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• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg shows off software designed to make sharing easier

  12-04-2016 01:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a recent video, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows a brief scroll through his app, revealing a status section that includes new features, including sideshows, GIFs, and music.
  
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• SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love

  16-06-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to "understand how work gets done" and "take action without needing to be prompted." The software behemoth's leading database, SQL Server, barely got a mention. On its own, it may not be a big deal, but Microsoft watchers also noted that long-time SQL Server champion Rohan Kumar left the company in Ju
  
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• Super El Niño could add HUNDREDS to your household energy bills: Looming climate event will compound global gas shortages, experts warn

  16-06-2026 11:24 via dailymail.com
  
  The Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS) says that the impending climate event will compound global gas shortages and send prices soaring.
  
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• The countries where Gen Z are the most miserable, revealed - with the UK ninth on the list

  16-06-2026 11:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers from Oxford Scholastica Academy surveyed over 1,400 youngsters from across 100 countries about their hopes for the future.
  
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• ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss

  16-06-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Weeks after Salesforce boasted about the adoption of "headless CRM," the concept of "headless ERP" crops up. This notion, according to Seth Ravin, CEO of third-party support vendor Rimini Street, is coming to help beleaguered ERP customers escape the application upgrade treadmill driven by the dominant database vendors. For Salesforce, its Headless 360 allows customers to access all of their Salesforce data from developer tool Cursor, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, Claude, or a terminal. It has processed 4.
  
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• France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

  16-06-2026 10:31 via theregister.com
  
  Digital sovereignty loomed large at Nextcloud's annual summit in Munich last week, where Benoît Piédallu, National Project Manager of Shared Digital Services at the French Ministry of Education, injected a dose of reality into the debate. Nextcloud is an open source storage and collaboration suite. France's Ministry of Education started initial work to adopt it in 2018, Piédallu said, with the COVID-19 pandemic turning up the urgency in 2020. In 2021, "we had this little inci
  
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• Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation

  16-06-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  When Spotify evaluated its cloud compute options, it needed more than incremental improvements. Its recommendation engine delivers real-time suggestions to millions of users around the clock, placing heavy demands on compute infrastructure while requiring tight control over energy use and costs. During its evaluation of next-generation cloud processors, Spotify found that workloads running on Google Cloud Axion processors built on Arm architecture delivered roughly 250 percent better performance
  
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• Face it, your cat doesn't care about you: Cuddling your pet when you're stressed makes you feel even WORSE, study finds

  16-06-2026 06:00 via dailymail.com
  
  When you're feeling down, you might be tempted to turn to your pet for comfort. But if you have a cat, scientists warn that this probably isn't a good idea.
  
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• Latest Gene Editing Of Human Embryos Could “Open The Floodgates”

  16-06-2026 05:16 via technocracy.news
  
  Forget CRISPR. It’s Base Editing, baby: a more sure way to edit human zygotes without the risk. It’s the “gateway to embryo editing to do enhancements.” It’s the “cat’s out of the bag,” according to critics. Of course, all these genetic scientists say they are curing some genetic defect, while spending hundreds of millions to turn all of us into “hackable animals”, as Noah Yuval Harari said. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Editing the gene
  
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• A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

  16-06-2026 01:23 via theregister.com
  
  Websites are being redesigned for consumption by AI models, and now a coalition wants to extend the trend to digital documents. The LF AI & Data Foundation, under the Linux Foundation, has formed a working group to steer the development of DocLang, an AI-friendly document format that aims to help enterprises feed their files to AI systems. The DocLang group, founded by IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, HumanSignal, and Forgis, contends that existing formats like PDF, Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX are
  
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• Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack

  15-06-2026 23:48 via theregister.com
  
  Cisco today issued a fix for a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bug that attackers have already spotted and exploited to get root privileges, according to both the networking vendor and the feds. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, is in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, and exists because the software is not properly validating user-supplied input during a file upload process. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected API en
  
