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• Boeing teases plane that will 'change future air power'

  18-12-2017 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The craft, seen hidden under a cloth,is believed to be a radical new craft using electric 'hairdryer' to allow it to land and take off vertically. Boeing will unveil their mystery aircraft on December 19th.
  
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• Once in a thousand year storm feared as life-threatening floods to wash out millions in four US states

  16-09-2026 23:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Potentially historic rainfall threatens millions this week in a region of the US that often struggles to see any rain at all.
  
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• CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore

  16-09-2026 22:33 via theregister.com
  
  If you rely on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s weekly vulnerability bulletin to keep you up to date on the latest threats, we have bad news. It’s being discontinued at the end of September. CISA announced on Wednesday that its weekly vulnerability bulletin would stop going out on Monday, September 28, saying the move was part of its shift from managing vulnerabilities based on severity to “a modern, risk-based approach.” That approach, as CISA expla
  
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• Mysterious sightings at 'China's Area 51' spark major warnings to America over top secret weapons

  16-09-2026 21:22 via dailymail.com
  
  In recent months, various pictures of mysterious new aircrafts have been captured around remote facilities in the desert in China and experts say they are cause for concern.
  
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• Area 51 mystery deepens as discovery exposes who is really behind secret flights

  16-09-2026 21:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A mysterious job listing online has been tied to the infamous Air Force base that whistleblowers claim is home to secret government research on alien technology.
  
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• OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things

  16-09-2026 20:32 via theregister.com
  
  There's a new kind of agent coming to ChatGPT ads, and this one wants your money. OpenAI has begun testing Sponsored Agents, advertiser-backed bots that try to sell you things as part of a custom conversation. OpenAI said in a Wednesday announcement that Sponsored Agents were now being tested with select US advertisers already using its platform to put sponsored content in front of ChatGPT users. Despite the “agent” label, however, it seems from OpenAI’s description of the new
  
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• Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks

  16-09-2026 19:56 via theregister.com
  
  Both Google and Uncle Sam warned that attackers have exploited a zero-day improper authorization bug in Pixel phones' cellular modems that can bypass permission checks and escalate privileges with no user interaction required. The hole has since been closed, provided that you update. Google disclosed the high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704, on Tuesday - and, at the time, warned the security hole “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” In other words: miscrea
  
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• DOA: CLARITY Act Torched By Senate Vote, Technocrats Are Livid But Not Deterred

  16-09-2026 18:48 via technocracy.news
  
  Failure of the CLARITY Act does not stop the tokenization train, but it will slow it down. The SEC and CFTC will now write the rules by exemption, no-action letter, and enforcement discretion. The GENIUS Act provided the settlement layer in 2025, and the banks have already caved to tokenization. The stock markets are already being tokenized. Get ready for my new book, CRUCIBLE OF TOKENS, to figure out what this means to you, so you can take evasive action. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.The Senate
  
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• Dino-mite discovery! Bizarre prehistoric species that looked like a 'huge pig with a turtle's beak and tusks' roamed Tanzania 240million years ago - and it could change the dinosaur timeline

  16-09-2026 18:47 via dailymail.com
  
  It may look like a bizarre cross between a pig, a turtle and a sabre-toothed cat - but this was one of the most formidable herbivores of the Triassic.
  
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• Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows

  16-09-2026 18:15 via theregister.com
  
  Companies are getting more selective about replacing legacy kit such as mainframe systems, and rising AI investment is one of the factors causing them to hold onto these existing assets for longer. Managed services biz Ensono claims in its 2026 State of IT Modernization report that 78 percent of IT decision makers regard legacy systems as more important today than they did two years ago, and this is because such systems are viewed as key to making AI work for their organization. The report is ba
  
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• Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE ‘Beyond Saving’

  16-09-2026 18:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on the ropes in the Middle East with a collection of wreckage from bombed-out data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. AWS reported, “The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand.” Phrases like “damaged beyond hope of recovery,” “the region went dark,” and “exhausted every option for recovering whatever was left behind” hi
  
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• Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel

  16-09-2026 17:51 via theregister.com
  
  There’s kids running up a few hundred bucks on in-app purchases, and then there’s the case of nine-year old YouTuber Mighty Mike Plays, who just cost his dad $118,000 – and possibly his job – after running a bunch of Google ad campaigns for his channel on papa's company credit card. The young Roblox and Minecraft YouTuber posted a video Tuesday – or perhaps it's more apt to say his father Dave posted the video to explain why Might Mike Plays might be going dark for
  
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• UAE Moves To ‘War-Proof’ Its AI Data Centers

  16-09-2026 17:50 via technocracy.news
  
  “War is hell” when all of a sudden it dawns on you that your AI data center might be bombed into oblivion. UAE is perilously close to Iran, so its data centers are getting hit. The UAE is a leader in AI and FinTech (Financial Technology) in the Middle East, and wants to be the hinge pin of the global trade routes passing through the region. No AI data centers = no global trade. ⁃ Patrick Wood Editor.The UAE is redrawing its plans for a five-gigawatt artificial intelligence (AI)
  
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• Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century

  16-09-2026 17:27 via theregister.com
  
  Fedora Linux 45 beta has arrived with Linux kernel 7.2, a release-candidate build of GNOME 51, and extensive changes beneath the desktop. The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console – the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement is kmscon, a userspace terminal emulator that has been in development for more than a decade. Its Freedesktop project page explains that it uses the kerne
  
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• SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22

