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• Prelude to Day 7: China Is The World’s First Technate

  15-12-2022 18:41 via technocracy.news
  This is an in-depth (7,800 word) and must-read analysis of China’s journey from Communism to Technocracy, a much more natural system for China’s history and culture. Misreading China’s current state of existence is to misread the greatest threat the world has ever seen, yet is the least-spoken of. No, China isn’t the threat, our own governments are striving to recreate the China experience, especially in the U.S. ⁃ TN EditorIn Part 1, we discussed the historica
  
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• Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges

  04-08-2026 15:09 via theregister.com
  
  AI has turbocharged an already expanding cloud services market as organizations pour billions into online platforms offering the compute needed to train and run models, swelling the coffers of the established giants. Their latest results show revenue surging alongside capital spending as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft race to add capacity – at least until the AI bubble eventually bursts, of course. Biggest of them all, Amazon disclosed that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division took in $42
  
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• Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras

  04-08-2026 14:08 via theregister.com
  
  An independent congressional candidate in Tennessee faces four felony vandalism charges after allegedly shooting four automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras between July 14 and 22. According to the Blount County Sheriff's Office (site geo-restricted), Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, is accused of targeting three cameras in Blount County and one in Maryville. Local news reports citing an affidavit say at least one was manufactured by Flock. Police said Heimerman allegedly reached one of the camera
  
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• CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages

  04-08-2026 13:23 via theregister.com
  
  CAF Bank has told customers its online banking service is back after being shuttered for more than ten days following what it described as "attempted fraud." In an email update seen by The Reg, the bank warned that access could remain intermittent, and it might "need to limit the amount of traffic to the website" at certain times. It admitted: "There are likely to be periods where online banking is not available. We will try to keep this to outside business hours." The bank also gave customers a
  
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• What lies beneath: Earth's inner core could be full of 'extreme hydrogen' unlike ANYTHING seen on the surface, study claims

  04-08-2026 13:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Earth's inner core is filled with a rare material known as 'extreme hydrogen', a study has claimed.
  
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• Apple issues new challenge against UK order for access to private user data

  04-08-2026 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the latest development in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the Home Office over data privacy.
  
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• An out-of-this-world send-off! French bulldog's ashes are blasted 119,000ft into SPACE

  04-08-2026 11:54 via dailymail.com
  
  Oscar the French bulldog's ashes were launched on a weather balloon, alongside his favourite Toy Story alien toy, and a pet GPS tracker.
  
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• Super El Niño is getting even STRONGER, models reveal - as experts warn 'this is only a warm-up act'

  04-08-2026 11:13 via dailymail.com
  
  The Super El Niño is getting even stronger, the latest climate models have revealed.
  
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• Shark sighting closes Jersey beach for the first time in HISTORY: Lifeguards clear the water after a 12ft creature is spotted

  04-08-2026 10:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) closed off St Ouen's Bay for 45 minutes after lifeguards spotted a large, grey animal around 40 metres from the water's edge.
  
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• The 'holiday sleep hangover' hitting Brits: How travel tiredness costs you the first two days of your break

  04-08-2026 10:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Think you're just tired after an early flight? The real reason you feel exhausted on holiday may start long before you reach the airport.
  
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• UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

  04-08-2026 09:30 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is considering forcing employers in Great Britain to consult workers before rolling out "bossware," opening the door to new rules covering everything from AI-powered productivity scoring to keystroke logging and biometric surveillance. The Department for Business and Trade wants to know whether the rules governing workplace surveillance still make sense as software increasingly tracks employees' activity, measures their performance, and supports decisions that affect their work
  
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• NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

  04-08-2026 08:31 via theregister.com
  
  Tesla has recalled its Cybertruck 11 times to fix issues such as exterior trim panels falling off and an accelerator pedal that can become stuck, but NASA has nonetheless decided the rust-prone vehicle is up to the job of rescuing astronauts if trouble strikes on the launchpad of a forthcoming crewed mission. Muskmobiles will get the job currently performed by the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), a heavily armored military personnel carrier that can survive small arms fire and eve
  
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• Social media has made autism too popular and anyone of any age can now have it, expert says

  04-08-2026 08:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Prof Frith authored pioneering research in 1960s and 70s that defined the medical establishment's understanding of autism.
  
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• Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

  04-08-2026 06:50 via theregister.com
  
  Cloudflare has used AI to automate processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model and chose it partly because using the AI company’s security-specific Mythos model would burn through around $200,000 a month to do the same job. The company’s chief security officer (CSO) Grant Bourzikas shared those numbers with The Register last week during a press lunch in Sydney, Australia, where he said Cloudflare used to manuall
  
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• China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'

  04-08-2026 04:05 via theregister.com
  
  China has changed its legal definition of semiconductors. The National Intellectual Property Administration yesterday issued an expert opinion on recent changes to the regulations governing intellectual property laws as applied to chips. That document, attributed to Guo He, from the School of Intellectual Property at the Renmin University of China, notes that laws in place around the world define integrated circuits as semiconductors. “Today, photonic integrated devices and quantum chip te
  
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• Fears grow over toxic ROCKET FUEL chemical lurking in America's drinking water: Expert sounds alarm over exactly who is at risk… and terrifying potential side effects

  04-08-2026 01:34 via dailymail.com
  
  The Environmental Protection Agencyis using data more than two decades old to develop the first nationwide drinking water standard for a toxic chemical.
  
