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• Astronomers find Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is carbon-rich asteroid

  09-05-2018 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 300km wide Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich asteroid, the first of its kind to be confirmed in the cold outer reaches of the Solar System.
  
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• Ancient DNA exposes a hidden chapter in the fall of the Roman Empire

  11-09-2026 19:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The hidden story of what happened after the Roman Empire fell has finally been uncovered after scientists uncovered ancient remains dating back more than 1,400 years.
  
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• Green Beret behind secret pastors' UFO meeting issues chilling warning about sinister new religion quietly reaching millions... and predicts 'very, very dark' future for Christian faith

  11-09-2026 19:13 via dailymail.com
  
  The Daily Mail first reported in May that private meetings of intelligence insiders, former military members and faith leaders were said to have taken place in February.
  
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• Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

  11-09-2026 18:50 via theregister.com
  
  If humans ever make it to Mars - and that’s still a big IF - they will need to build shelters there. And they could build those shelters out of yeast and gelatin, if a method described by Hong Kong-based researchers makes it out of the lab. A paper published on Thursday by a group of researchers from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University describes a method for building structures on Mars that doesn’t rely on energy-intensive heati
  
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• 'Time traveler' claiming to be from the year 3700 reveals 'physical evidence' from the day robots destroy humanity

  11-09-2026 18:43 via dailymail.com
  
  A self-proclaimed time traveler's warning from the year 3700 has resurfaced after chilling claims made by researchers who say humanity is spiraling towards its own destruction.
  
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• Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm

  11-09-2026 18:03 via theregister.com
  
  If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let it wander around a virtual world. Now another simulated fly nervous system is trading crypto. Behold Stonkfly, the brainchild of Coinbase software engineer Alex Wormuth. His X post boasted: "I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin. Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions an
  
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• AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle

  11-09-2026 17:16 via theregister.com
  
  A former AT&T retail worker who used his system access to hijack customers' phone numbers for cybercriminals has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison. Kenneth Carter, 44, carried out the SIM swaps at a store in Portland, Oregon, , allowing the criminals to intercept authentication codes and raid victims' bank accounts. Court documents show that Carter worked with at least three other people in the scheme, which ran between May 2018 and November 2019, and caused nearly $600,000 in in
  
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• Will Spiking Diesel Prices Drive Autonomous Trucking?

  11-09-2026 16:57 via technocracy.news
  
  With the national price of diesel hitting $6.05 as California hits $8.00 per gallon, one wonders what will happen to the trucking industry that delivers the goods across America. Labor is the largest expense for trucking, so many trucking companies are planning to switch to autonomous trucks. In the meantime, a slew of independent trucking companies are biting the dust. This is a fundamental change in our economic system. ⁃ Patrick Wood Editor.Swedish freight company Einride’s a
  
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• Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

  11-09-2026 16:27 via theregister.com
  
  While high memory costs have hurt PC shipments, the server market continues to grow as AI infrastructure spending spreads beyond hyperscalers to corporate and government buyers. According to market intelligence firm IDC, the second quarter was a bumper one for the server sector, with vendor revenue reaching an all-time high of $166.3 billion. That was a 52 percent increase from the same period last year. The picture for servers therefore differs from that for laptops and desktops. There, unit sh
  
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• Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility

  11-09-2026 15:12 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION "Where do we put digital government? You know, all those billions we spend on consultants and legacy systems?" "Oh, that! Put it with sports and tourism. And something we're calling 'place'." It might be a fictional conversation between a SpAd* and a mandarin**, but in reality, the outcome is more or less the same. With the arrival of Andy Burnham as UK prime minister came a shake-up of responsibilities in Whitehall, leaving responsibility for science, technology, and government tech sca
  
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• Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars

  11-09-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  A Ukrainian lawyer who wound up coding malware for the Conti ransomware gang has been sentenced to four years in a US prison. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit wire fraud over his role in Conti, the Russia-linked ransomware operation associated with more than 1,000 victims and at least $150 million in ransom payments. Lytvynenko took an unusual route into the ransomware business. The Ukrainian national, who later lived in Cork, Ireland, trained a
  
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• EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock

  11-09-2026 13:34 via theregister.com
  
  Manufacturers selling products with digital elements in the EU must now report actively exploited vulnerabilities to cybersecurity authorities under the Cyber Resilience Act's mandatory reporting rules. The reporting duties set out in Article 14 of the CRA became applicable today. Subject to the regulation's exemptions, they apply to manufacturers of products with digital elements made available in the EU, regardless of where those manufacturers are based. Manufacturers must submit an early warn
  
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• Has Apple just written off 10% of its customers? Left-handed people claim the foldable iPhone Duo is 'pretty much unusable'

  11-09-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Following the launch of the iPhone Duo, Apple fans have flocked to X to complain about the usability for left-handers.
  
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• Could AI really kill us? Experts reveal exactly how superintelligent bots could make mankind extinct

  11-09-2026 13:01 via dailymail.com
  
  According to experts, part of what makes the risk so alarming is that there are multiple possible paths to humanity's annihilation. But how exactly could superintelligent bots drive mankind to extinction ?
  
