<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sci-Tech - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Sci-Tech news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:44:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA['Apocalypse Early Warning System' goes online to track billionaire jets fleeing&nbsp;before disaster strikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 'Apocalypse Warning System' monitors more than 31,000 private and business aircraft for signs that the world's wealthiest people are fleeing a catastrophe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apocalypse-early-warning-system-goes-online-to-track-billionaire-jets-fleeingnbspbefore-disaster-strikes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apocalypse-early-warning-system-goes-online-to-track-billionaire-jets-fleeingnbspbefore-disaster-strikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when chained together, allow pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE). And security researchers tell us there&rsquo;s a very good chance the miscreants had an AI assist. &ldquo;Once the vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed, reproducing them with the help of frontier AI models was only a matter of time and tokens,&rdquo; Jake Knott, watchTowr principal security researcher, tol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/attackers-pummel-critical-wordpress-vuln-to-create-all-sorts-of-mischief/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/attackers-pummel-critical-wordpress-vuln-to-create-all-sorts-of-mischief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real FBI agents won't slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) updated an earlier warning on Monday about scammers impersonating the agency online, saying fraudsters continue to use the scheme "to deceive and revictimize individuals." According to IC3, there are two different schemes being used to target cybercrime victims, both directly and by soliciting them to report incidents. In the first scheme, IC3 said scammers cre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scammers-impersonate-fbi-on-social-media-prey-on-crime-victims/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scammers-impersonate-fbi-on-social-media-prey-on-crime-victims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Traveler claiming to be from the year 2045 delivers alarming predictions for the next four years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A self-proclaimed time traveler has revealed the true origins of UFO sightings and who will allegedly be the last president in US history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-2045-delivers-alarming-predictions-for-the-next-four-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-2045-delivers-alarming-predictions-for-the-next-four-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing can ruin the end of a week like finding out that all of the websites and hosted email you&rsquo;re responsible for are offline, which is exactly what happened to Christopher Bradbury and his web design and development firm, Digital Takumi last week. AWS has since resolved the situation, but Bradbury's mistakes can serve as a useful lesson to others of what not to do. As Bradbury explained to The Register in an email, he noticed last Thursday, July 16, that all the websites and Google Wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? Cybersecurity researchers in China have devised a way for malicious tenants to attack their infrastructure provider, potentially causing blackouts or damaging equipment. The attack, dubbed Bit2Watt, imagines an adversary masquerading as a legitimate cloud tenant to launch GPU workloads that have the potential to damage datacenters and supporting e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn't mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, but commercial LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation, forcing it to turn to a Chinese open-weight model instead. The intrusion, &ldquo;driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system,&rdquo; compromised a &ldquo;limited set&rdquo; of Hugging Face&rsquo;s internal datasets and &ldquo;several&rdquo; credentials used by its ser]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frontier-llms-couldnt-help-hugging-face-fight-off-evil-agents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frontier-llms-couldnt-help-hugging-face-fight-off-evil-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple East Coast cities told to prepare NOW as tornado threat looms TOMORROW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials have issued a warning to millions of Americans facing the threat of tornadoes as a volatile storm system bears down on the eastern US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-east-coast-cities-told-to-prepare-now-as-tornado-threat-looms-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-east-coast-cities-told-to-prepare-now-as-tornado-threat-looms-tomorrow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Document Foundation (TDF) has criticized proprietary file formats and the lock-in they create, with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office formats drawing particular scrutiny. TDF would doubtless welcome a world where everyone used LibreOffice or another open equivalent, yet the reality is that Microsoft's productivity tools still dominate the office software market. However that shouldn't be a problem. Files are interchangeable these days, right? Office uses the Office Open XML (OOXML) format, so sw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-document-foundation-says-microsofts-file-formats-keep-users-on-a-short-leash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-document-foundation-says-microsofts-file-formats-keep-users-on-a-short-leash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark matter could resonate through a hidden FIFTH dimension, scientists claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dark matter is already one of the strangest substances in the universe, but a new study suggests this elusive material could be even weirder than we thought.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-matter-could-resonate-through-a-hidden-fifth-dimension-scientists-claim/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-matter-could-resonate-through-a-hidden-fifth-dimension-scientists-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk shortages loom across America after devastating cyberattack halts Fairlife production]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/milk-shortages-loom-across-america-after-devastating-cyberattack-halts-fairlife-production/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/milk-shortages-loom-across-america-after-devastating-cyberattack-halts-fairlife-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft 365 calendars have become the latest hiding place for espionage malware, with attackers stashing commands and stolen files inside appointments dated 24 years into the future. Researchers at Group-IB say they've uncovered a malware component they call HOLLOWGRAPH that swaps the usual command-and-control server for something rather less conspicuous &ndash; a compromised Microsoft 365 calendar. Instead of reaching out to attacker-controlled infrastructure for instructions, the implant rum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-365-calendars-become-spy-drop-boxes-in-hollowgraph-campaign/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-365-calendars-become-spy-drop-boxes-in-hollowgraph-campaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon landing conspiracies are reignited online on the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11 - as experts reveal three pieces of evidence that prove NASA's lunar missions were real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moon landing conspiracies have been reignited online once again, as NASA celebrates the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moon-landing-conspiracies-are-reignited-online-on-the-57th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-as-experts-reveal-three-pieces-of-evidence-that-prove-nasas-lunar-missions-were-real/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moon-landing-conspiracies-are-reignited-online-on-the-57th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-as-experts-reveal-three-pieces-of-evidence-that-prove-nasas-lunar-missions-were-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite milk forced to halt production after cyberattack sparking fears of nationwide shortages]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-cyberattack-sparking-fears-of-nationwide-shortages/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-cyberattack-sparking-fears-of-nationwide-shortages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Bertha to form near US coast in just HOURS as millions brace for direct hit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tropical storm developing near multiple US states is expected to make landfall this week and bring life-threatening conditions to millions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tropical-storm-bertha-to-form-near-us-coast-in-just-hours-as-millions-brace-for-direct-hit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tropical-storm-bertha-to-form-near-us-coast-in-just-hours-as-millions-brace-for-direct-hit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's aging Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has hit "severe degradation," leaving some organizations facing painfully slow synchronizations or timeouts when fetching updates. According to Microsoft, "a buildup of publishing metadata" has meant that "organizations might experience increased synchronization times or sync operation timeouts on WSUS servers." We're told the problem isn't related to the recent Patch Tuesday update, but Microsoft noted "heightened impact observed starting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-server-update-services-buckle-under-microsofts-metadata-mountain/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-server-update-services-buckle-under-microsofts-metadata-mountain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite milk forced to halt production after devastating cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-devastating-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-devastating-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month]]></title><description><![CDATA[From August 2, providers of AI systems in the EU will have to tell people when they are interacting with a machine and add machine-readable marks to AI-generated or manipulated content under new transparency rules. Launching guidance ahead of the deadline, Henna Virkkunen, European Commission executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said: "The Commission supports the smooth and effective application of the AI Act to make AI systems interacting with people such as ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eus-ai-labeling-rules-take-effect-next-month/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eus-ai-labeling-rules-take-effect-next-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball]]></title><description><![CDATA[KETTLE Your host Brandon Vigliarolo has been breathing in wildfire smoke from Canada for the past few days, which really has him thinking about whether all those AI datacenters building gas turbines and contributing to climate change is really worth it. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube where you can subscribe to get notified of the latest episode. Luckily for us, CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Ko]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watching-the-world-burn-as-all-the-money-flows-into-a-multitrillion-dollar-magic-8-ball/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watching-the-world-burn-as-all-the-money-flows-into-a-multitrillion-dollar-magic-8-ball/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MMAI! Watch the moment a robot is DECAPITATED during a brutal humanoid cage fight - yet keeps fighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking footage has emerged from China , showing two humanoids battling it out in a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mmai-watch-the-moment-a-robot-is-decapitated-during-a-brutal-humanoid-cage-fight-yet-keeps-fighting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mmai-watch-the-moment-a-robot-is-decapitated-during-a-brutal-humanoid-cage-fight-yet-keeps-fighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible to 90% of Earth's population during an 'ultra close' flyby, new maps reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible with the naked eye for 90 per cent of the world's population, scientists have revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-be-visible-to-90-of-earths-population-during-an-ultra-close-flyby-new-maps-reveal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-be-visible-to-90-of-earths-population-during-an-ultra-close-flyby-new-maps-reveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 23 million people who signed up to earn money from online gigs have allegedly had their personal and financial information spilled onto the internet following a breach of microtask platform Paidwork. The incident was added to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned site after a database allegedly stolen from Paidwork was publicly released earlier this month. According to the breach notification service, the leak contains data on 23,272,765 users and traces back to an intrusion in March. The data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-expert-paidwork-users-data-pwned-after-23m-record-database-dumped-online/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-expert-paidwork-users-data-pwned-after-23m-record-database-dumped-online/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has dispatched an out-of-band update to fix an incompatibility on certain Dell models and clear the way for them to receive the July 2026 Windows security patch. The update addresses an issue with the Intel Innovation Platform Framework drive that could "cause changes in performance, power consumption, or system behavior." The fix has arrived for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 as KB5121767, with a separate OOB hotpatch, KB5121768, for eligible Windows 11 Enterprise devices enrolled in hotpat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rushes-out-windows-fix-for-dells-hot-and-bothered-pcs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rushes-out-windows-fix-for-dells-hot-and-bothered-pcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of a sub-four-minute mile: As Josh Kerr smashes the world record, experts reveal how the Scottish athlete's supershoes, 'speed suit', and strong stature helped him to make history]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend, 28-year-old Josh Kerr ran a mile in just three minutes and 42.66 seconds. Now, scientists have revealed the secret to Kerr's incredible success.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-science-of-a-sub-four-minute-mile-as-josh-kerr-smashes-the-world-record-experts-reveal-how-the-scottish-athletes-supershoes-speed-suit-and-strong-stature-helped-him-to-make-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-science-of-a-sub-four-minute-mile-as-josh-kerr-smashes-the-world-record-experts-reveal-how-the-scottish-athletes-supershoes-speed-suit-and-strong-stature-helped-him-to-make-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andy Burnham is barely through the door at No. 10, and one of Keir Starmer's flagship tech projects is already heading for the shredder, with the incoming prime minister set to scrap the UK's digital ID scheme while creating a Cabinet-level minister for artificial intelligence. The move, reported by Reuters, kills off a policy Starmer spent the past year championing. His government pitched digital identity as a way to crack down on illegal working, held closed-door meetings on how to build it, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uks-seventh-prime-minister-in-a-decade-says-hell-ditch-digital-id-scheme/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uks-seventh-prime-minister-in-a-decade-says-hell-ditch-digital-id-scheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK government has admitted that two major planks of its multibillion-pound shared services strategy are in serious trouble. Matrix, a project that involves moving nine government departments to shared ERP and HR systems, has been rated red by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), which monitors the planning and delivery of major government projects. This rating means the project has "major issues" with its schedule, budget, quality, or delivery of benefits]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/major-glitch-in-matrix-as-uk-government-projects-watchdog-rates-shared-services-cluster-red/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/major-glitch-in-matrix-as-uk-government-projects-watchdog-rates-shared-services-cluster-red/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super El Niño could spark a surge in SHARK attacks - as great whites venture beyond their natural habitats in search of cooler waters, scientists warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Super El Ni&ntilde;o could not only wreak havoc on global weather systems - but could also spark a surge in great white shark attacks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/super-el-nio-could-spark-a-surge-in-shark-attacks-as-great-whites-venture-beyond-their-natural-habitats-in-search-of-cooler-waters-scientists-warn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/super-el-nio-could-spark-a-surge-in-shark-attacks-as-great-whites-venture-beyond-their-natural-habitats-in-search-of-cooler-waters-scientists-warn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control. AWS, like all American platforms, can't protect Airbus's crown jewels from Donnie the Data Burglar, so it's best to repatriate them s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-is-critical/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-is-critical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK government auditors are calling for officials to consider the impact of AI on the size of the workforce needed for the civil service and wider public sector. The National Audit Office (NAO) recommends civil service leaders to "reflect the impact of major technological change in their long-term workforce planning," including on "workforce size, roles and grades, tasks and skills." These are among the workforce changes on which senior management should focus "to realize productivity benefits fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/auditors-tell-uk-government-to-do-the-math-before-banking-on-45b-ai-savings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/auditors-tell-uk-government-to-do-the-math-before-banking-on-45b-ai-savings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red Hat has come up with a way to reduce the quantity of servers needed for high-availability edge deployments of its OpenShift platform, because its customers worry about high hardware costs. The IBM business unit&rsquo;s Daniel Froehlich and Paul Lancaster last week introduced Red Hat&rsquo;s approach in a post that saw the pair observe interest in &ldquo;alternative topologies for large-scale edge deployments&rdquo; due to &ldquo;the prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/high-hardware-costs-see-red-hat-offer-a-two-server-edge-rig-no-mini-pc-required/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/high-hardware-costs-see-red-hat-offer-a-two-server-edge-rig-no-mini-pc-required/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this']]></title><description><![CDATA[WHO, ME? Regrets? We've had a few. And so have many readers of The Register, who we try to help by getting their stories of workplace mistakes off their chests every Friday in a reader-contributed column we call "Who, Me?" This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as "Johnny," who told us he was once hired as a Visual Basic developer, a job he thought was beneath him. He got on with things anyway, until he was given a new project that he decided to write in C# despite that language bein]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/comment-in-code-read-dear-future-me-sorry-i-wrote-this/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/comment-in-code-read-dear-future-me-sorry-i-wrote-this/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Data Center Protests Go National As Backlash Grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[The protest is nationwide and bipartisan, as 86 percent of all Americans oppose data centers in their neighborhoods. The concerns are excessive electricity and water consumption, as well as sound and radiation exposure. Lobbyists at The Data Center Coalition, which argues for AI data centers, are totally tone deaf to the protest, saying they are &ldquo;mitigating any negative impacts to households and businesses.&rdquo; Really? &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.Opponents of the rapid buildout of data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-data-center-protests-go-national-as-backlash-grows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-data-center-protests-go-national-as-backlash-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quarter of the work performed by IT infrastructure and operations people will be handled by AI in the year 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, despite AI also complicating your environment and possibly creating outages. Those predictions landed on July 10 in Gartner&rsquo;s 2026 Hype Cycle for AI in IT Operations, the firm&rsquo;s view on the future of AI-powered infrastructure management tools. Gartner thinks there&rsquo;ll be pain before AI-powered automation pays off. &ldquo;Many AI-fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-ops-tools-will-create-console-sprawl-and-break-it-more-often-gartner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-ops-tools-will-create-console-sprawl-and-break-it-more-often-gartner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a major speech on AI, which he thinks has enormous potential &ndash; for good and evil. Xi&rsquo;s speech called for AI development to &ldquo;adhere to the principle of openness.&rdquo; &ldquo;As a new engine of world economic growth and an accelerator for the shift of growth drivers, AI is moving from the digital world into the physical world. We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboratio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-president-xi-jinping-wants-emergency-response-systems-to-keep-ai-in-check/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-president-xi-jinping-wants-emergency-response-systems-to-keep-ai-in-check/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning to brace for catastrophic 'Ring of Fire' disaster as global megaquake chain reaction sparks fears for MILLIONS in its path: 'Super overdue']]></title><description><![CDATA[A geophysicist has warned that a long string of major earthquakes around Asia could soon make their way to the US, and a devastating rupture is possible within the next four years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-to-brace-for-catastrophic-ring-of-fire-disaster-as-global-megaquake-chain-reaction-sparks-fears-for-millions-in-its-path-super-overdue/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-to-brace-for-catastrophic-ring-of-fire-disaster-as-global-megaquake-chain-reaction-sparks-fears-for-millions-in-its-path-super-overdue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked for Apple. These secret iPhone tricks can save you from spending $1,000 on an upgrade... and the one fix that will make your device feel 'like brand new']]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyler Morgan spent two years working in sales at Apple, where he watched countless customers walk into the company's iconic, minimalist stores to upgrade their iPhones.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-worked-for-apple-these-secret-iphone-tricks-can-save-you-from-spending-1000-on-an-upgrade-and-the-one-fix-that-will-make-your-device-feel-like-brand-new/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-worked-for-apple-these-secret-iphone-tricks-can-save-you-from-spending-1000-on-an-upgrade-and-the-one-fix-that-will-make-your-device-feel-like-brand-new/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius]]></title><description><![CDATA[Avoiding the "lethal trifecta" &ndash; access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and an external communication path &ndash; is difficult enough when working with AI agents. But the use of connectors &ndash; integrations with third-party services like Gmail or Slack &ndash; expands the scope of concern in a way that makes it exceedingly difficult to reason about defensive due diligence. PromptArmor, an AI security biz, recently looked at how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/connecting-ai-agents-to-outside-services-explodes-the-risk-radius/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/connecting-ai-agents-to-outside-services-explodes-the-risk-radius/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famed UFO insider issues chilling claim about the next phase of disclosure: 'A new chapter for humanity']]></title><description><![CDATA[A longtime UFO insider says the recent release of government files is only the beginning of a much larger reckoning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/famed-ufo-insider-issues-chilling-claim-about-the-next-phase-of-disclosure-a-new-chapter-for-humanity/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/famed-ufo-insider-issues-chilling-claim-about-the-next-phase-of-disclosure-a-new-chapter-for-humanity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Burnham promising a new dawn for North Sea oil and gas?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The incoming PM is expected to announce fresh support for the North Sea from day one of his premiership.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-burnham-promising-a-new-dawn-for-north-sea-oil-and-gas/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-burnham-promising-a-new-dawn-for-north-sea-oil-and-gas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to boogie? Babies can feel the beat from just three months old - but don't bust a move until their first birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long before they can walk, talk or utter their first 'mama', babies are already tuning into the beat.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/born-to-boogie-babies-can-feel-the-beat-from-just-three-months-old-but-dont-bust-a-move-until-their-first-birthday/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/born-to-boogie-babies-can-feel-the-beat-from-just-three-months-old-but-dont-bust-a-move-until-their-first-birthday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From coffee grounds to guinea pig bedding - the composters keeping it local]]></title><description><![CDATA[Food waste is a resource like water and should be kept in communities, compost champions say.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-coffee-grounds-to-guinea-pig-bedding-the-composters-keeping-it-local/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-coffee-grounds-to-guinea-pig-bedding-the-composters-keeping-it-local/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just sex! Scientists reveal the five surprising reasons dogs mount people, toys and each other]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your dog has ever embarrassed you by mounting another dog, a visitor's leg or even their favourite toy, don't assume they're looking for love.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-not-just-sex-scientists-reveal-the-five-surprising-reasons-dogs-mount-people-toys-and-each-other/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-not-just-sex-scientists-reveal-the-five-surprising-reasons-dogs-mount-people-toys-and-each-other/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'girl dad' effect: Fathers of daughters are more loving, supportive partners, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've ever noticed that a hardened dad seems to melt the moment he has a little girl, science suggests you're not imagining it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-girl-dad-effect-fathers-of-daughters-are-more-loving-supportive-partners-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-girl-dad-effect-fathers-of-daughters-are-more-loving-supportive-partners-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shark scientists gets £1m to help protect them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Natural England's Species Recovery Programme will focus on the blue shark, porbeagle and tope.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shark-scientists-gets-1m-to-help-protect-them/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shark-scientists-gets-1m-to-help-protect-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain set for butterfly boom after hot weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scientist says Britain could be on the verge of a bumper summer for butterflies.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britain-set-for-butterfly-boom-after-hot-weather/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britain-set-for-butterfly-boom-after-hot-weather/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: How to beat a traffic jam, according to science - and why you should NEVER change lanes]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's nothing worse than setting off in the car, only to get stuck in a traffic jam. But help is at hand, as scientists have revealed the best way to beat congestion.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/revealed-how-to-beat-a-traffic-jam-according-to-science-and-why-you-should-never-change-lanes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/revealed-how-to-beat-a-traffic-jam-according-to-science-and-why-you-should-never-change-lanes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseid meteors to light up night sky in one of the year's most active showers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Perseid meteor shower will light up the night sky over the next five weeks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/perseid-meteors-to-light-up-night-sky-in-one-of-the-years-most-active-showers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/perseid-meteors-to-light-up-night-sky-in-one-of-the-years-most-active-showers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're tying your shoelaces WRONG: Expert reveals a simple tweak to the 'around the tree' method which results in a more secure knot]]></title><description><![CDATA[For many people, tying shoelaces is something they learn as children and never think about again. But an expert has revealed millions of us may have been doing it wrong for years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youre-tying-your-shoelaces-wrong-expert-reveals-a-simple-tweak-to-the-around-the-tree-method-which-results-in-a-more-secure-knot/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youre-tying-your-shoelaces-wrong-expert-reveals-a-simple-tweak-to-the-around-the-tree-method-which-results-in-a-more-secure-knot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a bad hair day? Scientist reveals the simple solution for frizzy, flat, or grey locks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scientist has revealed the simple solution for when your locks turn frizzy, flat, grey, or simply refuse to do what you want.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/having-a-bad-hair-day-scientist-reveals-the-simple-solution-for-frizzy-flat-or-grey-locks/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/having-a-bad-hair-day-scientist-reveals-the-simple-solution-for-frizzy-flat-or-grey-locks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2026, AI still "hallucinates" and gives you wrong answers a good chunk of the time. Nevertheless, academics from French and Italian universities have found that access to AI advice suppresses critical thinking, making people more likely to confidently parrot incorrect information that the bot provided. "For humans, the capacity to say, 'I don't know,' is very important because it represents the recognition of the limits of our own knowledge," said Valerio Capraro, associate professor at the U]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How new bird show hopes to help endangered flyers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Endangered birds are the stars of one of five new shows at Kynren as part of conservation plans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-new-bird-show-hopes-to-help-endangered-flyers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-new-bird-show-hopes-to-help-endangered-flyers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain 'set for bumper year' for butterflies]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hot and dry spring means a greater variety and more butterflies across the UK, a charity says.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britain-set-for-bumper-year-for-butterflies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britain-set-for-bumper-year-for-butterflies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than three million people in the UK work night shifts, which can greatly impact their health. What can be done to help them?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-hidden-cost-of-the-night-shift-and-how-to-sleep-it-off/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-hidden-cost-of-the-night-shift-and-how-to-sleep-it-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump threatens new Canada tariffs over fires sending 'filthy' air into US cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian leader Mark Carney says both the US and Canada have an equal responsibility to fight climate change, which experts say are worsening wildfire conditions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-threatens-new-canada-tariffs-over-fires-sending-filthy-air-into-us-cities/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-threatens-new-canada-tariffs-over-fires-sending-filthy-air-into-us-cities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toronto, New York and Washington top list of most polluted cities as wildfires burn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian officials say that fire activity in Ontario is beginning to ease, with air quality expected to improve in US cities too.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toronto-new-york-and-washington-top-list-of-most-polluted-cities-as-wildfires-burn/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toronto-new-york-and-washington-top-list-of-most-polluted-cities-as-wildfires-burn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[If there is a driving theme to The Java Story documentary, which debuted Friday on YouTube, it would be that even some of the most important and popular technologies come from humble beginnings. In this case, we're talking about a language that started life as a failed attempt at set-top box dominance and required a massive rewrite just days before its big conference debut. Today, Java consistently hovers near the top of the TIOBE programming language popularity index and remains widely used for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/java-was-a-three-day-hotfix-away-from-dying-horribly-on-stage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/java-was-a-three-day-hotfix-away-from-dying-horribly-on-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management. The Reg FOSS desk is intrigued. Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository &ndash; but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name ring]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nextbsd-returns-to-dollop-apple-source-on-freebsd/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nextbsd-returns-to-dollop-apple-source-on-freebsd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds and 'cab to orbit': Rocket aiming to transform India's space ambitions takes off]]></title><description><![CDATA[India's first space-tech unicorn Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1 on Saturday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/diamonds-and-cab-to-orbit-rocket-aiming-to-transform-indias-space-ambitions-takes-off/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/diamonds-and-cab-to-orbit-rocket-aiming-to-transform-indias-space-ambitions-takes-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second half of summer to bring chances for rain but heatwave threat persists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forecasts suggest the weather could turn more changeable during late July and August but the risk of heatwaves remains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/second-half-of-summer-to-bring-chances-for-rain-but-heatwave-threat-persists/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/second-half-of-summer-to-bring-chances-for-rain-but-heatwave-threat-persists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this desert city can teach the world about tackling heat deaths]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maricopa County in Arizona has some of the hottest temperatures, but it has reduced the number of heat-related deaths.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-this-desert-city-can-teach-the-world-about-tackling-heat-deaths/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-this-desert-city-can-teach-the-world-about-tackling-heat-deaths/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing nuclear scientist's phones were wiped before she vanished. Then chilling clues cops missed were found by her body]]></title><description><![CDATA[An attorney for the family of missing nuclear lab worker Melissa Casias said shocking new evidence has been found that calls the entire police investigation into question.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-nuclear-scientists-phones-were-wiped-before-she-vanished-then-chilling-clues-cops-missed-were-found-by-her-body/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-nuclear-scientists-phones-were-wiped-before-she-vanished-then-chilling-clues-cops-missed-were-found-by-her-body/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinister reason toxic haze smells of burning PLASTIC: Experts warn of deadly health risks as chemical-filled wildfire smoke blankets US]]></title><description><![CDATA[A health emergency has erupted in the northern US as multiple cities see their air quality become the worst in the world due to the Canadian wildfires raging out of control.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sinister-reason-toxic-haze-smells-of-burning-plastic-experts-warn-of-deadly-health-risks-as-chemical-filled-wildfire-smoke-blankets-us/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sinister-reason-toxic-haze-smells-of-burning-plastic-experts-warn-of-deadly-health-risks-as-chemical-filled-wildfire-smoke-blankets-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chilling new clues missed by cops challenge suicide theory on missing scientist found dead in woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[An attorney for the family of missing nuclear lab worker Melissa Casias said shocking new evidence has been found that calls the entire police investigation into question.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chilling-new-clues-missed-by-cops-challenge-suicide-theory-on-missing-scientist-found-dead-in-woods/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chilling-new-clues-missed-by-cops-challenge-suicide-theory-on-missing-scientist-found-dead-in-woods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Under the proposals, the EU plans to relax its emissions trading system to give companies more time to reduce their carbon output.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-proposes-slowing-down-cuts-to-carbon-emissions-for-businesses/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-proposes-slowing-down-cuts-to-carbon-emissions-for-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firefox releases will soon get even closer together &ndash; but not ESR ones, which remain annual, with the next one due out soon. The change was announced last week on the dev-platform@mozilla.org mailing list by Mozilla&rsquo;s director of engineering Sylvestre Ledru: &ldquo;We are planning to move Firefox Desktop and Android from a 4-week release cadence to a 2-week release cadence starting in September 2026. &ldquo;This will be an experiment&hellip; This does not mean that all work needs to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mozilla-speeds-firefox-release-schedule-to-biweekly/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mozilla-speeds-firefox-release-schedule-to-biweekly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutant raccoon roaming the streets of Seattle strikes fear in the heart of unsuspecting residents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seattle residents have been captivated by amutant raccoon roaming neighborhoods and climbing onto porches.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mutant-raccoon-roaming-the-streets-of-seattle-strikes-fear-in-the-heart-of-unsuspecting-residents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mutant-raccoon-roaming-the-streets-of-seattle-strikes-fear-in-the-heart-of-unsuspecting-residents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronization support next month for older versions of Windows 10, leaving users without client updates, fixes, or technical assistance. According to a post on the company's Message Center, OneDrive sync app updates will continue on Windows 10 22H2 until October 10, 2028, but will stop for earlier versions from August 15, 2026. No support means no more updates, fixes, or security patches, although the service itself won't suddenly stop working. However, users runnin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cuts-onedrive-support-for-older-windows-10-versions-next-month/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cuts-onedrive-support-for-older-windows-10-versions-next-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company has unveiled a massive new artificial intelligence model it says can take on top American firms.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinas-moonshot-ai-claims-kimi-k3-can-rival-openai-and-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinas-moonshot-ai-claims-kimi-k3-can-rival-openai-and-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious mutant beast roaming Seattle leaves residents terrified as eerie sightings spread]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seattle residents have been captivated by a mysterious animal whose bizarre appearance has sparked theories ranging from a genetic mutation to an undiscovered creature.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-mutant-beast-roaming-seattle-leaves-residents-terrified-as-eerie-sightings-spread/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-mutant-beast-roaming-seattle-leaves-residents-terrified-as-eerie-sightings-spread/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Iraq’s New “Technocrat” A Rehearsal For Iran?]]></title><description><![CDATA[First, there was the Technocrat-in-Chief meeting on July 14 with an up-and-coming, newly selected Technocrat Prime Minister from Iraq, Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi. Secondly, the multi-billion-dollar deals flowed like the Euphrates River.<br />
