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• Friday briefing: Pesticide traces found in 75 per cent of worldwide honey samples

  06-10-2017 08:48
  
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• Your next parcel could be delivered by a two-legged robot: Evri starts using bots that can zip along at 4mph - and can even walk up stairs

  28-09-2026 11:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Your next parcel could be delivered by a two-legged robot, as Evri starts Europe's first trial of bipedal bots.
  
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• And you thought the iPhone Duo was expensive! 'Liquid metal' version of Apple's foldable goes on sale for $21,000

  28-09-2026 11:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Apple's most expensive iPhone, iPhone Duo, was revealed to the world earlier this month, costing between £1,999 and £3,199. But these costs pale in comparison to a custom version by Caviar.
  
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• HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B

  28-09-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  As the UK government promises to use public spending to back British business, research indicates that the tax collector has paid French tech giant Capgemini at least £4.2 billion since it began dismantling their flagship outsourcing arrangement. When Andy Burnham became Prime Minister in July, he said in his first speech that public procurement would "back British industry." The government later said businesses winning government contracts would need to show they were creating high-qualit
  
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• Say goodbye to brown bananas! Gene-edited fruits could soon be sold in UK supermarkets

  28-09-2026 11:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts at Tropic Biosciences, a UK company based in Norfolk, used a technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 to edit three genes that cause bananas to brown.
  
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• Could your power bank cause an in-flight fire? The latest rules on carrying and charging them on planes after another mid-flight incident

  28-09-2026 10:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Following a string of incidents regarding power banks on board, we tell you everything you need to know about the risks, rules and regulations.
  
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• Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage

  28-09-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  It's hard to make big sheds symbols of oppression, but the datacenter industry's having a jolly good crack at it. Its big boxes of semi-sentient sand are increasingly seen as satanic sandcastles, environmental disasters that inflict drought while boiling oceans. Their role as dark cathedrals of the equally demonic AIs has done nothing to soften attitudes. A new contract of candour is needed between those who build datacenters and those who despise them. Shrugging off concerns, or offering shiny
  
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• Do YOU have a 'velcro dog'? How to tell if your pet's clingy behaviour is normal - or something to worry about

  28-09-2026 09:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Is your pup always desperate to be by your side? If so, you might have a 'velcro dog'. Although this behaviour might seem adorable, experts say it could be a sign of deeper issues.
  
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• Late September warmth before wind and rain return this week

  28-09-2026 08:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Temperatures remain above the average at the start of the week but wetter conditions are on the way for some
  
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• Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack

  28-09-2026 08:49 via theregister.com
  
  Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life. Perhaps it’s time to add attackers targeting newly discovered critical flaws in Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller and gateway products to that grim list. On Sunday, the company published a bulletin warning of eight CVEs, the worst of which – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 – are rated critical with 9.5 CVSS scores. CVE-2026-88771 allows remote code execution and can allow an unauthenticated at
  
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• Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

  28-09-2026 08:35 via theregister.com
  
  Monday mornings can be filled with trepidation and tension, which is why The Register kicks them off with a little light-hearted fun in the form of a new instalment of “Who, Me?" It’s the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors, and reveal the consequences. This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as “Phil” and told us that many years ago he started a new job that, among other things, involved maintaining Microsoft’s magnificent Exchang
  
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• Nature spaces 'need to be next to where people live'

  28-09-2026 07:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are pushing for more wildlife-rich green spaces to be created within urban communities.
  
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• OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought

  28-09-2026 07:30 via theregister.com
  
  The AI safety debate advanced at high speed over the weekend, amid new allegations that rogue agents have behaved more badly than first thought – and in greater numbers. The fun started on Friday when OpenAI quietly disclosed it had paused training of its most advanced models. The AI upstart buried that news in a “misalignment report” – that’s OpenAI-speak for its reports on rogue agents – titled “An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot.” Th
  
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• Getting river pollution investigated like 'pulling teeth'

  28-09-2026 07:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bristol residents say an oil-like substance has been bubbling up for years and killing wildlife.
  
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• Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia

  28-09-2026 03:12 via theregister.com
  
  E-commerce giant Amazon.com is preparing to launch drone deliveries in Australia and other nations. “As Prime Air evaluates Australia and other countries, we are hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia – the person responsible for navigating Australia's aviation regulatory system and securing every approval required to deliver to Australian customers by drone,” reads a recently published job ad. Whoever gets the gig in Australia will report to someone who holds the tit
  
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• Shipwreck found on Nantucket beach during storm

  28-09-2026 03:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
  
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• Watch: Shipwreck uncovered on Nantucket island during nor'easter storm

  28-09-2026 02:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
  
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• One dead as nor'easter storm pummels New York and New Jersey

  28-09-2026 01:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path of the powerful weather system.
  
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• NET Zero, AI And Technocracy: What Happens To Freedom In A Surveillance Society?

  28-09-2026 01:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Ordinary Canadian citizens hate their government, and with good reason; the iron teeth of Technocracy are devouring their nation. Oh Canada: “We have our hands full, with either sovereignty, freedom and prosperity or the status to yield, submit and conform into slavery, debt, disease and things worse than death.” For you, it started with Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, who was the Grand Poobah of Technocracy during the 30s and 40s in Canada. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Edit
  
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• The ups and downs of SpaceX's Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Why millions of large moths are descending in swarms on Sydney and Melbourne

  27-09-2026 22:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The moths - some estimates put the number at 2billion - primarily travel at night and use the moon to navigate, so are very sensitive to light pollution.
  
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• Watch: The ups and downs of SpaceX's 13 Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Father and son crowned Sheep Dog World Trial champions

  27-09-2026 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David and Jack Howells say they "never in million years" thought they would win the double.
  
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• Baby brain IS real, scientists say - as they discover how high hormone levels disrupt brain memory circuits

  27-09-2026 15:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have now identified a hormonal brain circuit that appears to make expectant mothers more forgetful during late pregnancy.
  
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• Plagued by knots, frizz and frazzled ends? Blow-dry your hair from the bottom up, expert says

  27-09-2026 15:41 via dailymail.com
  
  According toAnabel Kingsley, brand president and lead consultant at Philip Kingsley, many of us have been blow-drying our hair in completely the wrong order.
  
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• Your pictures of the Harvest Moon shimmering across the UK sky

  27-09-2026 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The full Moon put on a stunning display over the skies of UK on Saturday night and here are some of your photographs.
  
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• Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser

  27-09-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  Thirty years after Apple abandoned Copland, its doomed attempt to create a modern Mac operating system, a new emulator lets you try the final developer build in your browser. Copland was intended to replace Apple's System 7 with a PowerPC-native operating system built around a microkernel, protected memory, and preemptive multitasking for system services. Three unfinished developer builds – D7E1, D9, and D11E4 – are publicly known. Relatively few people outside Apple's developer comm
  
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• Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money

  27-09-2026 11:35 via theregister.com
  
  Big AI has a problem. Its companies must ingest other people’s work. You know, books, news stories, photographs, code, websites, that one original meme you came up with, and practically everything else on the internet to train its large language models (LLMs). We all know that. We also know that AI companies hate paying for any of it, obeying the licenses attached to it, or, God forbid, sharing their revenue with the companies and people who created the work in the first place.Recently, Bi
  
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• Why families are being urged to look closer on autumn walks

  27-09-2026 08:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts urge families to spot, photograph and enjoy autumn fungi on their doorstep.
  
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• Bumblebee project seeking to help rare species

  27-09-2026 08:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The programme to help the Moss carder species will focus on Cornwall, Kent and the North Pennines.
  
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