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• Do YOU know what counts towards your five a day?

  01-02-2023 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  UK and US health chiefs have urged people to load their plates with leafy greens, colourful berries and crisp salad leaves to lower their risk of everything from heart disease to some cancers.
  
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• Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

  07-09-2026 18:02 via theregister.com
  
  Matt Clifford is stepping down as chair of the UK's taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), just days after saying he intended to keep the job while working for AI giant Anthropic. Clifford, one of the architects of the UK government's AI strategy, said in a LinkedIn post on Monday that he would leave ARIA, less than a week after his appointment as Anthropic's managing director of international affairs prompted warnings of a "clear conflict of interest." "Having completed
  
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• US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification

  07-09-2026 17:53 via theregister.com
  
  Tesla's Cybercab's wheels have only just hit the asphalt for its commercial launch and the autonomous vehicle has already attracted the attention of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The body announced an investigation into Tesla's self-certification of the vehicle at the weekend. Central to the probe is the fact that the Cybercab famously lacks conventional controls. The NHTSA says there are "clear vehicle performance requirements" – stuff like brake controls
  
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• DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3

  07-09-2026 17:20 via theregister.com
  
  The relentless rise in memory prices may finally be losing steam, as PC and smartphone buyers reach the limits of what their budgets will allow them to pay. Taiwanese market watcher Trend Force estimates that rising DRAM contract prices drove a 59.5 percent quarter-on-quarter jump in industry revenue to $154.73 billion in calendar Q2. The analyst now expects conventional DRAM contract price growth to "moderate" to 13 to 18 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q3. That reflects a shift in demand away fr
  
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• Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register

  07-09-2026 16:43 via theregister.com
  
  Nightwing CEO Bob Coleman wanted to thank his employees for their hard work over the Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, he also thanked The Register. The cybersecurity and intelligence contractor, which prides itself on “secure communications,” appears to have accidentally sent a for-employees'-eyes-only message from its chief executive to its media distribution list, giving journalists a brief and unsolicited glimpse into life at "Team Nightwing." The email, seen by The Register beca
  
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• Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal

  07-09-2026 15:56 via theregister.com
  
  The European Commission (EC) may be laying the groundwork for an investigation into Oracle's software licensing practices, according to reports. The scrutiny follows the EC's investigation into fellow enterprise software vendor SAP, which ended with the Commission accepting legally binding commitments from the German company to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees, among other concessions. MLex is now reporting that the EC – the EU's executive arm – has started
  
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• Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys

  07-09-2026 15:26 via theregister.com
  
  Hackers have drained roughly $320 million in Bitcoin from the federation wallet backing the Liquid Network, while claiming to be the good guys. Liquid, a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream and used by exchanges and other financial institutions, said in a post on X on Sunday that around 4,000 BTC had been withdrawn from its federation wallet by what it cautiously described as "purported white-hat hackers." The wallet held about 4,200 BTC before the incident, meaning whoever was behind the
  
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• Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts

  07-09-2026 15:01 via theregister.com
  
  The Asahi Linux gang has announced support for Apple's M3 silicon, with a few ifs and buts for owners that want to try out the code on their hardware. According to the project, "Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!" There are, however, some substantial caveats. Want performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration from the GPU? You'll need to wait a bit. How about the HDMI port? "The lack of DCP support means that the HDMI port on equipped MacBooks is currently disabled."
  
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• Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice

  07-09-2026 14:30 via theregister.com
  
  The Nitter project will continue "following legal advice," meaning XCancel, a public service built on its open source code, is back online. As of September 7, nitter.net displayed the announcement: "Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly." XCancel, a public instance built on Nitter, was operational again. Nitter is a free, open source front end for reading posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter before it
  
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• Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

  07-09-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information, Right to Repair Europe reports. The campaign group says that mobile devices available in the trading bloc must include a mandatory self-reported repairability score, and the device maker has an obligation to publish information to help users repair their kit. These requirements came into force from June 2025. Yet a review of the European Product Reg
  
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• The Super El Niño survival kit: Scientist reveals the food items Brits should stockpile as the extreme weather event ramps up

  07-09-2026 13:19 via dailymail.com
  
  According to Professor Elizabeth Robinson, an environmental economist at the London School of Economics, households should keep two weeks' worth of foods and water stored at home.
  
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• Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

  07-09-2026 13:04 via theregister.com
  
  Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a classic Freedom of Information (FoI) blunder. The Welsh government-sponsored body confirmed on Friday the information was "inadvertently disclosed" in a spreadsheet published on a website. Its statement did not identify the site, explain how the sensitive data came to be posted there, or say how many
  
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• Apple is hosting its 'surprise and shine' event this week where it could unveil its foldable iPhone Ultra - here's how you can watch live

  07-09-2026 12:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Apple is gearing up to host its 'surprise and shine' event later this week, where it could launch its most exciting new products in years.
  
