com
  
  A rare trinity of cosmic events appearing this month has sparked fears of an ominous turning point. All three are set to unfold within hours of one another.
  
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• AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

  03-08-2026 19:19 via theregister.com
  
  Now AI is making fake vulnerabilities and polluting the ecosystem. A batch of critical- and high-rated SQLite CVEs that appeared in the NVD with CISA-supplied enrichment last week turned out to be technically bogus, according to security researchers, and their path into widely used databases exposes weaknesses in the CVE pipeline. Software supply chain security outfit JFrog reported last week that six supposed SQLite vulnerabilities published in a larger batch by a new, obscure GitHub repository
  
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• Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems

  03-08-2026 17:39 via theregister.com
  
  Conference-goers may want to think twice about connecting to public Wi-Fi after Microsoft disclosed that Russian foreign intelligence operatives (SVR) are compromising captive portal networks to deliver infostealers, keyloggers, and other malware. With the help of ReliaQuest's earlier work, Redmond fingered Storm-2945, a subdivision of the SVR's Midnight Blizzard (aka Nobellium), in an attack campaign targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like hotels, conference centers, and other s
  
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• America's serial killer rankings revealed as map exposes a murderous legacy in all 50 states

  03-08-2026 17:27 via dailymail.com
  
  America has produced more documented serial killers than anywhere else on Earth, but some states carry a far more murderous legacy than others.
  
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• Armageddon was RIGHT: Simulations reveal how we really could nuke a doomsday asteroid by burying a bomb deep within it

  03-08-2026 17:24 via dailymail.com
  
  In 1998, the sci-fi blockbuster Armageddon drew the ire of scientists by proposing humanity could avert the apocalypse by nuking an asteroid before it hit Earth.
  
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• The horrifying truth behind Antarctica's 'Blood Falls': Scientists discover the striking red waterfall is teeming with ancient sea creatures trapped beneath the ice

  03-08-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have uncovered the gruesome secret behind Antarctica's infamous Blood Falls - it's alive with the descendants of ancient sea creatures.
  
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• Children who join TikTok and Instagram at 11 are 'six months behind' at school by their GCSE years, study finds

  03-08-2026 17:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Teenagers who start using social media at a younger age are up to six months behind at school by their GCSE years, a new study suggests.
  
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• Chilling map reveals where America's serial killers have struck across the country... how safe is your state?

  03-08-2026 16:56 via dailymail.com
  
  America has produced more documented serial killers than anywhere else on Earth, but some states carry a far more murderous legacy than others.
  
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• Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers

  03-08-2026 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
  
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• Last month was the driest July on RECORD for England and Wales, Met Office confirms

  03-08-2026 16:28 via dailymail.com
  
  It's official - last month was the driest July ever recorded in England and Wales, the Met Office has confirmed.
  
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• MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push

  03-08-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek is lining up $5 billion in financing to expand into AI datacenter silicon, targeting a slice of a market it expects to be worth up to $80 billion next year. The fabless chip producer is perhaps best known for its Arm-based smartphone and Chromebook chipsets, plus wireless silicon for Wi-Fi products. But the firm is the latest to see a "compelling growth opportunity" in the market for compute to power AI and so-called agentic AI in particular. MediaTek is targeting ap
  
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• Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

  03-08-2026 16:13 via theregister.com
  
  The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) is the latest UK public sector outfit to admit that cybercriminals made off with its data, including the names and work email addresses of police officers, justice staff, government partners, and customers. The legal lookup service relied upon by police forces and criminal justice agencies across the UK said it discovered the "data security incident" on July 26 and is investigating alongside specialist cybersecurity firms and the National Crime Agency. A
  
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• NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

  03-08-2026 15:47 via theregister.com
  
  NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated "we simply will not fly it" if claims about the costs of the repurposed Mars rover engineering model prove anywhere near accurate. Isaacman was responding to the Planetary Society's chief of space policy, Casey Dreier, who had run the numbers on his plan to send a robot to the Moon, built from parts of engineering models of the successful Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity. Dreier estimated that the Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping, and In-Sit
  
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• Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict

  03-08-2026 15:33 via theregister.com
  
  Georgia and Michigan are the latest US states to report cyberattacks on water systems, as the FBI investigates incidents across at least seven states. Iran-backed hackers are the leading suspects, although the bureau has not publicly attributed the campaign. Officials in both states told journalists over the weekend that water facilities had detected activity consistent with the attacks on more than 30 Minnesota sites last week. Neither state reported operational disruption. Nine Michigan water
  
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• Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun

  03-08-2026 14:58 via theregister.com
  
  Google performed a remarkably brisk reverse ferret last week, launching AI image generation in Google Earth and yanking it the next day after certain sections of the internet did the inevitable. This is how it began: "Today we're bringing AI image generation with Nano Banana to Google Earth, letting you virtually reimagine anywhere in the real world." This is how it's going, less than 48 hours later: "Thanks for your submissions, we appreciate it – unfortunately we have seen people sharing
  
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• Scientists want Britons to attend 'heat training' in SAUNAS to adjust to the scorching temperatures

  03-08-2026 14:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say that 'heat training' in saunas could be critical in helping us adjust to the scorching summer temperatures.
  
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• No, this isn't CGI! $150,000 robot has eerily human-like facial expressions and movements - as fans claim 'we'll be able to have a robot girlfriend that's way out of our league'

  03-08-2026 14:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Dubbed 'Origin-F1', the robot is the brainchild of Chinese robotics company AheadForm.
  
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• The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

  03-08-2026 13:53 via theregister.com
  
  KETTLE Big tech's Q2 earnings have been pouring in over the last two weeks, and it looks like stock market investors are taking a pin to the AI bubble. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube, where you can subscribe to get notified about the latest episode. Between eye-watering capex expenses, shrinking free cash flow, and worries about chip availability, things are starting to look tight. El Reg editor-in-chief
  
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• Scientists want Brits to attend 'heat training' in SAUNAS to adjust to the scorching temperatures

  03-08-2026 13:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say that 'heat training' in saunas could be critical in helping us adjust to the scorching summer temperatures.
  
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• UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details

  03-08-2026 13:02 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government's corporate finance adviser has admitted that an employee left an internal file containing the names and work email addresses of dozens of officials publicly accessible for around 40 hours. The breach, first reported by The Guardian, was disclosed in UK Government Investments' (UKGI) annual report, which says it occurred during the 2025-26 financial year after a member of staff "did not follow established information security policies." The exposed document contained "high-leve
  
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• Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

  03-08-2026 12:27 via theregister.com
  
  Two prominent science fiction authors have decried the impact of AI on their craft. "I do not want or need a large language model to write my fiction for me. I write fiction compulsively – before I was published I wrote for many years as a hobbyist – so why on earth would I pay someone else to take my fun away?" wrote Charles Stross in a Saturday post. Stross graciously mentioned The Register in his Laundry Files novels. "I maintain that any serious author should shun LLMs like the p
  
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• Find funding and save Jodrell Bank, stars say

  03-08-2026 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronaut Tim Peake, guitarist Johnny Marr and 150 other public figures have signed an open letter.
  
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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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