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• Poor people's DNA is declining in quality, say scientists

  11-05-2015 23:59 via
  
  The Stanford Center for Advanced Study found that people in disadvantaged environments have shorter telomeres — DNA sequences that generally shrink with age — than their advantaged peers.
  
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• Inside one of sailing's most iconic races: Daily Mail's SHIVALI BEST joins 800 boats battling it out in the Round the Island Race

  24-07-2026 12:25 via dailymail.com
  
  While most spectators enjoy the race from the mainland, the Daily Mail's Science & Technology Editor, Shivali Best, was given the rare opportunity to watch from the water.
  
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• June heatwave cost the UK economy more than £1 BILLION, study claims

  24-07-2026 12:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) surveyed almost 2,000 Brits to understand the impact the record-breaking heat had on their working hours and ability to sleep.
  
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• Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

  24-07-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Andy Burnham has found a novel way to back the local pub: make the digital marketplace help pick up the tab. The UK prime minister on Thursday promised pubs, social clubs, and live music venues in England a 20 percent cut in business rates from April 2027, a package worth around £100 million a year that the government says will benefit nearly 32,000 venues. Alongside it, ministers announced plans to squeeze more unpaid tax from sellers using online marketplaces. Rather than simply footing
  
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• Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to put data centres in SPACE - but experts warn they could be 'catastrophic' for the planet

  24-07-2026 11:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Data centres in space could be 'catastrophic' for the planet, scientsts have warned in response to plans laid out by some of the world's richest people.
  
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• Alan Turing wasn't an awkward mathematician! Gay short story reveals he was also a fun, cheeky man who loved sex, experts say

  24-07-2026 10:55 via dailymail.com
  
  A racy gay short story shows that the brilliant scientist who helped crack the Nazi's Enigma Code was anything but dull.
  
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• Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

  24-07-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE Google invited residents living near its newly built datacenter north of London to meet the team at the local council offices on Wednesday evening – and was met with a barrage of complaints about poor consultation, noise, and light pollution. The Waltham Cross Datacenter (WXT), which was officially opened last year, sits on a 33-acre (133,546 m²) site north of the M25 motorway that encircles London. It is expected to provide up to 77 MW of IT capacity when full, but it is cu
  
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• Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

  24-07-2026 09:32 via theregister.com
  
  Alibaba’s reign as the worst offender under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) lasted just four days, after the European Commission yesterday fined Google €890 million for breaches of the law –€340 million more than the Chinese e-commerce company will pay. Europe even fined Google twice – once for treating its own services more favorably in search rankings and the second time for failing to properly inform users of its “Play” app store. T
  
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• Is THIS why we haven't found aliens yet? Scientists claim extraterrestrial signals could be hiding on a different radio channel

  24-07-2026 09:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say we haven't found aliens because we have been tuned in to the wrong radio channel.
  
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• Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

  24-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' tales of tech support jobs that go south, pear-shaped, or just badly. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lionel" who told us that in the 1990s he worked for an outfit that operated what he described as "big IBM computer centers running overnight COBOL batch processing jobs." When Lionel started this job, he was hired as an analyst and assigned to a new team. "My main job was the de
  
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• Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

  24-07-2026 07:17 via theregister.com
  
  Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has acknowledged that the semiconductor giant must catch up to rivals AMD and Arm, and said it now assumes edge AI and robotics will be a business as big as PCs. Tan made those remarks during Intel’s Q2 earnings call, which saw the company report $16.1 billion revenue – a 25 percent year-on-year increase. “Q2 was another quarter of solid execution,” the CEO said. “Revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share were above our guidance. This marks
  
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• DARPA’s Pandemic Stack: Building The Pandemic Operating System Before COVID

  24-07-2026 06:11 via technocracy.news
  
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was founded in 1958 and has been full of Technocrats ever since. It handed them dark money for projects hidden from public view. It was like a breeding ground for cockroaches. You can see the effect of “One Health” at DARPA, all of nature is fused together for a common outcome. Operation Warp Speed never would have happened. COVID never would have happened. PCR testing never would happened. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.PROPHECY, ADEPT
  
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• Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

  24-07-2026 03:24 via theregister.com
  
  Azure users who use resources in Microsoft’s West US region endured an uncomfortable day after the tech giant cut off access to its Californian cloud outpost. As Microsoft explains in its preliminary post incident review, at 14:44 UTC on July 23rd (07:44 AM Pacific Time), the company started “routine device maintenance.” That effort immediately produced problems. “Multiple Azure services began to detect and correlate service degradation,” Microsoft’s review re
  
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• OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

  24-07-2026 01:51 via theregister.com
  
  Open AI’s admission this week that its agents escaped the sandbox and autonomously hacked model repository Hugging Face has spawned more apocalyptic warnings of agents gone bad than we can count. Thankfully, Renato Marinho, chief research officer at Morphus Labs and a SANS Technology Institute instructor, brought some sanity to the discussion. “It is tempting to read this as ‘AI can now hack autonomously, the sky is falling,’” Marinho said in a Thursday blog. &ldquo
  
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• Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

  24-07-2026 01:24 via theregister.com
  
  Apple macOS apps that have been downloaded from the internet and run at least once can be swapped with malicious versions, a pair of researchers say, calling into question the thoroughness of the company's "Gatekeeper" defenses. As Apple explains, "When a user downloads and opens an app, a plug-in, or an installer package from outside the App Store, Gatekeeper verifies that the software is from an identified developer, is notarized by Apple to be free of known malicious content, and hasn’t
  
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• Is THIS why we haven't found aliens yet? Scientists claim extraterrestrial signals be hiding on a different radio channel

  24-07-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say we haven't found aliens because we have been tuned in to the wrong radio channel.
  