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• Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

  15-06-2026 23:07 via theregister.com
  
  The “jailbreak” that prompted the Trump administration to block Anthropic’s most advanced models was actually a simple three-word prompt: “Fix this code.” That's according to Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security, and the fairy godmother of bug bounties. She says she was the only outside expert to read the third-party research paper on Fable 5 guardrail bypass techniques that prompted the ban. On Friday, the US government, reportedly citing national sec
  
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• AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up

  15-06-2026 22:25 via theregister.com
  
  Your GPU dashboard says 70% utilization. On paper, the cluster is busy. In practice, a large chunk of that time is spent with your $40,000 accelerators sitting idle, waiting on a file that lives three network hops away on a NAS box. The compute queue is empty, and the pipeline is fine. The problem is that data is just somewhere else. This is the awkward truth underneath most stalled AI projects. The constraint in modern AI infrastructure stopped being storage capacity years ago. Now, it's more a
  
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• DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars

  15-06-2026 22:17 via theregister.com
  
  War may never change, but its domains evolve, and DARPA is looking for ideas to ensure space infrastructure destroyed in future orbital skirmishes can be rapidly replaced. DARPA, on Friday, put out a request for information for an initiative to develop what it’s calling Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities. “Other nations seek to position themselves as leading space powers while undermining the stability and tranquility that allows space to benefit all nations,” DARPA sai
  
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• Chances of tropical storm forming in Gulf of America nearly double as models show paths to US coast

  15-06-2026 21:55 via dailymail.com
  
  A tropical threat brewing in the Gulf of America gained strength Monday, prompting hurricane forecasters to raise the odds of development.
  
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• Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs

  15-06-2026 21:39 via theregister.com
  
  Claude wants to know if you are who you say you are. Anthropic last week updated its privacy policy to say that it may subject consumer account holders to identity checks. The new legalese arrived one day before the company released its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, presently disabled to comply with a US government export control order that has elicited protest from more than 60 cybersecurity and technical experts. Anthropic last year said that it supported "policies like strong export controls"
  
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• Urgent warning to all Outlook users about scam hijacking email accounts... here's how to stay safe

  15-06-2026 20:42 via dailymail.com
  
  The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement about a new scam stealing Outlook and Microsoft Teams accounts used by millions of Americans.
  
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• HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter

  15-06-2026 20:30 via theregister.com
  
  HPE is taking advantage of VMware's expensive licensing changes by offering customers free use of its own VM Essentials product for a year, plus a $1 license for its Zerto data protection product to help ease migrations. The jolly green giant announced the cheapies at the Partner Growth Summit staged alongside its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, and framed them as a migration assistance program intended to arm channel partners who want to help customers reduce their financial risk when migratin
  
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• FBI issues warning for all Outlook and Microsoft Teams users over scam hijacking accounts... here's how to stay safe

  15-06-2026 20:04 via dailymail.com
  
  The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement about a new scam stealing Outlook and Microsoft Teams accounts used by millions of Americans.
  
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• Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist

  15-06-2026 19:44 via theregister.com
  
  ShinyHunters claims to have breached the Council of Europe and stolen more than 297 GB of data after exploiting a zero-day flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft and abusing that hole to hack more than 100 organizations. According to a post on the extortion crew’s data-leak site, the 429,000 pilfered files contain HR and payroll records, payslips, purchase-order records, CVs, and employees’ salary, banking, tax, and medical records. A Council of Europe spokesperson told The Register that it is &l
  
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• Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

  15-06-2026 19:15 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement Proposal 401 for Value Classes and Objects – part of Project Valhalla – will be integrated into the OpenJDK mainline early next month, targeting JDK 28. Previews of JEP 401 have so far been available only in early-access builds. The current JDK (Java Development Kit) is 26, with JDK 27 expected in September and JDK 28 in March 2027. The next long-term support version is likely to be JDK 29 in September 2027. Fol
  
