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• Inside eerie abandoned whaling station Grytviken

  06-02-2018 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE The whaling station on South Georgia opened in 1904 and shut in 1966. MailOnline's Sadie Whitelocks explored the spooky site, where the waters once 'writhed with whales'.
  
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• NASA astronauts prepare to evacuate over International Space Station over 'worsening air leaks'

  05-06-2026 16:18 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA has ordered astronauts to prepare for evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS) over 'worsening air leaks'.
  
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• Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS

  05-06-2026 15:45 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft now lets customers apply existing SQL Server licenses toward SQL Server usage on AWS's managed relational database service (RDS). The move promises to give customers who decided to go with AWS an easier path to consuming their SQL Server systems as a service, rather than in virtual machines. In a blog post, Amazon explained that customers paying with Microsoft’s Software Assurance licensing program could only previously bring their SQL Server licenses to AWS on self-managed Amazo
  
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• Americans in three states told to close windows NOW as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air

  05-06-2026 15:41 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive plume of toxic particles has filled the air in the US Southwest, triggered by hazardous conditions sweeping into the country from south of the border.
  
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• World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families

  05-06-2026 15:00 via theregister.com
  
  Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was breached, and around 600,000 Gazan households receiving aid had their details improperly accessed. Its announcement, made via Telegram on May 31, confirmed there was “a security incident” in the self-registration application used by Gazans to register for aid and applicants’ names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and location information were among the data types accessed. “We understand this may
  
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• Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

  05-06-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  COMPUTEX 2026 Gigabyte showed off a high density server platform at Computex this week that crams 40 low-power compute nodes into a pizza box. Amid a sea of nearly identical MGX and NVL blades, the R1C7-KOA-AS1 was one of the more unusual systems on this year’s show floor. Rather than using Intel or AMD's datacenter class Xeon or Epyc, the machine is powered by dozens of notebook processors. Specifically, Gigabyte has opted for Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V. Launched in mid 2024, each chip is
  
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• The 'Son of Concorde' is about to take to the skies: NASA readies its $247 million supersonic jet that replaces the loud sonic boom with a softer 'thump' and can travel from London to New York in under 4 hours

  05-06-2026 13:59 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA's $247-million jet dubbed the 'Son of Concorde' is about to take to the skies for its first supersonic test flight.
  
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• Back to the future: 'Spooky' 62-year-old time capsule discovered in a London park tells the finder to back a horse running in this weekend's Derby

  05-06-2026 13:52 via dailymail.com
  
  A builder working in a London park was in for a surprise after stumbling across a 'spooky' time capsule.
  
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• Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill

  05-06-2026 13:30 via theregister.com
  
  The AI gold rush is proving good for Raspberry Pi's bottom line, but it's also forcing the low-cost computer maker to borrow money to keep enough memory chips in stock. In a trading update published on Friday, Raspberry Pi said it expects full-year earnings to come in significantly ahead of market expectations after a stronger-than-expected first half driven by healthy demand, higher average selling prices, and the benefit of lower-cost memory inventory purchased earlier. Raspberry Pi expects fi
  
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• Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals

  05-06-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  A new court filing has revealed the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions accepted a bid from Capita to run its new Oracle-based HR and finance system at £272 million less than its own cost modelling. In March, the UK outsourcing company won the contract for running shared services for £370 million over ten years. The central government department had earlier produced a "Should Cost Model" — designed to protect against a bias towards low bids — which provided a tota
  
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• Masturbation in birds is 'natural', scientists say - with avians often using toys and twigs for self-pleasure

  05-06-2026 12:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from the University of Lancashire have reassured pet owners that masturbation is 'natural' in birds.
  
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• Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder

  05-06-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  A City of York Council email mishap exposed the email addresses of hundreds of Blue Badge holders in the ancient Viking capital, inadvertently revealing their status as disabled residents and triggering a data breach investigation. The council confirmed to The Register that it’s investigating what it described as a "personal data breach" after emails sent to residents last week were distributed without using the blind carbon copy (BCC) function, allowing recipients to see everyone else on
  
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• The REAL Pirates of the Caribbean: Scientists discover three shipwrecks with 'all the signs of pirate mischief' off the coast of the Bahamas

  05-06-2026 11:41 via dailymail.com
  
  The first shipwrecks associated with the real-life Pirates of the Caribbean have been discovered by scientists in the Bahamas.
  
