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• Environment Agency workers announce four-day strike as staff turn down 2 per cent pay offer

  05-04-2023 09:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of UNISON Environment Agency workers in England are set to become the latest public body workers to take strike action for four days this month blaming government inaction.
  
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• ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims

  27-08-2026 17:25 via theregister.com
  
  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it’s responding to a “major” cybersecurity incident shortly after the Qilin ransomware gang posted the US federal law enforcement agency on its leak site. According to ATF's statement, the intrusion affected a standalone system that operated separately from its enterprise network. “There is no indication that the incident has affected the ATF enterprise network, the ATF eForms system, or any other ATF syst
  
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• Tropical Storm Dolly erupts in Atlantic as spaghetti models warn of direct impact on US

  27-08-2026 17:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Tropical Storm Dolly has emerged in the Atlantic Ocean and early storm models suggest its impact may be felt along the US East Coast.
  
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• The shirt that hides you from AI cameras: 'Digital Camouflage' top confuses surveillance systems - but it's not exactly subtle

  27-08-2026 17:18 via dailymail.com
  
  As AI-powered cameras become an increasingly common sight on streets, in shops and at transport hubs, some fear the days of true anonymity are numbered.
  
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• Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT

  27-08-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Schrödinger's Cat, the famous 1935 thought experiment, imagines a cat that, for reasons rooted in quantum physics we need not dwell on here, is simultaneously alive and dead. In a landscape of relentless cyberattacks and mounting infrastructural complexity, a routine backup task can appear finished, with every box ticked and every check made. The job is not actually done, however, until it has been verified as fully ready for recovery in the event of cyber disaster. A task that looks sorted
  
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• Flock Safety: From Neighborhood Cameras To Calling Citizens Terrorists

  27-08-2026 16:57 via technocracy.news
  
  https://www.technocracy.news/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Flock-on-the-Pole-1.mp3
  Songs of the Resistance: Flock on the Pole
  This is a history lesson to set the record straight on the total disruption of the surveillance industry, and other disruptors who will follow the same pattern in the future. I have been careful to provide footnotes and references so you can do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
  On August 21, 2017, Flock Safety pitched their company at Y Combinator’s Summ
  
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• Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)

  27-08-2026 16:37 via theregister.com
  
  There'll be no rest for X Corps' lawyers this weekend after startup Operation Bluebird rolled out the twitter.now social media network this week. The launch came the same week as Nitter was served a cease-and-desist letter, and it's the latest in the saga of Twitter branding that X boss Elon Musk dispensed with when renaming his $44 billion purchase as 'X'. Unlike Nitter, which lets users view X content without an account, twitter.info is a new social media platform and "not affiliated with X Co
  
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• Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'

  27-08-2026 15:56 via theregister.com
  
  Announcing upbeat financials and a new offering with AI posterchild Anthropic, Salesforce has begun to drip-feed plans for how it might get customers to spend more as they deploy AI. The CRM giant has been among the victims of the so-called SaaSpocalypse, which sees widespread business application software replaced or diminished by AI models which interact directly with business data. Flawed or not, the notion has tanked Salesforce’s share price by more than 20 percent this year, but its Q
  
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• Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data

  27-08-2026 14:52 via theregister.com
  
  The company behind three of the UK’s busiest airports says “a quantity” of data was stolen during a recent “cybersecurity incident". Manchester Airports Group (MAG) operates Manchester Airport in the North West of England, Cambridgeshire’s Stansted Airport, and East Midlands Airport in Derbyshire. The affected data includes information collected as part of its car parking, lounge, and fast track bookings, as well as information collected as part of MAG's public Wi-F
  
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• HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC

  27-08-2026 14:23 via theregister.com
  
  HP reckons enterprises fretting about the spiraling cost of AI tokens have an obvious alternative: run the models locally and spend the money on a more expensive PC instead. The pitch emerged during HP's third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, where executives repeatedly pointed to cloud AI costs as one reason customers are buying higher-spec machines that can do more AI work locally. AI PCs are becoming harder to avoid as HP pushes more of its lineup upmarket, but the company insists customer
  
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• How to see the lunar eclipse tonight: Best time to watch the moon turn red from the UK during rare alignment

  27-08-2026 13:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Just two weeks after millions of Britons marvelled at the biggest solar eclipse in a generation, another celestial spectacle is set to take place.
  
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• Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap

  27-08-2026 13:43 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft is dusting off the rebrandogun again, and this time it's aimed at the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. The list of hopes and dreams will henceforth be called the AI at Work roadmap. The notification popped up in the Microsoft 365 admin center earlier this week with the words "The AI at Work Roadmap provides a single destination to discover upcoming innovations across Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and related AI-powered experiences." Information for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse w
  
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• Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller

  27-08-2026 13:04 via theregister.com
  
  The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds of thousands of - you guessed it - nuisance calls. Elderly Aids Ltd made 758,053 unsolicited direct marketing calls between May 27, 2024, and February 10, 2025, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). On average, that works out as 2,916 calls per day. Busy fingers. The ICO and Telephone Preference Service (TPS), a UK service
  
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• Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's flash flood - and warn similar events will become 'increasingly common as our climate changes'

  27-08-2026 12:38 via dailymail.com
  
  While scientists are still studying the exact causes of the disaster, several experts say that climate change is to blame.
  
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• Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

  27-08-2026 12:29 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is hiring someone to help lead its AI strategy for civil servants, and actual AI experience is apparently optional. The Cabinet Office is advertising for a Head of Strategy and Engagement in its Digital, Data, Innovation and AI team, or DDI & AI, with a salary of up to £83,355 ($113,000). The successful applicant will help shape how roughly 550,000 civil servants acquire the skills needed to survive Whitehall's increasingly enthusiastic embrace of AI. According to the
  
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• Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's flash flood: Ominous study published just one month ago warned that global warming could spark glacial collapse in the region

  27-08-2026 12:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The Daily Mail has uncovered an ominous study published just one month ago that warned global warming could spark glacial collapse in the region.
  
