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• Hackers target internet address flaw

  04-08-2015 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hackers are exploiting a serious flaw in the internet's architecture, according to a security firm.
  
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• Terrifying moment killer whale pod launches eight-minute attack on sailboat

  01-09-2026 22:06 via dailymail.com
  
  A sailing crew captured the terrifying moment a pod of three or four killer whales attacked their boat, tearing away half its rudder and forcing the crew to check for leaks.
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard makes US landfall with millions in its path

  01-09-2026 21:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall on US coast with millions in its path

  01-09-2026 21:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• Tropical Storm Edouard slams US coast as 8ft surge and tornadoes threaten millions

  01-09-2026 20:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions of people along the US coast face flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes as Tropical Storm Edouard makes landfall.
  
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• How a small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again

  01-09-2026 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials in British Columbia say the floating island drifted towards the shoreline of a local lake. But its origins remain a mystery.
  
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• Met Office: Summer 2026 was UK's hottest ever

  01-09-2026 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK had a spring and summer of persistent heat with five widespread heatwaves and 40 days of temperatures above 30C (86F), smashing the previous record of 34 days.
  
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• 'Demonic' sea lions on West Coast spark alarm over insidious disease spreading to humans

  01-09-2026 19:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Dozens of sea lions have started washing up on US beaches, poisoned with an insidious neurotoxin that could kill people as well.
  
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• ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs

  01-09-2026 18:43 via theregister.com
  
  If you're pining away for the days when Windows ran well on 64 MB of RAM, there's a new version of open source NT clone ReactOS promising easier installation and fewer bugs. ReactOS 0.4.16 was announced over the weekend after a year and a half of development, and its list of improvements is substantial. For those unfamiliar with the ReactOS project, it’s a long-running effort (it spun up in 1996) to create an open source equivalent of Windows NT, with the aim of running Windows application
  
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• Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

  01-09-2026 18:06 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle is betting that AI coding will deliver "Star Wars" levels of software engineering productivity, CEO Mike Sicilia told investors last week. With its shares sharply down over the past year, Big Red claims its engineers' productivity will skyrocket as the company mainlines the AI wonder drug it prescribes to customers. Speaking at Deutsche Bank's 2026 Technology Conference, Sicilia insisted that AI would be a net positive for the software industry, despite fears of a so-called SaaSpocalypse
  
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• Has dark matter finally been found? Scientists may have spotted the first signs of elusive particles thought to make up 85% of the universe

  01-09-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists may have caught their first glimpse of dark matter - the mysterious substance thought to hold the universe together.
  
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• An electric summer! Maps reveal where 893,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Europe - with the Highlands named the lightning capital of the UK

  01-09-2026 17:19 via dailymail.com
  
  Incredible maps reveal exactly where all 893,000 lightning strikes were recorded - with the Highlands named the lightning capital of the UK.
  
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• Why 50 is the age Brits feel in control of life, revealed

  01-09-2026 17:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Do you feel in control of your life? If so, you're probably at least 50 years old. A new survey has revealed that 50 is the age when most Brits think they have their life sorted out.
  
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• Trump Blasts “Luddites” For Opposing Data Centers

  01-09-2026 17:03 via technocracy.news
  
  On Monday, the President of the United States told the people of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, and every other state now fighting hyperscale data centers exactly what he thinks of them. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backward and poor,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.” And then the w
  
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• Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

  01-09-2026 16:16 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has unveiled a service for privately linking Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), overcoming multicloud barriers the providers previously claimed barely existed. The Redmond biz says it is working with AWS on a solution that combines Azure Multicloud Interconnect with AWS Interconnect – multicloud, allowing customers to establish private, high-speed links between infrastructure running on the two platforms. But Azure Multicloud Interconnect is currently in preview, and feature av
  
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• One still missing after Grand Canyon floods kill two and prompt rescue efforts

  01-09-2026 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost everyone is now accounted for after dozens of hikers were airlifted to safety, an official says.
  
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• ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango

  01-09-2026 15:32 via theregister.com
  
  The European Space Agency's Cluster quartet is preparing for its final bow after Samba reentered Earth's atmosphere, with Tango due to follow tonight. Samba lost contact at 21:26 UTC on August 31 and reentered at 21:39:38 UTC. Tango is expected to follow at 21:30:31 UTC tonight. The other two satellites, Rumba and Salsa, reentered in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The final reentries close the book on a prodigiously long-lived quartet that exceeded even optimistic expectations, thanks in no small
  
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• The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft

  01-09-2026 14:45 via theregister.com
  
  US hospital operator Nutex Health says attackers stole private or confidential patient, employee, provider, business, and financial information during the cyberattack it disclosed last week. In an updated filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, Nutex also said an unauthorized third party had threatened to publish the stolen information. Nutex initially disclosed the intrusion on August 24 under Item 8.01 of Form 8-K, the catch-all category for "Other Events."
  