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• UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns

  05-06-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has been told to urgently overhaul an IT estate so dysfunctional that officers say they are fighting serious organized crime despite the technology rather than because of it. A new report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has delivered a bruising verdict on the National Crime Agency's tech, concluding that the systems underpinning Britain's fight against organized crime are no longer up to the job. The criticism land
  
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• Super El Niño is inching closer: A swell of warm water HUNDREDS of miles wide has arrived in the Pacific Ocean, NASA reveals - hinting the rare climate event is imminent

  05-06-2026 11:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Using satellite data, NASA has detected a swell of warm water off the coast of South America.
  
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• Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class

  05-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  Train travellers are poorly served by the UK’s mobile networks, says Ofcom. Tests on railway lines in England, Scotland and Wales revealed disappointing signal across 24 rail segments, with results falling short in 83 percent of cases. The communications regulator is now calling for a nationwide effort to raise the standard of mobile coverage passengers can expect. On-board Wi-Fi was also tested by Ofcom and it performed well just one percent of the time. This writer can attest that on tra
  
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• We need to have ability to slow AI down, says Anthropic co-founder

  05-06-2026 09:17 via bbc.com
  
  Jack Clark tells BBC's Newsnight AI could get to the point where it develops without human input.
  
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• Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

  05-06-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  ON CALL Buckle in, dear readers, for an extreme installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your stories of superlative tech support scenarios. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Solomon" who sent a story from his time working for a county sheriff's office. "I usually arrived early in the morning to get my daily stuff done before the phone calls started," Solomon told On Call. "One morning I found the Major waiting for me. He told me to foll
  
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• Google & Voltus Team Up To Create A “Virtual Power Plant”

  05-06-2026 04:52 via technocracy.news
  
  This is one step away from outright theft of energy from the private sector, to reallocate it to the power-hungry AI data centers. The next step will be to float an “energy sharing” narrative across the nation. The first two requirements of Technocracy in the 1930s were: “1. Register on a continuous 24-hour-per-day basis the total net conversion of energy, and 2. By means of the registration of energy converted and consumed, make possible a balanced load.” Sound familiar?
  
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• 'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

  05-06-2026 01:46 via theregister.com
  
  It would be “good for the world” to slow down the pace of AI development, according to a blog post from Anthropic, which this week began the process of going public with a confidential IPO filing. “We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” stated a blog post written by Anthropic co-founder (and former
  
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• Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

  05-06-2026 01:11 via bbc.com
  
  Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
  
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• The ancient trick making food waste useful and tasty

  05-06-2026 01:10 via bbc.com
  
  Instead of throwing away byproducts of food processing, fermentation is making them valuable.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg's longest-serving employee on AI, jobs - and her boss

  05-06-2026 01:05 via bbc.com
  
  Naomi Gleit has weathered many controversies at Meta, but remains in what she tells the BBC is her "dream job".
  
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• Dumped animal carcasses in rivers 'shameful' say litter pickers

  05-06-2026 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  Figures show there were almost 150 animal dumping incidents in Northern Ireland since 2020.
  
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• Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds

  05-06-2026 00:16 via theregister.com
  
  A new extortion brand called Pink uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain initial access to organizations’ IT environments, steal their sensitive data, and threaten to leak it unless the victims pay a ransom demand. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 first spotted the gang, which it tracks as cluster CL-CRI-1147, and its data-leak site, which went live on May 31. “Pink uses vishing and IT impersonation to phish credentials/MFA, then exfiltrates enterprise cloud storage and prod
  
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• Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots

  04-06-2026 23:56 via theregister.com
  
  We’re a month shy of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence, and another close ally has decided to celebrate by declaring independence from American tech, AI in particular. The Canadian government on Thursday announced a new "AI for All" national strategy that will see Ottawa direct CA$1 billion ($719 million) toward expanding AI adoption and supporting Canada's AI sector. The plan includes CA$500 million through an AI financing program to help small and medium-size
  
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• Las Vegas struck by house-shaking earthquake as thousands are left rattled

  04-06-2026 23:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Las Vegas has been struck by an earthquake felt by thousands throughout the major tourist destination.
  
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• OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds

  04-06-2026 21:08 via theregister.com
  
  The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI's Codex agent helped uncover a remote denial-of-service (DoS) exploit that can be launched from a single machine to render vulnerable web servers inaccessible in seconds, according to Calif security researchers. The attack works on default HTTP/2 configurations of major web servers including nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. As of Thursday, Microsoft IIS and Cloudflare Pingora sti
  
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• Swarms of 'killer mosquitoes' released on innocent Americans reveal secret Pentagon files

  04-06-2026 21:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Unearthed files from the Pentagon reveal the existence of a secret project aimed at turning common pests into a deadly disease-carrying army.
  
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• 'Ominous blob' spotted in Gulf of America threatens multiple US states

  04-06-2026 20:29 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive blob of storms has developed in the Gulf of America, threatening multiple US states starting Friday.
  
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