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• Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site

  15-06-2026 18:47 via theregister.com
  
  US legislation covering federal datacenters is set to expire in September and it appears that the Trump administration is simply going to allow it to lapse without replacement. The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers certain standards that are to be adhered to for facilities that are wholly or partially owned, operated, or maintained by a federal agency. It includes requirements relating to availability and uptime of the facility; the use of sustainable energy sources; pro
  
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• Glowing 'mother orb' launched swarm of mystery objects near secret US site, Pentagon files reveal

  15-06-2026 18:35 via dailymail.com
  
  The latest batch of UFO files from the Trump administration included a report from federal agents who saw a 'mother orb' launching clusters of smaller mysterious objects.
  
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• The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build

  15-06-2026 18:30 via theregister.com
  
  It’s been more than a quarter century since the Y2K bug threatened to disrupt the not-so-modern world, and while the patching efforts of global IT heroes prevented a millennial mess, the problem persists as a Dutch dev just found a new instance of the numeric nightmare. While working on an emulator for the venerable Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series of “minicomputer” systems manufactured between the 1950s and 1990s, Folkert van Heusden spotted an unpatched Y2K bug in the N
  
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• The Y2K bug is back! Danish dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build

  15-06-2026 18:30 via theregister.com
  
  It’s been more than a quarter century since the Y2K bug threatened to disrupt the not-so-modern world, and while the patching efforts of global IT heroes prevented a millennial mess, the problem persists as a Dutch dev just found a new instance of the numeric nightmare. While working on an emulator for the venerable Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series of “minicomputer” systems manufactured between the 1950s and 1990s, Folkert van Heusden spotted an unpatched Y2K bug in the N
  
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• NASA Management wants a word and won't say why

  15-06-2026 18:15 via theregister.com
  
  We've all seen it: an unexpected management meeting that turns up in your calendar. It could mean HR wants a quiet and perhaps terminal word, or, in the case of NASA, something altogether different. During a chat with Space.com, NASA astronaut Bob Hines explained that the meeting was engineered to ensure all five Artemis III astronauts would be in the same room together and introduced face-to-face. The process space NASA uses to select astronauts has long been shrouded in mystery. The first Amer
  
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• Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig

  15-06-2026 17:54 via theregister.com
  
  UBUNTU SUMMIT At a Canonical event, we didn't expect a presentation on using Red Hat's container management tools, but if this is something you might need, it does sound useful. At Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Red Hat Principal Software Engineer Joseph Marrero Corchado presented a talk called Bootc: Use your container knowledge and infrastructure to build and deploy your Ubuntu hosts. Although Ubuntu is very strong in the desktop Linux space, in large corporate server environments, Ubuntu is just anothe
  
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• Eerie WWII photo sparks wild time-travel claims after viewers spot impossible detail

  15-06-2026 17:54 via dailymail.com
  
  A decades-old photograph has sparked bizarre time-travel theories over a detail that seemingly does not belong.
  
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• Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert

  15-06-2026 17:33 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft appears to have dropped the ball with its certificate management after a domain used by sysadmins worldwide to test connectivity to Microsoft 365 started throwing untrusted connection warnings in browsers. The connectivity.office.com domain is used by IT pros to test their network's connectivity to Microsoft 365 and ensure their firewalls aren't blocking anything that could affect an organization's access to Microsoft servers. An SSL server report retrieved on Monday showed that the ce
  
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• Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin

  15-06-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Most large European enterprises have no shortage of AI ambition, but they lack the data foundation to support it. Fragmented legacy systems, strict GDPR obligations, and anxiety about handing sensitive data to foreign cloud infrastructure have left many IT leaders running the same modernization projects on a loop, stuck in AI pilot purgatory before they reach production. Onix, a leading services-as-software data and AI specialist, thinks it has the answer. The outfit is rolling out Wingspan acro
  
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