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• China 'flooding' media with fake posts

  20-05-2016 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China is "flooding" social media with comments by paid supporters in an effort to sway public opinion, a report says.
  
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• They said their toothpaste was the best for my daughter... then I read the sickening claims

  07-06-2026 18:32 via dailymail.com
  
  As a mom who reads labels before buying anything for my daughter, I was stunned to learn that the toothpaste I trusted was hiding a problem that would alarm any parent.
  
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• Doctor reveals dark reason near-death experiences sending people to HELL are far more common than believed

  07-06-2026 16:46 via dailymail.com
  
  A doctor has revealed why more people who died may have traveled to the afterlife and failed to remember the shocking experience.
  
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• Revealed: The worst biscuits for DUNKING, according to science - and it's bad news for Gingernut fans

  07-06-2026 14:28 via dailymail.com
  
  For many Brits, a cup of tea just isn't complete without a delicious biscuit to dunk in it. But if your go-to is a Gingernut, Custard Cream, or Chocolate Digestive, we have bad news for you.
  
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• Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

  07-06-2026 13:00 via theregister.com
  
  Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) says it helped to develop a code of safety for future remotely operated and autonomous cargo ships. The executive body, responsible for maritime law and safety policy, represented the UK’s interests in working groups during development of the first non-mandatory International Code of Safety for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS Code). This code, set to be published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on July 1, is the
  
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• Gen Z are refusing to buy rounds at the pub to avoid hangovers - now scientists say it really works

  07-06-2026 12:54 via dailymail.com
  
  While buying a round of drinks is a long-standing British tradition, it seems many youngsters are evading the practice, and simply buying themselves drinks.
  
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• Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets

  07-06-2026 12:16 via theregister.com
  
  The UK's long-running asylum IT overhaul may finally have put the 25-year-old Case Information Database (CID) out to pasture, but Parliament says that officials are still relying on spreadsheets and disconnected systems to keep track of asylum cases. A new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found asylum data remains scattered across multiple systems, making it difficult for officials to track cases, spot emerging backlogs, or understand where pressure is building across the wider sy
  
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• UK exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

  07-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  England's exams watchdog is warning that the next generation of school cheating may arrive not in a student's pocket, but perched on their face. In a new podcast, Ofqual chief regulator Sir Ian Bauckham said advances in consumer technology are creating fresh headaches for exam authorities, with smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and other connected gadgets raising the prospect of increasingly sophisticated cheating during exams. "We shouldn't underestimate the challenge involved here," Bauckham sa
  
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• Major hack on world's most popular cruise line exposes passports and personal information of 6 MILLION

  06-06-2026 21:57 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of cruise passengers may have had their personal information exposed in a major cyberattack targeting the world's largest cruise operator.
  
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• Mystery of America's Nessie deepens as strange creature appears behind boat in chilling video

  06-06-2026 18:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Two filmmakers have discovered what appears to be the most convincing evidence for a mysterious lake-dwelling monster in Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York.
  
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• Meet the Muttley Crew of 'Underdogs' struggling to find homes due to their unusual appearances

  06-06-2026 10:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Dogs are often referred to as 'man's best friend'. But for 122 pups at the Dogs Trust, finding a loving family is proving to be tricky.
  
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• Spoilt children are more likely to grow up to become PSYCHOPATHS, study warns

  06-06-2026 10:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Many parents are guilty of spoiling their children - but doing so could turn them into psychopaths, a new study has warned.
  
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• Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach

  06-06-2026 09:28 via theregister.com
  
  Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that crooks have breached a second external platform provider for the university in as many months. The institution’s CareerConnect platform, provided by Group GTI, was the target of the intrusion, which exposed users’ full names and email addresses. Those who don’t use single sign-on (SSO) had their encrypted passwords leaked, too. CareerConnect forms part of Oxford University’s career services department,
  
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• Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY

  06-06-2026 00:35 via theregister.com
  
  New York lawmakers have approved a bill imposing new labor, energy, environmental, and community-benefit requirements on datacenters, including a one-year moratorium on certain permits for facilities drawing 20 MW or more. The bill now heads to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a signature. A spokesperson for the governor told the New York Post she would review the legislation, but gave no signal as to whether she would sign it. Hochul has previously said she hoped to leave regulating datacenter co
  
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• If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks

  05-06-2026 23:18 via theregister.com
  
  If they don't get you online, they'll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident response team. And when those remote-deception methods don’t work, the criminals sometimes show up at victims’ p
  
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• Missing nuclear lab worker's daughter reveals disturbing twist in case as police discover body in the woods

  05-06-2026 20:44 via dailymail.com
  
  The daughter of a missing nuclear lab worker found dead in New Mexico is slamming what she is calling misleading lies shared by a private investigator hired to find her mother.
  
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• Scientists issue first-contact plan as they await message from alien civilization

  05-06-2026 20:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have released a first-contact blueprint as they brace for humanity to receive a message from intelligent life beyond Earth.
  
