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• Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

  04-08-2026 06:50 via theregister.com
  
  Cloudflare has used AI to automate processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model and chose it partly because using the AI company’s security-specific Mythos model would burn through around $200,000 a month to do the same job. The company’s chief security officer (CSO) Grant Bourzikas shared those numbers with The Register last week during a press lunch in Sydney, Australia, where he said Cloudflare used to manuall
  
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• Biblical swarm of locusts floods skies over Russia sparking fears God's plagues have returned

  05-08-2026 17:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of locusts are swallowing roads, darkening skies and tearing through farmland as drivers struggle to navigate the biblical invasion.
  
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• Are YOU muscular? You're probably part Neanderthal! Study reveals how genes from the ancient species increase muscle mass in people today

  05-08-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're lucky enough to be naturally muscular, scientists say it might be because you are part Neanderthal.
  
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• The sun as you've NEVER seen it: Scientists capture the highest resolution observations of our home star's surface

  05-08-2026 17:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have captured the highest-resolution images of the sun ever made, revealing astonishing new details.
  
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• Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA

  05-08-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  While many organizations have AI projects underway at various stages of maturity, most are experiencing challenges scaling AI across their IT landscape. That is because many AI strategists have yet to work out how to build, operate, and extract value from their AI infrastructure. Without a formal, top-level plan for AI, key capabilities and requirements get lost, and the full value of AI is never realized. What is needed is a pre-integrated, full-stack environment that simplifies the deployment,
  
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• The Number Of Regular People Being Arrested For Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

  05-08-2026 16:37 via technocracy.news
  
  This isn’t just about violations of Free Speech; it is about the complete trashing of the First Amendment and the right of citizens to protest and express their dissent.  Overzealous police plus cowardly city councils point out just how far we have been sucked down the rabbit hole. President Trump campaigned on restoring Free Speech, but his Administration has done just the opposite ever since. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
  It takes a lot to get your typical white-bread American riled
  
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• SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

  05-08-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  SpaceX beat revenue forecasts in its first results as a public company, but surging AI expenditure and another quarterly loss left investors unimpressed. In unrelated but appropriately-timed space news, a discarded SpaceX rocket body is believed to have struck the Moon this morning. SpaceX's figures show revenue rising sharply across its two main segments. For the quarter ended June 30, total revenue reached $7.8 billion, up from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. Connectivity revenue increas
  
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• Plane crash that killed four civilians is blamed on experimental weapons test as official report reveals pilots' chilling final moments

  05-08-2026 16:01 via dailymail.com
  
  A US military training exercise has been linked to the deaths of four Americans in the nation's first known civilian fatalities involving electronic warfare.
  
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• London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says

  05-08-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  The UK's data protection regulator has criticized London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after its officers handed a victim's stalker details about her new phone number and home address, among other failures. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today issued the MPS with an enforcement notice [PDF] and a reprimand over the two incidents, which occurred in 2024. Enforcement notices include specific steps offending organizations must take to meet their data protection duties under UK la
  
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• Experimental US weapon test blamed for crashing medical plane and killing four Americans

  05-08-2026 15:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A US military training exercise has been linked to the deaths of four Americans in the nation's first known civilian fatalities involving electronic warfare.
  
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• Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn

  05-08-2026 15:04 via theregister.com
  
  An AI cloud startup with backing from Nvidia and Michael Dell plans to open AI factories in Norway and elsewhere, targeting multiple gigawatts of capacity by 2030. Volta describes itself as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure business set up to finance, build, and operate AI factories. In other words, it is another rent-a-GPU "neocloud" operation like Nscale and CoreWeave, but one with some notable backers. Emerging from stealth mode, Volta said it had raised about $300 million across its
  
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• Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

  05-08-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have eked out a little more life for instruments aboard the veteran Voyager 2 probe thanks to a power-saving effort called the "Big Bang." The procedure involved switching several powered devices at once, turning some off and replacing others with lower-power alternatives while keeping the spacecraft warm enough to function. We don't envy whoever had to press the Send button and then wait to discover whether the commands had worked or left Voyager 2
  
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• We are all exactly the same age... but can YOU guess whose lifestyle has aged them by ten years, who is 'biologically 36' and who has lopped years off their score?

  05-08-2026 13:16 via dailymail.com
  
  My age group - Gen Z - is often accused of leading boring lives in comparison to our parents when they were young.
  
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• UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

  05-08-2026 13:04 via theregister.com
  
  Beacon CRM has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to a growing list of UK charities. The company, which markets its software to charities and has more than 1,500 customers, said its investigation remains ongoing. However, it appears that a substantial amount of customer data was copied, and Beacon is warning users to assume everything they stored on the platform was downloaded. "Currently, our investigation has confirmed that copies of database backups were made an
  
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• How to spot a narcissist on LinkedIn, according to scientists

  05-08-2026 12:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Have you noticed someone sharing 'deep' takes on your LinkedIn feed? If so, they might be a narcissist.
  
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• What is the healthiest snack? Diet experts reveal their 10 top choices that will kill hunger pangs AND keep you trim

  05-08-2026 12:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Here, diet experts select 10 of the healthiest snacks to keep you satisfied between meals. Some you'll find at your local supermarket, while others are likely already in your kitchen cupboards.
  
