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• Dreading work tomorrow in the cold weather?We've got you covered. #wintertips #careertips siliconrepublic.com/advice/work-wi…

  17-12-2017 18:35 via twitter.com
  Dreading work tomorrow in the cold weather?We've got you covered. #wintertips #careertips siliconrepublic.com/advice/work-wi…
  
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• Your brain doesn't peak in your 20s after all: Study reveals your mind is at its sharpest between 55 and 60

  06-07-2026 15:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Many people assume they've already reached their peak by the time they hit 30 - but new research suggests the opposite is true.
  
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• Hidden for 1,600 years: Incredible lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church, coins and homes still intact

  06-07-2026 13:19 via dailymail.com
  
  A remarkably well preserved 1,600-year-old city complete with a church, watchtowers and bustling streets has been unearthed beneath Egypt's Western Desert.
  
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• Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

  06-07-2026 12:47 via theregister.com
  
  Data on more than 2.3 million people associated with Moody Bible Institute (MBI) has been exposed online after the Christian college was targeted by ShinyHunters. The attack was first disclosed by MBI in June, and the extortion crew later leaked the stolen data. Have I Been Pwned has since added the cache to its breach notification database, putting a figure on the number of exposed accounts. MBI is one of many victims of ShinyHunters' pay-or-leak attacks in 2026, and while the organization has
  
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• Mysterious 'space balls' that washed up on an Australian beach are likely pressure vessels from a rocket, experts confirm

  06-07-2026 12:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Six mysterious metal balls that washed up on an Australian beach this weekend are from a space launch vehicle, experts have confirmed.
  
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• Sorry Flat Earthers! Study reveals conspiracy beliefs spark a 'significant breakdown' in relationships

  06-07-2026 11:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Believing in conspiracy theories can trigger a 'significant breakdown' in romantic relationships, a study suggests.
  
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• Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool

  06-07-2026 11:30 via theregister.com
  
  For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available to the public in the archives of The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS). TUHS volunteers preserve the historical source code and documentation of the original UNIX – or as much of it as is left. A few days ago, in an email to its mailing list, TUHS founder Warren Toomey announced the addition of KSOS to the collection. "KSOS was the US Department of Defense (DoD) Kerneliz
  
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• Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

  06-07-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION It is too early to call peak 2026, but if we allow midterms, it's hard to beat Caveman. Caveman is a Claude Code skill that strips away non-essential linguistic components of the AI's output, making it communicate in a parody of a coding Neanderthal. Yes, this is a good way to use the products of an industry expected to spend a trillion dollars on capex this year. Ug fix API. Hyperscalers issue debt. Token minimization has been a set of techniques of interest for a while, something that'
  
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• Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

  06-07-2026 09:36 via theregister.com
  
  WHO, ME? Welcome to another installment of "Who, Me?" – The Register's Monday column that celebrates mistakes readers make at work and reveals their escape routes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kara" who told us that in 1999 she scored an apprenticeship with a now-bankrupt telecoms equipment manufacturer. The gig saw Kara study software engineering one day a week and spend the rest of her time at work, where she was exposed to different roles in the company so she could learn
  
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• Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock

  06-07-2026 08:31 via theregister.com
  
  Japan’s Hayabusa2 craft has just buzzed an asteroid, successfully completing the first objective of its extended mission. Hayabusa2 launched in 2014, and four years later arrived at Asteroid Ryugu. In 2019 the craft sent a pair of landers onto Ryugu’s surface and collected samples that it dropped off in the Australian outback in late 2020. Analysis of those samples suggests Ryugu is home to amino acids, and probably came from the outer solar system before somehow settling into an ell
  
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• Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

  06-07-2026 07:29 via theregister.com
  
  The ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again. As The Register has explained many, many, times since this matter first went to court in 2003, the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX for x86 CPUs. Those two companies, plus Intel and Sequent, created “Project Monterrey” – an effort to create a unified version of UNIX that could run on multip
  
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• SpudCells: Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat And Reproduce

  06-07-2026 04:55 via technocracy.news
  
  Professor Kate Adamala is an expert in synthetic life at the University of Minnesota and is clearly pursuing alternative life forms from biochemistry. As I have written in The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, Technocrats and Transhumans share the same fundamental mechanistic worldview of life. If you can follow the video below, you will see how crazy ideas morph into crazy projects and then into crazy outcomes. Note that all of this so-called science is performed at public expense. &
  
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• EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account

  06-07-2026 03:29 via theregister.com
  
  ASIA IN BRIEF The Down Under outpost of consultancy EY has fired two staff after they allegedly accessed details about bank accounts held by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Local media report that the pair were employees of the artist formerly known as Ernst and Young, which used them to work on a contract for Australia’s Commonwealth Bank where they allegedly accessed details of the PM’s bank account. The Bank isn’t commenting on the matter, so isn’t saying h
  
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• Scientists develop diving suits for cyborg cockroach swarms - and it could enable them to explore Mars

  05-07-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Once again proving that mad scientists aren't just a Hollywood invention, researchers have built diving suits for their cyborg cockroach swarms.
  