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• AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi

  27-08-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  AROS is an all-FOSS re-implementation of AmigaOS, and after years of effort, it now supports Arm kit – both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi hardware, especially the Pi 3. The AROS project's nightly builds page has some interesting new offerings. Notably, there's raspi-aarch64-system for 64-bit capable Raspberry Pi hardware, including the Pi 3 and Pi Zero, and raspi-armhf-system for older ARMv6 based devices. We first mentioned AROS 13 years ago, and last took a proper look in May 2025. Buil
  
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• Men struggle to lose weight because they think diets are for women, study finds

  27-08-2026 11:58 via dailymail.com
  
  The next time your husband complains about piling on the pounds, don't bother suggesting a diet.
  
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• Was climate change to blame for Nepal's flash flood? Ominous study published just one month ago warned that global warming could spark glacial collapse in the region

  27-08-2026 11:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The Daily Mail has uncovered an ominous study published just one month ago that warned global warming could spark glacial collapse in the region.
  
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• iPhone 18 Ultra launch date is CONFIRMED: Apple is hosting a 'surprise and shine' event where it will unveil its first foldable - and there's not long to wait

  27-08-2026 11:44 via dailymail.com
  
  The California tech giant has sent out invitations to a 'Surprise and Shine' event at its headquarters in Apple Park.
  
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• Check out the width of that Debian display

  27-08-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  BORK!BORK!BORK! Wide, super wide, ultra wide, and monitor-munga screens might be all the rage these days. But check out the girth of this Debian display in Scotland. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Kenny Millar, this digital billboard in the west central Lowlands town of Greenock has been showing a Debian login prompt for a few weeks now. We know the Linux fraternity are less than keen on advertisements in their operating system, but this is getting ridiculous. Did you know that Debian had
  
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• AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down

  27-08-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  Around 80 percent of UK teachers now regularly use AI in their work, although the minority say it has cut their hours. Research from YouGov shows that AI use among teachers has doubled in the past year. Among those who use it, just over half (51 percent) said it had reduced their workload, but only around a third (35 percent) said they were working fewer hours as a result, according to the poll of 1,033 teachers by YouGov. Although some time was saved with AI, that was more than made up for with
  
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• You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way

  27-08-2026 08:39 via theregister.com
  
  ICANN is poring through over 1,600 applications for new global top-level domains (GTLDs) and will reveal which ones it thinks are valid in a few weeks – but hundreds of names applicants hope to secure have already appeared online. GTLDs are the last part of an internet address. The most common and well-known are .com, .net, and .org. In the early 2000s, ICANN allowed a few more GTLDs, and in 2012 ran an open application process that allowed anyone to pay for the privilege of operating thei
  
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• Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year

  27-08-2026 07:21 via theregister.com
  
  Nutanix is closer to porting its stack to the Arm architecture, spurred by the high price of hardware and a desire to ensure customers can run its wares wherever they want to. CEO Rajiv Ramaswami today told The Register Nutanix customers are currently acutely aware of hardware costs and availability, issues that are slowing some purchases of its software. Nutanix is trying to avoid such delays by expanding its hardware compatibility list and supporting external storage devices – moves Rama
  
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• FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks

  27-08-2026 02:06 via theregister.com
  
  The FBI on Wednesday said it disrupted a botnet and seized two platforms that Chinese-government cyberoperatives used to hack NASA, the US Senate, the Department of Energy, and several other government agencies and critical networks. The Federal Reserve, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health were also among those victimized by the two now-seized hacking tools: a vulnerability scanning and exploitation malware named QScan, and an obf
  
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• America's most dangerous volcano threatens thousands after chilling warning halfway around the world

  27-08-2026 01:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The landslide disaster in Nepal may be a glimpse into the future for an American mountain feared to be a ticking time bomb.
  
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• OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face

  27-08-2026 01:45 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI has published its technical report detailing "the Hugging Face incident," the compromise of the eponymous LLM repository by unreleased, ill-supervised AI models. The incident, widely reported, has prompted concern among technical types, the public, and lawmakers about how automated software was able to escape containment and hack an external organization, and about what can be done to prevent similar incidents. OpenAI's explanation addresses what happened, but its call for keeping a close
  
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• What D-Day looked like from space: Scientists recreate satellite image of the moment 160,000 troops crossed the Channel and stormed the beaches of Normandy

  27-08-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Thick cloud hung over France and the Channel on the morning of D-Day as one of the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasions in history got underway, new images reveal.
  
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• Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads

  26-08-2026 23:18 via theregister.com
  
  If you’re going to build a custom AI accelerator, inference is a good place to start. The clusters are smaller, the chips can be simpler, and at the end of the day they only need to do one thing: serve tokens. OpenAI’s spicy new Jalapeño inference chips are just the latest example. Social media magnate Meta is bucking this trend. Its first proper generative AI accelerator, the MTIA 400 — short for Meta Training and Inference Accelerator — is aimed squarely at LLM t
  
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• Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1

  26-08-2026 22:54 via theregister.com
  
  Wednesday's release of Kubernetes v1.37 shows how the team behind the popular open source resource orchestrator is prioritizing production readiness, pruning outdated features even while it adds new ones. Overall, the release, nicknamed Garhwal after India’s lush Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, includes 67 changes: 16 features that have graduated to stable, production-ready status, along with 23 features being tested as beta, 27 new alpha features, and 1 deprecation. The Cloud Native Comp
  
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