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• UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks

  07-09-2026 12:06 via theregister.com
  
  A UK watchdog is warning that cyber criminals making moves against online systems in the food supply chain could cause serious upset, following damaging attacks on the Co-op and Marks & Spencer last year. The National Audit Office (NAO) named cyber-attacks as one of the major threats to the food supply chain and said the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) should work closely with industry to help prevent severe shocks. “Recent disruptions have shown the resili
  
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• Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux

  07-09-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Kumander Linux has been around for a few years now and version 3.0 is nearly ready, with some strong nostalgic appeal. We recently came across Kumander Linux and thought it was an interesting distro – although not technologically "interesting," which isn't always a good thing. Underneath, it's almost boring: Debian 13.6 with Xfce 4.20. These are safe, solid, sensible choices, combining a lightweight mainstream desktop with one of the most established Linux distros. What's not to like? What
  
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• Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook

  07-09-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Peers have questioned why the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill does not allow regulators to penalize senior executives when an organization's failure to comply involves their consent, connivance, or deliberate or careless neglect. Echoing arguments heard across the industry for years, Baronesses Kidron and Ludford backed probing amendments that would introduce personal civil liability for senior execs and make cybersecurity a board-level responsibility. "The intention behind the amendment
  
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• OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on

  07-09-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets. It was a good news story, aided by OpenAI's rapid recruitment of a small team of independent researchers to investigate and publish a detailed, if limited, report. It was a complex incident, and most coverage concentrated on the majo
  
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• Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport

  07-09-2026 09:02 via theregister.com
  
  Two runways are currently closed at Miami International Airport after an Amazon-branded cargo plane overran a runway, resulting in five fatalities. The leased 767, which bears the “Prime Air” brand Amazon uses for its air freight and drone operations, landed but was unable to stop before the end of the 2850-meter runway 30. The plane appears to have exited the runway and the airport grounds, crossed a road, and come to a halt in what looks like a carpark. As it ran across grass beyon
  
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• Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire

  07-09-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  WHO, ME? Every Monday morning The Register asks the same question – “Who, Me?” – because that’s the name of our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace scrapes, escapes, and japes. This week meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Marc” who told us that he graduated in the early 1990s and soon scored his first job – supporting PCs for Very Important Professors (VIPs) at the graduate school run by his alma mater. &ldquo
  
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• Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

  07-09-2026 07:30 via theregister.com
  
  KETTLE AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's leading open model host.You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Those platforms also let you subscribe to Kettle, so you are always notified when the latest episode goes live
  
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• Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

  07-09-2026 04:32 via theregister.com
  
  Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has decided he might as well blame AI for a version 7.3 release candidate that’s larger than was usually the case before LLMs came into our lives. “This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was,” he wrote in his regular Sunday kernel update post. “rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this time - this is a ‘full fat
  
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• Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

  07-09-2026 03:05 via theregister.com
  
  ASIA IN BRIEF Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council last week decided to pause all datacenter builds in the country, while it works out appropriate regulations. The Council announced the pause last Friday in a communiqué issued after a meeting of its Datacenter Business Policy Committee, at which Thailand’s Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said datacenters are an important part of the nation’s economy – but admitted his
  
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• Would you get buried in a 'living coffin'? Australian woman is put to rest in a casket made from mushrooms

  06-09-2026 22:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Carolyn, a woman in her 70s, was put to rest on 4 September in a futuristic casket made from mycelium - the underground root network of mushrooms - and upcycled hemp fibres.
  
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• Cows found mutilated and drained of every drop of blood across remote Oregon... and baffled deputy has a chilling theory

  06-09-2026 20:57 via dailymail.com
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Over the past half-century, more than 10,000 cows are estimated to have been found mutilated and drained of blood in the US.
  
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• Does your dog have ADHD? Vet claims pooches can be hyperactive just like humans - here are the signs to look out for

  06-09-2026 20:38 via dailymail.com
  
  If you've got a hyperactive pooch that just can't pay attention, vets say it might have a condition remarkably similar to ADHD in humans.
  
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• I bled to death. As an atheist, I expected oblivion... but I entered the afterlife for six minutes and saw proof of what God is REALLY like. Everything on Earth is fake

  06-09-2026 20:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Anna Stone, a former Department of Defense research technician, was just 38 in 2016 when an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy ruptured, causing her to bleed to death in a hospital.
  
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• The clues in human DNA that prove life had an intelligent creator, according to a medical scientist

  06-09-2026 17:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Did DNA and life itself really arise spontaneously in puddles or undersea vents 3.8 billion years ago, or is this a sign that creation must have intelligence behind it?
  
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• Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

  06-09-2026 10:09 via theregister.com
  
  The prospect of a negative leap second – combined with decades of irritation over leap seconds generally – looks set to inspire a bit of global procrastination among international timekeepers. Next month, the General Conference on Weights and Measures is set to vote on effectively calling time on leap seconds. A draft resolution [PDF] would make Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous from May 20, 2027, and allow the difference between UTC and UT1, a measure of time based on Eart
  
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• Why your house is a magnet for spiders: Horrified Brits say their homes are crawling with eight-legged critters - here's what's behind the invasion

  06-09-2026 06:28 via dailymail.com
  
  As summer comes to an end and temperatures begin to fall, sightings of house spiders start to increase across the UK.
  
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• US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

  06-09-2026 03:06 via theregister.com
  
  The US military's effort to prevent troops from being tracked by adversaries through purchased location data hasn't worked as well as anticipated, and lawmakers want to know why. US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-NC) on Friday asked for an investigation by the Defense Department Inspector General into policies that have only partially stanched the flow of location data that allows military personnel to be tracked and targeted. In May, Wyden, Harrigan, and a bipartisan group of
  
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