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• MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

  05-07-2026 17:01 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION I write a weekly column called PWNED, about how poor security practices can lead to serious damage. Usually, there’s something funny in the malfeasance, like a CEO who kept every employee’s password in an Excel file on his desktop. However, I wasn’t laughing back in May when professional thieves invaded my 84-year-old mother’s entire financial life and managed to make off with $30,000 from her bank accounts alone. And they wouldn’t have gotten in if her fina
  
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• C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

  05-07-2026 14:00 via theregister.com
  
  The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their sleeve: a valid use case. When we reported on last year's event, it was had just been revived from a four-year hiatus, so we're happy to see it back so soon. As we write, the judging concluded some three weeks ago, but although there is a recording on YouTube, it's very nearly three hours
  
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• The incredible and wild scientific advancements the US could make in the next 25... and 250 years!

  05-07-2026 13:40 via dailymail.com
  
  As the United States turns 250, scientists and tech experts are already looking ahead to the next 250 years, with sky-high dreams that could change the human race.
  
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• Ladies, rejoice! Men can be TRAINED to pick up the slack at home, study reveals

  05-07-2026 12:04 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're tired of nagging your other half to pull his weight around the house, help could finally be at hand.
  
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• America's greatest mystery was a lie: Truth about the Lost Colony of Roanoke revealed by experts

  04-07-2026 22:42 via dailymail.com
  
  An abandoned settlement, a missing colony and a single chilling clue have transformed the disappearance of Roanoke into one of the greatest mysteries in American history.
  
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• NASA accused of erasing UFOs from photographs before public release

  04-07-2026 19:27 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA whistleblower claimed that the space agency knowingly covered up proof of alien life captured in everyday photos.
  
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• New heatwave likely to peak at 34C with week-long health alert issued

  04-07-2026 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Another heatwave is on its way and set to last significantly longer as Stav Danaos explains.
  
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• America's shark attacks MAPPED: Deadly capital, little-known hotspot where sightings are surging... and the 'Great White Alley' shift beachgoers cannot ignore

  04-07-2026 16:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Shark sightings are on the rise and a hotspot has emerged in a surprising place in the north Atlantic, sparking new beach warnings and fears of shark attacks in unlikely states.
  
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• Startling new images show what YOUR city will look like in 250 years... offering glimpse of totally unrecognizable nation

  04-07-2026 15:02 via dailymail.com
  
  As America celebrates its 250th birthday, startling new visions suggest the nation that turns 500 could be almost unrecognizable.
  
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• The end of the America we know? Startling new images show how major cities could look in 250 years

  04-07-2026 13:59 via dailymail.com
  
  As America celebrates its 250th birthday, startling new visions suggest the nation that turns 500 could be almost unrecognizable.
  
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• You've been eating ice cream wrong! Expert insists tub should be eaten from the outside in

  04-07-2026 12:33 via dailymail.com
  
  There's nothing like a tub of ice cream to cool you down on a hot day - but you've likely been eating it wrong, according to an expert.
  
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• Why you SHOULD let your dog sleep on the bed: Scientists finally settle the debate that has split pet owners - and reveal the surprising benefits of a nap with your pooch

  04-07-2026 12:28 via dailymail.com
  
  It is a debate that has left pet owners divided: Should the dog be allowed on the bed?
  
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• Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

  04-07-2026 12:03 via theregister.com
  
  Vendors are trying to position "confidential computing" as the technical backbone of Europe's sovereign cloud ambitions. But new research shows that a security protocol used to prove cryptographic trust in the system may have a fundamental architectural flaw. Confidential computing rests on a mechanism called remote attestation, in which a server cryptographically proves to a client that it is running inside a genuine, unmodified Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) before any sensitive data chan
  
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• Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change

  04-07-2026 08:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.
  
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• NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

  04-07-2026 08:21 via theregister.com
  
  For those growing sick of Earth's geopolitics, NASA is looking for volunteers to spend a year living and working in isolated conditions in preparation for a journey to some other celestial orb. The US space agency is set to carry out a simulated deep space mission from no earlier than August 2027 to understand what might happen to its human lab rats during planned crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. Johnson Space Center in Houston will be home to the willing participants who are set for a yearl
  
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• Turbines turning from wind to sustainable products

  04-07-2026 07:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are coming to the end of their lives.
  
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