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• Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight

  05-06-2026 19:27 via theregister.com
  
  The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking giant hasn’t said when it will patch the flaw. Cisco issued an advisory on Thursday for the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, and it sounds like attackers have been exploiting this security failure for at least the last week. It’s due to a validation error - the software fails to properly validate user-supp
  
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• The ISS has a major air leak, forcing NASA crew to take shelter in Dragon capsule

  05-06-2026 18:56 via theregister.com
  
  Operations on the International Space Station may have returned to normal on Friday, but concerns over a persistent air leak in the Russian segment of the station remain unresolved. NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens confirmed on Friday that NASA had instructed crew members sheltering in a docked Dragon spacecraft to resume normal operations aboard the International Space Station after Roscosmos paused repair work in the Zvezda service module's transfer tunnel, known as PrK. Reuters reported that
  
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• Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule

  05-06-2026 18:56 via theregister.com
  
  A serious air leak in the Russian segment of the ISS forced NASA astronauts to put on their spacesuits and shelter in their Dragon capsule for a brief period of time on Friday, but all appears to be safe for now and operations have resumed. At around 1316 UTC Friday, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens announced that, after the crew discovered new leaks, Roscosmos had decided to do a repair operation. During this time, the US space agency ordered astronaut Chris Williams and the four-member SpaceX
  
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• Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

  05-06-2026 17:15 via theregister.com
  
  The Trump Administration is using Cold War-era rules to authorize up to $500 million in funding to keep 13 coal-fired power plants going and build a coal export terminal in California. America's Department of Energy (DoE) says it is securing the funding via the Defense Production Act (DPA), which grants the president authority to use federal financial incentives to stimulate private domestic industry deemed critical to national defense. At the same time, the DoE announced that one of the advance
  
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• ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 2026

  05-06-2026 17:09 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE Corporation today showcased its pioneering achievements in digital transformation and AI-driven project management at the 14th IPMA Research Conference in Bogotá, Colombia. During the conference, Wang Yuzhu, Managing Director of Engineering Services at ZTE Colombia, and Jose Perez, Senior Expert in Engineering Delivery Management at ZTE, delivered a keynote speech themed "The Digital and Intelligent Future of Project Management", highlighting ZTE's practical experiences and innovative
  
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• China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M

  05-06-2026 16:53 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE has joined forces with China Mobile Jiangsu under the guidance of China Mobile's Network Division to pioneer the implementation of core network complaint agent capabilities, marking a significant step forward in accelerating intelligent network operations and maintenance (O&M) transformation. Both parties innovatively introduce the multi-modal signaling model and agent technology to reconstruct the complaint handling process, implement automatic signaling analysis, and efficiently locate
  
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• Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode

  05-06-2026 16:29 via theregister.com
  
  Three-quarters of enterprise leaders say they're adopting agentic AI, but only a small minority have managed to move beyond pilots and into meaningful production deployments, according to Forrester. That won't stop vendors from slapping "agentic" onto every product brochure they can find, but the analyst's assessment is that most organizations remain stuck somewhere between experimentation and actual business value. Agentic AI has reached an important milestone in 2026, says Forrester: "long-hor
  
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• NASA astronauts prepare to evacuate over International Space Station over 'worsening air leaks'

  05-06-2026 16:18 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA has ordered astronauts to prepare for evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS) over 'worsening air leaks'.
  
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• Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS

  05-06-2026 15:45 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft now lets customers apply existing SQL Server licenses toward SQL Server usage on AWS's managed relational database service (RDS). The move promises to give customers who decided to go with AWS an easier path to consuming their SQL Server systems as a service, rather than in virtual machines. In a blog post, Amazon explained that customers paying with Microsoft’s Software Assurance licensing program could only previously bring their SQL Server licenses to AWS on self-managed Amazo
  
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• Americans in three states told to close windows NOW as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air

  05-06-2026 15:41 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive plume of toxic particles has filled the air in the US Southwest, triggered by hazardous conditions sweeping into the country from south of the border.
  
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• World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families

  05-06-2026 15:00 via theregister.com
  
  Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was breached, and around 600,000 Gazan households receiving aid had their details improperly accessed. Its announcement, made via Telegram on May 31, confirmed there was “a security incident” in the self-registration application used by Gazans to register for aid and applicants’ names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and location information were among the data types accessed. “We understand this may
  
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• Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

  05-06-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  COMPUTEX 2026 Gigabyte showed off a high density server platform at Computex this week that crams 40 low-power compute nodes into a pizza box. Amid a sea of nearly identical MGX and NVL blades, the R1C7-KOA-AS1 was one of the more unusual systems on this year’s show floor. Rather than using Intel or AMD's datacenter class Xeon or Epyc, the machine is powered by dozens of notebook processors. Specifically, Gigabyte has opted for Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V. Launched in mid 2024, each chip is
  
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• The 'Son of Concorde' is about to take to the skies: NASA readies its $247 million supersonic jet that replaces the loud sonic boom with a softer 'thump' and can travel from London to New York in under 4 hours

  05-06-2026 13:59 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA's $247-million jet dubbed the 'Son of Concorde' is about to take to the skies for its first supersonic test flight.
  
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