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• Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

  16-07-2026 17:46 via theregister.com
  
  Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer Lazo Velko, was published recently with the promise to allow users to perform mouse actions on every single object on their screen with nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Want to close a window, open an application, or click a particular spot on the screen with character-level precision? It’s capable of
  
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• Late September warmth before wind and rain return this week

  28-09-2026 08:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Temperatures remain above the average at the start of the week but wetter conditions are on the way for some
  
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• Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack

  28-09-2026 08:49 via theregister.com
  
  Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life. Perhaps it’s time to add attackers targeting newly discovered critical flaws in Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller and gateway products to that grim list. On Sunday, the company published a bulletin warning of eight CVEs, the worst of which – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 – are rated critical with 9.5 CVSS scores. CVE-2026-88771 allows remote code execution and can allow an unauthenticated at
  
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• Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

  28-09-2026 08:35 via theregister.com
  
  Monday mornings can be filled with trepidation and tension, which is why The Register kicks them off with a little light-hearted fun in the form of a new instalment of “Who, Me?" It’s the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors, and reveal the consequences. This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as “Phil” and told us that many years ago he started a new job that, among other things, involved maintaining Microsoft’s magnificent Exchang
  
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• Nature spaces 'need to be next to where people live'

  28-09-2026 07:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are pushing for more wildlife-rich green spaces to be created within urban communities.
  
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• OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought

  28-09-2026 07:30 via theregister.com
  
  The AI safety debate advanced at high speed over the weekend, amid new allegations that rogue agents have behaved more badly than first thought – and in greater numbers. The fun started on Friday when OpenAI quietly disclosed it had paused training of its most advanced models. The AI upstart buried that news in a “misalignment report” – that’s OpenAI-speak for its reports on rogue agents – titled “An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot.” Th
  
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• Getting river pollution investigated like 'pulling teeth'

  28-09-2026 07:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bristol residents say an oil-like substance has been bubbling up for years and killing wildlife.
  
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• Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia

  28-09-2026 03:12 via theregister.com
  
  E-commerce giant Amazon.com is preparing to launch drone deliveries in Australia and other nations. “As Prime Air evaluates Australia and other countries, we are hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia – the person responsible for navigating Australia's aviation regulatory system and securing every approval required to deliver to Australian customers by drone,” reads a recently published job ad. Whoever gets the gig in Australia will report to someone who holds the tit
  
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• Shipwreck found on Nantucket beach during storm

  28-09-2026 03:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
  
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• Watch: Shipwreck uncovered on Nantucket island during nor'easter storm

  28-09-2026 02:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
  
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• One dead as nor'easter storm pummels New York and New Jersey

  28-09-2026 01:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path of the powerful weather system.
  
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• NET Zero, AI And Technocracy: What Happens To Freedom In A Surveillance Society?

  28-09-2026 01:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Ordinary Canadian citizens hate their government, and with good reason; the iron teeth of Technocracy are devouring their nation. Oh Canada: “We have our hands full, with either sovereignty, freedom and prosperity or the status to yield, submit and conform into slavery, debt, disease and things worse than death.” For you, it started with Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, who was the Grand Poobah of Technocracy during the 30s and 40s in Canada. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Edit
  
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• The ups and downs of SpaceX's Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Watch: The ups and downs of SpaceX's 13 Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Father and son crowned Sheep Dog World Trial champions

  27-09-2026 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David and Jack Howells say they "never in million years" thought they would win the double.
  
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• Your pictures of the Harvest Moon shimmering across the UK sky

  27-09-2026 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The full Moon put on a stunning display over the skies of UK on Saturday night and here are some of your photographs.
  
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• Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser

  27-09-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  Thirty years after Apple abandoned Copland, its doomed attempt to create a modern Mac operating system, a new emulator lets you try the final developer build in your browser. Copland was intended to replace Apple's System 7 with a PowerPC-native operating system built around a microkernel, protected memory, and preemptive multitasking for system services. Three unfinished developer builds – D7E1, D9, and D11E4 – are publicly known. Relatively few people outside Apple's developer comm
  
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• Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money

  27-09-2026 11:35 via theregister.com
  
  Big AI has a problem. Its companies must ingest other people’s work. You know, books, news stories, photographs, code, websites, that one original meme you came up with, and practically everything else on the internet to train its large language models (LLMs). We all know that. We also know that AI companies hate paying for any of it, obeying the licenses attached to it, or, God forbid, sharing their revenue with the companies and people who created the work in the first place.Recently, Bi
  
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• Why families are being urged to look closer on autumn walks

  27-09-2026 08:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts urge families to spot, photograph and enjoy autumn fungi on their doorstep.
  
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• Bumblebee project seeking to help rare species

  27-09-2026 08:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The programme to help the Moss carder species will focus on Cornwall, Kent and the North Pennines.
  
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• Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared

  27-09-2026 06:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.
  
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• The young women guiding tourists through India's night sky

  27-09-2026 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomy tourism is giving young women in Hanle income, confidence and a new role in their community.
  
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• Hundreds of wildflowers to be planted at meadow

  26-09-2026 13:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Friends of the Lake District wants to reintroduce species lost to some farming practices.
  
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• How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone

  26-09-2026 12:27 via theregister.com
  
  Our resident Microsoft-watcher Richard Speed last week wrote about his seven-hour odyssey bringing a Windows 11 box up to snuff with the latest patches. I’ll see you that struggle, Richard, and raise you my experience updating a 2022-vintage Samsung Galaxy A33 Android smartphone. I spent about a year using the A33 as my daily driver and while it always did a job, the midrange machine is far from the speediest of smartphones and therefore a little frustrating to use. When a great deal for a
  
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• Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites

  26-09-2026 10:08 via theregister.com
  
  Britain’s Royal Air Force has gained some space cadets, in the form of No. III Space Effects Squadron, tasked with protecting critical satellites that the UK relies on for communications and navigation. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harvey Smyth announced the new unit at an inaugural UK Space Power Conference in London, saying it will safeguard the vital benefits that space gives to our armed forces, and be capable of denying those benefits to our adversaries. Smyth added that the RAF’s head
  
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• Rainfall begins to drench Massachusetts as powerful nor'easter storm threatens MILLIONS in US with dangerous winds

  26-09-2026 02:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions are in the path of a major nor'easter set to flood the US East Coast and potentially knock out power in several states.
  
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• The treasured 'eternal snow' on this tropical island is about to disappear forever

  26-09-2026 00:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Climate change is transforming Papua's snowy peaks, which hold scientific value and spiritual significance.
  
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• Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust

  25-09-2026 22:15 via theregister.com
  
  Programming language generics can now ride in style from one language’s compiler to another and back again, thanks to experimental work from Mojo core contributor Evan Ovadia. This former Google engineer has endeavored to turn Rust into a library that other languages can build from, demonstrating a way to pass generic data types and functions between Rust and another language, an action the C ABI doesn’t support. “Technically, this is the most fascinating thing I’ve read
  
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• Evacuations begin as 'blockbuster' nor'easter barrels toward millions in 12 US states

  25-09-2026 22:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Millions are in the path of a major nor'easter set to flood the US East Coast and potentially knock out power in several states.
  
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• Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes

  25-09-2026 21:58 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the same home. "One of the oldest rules of spreadsheets: one cell, one value," said Jake Armstrong, senior product manager for Excel, in a LinkedIn post. "No longer!" "I’m excited to announce a set of new features: Lists, Arrays in Cells and Nested Arrays in Excel." For the time being, this capability is only available in Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac Beta Channels. And it
  
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