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• Parents of teenage daughters are most likely to divorce

  10-10-2017 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Jan Kabatek and Dr David Ribar, Research Fellows at the University of Melbourne, explain why divorce risk increases with children's ages (stock image).
  
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• Americans urged to KILL four-foot lizards terrorizing the nation

  03-06-2026 23:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A destructive invasive lizard from South America is spreading through parts of the US, and officials want the public's help fighting back.
  
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• Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

  03-06-2026 22:57 via theregister.com
  
  Wireless jamming attacks are on the rise. Rice University researchers have shown how self-curving radio beams can make a jammer appear to be somewhere it isn't, potentially undermining some anti-jamming defenses. Jamming relies on flooding a wireless receiver with noise that denies service. Some modern receivers identify and block jamming attempts using direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation technology that pinpoints the jammer's direction and directs an array null that blocks signals emanating i
  
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• NASA declares probe DEAD after it tracked mysterious visitor in our solar system

  03-06-2026 21:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.
  
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• Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

  03-06-2026 21:04 via theregister.com
  
  Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the
  
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• The number one sign you were raised by a narcissistic parent, according to top family therapist

  03-06-2026 20:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The biggest issue people with narcissistic parents face is not from their mother or father, but from a crippling condition their childhood has created.
  
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• NASA declares Mars probe officially lost months after close encounter with interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS

  03-06-2026 20:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.
  
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• Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent

  03-06-2026 20:06 via theregister.com
  
  Perhaps you stopped by a friend's house and rang their Ring doorbell. Or maybe you walked past a neighbor's front door on your way somewhere else. According to a new class action lawsuit, Ring's Familiar Faces feature may have captured your face and generated facial-recognition data from it without your knowledge. A Virginia man is now suing Amazon and its home security subsidiary, alleging violations of state laws. Charles Sigwalt claims that Ring's Familiar Faces, an AI-powered facial-recognit
  
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• Why whales don't get cancer, do go through the menopause - and can hear each other singing 4,000 miles away

  03-06-2026 19:24 via dailymail.com
  
  We are only now beginning to realise how much we still don't know about whales - and why they are in many people's view the most extraordinary beasts alive.
  
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• No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

  03-06-2026 18:49 via theregister.com
  
  Move over, Copilot: Microsoft is introducing a new category of agentic AI called "Autopilot," starting with Scout, its first agent. And it doesn't take much guessing to understand how Microsoft expects these things to operate: By constantly watching your every move and taking action in the background to ostensibly streamline your workday. Microsoft announced Autopilot, and the first Autopilot agent, Scout, at Microsoft Build on Tuesday, describing it and other future Autopilots as “always-
  
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• Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node

  03-06-2026 18:20 via theregister.com
  
  Intel is keen to reassure investors that its troubles with the 18A manufacturing process were a one-off, and that it is better positioned to capitalize on what it expects will be growing demand for CPUs used in AI inference workloads. Speaking at the Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, Chipzilla’s chief financial officer David Zinsner claimed that the firm simply bit off more than it could chew in trying to move too fast with the new process node. “I w
  
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• Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

  03-06-2026 18:09 via theregister.com
  
  A body that represents mobile operators wants the migration to 6G networks to be as smooth as possible, learning lessons from the fractious 5G introduction that has left countries like the UK with a less than satisfactory service. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) says that 6G requires a different standardization approach in order to prevent complexity and market confusion, alongside a smooth and cost-effective migration path for its members. What exactly defines 6G is still be
  
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• The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company

  03-06-2026 17:24 via theregister.com
  
  COMPUTEX 2026 The sun is slowly but surely setting on copper interconnects, Marvell CEO Matt Murphy claimed in his Computex keynote this week. Within the next decade the IP house expects photons to take the place of electrons and change the way datacenters are built and run in the process. And, if Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is right, the widespread transition to silicon photonics technologies could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company. With a market cap of $191 billion, Marvell still has a
  
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• AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?

  03-06-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Your customer service agent just wrote to a database it should have been reading from, and nobody told it to do so. Somewhere upstream, a poisoned support ticket had convinced the agent that the user was an admin, and being helpful, it obliged. This is the working day for anyone running autonomous AI in production. Prisma AIRS from Palo Alto Networks Networks sits in the middle of that traffic, inspecting tool calls and network flows rather than only the natural-language prompts on the surface,
  
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• Bain: “The (AI) Value Didn’t Arrive”

  03-06-2026 16:46 via technocracy.news
  The wheels are coming off the bus. The “Great AI Con” is about to go down in history as the biggest scam ever. Corporate executives worldwide followed the pied pipers (those that “offer strong but delusive enticement”) like Sam Altman into a multi-trillion-dollar black hole, only to find that they should have done ROI (Return on Investment) studies before spending billions more.
  What have the Arch-Technocrats done to our government?  Thanks to DOGE, they have replace
  
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• Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

  03-06-2026 16:30 via theregister.com
  
  Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product after becoming disillusioned with the company’s handling of security reports. Ammar Askar dropped a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) flaw within just an hour of disclosing it to “an old contact” at the open source platform, according to his account of things. The vulnerability he exposed involves attackers configuring repos, either of their own making or th
  
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• How Super El Niño will wreak havoc around the globe: Step-by-step graphic reveals how the unusual climate event will bring extreme heat 'nearly EVERYWHERE'

  03-06-2026 16:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The Daily Mail has created a step-by-step graphic to showcase the true scale of the devastation the unusual climate event will likely cause.
  
