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• Black widow spiders are headed north, new study reveals

  10-08-2018 02:01
  
  Researchers from McGill University created an updated species distribution map using citizen science contributions to online databases, and museum collections.
  
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• The day every affair will be exposed: Even infidelities from decades ago will be outed... experts reveal what cheaters must do immediately

  11-07-2026 19:57
  
  Cheating partners will soon have nowhere to hide. A tech expert reveal the date, within the next 12 months, when it will all be outed...
  
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• White House UFO insider: I'm finally exposing the government's high-definition satellite footage of 'alien tech'... you are only getting a fraction of the story

  11-07-2026 19:47
  
  An investigative journalist who has helped bring secret UFO footage to the public has shared what he has learned from insiders about what the government isn't sharing.
  
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• AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

  11-07-2026 16:11 via theregister.com
  
  To cater to the broadest possible market, OpenAI and Anthropic build ever-larger models capable of making a brute-force attempt to tackle almost any task. These models are the Swiss Army Knives of the AI world. When used with sufficient force, they can do almost any job … but nobody needs a frontier class model to summarize emails, draft replies, or summarize meeting notes. It's cheaper and easier to train a small domain-specific model that can run dozens of instances of on a single accel
  
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• Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

  11-07-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium on most new datacenter grid connections in the Dublin area. The latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that giant server farms now account for nearly a quarter of the country's metered electricity consumption. Their share rose to 23 percent in 2025 after passing 20 percent in 2023 and 14 percent in 2021 – up from just 5 percent way back in 2015. Accord
  
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• Why your garden is a magnet for wasps: Petrified Brits say their gardens are crawling with insects - here's what's behind the invasion

  11-07-2026 10:15
  
  Nothing ruins a sunny afternoon in the garden quite like the buzz of a wasp. But if your outdoor space seems to be crawling with the insects this summer, you may not be helping.
  
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• The science of the perfect penalty: As England face Norway, scientists reveal why players should aim high and wide at the goal - just like Harry Kane

  11-07-2026 10:14
  
  Researchers analysed various popular penalty methods, and found that shots are most successful when they're high and wide.
  
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• Face it, your cat doesn't care about you! Felines can't understand human voices - and think laughter, sobs, and screams sound identical

  11-07-2026 10:14
  
  Many cat owners swear their furry friends always know exactly what they are thinking, but a new study suggests that this couldn't be further from the truth.
  
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• Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

  11-07-2026 03:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meta's release this week of an AI feature that let people alter Instagram content drew swift blowback.
  
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• Is the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake worth the 13 year wait?

  11-07-2026 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Tom Gerken plays the much-anticipated pirate game which has been remade from the ground up.
  
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• Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets

  11-07-2026 00:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple said in a Friday lawsuit that OpenAI’s nascent hardware business is “rotten to its core.”
  
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• Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head

  10-07-2026 22:32 via theregister.com
  
  HANDS HEAD ON Have you ever felt so lazy that reaching up to scroll on your MacBook’s trackpad was too much work? Yeah, me too – especially with the summer heat blanketing much of the Northern Hemisphere, even reaching my remote corner of the US. Thankfully, there’s an app for that. ScrollPods is a simple macOS app that’s been out since last November but which just came to my attention thanks to a blog post this week from its creator, Ahmed Mohamed, who hails from Austria
  
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• Declassified intelligence map reveals where America's largest UFO waves unfolded

  10-07-2026 22:30
  
  A top-secret map keeping tracking of UFO sightings throughout the US has been revealed in the latest batch of classified files released to the public.
  
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• Millions told to stay indoors as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across two US states

  10-07-2026 22:19
  
  Millions of Americans are being urged to stay indoors as toxic air pollution sweeps across part of the US on Friday. Breathing conditions are expected to be hazardous.
  
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• Cases of deadly lung disease spread by air conditioners and water vapor double

  10-07-2026 21:10
  
  The city is experiencing an outbreak of legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia spread through contaminated water vapor that kills one in 10 patients.
  
