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• Facebook says messaging apps boost social interaction

  17-11-2017 00:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Facebook Messenger study found that 80% of adults and 91% of teens across the world message every day, and 66% of people who message say they have more authentic conversations.
  
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• Several US states enter 'zone of sweaty despair' with humidity worse than the Amazon rainforest

  30-06-2026 21:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A suffocating surge of moisture is turning parts of the US into a 'zone of sweaty despair,' with humidity levels rivaling, and in some cases exceeding, the Amazon rainforest.
  
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• Bombshell claims raise fears CIA's secret mind-control program is still experimenting on Americans

  30-06-2026 19:59 via dailymail.com
  
  A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.
  
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• Strange formation in NASA's Mars photo fuels claims of extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet

  30-06-2026 19:51 via dailymail.com
  
  An unusual sighting in a NASA image has reignited speculation that something extraterrestrial once existed on Mars.
  
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• CIA's secret mind-control horrors exposed as new claims of torturing Americans emerge

  30-06-2026 19:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A notorious CIA mind-control program is back in the spotlight amid fresh allegations of torture and deadly human experiments.
  
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• Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe

  30-06-2026 18:54 via theregister.com
  
  Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan said he is aware of “questionable, long-term threat actor communications” between a threat hunter who is still employed with the security firm and a cybercriminal, and called this “poor judgment.” “In one particular exchange, our current teammate disclosed to a threat actor that law enforcement had reached out to them about the threat actor,” Hanslovan said in a blog post, addressing a former employee’s accusations that the cu
  
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• CIA's secret mind-control horrors exposed as chilling new MKUltra claims emerge

  30-06-2026 18:42 via dailymail.com
  
  A notorious CIA mind-control program is back in the spotlight amid fresh allegations of torture and deadly human experiments.
  
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• Bombshell claims raise fears CIA's MKUltra mind-control program is still experimenting on Americans

  30-06-2026 18:41 via dailymail.com
  
  A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.
  
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• Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

  30-06-2026 18:25 via theregister.com
  
  For those who can't move their fingers to type, a brain-computer interface that can help them communicate by decoding neural activity is a lifeline. Researchers at Meta have been working on a noninvasive - no surgery required - brain-computer interface that is better than its predecessors, but still far from practically usable after more than a year of work. Meta announced the second iteration of its system designed to pick up and decode brain signals that fire when users are typing, called Brai
  
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• AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

  30-06-2026 18:01 via theregister.com
  
  Database management work will soon be mostly automated by AI agents, just like coding, according to the CEO of Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed database of the same name. Spencer Kimball told The Register that the proliferation of databases demanded by the explosion of AI agents in coding and business functions will mean that managing them in a largely manual way is out of the question. “Nobody's going to do manual work on a database, just like almost nobody's doing manua
  
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• Bombshell testimony warns CIA's MKUltra mind-control program may still be experimenting on Americans

  30-06-2026 17:58 via dailymail.com
  
  A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.
  
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• Is the key to youthful skin moisturising three times a day? Study reveals your morning cream has worn off by lunchtime

  30-06-2026 17:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Most women start their day with a cleanse, tone and moisturise routine - but your morning cream has likely worn off by lunchtime, according to a new study.
  
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• Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

  30-06-2026 17:18 via theregister.com
  
  Now not only can you run Linux from within Windows without third-party tools, but can do so within containers. Microsoft has continued the trend of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) being one of the company's more interesting developer technologies with the arrival of a public preview of WSL containers. According to Microsoft, the update adds a pair of new features to WSL: "A built in Linux container CLI and an API for Windows applications to run Linux containers as part of their app logic."
  
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• What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling

  30-06-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Earlier this spring, AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to bring coherence to AI infrastructure and establish a specification for co-packaged optics (CPO) scale-up networks. The architecture they aligned on is a slow and wide non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation paired with wavelength-division multiplexing. OCI GEN1 supports four wavelengths at 50 Gbps per channel, delivering 200 Gbps per direction per fiber,
  
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• Technocrat Zillionaires Are Starting To Get Scared As The Public Turns Against Them

  30-06-2026 16:50 via technocracy.news
  
  On every conceivable front – students, homeowners, labor, businesses – Americans are rising up to reject AI and the Technocrats behind it. Klaus Schwab’s statement 10 years ago about “you will be happy” was just as stupid as “visualize world peace”; you don’t speak your reality into existence. Behind that fisod, their lies and propaganda are catching up with them. Their bunkers and billions won’t help them in the end. ⁃ Patrick Woo
  
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• Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

  30-06-2026 16:30 via theregister.com
  
  A Red Hat build engineer has ended his second experimental effort at using a high-end Arm64 desktop computer as his daily driver. His conclusions are instructive. Marcin Juszkiewicz’s series of posts on his tech blog about running a Fedora-powered beast of an Arm desktop computer has been interesting reading for about a year now. Almost exactly a year ago, he built a beast of an Arm workstation. He spent some €1,800 building a machine around an Ampere Altra, which as The Register desc
  