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• Tamagotchi is back! Bandai shrinks its classic digital pet into a wearable ring - 30 years after the original device hit shelves

  01-09-2026 14:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Bandai, the company behind the toy, has released a miniature version of the Tamagotchi, priced at ¥7700 (£35.54).
  
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• Hurricane watch issued along US Coast TODAY as storm Edouard takes aim at millions: 'This is a life-threatening situation'

  01-09-2026 14:38 via dailymail.com
  
  A hurricane watch has been issued for parts of the US Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Edouard rapidly strengthens ahead of landfall on Tuesday.
  
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• The sex scandal hidden in the Bayeux Tapestry: Scene depicting a naked man and a mysterious woman might have been a subtle nod to an affair, expert claims

  01-09-2026 14:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Amid the Bayeux Tapestry's bloodshed, battles and political intrigue lies a royal sex scandal, according to an expert.
  
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• Summer 2026 was UK's hottest on record, Met Office says

  01-09-2026 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Met Office figures show that the previous record, set in 2025, has been broken after an unprecedented summer of persistent heat.
  
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• 33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble

  01-09-2026 14:04 via theregister.com
  
  Softaculous and Virtualizor customers are being urged to reset credentials and inspect their servers after a 33-hour BGP hijacking incident diverted traffic and delivered malware to a handful of installations. Softaculous makes software for the web hosting industry, while its Virtualizor control panel is used by providers and administrators to deploy and manage virtual private servers. Beginning at around 20:57 UTC on August 28, an unrelated network began announcing a block of Hetzner IP address
  
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• Rare butterfly spotted in Cornwall

  01-09-2026 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is believed to be one of only a handful of sightings recorded in England this year.
  
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• The microplastics lurking in your takeaway coffee: Single-use cups release millions of dangerous particles when exposed to hot liquid, study warns

  01-09-2026 13:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers warn that single-use takeaway cups release millions of microplastic and even smaller 'nanoplastic' particles when exposed to hot liquid.
  
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• Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf

  01-09-2026 13:15 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft ended the summer with two more Windows annoyances: Defender falsely warning that it is disabled, and reports that an August 27 update is wiping users' mouse cursor customizations. The company added both problems to its Windows release health dashboard on August 28. Microsoft has confirmed the Defender notification bug, while it is still investigating whether the Windows 11 update caused the cursor problems. Reports of the cursor issues appeared after the update was released. Microsoft
  
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• Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets

  01-09-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE The Register has seen information that IBM’s Linux subsidiary is moderating its previously gung-ho AI stance by imposing limits on token spend. The Reg FOSS desk received a tip-off this week from a well placed company insider that a new edict has been sent down from Red Hat management to its legions of hard-working FOSS developers. The R&D department is capping developers' use of tokens: from now on, they'll need to keep it to a maximum of $300 per calendar month, and no more
  
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• Warning over 'risky' chicken imported from Brazil - fears over salmonella, hormones and antibiotics... as food poisoning outbreak grows

  01-09-2026 12:35 via dailymail.com
  
  British campaigners have urged ministers to ban Brazilian meat from entering the UK, after traces of sex hormones and deadly salmonella were found in the country's beef and chicken.
  
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• AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate

  01-09-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Last week, AWS bought DuckLabs, the people behind the open source OLAP system DuckDB. Since the cloud giant already owns a data warehouse – in Redshift – and it doesn’t get the DuckDB intellectual property (it remains open source), then why would it bother? Andy Warfield, AWS VP and Distinguished Engineer, argued the acquisition is a major plank of AWS’s thinking when it considers the future of application building, data, and analytics. “Half of why DuckDB is percei
  
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• Brace for Storm Shaun! Met Office unveils new list of names for the UK's extreme weather events - including one inspired by the animated sheep

  01-09-2026 11:43 via dailymail.com
  
  The Met Office has unveiled the official list of storm names for the 2026-27 season - including tributes to loved ones, favourite pets and even an animated sheep.
  
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