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• How Call of Duty took David Hasselhoff back to the 80s

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• The next pandemic? Virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens that are most likely to spark a global outbreak

  08-07-2026 14:06 via dailymail.com
  
  A new virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens most likely to spark the next global health emergency.
  
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• Heatwave prompts summer SNAKE warning in Britain: Shock new figures reveal a sharp rise in incidents during warm weather

  08-07-2026 13:57 via dailymail.com
  
  As Britain endures its third heatwave of the summer, many Brits will be worried about sunburn, sleep issues, and heatstroke. Now, experts have revealed a new cause for concern - snakes.
  
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• The humanoid robot designed 'for a lifetime': China reveals creepy bots that look and feel like real humans - and they can even reproduce 90% of our movements

  08-07-2026 13:44 via dailymail.com
  
  These Uworld U1 androids are covered with 'biomimetic skin' that looks and feels just like that of a real human.
  
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• Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

  08-07-2026 12:03 via theregister.com
  
  Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor of FOSS. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, has confirmed it is on the road to digital sovereignty and in the process of moving to Nextcloud in place of Microsoft SharePoint. So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan is to roll it out to more than 50,000 public employees. It is al
  
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• Scientists discover 73 volcanoes hidden across the ocean floor - and several could erupt at any moment

  08-07-2026 11:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have discovered 73 previously unknown volcanoes hidden across the ocean floors.
  
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• Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs

  08-07-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  The UK's privacy watchdog is facing calls for parliamentary scrutiny after campaigners accused it of failing to get a grip on the Home Office's glitch-plagued eVisa system. A coalition of 20 immigration, digital rights, and human rights organizations, including the Open Rights Group, has written to the chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, urging MPs to open an inquiry into what it describes as the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) failure to enforce data protection
  
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• Red cards have more than TRIPLED since the last World Cup, study reveals

  08-07-2026 11:07 via dailymail.com
  
  If you've noticed an exceptional number of red cards at the World Cup, you're not imagining it. A new study has revealed that red-card issuances have more than tripled.
  
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• NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

  08-07-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government in Parliament to justify its controversial £330 million investment in a data-sharing system supported by Palantir. The Register understands that the UK's regulator for the use of statistics in the public sector is assessing how the government is using data to justify its use of Palantir technology. The move follows an investigation challenging claims by NHS England that as of June, 13
  
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• AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage

  08-07-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  AI continues to evolve at pace. The novelty of generative models producing their own content is already giving way to the buzz around agentic systems that can set goals autonomously and execute multi-step workflows without human involvement. Each staging post on AI's journey raises the bar for compute resources and demands more powerful processing. But in the headlong dash towards newer and more specialized architectures, and amid the fuss that greets each silicon innovation, the industry is ove
  
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• AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top

  08-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  The price of AI tokens is fluctuating widely, with some becoming cheaper and others more expensive, leaving users of AI services struggling to assess if the price is right. Aman Panjwani, an AI engineer based in India, says that GPT-4-class model output cost about $20 per million tokens in late 2022. Today, equivalent capability costs about $0.40, a 55x decline in less than four years, he said, citing Introl's December 2025 unit-economics analysis. "When DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model
  
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• Just ONE hit of cocaine 'rewires' the brain and may increase risk of addiction, study suggests

  08-07-2026 08:19 via dailymail.com
  
  One dose of cocaine leaves a lasting 'scar' on the brain for weeks - and as teen use rises, scientists warn that even occasional use comes with hidden risks.
  
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• Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids

  08-07-2026 08:01 via theregister.com
  
  SYSTEMS APPROACH A few weeks ago, Larry and I independently received the same advice from two different sources: take a look at Media Over QUIC (MoQ) for your next edition. I’ve been following the standardization of QUIC for several years (and wrote about it) but MoQ had not yet come onto my radar. A quick look at some IETF drafts gave me some of the main concepts, but it can be frustratingly hard to pick out the important high-level ideas from the masses of protocol-specific detail that g
  
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• Doctors issue warning over misuse of popular toy that leads to hospitalizations with life-threatening injuries

  08-07-2026 07:57 via dailymail.com
  
  GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING. Doctors are sounding the alarm about popular sensory toys after multiple children have suffered horrific third-degree burns.
  
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• Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

  08-07-2026 06:28 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has introduced a new offering called “Cloud rebuild” that makes it possible to re-image a Windows PC without a physical copy of Windows 11. The Windows giant delivered the tech on Monday in a new experimental build of Windows 11 offered to members of its insider program. As Microsoft explains in a primer, Cloud Rebuild “downloads both the target Windows image and the device's drivers from Windows Update, so the device comes back fully functional, without USB media, wi
  
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• Hundreds Support Man Charged With Destroying Flock License Plate Readers

  08-07-2026 04:55 via technocracy.news
  
  The CEO of Flock Safety, Garrett Langley, called the organizers of DeFlock.org terrorists, akin to Antifa, because they published 112,570 locations of license readers across the nation. I cannot imagine what Langley is calling Jeffrey Sovern, who is charged with ripping out multiple cameras in Virginia, saying they are unconstitutional.
  Flock Safety is a product of venture capital companies like Andreessen Horowitz (Mark Andreessen), Founders Fund (Peter Thiel), and Y Combinator (Sam Altman&rsqu
  
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• Trump's inner circle have shown me the real UFO disclosure: The president has an imminent speech 'written and ready'... what he'll explain about non-human life will make it all make sense

  08-07-2026 01:14 via dailymail.com
  
  President Trump may be preparing to give a speech that would change the world forever and confirm the theory that we are not alone in the universe.
  