Why does this matter? Because we have fought two bloody wars in and over Iraq, and right now we are still pounding Iran, a country that is closely allied with Iraq. Iraq and Iran share a border, a religion, and a long, tangled history. You cannot talk about one wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-iraqs-new-technocrat-a-rehearsal-for-iran/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-iraqs-new-technocrat-a-rehearsal-for-iran/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your AWS billing estimate might look just a little inflated right now. If you woke up to find an email from Amazon Web Services this morning telling you that you&rsquo;d gone over your billing threshold by a few hundred million dollars, don&rsquo;t panic: Something&rsquo;s gone wrong in the AWS Billing Console, the company admitted. An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/billing-software-error-sends-billion-dollar-aws-estimates/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/billing-software-error-sends-billion-dollar-aws-estimates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Notice more spam getting through that corporate email filter lately? Attackers are using a technique known as "text salting," which hides benign-looking words intended to confuse some AI-powered email filters, says cybersecurity firm Barracuda. The email security outfit said on Thursday that it had detected more than one million retail-themed phishing attacks using text salting since April. It&rsquo;s not a new technique by any stretch and has been used to fool traditional secure email gateways]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-spam-filters-are-getting-suckered-by-old-school-text-salting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-spam-filters-are-getting-suckered-by-old-school-text-salting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Mexico sparking tsunami warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexico coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami threat for around one million people.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/major-74-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-mexico-sparking-tsunami-warning/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/major-74-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-mexico-sparking-tsunami-warning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK heatwave hits two-week mark]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is the longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as the UK heatwave reaches 14 days.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-hits-two-week-mark/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-hits-two-week-mark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts reveal what ONE day of breathing America's toxic wildfire smoke does to your body as millions in 16 states are told to stay indoors]]></title><description><![CDATA[A health emergency has erupted in the northern US as multiple cities see their air quality become the worst in the world due to the Canadian wildfires raging out of control.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experts-reveal-what-one-day-of-breathing-americas-toxic-wildfire-smoke-does-to-your-body-as-millions-in-16-states-are-told-to-stay-indoors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experts-reveal-what-one-day-of-breathing-americas-toxic-wildfire-smoke-does-to-your-body-as-millions-in-16-states-are-told-to-stay-indoors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer-linked chemicals pumped into US neighborhoods by Elon Musk's 'illegal' data center, lawsuit claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bombshell federal lawsuit alleges Elon Musk's sprawling xAI data center is pumping cancer-linked chemicals into nearby neighborhoods.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cancer-linked-chemicals-pumped-into-us-neighborhoods-by-elon-musks-illegal-data-center-lawsuit-claims/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cancer-linked-chemicals-pumped-into-us-neighborhoods-by-elon-musks-illegal-data-center-lawsuit-claims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least two dead in Texas floods ravaging same area where campers died]]></title><description><![CDATA[The same area devastated by floods last year's floods, which caused more than 130 deaths, is once again being hit.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-least-two-dead-in-texas-floods-ravaging-same-area-where-campers-died/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-least-two-dead-in-texas-floods-ravaging-same-area-where-campers-died/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will win the World Cup? Supercomputer predicts the winner of the final - as scientists say we're in for a tight game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ahead of the match, scientists from Northeastern University have analysed the data to predict the likely winner.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/who-will-win-the-world-cup-supercomputer-predicts-the-winner-of-the-final-as-scientists-say-were-in-for-a-tight-game/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/who-will-win-the-world-cup-supercomputer-predicts-the-winner-of-the-final-as-scientists-say-were-in-for-a-tight-game/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer-linked chemicals pumped into US neighborhoods by Elon Musk's 'illegal' data center power, lawsuit claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bombshell federal lawsuit alleges Elon Musk's sprawling xAI data center is pumping cancer-linked chemicals into nearby neighborhoods.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cancer-linked-chemicals-pumped-into-us-neighborhoods-by-elon-musks-illegal-data-center-power-lawsuit-claims/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cancer-linked-chemicals-pumped-into-us-neighborhoods-by-elon-musks-illegal-data-center-power-lawsuit-claims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer']]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Linux project leader Linus Torvalds told AI haters to fork off, and invited anyone who didn't like his comments to fork the kernel. Well, here you go: linux-0.11-rs, a total reimplementation of the Linux kernel, done in langage de programmation du jour, Rust. No, this isn't really a response to the Emperor Penguin's challenge &ndash; for a start, it looks like it was done with AI &ndash; but the timing was irresistible. The new project is by an undergrad student at Beihang Uni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/torvalds-challenged-the-haters-to-fork-linux-someone-said-hold-my-beer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/torvalds-challenged-the-haters-to-fork-linux-someone-said-hold-my-beer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadly toxic air smothers America as millions in 16 states are told to stay indoors... and experts reveal what ONE day does to your body]]></title><description><![CDATA[A health emergency has erupted in the northern US as multiple cities see their air quality become the worst in the world due to the Canadian wildfires raging out of control.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-toxic-air-smothers-america-as-millions-in-16-states-are-told-to-stay-indoors-and-experts-reveal-what-one-day-does-to-your-body/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-toxic-air-smothers-america-as-millions-in-16-states-are-told-to-stay-indoors-and-experts-reveal-what-one-day-does-to-your-body/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has delayed the removal of the -Credential parameter from Exchange Online PowerShell until December 2026, giving administrators more time to update affected scripts and automation. The -Credential parameter is used when connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell. It allows an administrator to supply stored username and password credentials. These days, it is heavily discouraged, particularly when more secure authentication methods are available. Microsoft had designated the parameter for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-gives-admins-exchange-online-breathing-room/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-gives-admins-exchange-online-breathing-room/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-atmosphere-found-on-earth-like-planet-in-habitable-zone-of-distant-star/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-atmosphere-found-on-earth-like-planet-in-habitable-zone-of-distant-star/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Google may not be able to claim intermediary liability protection for YouTube content it reviews as part of a commercial partnership with a creator. The case stems from a &euro;750,000 fine imposed on Google Ireland by Italy's communications regulator in 2022 over YouTube videos promoting online gambling. Before entering the revenue-sharing agreement, under which Google placed pre-roll ads on the creator's videos, the company revie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/top-eu-court-clips-youtubes-intermediary-defense-over-reviewed-content/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/top-eu-court-clips-youtubes-intermediary-defense-over-reviewed-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speeding doesn't save time! Study reveals driving too fast shaves just 54 seconds off your day on average]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to researchers from the University of Minnesota, breaking the speed limit barely saves you any time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/speeding-doesnt-save-time-study-reveals-driving-too-fast-shaves-just-54-seconds-off-your-day-on-average/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/speeding-doesnt-save-time-study-reveals-driving-too-fast-shaves-just-54-seconds-off-your-day-on-average/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as heatwave hits two-week mark]]></title><description><![CDATA[All UK nations have experienced recent heatwave conditions but in southern England, the heatwave has now continued for 14 days.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/longest-dry-spell-in-30-years-for-parts-of-england-as-heatwave-hits-two-week-mark/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/longest-dry-spell-in-30-years-for-parts-of-england-as-heatwave-hits-two-week-mark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fortinet admins have two more reasons to clear their calendars after CISA confirmed a pair of critical FortiSandbox bugs are being actively exploited. The two bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-39808 and CVE-2026-25089, both carry CVSS scores of 9.1 and affect FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud, and FortiSandbox PaaS. According to Fortinet, they are OS command injection flaws that allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via specially crafted HTTP requests, requiring neither valid cred]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/attackers-target-critical-fortisandbox-flaws-as-cisa-issues-patch-order/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/attackers-target-critical-fortisandbox-flaws-as-cisa-issues-patch-order/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX's 13th Starship flight test ended at the launchpad after four Raptor engines failed to start, triggering an automatic abort moments before liftoff. Elon Musk's biz ignited the booster's engines at 2245 UTC on July 16, but the automated system aborted the launch. The boss confirmed: "Some of the engines didn't start, triggering an automatic launch abort&hellip; To be confident of a good flight, two Raptors will be removed and replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week." The n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-starship-flight-test-13-takes-issue-with-the-flight-bit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-starship-flight-test-13-takes-issue-with-the-flight-bit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debunking the myth of the male warrior: Ancient Egyptian PRINCESSES were skilled hunters with bulging muscles, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you were asked to picture a warrior, a vision of a muscular man might spring to mind. But a new study might have you repainting that image in your head.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/debunking-the-myth-of-the-male-warrior-ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-skilled-hunters-with-bulging-muscles-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/debunking-the-myth-of-the-male-warrior-ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-skilled-hunters-with-bulging-muscles-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe can build more chip fabs, subsidize domestic manufacturing, and wrap it all in the language of sovereignty, but it still won't escape its dependence on American cloud providers and software anytime soon, according to Forrester. In its first Global Sovereignty Forecast, the analyst concludes that the race for technological independence has already produced two clear winners: China and the United States. Everyone else, Europe included, is left figuring out which dependencies it can live wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-chip-ambitions-wont-break-dependence-on-us-cloud-and-software-says-forrester/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-chip-ambitions-wont-break-dependence-on-us-cloud-and-software-says-forrester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if the heatwave wasn't bad enough! Brits are told to brace for a POLLEN bomb over the next four days]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Met Office has warned that pollen levels have spiked across large parts of the UK - and are expected to remain high for the next four days.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/as-if-the-heatwave-wasnt-bad-enough-brits-are-told-to-brace-for-a-pollen-bomb-over-the-next-four-days/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/as-if-the-heatwave-wasnt-bad-enough-brits-are-told-to-brace-for-a-pollen-bomb-over-the-next-four-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ransomware has soured production at Coca-Cola-owned Fairlife, forcing the dairy business to temporarily halt production at its US plants. In an SEC filing on Thursday, Coca-Cola said Fairlife detected "unauthorized access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems," in what it described as a ransomware event. The company said it immediately activated its incident response and business continuity plans, brought in outside cybersecurity experts, and noti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ransomware-curdles-production-at-coca-colas-fairlife-dairy-biz/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ransomware-curdles-production-at-coca-colas-fairlife-dairy-biz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture this. Someone gets hold of your Android phone and, despite not knowing your PIN, they can use Gemini from the lock screen to send SMS or WhatsApp messages as you. This is a real bug and Google says a fix is coming as soon as this week. Since May, The Register has received multiple reports of users bypassing device authentication on Android 16 devices that enable Gemini access from the lock screen. These are distinct from the similar Gemini-based Android lock screen bypass bugs that have]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-fixing-android-lock-screen-bug-that-lets-gemini-send-sms-without-a-pin/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-fixing-android-lock-screen-bug-that-lets-gemini-send-sms-without-a-pin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK Home Office has awarded contract extensions worth &pound;28 million to two incumbent tech suppliers of the much-delayed Atlas immigration and asylum system after a legal challenge derailed an earlier procurement process. The Whitehall department in charge of policing, borders, and immigration awarded PA Consulting a five-month contract extension worth &pound;13.5 million and Mastek a four-month extension worth &pound;15 million. Both contracts were awarded without competition. The Registe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/home-office-hands-28m-to-immigration-it-incumbents-after-procurement-challenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/home-office-hands-28m-to-immigration-it-incumbents-after-procurement-challenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[For enterprise application, architecture, and software engineering leaders, the artificial intelligence conversation has moved past experimentation. Boards and finance committees expect pilot projects to graduate into production and to demonstrate measurable business value. A strategy deck no longer clears the bar. The expectation now is production-ready systems that deliver outcomes finance can measure: cost savings, staff redeployment to higher-value work, and a return on investment that survi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-media-to-sell-instant-access-to-market-moving-social-posts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-media-to-sell-instant-access-to-market-moving-social-posts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, its short-lived 1990s experiment in turning Internet Relay Chat (IRC) conversations into comic strips &ndash; and, for many users, their first encounter with Comic Sans. Microsoft Comic Chat was released in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3. It was conceived by David "DJ" Kurlander of the Microsoft Research Virtual Worlds Group as a new visual representation of conversation histories. Rather than displaying the scrolling sequence of text messages still familiar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-open-sources-comic-chat-its-cartoon-irc-curiosity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-open-sources-comic-chat-its-cartoon-irc-curiosity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocky 'super-Earth' 48 light-years away could be our best chance of finding life, scientists say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts from Harvard University have discovered a 'super-Earth' 48-light years away that may have the right conditions for alien life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocky-super-earth-48-light-years-away-could-be-our-best-chance-of-finding-life-scientists-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocky-super-earth-48-light-years-away-could-be-our-best-chance-of-finding-life-scientists-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column in which readers kindly share their stories of untangling tech support situations. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Steve" who started his IT career doing tech support for a supermarket's own-brand mobile service. "I started in 2006, when many phones still had removable batteries," Steve told On Call. "One day, a customer rang in ranting and raving about how she'd just bought her very first mobile, had use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-support-chap-told-angry-customer-to-think-inside-the-box-and-solved-the-problem/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-support-chap-told-angry-customer-to-think-inside-the-box-and-solved-the-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian telco Telstra has revealed the cause of the recent incident that caused widespread connectivity problems across its mobile networks, inculding outages to Australia's 000 emergency services line, plus outages to electronic payments services and transport networks. The carrier explained itself in a submission [PDF] to a Senate inquiry into outages affecting Australia&rsquo;s emergency services which initially investigated an outage at Telstra's main rival, Optus. The Optus incident is l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ntp-server-that-traveled-back-in-time-caused-massive-aussie-mobile-outage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ntp-server-that-traveled-back-in-time-caused-massive-aussie-mobile-outage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea making its own security-centric AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the year, to ensure the nation has sovereign bug-finding capabilities. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon revealed the effort to create the model yesterday, and said it&rsquo;s needed so South Korea possesses a bug-finding model to rival Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos. The US government has twice blocked access to Mythos, once by requiring Anthropic to offer it only]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korea-making-its-own-security-centric-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korea-making-its-own-security-centric-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK heatwave approaches two-week mark]]></title><description><![CDATA[All UK nations have experienced recent heatwave conditions but in southern England, the heatwave has now continued for 13 days. Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at how unusual this spell of heat is, and when we might see it easing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-approaches-two-week-mark/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-approaches-two-week-mark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two up-and-coming Chinese memory vendors, YMTC and CXMT, could offer customers relief from shortages and skyrocketing prices, but not if US Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI) and George Whitesides (D-CA) have anything to say about it. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made public on Thursday, the lawmakers urged the Trump administration to tighten restrictions on Chinese memory manufacturers, arguing that purchases of their chips by US companies would undermine Western memory m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-memory-ban-would-cut-off-rampocalypse-relief/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-memory-ban-would-cut-off-rampocalypse-relief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files &ndash; but it's an 'honest mistake']]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has confirmed reports that GPT-5.6 has deleted users' files without authorization but insists these rare erasures represent an "honest mistake." Following the release of OpenAI's GPT&#8209;5.6 family of models on July 9, 2026, tech investor Matt Shumer reported, "GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files." A few days later, software engineer Bruno Lemos said, "GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production database. That's it. Not a joke. This had never happened to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-admits-gpt-56-occasionally-deletes-files-ndash-but-its-an-honest-mistake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-admits-gpt-56-occasionally-deletes-files-ndash-but-its-an-honest-mistake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one dead in Texas floods ravaging same area where campers died]]></title><description><![CDATA[The same area devastated by floods last year's floods, which caused more than 130 deaths, is once again being hit.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-least-one-dead-in-texas-floods-ravaging-same-area-where-campers-died/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-least-one-dead-in-texas-floods-ravaging-same-area-where-campers-died/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the United States, we usually protest datacenters peacefully - picket signs, council meeting comments, and all that - with mixed results. In the Netherlands, activists throw water balloons filled with an acidic mixture at datacenter foundations, also with questionable effectiveness. The Dutch arm of international climate activist group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for an attempt to sabotage a datacenter project in Amsterdam on Thursday. The group said that they threw water ball]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amsterdam-activists-throw-acid-at-microsoft-datacenter-project/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amsterdam-activists-throw-acid-at-microsoft-datacenter-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Experimental explosion' rocks Florida coast as mysterious earthquake alert sparks alarm]]></title><description><![CDATA[An unusual 'experimental explosion' designation appeared on the US government's earthquake monitoring website, leaving many wondering what caused the event.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experimental-explosion-rocks-florida-coast-as-mysterious-earthquake-alert-sparks-alarm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experimental-explosion-rocks-florida-coast-as-mysterious-earthquake-alert-sparks-alarm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI supply chain is, in some ways, even more vulnerable to poisoning than that of traditional software. Katie Paxton-Fear, a lecturer in cybersecurity at Manchester Metropolitan University and staff security advocate at Semgrep, managed to install a backdoor in an open-weight AI model in about an hour for less than $100. "I started out by trying to figure out if I could use fine tuning to get a model to swap from camelCase for JavaScript to snake_case, and it was actually really easy, even if]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaky pipes may explain years-long bay pollution]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Environment Agency has rated Cullercoat's water quality as "poor" since 2018.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/leaky-pipes-may-explain-years-long-bay-pollution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/leaky-pipes-may-explain-years-long-bay-pollution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap and TSMC&rsquo;s plan to bolster its US expansion by another $100 billion is just that &mdash; talk. Riding high on yet another quarter of AI-fueled sales, which topped $40 billion, Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC announced plans this week to increase its US fab footprint to 12 facilities, totaling $265 billion of investment. But making good on that promise is easier said than done, and if history tells us anything, it&rsquo;s that plans change. As you may recall, Intel invested $30 b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tsmcs-265b-us-fab-pledge-is-the-outline-of-a-concept-of-a-plan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tsmcs-265b-us-fab-pledge-is-the-outline-of-a-concept-of-a-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toxic air crisis grips US as three major cities rank as most dangerous to breathe worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wave of toxic air flowing in from Canada to the US has transformed three major cities into the most unbreathable places on Earth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toxic-air-crisis-grips-us-as-three-major-cities-rank-as-most-dangerous-to-breathe-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toxic-air-crisis-grips-us-as-three-major-cities-rank-as-most-dangerous-to-breathe-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is THIS where aliens are hiding? Rocky 'super-Earth' 48 light-years away could be our best chance of finding life, scientists say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts from Harvard University have discovered a 'super-Earth' 48-light years away that may have the right conditions for alien life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-where-aliens-are-hiding-rocky-super-earth-48-light-years-away-could-be-our-best-chance-of-finding-life-scientists-say/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-where-aliens-are-hiding-rocky-super-earth-48-light-years-away-could-be-our-best-chance-of-finding-life-scientists-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spelled out in big colorful letters that even Google can understand, the EU is now requiring the Chocolate Factory to share search data with competitors while enhancing Android AI interoperability for bots other than Gemini. Needless to say, the company would like to find a way to disable this default. The European Commission (EC) announced a pair of specification decisions on Thursday. The first covers AI vendors' ability to integrate into Google's mobile OS, and the other forces Google to give]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-forces-google-to-share-its-toys-with-the-other-ai-and-search-kids/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-forces-google-to-share-its-toys-with-the-other-ai-and-search-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch: Flood waters surge in Texas after huge rainstorms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deluge prompted evacuations and water rescues in the same region where 25 children and two counsellors at Camp Mystic died in flooding in 2025.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-flood-waters-surge-in-texas-after-huge-rainstorms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-flood-waters-surge-in-texas-after-huge-rainstorms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology decision-makers, the tech research company said software budgets were expected to rise "as vendors increase prices or add usage charges to pass their AI costs to customers." In the last six months, Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub have shifted some services away from flat-rate subscriptions]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-vendors-have-found-someone-to-pay-their-infrastructure-bills-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-vendors-have-found-someone-to-pay-their-infrastructure-bills-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will it rain again in the UK?]]></title><description><![CDATA[July has been very dry so when will it rain again in the UK?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-will-it-rain-again-in-the-uk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-will-it-rain-again-in-the-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tsunami-like' flood wave threatens Texas nears historic levels one year after Camp Mystic disaster: Seek higher ground NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tsunami-like-flood-wave-threatens-texas-nears-historic-levels-one-year-after-camp-mystic-disaster-seek-higher-ground-now/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tsunami-like-flood-wave-threatens-texas-nears-historic-levels-one-year-after-camp-mystic-disaster-seek-higher-ground-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to know about the Canadian and US wildfires and their impact]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-to-know-about-the-canadian-and-us-wildfires-and-their-impact/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-to-know-about-the-canadian-and-us-wildfires-and-their-impact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq’s al-Faw Grand Port To Be The Largest Facility In The Mideast]]></title><description><![CDATA[The face of the Mideast is changing. The al-Faw Grand Port in Iraq connects to Development Road, a direct competitor to the IMEC corridor, linking Turkey and Europe. The new leader of Iraq, Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, is a businessman who is compared to Trump as the &ldquo;Trump of the Middle East.&rdquo; Al Zaidi just visited Washington to herald a&nbsp;broader framework for an &ldquo;economic partnership&rdquo; that would replace the old militaristic U.S.-Iraq relationship. &#8259; Patrick Wood Editor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/iraqs-al-faw-grand-port-to-be-the-largest-facility-in-the-mideast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/iraqs-al-faw-grand-port-to-be-the-largest-facility-in-the-mideast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature reserve declared to coincide with King's visit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stretch of sand dunes will receive the highest statutory protections as a national nature reserve.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nature-reserve-declared-to-coincide-with-kings-visit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nature-reserve-declared-to-coincide-with-kings-visit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s capable of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kick-your-mouse-out-of-the-house-with-this-ai-assisted-keyboard-utility/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kick-your-mouse-out-of-the-house-with-this-ai-assisted-keyboard-utility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal &ndash; it'll fix your computer, honest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal, after which it helps itself to passwords, crypto wallets, browser data, and anything else worth stealing. The boffins have dubbed the malware &ldquo;ClickLock Stealer,&rdquo; a nod to its use of the increasingly popular ClickFix social engineering technique and a coercive "loc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cmon-just-copy-this-text-string-and-paste-it-into-your-macos-terminal-ndash-itll-fix-your-computer-honest/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cmon-just-copy-this-text-string-and-paste-it-into-your-macos-terminal-ndash-itll-fix-your-computer-honest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life-threatening floods to hit near Texas' Camp Mystic as thousands are told to 'seek higher ground now']]></title><description><![CDATA[The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/life-threatening-floods-to-hit-near-texas-camp-mystic-as-thousands-are-told-to-seek-higher-ground-now/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/life-threatening-floods-to-hit-near-texas-camp-mystic-as-thousands-are-told-to-seek-higher-ground-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has given an update on the Artemis III mission and, while sticking with an optimistic 2028 landing target for Artemis IV, offered a glimpse into just how much development work remains to be done at Blue Origin and SpaceX. Artemis III has been compared to Apollo 9, which tested the Apollo Lunar Module in Earth orbit, yet neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin is flying anything as close to the lunar landers. Blue Origin's test lander will be based on the company's current Mark 2 crew lander architec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasas-artemis-iii-will-need-three-rockets-to-do-the-job-apollo-did-with-one/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasas-artemis-iii-will-need-three-rockets-to-do-the-job-apollo-did-with-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch: What we know about newly discovered monkey species]]></title><description><![CDATA[New monkey species hailed as 'amazing discovery' by conservationist.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-what-we-know-about-newly-discovered-monkey-species/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-what-we-know-about-newly-discovered-monkey-species/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Executives Add Personal Security As Backlash Turns Violent]]></title><description><![CDATA[When society rises against you in vast numbers, when acts of violence are leveled at you to stop what you are doing, when you are forced to hire security guards for your personal security, you would think that anyone with a conscience would stop and consider: &ldquo;maybe it&rsquo;s me and not everybody else.&rdquo; Alas, that is not the response of a narcissistic sociopath, whether it&rsquo;s a CEO at the top or a city councilman at the bottom. Nevertheless, ordinary citizens outnumber these pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-executives-add-personal-security-as-backlash-turns-violent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-executives-add-personal-security-as-backlash-turns-violent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life-threatening flood disaster erupts in same Texas region as Camp Mystic as locals are ordered to 'seek higher ground NOW']]></title><description><![CDATA[The life-threatening emergency is unfolding along the same river that devastated Texas Hill Country last July, when catastrophic flooding killed 28 people at Camp Mystic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/life-threatening-flood-disaster-erupts-in-same-texas-region-as-camp-mystic-as-locals-are-ordered-to-seek-higher-ground-now/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/life-threatening-flood-disaster-erupts-in-same-texas-region-as-camp-mystic-as-locals-are-ordered-to-seek-higher-ground-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New monkey species a 'fascinating discovery', study lead says]]></title><description><![CDATA[A monkey found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been confirmed as a new specie.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-monkey-species-a-fascinating-discovery-study-lead-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-monkey-species-a-fascinating-discovery-study-lead-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earthquake rocks Yellowstone National Park near supervolcano feared to be overdue for eruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[An earthquake has struck Yellowstone National Park within miles of an ancient volcanic landmark feared to be showing signs of awakening.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/earthquake-rocks-yellowstone-national-park-near-supervolcano-feared-to-be-overdue-for-eruption/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/earthquake-rocks-yellowstone-national-park-near-supervolcano-feared-to-be-overdue-for-eruption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Airbus is migrating its most critical applications for sensitive workloads from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway's under a drive to increase digital sovereignty. As exclusively revealed by The Register in December, the European-based aerospace manufacturer, said it needed to guarantee the data remained &ldquo;under European control" and was launching a tender at the start of 2026. Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "The selection of Scaleway is a combination o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway-amid-digital-sovereignty-push/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway-amid-digital-sovereignty-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future of warfare? Creepy drone spins so fast it disappears before your eyes - and could be used to sneak up on the enemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists at Northwestern University have designed a drone that spins so fast it disappears before your eyes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/future-of-warfare-creepy-drone-spins-so-fast-it-disappears-before-your-eyes-and-could-be-used-to-sneak-up-on-the-enemy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/future-of-warfare-creepy-drone-spins-so-fast-it-disappears-before-your-eyes-and-could-be-used-to-sneak-up-on-the-enemy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two British Scattered Spider members collared for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) will each spend five and a half years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment each, having pleaded guilty in June, in turn receiving a 15 percent reduction in their sentences. Sentencing the pair at Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Justice Turner noted both cybercriminals' immaturity,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-scattered-spider-duo-handed-tickets-to-prison-over-transport-for-london-attack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-scattered-spider-duo-handed-tickets-to-prison-over-transport-for-london-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to millions as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across 14 US states... with Detroit's air ranked the worst on Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials are warning millions of Americans to stay indoors if possible on Thursday, as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air over more than a dozen states,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-14-us-states-with-detroits-air-ranked-the-worst-on-earth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-14-us-states-with-detroits-air-ranked-the-worst-on-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteer firefighter suspected of starting devastating France forest fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Macron said there would be no leniency for arsonists, as France - along with much of Europe - deals with a series of unusual heatwaves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/volunteer-firefighter-suspected-of-starting-devastating-france-forest-fire/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/volunteer-firefighter-suspected-of-starting-devastating-france-forest-fire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to millions as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across 14 US states... with Detroit's air ranked worst on Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials are warning millions of Americans to stay indoors if possible on Thursday, as lung-penetrating toxins fill the air over more than a dozen states,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-14-us-states-with-detroits-air-ranked-worst-on-earth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-14-us-states-with-detroits-air-ranked-worst-on-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Climate tech venture capital had its strongest first half since 2022 as investors poured billions into low-carbon datacenters and projects needed to feed AI's seemingly endless appetite for compute. According to investment tracker Currence, climate tech startups pulled in $26.1 billion in venture funding during the first six months of 2026, up 55 percent year-over-year. However, that headline growth came with a catch: investors weren't backing the climate sector broadly so much as pouring money]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-power-binge-delivers-best-half-since-2022-for-climate-tech-venture-funding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-power-binge-delivers-best-half-since-2022-for-climate-tech-venture-funding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme weather in the UK is the 'new normal']]></title><description><![CDATA[Sarah Keith-Lucas details five things you need to know about how the UK climate has changed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-weather-in-the-uk-is-the-new-normal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-weather-in-the-uk-is-the-new-normal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Complete extermination' of greys is the only way to protect red squirrels]]></title><description><![CDATA[A grey squirrel control officer says there is no other option to trapping and killing the greys after a number of cases of squirrelpox were confirmed in the Borders.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/complete-extermination-of-greys-is-the-only-way-to-protect-red-squirrels/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/complete-extermination-of-greys-is-the-only-way-to-protect-red-squirrels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the REAL Pirates of the Caribbean: Incredible reconstruction reveals the infamous 'Piratetown' of Nassau in its heyday - as well as the buccaneers who lived there]]></title><description><![CDATA[The real-life home of the Pirates of the Caribbean has been brought back to life for the first time in more than 300 years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meet-the-real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-incredible-reconstruction-reveals-the-infamous-piratetown-of-nassau-in-its-heyday-as-well-as-the-buccaneers-who-lived-there/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meet-the-real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-incredible-reconstruction-reveals-the-infamous-piratetown-of-nassau-in-its-heyday-as-well-as-the-buccaneers-who-lived-there/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hard core of Windows 10 devices cannot or will not be migrated to Windows 11, leaving enterprises with a growing security problem as support options run out. According to asset tracking service Lansweeper, Windows 10 still runs on 16.9 percent of the Windows devices it monitors, or "roughly one in six." A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40 percent range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-10-refuses-to-die-and-the-security-bill-is-coming-due/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-10-refuses-to-die-and-the-security-bill-is-coming-due/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saharan dust is at an all-time high over Britain - increasing the risk 'blood rain', study warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're finding it harder to breathe in Britain, you're not imagining things. A new study has warned that Saharan dust has driven up pollution in the UK by 50 per cent over the last decade.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/saharan-dust-is-at-an-all-time-high-over-britain-increasing-the-risk-blood-rain-study-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/saharan-dust-is-at-an-all-time-high-over-britain-increasing-the-risk-blood-rain-study-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok faces Ofcom investigation over child age checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[It follows a review by the regulator in May that criticised the platform for not being "safe enough" for children.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tiktok-faces-ofcom-investigation-over-child-age-checks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tiktok-faces-ofcom-investigation-over-child-age-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting harder to BREATHE in Britain: Saharan dust has driven up UK pollution by 50%, study warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're finding it harder to breathe in Britain, you're not imagining things. A new study has warned that Saharan dust has driven up pollution in the UK by 50 per cent over the last decade.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-getting-harder-to-breathe-in-britain-saharan-dust-has-driven-up-uk-pollution-by-50-study-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-getting-harder-to-breathe-in-britain-saharan-dust-has-driven-up-uk-pollution-by-50-study-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX has now open sourced the Grok Build CLI just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users&rsquo; entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage. SpaceXAI&rsquo;s data grab was first publicized on Sunday by Cereblab, who probed Grok Build traffic and found that repos were being packaged up as Git Bundles and beamed to Google Cloud storage. Concerning. The news gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-open-sources-grok-build-in-same-week-company-was-found-beaming-users-repos-to-the-cloud/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-open-sources-grok-build-in-same-week-company-was-found-beaming-users-repos-to-the-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing another outage after a CloudFront issue began throwing 5xx errors, knocking a string of websites and online services offline across multiple regions. According to AWS, the issue began at 0145 PDT (0945 UTC) this morning and affects CloudFront customers using VPC Origins. This is a relatively new CloudFront feature that lets customers serve applications running behind private load balancers through CloudFront without exposing their back-end infrastructure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-cloudfront-outage-serves-errors-instead-of-websites/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-cloudfront-outage-serves-errors-instead-of-websites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/teen-hackers-who-live-streamed-cyber-attack-on-tfl-jailed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/teen-hackers-who-live-streamed-cyber-attack-on-tfl-jailed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alzheimer's 'wonder drug' could delay disease for three years - 90% of brain damage vanished in new trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 'wonder drug' that can stave off Alzheimer's disease can protect the brain for three years after taking it, say researchers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alzheimers-wonder-drug-could-delay-disease-for-three-years-90-of-brain-damage-vanished-in-new-trial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alzheimers-wonder-drug-could-delay-disease-for-three-years-90-of-brain-damage-vanished-in-new-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The operator of the .ME domain registry has confirmed that Telegram's t.me shortlinks stopped working for around a day while the messaging platform verified that links associated with a sanctioned VPN service had been removed. The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated First VPN Service (1VPNS) on July 13 for selling services to ransomware groups and other cybercriminals. Shortly after, users across the app reported problems with t.me links, which Telegram uses to share links to c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telegram-shortlinks-knocked-offline-over-sanctioned-vpn-connection/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telegram-shortlinks-knocked-offline-over-sanctioned-vpn-connection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dismal glimpse into the future: Scientists give their chilling predictions for life in the 2100s]]></title><description><![CDATA[From chocolate grown in labs to intense fires raging across the globe, the world of 2100 could look very different from today.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-dismal-glimpse-into-the-future-scientists-give-their-chilling-predictions-for-life-in-the-2100s/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-dismal-glimpse-into-the-future-scientists-give-their-chilling-predictions-for-life-in-the-2100s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your avocado oil FAKE? Study warns 89% of foods that claim to be made with the trendy oil are bulked out with cheap alternatives]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's one of the healthiest cooking oils on the market. But it turns out the avocado oil in your favourite snacks might be fake.