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• Tokenomics: Why making AI pay is tricky

  04-08-2026 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Buyers of AI services are struggling to control costs and sellers are not sure how much to charge.
  
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• China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

  04-08-2026 00:40 via theregister.com
  
  The AI arms race reached a fever pitch on Monday after Chinese e-commerce and cloud provider Alibaba called into question America’s technological lead with the launch of Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that goes toe-to-toe with the best models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model comes just days after the launch of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, which, according to independent benchmarks by Artificial Analysis, performs within a single point of OpenAI’s budget-friendly GPT-
  
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• MySpace reveals surprise plans to relaunch the social network

  03-08-2026 23:57 via dailymail.com
  
  For anyone who spent hours customizing their Myspace page and ranking their Top 8 friends, its planned comeback will be welcome news.
  
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• Myspace is coming back as owners reveal plans to revive the iconic social network

  03-08-2026 22:47 via dailymail.com
  
  For anyone who spent hours customizing their Myspace page and ranking their Top 8 friends, its planned comeback will be welcome news.
  
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• Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence

  03-08-2026 22:30 via theregister.com
  
  In what they call the first-ever real-world agent-to-agent exploitation method, Pillar Security researchers say they discovered an exploit in the repository behind Google's Agent Development Kit for Python that could allow attackers to compromise supply chains. In other words, now we know that one AI agent can be used to control and compromise another one that has more privileges. The security snafu existed in google/adk-python, an open source Python toolkit with more than 90 million downloads u
  
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• NASA Mars photo captures mysterious 'walking man' on the Red Planet

  03-08-2026 21:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A sweeping view of Mars appears to reveal a mysterious human-like shape striding across the landscape.
  
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• Part II: Technocrats Call For Dictatorship And Technocracy In 2026

  03-08-2026 20:11 via technocracy.news
  
  On my desk are two texts separated by seventy-five years and joined by a single idea. The first is a physical object: Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy, published by a small Los Angeles house in 1932, in which a self-described “Nationally known Economist and Financial Analyst” urged the incoming president to accept “dictatorial powers in the approaching crisis,” dismiss the machinery of representative government, and install Technocrats from top to bottom.
  
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• Doomsday warnings erupt as trinity of cosmic events are set to show themselves to Earth

  03-08-2026 19:28 via dailymail.com
  
  A rare trinity of cosmic events appearing this month has sparked fears of an ominous turning point. All three are set to unfold within hours of one another.
  
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• AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

  03-08-2026 19:19 via theregister.com
  
  Now AI is making fake vulnerabilities and polluting the ecosystem. A batch of critical- and high-rated SQLite CVEs that appeared in the NVD with CISA-supplied enrichment last week turned out to be technically bogus, according to security researchers, and their path into widely used databases exposes weaknesses in the CVE pipeline. Software supply chain security outfit JFrog reported last week that six supposed SQLite vulnerabilities published in a larger batch by a new, obscure GitHub repository
  
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• Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems

  03-08-2026 17:39 via theregister.com
  
  Conference-goers may want to think twice about connecting to public Wi-Fi after Microsoft disclosed that Russian foreign intelligence operatives (SVR) are compromising captive portal networks to deliver infostealers, keyloggers, and other malware. With the help of ReliaQuest's earlier work, Redmond fingered Storm-2945, a subdivision of the SVR's Midnight Blizzard (aka Nobellium), in an attack campaign targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like hotels, conference centers, and other s
  
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• America's serial killer rankings revealed as map exposes a murderous legacy in all 50 states

  03-08-2026 17:27 via dailymail.com
  
  America has produced more documented serial killers than anywhere else on Earth, but some states carry a far more murderous legacy than others.
  
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• Armageddon was RIGHT: Simulations reveal how we really could nuke a doomsday asteroid by burying a bomb deep within it

  03-08-2026 17:24 via dailymail.com
  
  In 1998, the sci-fi blockbuster Armageddon drew the ire of scientists by proposing humanity could avert the apocalypse by nuking an asteroid before it hit Earth.
  
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• The horrifying truth behind Antarctica's 'Blood Falls': Scientists discover the striking red waterfall is teeming with ancient sea creatures trapped beneath the ice

  03-08-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have uncovered the gruesome secret behind Antarctica's infamous Blood Falls - it's alive with the descendants of ancient sea creatures.
  
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• Children who join TikTok and Instagram at 11 are 'six months behind' at school by their GCSE years, study finds

  03-08-2026 17:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Teenagers who start using social media at a younger age are up to six months behind at school by their GCSE years, a new study suggests.
  
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