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• Charon moon seen in super detail

  01-10-2015 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pluto's major moon, Charon, takes centre stage in this week's release of new pictures from the New Horizons mission.
  
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• 'Experimental explosion' rocks Florida coast as mysterious earthquake alert sparks alarm

  16-07-2026 22:27 via dailymail.com
  
  An unusual 'experimental explosion' designation appeared on the US government's earthquake monitoring website, leaving many wondering what caused the event.
  
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• Toxic air crisis grips US as three major cities rank as most dangerous to breathe worldwide

  16-07-2026 21:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A wave of toxic air flowing in from Canada to the US has transformed three major cities into the most unbreathable places on Earth.
  
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• Is THIS where aliens are hiding? Rocky 'super-Earth' 48 light-years away could be our best chance of finding life, scientists say

  16-07-2026 20:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts from Harvard University have discovered a 'super-Earth' 48-light years away that may have the right conditions for alien life.
  
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• EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

  16-07-2026 18:48 via theregister.com
  
  Spelled out in big colorful letters that even Google can understand, the EU is now requiring the Chocolate Factory to share search data with competitors while enhancing Android AI interoperability for bots other than Gemini. Needless to say, the company would like to find a way to disable this default. The European Commission (EC) announced a pair of specification decisions on Thursday. The first covers AI vendors' ability to integrate into Google's mobile OS, and the other forces Google to give
  
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• AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

  16-07-2026 18:21 via theregister.com
  
  Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology decision-makers, the tech research company said software budgets were expected to rise "as vendors increase prices or add usage charges to pass their AI costs to customers." In the last six months, Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub have shifted some services away from flat-rate subscriptions
  
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• 'Tsunami-like' flood wave threatens Texas nears historic levels one year after Camp Mystic disaster: Seek higher ground NOW

  16-07-2026 18:12 via dailymail.com
  
  The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.
  
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• Iraq’s al-Faw Grand Port To Be The Largest Facility In The Mideast

  16-07-2026 17:53 via technocracy.news
  
  The face of the Mideast is changing. The al-Faw Grand Port in Iraq connects to Development Road, a direct competitor to the IMEC corridor, linking Turkey and Europe. The new leader of Iraq, Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, is a businessman who is compared to Trump as the “Trump of the Middle East.” Al Zaidi just visited Washington to herald a broader framework for an “economic partnership” that would replace the old militaristic U.S.-Iraq relationship. ⁃ Patrick Wood Editor
  
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• Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

  16-07-2026 17:46 via theregister.com
  
  Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer Lazo Velko, was published recently with the promise to allow users to perform mouse actions on every single object on their screen with nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Want to close a window, open an application, or click a particular spot on the screen with character-level precision? It’s capable of
  
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• C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

  16-07-2026 17:33 via theregister.com
  
  Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal, after which it helps itself to passwords, crypto wallets, browser data, and anything else worth stealing. The boffins have dubbed the malware “ClickLock Stealer,” a nod to its use of the increasingly popular ClickFix social engineering technique and a coercive "loc
  
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• Life-threatening floods to hit near Texas' Camp Mystic as thousands are told to 'seek higher ground now'

  16-07-2026 17:09 via dailymail.com
  
  The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.
  
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• NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

  16-07-2026 16:52 via theregister.com
  
  NASA has given an update on the Artemis III mission and, while sticking with an optimistic 2028 landing target for Artemis IV, offered a glimpse into just how much development work remains to be done at Blue Origin and SpaceX. Artemis III has been compared to Apollo 9, which tested the Apollo Lunar Module in Earth orbit, yet neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin is flying anything as close to the lunar landers. Blue Origin's test lander will be based on the company's current Mark 2 crew lander architec
  
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• AI Executives Add Personal Security As Backlash Turns Violent

  16-07-2026 16:48 via technocracy.news
  
  When society rises against you in vast numbers, when acts of violence are leveled at you to stop what you are doing, when you are forced to hire security guards for your personal security, you would think that anyone with a conscience would stop and consider: “maybe it’s me and not everybody else.” Alas, that is not the response of a narcissistic sociopath, whether it’s a CEO at the top or a city councilman at the bottom. Nevertheless, ordinary citizens outnumber these pe
  
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• Life-threatening flood disaster erupts in same Texas region as Camp Mystic as locals are ordered to 'seek higher ground NOW'

  16-07-2026 16:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.
  
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• Earthquake rocks Yellowstone National Park near supervolcano feared to be overdue for eruption

  16-07-2026 16:22 via dailymail.com
  
  An earthquake has struck Yellowstone National Park within miles of an ancient volcanic landmark feared to be showing signs of awakening.
  