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• AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs

  23-07-2026 23:33 via theregister.com
  
  GPUs are great for training, but for inference, you need a heavy dose of speedy memory to churn out the tokens. AMD has tapped Cerebras Systems to develop a disaggregated compute platform combining Instinct GPUs with the chip startup's SRAM-powered AI accelerators. The goal: to deliver ultra-low-latency inference for agentic workloads. The collaboration, announced on stage during AMD CEO Lisa Su's Advancing AI keynote Thursday, closes a gap in AMD's portfolio that cost Nvidia $20 billion to acqu
  
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• Horrifying video shows Bertha destroying coastal houses as dangerous storm will make second landfall TODAY

  23-07-2026 22:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Tropical storm Bertha is wreaking havoc across the US Gulf coast after it made landfall in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

  23-07-2026 22:48 via theregister.com
  
  ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users cannot export workspace chats through OpenAI's standard data export option, but a new free tool offers an unofficial way to retrieve their accessible chat records. Scrapemychats, from freelance journalist Conrad Quilty-Harper, makes it possible for those ChatGPT subscribers to retain a copy of their chat sessions before leaving for other AI pastures. Quilty-Harper just published it this week on GitHub. “I made the stupid decision to upgrade from a pers
  
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• Stay indoors warnings issued in five US states TODAY as blood-penetrating toxins fill the air

  23-07-2026 22:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials are urging Americans in five states to stay indoors on Thursday as harmful toxins fill the air. These particles penetrate deep in the lungs and bloodstream.
  
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• Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS

  23-07-2026 21:26 via theregister.com
  
  You can take your vibe-coded project elsewhere. Codeberg, a volunteer-run code hosting community, has decided that AI-authored software is no longer welcome. On Thursday, Codeberg announced that the members of Codeberg e.V., the Berlin-based non-profit overseeing the code hosting service, had voted to ban "vibe-coded projects" and declared that Codeberg would not use users’ code or data for AI training due to its impact on Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The vote follows ongo
  
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• AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

  23-07-2026 19:26 via theregister.com
  
  Could Nvidia's days of datacenter dominance be threatened? With the launch of Helios, AMD’s first true rack-scale AI platform, the House of Zen is done playing catch up. The company claims the rack system is powered by the fastest AI accelerators on the market. And, at least on paper, the 72-GPU system is not only bigger and faster by nearly every metric than Nvidia’s existing Blackwell-based rack systems but Vera Rubin as well, and that includes the rack. Measuring in at 1.2 meters
  
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• Car-sized great white shark weighing over 1,000lbs resurfaces off North American coast after vanishing for months

  23-07-2026 18:55 via dailymail.com
  
  A massive car-sized great white shark, weighing over 1,000 pounds, has resurfaced months after disappearing from researchers' trackers.
  
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• Horrifying video shows Bertha destroying coastal houses as dangerous storm will make second landfall TODAY: Live updates

  23-07-2026 18:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Tropical storm Bertha is wreaking havoc across the US Gulf coast after it made landfall in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

  23-07-2026 18:47 via theregister.com
  
  Kremlin cyber goons have been breaking into government and commercial networks for at least a year by exploiting a Zimbra bug with a novel twist on Russia’s usual phishing expeditions: this attack occurs as soon as the victim looks at an email, with no need to even click on a link or open a file. These attacks have been ongoing since July 2025, according to a whopping 27 US, UK, and other international government agencies, which attribute the intrusions to a group they track as Laundry Bea
  
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• Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

  23-07-2026 18:15 via theregister.com
  
  AI seemed simpler in 2024 when Anthropic released the first version of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Back then, developers primarily used the protocol on their personal computers. As those laptop-bound demos were adapted for multi-client enterprise use, MCP servers moved into the cloud, where the original design quickly created scalability problems. On July 28, MCP's maintainers plan to finalize the protocol's 2026-07-28 re
  
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• Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

  23-07-2026 18:12 via theregister.com
  
  At least 2.2 million vehicles fitted with dealer-installed KARR and SWDS security systems are vulnerable to nearby Bluetooth attacks that can unlock doors or prevent a stopped vehicle from starting, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego. An advance look at the research published by UCSD this week (the full writeup won’t be available until August 12) reveals that KARR and SWDS security devices manufactured by Acrisure contain a serious flaw: They “all &hel
  
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• Public Horrified As OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into The Grave”

  23-07-2026 18:02 via technocracy.news
  
  I reported on the death of a teenager last year, but a trend has emerged that underscores Sam Altman’s inaction to stop OpenAI from coaching kids to kill themselves. But Google’s Gemini and Meta are almost as bad. Notably, however, Anthropic has not faced any accusations, which means its competitors could end the behavior if they wanted to. That is the bottom line. If you value your kids’ mental health, keep them away from ChatGPT, Meta, and Gemini. ⁃ Patrick Wood, E
  
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• Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

  23-07-2026 17:31 via theregister.com
  
  It's a bad day to be an Oracle admin: Big Red has just released 1,449 security patches ready to be applied. The patches were released as part of the company's quarterly security fixes, and the record number may partly reflect Oracle's internal push to harness AI for vulnerability detection, which it announced in April. Oracle also manages a huge product portfolio, and the patches span numerous products, so the total shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Instead, experts speaking to The Regis
  
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• Space Datacenters Proposed By Musk And Bezos ‘Catastrophic’ For Planet, Experts Warn

  23-07-2026 17:18 via technocracy.news
  
  Arch-Technocrat Elon Musk is obsessed with “humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars,” even as he is wrecking our planet here. Jeff Bezos is right behind him. Why do they want to put data centers in space? Because they can. Both have a twisted notion that we can escape the “big blue marble” to fulfill our destiny in outer space. This is insanity, and insane people never ask permission to do insane things. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Space datacenters pro
  
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