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• Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered

  02-08-2018 07:01 via go.theregister.com
  British civil servants go bonkers with no booze, or too much Here’s a bit of good news: If you like alcohol, then keep drinking, and if you don’t, then you should start drinking. In moderation, of course, unless you want to increase your chances of developing dementia.…
  
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• Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting

  25-06-2026 12:55 via theregister.com
  
  Elastic, whose products include Elasticsearch and Kibana, has announced an "approximately" 7 percent reduction in its workforce. In a blog post, CEO Ash Kulkarni thanked employees for their hard work as he announced the layoffs. He stated that the customer-facing sales team would continue to grow, but for others, "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams." Kulkarni also noted that engineering, "where the nature of the work is evolving fastest," would be split into t
  
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• ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era

  25-06-2026 12:48 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE announced that Cui Li, the company's Chief Development Officer, delivered a keynote speech titled "Unlocking Value and Embracing Uncertainty in the AI Era" at MWC Shanghai 2026. Cui Li noted that the world is undergoing a profound paradigm shift. AI is iterating at a breakneck pace and generating more customized demands, where the "one-size-fits-all" model is no longer applicable. We are now in an era where uncertainty is the only certainty. In this time of change, ZTE put forward the "All i
  
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• Think this is bad? Imminent super El Niño could make UK temperatures even HOTTER later this summer, expert warns

  25-06-2026 12:36 via dailymail.com
  
  An imminent 'Super El Niño' could send the mercury even higher later this year, experts have warned.
  
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• ZTE showcases full-stack AI capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, empowering new era of token operations

  25-06-2026 12:28 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE showcased the TCO-optimal AI factory, an AIOS-powered ecosystem spanning scenario-based applications and innovative terminals, and cutting-edge breakthroughs in AI-driven networks at MWC Shanghai 2026. Through the extreme synergy across computing, network, storage, energy, and software, as well as system-level architecture innovations, ZTE fully unlocked new momentum for token operations. As AI agents become widespread, industry competition focus is shifting from computing power scale to tok
  
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• IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

  25-06-2026 12:03 via theregister.com
  
  IBM has developed a sub-nanometer (nm) chip technology it says could be used to produce commercial chips within five years, and has mapped a path to 0.1 nm. Big Blue claims its new process node can cram nearly 100 billion transistors onto a silicon die the size of a fingernail, almost double the density of the 2 nm technology it unveiled back in 2021. The new process as disclosed is actually for 0.7 nm or 7 Angstroms (7A), compared with the cutting-edge manufacturing nodes now being prepared for
  
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• Talk about a blast from the past! Commodore unveils a T2K-inspired flip phone with texting, maps and music - but NO social media

  25-06-2026 11:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Fans of retro tech are in for a treat as the classic computer brand Commodore unveils a T2K-inspired flip phone.
  
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• Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions

  25-06-2026 11:20 via theregister.com
  
  The minutes of the government's recently announced digital ID advisory group will not be published, Cabinet Office minister James Frith has told a Conservative MP, while not answering his questions about its budget or how its members were selected. Andrew Snowden, MP for Fylde and an assistant whip, asked the Cabinet Office whether the minutes, recommendations, and advice of the digital ID advisory group announced earlier this month will be published. In separate parliamentary written questions,
  
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• Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another

  25-06-2026 10:21 via theregister.com
  
  It is half a century since the Soviet Union launched the final crewed Almaz space station, also known as Salyut 5, which was home to two crews, while a third mission failed to dock and nearly came to a watery end. The Almaz stations were launched for the Soviet military and are better known as Salyut 2, 3, and 5. There were additional stations under construction, but the crewed program was canceled after Salyut 5. While we hesitate to use the word "cursed," Salyut 5 was certainly an eventful pro
  
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• The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

  25-06-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  Modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the realm of agentic AI, is often discussed through the lens of accelerators, model sizes, and training clusters. However, making large-scale agentic AI systems functional relies heavily on the CPU within these pipelines. As agentic AI deployments expand across cloud and enterprise environments, the CPU increasingly acts as the control plane for the entire system. It manages the coordinated movement of data between storage, memory and accelerators, ensur
  
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• UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found

  25-06-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we school ourselves on others' security failures. This week, we’ll learn about a school where the entire network was like an open-book test … and the IT department got a zero. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at [email protected]. Anonymity is available upon request. Our tale of academic pwnage comes courtesy of a reader we’ll Regomize as Nathan. Nathan was 17 and attending s
  
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• Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

  25-06-2026 08:13 via theregister.com
  
  Infosys chairman Nandan M. Nilekani has predicted AI – even AI that does the kind of coding work his company does for many clients – will be good for services companies. Nilekani made his prediction in a speech delivered at the Indian services giant’s annual general meeting on Tuesday. “The industry is going through a major technology transition and whenever there is such a transition, questions are asked about our relevance, leadership or ability to maintain growth and m
  
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• Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’

  25-06-2026 06:31 via theregister.com
  
  Australia’s Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has established dedicated teams to counter nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure, the org’s director general Mike Burgess revealed yesterday. “We discovered nation-state hackers had compromised the network of an Australian critical infrastructure provider,” Burgess said yesterday in remarks accompanying the release of ASIO’s annual threat assessment, a task it performs in its role as Australia&rsquo
  
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• Your dog's WALK could reveal if they've got dementia: Shorter strides are an early warning sign in senior pooches, study reveals

  25-06-2026 06:00 via dailymail.com
  
  If your senior pooch is starting to take shorter strides, it could be an early warning sign of dementia.
  