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-your-avocado-oil-fake-study-warns-89-of-foods-that-claim-to-be-made-with-the-trendy-oil-are-bulked-out-with-cheap-alternatives/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-your-avocado-oil-fake-study-warns-89-of-foods-that-claim-to-be-made-with-the-trendy-oil-are-bulked-out-with-cheap-alternatives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher]]></title><description><![CDATA[HANDS-ON Dortania's OpenCore Legacy Patcher lets you run newer versions of macOS on unsupported Intel Macs. It's handy, but there are a few things to beware of &ndash; including macOS Tahoe. OpenCore Legacy Patcher brings Hackintosh techniques to genuine Mac hardware. It's an inspired hack that helps you to install newer versions of Apple macOS on older Macs for which Apple has dropped support in recent versions of macOS. Its co-author, Mykola Grymalyuk, has a fascinating retrospective on its de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-to-teach-an-old-intel-mac-new-tricks-with-opencore-legacy-patcher/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-to-teach-an-old-intel-mac-new-tricks-with-opencore-legacy-patcher/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all]]></title><description><![CDATA[PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we gather lessons from organizations that didn&rsquo;t take security seriously enough. This week&rsquo;s tale of woe comes from a company that left a door wide open for miscreants, but was lucky it didn't have to pay the price. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes courtesy of a reader we&rsquo;ll Regomize as Manny. A few yea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/law-firm-insisted-on-one-password-to-rule-them-all/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/law-firm-insisted-on-one-password-to-rule-them-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s Privacy Commissioner has revealed a tech support scam was the cause of the massive 2025 data breach at Australian airline Qantas and found the carrier didn&rsquo;t breach its privacy obligations despite leaking personally identifiable information for 5.7 million customers. The Commissioner reached that conclusion, and a decision not to open a formal privacy probe, in a report published today. Qantas has previously admitted the incident was the result of a social engineering att]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-support-scam-caused-massive-data-breach-at-australian-airline-qantas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-support-scam-caused-massive-data-breach-at-australian-airline-qantas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined HP Inc. and some of its resellers, for what it calls &ldquo;cartelisation&rdquo; activities that inflated the cost of PCs and printers &ndash; and which it says HP used to head off threats from resellers to sell counterfeit ink cartridges. The &#8377;138.85 crores/$14.4 million fine won&rsquo;t be a massive inconvenience to HP. The facts of the case may be, as the CCI found HP told its resellers what prices to charge when they bid for tenders p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-hp-resellers-thought-the-price-of-toner-and-ink-was-too-high-so-hp-india-facilitated-an-illegal-cartel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-hp-resellers-thought-the-price-of-toner-and-ink-was-too-high-so-hp-india-facilitated-an-illegal-cartel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC]]></title><description><![CDATA[The crippling high-consequence attack on vital infrastructure that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years is upon us, in the form of an incident that may force KFC to close some stores in Japan. Colonel Sanders himself is not the victim here. That role goes to Nichirei Group, a Japanese purveyor of frozen foods and super-chill logistics services that move them around. Nichirei Group on Monday posted a notice [PDF] in which it admitted &ldquo;system failures caused by unauthorized acce]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cyberattack-threatens-utterly-critical-infrastructure-in-japan-kfc/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cyberattack-threatens-utterly-critical-infrastructure-in-japan-kfc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're in the market for a frontier-class open weights model, your options are few and far between outside of the Chinese model houses. With the Wednesday release of a new model codenamed "Inkling," an outfit called Thinking Machines Lab aims to change that. Founded in early 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Thinking Machines' first model is a big one. Weighing in at 975 billion parameters, the model requires more than two terabytes of GPU memory &mdash; a quantity present in around eigh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re in the market for a frontier-class open weights model, your options are few and far between outside of the Chinese model houses. With the Wednesday release of a new model code-named "Inkling", an outfit called Thinking Machines Lab aims to change that. Founded in early 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Thinking Machines' first model is a big one. Weighing in at 975 billion parameters, the model requires more than two terabytes of GPU memory &mdash; a quantity present in arou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DR Congo forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-monkey-species-with-orange-lips-found-hiding-in-dr-congo-forest/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-monkey-species-with-orange-lips-found-hiding-in-dr-congo-forest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design]]></title><description><![CDATA[How AI will change the way scientific computing is done remains an open question. One relies on ultra-precise double-precision mathematics, while the other is perfectly happy working with 4 bits. On the surface, the two are diametrically opposed, two extremes of a spectrum we call high-performance computing (HPC) &mdash; and yes, whether you like it or not, AI is HPC. However, the latest AI offering from Cadence Design Systems, one of the biggest names in industrial HPC, offers a glimpse of how]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cadences-aurastack-agent-melds-ai-with-hpc-to-speed-pcb-advanced-packaging-design/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cadences-aurastack-agent-melds-ai-with-hpc-to-speed-pcb-advanced-packaging-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dave Brown, a 19-year veteran of AWS and member of its S-team leadership cabal, is leaving Amazon for parts undisclosed. It's hard to overstate Dave's impact on AWS; the few times I've met him, it was very clear that there was nothing I could trot out in the realm of "arcane EC2 trivia" that he didn't go orders of magnitude deeper on with zero forewarning. This is a titanic loss for AWS, because that's roughly how deep Dave routinely dove. He'll be handing the reins over to fellow S-team member]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-web-services-most-vocal-customer-now-runs-ec2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-web-services-most-vocal-customer-now-runs-ec2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another day, another programming language feels the heat from AI. A prominent Haskell-based software platform is shifting new development to Python, with its founder arguing that Haskell's tooling and ecosystem have been slow to adapt to AI-assisted development. &ldquo;Haskell is in real danger,&rdquo; warned Scarf founder Avi Press, in a post entitled &ldquo;After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell.&rdquo; &ldquo;AI is here to stay. The people and ecosystems th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/prominent-haskell-defector-pilloried-by-anti-ai-purists/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/prominent-haskell-defector-pilloried-by-anti-ai-purists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans told to stay indoors TODAY as wildfire smoke reaches 'hazardous' levels across seven states]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are being told to stay indoors as a massive plume of wildfire smoke spreads across multiple states, pushing air quality to dangerous levels.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americans-told-to-stay-indoors-today-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-hazardous-levels-across-seven-states/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americans-told-to-stay-indoors-today-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-hazardous-levels-across-seven-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE's AI new calling builds an open and intelligent telecom ecosystem, transforming from basic voice call to an AI-powered service hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased at MWC Shanghai 2026 its groundbreaking AI New Calling solution, together with China Mobile Research Institute (CMCC). Based on the concept of "Calling as a Service", this innovation uses open interfaces to deeply integrate traditional voice calls with artificial intelligence (AI), establishing a dual-engine system powered by "Calling + AI Agents" and "Calling + AI Capabilities". Through an intelligent service portal, it expands the scope of communication applications and converts]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ztes-ai-new-calling-builds-an-open-and-intelligent-telecom-ecosystem-transforming-from-basic-voice-call-to-an-ai-powered-service-hub/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ztes-ai-new-calling-builds-an-open-and-intelligent-telecom-ecosystem-transforming-from-basic-voice-call-to-an-ai-powered-service-hub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX share price drops below stock market debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Share trading in Elon Musk&rsquo;s rocket company has been volatile since it went public a month ago.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-share-price-drops-below-stock-market-debut/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-share-price-drops-below-stock-market-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans told to stay indoors as wildfire smoke reaches 'hazardous' levels across seven states]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are being told to stay indoors as a massive plume of wildfire smoke spreads across multiple states, pushing air quality to dangerous levels.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americans-told-to-stay-indoors-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-hazardous-levels-across-seven-states/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americans-told-to-stay-indoors-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-hazardous-levels-across-seven-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada wildfires leave train 'encased in flames' as smoke drifts towards US]]></title><description><![CDATA[The crew was rescued after the close call. Meanwhile, blazes in Canada have left Toronto under a haze and smoke heading towards several major US cities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canada-wildfires-leave-train-encased-in-flames-as-smoke-drifts-towards-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canada-wildfires-leave-train-encased-in-flames-as-smoke-drifts-towards-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banned book of the Bible reveals chilling prophecy with eerie links to today]]></title><description><![CDATA[A more than 2,000-year-old manuscript banned from the Bible is believed to hold details about the rise of the Antichrist, a powerful deceiver said to oppose Christ.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/banned-book-of-the-bible-reveals-chilling-prophecy-with-eerie-links-to-today/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/banned-book-of-the-bible-reveals-chilling-prophecy-with-eerie-links-to-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salesforce&rsquo;s flagship AI agent platform is struggling to convince customers of its value, according to an investment bank. The SaaS giant has bet the farm on AI agents, hoping they will fetch and carry data from its systems into a conversational UI, according to its vision of headless CRM. The cornerstone of the strategy is Agentforce, which the vendor promises will help customers build, test, deploy, manage, and orchestrate AI agents in the enterprise. However, a report from KeyBanc Capit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforces-agentforce-isnt-winning-over-clients-keybanc-analysts-claim/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforces-agentforce-isnt-winning-over-clients-keybanc-analysts-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chief penguinista Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an "anti-AI" project, telling contributors who object they can either walk away or fork the kernel. On lore.kernel.org, the archive for Linux kernel mailing lists, reformed potty mouth Linus was responding to a discussion about some negative sentiments toward AI.It is one area where Torvalds said he was willing to &ldquo;absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer &hellip; Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions will wake up in the darkness if Daylight Saving Time bill passes... see how your state will be affected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tens of millions of Americans could soon start their days in darkness if a plan to end clock changing forever passes the US Senate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-will-wake-up-in-the-darkness-if-daylight-saving-time-bill-passes-see-how-your-state-will-be-affected/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-will-wake-up-in-the-darkness-if-daylight-saving-time-bill-passes-see-how-your-state-will-be-affected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mozilla-commissioned report is claiming that Microsoft is indulging in all manner of bad behaviors to nudge users toward its Edge browser. However, judging by market share statistics, any potential efforts in that direction are not going too well for the Windows giant. The Over The Edge 2.0 report, commissioned by Mozilla, was published earlier this week and documents design choices from Microsoft that sent users into the arms of Edge. It also looked at differences in Microsoft's approach in G]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-patterns-in-windows-are-steering-users-to-edge-mozilla-commissioned-report/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-patterns-in-windows-are-steering-users-to-edge-mozilla-commissioned-report/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions will wake up in the darkness if new Daylight Saving Time bill passes... see how your state will be affected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tens of millions of Americans could soon start their days in darkness if a plan to end clock changing forever passes the US Senate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-will-wake-up-in-the-darkness-if-new-daylight-saving-time-bill-passes-see-how-your-state-will-be-affected/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-will-wake-up-in-the-darkness-if-new-daylight-saving-time-bill-passes-see-how-your-state-will-be-affected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banned book of the Bible reveals chilling prophecy about the Antichrist's rise]]></title><description><![CDATA[A more than 2,000-year-old manuscript banned from the Bible is believed to hold details about the rise of the Antichrist, a powerful deceiver said to oppose Christ.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/banned-book-of-the-bible-reveals-chilling-prophecy-about-the-antichrists-rise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/banned-book-of-the-bible-reveals-chilling-prophecy-about-the-antichrists-rise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scots urged to 'stay vigilant' as wildfire risk very high]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has issued a warning for central Highlands, southern and eastern Scotland from Wednesday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scots-urged-to-stay-vigilant-as-wildfire-risk-very-high/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scots-urged-to-stay-vigilant-as-wildfire-risk-very-high/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI Robots Won’t Strike, So Hyundai’s Workers Did It First]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the chaos of the Covid era in 2021, Hyundai quietly bought the leading robot company, Boston Dynamics. It said at the time that it &ldquo;aims to develop advanced technologies that enhance people&rsquo;s lives and promote safety, thereby realizing progress for humanity.&rdquo; Fu you. The robots are poised to take over manufacturing at their auto plants. So much for progress for humanity. So, the humans are striking. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.Electrification isn&rsquo;t the only major]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-ai-robots-wont-strike-so-hyundais-workers-did-it-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-ai-robots-wont-strike-so-hyundais-workers-did-it-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The core traits of FEMCELS: Scientists identify 6 key characteristics in women who feel doomed to be single forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study has shed light on the women who feel they are destined to never find love.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-core-traits-of-femcels-scientists-identify-6-key-characteristics-in-women-who-feel-doomed-to-be-single-forever/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-core-traits-of-femcels-scientists-identify-6-key-characteristics-in-women-who-feel-doomed-to-be-single-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged all organizations running SharePoint to harden their defenses after the disclosure of actively exploited vulnerabilities. The warning applies to those running any supported version of SharePoint Server on-prem, with three vulnerabilities of particular interest cited. A spoofing bug, CVE-2026-32201 (6.5), was the first to be mentioned. Microsoft disclosed it in March and CISA confirmed it was being actively exploited in June]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cisa-sounds-alarm-over-trio-of-exploited-sharepoint-flaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cisa-sounds-alarm-over-trio-of-exploited-sharepoint-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patch Tuesday was followed by Oopsie Wednesday for some Dell customers, with Microsoft slamming on the update brakes after the hardware maker reported some problems. Yesterday was Microsoft's monthly security update for Windows. This month was, by all accounts, a bit of a doozy with a record-breaking number of CVEs patched, some of which were classed as critical and under active exploitation. Better get patching then? Well, er, no. Not if you're using a Dell device affected by issues associated]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cancels-patch-tuesday-for-some-dell-users-over-surprise-shutdowns-overheating-devices/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cancels-patch-tuesday-for-some-dell-users-over-surprise-shutdowns-overheating-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's &pound;1.15B shared services push]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK Treasury's reluctance to fully commit to a cross-government &pound;1.15 billion shared service strategy it has funded risks making the whole effort "potentially unworkable," the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned. HM Treasury's (HMT) decision in June to delay joining Matrix - one of five clusters the government hopes will save &pound;4.3 billion by moving 17 departments and 300 arm's-length bodies onto shared ERP and HR systems - sends "a very poor reputational signal to the rest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-fear-treasury-cold-feet-could-sink-whitehalls-pound115b-shared-services-push/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-fear-treasury-cold-feet-could-sink-whitehalls-pound115b-shared-services-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtle signs in your fingernails that can signal dangerous 'silent' health complications]]></title><description><![CDATA[While many of us spend all day looking down at them, they're easy to ignore. Dermatologists speaking to the Daily Mail have revealed the five subtle nail changes you should never ignore.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/subtle-signs-in-your-fingernails-that-can-signal-dangerous-silent-health-complications/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/subtle-signs-in-your-fingernails-that-can-signal-dangerous-silent-health-complications/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why it doesn't feel as hot in the UK anymore: Scientists say it takes just two weeks for our bodies to acclimatise to the heat - as Brits claim they're 'starting to feel chilly']]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that it doesn't feel as hot in the UK anymore, despite what the reading on the thermometer says? If so, you've probably become acclimatised to the heat.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-it-doesnt-feel-as-hot-in-the-uk-anymore-scientists-say-it-takes-just-two-weeks-for-our-bodies-to-acclimatise-to-the-heat-as-brits-claim-theyre-starting-to-feel-chilly/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-it-doesnt-feel-as-hot-in-the-uk-anymore-scientists-say-it-takes-just-two-weeks-for-our-bodies-to-acclimatise-to-the-heat-as-brits-claim-theyre-starting-to-feel-chilly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft&rsquo;s worst nightmare - a prolific zero-day vulnerability hunter who calls themselves Nightmare Eclipse - published yet another zero-day on Tuesday, a vulnerability allowing attackers to mount user hives, including partial exploit code. Suspected of being a disgruntled former Microsoft engineer, based on the sophistication of their prior vulnerabilities, NightmareEclipse came good on their promise to release another zero-day on July 14. Whether it lives up to the promised &ldquo;bone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/legacyhive-bone-shattering-zero-day-from-microsofts-serial-tormentor-not-the-haymaker-that-was-promised/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/legacyhive-bone-shattering-zero-day-from-microsofts-serial-tormentor-not-the-haymaker-that-was-promised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services is facing a lawsuit alleging it published false and misleading statements about the water use and sustainability of its Northern Virginia datacenters, "falsely" portraying those operations as environmentally responsible.The complaint, case number CL26002535-00 filed with the Circuit Court of Arlington County last week, seen by The Register, states that AWS has never publicly disclosed its actual water consumption in the region, known as the world's "datacenter capital." Despi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-sustainability-claims-dont-hold-water-lawsuit-alleges/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-sustainability-claims-dont-hold-water-lawsuit-alleges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toxic air invading 17 US states TODAY as massive plume of wildfire smoke crosses nation's border]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans have been warned of plumes of smoke carrying lung-penetrating particles pouring into the US for the rest of the week. An expert reveals where the risk is greatest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toxic-air-invading-17-us-states-today-as-massive-plume-of-wildfire-smoke-crosses-nations-border/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/toxic-air-invading-17-us-states-today-as-massive-plume-of-wildfire-smoke-crosses-nations-border/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of Brits with non-English names have shortened or Anglicised their name to avoid bias, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jesminder and Aleksandr may not sound familiar to most Brits - but Jess and Alex probably do. Half of Brits with non-English names have shortened or Anglicised them, a study reveals.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-of-brits-with-non-english-names-have-shortened-or-anglicised-their-name-to-avoid-bias-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-of-brits-with-non-english-names-have-shortened-or-anglicised-their-name-to-avoid-bias-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight social media curfew proposed for UK teens aged 16 and 17]]></title><description><![CDATA[The government says it will improve teenagers' lives but campaigners call it a "missed opportunity".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/midnight-social-media-curfew-proposed-for-uk-teens-aged-16-and-17/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/midnight-social-media-curfew-proposed-for-uk-teens-aged-16-and-17/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate we had in 20th Century 'has now gone' - Met Office]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/climate-we-had-in-20th-century-has-now-gone-met-office/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/climate-we-had-in-20th-century-has-now-gone-met-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has watered down its rules around battery replaceability with exemptions for some wearable devices, potentially including the Apple Watch and Meta's AI Glasses. A delegated act was adopted by the European Commission on July 14 that exempted the products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. The batteries must still be replaceable, but by independent professionals rather than end users. Wet appliances already have an exemption f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-lets-wearables-wriggle-out-of-user-replaceable-battery-rules/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-lets-wearables-wriggle-out-of-user-replaceable-battery-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week brings two point releases for both Debian 13 - aka &ldquo;Trixie&rdquo; - and Debian 12 - &ldquo;Bookworm,&rdquo; the latter now shuffling off into long-term support. Debian 13.6 and Debian 12.15 are just the latest point releases of Trixie and Bookworm, but Debian 12.15 is also significant in another way: it marks the end of regular support for Debian 12, which is being handed over to the LTS team. That reduced level of support is scheduled to last until mid-2028. That means Debian 12]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enterprise customers should use SAP's commitments to the European Commission to reconsider complex ERP migration timelines and gain leverage in negotiations with the German software giant, according to Gartner. Last week, the European Commission ended an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices after SAP agreed to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees, among other concessions. The case stems from September last year, when the executive branch of the EU launched]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick of the UK heatwave? Scientists say PRAYING for rain really does work - but only in some places]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following weeks of relentless heatwaves, many Brits will be praying for a bit of rain to cool everything down. Now, a study has revealed this really can work - but only in some places.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sick-of-the-uk-heatwave-scientists-say-praying-for-rain-really-does-work-but-only-in-some-places/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sick-of-the-uk-heatwave-scientists-say-praying-for-rain-really-does-work-but-only-in-some-places/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediterranean holidays face 50&deg;C nightmare: Experts warn blistering temperatures are 'perfectly possible' this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts have warned that&nbsp;50&deg;C (122&deg;F) is 'perfectly possible' in southern Europe in the coming weeks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mediterranean-holidays-face-50degc-nightmare-experts-warn-blistering-temperatures-are-perfectly-possible-this-summer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mediterranean-holidays-face-50degc-nightmare-experts-warn-blistering-temperatures-are-perfectly-possible-this-summer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5]]></title><description><![CDATA[BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services. Ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/software-bloat-this-elevator-needs-an-8gb-core-i5/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/software-bloat-this-elevator-needs-an-8gb-core-i5/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage &ndash; it was a message]]></title><description><![CDATA[The contributor accused by OpenMandriva of sabotaging its Linux distribution says he deliberately deleted repositories and obsoleted packages, but insists the project has badly misrepresented both his motives and his role. Last week, OpenMandriva accused Davide Beatrici of abusing administrative privileges to delete parts of the project's GitHub repositories and publish an empty package in its Cooker development branch that obsoleted GNOME and COSMIC packages. The distro described the incident a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openmandrivas-accused-repo-wrecker-says-it-wasnt-sabotage-ndash-it-was-a-message/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openmandrivas-accused-repo-wrecker-says-it-wasnt-sabotage-ndash-it-was-a-message/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently reported that bots now generate more internet traffic than humans, yet few websites have undergone a redesign to accommodate both human and agentic visitors. Clever agents find a way in regardless. I learned this after asking Anthropic's Fable to perform some web research, a task it delegated to a squad of subagents to save me a bit of cash. I watched those subagents work &ndash; aka "botsitting" &ndash; and approved their requests to access various]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-star-wars-cantina-scene-shows-we-need-a-new-hope-for-the-agentic-web/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-star-wars-cantina-scene-shows-we-need-a-new-hope-for-the-agentic-web/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Botticelli's Venus may have died after rape caused brain rupture, scientists discover]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Renaissance-era beauty who inspired Botticelli's Venus may have died of a rape-related brain rupture, scientists believe.&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/botticellis-venus-may-have-died-after-rape-caused-brain-rupture-scientists-discover/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/botticellis-venus-may-have-died-after-rape-caused-brain-rupture-scientists-discover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corporate PC buyers haven&rsquo;t rushed to buy AI PCs but analyst firm Gartner thinks the machines can now do an important new job: Running AI workloads on the desktop to provide a hedge against tearaway token bills. The firm on Monday published a Strategic Roadmap for Agentic AI PCs in which Research Vice President Steve Kleynhans argues that enterprise AI tools that run on the desktop &ldquo;have been slow to materialize.&rdquo; &ldquo;On -device AI has yet to achieve mainstream adoption and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-last-a-good-reason-to-buy-an-ai-pc-reining-in-runaway-token-bills/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/at-last-a-good-reason-to-buy-an-ai-pc-reining-in-runaway-token-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hosepipe ban in force for millions of households - is your area affected?]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than eight million households have been placed under hosepipe bans - which has raised questions about how effectively water resources are being managed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hosepipe-ban-in-force-for-millions-of-households-is-your-area-affected/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hosepipe-ban-in-force-for-millions-of-households-is-your-area-affected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea&rsquo;s government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The &ldquo;AI for everyone&rdquo; plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the year 2031. Bid documents reveal that Seoul will provide up to 256 Nvidia B200 GPUs to successful bidders. Winners must match government funding. The aim of the policy is to ensure that every resident of South Kore]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a landmark speech outlining the nation&rsquo;s AI policy, which will require datacenter builders to contribute more energy than they consume and mean AI companies must reach agreements with local artists and media before using their content. &ldquo;Let me make this crystal clear &ndash; not everything produced in Australia is up for grabs,&rdquo; Albanese said, a reference to both content and the nation&rsquo;s energy and water resources.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australia-demands-ai-companies-must-produce-more-energy-than-they-consume-stop-theft-of-content/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australia-demands-ai-companies-must-produce-more-energy-than-they-consume-stop-theft-of-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Cloud has admitted it made a configuration change that means some customers of its VMware Engine (GCVE) can&rsquo;t use stretched cluster. A G-Cloud incident report time-stamped 13:24 PDT on July 14 (21:24 UTC) reports some customers &ldquo;are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions&rdquo; and that the trouble started at 10:00 PDT. Google first attributed the problem to &ldquo;an underlying network connectivity issue affecting the infrastructure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-clouds-vmware-service-loses-resilience-due-to-a-dud-update/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-clouds-vmware-service-loses-resilience-due-to-a-dud-update/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/after-record-heat-could-the-atlantic-make-britains-weather-even-more-extreme/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/after-record-heat-could-the-atlantic-make-britains-weather-even-more-extreme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I looked into the river and saw all these dead fish']]></title><description><![CDATA[There have been 50,000 fish killed in Northern Ireland because of water pollution since 2020.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-looked-into-the-river-and-saw-all-these-dead-fish/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-looked-into-the-river-and-saw-all-these-dead-fish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does your dog need to go to rehab? Study reveals how pooches can become ADDICTED to their toys - as vets reveal the key signs their obsession is becoming unhealthy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is your dog obsessed with their tennis ball or tug rope? If so, your pet could have an unhealthy 'addiction' to their favourite toys, experts warn.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-your-dog-need-to-go-to-rehab-study-reveals-how-pooches-can-become-addicted-to-their-toys-as-vets-reveal-the-key-signs-their-obsession-is-becoming-unhealthy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-your-dog-need-to-go-to-rehab-study-reveals-how-pooches-can-become-addicted-to-their-toys-as-vets-reveal-the-key-signs-their-obsession-is-becoming-unhealthy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's climate is on the MOVE: Warming is shifting north and uphill, scientists warn Northerners - with extreme heatwaves the 'new normal']]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain's climate is on the move, a new report by the Met Office has revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-climate-is-on-the-move-warming-is-shifting-north-and-uphill-scientists-warn-northerners-with-extreme-heatwaves-the-new-normal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-climate-is-on-the-move-warming-is-shifting-north-and-uphill-scientists-warn-northerners-with-extreme-heatwaves-the-new-normal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has never been as open as its name suggests and is becoming even less so. The free-spending AI giant recently revised the multi-agent orchestration in its Codex command line interface to encrypt messages passed to subagents. OpenAI's Codex supports multi-agent orchestration, a way to have a parent agent spawn child agents or delegate tasks to other agents that may call out to different models. Codex/GPT-5.6 introduced a protocol called multi-agent v2 that appears to be geared toward letti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-hides-codex-agent-instructions-behind-encryption-leaving-developers-in-the-dark/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-hides-codex-agent-instructions-behind-encryption-leaving-developers-in-the-dark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK social media ban plans revealed: 16 and 17-year-olds will face CURFEWS from midnight to 6am, government reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[While under-16s will be blocked from accessing social media platforms entirely, the government has now confirmed that 16 and 17-year-olds will face curfews.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-social-media-ban-plans-revealed-16-and-17-year-olds-will-face-curfews-from-midnight-to-6am-government-reveals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-social-media-ban-plans-revealed-16-and-17-year-olds-will-face-curfews-from-midnight-to-6am-government-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember last month when we were awed by Microsoft&rsquo;s record-setting Patch Tuesday that addressed 206 CVEs? That was a quaint era compared to this month: Redmond just rolled out patches for 622 CVEs specific to its products, slightly more than tripling last month&rsquo;s all-time high. Redmond&rsquo;s Patch Tuesday release is once again one for the record books, with everything under the sun getting some security fixes &ndash; including 428 non-Microsoft Chromium CVEs affecting Edge that ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/patchpocalypse-now-microsoft-tops-last-months-record-with-622-patch-tuesday-cves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/patchpocalypse-now-microsoft-tops-last-months-record-with-622-patch-tuesday-cves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude expresses itself in different languages. The results identify four key axes that capture 15 percent of the variation in the values Anthropic says Claude expresses across different languages: Deference vs. Caution; Warmth vs. Rigor; Depth vs. Brevity; and Candor vs. Execution. Anthropic's researchers state, "how Claude responds inevitably reflects certain values." But]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/if-you-want-claude-to-speak-nicely-to-you-try-hindi-or-arabic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/if-you-want-claude-to-speak-nicely-to-you-try-hindi-or-arabic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday paused incomplete state environmental permit applications for large datacenters while officials work out new rules, a process expected to take up to a year. The order makes New York the first state to enact such a moratorium amid growing concerns over AI datacenters' impact on utility rates and public health. &ldquo;New York has always been at the forefront of innovation and change but we&rsquo;ve also always guaranteed that New Yorkers benefit. As data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-halt-datacenter-buildouts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-halt-datacenter-buildouts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant toxic jellyfish with 120-foot tentacles invade New England beaches as officials issue chilling warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beachgoers have been warned as giant jellyfish with toxin-filled tentacles stretching up to 120 feet invade the coastline.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invade-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invade-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full list of 31 buildings testing positive for bacteria driving outbreak of deadly lung disease... including a renowned museum and a Whole Foods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly three dozen buildings have been identified as potential sources of a life-threatening lung disease as dozens of people contract the illness.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-list-of-31-buildings-testing-positive-for-bacteria-driving-outbreak-of-deadly-lung-disease-including-a-renowned-museum-and-a-whole-foods/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-list-of-31-buildings-testing-positive-for-bacteria-driving-outbreak-of-deadly-lung-disease-including-a-renowned-museum-and-a-whole-foods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant toxic jellyfish with 120-foot tentacles invades New England beaches as officials issue chilling warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beachgoers have been warned as giant jellyfish with toxin-filled tentacles stretching up to 120 feet invade the coastline.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invades-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invades-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, according to him, artificial general intelligence (AGI) &ldquo;is probably only a few short years away" and we've got to figure it out before it's too late. That &ldquo;probably&rdquo; is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hassabis&rsquo; lengthy, early-morning Tuesday post on X. Like commercially viable fusion power and practical fault-tolerant quantum computing, AGI seems perp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deepmind-bigbrain-calls-for-america-to-set-ai-standards-before-its-too-late/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deepmind-bigbrain-calls-for-america-to-set-ai-standards-before-its-too-late/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Welshman was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for his role in numerous swattings in the UK, US, and Canada. Callum Dare, 26, was an administrator of Doxbin, a dark web platform frequented by individuals that expose the personally identifiable information (PII) of people, usually to encourage harassment or to target them through swatting attacks. The Talbot Green man never actually carried out a swatting call himself, although investigators said "he was an active participant" in Doxbin's "#deadne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/welsh-doxbin-admin-jailed-for-egging-on-swatters-from-behind-a-screen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/welsh-doxbin-admin-jailed-for-egging-on-swatters-from-behind-a-screen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch: New ISS crew blasts off from Kazakhstan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Soyuz spacecraft will carry Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS for an eight-month mission.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-new-iss-crew-blasts-off-from-kazakhstan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-new-iss-crew-blasts-off-from-kazakhstan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite strawberries accused of hiding cancer-linked 'forever chemicals']]></title><description><![CDATA[America's best-selling berry brand has been sued over allegations that its strawberries contained cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' that shoppers were never told about.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-strawberries-accused-of-hiding-cancer-linked-forever-chemicals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-strawberries-accused-of-hiding-cancer-linked-forever-chemicals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme warning issued to millions as 'steam cooker' heatwave turns 25 states into a sauna]]></title><description><![CDATA[A massive 'steam cooker' heat wave is bringing potentially deadly humidity to half the US and sending temperatures in unlikely areas into the triple digits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-warning-issued-to-millions-as-steam-cooker-heatwave-turns-25-states-into-a-sauna/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-warning-issued-to-millions-as-steam-cooker-heatwave-turns-25-states-into-a-sauna/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists' fury as 67-million-year-old T. rex skeleton fetches record-breaking &pound;37m - and disappears into private hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fearsome T.rex that once ruled the Earth has found itself at the centre of a very modern battle - between scientists and the super-rich.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-fury-as-67-million-year-old-t-rex-skeleton-fetches-record-breaking-pound37m-and-disappears-into-private-hands/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-fury-as-67-million-year-old-t-rex-skeleton-fetches-record-breaking-pound37m-and-disappears-into-private-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has made good on a promise to make Windows Search less of a chore to use, making tweaks to remove "promotional content" from web results and options to focus on local results. The changes are currently limited to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. March Rogers, partner director for product design for Windows at Microsoft, stated that they were on their way when Microsoft announced the Windows 11 26H2 update, and the scope of the changes will delight Windows Search users who]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-search-updates-and-theyre-quite-good/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-search-updates-and-theyre-quite-good/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrannosaurus rex most expensive dinosaur ever sold]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dinosaur skeleton, which roamed the planet 67 million years ago, was sold by Sotheby's in New York.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tyrannosaurus-rex-most-expensive-dinosaur-ever-sold/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tyrannosaurus-rex-most-expensive-dinosaur-ever-sold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwave conditions in NI for second time this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[That heat threshold must be met for at least three consecutive days at the same weather station to be a heatwave.