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• The 'Big One' could strike in New Zealand: Scientists discover an active fault line running through Auckland - and warn it could spark a 6.8 magnitude earthquake at any time

  03-06-2026 15:33 via dailymail.com
  
  The 'Big One' earthquake is usually associated with California. But scientists have warned that it could strike in New Zealand - after finding an active fault line running through the country.
  
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• Microsoft Build: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more

  03-06-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft’s Build event is under way in San Francisco, USA, with the expected focus on agentic AI but also a few surprises, such as Unix-style Coreutils for Windows. CEO Satya Nadella presented Project Solara, based on future devices which "are not meant to run traditional apps. They are designed for agents," according to applied science group leader Steven Bathiche; it is as much aspiration than specific plans and whether it is dream or nightmare is open to question. That AI will be embed
  
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• Earthquake warnings flash across two US states as multiple quakes rock West Coast

  03-06-2026 15:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Thousands along the West Coast were rattled by multiple strong earthquakes, triggering alerts from emergency officials.
  
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• Outrage as scientists push to create ticks that spread red-meat allergies: 'Isn't this biological terrorism?'

  03-06-2026 15:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A controversial study has triggered widespread backlash after scientists argued it could be 'morally' justified to infect people with a virus that causes an allergy to meat.
  
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• Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

  03-06-2026 14:52 via theregister.com
  
  Health secretary James Murray has said that he will become a data controller of all National Health Service records in England shared through the government’s planned single patient record (SPR). Murray, who is formally the secretary of state for health, told the House of Commons on 1 June that GP surgeries, NHS trusts and other care providers will continue to manage and take responsibility for their own records, but added: “Where that information is then shared through the single pa
  
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• Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

  03-06-2026 14:05 via theregister.com
  
  The UK’s competition regulator has imposed new rules for Google search, in a bid to help publishers prevent their work from appearing in AI Overview results as well as to get links to their work instated in AI results. The Competition and Markets Authority imposed a new conduct requirement for Google search, which it promises will provide effective tools to stop publishers' content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews. The requirements will put publishers, includ
  
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• Super El Niño could add HUNDREDS to your grocery bill: As chance of climate event hits 80%, experts warn the price of tea, coffee, and fruit could skyrocket in Britain

  03-06-2026 13:58 via dailymail.com
  
  A Super El Niño is on its way - and it could add hundreds to your grocery bill, experts have warned.
  
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• UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion

  03-06-2026 13:04 via theregister.com
  
  UK banks are set to receive access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber after being excluded from Anthropic’s latest expansion of Project Glasswing. Project Glasswing, and access to the Mythos Preview model, is geared toward ensuring critical infrastructure providers are prepared to handle the threat posed by advanced AI models, once they inevitably make their way into the public domain, and therefore the hands of attackers. However, amid a fourfold expansion of Glasswing’s partners, only
  
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• The mystery meat in your takeout: One in four UK takeaways use the wrong ingredients in their dishes - including 'lamb' curries made with beef, and chicken masquerading as 'pepperoni'

  03-06-2026 12:45 via dailymail.com
  
  The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned that more than a quarter of UK takeaways use the wrong meat products in their dishes.
  
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• ZTE and partners nurture global ICT talent through 2026 engineering capacity building program

  03-06-2026 12:10 via theregister.com
  
  Partner Content ZTE successfully co-organized the graduation of the 2026 Engineering Capacity Building Program (Information & Communication Engineering) in Shenzhen. Under the theme "Wisdom Leading Communication Frontiers, Empowering Engineering Practice", the program was hosted by the Chinese Society of Engineers, organized by the China Institute of Communications, and co-organized by the Guangdong Institute of Communications and ZTE. The initiative brought together over 60 ICT engineers fr
  
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• Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

  03-06-2026 12:03 via theregister.com
  
  After months of lawsuits, injunctions, plugin disputes, and public sparring between Automattic and WP Engine, WordPress is showing its first sustained market share decline in years. As first reported by Search Engine Journal, new data from web technology tracker W3Techs puts WordPress at 41.9 percent of all websites, down from 43.2 percent six months earlier and extending a losing streak that stretches back into 2025. The numbers are hardly catastrophic for software that still powers more than t
  
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• Football fans should brace for SLOW games at the World Cup: Scientists warn intense heat will affect how fast players can run

  03-06-2026 12:02 via dailymail.com
  
  It's a tournament marked by explosive speed, quick decision-making and rapid changes in play - but the World Cup could be noticeably slower this year, scientists have warned.
  
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• UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

  03-06-2026 11:01 via theregister.com
  
  MPs have told the government to cut its ties with Palantir, and end the US spy-tech firm's controversial involvement in the National Health Service's Federated Data Platform. Warning against vendor lock-in across government, the House of Common science and technology committee said it was most concerned about Palantir, which had secured central roles in health and defense systems. “Palantir should not have a such a significant role in the UK public sector… it is far from the only co
  
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