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• Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

  11-09-2026 12:35 via theregister.com
  
  Britain's biggest trade union body wants workers to have the right to negotiate over AI before employers decide which parts of their jobs to hand over to machines. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the government to give workers more say over how AI is introduced in the workplace, warning that its enthusiasm for the technology has yet to be matched by a practical plan for the people expected to work alongside it. In a letter to the new AI and Future of Work ministers, Kanishka Naraya
  
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• Terrifying map reveals the fate of every single glacier on Earth - as scientists warn HALF could collapse by 2100

  11-09-2026 11:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Called the Global Glacier Extinction Explorer, the interactive tool is the brainchild of scientists from ETH Zurich and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
  
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• Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux

  11-09-2026 11:16 via theregister.com
  
  Digital Research's GEM was one of the earliest graphical environments for PC compatibles, and an inspired hack has now resurrected it on Linux. GEM for Linux is a port of the Atari ST's graphical desktop, created by prolific Slovenian developer Tomaž Štih. Applications share a display server that can output directly through Linux's framebuffer or display the desktop in a window using Štih's SDL2-based Rasta framebuffer emulator. In his Linkedin post, he says that it is "derive
  
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• BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation

  11-09-2026 10:31 via theregister.com
  
  EPISODE 17 The new Boss is keen to acquire knowledge. So keen that he wants a quick rundown on our content management system so he can avail himself of our copious workplace documentation. "WELL," I say, bracing myself for a long session, "first things first, you'll need to get a strong coffee." "Why?" "Because our CMS is a place where documents go to die." "Surely it can't be that-" "Oh, it's bad. So bad that no one will ever admit to being on the selection committee that purchased it." "Were y
  
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• DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

  11-09-2026 09:15 via theregister.com
  
  Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an updated version of its cost-and-latency-optimized Flash model on Thursday, with a new version 4.1 that includes architectural improvements more significant than you would expect in a point release because the changes might open the door to larger, smarter, and less resource-intensive models. At 763 billion parameters, the point release is more than 2.5x the size of the model it replaces. In fact, the model is larger than the V3 and R1 models that put DeepS
  
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• On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix

  11-09-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  ON CALL Friday morning is The Register's home for tech support stories, which we showcase in On Call – the weekly column made possible by readers generously sharing their experience of what it takes to fix things for the furious, fatuous, or feebleminded users that infest every workplace. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lucia," who was once ordered to report immediately to a company director's office. "All of my files have gone," the director fumed, before insisting this was al
  
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• Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

  11-09-2026 08:26 via theregister.com
  
  When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. “Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as the best supported languages for internal development in the company,” explained Victor Ciura, Microsoft principal engineer for the Rust tooling team, during a keynote talk today at this year’s annual RustConf, be
  
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• Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

  11-09-2026 04:43 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle has argued AI will strengthen its applications business, by giving customers new ways to use software and making them easier to implement. Co-CEO Mike Sicilia decided to defend applications in his first remarks on Oracle’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings call. “The introduction of AI is an accelerator, not a replacement for packaged applications,” he argued. “Before AI came along, application suites had already proven their effectiveness. Companies have been able to increase t
  
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• Eyelash extensions trigger revolting mite infestation that could make your vision blurry, study finds

  11-09-2026 01:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Eye doctors found 96 per cent of women who have the beauty procedure every three to four weeks were crawling with the eight-legged bugs.
  
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• OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

  11-09-2026 00:59 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI has launched a version of its latest real-time full-duplex voice model as an API, allowing software developers to implement more responsive voice-enabled apps and conversational workflows. GPT-Live-1 debuted in July, offering a way to interact through spoken prompts and responses instead of through typed text. Initially available through the ChatGPT interface, the voice model can now be reached via API calls. As a full-duplex model, GPT-Live-1 can listen and generate speech at the same ti
  
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• Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

  11-09-2026 00:38 via theregister.com
  
  In the latest installment of "my AI model is more dangerous than yours," Anthropic on Thursday warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models to automate cyberattacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, conduct mass surveillance operations, and try to develop an even more dangerous version of a deadly mosquito-borne virus. The baddies have come a long way since November, when an earlier Anthropic report documented Chinese spies using Claude to automate digital
  
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• New 'code' found in Egypt's Great Pyramid may finally reveal its true purpose

  10-09-2026 22:29 via dailymail.com
  
  The Great Pyramid has guarded its secrets behind millions of tons of stone, but a new paper claims its greatest message may have been hiding in plain sight.
  
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• I'm a sociopath... here are the three tricks I use to control men without them ever realizing

  10-09-2026 22:17 via dailymail.com
  
  A woman who describes herself has now revealed the calculated dating tactics she says can leave men emotionally hooked and desperate to prove themselves.
  
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• Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

  10-09-2026 21:50 via theregister.com
  
  With the release of Apple Watch Series 12, Apple has decided that it's ok to capture people's conversations without their consent. The latest Apple Watch comes with Audio Intelligence, a set of AI audio processing capabilities tuned for the company's S11 chip. Its features include: Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text," Apple explains in its technical summary [PDF]. "Siri R
  
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• Newly identified 'code' hidden in Egypt's Great Pyramid may finally reveal its true purpose

  10-09-2026 21:50 via dailymail.com
  
  The Great Pyramid has guarded its secrets behind millions of tons of stone, but a new paper claims its greatest message may have been hiding in plain sight.
  
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• Spotify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

  10-09-2026 21:43 via theregister.com
  
  Tailwind CSS may still be open source, but it’s not independent anymore: It’s now a Shopify product. Tailwind Labs CEO Aadam Wathan shared news of Shopify’s acquisition of his company in a blog post Thursday. Wathan said that he chose to sell to Shopify because the ecommerce platform was an early adopter of Tailwind CSS, and will serve as an ideal place for his open-source web development platform to “be developed in service of a real product.” “I believe deep
  
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