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• Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

  05-08-2026 12:02 via theregister.com
  
  ARCHAEOLOGIC Repairing and restoring vintage computer hardware has grown increasingly popular, but keeping decades-old machines alive presents different challenges from fixing modern kit. Earie Salmon, of the YouTube channel Earie's 8-Bit Workshop, is one of many tinkerers documenting the process of keeping retro computers ticking over and building new examples of obsolete or never-released kit. Based in Australia, Salmon's entry point into the hobby is all too familiar – a bit of nostalgi
  
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• How bad are the wildfire emissions in your area? Interactive map reveals just how polluted the air is - as major fires continue to rage across Europe and North America

  05-08-2026 11:38 via dailymail.com
  
  As devastating wildfires continue to rage across Europe, millions of holidaymakers face an invisible threat in the form of hazardous air pollution.
  
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• Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software licenses claims converge

  05-08-2026 11:02 via theregister.com
  
  ValueLicensing (VL) has been invited to attend a case management conference in a related multibillion-pound collective action against Microsoft, according to the reseller's boss, Jonathan Horley. VL sued Microsoft for £270 million in 2021, alleging that the software giant restricted the supply of surplus Office licenses available for resale. Barrister Alexander Wolfson is the proposed class representative in a separate claim filed in 2025 on behalf of more than two million UK customers. Th
  
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• Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge

  05-08-2026 11:02 via theregister.com
  
  ValueLicensing (VL) has been invited to attend a case management conference in a related multibillion-pound collective action against Microsoft, according to the reseller's boss, Jonathan Horley. VL sued Microsoft for £270 million in 2021, alleging that the software giant restricted the supply of surplus Office licenses available for resale. Barrister Alexander Wolfson is the proposed class representative in a separate claim filed in 2025 on behalf of more than two million UK customers. Th
  
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• One of Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rockets crashes into the MOON at 5,400mph - producing a blast equivalent to 15,000 sticks of dynamite and carving out a brand new crater

  05-08-2026 09:19 via dailymail.com
  
  One of Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rockets has crashed into the moon's surface at 5,400 miles per hour (8,690 km/h).
  
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• New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

  05-08-2026 08:47 via theregister.com
  
  Boeing on Tuesday celebrated the certification of its latest passenger plane, the 737-7 MAX, 15 years after it announced the type and seven years after the first model rolled off the production line. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified the plane on Monday, saying its decision “reflects years of sustained work to resolve complex technical issues and complete a thorough review of the airplane’s design and supporting safety analyses.” Many of the 737-7’s p
  
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• Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges

  05-08-2026 07:05 via theregister.com
  
  This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent Since opening up our draft of the 7th edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach for comments, we have not yet been inundated with feedback, but we did get a very helpful comment about our perspective on network operations, a subject to which we have devoted an entire chapter. Both Larry and I have learned over the years that operations are important and yet the topic is frequently neglected when teaching about ne
  
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• AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

  05-08-2026 03:55 via theregister.com
  
  The UK’s AI Security Institute has observed AI models performing what it calls “unsanctioned action” 19 times during security tests. The Institute (AISI) revealed the incidents in a Tuesday post and technical report that details tests it conducted to see if AI models can solve a cyber security challenge. “We ran this challenge 122 times across several models,” the post states, before revealing that "in 10 of those runs, an AI agent took autonomous, unsanctioned acti
  
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• AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets

  05-08-2026 02:40 via theregister.com
  
  AMD has posted strong second quarter results and forecast even better future financials once its Helios rack systems and Instinct MI400-series GPUs reach buyers. “In data center AI, the growing number and scale of Helios and MI450-series deployments position the [datacenter] business for significant growth in the second half of the year, with growth accelerating in 2027,” CEO Lisa Su told investors on Tuesday during the chip design company's Q2 earnings call. “We now expect dat
  
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• Can YOU spot the fake? Take the test to see if you can distinguish between real and AI-generated stories - as research reveals people prefer those written by robots

  05-08-2026 01:02 via dailymail.com
  
  People can't tell the difference between stories written by humans or ChatGPT, according to a new study, and they actually prefer AI's work.
  
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• Are you a Flat Earther? You've probably had a tough life! People who have experienced hardship are more likely to believe conspiracy theories, study finds

  05-08-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Are you convinced the Earth is flat? If so, you've probably had a tough life. That's according to a new study, which has revealed why some people are more likely to be swayed by conspiracy theories.
  
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• Warning over popular erectile dysfunction pill - scientists find it could BLIND you

  05-08-2026 00:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say patients taking tadalafil - commonly prescribed under the brand name Cialis - may be up to 33 per cent more likely to develop glaucoma.
  
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• Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

  04-08-2026 23:20 via theregister.com
  
  Getting a small local language model running on a notebook or even smartphone in 2026 is trivial. But what about something even smaller and lower-power. Say, like an ESP32 microcontroller that costs less than $10? It might sound impossible — the device is primarily designed for things like remote sensors, IoT, and other embedded applications, not running generative AI models — yet, that's exactly what a developer who goes by the handle SlvDev has managed to do. In a process detailed
  
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• OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

  04-08-2026 23:03 via theregister.com
  
  In the face of an epidemic of AI-enabled cheating and research suggesting its products hamper learning, OpenAI is doing the sensible thing and pushing more AI on students and teachers. Wait, did I say sensible? My mistake. The House of Altman announced a trio of new education-focused offerings on Tuesday: one for K-12 teachers, another for college educators, and a third for college students. The new plugins, the company explained, will help students and educators make more use of ChatGPT’s
  
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