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• LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity

  10-08-2026 18:15 via theregister.com
  
  LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline last week after detecting "unusual activity on servers that are hosted and managed by a third-party vendor." Non-public customer communications penned by Todd Larsen, president of Nexis Solutions, and seen by The Register, said the company took the decision to protect customers by "containing the issue at its source" and "disconnecting from those third-party systems." "While this decision resulted in those applications go
  
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• The day Britain stood still to marvel at the heavens... and if you missed it, the next eclipse isn't until November 2050!

  13-08-2026 00:09 via dailymail.com
  
  As Britain sweltered in the fifth heatwave of the year, an eerie yet welcome chill descended as the Moon blocked out the unrelenting 30C sunshine.
  
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• RECAP: Millions watch as once-in-a-generation solar eclipse peaks in the skies over Britain

  13-08-2026 00:06 via dailymail.com
  
  RECAP: Eclipse mania has gripped Britain, with beaches, parks and beauty spots packed with sky-watchers as millions turned out to witness the most spectacular solar eclipse.
  
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• Cloudy skies lead to mixed fortunes for Scotland's eclipse hunters

  12-08-2026 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's best chance of seeing a solar eclipse in 27 years left some disappointed, though there were moments of magic.
  
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• Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse

  12-08-2026 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  
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• Watch: Solar eclipse seen over UK skies

  12-08-2026 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Millions of people in the UK and Europe have been wowed by a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse.
  
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• 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency

  12-08-2026 23:45 via theregister.com
  
  Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear safety agency, supply-chain vendors, and at least seven energy companies in what security researchers called a "near-autonomous attack." Over the first four days of July, AI agents compromised 85 government user accounts and extracted more than 2,500 personnel records, according to Dream, an Israeli cybersecurity firm. Researchers uncovered evi
  
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• Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages

  12-08-2026 23:29 via theregister.com
  
  Users of peer-to-peer networking outfit Tailscale might have struggled through some surprising outages beginning late last year. After a six-month investigation, the team finally knows why: A bug in SQLite’s write-ahead log that had remained hidden for 16 years. The Tailscale team announced in a Wednesday blog post that it had finally addressed the issue with the help of SQLite maintainers, who even had to create a new tool (with Tailscale funding) to log virtual file system activity in or
  
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• In pictures: Sky watchers gather for solar eclipse

  12-08-2026 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People across Kent, Surrey and Sussex watch the moon obscure the sun in a rare partial eclipse.
  
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• The eclipse snapped by YOU: Daily Mail readers' photos are revealed

  12-08-2026 22:39 via dailymail.com
  
  From pets wearing glasses to children using homemade viewing devices to glimpse the spectacular illusion in the skies on Wednesday, our readers embraced eclipse fever in full force.
  
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• Yorkshire crowds gather for 'incredible' eclipse

  12-08-2026 22:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People gather in York, Leeds and Bradford to view the most significant solar eclipse since 1999.
  
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• Urgent warning over 'squishy dumpling' toys that can explode and cause severe burns

  12-08-2026 22:31 via dailymail.com
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Officials have issued an urgent warning about the popular 'squishy dumpling' toys that pose serious risks to consumers.
  
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• Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

  12-08-2026 22:15 via theregister.com
  
  We've got good news for developers who are enamored with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects but don’t want to be tied into that company’s backend infrastructure. Last week, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl unveiled his latest project, celld, which he described on X as “a self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and Workers implementation.” Dahl’s celld model is compatible with Cloudflare’s Workers and Durable Objects’ JavaScript APIs, but he claims that it
  
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• Moment man uses colander at packed London park to watch the eclipse... and he's not alone

  12-08-2026 21:46 via dailymail.com
  
  One popular method to view the eclipse if you do not have special glasses that protect from the strong sunlight is to see the sun's light through the holes of a colander.
  
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• Urgent warning over popular 'squishy dumpling' toys that can explode and spray scorching liquid

  12-08-2026 21:43 via dailymail.com
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Officials have issued an urgent warning about the popular 'squishy dumpling' toys that pose serious risks to consumers.
  
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• Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible

  12-08-2026 21:42 via theregister.com
  
  If you thought that the famous Spectre security vulns were a relic of 2018, think again. Certain RISC-V chips are still very much subject to this hair-raising hole, researchers say. Spectre refers to a family of vulnerabilities related to speculative execution, a performance optimization technique based on predicting the flow of data before instructions have been executed. Incorrect predictions get rolled back without affecting running applications but nonetheless leave traces that can be recove
  
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• Mysterious 'demon' creature discovered lurking beneath Alabama's 'Area 51'

  12-08-2026 21:39 via dailymail.com
  
  An evolutionary mystery has been discovered under an Army base that conspiracy theorists believe is the key to secret UFO projects run by the military.
  