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-conditions-in-ni-for-second-time-this-summer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-conditions-in-ni-for-second-time-this-summer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite strawberries hit with 'highly toxic' allegations and claims of cancer-linked chemicals]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's best-selling berry brand has been sued over allegations that its strawberries contained cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' that shoppers were never told about.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-strawberries-hit-with-highly-toxic-allegations-and-claims-of-cancer-linked-chemicals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-strawberries-hit-with-highly-toxic-allegations-and-claims-of-cancer-linked-chemicals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The futuristic pod that could help your family survive the apocalypse: £35,000 mobile Lifepod can fend off everything from bullets to bombings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Momentum Technologies, a tech company based in France , has unveiled a mobile pod that can fend off everything from bullets to bombings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-futuristic-pod-that-could-help-your-family-survive-the-apocalypse-35000-mobile-lifepod-can-fend-off-everything-from-bullets-to-bombings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-futuristic-pod-that-could-help-your-family-survive-the-apocalypse-35000-mobile-lifepod-can-fend-off-everything-from-bullets-to-bombings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative, or HFI for short, is simple and appealing in principle, but will be considerably harder to implement. From the project's own description, it aims to provide a BIOS-like experience, familiar from x86 PCs, for RISC-V hardware. When the machine starts, the firmware would identify the system and its hardware, list what peripherals are connected,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/risc-v-firmware-project-wants-every-board-booting-from-the-same-hymn-sheet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/risc-v-firmware-project-wants-every-board-booting-from-the-same-hymn-sheet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Builds the Digital Police State While Americans Attend The Political Circus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flock&rsquo;s initial funders included Arch-Technocrats Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel. They just ran it up the flagpole and skipped the consent part. Now Flock is embedded in every state in America &ndash; all 115,217 cameras, and growing. Kick Flock back to starting gate by joining the nationwide protest on August 16-22 by going to https://noalprs.com/. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.&ldquo;You had to live&mdash;did live, from habit that became instinct&mdash;in the assumption that every sound]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/flock-builds-the-digital-police-state-while-americans-attend-the-political-circus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/flock-builds-the-digital-police-state-while-americans-attend-the-political-circus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technocrats Are Closing In On Passage Of CLARITY Act]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump wears many hats and one of them is Technocrat-in-Chief. He lobbies the Senate for the Arch-Technocrats in Washington, DC., not with a heavy-handed approach as before, but appealing to sentiment for the late Senator Lindsey Graham who was &ldquo;a big supporter.&rdquo; If passed, the CLARITY Act will cement Technocracy to the foundation of our country. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.The Senate returns to Washington on July 13, with the clock running down on the most consequential pi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocrats-are-closing-in-on-passage-of-clarity-act/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocrats-are-closing-in-on-passage-of-clarity-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took the unusual step of publishing preliminary quarterly results alongside a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna explaining why the numbers fell short of expectations. The biggest disappointment came in Infrastructure, where revenue fell 7 p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic-stock-sheds-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-value/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic-stock-sheds-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-value/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock loses more than a quarter of its value]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took the unusual step of publishing preliminary quarterly results alongside a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna explaining why the numbers fell short of expectations. The biggest disappointment came in Infrastructure, where revenue fell 7 p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic-stock-loses-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-value/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic-stock-loses-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-value/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course. Ahead of its full calendar Q2 earnings release next week, IBM took the unusual step of publishing preliminary quarterly results alongside a letter from CEO Arvind Krishna explaining why the numbers fell short of expectations. The biggest disappointment came in Infrastructure, where revenue fell 7 p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has performed a rocket switcheroo and will launch its SunRISE mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur on which it was originally booked to fly. The mission is flying as a rideshare sponsored by the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command, which might go some way to explaining the decision to change the launch vehicle. In February, the fourth Vulcan Centaur flight experienced a booster anomaly during a US Space Force launch. The p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sun-sets-on-vulcan-centaur-as-nasa-moves-sunrise-to-spacex-falcon-heavy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sun-sets-on-vulcan-centaur-as-nasa-moves-sunrise-to-spacex-falcon-heavy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole]]></title><description><![CDATA["Can it run Linux?" has joined "Can it run Doom?" as the benchmark for coaxing unlikely hardware into doing complicated things. One enterprising engineer has now brought penguins to the Sega 32X. Fresh from wrangling Linux into life on the ill-fated Atari Jagua games console, a Spanish engineer calling himself cakehonolulu has performed the same trick with Sega's equally unsuccessful 32X and managed to run the operating system on hardware designed for gaming in the 1990s. The Sega 32X was an add]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/engineer-shoves-linux-peg-through-sega-32x-shaped-hole/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/engineer-shoves-linux-peg-through-sega-32x-shaped-hole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted. AI safety researcher Cereblab published a report on Sunday about their investigation into Grok Build, SpaceXAI's command-line interface (CLI), and the data exchanged between the CLI and SpaceXAI's servers. Cereblab found that when Grok Build reads or process]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes]]></title><description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE A jailbroken Google Gemini did 90 percent of the work in a credential- and cryptocurrency-stealing spree, including spinning up a new command-and-control (C2) server in just six minutes, according to a TrendAI report shared exclusively with The Register. The human behind the heist &ndash; a solo Russian-speaking miscreant known as &ldquo;bandcampro&rdquo; &ndash; acted as the manager of the cyber-fraud operation, which targeted hardcore Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists. Meanwh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-bots-are-alive-jailbroken-gemini-spun-up-new-c2-server-for-russian-fraudster-in-just-6-minutes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-bots-are-alive-jailbroken-gemini-spun-up-new-c2-server-for-russian-fraudster-in-just-6-minutes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers' surprise at discovery of new stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Warwick University team, working with US astronomers, find four, previously hidden, white dwarf stars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/astronomers-surprise-at-discovery-of-new-stars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/astronomers-surprise-at-discovery-of-new-stars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists reveal the most attractive facial features in men and women - and David Gandy and Margot Robbie are the closest real-life examples]]></title><description><![CDATA[They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but scientists believe they have identified the facial features most people find irresistible.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-reveal-the-most-attractive-facial-features-in-men-and-women-and-david-gandy-and-margot-robbie-are-the-closest-real-life-examples/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-reveal-the-most-attractive-facial-features-in-men-and-women-and-david-gandy-and-margot-robbie-are-the-closest-real-life-examples/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Privacy campaigners, browser makers, and VPN providers have united to warn the UK government against restricting virtual private networks, saying age-gating the technology would weaken online security while doing little to stop kids dodging social media bans. The Open Rights Group on Tuesday published an open letter signed by more than 20 organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ExpressVPN, the Internet Society, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, and the Tor Project. It urges minister]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hands-off-our-vpns-privacy-groups-tell-uk-ministers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hands-off-our-vpns-privacy-groups-tell-uk-ministers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-head of the game! England is the most dangerous team in the AIR at the World Cup - with impressively accurate headers, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists from Northeastern University have analysed the headers performed by teams at the World Cup so far.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-head-of-the-game-england-is-the-most-dangerous-team-in-the-air-at-the-world-cup-with-impressively-accurate-headers-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-head-of-the-game-england-is-the-most-dangerous-team-in-the-air-at-the-world-cup-with-impressively-accurate-headers-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning over uptick in terrifying Zika virus that causes brain damage - Britons are bringing it back from popular beach destinations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have warned that cases of Zika virus are rising rapidly. Zika is an illness typically transmitted after being bitten by an infected mosquito.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-over-uptick-in-terrifying-zika-virus-that-causes-brain-damage-britons-are-bringing-it-back-from-popular-beach-destinations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-over-uptick-in-terrifying-zika-virus-that-causes-brain-damage-britons-are-bringing-it-back-from-popular-beach-destinations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA has added two critical Joomla extension bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after attackers were caught exploiting both flaws to upload malicious code onto vulnerable websites. The newly listed bugs affect iCagenda, an events calendar extension for the open source Joomla content management system, and Balbooa Forms, a popular form builder used to collect contact requests, registrations, surveys, and file uploads. Joomla powers roughly 1.2 percent of all websites &ndash; arou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/baddies-caught-exploiting-extensions-bugs-with-perfect-10-scores-on-vulnerable-joomla-websites/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/baddies-caught-exploiting-extensions-bugs-with-perfect-10-scores-on-vulnerable-joomla-websites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp has quietly introduced a new message animation that has left users FURIOUS - as one vents 'there has to be some way to get rid of that']]></title><description><![CDATA[The Meta-owned app has quietly introduced a new animation for sent message bubbles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-has-quietly-introduced-a-new-message-animation-that-has-left-users-furious-as-one-vents-there-has-to-be-some-way-to-get-rid-of-that/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-has-quietly-introduced-a-new-message-animation-that-has-left-users-furious-as-one-vents-there-has-to-be-some-way-to-get-rid-of-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wayland is dominating the recent news about FOSS GUIs &ndash; even dignified elder Xfce&rsquo;s official support is getting close. However, X11 is very much not dead yet, and new developments keep appearing. Last week, Norwegian FOSS developer Geir Isene announced his all-new server for the venerable X11 display protocol. Its description is in the title of the announcement post: Frame - the first Linux Assembly X server. Isene explains his motivation thus: &ldquo;On my quest to own my software,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frame-a-new-x11-server-implemented-directly-in-assembly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frame-a-new-x11-server-implemented-directly-in-assembly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp has made a subtle change that has left users FURIOUS - as one vents 'there has to be some way to get rid of that']]></title><description><![CDATA[The Meta-owned app has quietly introduced a new animation for sent message bubbles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-has-made-a-subtle-change-that-has-left-users-furious-as-one-vents-there-has-to-be-some-way-to-get-rid-of-that/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-has-made-a-subtle-change-that-has-left-users-furious-as-one-vents-there-has-to-be-some-way-to-get-rid-of-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested systems it plans to use on the nation's first crewed space mission, but when that mission will launch remains a mystery. ISRO's crewed mission program, "Gaganyaan," is intended to carry astronauts on a rocket called the Human-Rated Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (HLVM3) into orbit. The space agency has already launched the cargo-rated version of the three-stage LVM3 rocket nine times and has a perfect success rate. When India launches huma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-crewed-space-mission-is-ready-for-splashdown-but-not-launch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-crewed-space-mission-is-ready-for-splashdown-but-not-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Franken-trout' are infesting Scottish lochs: Artificially enlarged fish are 20 TIMES heavier than normal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificially enlarged 'Franken-trout' that have ballooned to 20 times their usual weight are taking over Scottish lochs, activists claim.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/franken-trout-are-infesting-scottish-lochs-artificially-enlarged-fish-are-20-times-heavier-than-normal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/franken-trout-are-infesting-scottish-lochs-artificially-enlarged-fish-are-20-times-heavier-than-normal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to beat the heat? Scientists claim applying YOGHURT to the outside of your windows can cool your home by as much as 3.5°C]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Ben Roberts,&nbsp;a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, claims Brits should apply yoghurt to the outside of their windows.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trying-to-beat-the-heat-scientists-claim-applying-yoghurt-to-the-outside-of-your-windows-can-cool-your-home-by-as-much-as-35c/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trying-to-beat-the-heat-scientists-claim-applying-yoghurt-to-the-outside-of-your-windows-can-cool-your-home-by-as-much-as-35c/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you solve a problem like Capita?]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION Capita's share price tanked 9 percent last week after it told investors it was taking a hit on its contract with the UK government's Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), which has left some of its 1.7 million members unpaid following a disastrous launch. A trading update said operating profit would be down between &pound;25 million and &pound;40 million in 2026 as a result. Sage voices were soon on hand to calm fears, though. "The scale of the reaction sits oddly with the contract's mode]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-capita/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-capita/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whitehall has spent time and taxpayer money confirming that teenagers who spend less time on social media tend to be happier, better rested, and more willing to interact with the people sitting in the same house. Ministers say the government-backed trial strengthens the case for their planned ban on social media access for under-16s after providing real-world evidence that cutting back on apps does exactly what parents have been saying for years. The study followed more than 300 families across]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ministers-arm-under-16s-social-media-ban-with-least-surprising-study-of-the-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ministers-arm-under-16s-social-media-ban-with-least-surprising-study-of-the-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why your flights are getting bumpier: Experts reveal the surprising reason severe turbulence has soared by 55 per cent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The seatbelt sign is staying on for longer. New research shows severe turbulence has jumped. Here's why your next flight could be a rougher ride.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-your-flights-are-getting-bumpier-experts-reveal-the-surprising-reason-severe-turbulence-has-soared-by-55-per-cent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-your-flights-are-getting-bumpier-experts-reveal-the-surprising-reason-severe-turbulence-has-soared-by-55-per-cent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude looks substantially more token-hungry than OpenAI's GPT-5.x, thanks to the new tokenizer that Anthropic shipped with recent releases. Large language models (LLMs) use tokenizers to handle the mapping of text into tokens. There's no set definition of a token, but they're typically a set of three or four characters that are mapped to the integers LLMs actually process. Tokens have become the basic economic unit for billing use of AI models. Because the slicing of words into tokens and the t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropics-extravagant-tokenizer-complicates-ai-pricing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropics-extravagant-tokenizer-complicates-ai-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has again teased small hardware, this time in the form of an update for its smallest POWER server. The model S1112, teased Tuesday in a customer announcement, is a 2U, single-socket POWER11 server IBM offers in rack-mountable and what the company calls &ldquo;Tower/deskside configuration.&rdquo; The rackable model can handle a ten-core POWER processor. The Tower/deskside form factor machine must make do with a four-core engine IBM seems to have two roles in mind for the new machines: edge de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-blue-thinks-small-again-with-power-tower/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-blue-thinks-small-again-with-power-tower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Blue thinks small, again, with 2U POWER tower]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has again teased small hardware, this time in the form of an update for its smallest POWER server. The model S1112, teased Tuesday in a customer announcement, is a 2U, single-socket POWER11 server IBM offers in rack-mountable and what the company calls &ldquo;Tower/deskside configuration.&rdquo; The rackable model can handle a ten-core POWER processor. The Tower/deskside form factor machine must make do with a four-core engine IBM seems to have two roles in mind for the new machines: edge de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-blue-thinks-small-again-with-2u-power-tower/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-blue-thinks-small-again-with-2u-power-tower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian tech services giant and retro software house HCL has decided to get into the AI datacenter business. The company yesterday revealed its plan in an announcement [PDF] released alongside its Q1 results, which included news of three-percent year-over-year revenue growth to $3.65 billion and 20 percent growth in net income which reached $488 million. CEO C. Vijayakumar also pointed to 62 percent year-over-year revenue growth for a segment HCL calls &ldquo;Advanced AI&rdquo; that encompasses b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-tech-services-giant-hcl-is-getting-into-the-ai-datacenter-business/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-tech-services-giant-hcl-is-getting-into-the-ai-datacenter-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hardest problem in AI is no longer the chip but the megawatt. For much of the past three years, the global AI race has focused on semiconductors, with governments competing for advanced chips, technology outfits scrambling to secure GPUs, and investors pouring billions into ever larger datacenters. Yet the binding constraint has shifted from compute to the power required to run it. For anyone trying to energize a new AI cluster today, the bottleneck is rarely silicon; it is grid access, inte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gobi-x-creating-more-energy-for-ai-not-taking-it-from-society/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gobi-x-creating-more-energy-for-ai-not-taking-it-from-society/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. On Monday, the social networking singularity said it would spend $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts. The news comes less than a week after a report broke claiming that Meta was actively exploring options to offload its excess compute capacity to other AI labs. So, which is it, Zuck? Did you invest too much or too little in AI? The easy answer is that Meta overcommitted.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zucks-ai-ambitions-put-meta-on-course-to-become-americas-next-big-cloud-provider/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zucks-ai-ambitions-put-meta-on-course-to-become-americas-next-big-cloud-provider/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’]]></title><description><![CDATA[An AI rewrite of a popular Anthropic-owned JavaScript runtime and toolchain has sparked praise for the speed of its execution, but also criticism of the coding practices behind the project itself. Last week, Bun creator Jarred Sumner announced that he ported Bun from the Zig programming language to Rust in only 11 days, using a fleet of Claude agents running in parallel. The work cost an estimated $165,000 at API pricing, suggesting that software revisions previously considered too large to unde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zig-creator-calls-buns-claude-rust-rewrite-unreviewed-slop/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zig-creator-calls-buns-claude-rust-rewrite-unreviewed-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Most AI Is Now Written by AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the better part of the last two years, I have been tracking what appeared to be a reasonably predictable pattern in AI development: a doubling of capability roughly every 3.5 months. That figure came from METR&rsquo;s time horizon benchmarks &mdash; measurements of how long an AI agent can work autonomously on a task before failing. Early 2024 through early 2026, the data held with uncomfortable consistency. If you plotted it, the curve bent upward with almost mechanical precision.<br />
I say &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai-3/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai-3/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Most AI Is Now Written by — AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the better part of the last two years, I have been tracking what appeared to be a reasonably predictable pattern in AI development: a doubling of capability roughly every 3.5 months. That figure came from METR&rsquo;s time horizon benchmarks &mdash; measurements of how long an AI agent can work autonomously on a task before failing. Early 2024 through early 2026, the data held with uncomfortable consistency. If you plotted it, the curve bent upward with almost mechanical precision.<br />
I say &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Most AI Is Now Written by… AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Check the counter to the right ==&gt;<br />
For the better part of the last two years, I have been tracking what appeared to be a reasonably predictable pattern in AI development: a doubling of capability roughly every 3.5 months. That figure came from METR&rsquo;s time horizon benchmarks &mdash; measurements of how long an AI agent can work autonomously on a task before failing. Early 2024 through early 2026, the data held with uncomfortable consistency. If you plotted it, the curve bent upward with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-most-ai-is-now-written-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biggest great white shark ever recorded in Atlantic resurfaces after vanishing for months]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gigantic great white shark that disappeared near the East Coast three months ago has been spotted again as thousands of its fellow predators near US beaches.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/biggest-great-white-shark-ever-recorded-in-atlantic-resurfaces-after-vanishing-for-months/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/biggest-great-white-shark-ever-recorded-in-atlantic-resurfaces-after-vanishing-for-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Excel games have gone extreme, tossing four top competitors into urban wilds around the world in a one-off battle, which reigning champion Diarmuid Early won at the last minute. Irish phenom Early captured the win in the Microsoft Excel World Championship&rsquo;s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle over the weekend after a last-minute comeback that saw him take down Andrew Ngai by a mere 40 points (1060 to 1020) in the 30-minute contest. Jaq Kennedy and Nicolas Micot made up the back half of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/excel-competition-goes-extreme-makes-spreadsheet-geeks-compete-from-the-street/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/excel-competition-goes-extreme-makes-spreadsheet-geeks-compete-from-the-street/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wildfire raging south of Paris could have been set deliberately, says minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[The interior minister has said the fire near Paris could have been set deliberately and two people have been arrested.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wildfire-raging-south-of-paris-could-have-been-set-deliberately-says-minister/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wildfire-raging-south-of-paris-could-have-been-set-deliberately-says-minister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple issues warning to all iPhone owners as criminals weaponize FaceTime to drain bank accounts... here's how to stay safe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has issued a new warning to all iPhone users, alerting them to a fast-growing scam that is draining victims' bank accounts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-issues-warning-to-all-iphone-owners-as-criminals-weaponize-facetime-to-drain-bank-accounts-heres-how-to-stay-safe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-issues-warning-to-all-iphone-owners-as-criminals-weaponize-facetime-to-drain-bank-accounts-heres-how-to-stay-safe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to AI services, you don't necessarily get what you pay for. It turns out that AI models with expensive tokens may cost less than models with cheap tokens for particular tasks. And the tooling attached to those models can have a significant effect on cost and output quality. Databricks, which sells data analytics software and services, recently devised an internal coding benchmark to assess the tradeoff between price and performance using various AI models. Matei Zaharia, CTO of Dat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-price-is-wrong-ai-cost-calculation-has-to-consider-task-completion-rates-not-just-token-costs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-price-is-wrong-ai-cost-calculation-has-to-consider-task-completion-rates-not-just-token-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California rocked by ANOTHER earthquake as experts warn terrifying fault line that will unleash the Big One has officially been 'unlocked']]></title><description><![CDATA[An earthquake has struck California in a rare location which has not seen a seismic event in the 21st century, with one expert saying it is a sign of the Big One.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/california-rocked-by-another-earthquake-as-experts-warn-terrifying-fault-line-that-will-unleash-the-big-one-has-officially-been-unlocked/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/california-rocked-by-another-earthquake-as-experts-warn-terrifying-fault-line-that-will-unleash-the-big-one-has-officially-been-unlocked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient book banned from the Bible fuels theory of fallen angels imprisoned beneath Antarctica]]></title><description><![CDATA[The theory links chilling passages from sacred texts banned from the Bible to mysterious features hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-book-banned-from-the-bible-fuels-theory-of-fallen-angels-imprisoned-beneath-antarctica/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-book-banned-from-the-bible-fuels-theory-of-fallen-angels-imprisoned-beneath-antarctica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seemingly unaware of the concept of irony, Satya Nadella is warning AI-using enterprises to take care not to give away their business secrets alongside the massive piles of cash they&rsquo;re forking over to frontier labs every month. Writing in a long-form post on X over the weekend, the Microsoft CEO and chairman warned of what he called the &ldquo;reverse information paradox,&rdquo; a situation in which purchasers of AI essentially pay for the intelligence product they&rsquo;re getting twice:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[German textile company ZEGO Textilveredelungszentrum has filed for insolvency and is blaming the financial fallout from a March cyberattack that knocked its production offline for nearly six weeks. ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fatal to their business. The Bavaria-based company provides textile finishing, processing, and treatment services for customers across industries, including automotive, workwear, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/german-firm-files-for-insolvency-blames-cybercrims-who-shut-down-production-for-6-weeks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/german-firm-files-for-insolvency-blames-cybercrims-who-shut-down-production-for-6-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred text banned from the Bible points to hidden realm beneath Antarctica]]></title><description><![CDATA[The theory links chilling passages from sacred texts banned from the Bible to mysterious features hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sacred-text-banned-from-the-bible-points-to-hidden-realm-beneath-antarctica/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sacred-text-banned-from-the-bible-points-to-hidden-realm-beneath-antarctica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare California earthquake has 'unlocked' terrifying fault line that will unleash the Big One, geophysicist warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[An earthquake has struck California in a rare location which has not seen a seismic event in the 21st century, with one expert saying it is a sign of the Big One.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-california-earthquake-has-unlocked-terrifying-fault-line-that-will-unleash-the-big-one-geophysicist-warns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-california-earthquake-has-unlocked-terrifying-fault-line-that-will-unleash-the-big-one-geophysicist-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have detected a sugar in interstellar space, suggesting the galaxy may be liberally sprinkled with some of life's chemical ingredients. A new study shows that a sugar molecule containing four carbon atoms, called erythrulose, has been found near the center of the Milky Way, the first confirmed detection of a monosaccharide in the interstellar medium. Living organisms use sugars as energy sources, structural components, and constituents of genetic material. While scientists have previo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/astronomers-find-sugar-near-the-creamy-center-of-the-milky-way-no-caramel-though/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/astronomers-find-sugar-near-the-creamy-center-of-the-milky-way-no-caramel-though/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philips is replacing Hue Bridge Pro devices after a software update left several units bricked with no way for users to restore them. Rumblings began in forums in June after a seemingly innocuous update left users, quite literally, in the dark. After a few weeks attempting to resolve the issues, Philips has thrown in the towel and said it will replace affected devices. A spokesperson told The Register, "We have identified a firmware issue affecting a limited number of Philips Hue Bridge Pro devi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/philips-to-replace-bricked-hue-bridge-pro-devices/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/philips-to-replace-bricked-hue-bridge-pro-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK and EU are demanding urgent action from critical infrastructure organizations after formally attributing the December 2025 cyberattack on Poland's power grid to Russia's Federal Security Service. The Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office (FCDO) described the attack, carried out by the FSB's Centre 16 division, as "another example of the Russian state's irresponsible attempts to sow chaos across Europe." Milosz Motyka, Poland's energy minister, confirmed the attack on the country']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-and-uk-officially-blame-russian-spies-for-cyberattack-on-polands-power-grid/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-and-uk-officially-blame-russian-spies-for-cyberattack-on-polands-power-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is Technocracy Persecuting Christians In China?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Technocracy can&rsquo;t control, it crushes. No outliers allowed. Chinese Christians only meet underground in order to escape prison, or worse. As the &ldquo;system&rdquo; of Technocracy in China gets more entrenched, the number of house churches increases and intolerance builds against those those who pledge allegiance to Christ and the Bible, not to the system.<br />
China has &ldquo;official&rdquo; churches that are not harassed because they are heavily controlled. Similarly in America, a stat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-is-technocracy-persecuting-christians-in-china/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-is-technocracy-persecuting-christians-in-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning as sharks move into unexpected US waters: See the popular beaches where predators are now lurking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shark sightings are on the rise and a hotspot has emerged in a surprising place in the north Atlantic, sparking new beach warnings and fears of shark attacks in unlikely states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-sharks-move-into-unexpected-us-waters-see-the-popular-beaches-where-predators-are-now-lurking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-sharks-move-into-unexpected-us-waters-see-the-popular-beaches-where-predators-are-now-lurking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two capybara pups born to UK's only breeding pair]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pups are currently in a purpose-built nursery area, complete with private pool.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/two-capybara-pups-born-to-uks-only-breeding-pair/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/two-capybara-pups-born-to-uks-only-breeding-pair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning as sharks move into unexpected US waters: Shocking map reveals popular US beaches now in the danger zone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shark sightings are on the rise and a hotspot has emerged in a surprising place in the north Atlantic, sparking new beach warnings and fears of shark attacks in unlikely states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-sharks-move-into-unexpected-us-waters-shocking-map-reveals-popular-us-beaches-now-in-the-danger-zone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-sharks-move-into-unexpected-us-waters-shocking-map-reveals-popular-us-beaches-now-in-the-danger-zone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SREs to AI agents: Prove yourself before you touch production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trusting an AI agent to summarize user complaints about downtime is one thing; trusting it to fix the problem unattended is something else entirely. A survey of 696 experts The Register ran with NeuBird AI in April 2026 found that 73 percent are not using AIOps at all, another 19 percent are in pilot, and only eight percent have it in production. Asked what's stopping them, 60 percent of respondents cited a lack of trust, by far the biggest issue, with concerns about ROI, security and data quali]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sres-to-ai-agents-prove-yourself-before-you-touch-production/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sres-to-ai-agents-prove-yourself-before-you-touch-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists detect SUGAR in the centre of the Milky Way - in a breakthrough that could explain how life began on Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have detected sugar in the depths of interstellar space for the first time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-detect-sugar-in-the-centre-of-the-milky-way-in-a-breakthrough-that-could-explain-how-life-began-on-earth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-detect-sugar-in-the-centre-of-the-milky-way-in-a-breakthrough-that-could-explain-how-life-began-on-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does England have what it takes to beat Argentina? Psychologists say the Three Lions hold the mental edge ahead of the semi-final]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, fans across England will hold their breaths as the Three Lions take on Argentina in the nail-biting World Cup semi final. So, does England have what it takes to win the game?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-england-have-what-it-takes-to-beat-argentina-psychologists-say-the-three-lions-hold-the-mental-edge-ahead-of-the-semi-final/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-england-have-what-it-takes-to-beat-argentina-psychologists-say-the-three-lions-hold-the-mental-edge-ahead-of-the-semi-final/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[KETTLE Like a drug dealer who's hooked you and raised their prices, business leaders are simply shocked to learn the AI their organizations are becoming dependent on is suddenly a lot more expensive. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube where you can subscribe to get notified of the latest episode.Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by Reg reporter Lindsay Clark and contributor Joab Jackson this week to di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sticker-shock-has-execs-rethinking-this-whole-ai-thing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sticker-shock-has-execs-rethinking-this-whole-ai-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is scheduling another test flight of its monster Starship rocket later this week. Flight test 13 will carry 20 Starlink satellites and, hopefully, will not repeat the anomalies seen during the previous test. The mission is set to launch on Thursday, July 16, with a 90-minute launch window opening at 2245 UTC. It will carry next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, deploying them during the vehicle's sub-orbital lob. The plan is for the 20 satellites to extend their solar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lucky-13-spacex-aims-for-july-16-starship-flight-test/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lucky-13-spacex-aims-for-july-16-starship-flight-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work to protect adders, slow worms and lizards in Scots peatland]]></title><description><![CDATA[New shelters are being created at the site near Dumfries, using peat, tree material and brash.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/work-to-protect-adders-slow-worms-and-lizards-in-scots-peatland/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/work-to-protect-adders-slow-worms-and-lizards-in-scots-peatland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has begun sending its email of shame to Windows 10 consumers, reminding them that Extended Security Updates will run for an extra year. Strangely, some email clients are treating this latest emission as mere spam. Microsoft last month extended consumer ESU coverage through October 12, 2027. The company is now notifying those customers who might not have noticed the update on the support page that they've got another year to buy a new PC. The email talks about "our ongoing commitment to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-emails-windows-10-holdouts-fine-keep-your-old-pc-another-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-emails-windows-10-holdouts-fine-keep-your-old-pc-another-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women really ARE better at multitasking! Study shows men can't hold a conversation while busy - but ladies find it easy]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've ever accused your partner of not listening while they're busy doing something else, science may finally have your back.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/women-really-are-better-at-multitasking-study-shows-men-cant-hold-a-conversation-while-busy-but-ladies-find-it-easy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/women-really-are-better-at-multitasking-study-shows-men-cant-hold-a-conversation-while-busy-but-ladies-find-it-easy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Cup grudge attackers may have scored Argentine FA access via year-old infostealer infection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hudson Rock says the suspected compromise of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) may be linked to an infostealer infection nearly a year earlier. The incident appears to be the work of an aggrieved football fan, or group of them, after Argentina eliminated Egypt from the World Cup round of 16. Egypt's coach and football association complained about several refereeing and VAR decisions, which they said contributed to the result. The compromise of AFA's systems was spotted after mass emails w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/world-cup-grudge-attackers-may-have-scored-argentine-fa-access-via-year-old-infostealer-infection/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/world-cup-grudge-attackers-may-have-scored-argentine-fa-access-via-year-old-infostealer-infection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST]]></title><description><![CDATA["Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and gateways the go-ahead to cache complex query responses and automatically retry failed requests. HTTP has long allowed automatic retries for idempotent methods, but complex queries are often sent using POST, which intermediaries cannot safely assume is retryable. Developers have worked around that limitation for decades. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/http-gets-a-query-method-so-complex-searches-can-stop-pretending-to-be-post/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/http-gets-a-query-method-so-complex-searches-can-stop-pretending-to-be-post/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Milky Way is even BIGGER than we thought: Research reveals how our galaxy's gigantic spiral arms stretch 10% further than previously believed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Milky Way is even bigger than we thought, a new study has revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-milky-way-is-even-bigger-than-we-thought-research-reveals-how-our-galaxys-gigantic-spiral-arms-stretch-10-further-than-previously-believed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-milky-way-is-even-bigger-than-we-thought-research-reveals-how-our-galaxys-gigantic-spiral-arms-stretch-10-further-than-previously-believed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Progress Software has ordered some ShareFile customers to pull the plug on their own servers after detecting what it describes as a "credible external security threat" targeting the on-premises component of its enterprise file-sharing platform. The emergency warning, sent by email and seen by The Register, instructed organizations running ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers to take the unusual step of manually shutting down the Windows servers that host the software, with no patch or configuratio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/progress-orders-emergency-sharefile-server-shutdown-over-mystery-security-threat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/progress-orders-emergency-sharefile-server-shutdown-over-mystery-security-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1976's record has been broken! Britain smashes 50-year-old milestone with 15 days over 30&deg;C]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's known as one of the most remarkable summers of British history - but 1976's 30&deg;C record has been broken, experts revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/1976s-record-has-been-broken-britain-smashes-50-year-old-milestone-with-15-days-over-30degc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/1976s-record-has-been-broken-britain-smashes-50-year-old-milestone-with-15-days-over-30degc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backup and running? Not this digital sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft and backup are two words often uttered together, usually in the form of "Microsoft Windows has crashed again, where's my backup?" The question is: what would a backup look like for a digital sign in Derby? Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader "nategee" on a stroll in Derby, this sign appears to have spent much of the day pleading to be backed up. This poses an interesting question. What, exactly, would constitute a backup for a sign? Microsoft would obviously like somebody to log in w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/backup-and-running-not-this-digital-sign/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/backup-and-running-not-this-digital-sign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling anxious? Blame it on the weatherman! Study reveals how dodgy weather forecasts can stir up emotions deep within you]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's nothing more annoying than cancelling plans because rain is forecast, only to be greeted by sunshine. Now, a study reveals why inaccurate forecasts make us emotional.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/feeling-anxious-blame-it-on-the-weatherman-study-reveals-how-dodgy-weather-forecasts-can-stir-up-emotions-deep-within-you/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/feeling-anxious-blame-it-on-the-weatherman-study-reveals-how-dodgy-weather-forecasts-can-stir-up-emotions-deep-within-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is just over a year since a pilot project to install photovoltaics on a railway line kicked off. According to the CEO of Sun-Ways, the company behind the scheme, the challenge was not so much technical as regulatory. The project, a 100-meter photovoltaic installation on a railway line open to traffic, was inaugurated on April 24, 2025 in Buttes, Switzerland. It's fair to say it went well; the 48 solar panels wedged between the tracks have generated more than 19 MWh to date. According to the c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/photovoltaics-are-still-running-after-a-year-under-swiss-trains/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/photovoltaics-are-still-running-after-a-year-under-swiss-trains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office and Windows licenses, and made a fairy tale argument in court to make it so. Our hero did not get its wish, not then, and not now with the UK Court of Appeals. The traditional reason companies dislike reseller markets is the obvious one that they don&rsquo;t get any revenue. The law, h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-is-losing-the-battle-to-protect-license-lucre-it-better-get-used-to-the-feeling/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-is-losing-the-battle-to-protect-license-lucre-it-better-get-used-to-the-feeling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI needs a home, not a hotel]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI discussions have moved past which model to run or which use case to tackle first. Enterprises developing their own private AI now face a more consequential question: where that AI should live. Drifting into public cloud because it feels familiar or delivers quick wins, without asking whether the environment meets AI's specific demands, tends to store up problems that compound with time. AI is not a transient workload. It is persistent, data-hungry, and deeply sensitive, drawing on proprietary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-needs-a-home-not-a-hotel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-needs-a-home-not-a-hotel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has filed a lawsuit against former employees who now work at OpenAI, and the AI upstart itself, alleging theft of intellectual property. Cupertino&rsquo;s complaint [PDF] opens with an accusation that a former employee joined OpenAI after eight years at Apple, and on his way out dodged an exit interview and didn&rsquo;t return his work laptop. The filing alleges that once he &ldquo;exploited a rare, previously unknown authentication bug to access Apple&rsquo;s shared network folders&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-accuses-openai-of-stealing-its-core-tech-secrets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-accuses-openai-of-stealing-its-core-tech-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHO, ME? Welcome to the working week, dear reader, which as always we open with a fresh instalment of &ldquo;Who, Me?&rdquo; &ndash; the reader-contributed column that offers an education in how not to do things at work. This week, meet a reader we&rsquo;ll Regomize as &ldquo;Roger&rdquo; who told us that a decade or so back he managed teams that designed electronic shop tools and associated test kit. Roger admits he had begun to find the job a little boring, and so he sometimes found himself ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/user-crippled-a-network-while-trying-to-learn-nmap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/user-crippled-a-network-while-trying-to-learn-nmap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare floodplain meadow given to wildlife trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Floodplain meadows are one of the rarest habitats in England, says the wildlife trust.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-floodplain-meadow-given-to-wildlife-trust/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-floodplain-meadow-given-to-wildlife-trust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dune project aims to aid rare toads and beetles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cumbria is one of the natterjack toad's last strongholds in Britain, a conservationist says.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dune-project-aims-to-aid-rare-toads-and-beetles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dune-project-aims-to-aid-rare-toads-and-beetles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has withdrawn the first image generation product created by its Superintelligence Labs fewer than 72 hours after launch. The product was called &ldquo;Muse Image&rdquo; and Meta launched it on July 8, billing it as &ldquo;the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.&rdquo; That lab is Zuck&rsquo;s latest big bet and aims to create a &ldquo;personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them.&rdquo; In the case of Muse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-admits-its-first-superintelligence-was-too-stupid-to-survive-for-three-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-admits-its-first-superintelligence-was-too-stupid-to-survive-for-three-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASIA IN BRIEF Lenovo has denied it sells laptops that include banned Chinese storage devices where they're not allowed. An outlet called Notebookcheck recently reported that it a ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL and found a solid-state disk made by Chinese company YMTC inside. Some observers joined the dots and decided the laptop could be a problem for Lenovo because a Biden administration decision saw the US ban the company on national security grounds. Lenovo dug into the matter and found the laptop in que]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lenovo-denies-using-banned-chinese-ssds-where-theyre-not-allowed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lenovo-denies-using-banned-chinese-ssds-where-theyre-not-allowed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 years of Pok&eacute;mon Go and the millions still trying to catch 'em all]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Steranka, vice president at the mobile game's owner Scopely, says it has always been about bringing people together.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/10-years-of-pokeacutemon-go-and-the-millions-still-trying-to-catch-em-all/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/10-years-of-pokeacutemon-go-and-the-millions-still-trying-to-catch-em-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's May and June heatwaves were responsible for 2,700 deaths, shocking study predicts - as scientists warn the worst is yet to come]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain's scorching May and June heatwaves are thought to have claimed more than 2,700 lives, with almost half of those deaths fuelled by climate change.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-may-and-june-heatwaves-were-responsible-for-2700-deaths-shocking-study-predicts-as-scientists-warn-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-may-and-june-heatwaves-were-responsible-for-2700-deaths-shocking-study-predicts-as-scientists-warn-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New twist in mystery of dead and missing scientists: Experts uncover chilling link that ties four unsolved cases together... as questions swirl about unknown 'mentor']]></title><description><![CDATA[As investigators look to piece together how the mysterious deaths and disappearances of roughly a dozen experts tied to secretive US research facilities occurred, a pattern has emerged.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-twist-in-mystery-of-dead-and-missing-scientists-experts-uncover-chilling-link-that-ties-four-unsolved-cases-together-as-questions-swirl-about-unknown-mentor/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-twist-in-mystery-of-dead-and-missing-scientists-experts-uncover-chilling-link-that-ties-four-unsolved-cases-together-as-questions-swirl-about-unknown-mentor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten nuclear war survival guide reveals seven everyday items Americans need if disaster strikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the peace deal with Iran crumbles, a forgotten nuclear manual has reemerged with key tips on surviving World War III with needing expensive gear.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forgotten-nuclear-war-survival-guide-reveals-seven-everyday-items-americans-need-if-disaster-strikes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forgotten-nuclear-war-survival-guide-reveals-seven-everyday-items-americans-need-if-disaster-strikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vatican fired me after I claimed a word used 2,570 times in the Bible refers to alien beings]]></title><description><![CDATA[A biblical scholar was 'fired by the Vatican' for his interpretation of Scripture has revealed what he says is the true meaning of a frequently used word in the Holy Book.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-vatican-fired-me-after-i-claimed-a-word-used-2570-times-in-the-bible-refers-to-alien-beings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-vatican-fired-me-after-i-claimed-a-word-used-2570-times-in-the-bible-refers-to-alien-beings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a good time to be in the memory business. As the AI datacenter business booms, SK Hynix and Micron&rsquo;s revenues have tripled in the last year, and Samsung&rsquo;s has roughly doubled. But while the trio have the AI revolution to thank for their good fortune, the deck is stacked for a reversal. Such is the memory business historically. Today, sky high demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DDR5, and NAND flash memory needed for GPU servers has devoured any remaining capacity, lead]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/memory-makers-are-slaves-to-the-boom-bust-rollercoaster-and-the-ai-boom-is-the-wildest-ride-of-all/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/memory-makers-are-slaves-to-the-boom-bust-rollercoaster-and-the-ai-boom-is-the-wildest-ride-of-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most mysterious places on Earth where not a single human has set foot, revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the North Pole to the summit of Mount Everest, it might seem like intrepid explorers have already conquered every remaining frontier.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-most-mysterious-places-on-earth-where-not-a-single-human-has-set-foot-revealed/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-most-mysterious-places-on-earth-where-not-a-single-human-has-set-foot-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schools, work and outdoor activities have been suspended in Zhejiang province and many transport services cancelled.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-evacuates-nearly-two-million-people-as-powerful-typhoon-makes-landfall/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-evacuates-nearly-two-million-people-as-powerful-typhoon-makes-landfall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION Things you might not know about me. I was the first person to write a popular article about the web. Little did I, or anyone else, know how it would change everything. Our lives were transformed when all of human knowledge became just a click away. That was then. This is now. Today, more web traffic now comes from bots than humans. We're just picking up AI's crumbs. That was not how it was meant to be. Mind you, I was never an internet idealist. I didn't think the internet would set us f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-an-ai-web-and-were-just-rats-in-the-walls/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-an-ai-web-and-were-just-rats-in-the-walls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alderney set to welcome Britain in Bloom judges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alderney is set to represent the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the national Royal Horticultural Society awards.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alderney-set-to-welcome-britain-in-bloom-judges/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alderney-set-to-welcome-britain-in-bloom-judges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a &#8203;problem for scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/t-rex-could-become-most-expensive-fossil-ever-but-its-a-8203problem-for-scientists/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/t-rex-could-become-most-expensive-fossil-ever-but-its-a-8203problem-for-scientists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT scientist explains how the theory we're living in a simulation could prove Christianity right]]></title><description><![CDATA[A leading computer scientist believes the simulation theory, the idea that we live in a simulated reality, could actually strengthen Christianity.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mit-scientist-explains-how-the-theory-were-living-in-a-simulation-could-prove-christianity-right/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mit-scientist-explains-how-the-theory-were-living-in-a-simulation-could-prove-christianity-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day every affair will be exposed: Even infidelities from decades ago will be outed... experts reveal what cheaters must do immediately]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cheating partners will soon have nowhere to hide. A tech expert reveal the date, within the next 12 months, when it will all be outed...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-day-every-affair-will-be-exposed-even-infidelities-from-decades-ago-will-be-outed-experts-reveal-what-cheaters-must-do-immediately/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-day-every-affair-will-be-exposed-even-infidelities-from-decades-ago-will-be-outed-experts-reveal-what-cheaters-must-do-immediately/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House UFO insider: I'm finally exposing the government's high-definition satellite footage of 'alien tech'... you are only getting a fraction of the story]]></title><description><![CDATA[An investigative journalist who has helped bring secret UFO footage to the public has shared what he has learned from insiders about what the government isn't sharing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/white-house-ufo-insider-im-finally-exposing-the-governments-high-definition-satellite-footage-of-alien-tech-you-are-only-getting-a-fraction-of-the-story/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/white-house-ufo-insider-im-finally-exposing-the-governments-high-definition-satellite-footage-of-alien-tech-you-are-only-getting-a-fraction-of-the-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful]]></title><description><![CDATA[To cater to the broadest possible market, OpenAI and Anthropic build ever-larger models capable of making a brute-force attempt to tackle almost any task. These models are the Swiss Army Knives of the AI world. When used with sufficient force, they can do almost any job &hellip; but nobody needs a frontier class model to summarize emails, draft replies, or summarize meeting notes. It's cheaper and easier to train a small domain-specific model that can run dozens of instances of on a single accel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-customers-are-coming-around-to-the-idea-that-small-is-beautiful/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-customers-are-coming-around-to-the-idea-that-small-is-beautiful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RSPB buys 'magical' 96-hectare landscape to reconnect habitats]]></title><description><![CDATA[The move will help conservationists in Gallt-y-bere to protect internationally important habitats.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rspb-buys-magical-96-hectare-landscape-to-reconnect-habitats/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rspb-buys-magical-96-hectare-landscape-to-reconnect-habitats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwave to stretch into second week despite cooler air for some this weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sizzling heat continues into next week despite a drop in temperatures over the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-to-stretch-into-second-week-despite-cooler-air-for-some-this-weekend/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-to-stretch-into-second-week-despite-cooler-air-for-some-this-weekend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium on most new datacenter grid connections in the Dublin area. The latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that giant server farms now account for nearly a quarter of the country's metered electricity consumption. Their share rose to 23 percent in 2025 after passing 20 percent in 2023 and 14 percent in 2021 &ndash; up from just 5 percent way back in 2015. Accord]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-electricity/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-electricity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New dinosaur species as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-dinosaur-species-as-long-as-cricket-pitch-discovered-in-thailand/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-dinosaur-species-as-long-as-cricket-pitch-discovered-in-thailand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why your garden is a magnet for wasps: Petrified Brits say their gardens are crawling with insects - here's what's behind the invasion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing ruins a sunny afternoon in the garden quite like the buzz of a wasp. But if your outdoor space seems to be crawling with the insects this summer, you may not be helping.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-your-garden-is-a-magnet-for-wasps-petrified-brits-say-their-gardens-are-crawling-with-insects-heres-whats-behind-the-invasion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-your-garden-is-a-magnet-for-wasps-petrified-brits-say-their-gardens-are-crawling-with-insects-heres-whats-behind-the-invasion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of the perfect penalty: As England face Norway, scientists reveal why players should aim high and wide at the goal - just like Harry Kane]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers analysed various popular penalty methods, and found that shots are most successful when they're high and wide.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-science-of-the-perfect-penalty-as-england-face-norway-scientists-reveal-why-players-should-aim-high-and-wide-at-the-goal-just-like-harry-kane/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-science-of-the-perfect-penalty-as-england-face-norway-scientists-reveal-why-players-should-aim-high-and-wide-at-the-goal-just-like-harry-kane/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face it, your cat doesn't care about you! Felines can't understand human voices - and think laughter, sobs, and screams sound identical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many cat owners swear their furry friends always know exactly what they are thinking, but a new study suggests that this couldn't be further from the truth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/face-it-your-cat-doesnt-care-about-you-felines-cant-understand-human-voices-and-think-laughter-sobs-and-screams-sound-identical/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/face-it-your-cat-doesnt-care-about-you-felines-cant-understand-human-voices-and-think-laughter-sobs-and-screams-sound-identical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta's release this week of an AI feature that let people alter Instagram content drew swift blowback.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-pulls-new-ai-image-feature-after-days-of-backlash/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-pulls-new-ai-image-feature-after-days-of-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake worth the 13 year wait?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The BBC's Tom Gerken plays the much-anticipated pirate game which has been remade from the ground up.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-the-assassins-creed-black-flag-remake-worth-the-13-year-wait/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-the-assassins-creed-black-flag-remake-worth-the-13-year-wait/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple said in a Friday lawsuit that OpenAI&rsquo;s nascent hardware business is &ldquo;rotten to its core.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-sues-openai-its-employees-claiming-theft-of-trade-secrets/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-sues-openai-its-employees-claiming-theft-of-trade-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head]]></title><description><![CDATA[HANDS HEAD ON Have you ever felt so lazy that reaching up to scroll on your MacBook&rsquo;s trackpad was too much work? Yeah, me too &ndash; especially with the summer heat blanketing much of the Northern Hemisphere, even reaching my remote corner of the US. Thankfully, there&rsquo;s an app for that. ScrollPods is a simple macOS app that&rsquo;s been out since last November but which just came to my attention thanks to a blog post this week from its creator, Ahmed Mohamed, who hails from Austria]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/slothful-summer-app-lets-you-scroll-simply-by-tilting-your-head/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/slothful-summer-app-lets-you-scroll-simply-by-tilting-your-head/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Declassified intelligence map reveals where America's largest UFO waves unfolded]]></title><description><![CDATA[A top-secret map keeping tracking of UFO sightings throughout the US has been revealed in the latest batch of classified files released to the public.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/declassified-intelligence-map-reveals-where-americas-largest-ufo-waves-unfolded/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/declassified-intelligence-map-reveals-where-americas-largest-ufo-waves-unfolded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions told to stay indoors as lung-penetrating toxins sweep across two US states]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are being urged to stay indoors as toxic air pollution sweeps across part of the US on Friday. Breathing conditions are expected to be hazardous.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-stay-indoors-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-two-us-states/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-stay-indoors-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-sweep-across-two-us-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping one of Britain's rarest butterflies]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than 30 years, Paul Dunn has been working to revive the fortunes of the high brown fritillary.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/helping-one-of-britains-rarest-butterflies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/helping-one-of-britains-rarest-butterflies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases of deadly lung disease spread by air conditioners and water vapor double]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city is experiencing an outbreak of legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia spread through contaminated water vapor that kills one in 10 patients.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cases-of-deadly-lung-disease-spread-by-air-conditioners-and-water-vapor-double/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cases-of-deadly-lung-disease-spread-by-air-conditioners-and-water-vapor-double/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly identified destructive Windows backdoor combines ransomware-like encryption with multiple data-wiping features, according to Microsoft. Last October, the Redmond threat-hunting team first spotted attacks using the Golang-based implant they've named GigaWiper. Its developers stuffed multiple malware families into the software as on-demand commands, giving criminals a Swiss Army knife of command-and-control (C2) and destructive capabilities, including multiple wiping commands and file encr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/destructive-windows-backdoor-stuffs-multiple-wipers-and-ransomware-code-into-a-single-package/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/destructive-windows-backdoor-stuffs-multiple-wipers-and-ransomware-code-into-a-single-package/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple Lisas are rare now. Here's a rather cheaper way to build your own &ndash; and in theory, it can even use original floppy drives. LisaFPGA does what it says on the GitHub repo: "The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA!" It's an open source project that recreates a complete Apple Lisa on an FPGA board. It's not entirely complete yet, but hardware went on sale in May and you might still be able to buy one &ndash; or download the bitstream of the model and build your own. The Apple]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lisafpga-brings-apples-magnificent-misfire-back-in-programmable-logic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lisafpga-brings-apples-magnificent-misfire-back-in-programmable-logic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World’s Largest AI Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hear the giant sucking sound going into the black hole. Citizen resistance is rising into a firestorm across the country, like a crown fire in a forest&rsquo;s treetops that takes on a life of its own. AI executives are freaking out. Investors are at risk of losing billions. Citizens will be left with the hubris of collapsed communities and abandoned behemoth buildings that won&rsquo;t be torn down. Technocrats are about to get a dose of reality. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.In a significant set]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/worlds-largest-ai-data-center-project-on-verge-of-collapse/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/worlds-largest-ai-data-center-project-on-verge-of-collapse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prehistoric discovery in the Oregon mountains older than Egypt's Great Pyramid could rewrite human history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artifacts found in the Oregon mountains challenge a long-held belief of human history. The discovery is also four times older than Egypt's Great Pyramid.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/prehistoric-discovery-in-the-oregon-mountains-older-than-egypts-great-pyramid-could-rewrite-human-history/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/prehistoric-discovery-in-the-oregon-mountains-older-than-egypts-great-pyramid-could-rewrite-human-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Environmental groups want the FCC to slam the brakes on orbital datacenters, arguing the agency shouldn't approve constellations they say would total more than a million satellites before taking a hard look at their environmental impact. Earthjustice, acting on behalf of DarkSky International, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), filed a petition this week urging the regulator to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) under the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/orbital-datacenter-gold-rush-needs-an-environmental-review-fcc-told/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/orbital-datacenter-gold-rush-needs-an-environmental-review-fcc-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you help wildlife during hot weather?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sophia Herod has some tips for helping animals that might visit your garden or neighbourhood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-can-you-help-wildlife-during-hot-weather/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-can-you-help-wildlife-during-hot-weather/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxy forms and odd lights: US declassifies more UFO files]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government published a fourth instalment of unresolved cases, promising to release more files on a rolling basis.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boxy-forms-and-odd-lights-us-declassifies-more-ufo-files/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boxy-forms-and-odd-lights-us-declassifies-more-ufo-files/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex. The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out the newly unveiled ChatGPT Work platform. Atlas arrived last October with no shortage of ambition. Rather than trying to out-Chrome Chrome, OpenAI wanted to bolt ChatGPT directly onto the web, promising a browser that could read pages]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openais-atlas-browser-doesnt-make-it-to-its-first-birthday/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openais-atlas-browser-doesnt-make-it-to-its-first-birthday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would YOU trust these people? Fake faces created by AI look MORE trustworthy than real people, study reveals - take the test to see if you can tell the difference]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can you tell the difference between a real face and one generated by AI? According to a new study, it might be a lot harder than you think.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/would-you-trust-these-people-fake-faces-created-by-ai-look-more-trustworthy-than-real-people-study-reveals-take-the-test-to-see-if-you-can-tell-the-difference/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/would-you-trust-these-people-fake-faces-created-by-ai-look-more-trustworthy-than-real-people-study-reveals-take-the-test-to-see-if-you-can-tell-the-difference/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft says it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy last year. The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent due to datacenter construction. The cloud and software biz has released a 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report [PDF], claiming its environmental sustainability work is entering a new phase due to rapid technological change. A global shift towards AI is reshaping economies, the report claims, which is becoming &ldquo;found]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-driven-datacenter-builds-drive-microsofts-emissions-up-a-quarter-in-one-year/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-driven-datacenter-builds-drive-microsofts-emissions-up-a-quarter-in-one-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster of the deep: Scientists capture the first EVER footage of a Barreleye Fish deep in the Atlantic]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the ocean's eeriest creatures has emerged from the darkness. Scientists have captured the first ever footage of a rare species of barreleye fish alive in its natural habitat.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/monster-of-the-deep-scientists-capture-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-barreleye-fish-deep-in-the-atlantic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/monster-of-the-deep-scientists-capture-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-barreleye-fish-deep-in-the-atlantic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[East Asia braces for destructive typhoon as landslides kill 15 in Philippines]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heading for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in decades.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/east-asia-braces-for-destructive-typhoon-as-landslides-kill-15-in-philippines/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/east-asia-braces-for-destructive-typhoon-as-landslides-kill-15-in-philippines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch: Typhoon Bavi forecast to bring heavy rains and floods to Taiwan, Japan and China]]></title><description><![CDATA[See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-typhoon-bavi-forecast-to-bring-heavy-rains-and-floods-to-taiwan-japan-and-china/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watch-typhoon-bavi-forecast-to-bring-heavy-rains-and-floods-to-taiwan-japan-and-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggling pig farmers say &pound;2m support package 'not enough']]></title><description><![CDATA[Farmers welcome the Scottish government funding but say it's not enough to stop them losing about &pound;1m a month]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/struggling-pig-farmers-say-pound2m-support-package-not-enough/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/struggling-pig-farmers-say-pound2m-support-package-not-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fake air cons fooling Britain: Experts warn against products 'designed by NASA' that promise to cool a room in 90 seconds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said some companies are exploiting demand for portable AC units, making exaggerated claims that lure desperate customers in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-fake-air-cons-fooling-britain-experts-warn-against-products-designed-by-nasa-that-promise-to-cool-a-room-in-90-seconds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-fake-air-cons-fooling-britain-experts-warn-against-products-designed-by-nasa-that-promise-to-cool-a-room-in-90-seconds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearest image of jellyfish UAP and silent craft that breached US nuclear base revealed in Trump's latest UFO files]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration on Friday released its fourth batch of never-before-seen UFO files, shedding new light on unexplained sightings investigated by the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/clearest-image-of-jellyfish-uap-and-silent-craft-that-breached-us-nuclear-base-revealed-in-trumps-latest-ufo-files/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/clearest-image-of-jellyfish-uap-and-silent-craft-that-breached-us-nuclear-base-revealed-in-trumps-latest-ufo-files/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta may have breached the European Union's Digital Services Act by designing Facebook and Instagram to keep users glued to their screens, with Brussels saying that features such as infinite scroll and autoplay should be switched off by default. The European Commission on Friday published preliminary findings accusing the social media giant of failing to properly assess or mitigate the risks posed by what it describes as the addictive design of its platforms. The investigation centers on infinit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-puts-addictive-design-of-facebook-instagram-under-the-dsa-microscope/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-puts-addictive-design-of-facebook-instagram-under-the-dsa-microscope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's bombshell UFO files expose eerie eight-point object and silent craft that breached US nuclear base]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration on Friday released its fourth batch of never-before-seen UFO files, shedding new light on unexplained sightings investigated by the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trumps-bombshell-ufo-files-expose-eerie-eight-point-object-and-silent-craft-that-breached-us-nuclear-base/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trumps-bombshell-ufo-files-expose-eerie-eight-point-object-and-silent-craft-that-breached-us-nuclear-base/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' &ndash; but won't say yes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Capita has yet to agree to reimburse the UK government for the full cost of recovering the failing Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) it administers. In a testy Parliamentary hearing in which Capita was called to account for its performance since taking over the CSPS, Adolfo Hernandez, group chief executive, refused to be drawn on whether the company would pay the full amount that the government had invested in emergency support. Capita's CSPS went live in December last year, after which The Re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/capita-hears-demand-for-pension-scheme-cleanup-loud-and-clear-ndash-but-wont-say-yes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/capita-hears-demand-for-pension-scheme-cleanup-loud-and-clear-ndash-but-wont-say-yes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK bakes in 35C highs as millions under hosepipe bans]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking the previous record of seven days in a calendar year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-bakes-in-35c-highs-as-millions-under-hosepipe-bans/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-bakes-in-35c-highs-as-millions-under-hosepipe-bans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Danish ecommerce company Miinto admitted an intruder has been looking at its order data, according to emails it sent to customers this week. The emails, seen by The Register, do not comment on the scale of the data accessed by the perp or how exactly the breach occurred, although UK-based customers of the Copenhagen-HQ'd biz have received them. &ldquo;We are writing to let you know about a security incident that may have affected some of the personal data associated with a purchase you made on M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fashion-mart-miinto-unzips-breach-details-warns-shoppers-to-watch-for-phisherfolk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fashion-mart-miinto-unzips-breach-details-warns-shoppers-to-watch-for-phisherfolk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU threatens Meta with fines over 'addictive' Facebook and Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[Regulators say features such as infinite scroll contribute to "compulsive use" and "unhealthy habits".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-threatens-meta-with-fines-over-addictive-facebook-and-instagram/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-threatens-meta-with-fines-over-addictive-facebook-and-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of no return? Scientists warn collapse of one of Earth's most important ocean currents may already be locked in]]></title><description><![CDATA[The collapse of one of Earth's most important ocean currents may already be locked in, according to an ominous new study.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-point-of-no-return-scientists-warn-collapse-of-one-of-earths-most-important-ocean-currents-may-already-be-locked-in/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-point-of-no-return-scientists-warn-collapse-of-one-of-earths-most-important-ocean-currents-may-already-be-locked-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the world end? Scientists calculate when the last life on Earth will die]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every tree, flower and blade of grass will one day wither and die - and scientists now believe they have worked out when that bleak moment will arrive.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-will-the-world-end-scientists-calculate-when-the-last-life-on-earth-will-die/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-will-the-world-end-scientists-calculate-when-the-last-life-on-earth-will-die/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest Linux Mint blog says that its Wayland support is about ready for primetime &ndash; but X11 isn&rsquo;t going away. Linux Mint lead developer Clement Lefebvre has published the Linux Mint blog for June 2026, announcing that as of the next version of the Cinnamon desktop, it will officially drop &ldquo;experimental&rdquo; status for Wayland: this will be a fully supported way to use the Cinnamon desktop environment. You will have to be patient, though &ndash; the post says: &ldquo;The i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cinnamon-68-will-support-wayland-if-you-want-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cinnamon-68-will-support-wayland-if-you-want-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big tech must deal with scam ads under Ofcom proposals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofcom says more than half of UK adults have encountered potentially fraudulent ads online.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-tech-must-deal-with-scam-ads-under-ofcom-proposals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/big-tech-must-deal-with-scam-ads-under-ofcom-proposals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data]]></title><description><![CDATA[A staff member sent the personal details of around 150 women who were in contact with a Scottish NHS Trust&rsquo;s maternity services to their own personal email account, the Trust has revealed. NHS Forth Valley, the health board that oversees NHS services in the region between Edinburgh and Glasgow, said it is investigating the matter and has contacted the women affected. &ldquo;An internal investigation is underway after a member of staff transferred a spreadsheet containing an extract of data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scot-nhs-trust-probes-email-stuffup-involving-maternity-patients-data/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scot-nhs-trust-probes-email-stuffup-involving-maternity-patients-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How cows are helping one of Britain's rarest butterflies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The high brown fritillary needs bracken and a certain violet to thrive - but everything in moderation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-cows-are-helping-one-of-britains-rarest-butterflies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-cows-are-helping-one-of-britains-rarest-butterflies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand]]></title><description><![CDATA[EPISODE 13 "It's just a quick pitch session. You won't have to stay long," the Boss wheedles. "Thanks, but..." I reply. "Come on, you'll meet some new people." "Boring people," the PFY interjects. "... and hear some stories..." "Boring stories..." "You might even learn something!" the Boss pleads. "Something boring," the PFY says. And he's not wrong. Cross-department pitch sessions are drier than a sawdust sandwich in the Sahara. To add insult to injury, the sessions are scheduled at the end of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bofh-cross-department-ai-pitches-are-easier-to-swallow-with-a-pint-in-hand/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bofh-cross-department-ai-pitches-are-easier-to-swallow-with-a-pint-in-hand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China lands reusable rocket for first time, state media says]]></title><description><![CDATA[It follows similar landings of reusable rockets by US-owned companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-lands-reusable-rocket-for-first-time-state-media-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-lands-reusable-rocket-for-first-time-state-media-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year]]></title><description><![CDATA[ON CALL The 2026 FIFA World Cup continues and at the time of writing, The Register's home nation &ndash; England &ndash; remains in with a chance to bring home the trophy! We therefore devote this week's edition of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support, to the beautiful game. We're able to do so thanks to a reader we'll Regomize as "George" who once pulled off a great save when, decades ago, he worked as one half of the two-person tech team at one of Europe's most famous fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/datacenter-macgyver-saved-the-biggest-football-match-of-the-year/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/datacenter-macgyver-saved-the-biggest-football-match-of-the-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red Hat has created a new support offering for its flagship Enterprise Linux that it characterizes as &ldquo;RHEL forever&rdquo; and has &ldquo;no pre-determined end date.&rdquo; The IBM business unit says the offering, formally known as &ldquo;The Long-Life Add-On,&rdquo; will &ldquo;keep older minor or major versions of RHEL secure and stable&rdquo; by providing critical patches, urgent bug fixes, and 24x7 tech support for as long as customers keep paying for it. Red Hat reckons the super-exte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-hat-offers-rhel-support-forever-for-those-who-need-to-lock-in-to-legacy-tech/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-hat-offers-rhel-support-forever-for-those-who-need-to-lock-in-to-legacy-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a 40-year project helped save little terns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The marine bird is threatened by high tides and beachgoers, but volunteers give a helping hand.