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• UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees

  30-06-2026 15:52 via theregister.com
  
  The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering new requirements around "steering" for Apple and Google's mobile platforms. The consultation concerns restrictions the CMA says are "currently preventing UK app developers from 'steering' their customers away from Apple and Google's platforms for payment." Direct engagement with customers allows developers to bypass the tech giants' app stores and avoid the fees they charge. According to the CMA, Apple currently prohibits the practi
  
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• Urgent recall for popular air conditioner due to fire risks: Stop using NOW

  30-06-2026 15:51 via dailymail.com
  
  A nationwide air conditioner recall is affecting thousands of Americans just as a dangerous heat dome blankets more than 30 states.
  
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• Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

  30-06-2026 14:14 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in less than 3 kilobytes. Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer comes from an era at Microsoft when Notepad handled the simple stuff, and WordPad handled everything else. "We had some clear rules," said the Task Manager author on his YouTube channel, Dave's Garage. "Notepad was for plain text. WordPad
  
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• Ark of the Covenant mystery blown wide open as 'biblical relic' is discovered

  30-06-2026 14:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Archaeologists have made a breakthrough in the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant, which vanished from the biblical record before the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
  
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• Babies and toddlers under the age of two should have NO screen time at all, landmark study says

  30-06-2026 13:54 via dailymail.com
  
  Babies and toddlers under the age of two should not receive any intentional screen time at all, according to a new study.
  
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• Where there's a will, AI still has work to do

  30-06-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  A UK law firm has put AI-generated wills on trial, and the chatbot didn't fare particularly well under cross-examination. SE Solicitors has taken an AI chatbot to task after asking it to draft a will for a fictional client, concluding that while the result looked convincing enough, it missed many of the questions a probate solicitor would normally ask before putting anything into writing. The firm asked the chatbot to prepare a will for "Daniel," an unmarried 42-year-old with two adult children,
  
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• A head for heights... and maths! Study shows giraffes can do simple mental arithmetic

  30-06-2026 13:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Giraffes are head and shoulders above the savanna competition when it comes to crunching numbers, according to a new study.
  
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• Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number

  30-06-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  The distro formerly known as Raspbian has received some modest tweaks – and a whole new kernel version. Raspberry Pi Ltd is a little capricious when it comes to version numbering for Raspberry Pi OS, and although this release contains a fairly significant change, it doesn't seem to have a different version number. While PiOS is based on Debian 13 "Trixie," the company significantly customizes upstream Debian, including newer kernels. For 13 years now, Raspberry Pi has been adding new secti
  
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• No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

  30-06-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle is moving to stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port of the Java Development Kit (JDK) from version 27, which is expected in September. JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal) 8386091 states that "Oracle engineers will stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27." A few days ago, while noting that the JEP was still in a draft state, a pull request to implement the deprecation was submitted by Mikael Vidstedt, senior director Java Virtual Machine at Oracle. Building the JDK for macOS/x64 would req
  
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• WhatsApp to let people chat without swapping phone numbers - but you'll have to be quick to reserve your username

  30-06-2026 11:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Exchanging numbers could soon be a thing of the past - as WhatsApp is introducing a feature to let people chat via username.
  
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• HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

  30-06-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  HS2 is set to ditch some of its most ambitious railway technology in a bid to make Britain's most troubled infrastructure project easier to finish. A report by spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) published on Monday reveals the Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed changes to simplify parts of the railway's technical specification as part of HS2's latest reset, which began in January 2025. The report is the first full assessment of the project since the reset got underway. The
  
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• Lab-grown eye cells offer fresh hope for millions at risk of blindness: Scientists say their breakthrough paves way for 'continuous supply' of retinal tissue

  30-06-2026 11:10 via dailymail.com
  
  A revolutionary technique to grow eye cells from scratch offers fresh hope for millions at risk of blindness.
  
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• Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals

  30-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  After eight years of development, the UK Home Office’s new system for managing immigration and asylum applications is failing to help the department learn from the politically sensitive appeals process. According to a report from Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, the number of appeals to decisions on asylum status has rocketed from 8,000 in 2022-23 to well over 29,000 in 2023-24. However, the new case management system, Atlas, which completed its handover from the leg
  
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• How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics?

  30-06-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  The network has become the nervous system of any organization running AI at scale. A single distributed training run can chew through thousands of GPUs for weeks, and one congested uplink can slash throughput by more than 30 percent. Plenty of datacenter networks aren't keeping up now that AI sits at the center of the workload. The traffic itself has changed. China’s daily AI token consumption jumped from roughly 100 billion a day at the start of 2024 to more than 30 trillion by mid-2025.
  
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