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• Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?

  12-08-2026 21:00 via theregister.com
  
  Soaring AI infrastructure costs and model pricing, combined with uncertain returns on investment, threaten to stall enterprise adoption. To make enterprise AI spend a bit more manageable, Nvidia this week unveiled a new software platform that blurs the line between expensive proprietary models and open weights alternatives. Announced alongside Nemotron 3.5-30B-A3B-Lightning, Nvidia’s latest open weights model, NeMo Switchyard is the GPU giant’s latest overture to enterprise. So what
  
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• Solar eclipse live updates: Once-in-a-generation event peaks in the skies over Britain

  12-08-2026 20:29 via dailymail.com
  
  LIVE UPDATES: Eclipse mania has gripped the nation, with Britons packing out beaches and parks to view the once-in-a-generation event.
  
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• Scientists discover a blind 'demon' underneath Alabama's Area 51

  12-08-2026 20:13 via dailymail.com
  
  An evolutionary mystery has been discovered under an Army base that conspiracy theorists believe is the key to secret UFO projects run by the military.
  
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• Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

  12-08-2026 20:12 via theregister.com
  
  Nightmare Eclipse, the serial zero-day hunter who has an axe to grind with Microsoft, published a new Defender zero-day, ShieldBreak, that apparently bypasses Redmond’s RoguePlanet patch (CVE-2026-50656), allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems. According to at least one other researcher, the exploit works. “I've tried it, it works on latest Windows 11,” former Microsoft employee and security expert Kevin
  
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• Solar eclipse in pictures: Stunning snaps show the moment the moon covered the face of the sun

  12-08-2026 20:00 via dailymail.com
  
  If you missed this eclipse, the next chance to see such a significant natural phenomenon won't come to the UK until 2050, and you'll have to wait until 2090 for the next totality.
  
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• Solar eclipse live updates: Once-in-a-generation event begins as sun-gazers are warned they could break their phones

  12-08-2026 19:34 via dailymail.com
  
  LIVE UPDATES: Eclipse mania has gripped the nation, with Britons packing out beaches and parks to view the once-in-a-generation event.
  
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• The race to save thousands of animals

  12-08-2026 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In October 1982, Paraguay and Brazil closed the gates of the Itaipu River, beginning to fill the reservoir of what would soon be the world's largest dam.
  
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• Extinct human remains found on seafloor fuel claims of real-life biblical giants

  12-08-2026 19:00 via dailymail.com
  
  The remains of an extinct human discovered on the seafloor off Taiwan have reignited theories about the giants described in the Bible.
  
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• OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

  12-08-2026 18:57 via theregister.com
  
  A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like an open source software project. It aims to make training data more transparent than that of many open-weight models that have recently taken the industry by storm. CentOS and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer is behind the effort, dubbed Open Weights, Artifacts, Licenses, Data, Origins (OpenWALDO), and it's funded by CIQ, his AI infrastructure company, which also sponsors Rocky Linux
  
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• Solar eclipse LIVESTREAM: Watch live as the moon covers the face of the sun

  12-08-2026 18:52 via dailymail.com
  
  If bad weather or a shortage of eclipse glasses have scuppered your viewing plans, there's no need to worry. You can follow along with the whole event by tuning into NASA's live broadcast.
  
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• Extinct human remains found on seafloor fuel claims of the Bible's 'Nephilim Giants'

  12-08-2026 18:31 via dailymail.com
  
  The remains of an extinct human discovered on the seafloor off Taiwan have reignited theories about the giants described in the Bible.
  
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• Watch: Hydrogen car breaks land speed record at 406 mph

  12-08-2026 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new record surpasses the previous official hydrogen combustion title set in 2004 by more than double the speed.
  
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• CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B

  12-08-2026 18:13 via theregister.com
  
  Neocloud operator CoreWeave remains bullish about its prospects, claiming that changing patterns of AI use will create sustained demand for its cloud services. The New Jersey firm is among the most prominent rent-a-GPU businesses spawned by demand for AI training infrastructure, but is now attempting to move up the technology stack – a shift consultants at McKinsey said neoclouds would need to make to survive. "AI is no longer confined to frontier model labs. It is becoming embedded in sof
  
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