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-a-40-year-project-helped-save-little-terns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-a-40-year-project-helped-save-little-terns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has warned customers to expect more security patches for the foreseeable future, thanks to AI. &ldquo;As AI helps defenders discover more issues, customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release,&rdquo; the company&rsquo;s executive veep for Windows + Devices, Pavan Davuluri, wrote in a Thursday post that describes how Microsoft is changing its internal processes to spot software vulnerabilities using AI. His post later points out that Microsoft]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-warns-customers-ai-will-mean-busier-patch-tuesdays/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-warns-customers-ai-will-mean-busier-patch-tuesdays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cool in 90 seconds' - the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ASA says adverts claiming small devices can rapidly cool rooms were too good to be true.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cool-in-90-seconds-the-fake-portable-air-conditioners-sweeping-the-internet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cool-in-90-seconds-the-fake-portable-air-conditioners-sweeping-the-internet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a Dreamer, Rebel or Zigzagger? Research reveals nine types of procrastinators - and how to help them all]]></title><description><![CDATA[Research has revealed that there are actually nine distinct types of procrastinators.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/are-you-a-dreamer-rebel-or-zigzagger-research-reveals-nine-types-of-procrastinators-and-how-to-help-them-all/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/are-you-a-dreamer-rebel-or-zigzagger-research-reveals-nine-types-of-procrastinators-and-how-to-help-them-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure builds on Europe's biggest port to be greener]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit demands that the Port of Rotterdam moves faster to cut its dependence on fossil fuel firms.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/pressure-builds-on-europes-biggest-port-to-be-greener/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/pressure-builds-on-europes-biggest-port-to-be-greener/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals]]></title><description><![CDATA[A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen files had been deleted - just the criminals' promise. This means the county&rsquo;s stolen files may turn up for sale on a dark web forum, and the same (or another) crime crew could again demand an extortion payment to not leak the data. It&rsquo;s also a reminder that, despite the feds urging victims]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/an-unnamed-us-county-perhaps-in-ohio-paid-1m-extortion-demand-to-cybercriminals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/an-unnamed-us-county-perhaps-in-ohio-paid-1m-extortion-demand-to-cybercriminals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X]]></title><description><![CDATA[No surprise here. A study from AI detection platform Pangram suggests that social media posts are teeming with AI-generated slop, particularly if the posts are long and especially if they live on LinkedIn or X. If you&rsquo;re sick of reading non-human prose, we&rsquo;d recommend getting off the platforms altogether. Along with offering your typical AI-content detection services, Pangram released a Chrome extension at the end of April that, with a $20/month subscription, will automatically scan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-slop-writing-has-taken-over-the-internet-particularly-linkedin-and-x/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-slop-writing-has-taken-over-the-internet-particularly-linkedin-and-x/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a priest and the Bible gives us proof of what UFOs really are... here's what Jesus told us]]></title><description><![CDATA[A priest has identified several Bible passages he believes hold the key to understanding UFOs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/im-a-priest-and-the-bible-gives-us-proof-of-what-ufos-really-are-heres-what-jesus-told-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/im-a-priest-and-the-bible-gives-us-proof-of-what-ufos-really-are-heres-what-jesus-told-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Combing through job postings and company help wanted pages for a position that matches your resume is the very definition of drudge work. Now, there's an AI designed to suck up information from the web, do the search for you, and even help you apply. Software developer Tarun Gupta created just such a tool in the form of Autopilot-Jobhunt. When configured with a profile of the user and their desired jobs (and what they absolutely won&rsquo;t accept in an opening), A-J will scan the web while user]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-tool-scours-the-web-for-job-openings-preps-your-resume-and-cover-letter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-tool-scours-the-web-for-job-openings-preps-your-resume-and-cover-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenMandriva has accused a former contributor of using his trusted admin access to trash repositories and push a package that could have broken desktop installations after a community dispute spilled over into the project's infrastructure. The Linux distribution disclosed the incident in a forum post this week, describing what it called an attempted act of "distribution sabotage" allegedly involving Davide Beatrici, a developer known for his work on the Mumble instant messaging app. According to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openmandriva-claims-disgruntled-admin-trashed-repos-after-community-bust-up/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openmandriva-claims-disgruntled-admin-trashed-repos-after-community-bust-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden detail in iconic 1962 World Cup photo sparks wild 'time traveler' theories]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the World Cup underway in the US, a photo from the 1962 tournament has gone viral after fans claimed it showed a 'time traveler' hidden in the crowd.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-detail-in-iconic-1962-world-cup-photo-sparks-wild-time-traveler-theories/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-detail-in-iconic-1962-world-cup-photo-sparks-wild-time-traveler-theories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP makes it easier for customers to shop for legacy product support, ending EU antitrust probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has ended an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices after SAP agreed to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees. The move could reduce barriers for customers considering third-party support for products nearing the end of their vendor support terms, including thousands of large businesses that rely on SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) to run their business operations. SAP's mainstream support for ECC ends in December 2027, while customers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sap-makes-it-easier-for-customers-to-shop-for-legacy-product-support-ending-eu-antitrust-probe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sap-makes-it-easier-for-customers-to-shop-for-legacy-product-support-ending-eu-antitrust-probe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's apparent ambition to make Outlook the worst email client for Mac shows no sign of fading after a recent update broke font selection in emails. The problem occurs when composing an email. Outlook uses the default font as the user types, but will ignore any request to select something different. Several threads have appeared on Microsoft's forums about the issue, and a moderator confirmed that something was amiss in a post on July 8. One workaround is to roll back to an earlier version]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outlook-for-mac-bug-makes-font-choice-a-purely-decorative-feature/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outlook-for-mac-bug-makes-font-choice-a-purely-decorative-feature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short]]></title><description><![CDATA[An effort by European parliamentarians to block the reintroduction of an interim rule allowing tech companies to scan chats for evidence of child sexual abuse failed today, despite securing more votes than the MEPs who want to keep it alive. Commonly referred to by critics as Chat Control, or Chat Control 1.0, the interim rule acts as a derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, allowing online communications platforms to voluntarily detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-chat-control-snoopfest-returns-after-vote-to-kill-it-falls-short/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-chat-control-snoopfest-returns-after-vote-to-kill-it-falls-short/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SignalTrace Just Weaponized Your AirPods With License Plate Readers Nationwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just like Flock cameras ran ahead of regulators&rsquo; ability to contain them, so has Leonardo launched a dragnet product to scan all Bluetooth and WiFi signals in realtime, attaching the result to Flock cameras taking pictures of your license plate. There are no laws against this to slow or stop its spread. Leonardo DRS is a defense contractor whose website says, &ldquo;These cutting-edge sensing systems provide targeting, surveillance, and protection capabilities based on our advanced electro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/signaltrace-just-weaponized-your-airpods-with-license-plate-readers-nationwide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/signaltrace-just-weaponized-your-airpods-with-license-plate-readers-nationwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA reveals it has captured UFO imagery as space agency chief admits 'there's life everywhere']]></title><description><![CDATA[The new head of NASA confirmed that images which cannot be explained have been taken, and revealed plans to 'invade' other worlds throughout the cosmos.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-reveals-it-has-captured-ufo-imagery-as-space-agency-chief-admits-theres-life-everywhere/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-reveals-it-has-captured-ufo-imagery-as-space-agency-chief-admits-theres-life-everywhere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives]]></title><description><![CDATA[KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is here, along with a beastly long list of bugfixes, so if you have Plasma 6.6.5 &ndash; for instance, if you are using KDE on FreeBSD 15.1 &ndash; then it's an update well worth having. KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is a release that really is just about bug-fixes, but while there are no headline-grabbing features coming out for this inauspicious version number, it's worth remembering: in a world of bloated code, real-world software still depends on experienced maintainers. If you really li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kde-plasma-users-face-a-dire-omen-of-change-666-arrives/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kde-plasma-users-face-a-dire-omen-of-change-666-arrives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canonical Managed Kubeflow lands on Azure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Platform engineering team leads are facing a quiet crisis. Your data science teams want Kubeflow for its pipeline orchestration, metadata tracking, and training operators, so you build it for them on Kubernetes. Then day two arrives. Your engineering backlog is swallowed by breaking changes from upstream, Istio configuration complexity, security patching, and storage provisioning bottlenecks. You didn't build an ML platform; you accidentally adopted a full-time infrastructure maintenance program]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canonical-managed-kubeflow-lands-on-azure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canonical-managed-kubeflow-lands-on-azure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ramping Up: Current State Of Robotics In 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2025, I forecast that 2026 would be the &ldquo;Year of the Robot&rdquo; and it&rsquo;s right on track. Analysts at this CITI Research conference agree that physical AI has moved past the demo stage and reached commercial deployment. The entire industry could be stalled by the AI bubble, lack of training data, and dislocations is the chip industry, but it is here to stay in the long term. Most robots will be deployed as Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS). &#8259; Patrick Wood Editor.Citi&rsquo;s&nbs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ramping-up-current-state-of-robotics-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ramping-up-current-state-of-robotics-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better]]></title><description><![CDATA[Students and faculty at Brown University are worried generative AI could harm learning after an economics professor's take-home exam produced results he said pointed to widespread misuse of the technology. In a report [PDF] published by Brown's Generative AI in Teaching and Learning (GAITL) committee, teaching staff say they fear AI could weaken students' cognitive skills and encourage cheating. The committee's report comes days after Brown's Roberto Serrano warned that society "cannot choose to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brown-says-ai-make-student-brain-no-work-good-teacher-should-help-use-it-better/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brown-says-ai-make-student-brain-no-work-good-teacher-should-help-use-it-better/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster heat dome to suffocate 20 US states as 115F 'feels like' temperatures return in just DAYS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are set to roast under a monster heat dome, with 'feels like' temperatures reaching 115&deg;F.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/monster-heat-dome-to-suffocate-20-us-states-as-115f-feels-like-temperatures-return-in-just-days/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/monster-heat-dome-to-suffocate-20-us-states-as-115f-feels-like-temperatures-return-in-just-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK government has withheld &pound;10 million in payments to tech and business process outsourcing biz Capita following the disastrous takeover of the Civil Service pensions scheme (CSPS). The penalties (&pound;9.9 million) in the &pound;239 million contract relate to the transition from the earlier scheme provider to the Capita service. Since the service went live in December last year, Capita has continued to miss the majority of its KPIs and is locked in a dispute with the government over]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukgov-withholds-10m-payment-from-capita-over-pensions-project-fiasco-as-dispute-continues/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukgov-withholds-10m-payment-from-capita-over-pensions-project-fiasco-as-dispute-continues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has quietly fixed the &ldquo;RoguePlanet&rdquo; zero-day in Microsoft Defender, closing the latest hole exposed by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse after months of public sparring over the company's handling of vulnerability reports. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, was addressed through an update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine rather than via its monthly Patch Tuesday bundle. Microsoft said customers should ensure they're running the latest engine version]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-closes-book-on-nightmare-eclipses-rogueplanet-zero-day/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-closes-book-on-nightmare-eclipses-rogueplanet-zero-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How accurate is The Odyssey movie? Historical experts weigh in as Elon Musk and Tom Holland clash over casting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey has sparked controversy before it even hits the big screens in a row over historical accuracy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-accurate-is-the-odyssey-movie-historical-experts-weigh-in-as-elon-musk-and-tom-holland-clash-over-casting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-accurate-is-the-odyssey-movie-historical-experts-weigh-in-as-elon-musk-and-tom-holland-clash-over-casting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viral squeaky frog now at risk of extinction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A squeaky frog that became an internet sensation is added to a global list of species at risk of extinction.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/viral-squeaky-frog-now-at-risk-of-extinction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/viral-squeaky-frog-now-at-risk-of-extinction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Microsoft-led TypeScript 7.0 features an order-of-magnitude speed boost, a victory not only for TypeScript itself but also for Go, the programming language used to completely rewrite the web staple's compiler. Following a major rewrite effort that began with an experimental native Go implementation, this is the first stable release of the language to include its long-in-development Go-based compiler rewrite. &ldquo;TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a nu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/speedier-type-checks-in-typescript-70-as-first-stable-go-release-ships/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/speedier-type-checks-in-typescript-70-as-first-stable-go-release-ships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid calls for digital sovereignty, a report warns that more than 60 percent of UK companies depend on cloud services for critical functions, and an outage in one or more of the big providers could prove costly. Researchers at the Cyber Monitoring Centre nonprofit found a high level of cloud dependence among British firms, rising to more than 80 percent among FTSE 100 firms, and say this means cloud outages will disproportionately affect some of the country's most economically important companie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-cloud-habit-has-become-a-billion-pound-risk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-cloud-habit-has-become-a-billion-pound-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lynx reintroduction plans opposed by councillors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Northumberland County Council members oppose supporting any application to release lynx in the wild.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lynx-reintroduction-plans-opposed-by-councillors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lynx-reintroduction-plans-opposed-by-councillors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists reveal the most exciting World Cup games so far - and none of England's matches even make the top 10!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts from Northeastern University have built a new algorithm which measures and ranks World Cup games for their level of excitement.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-reveal-the-most-exciting-world-cup-games-so-far-and-none-of-englands-matches-even-make-the-top-10/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-reveal-the-most-exciting-world-cup-games-so-far-and-none-of-englands-matches-even-make-the-top-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has warned admins that Outlook Web Access (OWA) Light is set to be disabled and removed with the August 2026 Exchange Server update. The announcement applies to the on-premises version of Exchange Server. The feature was deprecated on August 19, 2024, but some users might still be caught off guard when the plug is pulled once and for all. OWA Light &ndash; not to be confused with the stripped-down Android app Outlook Lite, which was retired earlier this year &ndash; is a simple web cli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-to-switch-off-owa-light-after-nearly-two-decades/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-to-switch-off-owa-light-after-nearly-two-decades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Arthur Fery have what it takes to win Wimbledon? Scientists reveal how the British tennis star's short stature, young age and limited experience at Grand Slams could give him the edge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arthur Fery's youth, shorter stature and relative Grand Slam inexperience could actually give the British wildcard an unlikely edge, according to experts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-arthur-fery-have-what-it-takes-to-win-wimbledon-scientists-reveal-how-the-british-tennis-stars-short-stature-young-age-and-limited-experience-at-grand-slams-could-give-him-the-edge/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/does-arthur-fery-have-what-it-takes-to-win-wimbledon-scientists-reveal-how-the-british-tennis-stars-short-stature-young-age-and-limited-experience-at-grand-slams-could-give-him-the-edge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn site company fined £630,000 over failed age checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/porn-site-company-fined-630000-over-failed-age-checks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/porn-site-company-fined-630000-over-failed-age-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cross-party group of MPs has told the government to start planning for life after Palantir, arguing the NHS should use a 2027 break clause in its Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract to find a replacement rather than doubling down on one of Whitehall's most contentious tech deals. In a letter to Health Innovation Minister Preet Kaur Gill, the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) should begin preparing to replace the FDP when t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-tell-nhs-to-start-packing-palantirs-bags-ahead-of-2027-contract-break/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-tell-nhs-to-start-packing-palantirs-bags-ahead-of-2027-contract-break/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK heatwave spreads north and west as further heat health alerts issued]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year's third heatwave is one of the longest lasting heatwaves since the infamous year of 1976.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-spreads-north-and-west-as-further-heat-health-alerts-issued/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-heatwave-spreads-north-and-west-as-further-heat-health-alerts-issued/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accenture has confirmed an "isolated matter" after a cybercriminal put up for sale what they allege is 35GB of the consulting giant's internal data, including source code, cryptographic keys, and cloud credentials. The listing, seen by The Register, appeared on a cybercrime forum on July 6 under the title "Accenture Data Breach," posted by a user with the handle "888." The seller claimed the stolen archive contained source code alongside RSA keys, SSH keys, Azure Personal Access Tokens (PATs), A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/accenture-admits-to-isolated-matter-after-crook-tries-to-flog-alleged-35gb-haul/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/accenture-admits-to-isolated-matter-after-crook-tries-to-flog-alleged-35gb-haul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man overboard! AI 'guardian' for cruise ships can detect passengers falling into the water instantly - even in darkness]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new system, called ZOE, is capable of detecting both adults and children falling overboard from cruise ships within four seconds.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/man-overboard-ai-guardian-for-cruise-ships-can-detect-passengers-falling-into-the-water-instantly-even-in-darkness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/man-overboard-ai-guardian-for-cruise-ships-can-detect-passengers-falling-into-the-water-instantly-even-in-darkness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of Canonical&rsquo;s ambitions for the future directions of Ubuntu are becoming apparent &ndash; despite some bumps in the road. Canonical engineering manager Ravi Kant Sharma posted an Ubuntu on Arm summer &rsquo;26 update on the Ubuntu Discourse. The company is boosting its efforts to make running Ubuntu on Arm64 a first-class experience. Some of the changes are behind the scenes, and others will be more immediately visible. Last month, Canonical announced that Ubuntu&rsquo;s support for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ubuntu-emphasizes-arm64-support-and-gets-rustier/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ubuntu-emphasizes-arm64-support-and-gets-rustier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists analyse the 'witches' marks' on the walls of old English buildings - and finally reveal the meaning behind the mysterious symbols]]></title><description><![CDATA[The marks - often referred to as daisy wheels or hexafoils - can be found inside medieval churches and houses across the country.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-analyse-the-witches-marks-on-the-walls-of-old-english-buildings-and-finally-reveal-the-meaning-behind-the-mysterious-symbols/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-analyse-the-witches-marks-on-the-walls-of-old-english-buildings-and-finally-reveal-the-meaning-behind-the-mysterious-symbols/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the key to preventing a Super El Niño? Scientists say artificially brightening the CLOUDS could shield us from floods, extreme heat and wildfires]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the strongest Super El Ni&ntilde;o on record now underway, scientists are investigating a controversial method that could stop the weather cycle in its tracks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-say-artificially-brightening-the-clouds-could-shield-us-from-floods-extreme-heat-and-wildfires/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-say-artificially-brightening-the-clouds-could-shield-us-from-floods-extreme-heat-and-wildfires/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best]]></title><description><![CDATA[Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has confirmed what we all suspected about Windows 95: it guessed when a setup program was running. Rather than relying on any special flag or marker, Chen explained that Windows 95 looked at the program's name to determine whether it was a setup application. It did this by checking the app against a list of magic words. If the program name contained one of them, it must be a setup. Chen gave the list: setup, install, inst, imposta, ayarla, and felrak. Whil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-95-detected-installers-by-looking-for-magic-words-and-hoping-for-the-best/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-95-detected-installers-by-looking-for-magic-words-and-hoping-for-the-best/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning over surge in 'virtually untreatable' sexually transmitted diarrhoea disease that's climbing in the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have found that sexually transmitted shigellosis - which has risen in prevalence by a quarter in England since 2023 - is becoming 'virtually untreatable'.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-over-surge-in-virtually-untreatable-sexually-transmitted-diarrhoea-disease-thats-climbing-in-the-uk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-over-surge-in-virtually-untreatable-sexually-transmitted-diarrhoea-disease-thats-climbing-in-the-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space]]></title><description><![CDATA[One scientist has produced a detailed model which proposes a way to verify that no government or rogue actors are secretly hiding nuclear weapons in the Earth&rsquo;s orbit. Currently, international laws prevent the use of nuclear weapons in orbit, but it also presents a problem. International space law was created by the Outer Space Treaty, which was drafted in 1966 and has been ratified by 117 nations, including the USA, China, and Russia, since then. It explicitly bans nuclear weapons from be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-models-way-to-make-sure-no-ones-violating-the-ban-on-nuclear-weapons-in-space/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-models-way-to-make-sure-no-ones-violating-the-ban-on-nuclear-weapons-in-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sign of dementia that appears 15 YEARS before early-onset diagnosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists in Finland say they have revealed a warning sign someone could be struggling with dementia before age 65 years.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-sign-of-dementia-that-appears-15-years-before-early-onset-diagnosis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-sign-of-dementia-that-appears-15-years-before-early-onset-diagnosis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, where each week we share the saga of an organization that couldn&rsquo;t get out of its own way when it comes to security. This week&rsquo;s tale comes courtesy of Dahvid Schloss, a professional red teamer who was also involved (as a supervisor) in last week&rsquo;s story about hackers shoveling snow in order to gain access to restricted areas. This time, it was Schloss himself who broke in, and he used the promise of better connectivity to do it. On one assi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thief-posed-as-wi-fi-fixing-hero-then-stole-priceless-trophy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thief-posed-as-wi-fi-fixing-hero-then-stole-priceless-trophy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA&rsquo;s New Horizons probe has woken itself up after 321 days of hibernation. The aerospace agency sent commands to the probe last July, instructing it to commence hibernation on August 7 and then resume activity in July 2026. On July 23, NASA checked to see if New Horizons had obeyed the instruction to wake up and was pleased to find it was online again. New Horizons&rsquo; main job was to make our first ever visit to Pluto, which it accomplished in 2015, before zipping off to visit a Kuip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-horizons-pluto-probe-just-woke-itself-up-after-321-days-of-hibernation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-horizons-pluto-probe-just-woke-itself-up-after-321-days-of-hibernation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['It felt a bit James Bond': The mission to reintroduce a lost insect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Species Recovery Trust hopes to reintroduce the New Forest cicadas not seen in UK since the 1990s.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/it-felt-a-bit-james-bond-the-mission-to-reintroduce-a-lost-insect/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/it-felt-a-bit-james-bond-the-mission-to-reintroduce-a-lost-insect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare moth find in town park sparks hopes of others]]></title><description><![CDATA[The six-belted clearwing is found by conservationists at Rough Park who hope to spot it elsewhere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-moth-find-in-town-park-sparks-hopes-of-others/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-moth-find-in-town-park-sparks-hopes-of-others/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beachgoers are turning snaps into science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists hope to learn more about the impact of climate change on coasts through people's photos.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-beachgoers-are-turning-snaps-into-science/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-beachgoers-are-turning-snaps-into-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singapore&rsquo;s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, one of the world&rsquo;s largest investment houses, intends to massively increase its investment in AI over the next five years &ndash; both for its own use and across its portfolio. Temasek holds over $400 billion in assets and around six percent of those are currently tied up in AI companies, including OpenAI. At its annual review meeting yesterday, the fund announced it intends to increase its exposure to AI until it reaches 15 percent in 2031.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/singaporean-sovereign-wealth-fund-temasek-thinks-ai-is-going-to-pay-off/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/singaporean-sovereign-wealth-fund-temasek-thinks-ai-is-going-to-pay-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI has a future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singapore&rsquo;s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, one of the world&rsquo;s largest investment houses, intends to massively increase its investment in AI over the next five years &ndash; both for its own use and across its portfolio. Temasek holds over $400 billion in assets and around six percent of those are currently tied up in AI companies, including OpenAI. At its annual review meeting yesterday, the fund announced it intends to increase its exposure to AI until it reaches 15 percent in 2031.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/singaporean-sovereign-wealth-fund-temasek-thinks-ai-has-a-future/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/singaporean-sovereign-wealth-fund-temasek-thinks-ai-has-a-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leg day at the gym? Sniffing CHOCOLATE before your workout could make it easier, study claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forget pre-workout shakes - all you might need to smash your next gym session is a whiff of chocolate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/leg-day-at-the-gym-sniffing-chocolate-before-your-workout-could-make-it-easier-study-claims/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/leg-day-at-the-gym-sniffing-chocolate-before-your-workout-could-make-it-easier-study-claims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[nubia Neo 5 GT Special Edition debuts with the first and only Liquid and Air Dual Active Cooling System in its class]]></title><description><![CDATA[nubia, a highly personalized and lifestyle smartphone brand, announced the launch of nubia Neo 5 GT Special Edition, the latest addition to its Neo lineup built on the belief to bring pro-level gaming to everyone. Designed for young gamers and tech-savvy Gen Z users seeking for premium gaming experience without compromise, the new device delivers the sustained performance once exclusive to premium devices, and makes it accessible to everyone through the AquaCore Cooling System - the first and on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nubia-neo-5-gt-special-edition-debuts-with-the-first-and-only-liquid-and-air-dual-active-cooling-system-in-its-class/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nubia-neo-5-gt-special-edition-debuts-with-the-first-and-only-liquid-and-air-dual-active-cooling-system-in-its-class/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last month was the second-hottest June on RECORD - as Super El Niño unleashes a summer of chaos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month was officially the second hottest June on record, experts have revealed. The average global temperature hit 16.54&deg;C (61.77&deg;F), which is second only to the June of 2024 (16.66&deg;C/61.98&deg;F).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/last-month-was-the-second-hottest-june-on-record-as-super-el-nio-unleashes-a-summer-of-chaos/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/last-month-was-the-second-hottest-june-on-record-as-super-el-nio-unleashes-a-summer-of-chaos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has decided to shift to annual price adjustments for its commercial cloud services, instead of its current twice-yearly changes. The software giant happily bills customers in their local currencies but always keeps those costs pegged to the price it charges in US dollars. Since at least 2024, Microsoft has revisited local currency prices for its commercial cloud services twice a year. On Wednesday, the company announced a change in policy that means it will now revisit foreign currency]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-shifts-to-annual-exchange-rate-price-revision-for-cloudy-products/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-shifts-to-annual-exchange-rate-price-revision-for-cloudy-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadly bacteria found in major US city's wastewater system tied to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city's water system with a rare bacteria, months before the facility is set to go online.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-bacteria-found-in-major-us-citys-wastewater-system-tied-to-mark-zuckerbergs-800m-data-center/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-bacteria-found-in-major-us-citys-wastewater-system-tied-to-mark-zuckerbergs-800m-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released a new voice model that can produce human-sounding speech, or scour the web in response to spoken queries. GPT-Live, according to the company, makes chatbot banter feel more like a real conversation, something of a bold move for a company battling multiple lawsuits alleging mental health harms because people took ChatGPT too seriously. "During conversations, GPT&#8209;Live can show it&rsquo;s paying attention with phrases like 'mhmm' or 'yeah', engage in quick back-and-forth,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-makes-chatgpt-better-at-banter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-makes-chatgpt-better-at-banter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey]]></title><description><![CDATA[To say Elon Musk's AI company has trained some of the most unhinged models on the internet would be an understatement. Grok&rsquo;s sordid past includes cosplaying as &ldquo;MechaHitler&rdquo; and a foray into deepfake porn generation that briefly got the platform banned in some regions. As concerning as that might sound, the recently renamed Eloncorp known as SpaceXAI says Grok, now in version 4.5, has cleaned up its act, wiped its browser history, covered up the swastikas, and is ready to take]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-ai-that-spawned-mechahitler-and-deepfake-porn-puts-on-a-suit-to-become-legal-advisor-and-excel-jockey/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-ai-that-spawned-mechahitler-and-deepfake-porn-puts-on-a-suit-to-become-legal-advisor-and-excel-jockey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Digital Bill of Rights for the States]]></title><description><![CDATA[This document is free to read, share, print, and adopt &mdash; and always will be.&nbsp;It carries no paywall and asks nothing of you but that you use it. If you are a legislator, a staffer, or a citizen who wants to bring it to your statehouse, take it. Strengthen it. Make it yours.Download the full text (PDF)<br />
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Digital_Bill_Of_RightsRead the analysis: The America at 250 Series&#128308;&#9898;&#65039;&#128309; Happy Birthday, America. Now Hand Ove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-digital-bill-of-rights-for-the-states/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-digital-bill-of-rights-for-the-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suspected Chinese spies have been breaking into major US and Canadian universities since May, exploiting vulns in Roundcube mailservers to steal data belonging to physics and engineering administrators and professors, according to Proofpoint threat researchers. Proofpoint directly observed &ldquo;less than 10&rdquo; universities targeted in these intrusions, Greg Lesnewich, principal threat research engineer at Proofpoint, told The Register. &ldquo;We estimate the total volume of targets would b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suspected-chinese-snoops-caught-breaking-into-universities-roundcube-mailservers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suspected-chinese-snoops-caught-breaking-into-universities-roundcube-mailservers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel's big bet on SambaNova appears to be paying off in a big way. This week, the AI chip startup shared benchmark results showing its latest generation of AI acceleration, which combines Nvidia GPUs and the company's accelerators, beating GPU-only inference platforms by a wide margin. The testing, conducted by the AI benchmarking gurus at Artificial Analysis, showed SambaNova's SN50-series accelerators, announced in February, churning out 763 tokens a second in MiniMax M2.7 at short context le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/intel-backed-ai-chip-startup-sambanova-breathes-new-life-into-aging-nvidia-gpus-in-latest-benchmarks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/intel-backed-ai-chip-startup-sambanova-breathes-new-life-into-aging-nvidia-gpus-in-latest-benchmarks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surprising delicacy that can ease inflammation and soothe your gut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long celebrated as an aphrodisiac, this shellfish option may now have another reason to earn its place on a dinner menu - it could also help calm inflammation in your gut.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-surprising-delicacy-that-can-ease-inflammation-and-soothe-your-gut/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-surprising-delicacy-that-can-ease-inflammation-and-soothe-your-gut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the era of vibe coding, even GitHub is having trouble keeping up with all the traffic. Now, Thomas Dohmke, the service's former CEO, has launched his own Git hosting network to meet the needs of AI agents and those minding them. His company is called Entire, which the biz has repackaged as an adverb to make the point that it is pitching "an entirely new Git hosting network" based on the 21-year-old version control software. "The question is not if Git survives through the sheer weight of its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-github-ceo-launches-competitor-designed-for-the-age-of-vibe-coding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-github-ceo-launches-competitor-designed-for-the-age-of-vibe-coding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investment bankers might be next in line to be rendered obsolete by artificial intelligence if OpenAI's latest push into the financial space is any indication. The House of Altman on Wednesday opened up a new position for an investment banking expert, whose responsibilities include making ChatGPT and its AI relations better at handling the complexities of major financial transactions like mergers, acquisitions, fundraising, and other high-value, high-stakes financial ventures. The job notice men]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-job-listing-suggests-chatgpt-could-someday-replace-junior-analysts-at-goldman-sachs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-job-listing-suggests-chatgpt-could-someday-replace-junior-analysts-at-goldman-sachs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's the latest example of AI safety guardrails being bypassed. GitHub Copilot refuses harmful prompts almost always if asked in chat - like, "how to fool a breathalyzer test" or "smuggle bulk cash out of the US" - but then will write them in code 100 percent of the time if the prompt is broken into smaller steps and distributed across multiple stages of a software development workflow. Alan Turing Institute researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple discovered this safety-bypass, dubbed it &l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-copilot-sorry-dave-i-cant-do-that-harmful-thing-unless-you-ask-me-in-code/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-copilot-sorry-dave-i-cant-do-that-harmful-thing-unless-you-ask-me-in-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city's water system with a rare bacteria, months before the facility is set to go online.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-bacteria-found-in-major-us-citys-water-system-traced-to-mark-zuckerbergs-800m-data-center/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deadly-bacteria-found-in-major-us-citys-water-system-traced-to-mark-zuckerbergs-800m-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber heat health alerts in effect as UK set for one of longest-lasting heatwaves since 1976]]></title><description><![CDATA[Temperatures are set to rise as high as 36C (97F) for parts of southern England this week.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amber-heat-health-alerts-in-effect-as-uk-set-for-one-of-longest-lasting-heatwaves-since-1976/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amber-heat-health-alerts-in-effect-as-uk-set-for-one-of-longest-lasting-heatwaves-since-1976/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom has accused Allstate Insurance of dodging a software license audit that the insurer claims only happened after it decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Those two Broadcom business units &ndash; CA and VMware &ndash; have brought copyright infringement lawsuits against Allstate. The CA suit, filed in May 2025, alleges that the insurer breached contracts after the sale of its Employer Voluntary Benefits business to an outfit called StanCorp. The VMware suit, filed in December 2025]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/allstate-insurance-quits-broadcom-alleges-vengeful-license-audit-on-the-way-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/allstate-insurance-quits-broadcom-alleges-vengeful-license-audit-on-the-way-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Park visitors being struck with 'mystery' illness leaving patients with 'bone-crushing' pain]]></title><description><![CDATA[National Park officials are investigating a surge of a mystery illness striking rafters and campers and leaving them with excruciatingly painful infections.