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• Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package

  10-07-2026 19:35 via theregister.com
  
  A newly identified destructive Windows backdoor combines ransomware-like encryption with multiple data-wiping features, according to Microsoft. Last October, the Redmond threat-hunting team first spotted attacks using the Golang-based implant they've named GigaWiper. Its developers stuffed multiple malware families into the software as on-demand commands, giving criminals a Swiss Army knife of command-and-control (C2) and destructive capabilities, including multiple wiping commands and file encr
  
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• LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

  10-07-2026 19:12 via theregister.com
  
  Apple Lisas are rare now. Here's a rather cheaper way to build your own – and in theory, it can even use original floppy drives. LisaFPGA does what it says on the GitHub repo: "The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA!" It's an open source project that recreates a complete Apple Lisa on an FPGA board. It's not entirely complete yet, but hardware went on sale in May and you might still be able to buy one – or download the bitstream of the model and build your own. The Apple
  
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• World’s Largest AI Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse

  10-07-2026 19:04 via technocracy.news
  
  Hear the giant sucking sound going into the black hole. Citizen resistance is rising into a firestorm across the country, like a crown fire in a forest’s treetops that takes on a life of its own. AI executives are freaking out. Investors are at risk of losing billions. Citizens will be left with the hubris of collapsed communities and abandoned behemoth buildings that won’t be torn down. Technocrats are about to get a dose of reality. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.In a significant set
  
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• Prehistoric discovery in the Oregon mountains older than Egypt's Great Pyramid could rewrite human history

  10-07-2026 18:22
  
  Artifacts found in the Oregon mountains challenge a long-held belief of human history. The discovery is also four times older than Egypt's Great Pyramid.
  
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• Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

  10-07-2026 18:02 via theregister.com
  
  Environmental groups want the FCC to slam the brakes on orbital datacenters, arguing the agency shouldn't approve constellations they say would total more than a million satellites before taking a hard look at their environmental impact. Earthjustice, acting on behalf of DarkSky International, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), filed a petition this week urging the regulator to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) under the
  
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• How can you help wildlife during hot weather?

  10-07-2026 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sophia Herod has some tips for helping animals that might visit your garden or neighbourhood.
  
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• Boxy forms and odd lights: US declassifies more UFO files

  10-07-2026 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US government published a fourth instalment of unresolved cases, promising to release more files on a rolling basis.
  
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• OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

  10-07-2026 16:59 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex. The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out the newly unveiled ChatGPT Work platform. Atlas arrived last October with no shortage of ambition. Rather than trying to out-Chrome Chrome, OpenAI wanted to bolt ChatGPT directly onto the web, promising a browser that could read pages
  
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• Would YOU trust these people? Fake faces created by AI look MORE trustworthy than real people, study reveals - take the test to see if you can tell the difference

  10-07-2026 16:08
  
  Can you tell the difference between a real face and one generated by AI? According to a new study, it might be a lot harder than you think.
  
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• AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

  10-07-2026 16:01 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft says it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy last year. The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent due to datacenter construction. The cloud and software biz has released a 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report [PDF], claiming its environmental sustainability work is entering a new phase due to rapid technological change. A global shift towards AI is reshaping economies, the report claims, which is becoming “found
  
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• Monster of the deep: Scientists capture the first EVER footage of a Barreleye Fish deep in the Atlantic

  10-07-2026 16:00
  
  One of the ocean's eeriest creatures has emerged from the darkness. Scientists have captured the first ever footage of a rare species of barreleye fish alive in its natural habitat.
  
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• East Asia braces for destructive typhoon as landslides kill 15 in Philippines

  10-07-2026 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Heading for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in decades.
  
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• Watch: Typhoon Bavi forecast to bring heavy rains and floods to Taiwan, Japan and China

  10-07-2026 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.
  
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• Struggling pig farmers say £2m support package 'not enough'

  10-07-2026 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Farmers welcome the Scottish government funding but say it's not enough to stop them losing about £1m a month
  
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• The fake air cons fooling Britain: Experts warn against products 'designed by NASA' that promise to cool a room in 90 seconds

  10-07-2026 15:17
  
  The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said some companies are exploiting demand for portable AC units, making exaggerated claims that lure desperate customers in
  
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