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• Egyptian students have designed an incredible one-person go-kart that runs on compressed AIR

  09-08-2018 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The students who built the machine are from Helwan University just outside Cairo. They say their vehicle can hit 25 mph (40km/h) and last 19 miles (30km) before needing to be refuelled.
  
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• Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

  20-07-2026 14:44 via theregister.com
  
  KETTLE Your host Brandon Vigliarolo has been breathing in wildfire smoke from Canada for the past few days, which really has him thinking about whether all those AI datacenters building gas turbines and contributing to climate change is really worth it. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube where you can subscribe to get notified of the latest episode. Luckily for us, CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Ko
  
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• MMAI! Watch the moment a robot is DECAPITATED during a brutal humanoid cage fight - yet keeps fighting

  20-07-2026 14:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Shocking footage has emerged from China , showing two humanoids battling it out in a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight.
  
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• 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible to 90% of Earth's population during an 'ultra close' flyby, new maps reveal

  20-07-2026 14:15 via dailymail.com
  
  A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible with the naked eye for 90 per cent of the world's population, scientists have revealed.
  
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• Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

  20-07-2026 14:00 via theregister.com
  
  More than 23 million people who signed up to earn money from online gigs have allegedly had their personal and financial information spilled onto the internet following a breach of microtask platform Paidwork. The incident was added to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned site after a database allegedly stolen from Paidwork was publicly released earlier this month. According to the breach notification service, the leak contains data on 23,272,765 users and traces back to an intrusion in March. The data
  
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• Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

  20-07-2026 13:15 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has dispatched an out-of-band update to fix an incompatibility on certain Dell models and clear the way for them to receive the July 2026 Windows security patch. The update addresses an issue with the Intel Innovation Platform Framework drive that could "cause changes in performance, power consumption, or system behavior." The fix has arrived for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 as KB5121767, with a separate OOB hotpatch, KB5121768, for eligible Windows 11 Enterprise devices enrolled in hotpat
  
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• The science of a sub-four-minute mile: As Josh Kerr smashes the world record, experts reveal how the Scottish athlete's supershoes, 'speed suit', and strong stature helped him to make history

  20-07-2026 12:47 via dailymail.com
  
  This weekend, 28-year-old Josh Kerr ran a mile in just three minutes and 42.66 seconds. Now, scientists have revealed the secret to Kerr's incredible success.
  
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• UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

  20-07-2026 12:31 via theregister.com
  
  Andy Burnham is barely through the door at No. 10, and one of Keir Starmer's flagship tech projects is already heading for the shredder, with the incoming prime minister set to scrap the UK's digital ID scheme while creating a Cabinet-level minister for artificial intelligence. The move, reported by Reuters, kills off a policy Starmer spent the past year championing. His government pitched digital identity as a way to crack down on illegal working, held closed-door meetings on how to build it, a
  
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• Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

  20-07-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government has admitted that two major planks of its multibillion-pound shared services strategy are in serious trouble. Matrix, a project that involves moving nine government departments to shared ERP and HR systems, has been rated red by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), which monitors the planning and delivery of major government projects. This rating means the project has "major issues" with its schedule, budget, quality, or delivery of benefits
  
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• Super El Niño could spark a surge in SHARK attacks - as great whites venture beyond their natural habitats in search of cooler waters, scientists warn

  20-07-2026 11:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The Super El Niño could not only wreak havoc on global weather systems - but could also spark a surge in great white shark attacks.
  
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• Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

  20-07-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control. AWS, like all American platforms, can't protect Airbus's crown jewels from Donnie the Data Burglar, so it's best to repatriate them s
  
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• Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

  20-07-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  UK government auditors are calling for officials to consider the impact of AI on the size of the workforce needed for the civil service and wider public sector. The National Audit Office (NAO) recommends civil service leaders to "reflect the impact of major technological change in their long-term workforce planning," including on "workforce size, roles and grades, tasks and skills." These are among the workforce changes on which senior management should focus "to realize productivity benefits fr
  
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• High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

  20-07-2026 09:24 via theregister.com
  
  Red Hat has come up with a way to reduce the quantity of servers needed for high-availability edge deployments of its OpenShift platform, because its customers worry about high hardware costs. The IBM business unit’s Daniel Froehlich and Paul Lancaster last week introduced Red Hat’s approach in a post that saw the pair observe interest in “alternative topologies for large-scale edge deployments” due to “the prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a
  
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• Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

  20-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  WHO, ME? Regrets? We've had a few. And so have many readers of The Register, who we try to help by getting their stories of workplace mistakes off their chests every Friday in a reader-contributed column we call "Who, Me?" This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as "Johnny," who told us he was once hired as a Visual Basic developer, a job he thought was beneath him. He got on with things anyway, until he was given a new project that he decided to write in C# despite that language bein
  