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/national-park-visitors-being-struck-with-mystery-illness-leaving-patients-with-bone-crushing-pain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/national-park-visitors-being-struck-with-mystery-illness-leaving-patients-with-bone-crushing-pain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning as deadly 'fungal storms' sweep America with toxic dust carrying disease]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dangerous spores hidden in the ground are set to sweep across the US this summer, causing potentially fatal respiratory infections in several states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-as-deadly-fungal-storms-sweep-america-with-toxic-dust-carrying-disease/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-as-deadly-fungal-storms-sweep-america-with-toxic-dust-carrying-disease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments]]></title><description><![CDATA[The memory chip crisis caused PC shipments to fall by 5 percent from last year in Q2 2026 as vendors struggled to secure supplies, and IDC warns smaller suppliers may be forced out of business if the situation continues. While rising component costs have already priced budget PCs out of existence, the market intelligence biz says the AI-driven shortage also pushed shipments down to 68.2 million units during the quarter spanning April, May, and June. This was the first decline after nine consecut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-memory-crunch-takes-a-bite-out-of-pc-shipments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-memory-crunch-takes-a-bite-out-of-pc-shipments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's bad enough that you used AI to write a research paper instead of composing it yourself. Now, you can take the extra step to hide the evidence of your sloth. A startup has decided academics need a way to hide LLM tells, yet they insist their goal isn&rsquo;t to support bad habits among boffins. AI humanizers are nothing new - take a cursory look online and you&rsquo;ll find that companies pushing AI that helps AI writing sound less like AI wrote it are a dime a dozen. None, says the team beh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tool-promises-to-make-lazy-academics-ai-written-papers-sound-more-human/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tool-promises-to-make-lazy-academics-ai-written-papers-sound-more-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's bed bug hotspots revealed in new map showing the 50 worst cities for blood-sucking pests... is your hometown infested?]]></title><description><![CDATA[New data has revealed the 50 US cities where the blood-sucking pests are causing the biggest headaches for homeowners and travelers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-bed-bug-hotspots-revealed-in-new-map-showing-the-50-worst-cities-for-blood-sucking-pests-is-your-hometown-infested/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-bed-bug-hotspots-revealed-in-new-map-showing-the-50-worst-cities-for-blood-sucking-pests-is-your-hometown-infested/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you misbehave in the back of a taxi, your driver might report you to authorities. And if there's no driver, you should also expect no quarter. Two San Mateo 15-year-olds this week had a run-in with the law after their Waymo robotaxi called the cops on them. According to the San Mateo Police Department&rsquo;s account of the matter, the teens treated a hired Waymo as their own personal battle taxi, firing Orbeez out of the car windows while sipping what police called "afternoon libations" - in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/police-intercept-tipsy-teens-after-waymo-snitches-for-shooting-orbeez-out-of-the-car/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/police-intercept-tipsy-teens-after-waymo-snitches-for-shooting-orbeez-out-of-the-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Extreme' marine heatwave expected for parts of UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists fear that high sea temperatures could have wide-ranging consequences for marine life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-marine-heatwave-expected-for-parts-of-uk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-marine-heatwave-expected-for-parts-of-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die]]></title><description><![CDATA[A &ldquo;systematic vulnerability pattern&rdquo; in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to trick agents into accessing files outside the workspace sandbox, leading to remote code execution on the developer's machine. Google-owned security biz Wiz found the security gap, which it's named "GhostApproval," and reported it to all six: Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf. Amazon, Cursor, and Google deemed the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bug-in-top-ai-coding-agents-shows-that-unix-era-security-headaches-never-really-die/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bug-in-top-ai-coding-agents-shows-that-unix-era-security-headaches-never-really-die/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[China's National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) is urging developers to uninstall recent Claude Code versions over the fear that they can scoop up sensitive user data without consent. Referring to it as "backdoor code," the state-run body claimed over WeChat and in an online statement that a "built-in monitoring mechanism" can gather details such as a user's location and identity, and forward them to remote servers. It said the alert only applies to Claude Code versions 2.1.91 (April 2) to 2.1.1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-tells-devs-to-ditch-claude-code-over-backdoor-code-fears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/china-tells-devs-to-ditch-claude-code-over-backdoor-code-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret CIA 'workbook' claims simple five-step exercise can supercharge the human body]]></title><description><![CDATA[A secret handbook created for the Army and the CIA allegedly gave users the instructions on how to access secret energy within their own bodies.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/secret-cia-workbook-claims-simple-five-step-exercise-can-supercharge-the-human-body/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/secret-cia-workbook-claims-simple-five-step-exercise-can-supercharge-the-human-body/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too complicated for its own good. Bridenstine, who ran NASA during the first Trump administration and departed in 2021 before the Artemis I launch, told This Week In Space that the current lunar lander architecture looks worryingly elaborate compared with Apollo. It is not Bridenstine's first intervention on the matter. In 2025, he questioned the architecture NASA selected &ndas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ex-nasa-boss-points-out-small-flaw-in-moon-landing-plan-no-lander/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ex-nasa-boss-points-out-small-flaw-in-moon-landing-plan-no-lander/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users. At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This update improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file" to KB5095093, the preview for July's patch Tuesday. The fix addresses a problem in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file can keep growing, potentially consuming gigabytes of disk space instead of the expected megaby]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/unexpected-windows-bloat-is-due-to-bug-not-by-design/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/unexpected-windows-bloat-is-due-to-bug-not-by-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tech giant said people can opt out - but privacy campaigners called it a "recipe for disaster".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outcry-as-meta-lets-users-make-ai-images-from-public-instagram-profile-pics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outcry-as-meta-lets-users-make-ai-images-from-public-instagram-profile-pics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next pandemic? Virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens that are most likely to spark a global outbreak]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens most likely to spark the next global health emergency.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-next-pandemic-virus-catalogue-reveals-the-terrifying-pathogens-that-are-most-likely-to-spark-a-global-outbreak/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-next-pandemic-virus-catalogue-reveals-the-terrifying-pathogens-that-are-most-likely-to-spark-a-global-outbreak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwave prompts summer SNAKE warning in Britain: Shock new figures reveal a sharp rise in incidents during warm weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Britain endures its third heatwave of the summer, many Brits will be worried about sunburn, sleep issues, and heatstroke. Now, experts have revealed a new cause for concern - snakes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-prompts-summer-snake-warning-in-britain-shock-new-figures-reveal-a-sharp-rise-in-incidents-during-warm-weather/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-prompts-summer-snake-warning-in-britain-shock-new-figures-reveal-a-sharp-rise-in-incidents-during-warm-weather/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aussie telco Telstra is currently battling the mother of all borks after blaming a &ldquo;software defect&rdquo; for an outage that downed emergency services calls and public transport lines. Telstra blamed the 12-hour outage, which it discovered at around 0430 AEST on Wednesday, on issues at time-keeping servers located in datacenters in Sydney and Melbourne. It explicitly ruled out the possibility of a cyberattack. Australia&rsquo;s Triple Zero Custodian, which oversees the functionality of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telstra-outage-failed-emergency-services-calls-train-chaos-payment-systems-down/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telstra-outage-failed-emergency-services-calls-train-chaos-payment-systems-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humanoid robot designed 'for a lifetime': China reveals creepy bots that look and feel like real humans - and they can even reproduce 90% of our movements]]></title><description><![CDATA[These Uworld U1 androids are covered with 'biomimetic skin' that looks and feels just like that of a real human.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-humanoid-robot-designed-for-a-lifetime-china-reveals-creepy-bots-that-look-and-feel-like-real-humans-and-they-can-even-reproduce-90-of-our-movements/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-humanoid-robot-designed-for-a-lifetime-china-reveals-creepy-bots-that-look-and-feel-like-real-humans-and-they-can-even-reproduce-90-of-our-movements/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK&rsquo;s third-largest supermarket, Asda, has reported that the cost of its tech divorce from Walmart &mdash; which included building a new SAP ERP system &mdash; reached &pound;1.22 billion, four years after it first separated from the US retail giant. Results published last month said that one-off separation program would transfer the UK retailer to &ldquo;a standalone, IT infrastructure using software as a service from best-in-class digital partners&rdquo;. Asda said the program would &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-divorce-from-walmart-cost-brit-retail-giant-asda-122b/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-divorce-from-walmart-cost-brit-retail-giant-asda-122b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK comms regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media &pound;28 million for repeatedly obstructing customers seeking to switch broadband, pay TV, and landline providers, or to cancel their contract with the company. The watchdog says it uncovered deliberate stalling tactics by Virgin Media agents, including dropping calls, repeatedly putting customers on hold for no reason, and excessive and unnecessary call transfers between agents. Millions of calls made by customers between January 1, 2022, and Sep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/clingy-virgin-media-fined-28m-for-refusing-to-take-the-hint/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/clingy-virgin-media-fined-28m-for-refusing-to-take-the-hint/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mint condition: how the humble herb can help to soothe your gut, freshen breath and lower stress levels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mint has long been treated as an afterthought: a sprig in a drink, a few leaves chopped over new potatoes, or simply just a toothpaste flavour - but it's so much more.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mint-condition-how-the-humble-herb-can-help-to-soothe-your-gut-freshen-breath-and-lower-stress-levels/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mint-condition-how-the-humble-herb-can-help-to-soothe-your-gut-freshen-breath-and-lower-stress-levels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road]]></title><description><![CDATA[Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor of FOSS. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, has confirmed it is on the road to digital sovereignty and in the process of moving to Nextcloud in place of Microsoft SharePoint. So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan is to roll it out to more than 50,000 public employees. It is al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/another-german-state-heads-down-the-open-source-sovereignty-road/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/another-german-state-heads-down-the-open-source-sovereignty-road/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover 73 volcanoes hidden across the ocean floor - and several could erupt at any moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered 73 previously unknown volcanoes hidden across the ocean floors.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-discover-73-volcanoes-hidden-across-the-ocean-floor-and-several-could-erupt-at-any-moment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-discover-73-volcanoes-hidden-across-the-ocean-floor-and-several-could-erupt-at-any-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's privacy watchdog is facing calls for parliamentary scrutiny after campaigners accused it of failing to get a grip on the Home Office's glitch-plagued eVisa system. A coalition of 20 immigration, digital rights, and human rights organizations, including the Open Rights Group, has written to the chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, urging MPs to open an inquiry into what it describes as the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) failure to enforce data protection]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/home-offices-glitchy-evisa-rollout-lands-uk-privacy-regulator-in-campaigners-crosshairs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/home-offices-glitchy-evisa-rollout-lands-uk-privacy-regulator-in-campaigners-crosshairs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red cards have more than TRIPLED since the last World Cup, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've noticed an exceptional number of red cards at the World Cup, you're not imagining it. A new study has revealed that red-card issuances have more than tripled.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-cards-have-more-than-tripled-since-the-last-world-cup-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-cards-have-more-than-tripled-since-the-last-world-cup-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits]]></title><description><![CDATA[A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government in Parliament to justify its controversial &pound;330 million investment in a data-sharing system supported by Palantir. The Register understands that the UK's regulator for the use of statistics in the public sector is assessing how the government is using data to justify its use of Palantir technology. The move follows an investigation challenging claims by NHS England that as of June, 13]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nhs-told-to-show-its-working-on-palantir-platform-benefits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nhs-told-to-show-its-working-on-palantir-platform-benefits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI continues to evolve at pace. The novelty of generative models producing their own content is already giving way to the buzz around agentic systems that can set goals autonomously and execute multi-step workflows without human involvement. Each staging post on AI's journey raises the bar for compute resources and demands more powerful processing. But in the headlong dash towards newer and more specialized architectures, and amid the fuss that greets each silicon innovation, the industry is ove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ais-biggest-challenge-is-not-compute-its-data-storage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ais-biggest-challenge-is-not-compute-its-data-storage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of AI tokens is fluctuating widely, with some becoming cheaper and others more expensive, leaving users of AI services struggling to assess if the price is right. Aman Panjwani, an AI engineer based in India, says that GPT-4-class model output cost about $20 per million tokens in late 2022. Today, equivalent capability costs about $0.40, a 55x decline in less than four years, he said, citing Introl's December 2025 unit-economics analysis. "When DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-is-becoming-a-bargain-hunters-market-with-a-few-luxury-models-on-top/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-is-becoming-a-bargain-hunters-market-with-a-few-luxury-models-on-top/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just ONE hit of cocaine 'rewires' the brain and may increase risk of addiction, study suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[One dose of cocaine leaves a lasting 'scar' on the brain for weeks - and as teen use rises, scientists warn that even occasional use comes with hidden risks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/just-one-hit-of-cocaine-rewires-the-brain-and-may-increase-risk-of-addiction-study-suggests/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/just-one-hit-of-cocaine-rewires-the-brain-and-may-increase-risk-of-addiction-study-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids]]></title><description><![CDATA[SYSTEMS APPROACH A few weeks ago, Larry and I independently received the same advice from two different sources: take a look at Media Over QUIC (MoQ) for your next edition. I&rsquo;ve been following the standardization of QUIC for several years (and wrote about it) but MoQ had not yet come onto my radar. A quick look at some IETF drafts gave me some of the main concepts, but it can be frustratingly hard to pick out the important high-level ideas from the masses of protocol-specific detail that g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/media-over-quic-can-scale-real-time-streaming-and-carry-the-worlds-vids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/media-over-quic-can-scale-real-time-streaming-and-carry-the-worlds-vids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors issue warning over misuse of popular toy that leads to hospitalizations with life-threatening injuries]]></title><description><![CDATA[GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING. Doctors are sounding the alarm about popular sensory toys after multiple children have suffered horrific third-degree burns.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/doctors-issue-warning-over-misuse-of-popular-toy-that-leads-to-hospitalizations-with-life-threatening-injuries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/doctors-issue-warning-over-misuse-of-popular-toy-that-leads-to-hospitalizations-with-life-threatening-injuries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has introduced a new offering called &ldquo;Cloud rebuild&rdquo; that makes it possible to re-image a Windows PC without a physical copy of Windows 11. The Windows giant delivered the tech on Monday in a new experimental build of Windows 11 offered to members of its insider program. As Microsoft explains in a primer, Cloud Rebuild &ldquo;downloads both the target Windows image and the device's drivers from Windows Update, so the device comes back fully functional, without USB media, wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-intros-tech-that-rebuilds-dead-pcs-without-requiring-local-copies-of-windows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-intros-tech-that-rebuilds-dead-pcs-without-requiring-local-copies-of-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds Support Man Charged With Destroying Flock License Plate Readers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CEO of Flock Safety, Garrett Langley, called the organizers of DeFlock.org terrorists, akin to Antifa, because they published 112,570 locations of license readers across the nation. I cannot imagine what Langley is calling Jeffrey Sovern, who is charged with ripping out multiple cameras in Virginia, saying they are unconstitutional.<br />
Flock Safety is a product of venture capital companies like Andreessen Horowitz (Mark Andreessen), Founders Fund (Peter Thiel), and Y Combinator (Sam Altman&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hundreds-support-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-license-plate-readers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hundreds-support-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-license-plate-readers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's inner circle have shown me the real UFO disclosure: The president has an imminent speech 'written and ready'... what he'll explain about non-human life will make it all make sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump may be preparing to give a speech that would change the world forever and confirm the theory that we are not alone in the universe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trumps-inner-circle-have-shown-me-the-real-ufo-disclosure-the-president-has-an-imminent-speech-written-and-ready-what-hell-explain-about-non-human-life-will-make-it-all-make-sense/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trumps-inner-circle-have-shown-me-the-real-ufo-disclosure-the-president-has-an-imminent-speech-written-and-ready-what-hell-explain-about-non-human-life-will-make-it-all-make-sense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning to new parents as experts discover baby products sold on Amazon, Etsy and TikTok Shop that can smother and suffocate children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baby products sold on popular online marketplaces risk choking and suffocating young children, experts have warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-to-new-parents-as-experts-discover-baby-products-sold-on-amazon-etsy-and-tiktok-shop-that-can-smother-and-suffocate-children/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-to-new-parents-as-experts-discover-baby-products-sold-on-amazon-etsy-and-tiktok-shop-that-can-smother-and-suffocate-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DIY test that could change fatherhood forever: Home kit checks fertility in just 15 minutes - as experts warn sperm counts have halved over the past 50 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The test uses the same technology found in Covid tests, and simply requires a single semen sample.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-diy-test-that-could-change-fatherhood-forever-home-kit-checks-fertility-in-just-15-minutes-as-experts-warn-sperm-counts-have-halved-over-the-past-50-years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-diy-test-that-could-change-fatherhood-forever-home-kit-checks-fertility-in-just-15-minutes-as-experts-warn-sperm-counts-have-halved-over-the-past-50-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your Windows is watching you. The US Justice Department's complaint against Peter Stokes for alleged involvement in the Scattered Spider hacking group offers a reminder that it's difficult to hide online activity from Microsoft's operating system (or any other). Scattered Spider, according to US authorities, targeted numerous companies in the US by compromising employee accounts in order to access more than 100 corporate networks and exfiltrate or encrypt data that would be ransomed for payment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-is-watching-anti-piracy-tool-fingers-scattered-spider-suspect/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-is-watching-anti-piracy-tool-fingers-scattered-spider-suspect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're a coder who uses AI agents to write programs for you, you may start losing those talents. Fortunately, a new command line tool can help reinforce your skills before they wither away. Aptly titled Atrophy by Ashutosh Rath, the Bengaluru, India-based developer who created it, the CLI app treats coding abilities like Elo chess scores and pushes devs to reinforce their learning through regular drills in five different skill areas. Syntax recall asks users to write a small function from a s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/avoid-ai-atrophy-new-tool-promises-to-reverse-vibe-coding-skills-decay-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/avoid-ai-atrophy-new-tool-promises-to-reverse-vibe-coding-skills-decay-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid AI atrophy - new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're a coder who uses AI agents to write programs for you, you may start losing those talents. Fortunately, a new command line tool can help reinforce your skills before they wither away. Aptly titled Atrophy by Ashutosh Rath, the Bengaluru, India-based developer who created it, the CLI app treats coding abilities like Elo chess scores and pushes devs to reinforce their learning through regular drills in five different skill areas. Syntax recall asks users to write a small function from a s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/avoid-ai-atrophy-new-tool-promises-to-reverse-vibe-coding-skills-decay/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/avoid-ai-atrophy-new-tool-promises-to-reverse-vibe-coding-skills-decay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malicious prompters could easily trick GitHub agents into pulling data from private repositories and then leaking the information as a public comment for anyone to access, according to Noma Labs researchers who named the vulnerability GitLost. The issue exists in GitHub&rsquo;s Agentic Workflows, which allow an AI agent powered by Claude or GitHub Copilot to autonomously execute tasks in GitHub Actions. As the AI security sleuths discovered and detailed in a Monday blog, the workflows are vulner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-ai-agent-leaks-private-repos-when-asked-nicely/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-ai-agent-leaks-private-repos-when-asked-nicely/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Time traveler' claiming to be from the year 3700 issues chilling warning for humanity as he reveals 'evidence' of future apocalypse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man claiming to have traveled hundreds of years into the future says he has returned with 'proof' and a chilling warning to humanity about their fate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-3700-issues-chilling-warning-for-humanity-as-he-reveals-evidence-of-future-apocalypse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-3700-issues-chilling-warning-for-humanity-as-he-reveals-evidence-of-future-apocalypse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Power-efficient South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has landed on European shores. On Tuesday, the chip biz revealed that it had begun fielding its RNGD &mdash; pronounced &ldquo;renegade&rdquo; &mdash; line of AI accelerators at colocation giant Equinix&rsquo;s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded by June Paik and Hanjoon Kim back in 2017, before LLMs were cool, Furiosa has largely focused its attention on the South Korean domestic market, scoring wins with the likes of LG Electronics]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to millions as lung-damaging air sweeps across five US states TODAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials have issued health warnings to millions of Americans as lung-damaging air engulfs five US states on Tuesday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-damaging-air-sweeps-across-five-us-states-today/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-lung-damaging-air-sweeps-across-five-us-states-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story of human evolution rewritten as new evidence reveals a far more complex origin]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/story-of-human-evolution-rewritten-as-new-evidence-reveals-a-far-more-complex-origin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/story-of-human-evolution-rewritten-as-new-evidence-reveals-a-far-more-complex-origin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin]]></title><description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE There's no honor among thieves as a new worm steals from other infectious software. It pilfers &ldquo;multiple&rdquo; victims&rsquo; credentials and mines for cryptocurrency while killing competitors&rsquo; processes, including similar secret-harvesting malware. It&rsquo;s called Cloud AI Infrastructure Attack Framework (CAI), and it&rsquo;s a centralized botnet that targets cloud-native developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, etcd, Kubelet, and Ray for credential theft and cry]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cai-cloud-worm-gives-competitors-malware-the-boot-then-steals-secrets-and-mines-for-coin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cai-cloud-worm-gives-competitors-malware-the-boot-then-steals-secrets-and-mines-for-coin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons]]></title><description><![CDATA[After four years of operations around the Moon, NASA's CAPSTONE mission has bitten the lunar dust, in a manner of speaking. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) was launched in 2022, with a primary mission to validate the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) intended for NASA's "paused" Gateway space station. Launched in June 2022 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, CAPSTONE had a troubled start to life, briefly giving controllers the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-calls-time-on-capstone-after-four-years-of-lunar-orbit-lessons/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-calls-time-on-capstone-after-four-years-of-lunar-orbit-lessons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocket test flight could be attempted from Shetland in August]]></title><description><![CDATA[SaxaVord Spaceport has announced a five-week "window" for possible attempts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocket-test-flight-could-be-attempted-from-shetland-in-august/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocket-test-flight-could-be-attempted-from-shetland-in-august/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story of human evolution rewritten as new evidence points to a far more complex origin]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/story-of-human-evolution-rewritten-as-new-evidence-points-to-a-far-more-complex-origin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/story-of-human-evolution-rewritten-as-new-evidence-points-to-a-far-more-complex-origin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using command-line tools is often the best way to get something done, but remembering all those flags is a chore. Now, you can let a simple open-source CLI module turn any command into a GUI for you instead. That&rsquo;s the solution Jordanian full-stack software engineer Omar Soutari built for his first entry into the FOSS community and released this week. Instagui, as he calls it, parses CLI tools&rsquo; help documentation, makes an API call to Claude to digest it, and then renders the whole t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-tool-gives-clis-a-warm-and-gui-feeling-instead/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-tool-gives-clis-a-warm-and-gui-feeling-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden inscription from after Christ's crucifixion reveals new details of the Roman Empire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient inscriptions written the language Jesus spoke have revealed a lost 1,700-year-old chapter in early Christian history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-inscription-from-after-christs-crucifixion-reveals-new-details-of-the-roman-empire/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-inscription-from-after-christs-crucifixion-reveals-new-details-of-the-roman-empire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight victims of Greece&rsquo;s spyware scandal, later dubbed &ldquo;Predatorgate,&rdquo; have sued the Athens-based company behind the program used to surveil them. According to the Predator victims&rsquo; lawyer, Zacharias Kesses, each of the plaintiffs is asking for &euro;1 million in moral damages after having their devices hacked between 2020 and 2021. Among those seeking damages is journalist Thanasis Koukakis, who was one of the most high-profile victims at the time. Others include lawyer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/predatorgate-snoopfest-victims-launch-8m-sueball-at-spyware-maker/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/predatorgate-snoopfest-victims-launch-8m-sueball-at-spyware-maker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's Court of Appeal has dismissed Microsoft's appeal against a ruling that ValueLicensing (VL) can resell pre-owned software licences. The judgment, handed down July 7, follows a ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in November that customers could resell their licenses, even if Office contained clipart. In 2021, VL filed a claim accusing Microsoft of stifling the market for pre-owned on-prem software licenses, alleging the US biz baked restrictive clauses into its contracts &nda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/court-tosses-microsofts-appeal-in-pre-owned-software-licenses-battle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/court-tosses-microsofts-appeal-in-pre-owned-software-licenses-battle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put all your data and AI to work and get it out of silos and lakehouses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine your refrigerator sits in another building, 100 metres from your kitchen. Every time you cook, you walk over for each ingredient, then walk back to check that you closed the fridge door. That could be another long walk back if you forgot the milk for your morning coffee. Until the agentic era, this was the norm. Data could live in that fridge and get pulled when needed. Applications and humans didn't need millisecond or even live data to make important decisions; humans can work on copie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/put-all-your-data-and-ai-to-work-and-get-it-out-of-silos-and-lakehouses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/put-all-your-data-and-ai-to-work-and-get-it-out-of-silos-and-lakehouses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient inscriptions written in Jesus' language reveal forgotten chapter of early Christianity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient inscriptions written the language Jesus spoke have revealed a lost 1,700-year-old chapter in early Christian history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-inscriptions-written-in-jesus-language-reveal-forgotten-chapter-of-early-christianity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-inscriptions-written-in-jesus-language-reveal-forgotten-chapter-of-early-christianity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great finally been found? Investigator claims bones buried under a Hampshire car park may belong to the Anglo-Saxon ruler]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, an investigator claims.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/have-the-long-lost-remains-of-king-alfred-the-great-finally-been-found-investigator-claims-bones-buried-under-a-hampshire-car-park-may-belong-to-the-anglo-saxon-ruler/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/have-the-long-lost-remains-of-king-alfred-the-great-finally-been-found-investigator-claims-bones-buried-under-a-hampshire-car-park-may-belong-to-the-anglo-saxon-ruler/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is enabling Windows Backup for Organizations by default in Windows 11 26H2 everywhere except the EU, meaning businesses elsewhere with sovereignty and privacy concerns will be forced opt out instead. Now dubbed "Windows settings backup and restore," the service backs up a device's settings and a list of installed Microsoft Store apps, which can then be restored to a new device. Microsoft gave a use case for the technology: "Imagine a lost laptop, a hardware refresh, or an unexpected re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-flips-windows-backup-to-on-by-default-unless-youre-in-the-eu/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-flips-windows-backup-to-on-by-default-unless-youre-in-the-eu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking]]></title><description><![CDATA[The majority of companies that deploy AI systems end up shooting themselves in the foot with security, according to DigiCert. Seventy-eight percent of enterprises report "experiencing AI-related security incidents or identifying AI-related vulnerabilities," the digital identity biz said in a commissioned survey. Among respondents, 27.7 percent experienced one incident, 21.9 percent experienced multiple incidents, and 28.4 percent had no incidents but identified vulnerabilities, a company spokesp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/enterprise-ai-still-smarting-from-leaping-before-looking/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/enterprise-ai-still-smarting-from-leaping-before-looking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rising memory prices are making budget smartphones commercially unviable to produce, forcing users to delay upgrades, pay more for higher-tier devices, or turn to the second-hand market instead. This is according to analyst Omdia, which estimates memory costs accounted for almost 60 percent of the total bill of materials in sub-$400 smartphones during calendar Q1 of 2026 &ndash; and things haven't improved since then. In fact, market watcher TrendForce predicted last month that the tech industry]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dram-prices-are-killing-the-cheap-smartphone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dram-prices-are-killing-the-cheap-smartphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could you outrun a spider? Scientists rank the sprinting speeds of 258 eight-legged species - and the fastest could easily catch you]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you thought you could outrun a spider, think again. Scientists have identified the fastest spider ever recorded, and the quickest could easily catch you.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-you-outrun-a-spider-scientists-rank-the-sprinting-speeds-of-258-eight-legged-species-and-the-fastest-could-easily-catch-you/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-you-outrun-a-spider-scientists-rank-the-sprinting-speeds-of-258-eight-legged-species-and-the-fastest-could-easily-catch-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals are using fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams to persuade employees to surrender control of their PCs before installing the EtherRAT remote access trojan, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. Victims receive a phishing email disguised as an employee survey before a follow-up Microsoft Teams call from someone claiming to be IT support. During the call, the attacker persuades the target to hand over remote control and install legitimate remote administration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fake-it-bods-on-microsoft-teams-coax-workers-into-installing-malware/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fake-it-bods-on-microsoft-teams-coax-workers-into-installing-malware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain collars alleged pro-Russia hacktivist after FBI tip-off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish police have arrested a man they believe is affiliated with at least two pro-Russia hacktivist groups linked to attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI). Arrested in March at his home in Palencia, central Spain, the man is suspected of having close ties to CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR) and Z-Pentest, and may have carried out attacks on behalf of NoName057(16). All three hacktivist groups were named by the UK's NCSC earlier this year as part of an advisory warning about the da]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spain-collars-alleged-pro-russia-hacktivist-after-fbi-tip-off/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spain-collars-alleged-pro-russia-hacktivist-after-fbi-tip-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be three times OLDER than Earth, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[While 3I/ATLAS is definitely a comet, its composition and age have remained unclear. Now, astronomers have solved these mysteries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-interstellar-comet-3iatlas-could-be-three-times-older-than-earth-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-interstellar-comet-3iatlas-could-be-three-times-older-than-earth-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's cyber pledge lands 60 signatories, including M&amp;S and, somehow, Capita]]></title><description><![CDATA[After serving as last year&rsquo;s poster child for retail cyber misery, Marks &amp; Spencer has become one of the first companies to sign up to the UK government's new Cyber Resilience Pledge. The retailer is among 60 organizations that have signed up to the voluntary scheme, launched by technology secretary Liz Kendall on Tuesday. Signatories commit to treating cybersecurity as a board-level responsibility, signing up to the National Cyber Security Centre's Early Warning service, and encouragi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/governments-cyber-pledge-lands-60-signatories-including-mamps-and-somehow-capita/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/governments-cyber-pledge-lands-60-signatories-including-mamps-and-somehow-capita/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold]]></title><description><![CDATA[MPs are warning the UK has no "coherent strategy" for creating sovereign capabilities across a range of technologies, including AI, space, and quantum computing. A report published Tuesday by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee says the UK is in a global race for sovereign tech capabilities, with AI emerging as a "central arena" for competition and collaboration. A recent move by the US government to restrict some of Anthropic's AI models "should be a powerful reminder that the UK m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-tell-brit-government-sort-out-your-tech-sovereignty-or-get-left-out-in-the-cold/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mps-tell-brit-government-sort-out-your-tech-sovereignty-or-get-left-out-in-the-cold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's second MOON is revealed for the first time: Chinese satellite beams back incredible image of rare 'micromoon']]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the first image of a rare 'minimoon' that loops around the Earth like a dance partner.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/earths-second-moon-is-revealed-for-the-first-time-chinese-satellite-beams-back-incredible-image-of-rare-micromoon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/earths-second-moon-is-revealed-for-the-first-time-chinese-satellite-beams-back-incredible-image-of-rare-micromoon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four years after its first attempt, Northern Ireland's Education Authority (EANI) is trying once again to replace Capita, with a procurement for an IT services deal worth up to &pound;851 million. An earlier effort to replace the UK tech services company foundered when EANI ended its &pound;485 million contract with Fujitsu by "mutual agreement" after "extensive negotiations" in November 2024. The deal's collapse led to an extension of the authority's contract with Capita, which bagged an additi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/northern-ireland-tries-again-to-expel-capita-from-schools-it-contract/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/northern-ireland-tries-again-to-expel-capita-from-schools-it-contract/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One and done! NASA Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen dramatically RETIRES after a single mission around the moon - as one fan asks 'what do you guys see up there that you don't want to go back?']]