  16-09-2026 14:46 via theregister.com
  
  SpaceX is aiming for a September 22 launch of its monstrous Starship rocket on a 10-hour mission to deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit. The flight, set to launch at 1215 UTC if all goes to plan and the authorities give the green light, will be the first time Starship has gone into orbit, and the mission is planned to fly at an altitude of approximately 275 km. The mission aims for six orbits, followed by a deorbit burn using a single Raptor engine while. The engineers are then planning
  
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• AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good

  16-09-2026 14:11 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran. In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region (me-south-1) remains inaccessible. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withst
  
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• Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack

  16-09-2026 13:56 via theregister.com
  
  Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) has reported the country’s first-ever personal data breach caused by the actions of an autonomous AI agent. Francisco Pérez Bes, president and deputy of the AEPD, said in a Monday blog post that an individual deployed an AI agent that used a “known large language model (LLM)” to carry out the attack on an organization. The agent scanned “generic files” before accessing the organization’s system, then ran vulne
  
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• Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy

  16-09-2026 13:15 via theregister.com
  
  Logitech has released the MX Keypad, a developer-focused keypad derived from its MX Creative Console, and something that triggers a distinct sense of déjà vu. Do you remember Stack Overflow's "The Key" Joke? Three keys to copy and paste code from the developer's former best friend (until AI tools began to eat its lunch). Logitech took the keypad from its MX Creative Console product and made something similar to Stack Overflow's joke-that-became-a-thing, though considerably more ext
  
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• Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files

  16-09-2026 12:42 via theregister.com
  
  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has apologized after court staff accessed documents relating to victims and survivors of the 2024 Southport murders without authorization. For a limited number of people, the material accessed included sensitive personal data assessed as likely to pose a high risk to their rights and freedoms. There is no evidence that the information was shared with third parties. "We are appalled that this happened and recognise the distress it will have caused victims, survivors,
  
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• Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s - raising global sea levels by more than 1.1 inches, study finds

  16-09-2026 12:24 via dailymail.com
  
  Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice over the last 50 years, raising global sea levels by more than 1.1 inches (3cm), a new study reveals.
  
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• Salesforce suffers global outage amid Dreamforce shindig

  16-09-2026 12:06 via theregister.com
  
  UPDATED A Salesforce outage is hitting customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage has hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1010 BST (0910 UTC) by the CRM giant said its investigation indicated that "requests are stalling while
  
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• Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage

  16-09-2026 12:06 via theregister.com
  
  UPDATED An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers we
  
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• Salesforce customers see service returning to normal after global outage

  16-09-2026 12:06 via theregister.com
  
  UPDATED An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers we
  
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• BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs

  16-09-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  BT Email customers say they have been bombarded with hundreds – and in one case more than 1,000 – unsolicited password reset messages, leaving the telco investigating what is causing the deluge. The reports began appearing on BT's community forums over the weekend, with customers describing sudden bursts of PIN messages arriving within minutes despite them making no attempt to reset their passwords. One customer said they received between 50 and 70 PIN texts "in the space [of] a few
  
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• UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below

  16-09-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is funding projects aimed at delivering connectivity using high-flying aircraft, including technology to beam power from the ground to keep them in the air. Britain's science and technology body, inspired by America's DARPA but on a more modest budget, says it is backing 18 projects to develop aircraft capable of operating reliably and cost-effectively in the stratosphere, as part of a program known as Enduring Atmospheric Platforms. Success
  
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• Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free

  16-09-2026 08:31 via theregister.com
  
  Unpredictable token bills haunted the first half of 2026 as AI experimenters pushed deeper into the tech and often found useful results could only be achieved after surprising and unwelcome expenditure. We've gone from tokenmaxxers to tokenmisers, counting every character we send to AI services. That changed the way we used AI, focusing users on the ticking meter and unable to cast their eyes up and explore the possible. Those blinkers fell away in the middle of August when Alibaba delivered Qwe
  
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• Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze

  16-09-2026 07:54 via theregister.com
  
  When Microsoft delivered over 970 patches last week, many saw a nightmare for beleaguered security staff. Gartner research vice president Craig Lawson thinks infosec workers might soon see sunlit uplands as their workloads ease. Lawson outlined that scenario at Gartner’s IT Symposium in Australia today and explained it by theorising that the increased volume of vulnerability discoveries made possible by Anthropic’s Mythos and other bug-hunting AI might be getting close to finding mos
  
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• Java 27 grows up, makes better choices

  16-09-2026 06:50 via theregister.com
  
  If one sign of maturity is making better choices, then Java has grown up a fair bit in its version 27 release Tuesday. “JDK 27 is the release where Java stops asking you to opt in to good defaults and simply turns them on,” wrote backend engineer Arvind Kumar, on his education site Codefarm. Better default settings may not be groundbreaking, but they do make life easier for developers because they mean coders have fewer things to change. Nor should users have to grapple with new feat
  
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• The ozone hole has burst open: Analysis reveals how the opening over Antarctica has 'increased sharply' this month - and is set to get even bigger

  16-09-2026 04:00 via dailymail.com
  
  In the first half of September, the area of the hole increased sharply, reaching 9.6 million square miles (25 million square km) on 12 September.
  
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• TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom

  16-09-2026 03:35 via theregister.com
  
  TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding, on Tuesday declared itself a maker of frontier models with the release of Jev, a new type of AI model intended for interaction with machines rather than people. Instead of returning natural language in response to a text-based prompt, TypeSafe AI designed Jev to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by other software or AI models. Type safety in programming is a way to catch errors that arise when software processes an unexpecte
  
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