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• Urgent warning to new parents as experts discover baby products sold on Amazon, Etsy and TikTok Shop that can smother and suffocate children

  08-07-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Baby products sold on popular online marketplaces risk choking and suffocating young children, experts have warned.
  
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• The DIY test that could change fatherhood forever: Home kit checks fertility in just 15 minutes - as experts warn sperm counts have halved over the past 50 years

  08-07-2026 01:05 via dailymail.com
  
  The test uses the same technology found in Covid tests, and simply requires a single semen sample.
  
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• Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect

  07-07-2026 22:47 via theregister.com
  
  Your Windows is watching you. The US Justice Department's complaint against Peter Stokes for alleged involvement in the Scattered Spider hacking group offers a reminder that it's difficult to hide online activity from Microsoft's operating system (or any other). Scattered Spider, according to US authorities, targeted numerous companies in the US by compromising employee accounts in order to access more than 100 corporate networks and exfiltrate or encrypt data that would be ransomed for payment.
  
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• Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay

  07-07-2026 22:21 via theregister.com
  
  If you're a coder who uses AI agents to write programs for you, you may start losing those talents. Fortunately, a new command line tool can help reinforce your skills before they wither away. Aptly titled Atrophy by Ashutosh Rath, the Bengaluru, India-based developer who created it, the CLI app treats coding abilities like Elo chess scores and pushes devs to reinforce their learning through regular drills in five different skill areas. Syntax recall asks users to write a small function from a s
  
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• Avoid AI atrophy - new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay

  07-07-2026 22:21 via theregister.com
  
  If you're a coder who uses AI agents to write programs for you, you may start losing those talents. Fortunately, a new command line tool can help reinforce your skills before they wither away. Aptly titled Atrophy by Ashutosh Rath, the Bengaluru, India-based developer who created it, the CLI app treats coding abilities like Elo chess scores and pushes devs to reinforce their learning through regular drills in five different skill areas. Syntax recall asks users to write a small function from a s
  
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• GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

  07-07-2026 21:49 via theregister.com
  
  Malicious prompters could easily trick GitHub agents into pulling data from private repositories and then leaking the information as a public comment for anyone to access, according to Noma Labs researchers who named the vulnerability GitLost. The issue exists in GitHub’s Agentic Workflows, which allow an AI agent powered by Claude or GitHub Copilot to autonomously execute tasks in GitHub Actions. As the AI security sleuths discovered and detailed in a Monday blog, the workflows are vulner
  
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• 'Time traveler' claiming to be from the year 3700 issues chilling warning for humanity as he reveals 'evidence' of future apocalypse

  07-07-2026 21:08 via dailymail.com
  
  A man claiming to have traveled hundreds of years into the future says he has returned with 'proof' and a chilling warning to humanity about their fate.
  
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• South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters

  07-07-2026 19:59 via theregister.com
  
  Power-efficient South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has landed on European shores. On Tuesday, the chip biz revealed that it had begun fielding its RNGD — pronounced “renegade” — line of AI accelerators at colocation giant Equinix’s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded by June Paik and Hanjoon Kim back in 2017, before LLMs were cool, Furiosa has largely focused its attention on the South Korean domestic market, scoring wins with the likes of LG Electronics
  
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• Warning to millions as lung-damaging air sweeps across five US states TODAY

  07-07-2026 19:57 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials have issued health warnings to millions of Americans as lung-damaging air engulfs five US states on Tuesday.
  
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• Story of human evolution rewritten as new evidence reveals a far more complex origin

  07-07-2026 19:46 via dailymail.com
  
  A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.
  
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• CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin

  07-07-2026 19:15 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE There's no honor among thieves as a new worm steals from other infectious software. It pilfers “multiple” victims’ credentials and mines for cryptocurrency while killing competitors’ processes, including similar secret-harvesting malware. It’s called Cloud AI Infrastructure Attack Framework (CAI), and it’s a centralized botnet that targets cloud-native developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, etcd, Kubelet, and Ray for credential theft and cry
  
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• NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons

  07-07-2026 18:50 via theregister.com
  
  After four years of operations around the Moon, NASA's CAPSTONE mission has bitten the lunar dust, in a manner of speaking. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) was launched in 2022, with a primary mission to validate the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) intended for NASA's "paused" Gateway space station. Launched in June 2022 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, CAPSTONE had a troubled start to life, briefly giving controllers the s
  
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• Story of human evolution rewritten as new evidence points to a far more complex origin

  07-07-2026 18:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.
  
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