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• Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

  25-06-2026 04:07 via theregister.com
  
  Memory-maker Micron has found a way to keep prices for its products sky-high for another five years, by signing 16 “strategic customer agreements” (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with “a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.” Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company’s Q3 earnings call. He explained that Micron
  
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• Bad news for vegans: Plant-based foods contain TWICE as many additives as their meaty alternatives, study finds

  25-06-2026 01:02 via dailymail.com
  
  They're often seen as healthy alternatives to meat, but a new study might put you off plant-based foods.
  
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• Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

  25-06-2026 00:55 via theregister.com
  
  AI vendors have been pushing organizations to board the AI hype train as it races by at full speed. But many of the companies doing so, unable to move quite that fast, have stumbled along the way. According to a survey of 406 IT decision makers, 93 percent of organizations have experienced AI-caused infrastructure incidents, but a mere 19 percent had the necessary governance to respond. The survey, conducted in April by Panterra Group at the behest of Spacelift, forms the basis of the orchestrat
  
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• The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities

  25-06-2026 00:27 via theregister.com
  
  It’s looking like another tough week (month? year?) for Switchzilla amid reports of new serious vulnerabilities under attack. First up is a server-side request forgery bug in its Unified Communications Manager tracked as CVE-2026-20230. Cisco disclosed and patched this flaw in early June. The comms control platform doesn’t properly validate some HTTP requests, and an attacker could exploit this bug to gain root privileges on a compromised device. At the time, Cisco said that a proof-
  
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• Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters

  24-06-2026 23:32 via theregister.com
  
  We knew it was coming, but now it's official: Qualcomm is making a major push into the datacenter market. And though it is late to the game, the mobile-chip giant believes it can make an impact by delivering a lower total cost of ownership and better performance per watt than rival platforms. It has to go somewhere, and the company is already dominating the chip space elsewhere, Qualcomm's datacenter EVP and GM Tony Pialis said during the company’s Investor Day presentation on Wednesday. P
  
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• Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop

  24-06-2026 21:42 via theregister.com
  
  Writing prompts is so … 2025! AI influencers and industry luminaries have declared that prompts are out and loops are in, and maddeningly this has become blog fodder and grist for the news cycle. Never mind that AI agents, which are models using tools in a loop, have involved loops since people started yammering about them last year. Never mind that programming has always had constructs for repetition, even before the do-loop appeared in Fortran. The word from the AI-pilled is that if you
  
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• Lost Christian text hidden for centuries reveals new insight into the Bible's most chilling mystery

  24-06-2026 20:27 via dailymail.com
  
  A forgotten manuscript preserved in a Polish library has revealed long-lost sermons in which St Augustine grappled with one of the Bible's most unsettling encounters.
  
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• OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom

  24-06-2026 20:24 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI and Broadcom have teamed up – with a little help from some of the former’s AI models – to develop the frontier model lab’s very first inference chip, dubbed Jalapeño, the companies announced in a press release on Wednesday. Details of the spicily named silicon are scarce in the announcement, with the company admitting that it’s running engineering samples of Jalapeño in its lab “at target frequency and power,” but noting that it won&
  
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• Is THIS the key to tackling future heatwaves? Scientists propose controversial 'Weather Jiu-Jitsu' technique to combat extreme weather

  24-06-2026 20:00 via dailymail.com
  
  In a new study, researchers claim that a technique called 'Weather Jiu-Jitsu' could be used to 'nudge' weather systems away from harmful trajectories.
  
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• Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit

  24-06-2026 19:42 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft, its friends, and international law enforcement - with an AI assist - disrupted two widely used pieces of malware and their infrastructure, in what Redmond describes as a novel approach to cybercrime disruption that targets the cyberattack supply chain instead of a single tool or service. “What’s new is how we’re combining AI analysis with an expanded use of that law,” Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, said in a
  
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• Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft

  24-06-2026 18:32 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION On June 24, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 11, unveiling a new and controversial operating system. Five years on, how has that worked out for you, Redmond? Windows 11 has always been a problem child for Microsoft. It was announced in June 2021 and became generally available on October 5 that year, while much of its customer base was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, The Register called it pointless rather than a point release of Microsoft's flagship operating syst
  
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• Panic as earthquake triggers warnings across three US states to 'drop and cover'

  24-06-2026 18:30 via dailymail.com
  
  A major earthquake has sent shockwaves across three states, triggering urgent shelter in place warnings for millions of Americans.
  
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• US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban

  24-06-2026 17:49 via technocracy.news
  
  This article rightly concludes, “private crypto has a seat at the table, and the Fed’s version of a digital dollar does not.” As Technocrat-in-Chief, Trump has banded together with the billionaire arch-Technocrats who have taken control of Washington, in order to create a privatized financial system for America run by them. This private system far exceeds the Fed’s CBDC by including tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).
  Who proposed this amendment to the 21st Century R
  
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• How hot is your commute? As temperatures in London hit 36°C, Daily Mail tests popular tube lines and bus routes - with some above the legal limit for transporting CATTLE

  24-06-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  As the mercury crept up, the Daily Mail's Senior Science & Technology Reporter, Wiliam Hunter, set out on some of the popular Underground lines and bus routes, armed with a thermometer.
  
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• Mutant sewer rats spreading through major US cities as scientists discover disturbing DNA changes

  24-06-2026 17:44 via dailymail.com
  
  Shocking mutations in the DNA of common pests found in every major US city could help spark the next deadly pandemic, researchers fear.
  
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• Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update

  24-06-2026 17:32 via theregister.com
  
  The next major release of Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, will include new commands to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technology. Deno desktop will compile an application from a plain TypeScript file or from frameworks such as Next.js, Astro, Deno Fresh, TanStack Start or Vite SSR (server-side rendering). A distinctive feature is that the native WebView is used by default, rather than bundling the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). The advantage is much smaller applic
  
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