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• Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

  16-07-2026 15:49 via theregister.com
  
  Airbus is migrating its most critical applications for sensitive workloads from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway's under a drive to increase digital sovereignty. As exclusively revealed by The Register in December, the European-based aerospace manufacturer, said it needed to guarantee the data remained “under European control" and was launching a tender at the start of 2026. Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "The selection of Scaleway is a combination o
  
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• Future of warfare? Creepy drone spins so fast it disappears before your eyes - and could be used to sneak up on the enemy

  16-07-2026 15:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists at Northwestern University have designed a drone that spins so fast it disappears before your eyes.
  
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• Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack

  16-07-2026 14:49 via theregister.com
  
  The two British Scattered Spider members collared for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) will each spend five and a half years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment each, having pleaded guilty in June, in turn receiving a 15 percent reduction in their sentences. Sentencing the pair at Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Justice Turner noted both cybercriminals' immaturity,
  
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• Warning to millions as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across 14 US states... with Detroit's air ranked the worst on Earth

  16-07-2026 14:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials are warning millions of Americans to stay indoors if possible on Thursday, as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air over more than a dozen states,
  
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• Warning to millions as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across 14 US states... with Detroit's air ranked worst on Earth

  16-07-2026 14:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials are warning millions of Americans to stay indoors if possible on Thursday, as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air over more than a dozen states,
  
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• AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding

  16-07-2026 14:05 via theregister.com
  
  Climate tech venture capital had its strongest first half since 2022 as investors poured billions into low-carbon datacenters and projects needed to feed AI's seemingly endless appetite for compute. According to investment tracker Currence, climate tech startups pulled in $26.1 billion in venture funding during the first six months of 2026, up 55 percent year-over-year. However, that headline growth came with a catch: investors weren't backing the climate sector broadly so much as pouring money
  
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• Meet the REAL Pirates of the Caribbean: Incredible reconstruction reveals the infamous 'Piratetown' of Nassau in its heyday - as well as the buccaneers who lived there

  16-07-2026 13:43 via dailymail.com
  
  The real-life home of the Pirates of the Caribbean has been brought back to life for the first time in more than 300 years.
  
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• Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

  16-07-2026 13:25 via theregister.com
  
  A hard core of Windows 10 devices cannot or will not be migrated to Windows 11, leaving enterprises with a growing security problem as support options run out. According to asset tracking service Lansweeper, Windows 10 still runs on 16.9 percent of the Windows devices it monitors, or "roughly one in six." A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40 percent range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline co
  
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• Saharan dust is at an all-time high over Britain - increasing the risk 'blood rain', study warns

  16-07-2026 13:21 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're finding it harder to breathe in Britain, you're not imagining things. A new study has warned that Saharan dust has driven up pollution in the UK by 50 per cent over the last decade.
  
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• It's getting harder to BREATHE in Britain: Saharan dust has driven up UK pollution by 50%, study warns

  16-07-2026 13:07 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're finding it harder to breathe in Britain, you're not imagining things. A new study has warned that Saharan dust has driven up pollution in the UK by 50 per cent over the last decade.
  
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• SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud

  16-07-2026 13:00 via theregister.com
  
  Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX has now open sourced the Grok Build CLI just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users’ entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage. SpaceXAI’s data grab was first publicized on Sunday by Cereblab, who probed Grok Build traffic and found that repos were being packaged up as Git Bundles and beamed to Google Cloud storage. Concerning. The news gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelle
  
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• AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites

  16-07-2026 12:54 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing another outage after a CloudFront issue began throwing 5xx errors, knocking a string of websites and online services offline across multiple regions. According to AWS, the issue began at 0145 PDT (0945 UTC) this morning and affects CloudFront customers using VPC Origins. This is a relatively new CloudFront feature that lets customers serve applications running behind private load balancers through CloudFront without exposing their back-end infrastructure
  
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• Alzheimer's 'wonder drug' could delay disease for three years - 90% of brain damage vanished in new trial

  16-07-2026 12:29 via dailymail.com
  
  A 'wonder drug' that can stave off Alzheimer's disease can protect the brain for three years after taking it, say researchers.
  
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• Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection

  16-07-2026 12:07 via theregister.com
  
  The operator of the .ME domain registry has confirmed that Telegram's t.me shortlinks stopped working for around a day while the messaging platform verified that links associated with a sanctioned VPN service had been removed. The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated First VPN Service (1VPNS) on July 13 for selling services to ransomware groups and other cybercriminals. Shortly after, users across the app reported problems with t.me links, which Telegram uses to share links to c
  
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• A dismal glimpse into the future: Scientists give their chilling predictions for life in the 2100s

  16-07-2026 11:21 via dailymail.com
  
  From chocolate grown in labs to intense fires raging across the globe, the world of 2100 could look very different from today.
  
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