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• Ireland’s first law-focused blockchain hackathon announced by Matheson siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/mat…

  19-10-2017 09:50 via twitter.com
  Ireland’s first law-focused blockchain hackathon announced by Matheson siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/mat…
  
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• Eerie 'apocalyptic' sounds heard on Mount Shasta lead horseback riders to bizarre discovery

  25-06-2026 19:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Few places in America have a reputation as mysterious as Mount Shasta, and one California family recently experienced why firsthand.
  
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• Grotesque 'zombie squirrels' with oozing flesh pods spark alarm across the US

  25-06-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Reports of 'zombie squirrels' lurking in Americans' backyards have surged in recent weeks. These animals are found with oozing sores on their bodies and patchy fur.
  
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• That's bananas! Hilarious recordings reveal how great apes LAUGH in a similar rhythm to humans

  25-06-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have discovered another thing we have in common with our closest living relatives: our laugh.
  
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• FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM

  25-06-2026 17:10 via theregister.com
  
  Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language – but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that. An interesting new proposal on the Discourse forum of the LLVM compiler suite has turned into a new standalone BASIC compiler. The original RFC was Adding BASIC09 frontend tool to LLVM. Author Boisy Petre proposed adding a front-end to enable LLVM to compile BASIC source code, and this has now turned into a standalone compiler called basic09c, which uses LLVM as a libr
  
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• That's bananas! Great apes LAUGH in a similar rhythm to humans, study reveals

  25-06-2026 17:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have discovered another thing we have in common with our closest living relatives: our laugh.
  
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• Recovery has to keep up with AI

  25-06-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  AI agents now write code and run tasks at machine speed, and sometimes those same agents delete the wrong thing. AI-enabled attackers can also use AI to find zero-day vulnerabilities more easily. Most recovery systems still run at human speed, which widens the gap between how fast data can be lost and how fast it can be restored. Eon was built to close that gap. In our latest Hot Seat, Tim Phillips talks to Gonen Stein, president and co-founder of Eon, about what recovery should look like in the
  
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• Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers

  25-06-2026 16:48 via theregister.com
  
  The online Apple Store went offline Thursday morning, but instead of such a move marking the launch of upgraded products, it came back online with nothing new to offer but higher prices. The budget-priced MacBook Neo wasn’t even spared from the spike, with its entry-level price climbing from $599 to $699. Along with the Neo, entry-level MacBook Air prices rose by $200 and base MacBook Pro machines increased by $300, putting the lowest-spec machines in the lines at $1,299 and $1,999, respec
  
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• Auto Workers v. Robots: Epic Battle Brewing Between UAW And GM

  25-06-2026 16:35 via technocracy.news
  
  I have long thought that unions might play a part in pushing back against Technocracy, and here they are. Auto workers are already organized, assertive, very vocal, and very visible when they take to the streets. They have proven ability to bring corporate giants to their knees. By contrast, when office workers are displaced by AI, they disappear into the woodwork. This demonstrates the power of numbers. Hopefully, it is not too little and too late. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.General Motors ha
  
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• Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad

  25-06-2026 16:29 via theregister.com
  
  Users with hopelessly borked Windows devices have a new avenue of recovery in the form of point-in-time restore for Windows 11. The service is designed to restore a Windows 11 PC to its exact state at an earlier point in time and is accessed through the Troubleshoot menu in the Windows Recovery Environment. According to Microsoft, each restore point covers the operating system, apps, settings, and local files. It is stored locally and automatically deleted after 72 hours or when free disk space
  
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• Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency

  25-06-2026 16:01 via theregister.com
  
  The Swift Package Index (SPI), a search engine for open source packages for the Swift programming language, is now part of Apple, though it will remain open source. Dave Verwer, who created SPI over six years ago along with Sven A. Schmidt, said on Mastodon that "I'll be joining Apple to continue working on everything related to Swift packages." Apple senior product manager Dave Lester said that SPI has become an "essential part of the Swift ecosystem" and referenced the intent to build a compre
  
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• Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure

  25-06-2026 15:31 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon has promised a $13 billion chunk of its mammoth capex plans to build AI and cloud infrastructure in India. The cloud services and software giant has said it expects $200 billion capex for 2026 as, like other vendors in the market, it struggles to build compute capacity to support the expected explosion in demand for AI services. Having announced a $35 billion investment in India in 2025, Amazon's commitments in the country between 2010 and 2030 total more than $88 billion, some of which i
  
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• Shocking memo reveals missing UFO-linked scientist was trying to escape a secret Pentagon network before vanishing

  25-06-2026 15:15 via dailymail.com
  
  New evidence tied to the missing Air Force general in New Mexico suggests the veteran officer was attempting to cut his ties to the Pentagon before he vanished without a trace.
  
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• Stay-inside advisories issued in two states as lung-penetrating toxins choke parts of the US

  25-06-2026 15:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions across parts of two US states are being urged to stay indoors on Thursday as toxic air carrying lung-penetrating particles triggers health alerts.
  
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• European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

  25-06-2026 14:25 via theregister.com
  
  The European Commission has reached the preliminary position that Azure and AWS should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The gatekeeper designation would mean requirements imposed on the cloud giants, with fines of up to 10 percent of worldwide turnover if those requirements are not met. According to the Commission, AWS and Azure, "the largest and second largest cloud computing services in the EU respectively," are a gateway between businesses and their customers
  
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• Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

  25-06-2026 13:47 via theregister.com
  
  Collabora has released version 26.04 of CODE, the company's web-based office suite. CODE stands for "Collabora Online Development Edition" – "Development" indicating that this is a preview of what will be coming soon in Collabora Online, its web-based function-rich office suite. The announcement is Collabora staking its claim to a slice of the increasingly competitive online office suite market. What's new Depressingly, the first bullet point in each section of the release announcement &nd
  
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• China's secretive space plane releases an unidentified object into orbit - and experts say it could be a spy satellite

  25-06-2026 13:39 via dailymail.com
  
  A secretive Chinese space plane has released an unidentified object into orbit, a US-based surveillance company has revealed.
  
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• Talk about a blast from the past! Commodore unveils a Y2K-inspired flip phone with texting, maps and music - but NO social media

  25-06-2026 13:20 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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• I've searched the Amazon Prime sale for the top tech deals - and there's lots of big brand offers on TVs, headphones and smart watches including 30% off Apple AirPods

  25-06-2026 13:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Get ready to grab yourself some unmissable bargains in this year's amazing Prime Day sale with our top tech picks.
  
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• ZTE builds a TCO-optimal AI factory to fuel token economy

  25-06-2026 13:02 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE showcased at MWC Shanghai 2026 its comprehensively boost to TPS. Powered by multiple dimensional co-design, deep optimization, and acceleration - from chips, servers, clusters, and AIDC, to software algorithms and scheduling platforms - this innovation empowers customers to build TCO-Optimal AI factories providing robust support for the efficient development of the Token Economy. As large models enter the phase of scaled inference deployment, the "cost per Token" has emerged as the ultimate
  
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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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