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• US Data Center Protests Go National As Backlash Grows

  20-07-2026 06:45 via technocracy.news
  
  The protest is nationwide and bipartisan, as 86 percent of all Americans oppose data centers in their neighborhoods. The concerns are excessive electricity and water consumption, as well as sound and radiation exposure. Lobbyists at The Data Center Coalition, which argues for AI data centers, are totally tone deaf to the protest, saying they are “mitigating any negative impacts to households and businesses.” Really? ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Opponents of the rapid buildout of data
  
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• AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

  20-07-2026 05:28 via theregister.com
  
  A quarter of the work performed by IT infrastructure and operations people will be handled by AI in the year 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, despite AI also complicating your environment and possibly creating outages. Those predictions landed on July 10 in Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle for AI in IT Operations, the firm’s view on the future of AI-powered infrastructure management tools. Gartner thinks there’ll be pain before AI-powered automation pays off. “Many AI-fo
  
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• Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

  20-07-2026 02:38 via theregister.com
  
  ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a major speech on AI, which he thinks has enormous potential – for good and evil. Xi’s speech called for AI development to “adhere to the principle of openness.” “As a new engine of world economic growth and an accelerator for the shift of growth drivers, AI is moving from the digital world into the physical world. We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboratio
  
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• Urgent warning to brace for catastrophic 'Ring of Fire' disaster as global megaquake chain reaction sparks fears for MILLIONS in its path: 'Super overdue'

  19-07-2026 23:51 via dailymail.com
  
  A geophysicist has warned that a long string of major earthquakes around Asia could soon make their way to the US, and a devastating rupture is possible within the next four years.
  
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• I worked for Apple. These secret iPhone tricks can save you from spending $1,000 on an upgrade... and the one fix that will make your device feel 'like brand new'

  19-07-2026 22:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Tyler Morgan spent two years working in sales at Apple, where he watched countless customers walk into the company's iconic, minimalist stores to upgrade their iPhones.
  
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• Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

  19-07-2026 18:05 via theregister.com
  
  Avoiding the "lethal trifecta" – access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and an external communication path – is difficult enough when working with AI agents. But the use of connectors – integrations with third-party services like Gmail or Slack – expands the scope of concern in a way that makes it exceedingly difficult to reason about defensive due diligence. PromptArmor, an AI security biz, recently looked at how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude wo
  
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• Famed UFO insider issues chilling claim about the next phase of disclosure: 'A new chapter for humanity'

  19-07-2026 17:26 via dailymail.com
  
  A longtime UFO insider says the recent release of government files is only the beginning of a much larger reckoning
  
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• Is Burnham promising a new dawn for North Sea oil and gas?

  19-07-2026 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The incoming PM is expected to announce fresh support for the North Sea from day one of his premiership.
  
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• Born to boogie? Babies can feel the beat from just three months old - but don't bust a move until their first birthday

  19-07-2026 16:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Long before they can walk, talk or utter their first 'mama', babies are already tuning into the beat.
  
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• From coffee grounds to guinea pig bedding - the composters keeping it local

  19-07-2026 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Food waste is a resource like water and should be kept in communities, compost champions say.
  
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• It's not just sex! Scientists reveal the five surprising reasons dogs mount people, toys and each other

  19-07-2026 13:32 via dailymail.com
  
  If your dog has ever embarrassed you by mounting another dog, a visitor's leg or even their favourite toy, don't assume they're looking for love.
  
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• The 'girl dad' effect: Fathers of daughters are more loving, supportive partners, study finds

  19-07-2026 13:28 via dailymail.com
  
  If you've ever noticed that a hardened dad seems to melt the moment he has a little girl, science suggests you're not imagining it.
  
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• Shark scientists gets £1m to help protect them

  19-07-2026 13:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Natural England's Species Recovery Programme will focus on the blue shark, porbeagle and tope.
  
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• Britain set for butterfly boom after hot weather

  19-07-2026 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A scientist says Britain could be on the verge of a bumper summer for butterflies.
  
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• Revealed: How to beat a traffic jam, according to science - and why you should NEVER change lanes

  19-07-2026 12:14 via dailymail.com
  
  There's nothing worse than setting off in the car, only to get stuck in a traffic jam. But help is at hand, as scientists have revealed the best way to beat congestion.
  
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• Perseid meteors to light up night sky in one of the year's most active showers

  19-07-2026 10:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Perseid meteor shower will light up the night sky over the next five weeks.
  
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