></title><description><![CDATA[The Canadian astronaut was one of four members of the Artemis II team, who made history earlier this year by flying around the moon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/one-and-done-nasa-artemis-ii-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-dramatically-retires-after-a-single-mission-around-the-moon-as-one-fan-asks-what-do-you-guys-see-up-there-that-you-dont-want-to-go-back/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/one-and-done-nasa-artemis-ii-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-dramatically-retires-after-a-single-mission-around-the-moon-as-one-fan-asks-what-do-you-guys-see-up-there-that-you-dont-want-to-go-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reform of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 aims to cut a year off the approval process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in England and Wales &ndash; a category that now includes datacenters. The Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government (MHCLG) confirmed that changes under the Act, taking effect later this month, will scrap the statutory requirement for pre-application consultation on NSIPs. These are major developments &ndash; power stations, rail]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-guts-planning-red-tape-so-datacenters-can-bypass-the-neighbors-faster/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-guts-planning-red-tape-so-datacenters-can-bypass-the-neighbors-faster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Flemish Government set out to renovate its Brussels headquarters, it had two strategic aims. The first was to create a workplace that encouraged hybrid workers to come to the office more regularly, by fashioning a space that fostered connection, teamwork, collaboration, and a deeper sense of wellbeing and belonging. The second goal was sustainability. Another objective was that the government's head office building played a large part in its 2050 climate goals. Yannic Laleeuwe is market]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brussels-shows-how-to-remove-friction-from-collaboration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brussels-shows-how-to-remove-friction-from-collaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom has signed a deal to provide Apple with custom chips until 2031. The chips and code shop has supplied Apple with silicon since the late 2000s when its wireless products found a home in early iPhone models. Broadcom&rsquo;s silicon has found its way into iThings ever since. Broadcom&rsquo;s announcement of its extended relationship with Cupertino is brief, stating only that the two companies &ldquo;have agreed to expand their long-standing technology collaboration through 2031 by enterin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/broadcom-and-apple-extend-custom-silicon-pact-to-2031/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/broadcom-and-apple-extend-custom-silicon-pact-to-2031/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities around the world built in incredible locations - from a Japanese village inside a volcano to a settlement 5,000 metres above sea level]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Japan to Peru, there are amazing cities, towns and villages around the world in extraordinary locations and extreme conditions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cities-around-the-world-built-in-incredible-locations-from-a-japanese-village-inside-a-volcano-to-a-settlement-5000-metres-above-sea-level/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cities-around-the-world-built-in-incredible-locations-from-a-japanese-village-inside-a-volcano-to-a-settlement-5000-metres-above-sea-level/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s profits jump 19x in a year and you don’t need AI to figure out why]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung has delivered guidance for its second quarter results and forecast profits 19 times higher than it managed in the same period of 2025. In Q2 last year, the Korean giant&rsquo;s sales totalled &#8361;75.7 trillion ($49.7 billion) and operating profit landed at &#8361;4.68 trillion ($3.1 billion). Fast forward a year, and Samsung told investors that once its accountants finish their work, they&rsquo;ll report sales of &#8361;170 trillion to &#8361;172 trillion ($111.9 billion) and operatin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/samsungs-profits-jump-19x-in-a-year-and-you-dont-need-ai-to-figure-out-why/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/samsungs-profits-jump-19x-in-a-year-and-you-dont-need-ai-to-figure-out-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slug sleuths on the trail of gorging gastropods]]></title><description><![CDATA[How predicting slugs' behaviour is helping farmers and their crops.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/slug-sleuths-on-the-trail-of-gorging-gastropods/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/slug-sleuths-on-the-trail-of-gorging-gastropods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature campaigners take on football club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kidderminster Harriers want to build several football pitches on nearby green belt land.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nature-campaigners-take-on-football-club/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nature-campaigners-take-on-football-club/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Finds: Scientists Built Cancer Kill Switch That Turns On With Flash Of Light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photonics influences cell behavior by using light. Technocrats have discovered that many cells, or genetically modified cells, express light-sensitive proteins (opsins, rhodopsins) that open or close ion channels when illuminated, changing membrane potential and firing patterns. In neurons, this directly controls excitability, synaptic transmission, and network dynamics on millisecond timescales.&nbsp;&#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.Cancer has a dirty trick: it can put itself to sleep. When tumor c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/study-finds-scientists-built-cancer-kill-switch-that-turns-on-with-flash-of-light/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/study-finds-scientists-built-cancer-kill-switch-that-turns-on-with-flash-of-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has posted an announcement that teases the introduction of rack-mounted and single-frame versions of its z17 mainframes. Big Blue&rsquo;s documentation for the z17 mentions only a model called the ME1 that scales from single-rack to four-rack systems. The Tuesday announcement mentions bundles called the z17 ME2 and IBM z17 MER, respectively a single-frame and rack-mounted affair. The announcement doesn&rsquo;t offer any specs but says they &ldquo;complete the IBM z17 product family.&rdquo; I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-teases-new-rackable-mainframes-that-complete-the-z17-family/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-teases-new-rackable-mainframes-that-complete-the-z17-family/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots available for rent: But what can they do?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robotics tech is changing fast, so for many it makes sense to rent a robot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/robots-available-for-rent-but-what-can-they-do/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/robots-available-for-rent-but-what-can-they-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI startup that&rsquo;s never turned a profit say's it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease]]></title><description><![CDATA[In its short life, Anthropic has captured hearts, minds, and wallets &ndash; and spooked the US government &ndash; but it hasn&rsquo;t actually turned a profit. That&rsquo;s not stopping CEO Dario Amodei from signing a two-decade lease with crypto-mining outfit turned AI datacenter operator TeraWulf. Anthropic believes it&rsquo;s not only going to survive any AI bubble burst but keep operating until 2047, or at least that&rsquo;s what it (probably) wants prospective investors in its upcoming ini]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-startup-thatrsquos-never-turned-a-profit-says-itll-totally-be-around-in-2047-to-close-its-19b-lease/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-startup-thatrsquos-never-turned-a-profit-says-itll-totally-be-around-in-2047-to-close-its-19b-lease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fusion energy has presented a tantalizing alternative to fossil fuels for the better part of a century, but creating the equivalent of a human-made sun is easier said than done. However, new research from the boffins at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Cleveland Clinic, and IBM in support of the Department of Energy&rsquo;s (DoE) Genesis Mission suggests quantum computers and perhaps a sprinkle of AI could be what the world needs to get fusion power running at scale. Specifically, resea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-bet-on-quantum-computers-ai-supers-to-solve-fusion-fuel-dilemma/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-bet-on-quantum-computers-ai-supers-to-solve-fusion-fuel-dilemma/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you listen to the AI industry, coders' days are numbered. Despite these concerns, software developers, at least those with experience, appear to be doing just fine at growing companies. Hiring biz Levels.fyi recently looked at how US compensation for software engineers (SWEs) is related to changes in headcount and found that salary level tends to be correlated with growth. "Generally, the companies paying the most are also the ones still hiring the most," observed Hakeem Shibly, content marke]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/software-engineers-can-still-rake-in-big-bucks-by-working-for-fast-growing-companies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/software-engineers-can-still-rake-in-big-bucks-by-working-for-fast-growing-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CIA says a common habit instantly exposes you as an American]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CIA trains its spies to avoid one common American habit that could blow their cover in seconds.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cia-says-a-common-habit-instantly-exposes-you-as-an-american/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cia-says-a-common-habit-instantly-exposes-you-as-an-american/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you can't afford a graphics card these days, here's an alternative solution. Just order thousands of microcontrollers, design your own boards, and build your own cluster over the course of six months after dealing with a healthy dose of setbacks. At the end of it, you might even have something able to light up the equivalent of a QVGA display with a whopping resolution of 320x200 for your efforts and, as electrical engineering and software development YouTuber bitluni said of his creation, ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/madlad-builds-homebrew-gpu-using-8192-risc-v-chips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/madlad-builds-homebrew-gpu-using-8192-risc-v-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery of Hannibal's Alpine march solved? Scientists calculate how 46,000 men and 37 elephants could have made military history's greatest journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists may have finally solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of Hannibal's legendary Alpine crossing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mystery-of-hannibals-alpine-march-solved-scientists-calculate-how-46000-men-and-37-elephants-could-have-made-military-historys-greatest-journey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mystery-of-hannibals-alpine-march-solved-scientists-calculate-how-46000-men-and-37-elephants-could-have-made-military-historys-greatest-journey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bumblebees stick out their tongues when they enjoy a sweet treat but shake their heads in disgust at bitter tastes, scientists discover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bumblebees stick out their tongue and 'lick their lips' after tasting a sweet treat, scientists have revealed. But when they gave the bees bitter drinks, they shook their heads in disgust.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bumblebees-stick-out-their-tongues-when-they-enjoy-a-sweet-treat-but-shake-their-heads-in-disgust-at-bitter-tastes-scientists-discover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bumblebees-stick-out-their-tongues-when-they-enjoy-a-sweet-treat-but-shake-their-heads-in-disgust-at-bitter-tastes-scientists-discover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;re too late! Monday was the last day to score your own free CD of your GitHub repository, which the Microsoft-owned subsidiary offered to mail to the first 1,000 people who asked. But as of noon eastern time, that offer has been withdrawn (if it was ever genuine) after sparking confusion and ridicule. Last Thursday, GitHub issued a short notice on X extending an offer: In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-cuts-short-offer-to-burn-repos-on-cd-after-mockery-ensues/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/github-cuts-short-offer-to-burn-repos-on-cd-after-mockery-ensues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will this heatwave feel as hot and sticky as the last one?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's next heatwave is here, but will it feel as hot and sticky as the last one?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/will-this-heatwave-feel-as-hot-and-sticky-as-the-last-one/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/will-this-heatwave-feel-as-hot-and-sticky-as-the-last-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple quietly shelves 'most innovative product in years' amid fears it would spy on everyone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple may have quietly put the brakes on what some tech experts had called its 'most innovative product in years.']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-quietly-shelves-most-innovative-product-in-years-amid-fears-it-would-spy-on-everyone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-quietly-shelves-most-innovative-product-in-years-amid-fears-it-would-spy-on-everyone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient 'lost world' discovered off the US West coast rewrites story of first Americans who arrived 13,000 years ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient island chain hidden off America's West Coast could upend everything scientists thought they knew about America's first settlers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-lost-world-discovered-off-the-us-west-coast-rewrites-story-of-first-americans-who-arrived-13000-years-ago/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ancient-lost-world-discovered-off-the-us-west-coast-rewrites-story-of-first-americans-who-arrived-13000-years-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Civil liberties groups have accused the EU of dragging its feet in implementing key measures to prevent spyware infections after Citizen Lab revealed a former member of European Parliament was placed under surveillance during his time in office. Stelios Kouloglou, a former investigative journalist, served as a Greek MEP between 2014 and 2023 and was a substitute member of the inquiry into the use of Pegasus and other spyware (PEGA Committee). After Citizen Lab forensically analyzed his device, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-urged-to-act-after-pegasus-infects-phone-of-spyware-inquiry-mep/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-urged-to-act-after-pegasus-infects-phone-of-spyware-inquiry-mep/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Typhoon Bavi strikes US Pacific islands with pummeling winds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The storm lashed the Mariana Islands, hitting Rota and prompting emergency warnings on Guam.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/super-typhoon-bavi-strikes-us-pacific-islands-with-pummeling-winds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/super-typhoon-bavi-strikes-us-pacific-islands-with-pummeling-winds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung expects to have its first floating datacenter (FDC) operational by the second calendar quarter of 2028. The Korean conglomerate is one of several companies pursuing waterborne bit barns, as recently covered by The Register. It has now put a specific date on those plans, according to the Seoul Economic Daily, which reports Samsung is weighing multiple candidate projects to commercialize an FDC the year after next. Samsung Heavy Industries, the group's shipbuilding and offshore engineering]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/samsung-floats-2028-launch-for-seaborne-datacenter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/samsung-floats-2028-launch-for-seaborne-datacenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hard times have come to Microsoft employees. Thousands of Microsoft team members reported to work following the US holiday weekend to learn their jobs no longer exist, with Redmond gutting its Commercial business and Xbox team, and spinning off several game studios to cut costs. Microsoft human resources boss Amy Coleman announced that the company is eliminating some 4,800 roles Monday morning in a letter to employees the company published online. Coleman explained that Microsoft is doing the la]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-says-the-world-is-changing-faster-than-it-can-keep-up-as-it-guts-commercial-xbox-teams/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-says-the-world-is-changing-faster-than-it-can-keep-up-as-it-guts-commercial-xbox-teams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farmers 'vindicated' after judge's ruling on pylon firm accessing land]]></title><description><![CDATA[Groups representing landowners claimed they were "frightened" by agents turning up on their farms.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farmers-vindicated-after-judges-ruling-on-pylon-firm-accessing-land/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farmers-vindicated-after-judges-ruling-on-pylon-firm-accessing-land/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure']]></title><description><![CDATA[The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cuts-4800-jobs-and-shrinks-xbox-in-significant-restructure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-cuts-4800-jobs-and-shrinks-xbox-in-significant-restructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD&rsquo;s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year ago the Ryzen AI Halo, AMD's tiny new AI workstation, would have offered devs and machine learning enthusiasts an Nvidia DGX Spark-like experience at a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately for AMD, time and the ongoing memory shortage, which both AMD itself and Nvidia are partially responsible for, hasn't been kind to the consumer electronics industry. Launching at a hair under $4,000, the AI Halo is still cheaper than the Spark at its new MSRP of $4,699, but is now a much tougher sell tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amdrsquos-ryzen-ai-halo-makes-local-ai-look-easy-but-at-4k-easy-doesnt-come-cheap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amdrsquos-ryzen-ai-halo-makes-local-ai-look-easy-but-at-4k-easy-doesnt-come-cheap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, a small customs fee landed in the EU that may have outsized consequences. Imports of single items from outside the EU are now hit with a new &euro;3 duty, a rule that affects a range of people including electronics hobbyists and techies who prefer their printer toner off-brand. The seller or importer is generally responsible for declaring and paying the duty, but folks who build electronics projects, among others, are concerned that the so-called "Temu tax" might lead to a broad hike]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-new-import-rules-are-coming-for-your-bargains/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-new-import-rules-are-coming-for-your-bargains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your brain doesn't peak in your 20s after all: Study reveals your mind is at its sharpest between 55 and 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many people assume they've already reached their peak by the time they hit 30 - but new research suggests the opposite is true.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-brain-doesnt-peak-in-your-20s-after-all-study-reveals-your-mind-is-at-its-sharpest-between-55-and-60/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-brain-doesnt-peak-in-your-20s-after-all-study-reveals-your-mind-is-at-its-sharpest-between-55-and-60/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restoration of river bank saltmarshes begins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Groundwork North East and Cumbria says the scheme will improve water quality and biodiversity]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/restoration-of-river-bank-saltmarshes-begins/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/restoration-of-river-bank-saltmarshes-begins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wildfire in southern France forces evacuation of 10,000 people]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tour de France organisers ban spectators from stage three as a wildfire hits the Pyr&eacute;n&eacute;es-Orientales region.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wildfire-in-southern-france-forces-evacuation-of-10000-people/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wildfire-in-southern-france-forces-evacuation-of-10000-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble]]></title><description><![CDATA[KETTLE From international banking worries to the market state of canary-in-the-coal-mine Oracle, the AI bubble is sure looking taut. The Bank for International Settlements, often referred to as "the central bank for central banks", said in a report at the end of June that it was worried the AI bubble was nigh on to popping and taking the global economy with it. Oracle, the hyperscaler with arguably the largest exposure to the AI bubble, has lost more than 40 percent of its share value in the pas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-banks-and-hyperscalers-are-now-sounding-the-alarm-about-the-ai-bubble/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-banks-and-hyperscalers-are-now-sounding-the-alarm-about-the-ai-bubble/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's second largest supermarket is tripling the number of stores that use facial recognition to try to clamp down on shoplifters &ndash; a move privacy campaigners are branding as "shameful." Sainsbury's first trialed the tech at premises in Sydenham and Bath Oldfield Park from September last year, before deploying it to shops across London earlier in 2026. More than 55 Sainsbury's supermarkets use the technology.Facial recognition will be extended to up to 200 stores by the end of 2026, acc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-supermarket-giant-triples-down-on-facial-recog-to-nab-shoplifters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-supermarket-giant-triples-down-on-facial-recog-to-nab-shoplifters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden for 1,600 years: Incredible lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church, coins and homes still intact]]></title><description><![CDATA[A remarkably well preserved 1,600-year-old city complete with a church, watchtowers and bustling streets has been unearthed beneath Egypt's Western Desert.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-for-1600-years-incredible-lost-city-discovered-beneath-egypts-desert-with-ancient-church-coins-and-homes-still-intact/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-for-1600-years-incredible-lost-city-discovered-beneath-egypts-desert-with-ancient-church-coins-and-homes-still-intact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Data on more than 2.3 million people associated with Moody Bible Institute (MBI) has been exposed online after the Christian college was targeted by ShinyHunters. The attack was first disclosed by MBI in June, and the extortion crew later leaked the stolen data. Have I Been Pwned has since added the cache to its breach notification database, putting a figure on the number of exposed accounts. MBI is one of many victims of ShinyHunters' pay-or-leak attacks in 2026, and while the organization has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moody-bible-institute-breach-leaves-23m-accounts-needing-salvation-says-cyber-expert/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moody-bible-institute-breach-leaves-23m-accounts-needing-salvation-says-cyber-expert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious 'space balls' that washed up on an Australian beach are likely pressure vessels from a rocket, experts confirm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six mysterious metal balls that washed up on an Australian beach this weekend are from a space launch vehicle, experts have confirmed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-space-balls-that-washed-up-on-an-australian-beach-are-likely-pressure-vessels-from-a-rocket-experts-confirm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-space-balls-that-washed-up-on-an-australian-beach-are-likely-pressure-vessels-from-a-rocket-experts-confirm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorry Flat Earthers! Study reveals conspiracy beliefs spark a 'significant breakdown' in relationships]]></title><description><![CDATA[Believing in conspiracy theories can trigger a 'significant breakdown' in romantic relationships, a study suggests.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sorry-flat-earthers-study-reveals-conspiracy-beliefs-spark-a-significant-breakdown-in-relationships/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sorry-flat-earthers-study-reveals-conspiracy-beliefs-spark-a-significant-breakdown-in-relationships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available to the public in the archives of The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS). TUHS volunteers preserve the historical source code and documentation of the original UNIX &ndash; or as much of it as is left. A few days ago, in an email to its mailing list, TUHS founder Warren Toomey announced the addition of KSOS to the collection. "KSOS was the US Department of Defense (DoD) Kerneliz]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/secure-unix-ancestor-ksos-did-type-safety-before-rust-made-it-cool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/secure-unix-ancestor-ksos-did-type-safety-before-rust-made-it-cool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION It is too early to call peak 2026, but if we allow midterms, it's hard to beat Caveman. Caveman is a Claude Code skill that strips away non-essential linguistic components of the AI's output, making it communicate in a parody of a coding Neanderthal. Yes, this is a good way to use the products of an industry expected to spend a trillion dollars on capex this year. Ug fix API. Hyperscalers issue debt. Token minimization has been a set of techniques of interest for a while, something that']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/insert-token-to-continue-says-ai-yeah-about-that/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/insert-token-to-continue-says-ai-yeah-about-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHO, ME? Welcome to another installment of "Who, Me?" &ndash; The Register's Monday column that celebrates mistakes readers make at work and reveals their escape routes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kara" who told us that in 1999 she scored an apprenticeship with a now-bankrupt telecoms equipment manufacturer. The gig saw Kara study software engineering one day a week and spend the rest of her time at work, where she was exposed to different roles in the company so she could learn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apprentice-developer-defied-orders-then-got-a-job-supporting-her-weird-code/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apprentice-developer-defied-orders-then-got-a-job-supporting-her-weird-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan&rsquo;s Hayabusa2 craft has just buzzed an asteroid, successfully completing the first objective of its extended mission. Hayabusa2 launched in 2014, and four years later arrived at Asteroid Ryugu. In 2019 the craft sent a pair of landers onto Ryugu&rsquo;s surface and collected samples that it dropped off in the Australian outback in late 2020. Analysis of those samples suggests Ryugu is home to amino acids, and probably came from the outer solar system before somehow settling into an ell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/japans-asteroid-sample-retriever-rapidly-buzzes-remote-space-rock/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/japans-asteroid-sample-retriever-rapidly-buzzes-remote-space-rock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again. As The Register has explained many, many, times since this matter first went to court in 2003, the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX for x86 CPUs. Those two companies, plus Intel and Sequent, created &ldquo;Project Monterrey&rdquo; &ndash; an effort to create a unified version of UNIX that could run on multip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mink numbers to be cut by 90% in Kent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservationists hope to dramatically reduce mink numbers across Kent.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mink-numbers-to-be-cut-by-90-in-kent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mink-numbers-to-be-cut-by-90-in-kent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farnham backs public ownership of golf course site]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners want Les Mielles to be bought by the government and returned to nature.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farnham-backs-public-ownership-of-golf-course-site/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farnham-backs-public-ownership-of-golf-course-site/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpudCells: Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat And Reproduce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Professor Kate Adamala is an expert in synthetic life at the University of Minnesota and is clearly pursuing alternative life forms from biochemistry. As I have written in The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, Technocrats and Transhumans share the same fundamental mechanistic worldview of life. If you can follow the video below, you will see how crazy ideas morph into crazy projects and then into crazy outcomes. Note that all of this so-called science is performed at public expense. &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spudcells-scientists-build-fully-synthetic-life-form-that-can-eat-and-reproduce/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spudcells-scientists-build-fully-synthetic-life-form-that-can-eat-and-reproduce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASIA IN BRIEF The Down Under outpost of consultancy EY has fired two staff after they allegedly accessed details about bank accounts held by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Local media report that the pair were employees of the artist formerly known as Ernst and Young, which used them to work on a contract for Australia&rsquo;s Commonwealth Bank where they allegedly accessed details of the PM&rsquo;s bank account. The Bank isn&rsquo;t commenting on the matter, so isn&rsquo;t saying h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ey-sacks-staff-for-allegedly-accessing-australian-prime-ministers-bank-account/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ey-sacks-staff-for-allegedly-accessing-australian-prime-ministers-bank-account/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists develop diving suits for cyborg cockroach swarms - and it could enable them to explore Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once again proving that mad scientists aren't just a Hollywood invention, researchers have built diving suits for their cyborg cockroach swarms.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-develop-diving-suits-for-cyborg-cockroach-swarms-and-it-could-enable-them-to-explore-mars/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-develop-diving-suits-for-cyborg-cockroach-swarms-and-it-could-enable-them-to-explore-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION I write a weekly column called PWNED, about how poor security practices can lead to serious damage. Usually, there&rsquo;s something funny in the malfeasance, like a CEO who kept every employee&rsquo;s password in an Excel file on his desktop. However, I wasn&rsquo;t laughing back in May when professional thieves invaded my 84-year-old mother&rsquo;s entire financial life and managed to make off with $30,000 from her bank accounts alone. And they wouldn&rsquo;t have gotten in if her fina]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mfa-optional-banks-leave-safe-doors-and-accounts-wide-open-for-thieves-to-pillage/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mfa-optional-banks-leave-safe-doors-and-accounts-wide-open-for-thieves-to-pillage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest &ndash; or IOCCC for short &ndash; is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their sleeve: a valid use case. When we reported on last year's event, it was had just been revived from a four-year hiatus, so we're happy to see it back so soon. As we write, the judging concluded some three weeks ago, but although there is a recording on YouTube, it's very nearly three hours]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/c-programmers-commit-fresh-crimes-against-readability/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/c-programmers-commit-fresh-crimes-against-readability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The incredible and wild scientific advancements the US could make in the next 25... and 250 years!]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the United States turns 250, scientists and tech experts are already looking ahead to the next 250 years, with sky-high dreams that could change the human race.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-incredible-and-wild-scientific-advancements-the-us-could-make-in-the-next-25-and-250-years/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-incredible-and-wild-scientific-advancements-the-us-could-make-in-the-next-25-and-250-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies, rejoice! Men can be TRAINED to pick up the slack at home, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're tired of nagging your other half to pull his weight around the house, help could finally be at hand.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ladies-rejoice-men-can-be-trained-to-pick-up-the-slack-at-home-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ladies-rejoice-men-can-be-trained-to-pick-up-the-slack-at-home-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's greatest mystery was a lie: Truth about the Lost Colony of Roanoke revealed by experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[An abandoned settlement, a missing colony and a single chilling clue have transformed the disappearance of Roanoke into one of the greatest mysteries in American history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-greatest-mystery-was-a-lie-truth-about-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke-revealed-by-experts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-greatest-mystery-was-a-lie-truth-about-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke-revealed-by-experts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA accused of erasing UFOs from photographs before public release]]></title><description><![CDATA[A NASA whistleblower claimed that the space agency knowingly covered up proof of alien life captured in everyday photos.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-accused-of-erasing-ufos-from-photographs-before-public-release/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-accused-of-erasing-ufos-from-photographs-before-public-release/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New heatwave likely to peak at 34C with week-long health alert issued]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another heatwave is on its way and set to last significantly longer as Stav Danaos explains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-heatwave-likely-to-peak-at-34c-with-week-long-health-alert-issued/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-heatwave-likely-to-peak-at-34c-with-week-long-health-alert-issued/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's shark attacks MAPPED: Deadly capital, little-known hotspot where sightings are surging... and the 'Great White Alley' shift beachgoers cannot ignore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shark sightings are on the rise and a hotspot has emerged in a surprising place in the north Atlantic, sparking new beach warnings and fears of shark attacks in unlikely states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-shark-attacks-mapped-deadly-capital-little-known-hotspot-where-sightings-are-surging-and-the-great-white-alley-shift-beachgoers-cannot-ignore/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-shark-attacks-mapped-deadly-capital-little-known-hotspot-where-sightings-are-surging-and-the-great-white-alley-shift-beachgoers-cannot-ignore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Startling new images show what YOUR city will look like in 250 years... offering glimpse of totally unrecognizable nation]]></title><description><![CDATA[As America celebrates its 250th birthday, startling new visions suggest the nation that turns 500 could be almost unrecognizable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startling-new-images-show-what-your-city-will-look-like-in-250-years-offering-glimpse-of-totally-unrecognizable-nation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startling-new-images-show-what-your-city-will-look-like-in-250-years-offering-glimpse-of-totally-unrecognizable-nation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the America we know? Startling new images show how major cities could look in 250 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[As America celebrates its 250th birthday, startling new visions suggest the nation that turns 500 could be almost unrecognizable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-end-of-the-america-we-know-startling-new-images-show-how-major-cities-could-look-in-250-years/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-end-of-the-america-we-know-startling-new-images-show-how-major-cities-could-look-in-250-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've been eating ice cream wrong! Expert insists tub should be eaten from the outside in]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a tub of ice cream to cool you down on a hot day - but you've likely been eating it wrong, according to an expert.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youve-been-eating-ice-cream-wrong-expert-insists-tub-should-be-eaten-from-the-outside-in/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youve-been-eating-ice-cream-wrong-expert-insists-tub-should-be-eaten-from-the-outside-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why you SHOULD let your dog sleep on the bed: Scientists finally settle the debate that has split pet owners - and reveal the surprising benefits of a nap with your pooch]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a debate that has left pet owners divided: Should the dog be allowed on the bed?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-you-should-let-your-dog-sleep-on-the-bed-scientists-finally-settle-the-debate-that-has-split-pet-owners-and-reveal-the-surprising-benefits-of-a-nap-with-your-pooch/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-you-should-let-your-dog-sleep-on-the-bed-scientists-finally-settle-the-debate-that-has-split-pet-owners-and-reveal-the-surprising-benefits-of-a-nap-with-your-pooch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vendors are trying to position "confidential computing" as the technical backbone of Europe's sovereign cloud ambitions. But new research shows that a security protocol used to prove cryptographic trust in the system may have a fundamental architectural flaw. Confidential computing rests on a mechanism called remote attestation, in which a server cryptographically proves to a client that it is running inside a genuine, unmodified Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) before any sensitive data chan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/confidential-computings-core-trust-mechanism-is-broken-the-fix-may-not-exist/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/confidential-computings-core-trust-mechanism-is-broken-the-fix-may-not-exist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change]]></title><description><![CDATA[A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-dubbed-the-bogfather-is-restoring-peatland-to-fight-climate-change/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-dubbed-the-bogfather-is-restoring-peatland-to-fight-climate-change/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those growing sick of Earth's geopolitics, NASA is looking for volunteers to spend a year living and working in isolated conditions in preparation for a journey to some other celestial orb. The US space agency is set to carry out a simulated deep space mission from no earlier than August 2027 to understand what might happen to its human lab rats during planned crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. Johnson Space Center in Houston will be home to the willing participants who are set for a yearl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-says-it-will-isolate-volunteers-from-the-outside-world-for-a-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-says-it-will-isolate-volunteers-from-the-outside-world-for-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turbines turning from wind to sustainable products]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are coming to the end of their lives.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/turbines-turning-from-wind-to-sustainable-products/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/turbines-turning-from-wind-to-sustainable-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Temperature records were smashed in June - and scientists warn this is a sign of things to come.&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hotter-and-hotter-and-hotter-europes-new-climate-in-seven-charts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hotter-and-hotter-and-hotter-europes-new-climate-in-seven-charts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions urged to prepare NOW as violent storms threaten more than a dozen US states on July 4th]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of people are being urged to prepare now for severe thunderstorms, flash flooding and damaging winds through the Fourth of July weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-urged-to-prepare-now-as-violent-storms-threaten-more-than-a-dozen-us-states-on-july-4th/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-urged-to-prepare-now-as-violent-storms-threaten-more-than-a-dozen-us-states-on-july-4th/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fecal&nbsp;contamination at East Coast beaches triggers 'do not swim' warnings for July 4th weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[Multiple beaches along the US East Coast have issued 'do not swim' warnings due to high levels of fecal bacteria in the water.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fecalnbspcontamination-at-east-coast-beaches-triggers-do-not-swim-warnings-for-july-4th-weekend/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fecalnbspcontamination-at-east-coast-beaches-triggers-do-not-swim-warnings-for-july-4th-weekend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82]]></title><description><![CDATA[OBITUARY South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the founder of the company of the same name, a pivotal firm in the British technology industry from the 1980s to the 2000s. Psion supplied software for the early computers from Sinclair Research, the ZX80 and the ZX81, including a Flight Simulator that you can play online. In 1982, Psion supplied t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Record-breaking temps in US as 4th July holiday begins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Record-breaking heatwave hits US as Fourth of July holiday weekend gets underway.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/record-breaking-temps-in-us-as-4th-july-holiday-begins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/record-breaking-temps-in-us-as-4th-july-holiday-begins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women with these six physical traits get the most attention from men, reveals new research]]></title><description><![CDATA[New research has found that women with six specific physical traits may get more attention from men than others.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/women-with-these-six-physical-traits-get-the-most-attention-from-men-reveals-new-research/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/women-with-these-six-physical-traits-get-the-most-attention-from-men-reveals-new-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technocracy’s Digital ID Is Being Smuggled In On The Backs Of Children]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have spent more than fifteen years analyzing technocracy as a system of rule by engineered administration, where the credential replaces the citizen, and the dashboard replaces the vote. Technocrats have their requirements, and they keep hammering on them until they get their way.<br />
In all those years, how many times have we seen digital ID come up? Just about every year!<br />
The fact is, Technocrats need digital identity to work. Without it, Technocracy is dead. You cannot administer what you canno]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocracys-digital-id-is-being-smuggled-in-on-the-backs-of-children/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocracys-digital-id-is-being-smuggled-in-on-the-backs-of-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outrage as brightly lit MSG hosts Taylor Swift's wedding while thousands of 'poor' New Yorkers sit in the dark amid heat-driven power cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many New Yorkers have been left in the dark and are calling out the hypocrisy of hosting Taylor Swift's wedding while residents had their power cut off due to the heat.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outrage-as-brightly-lit-msg-hosts-taylor-swifts-wedding-while-thousands-of-poor-new-yorkers-sit-in-the-dark-amid-heat-driven-power-cuts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/outrage-as-brightly-lit-msg-hosts-taylor-swifts-wedding-while-thousands-of-poor-new-yorkers-sit-in-the-dark-amid-heat-driven-power-cuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon says it is preparing to roll out satellite broadband this year after the latest rocket launch brought its Leo constellation up to 396 units. The digital bazaar and cloud computing giant reports that an Atlas V rocket launch on July 2 successfully propelled 29 satellites into low Earth orbit for the Amazon Leo network, formerly known as Project Kuiper until November last. Amazon hasn't finished flinging its hardware into orbit just yet, but said it is planning to begin providing an actual]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents warned not to publicly share children’s images amid AI abuse risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NCA says there is a growing threat of children's images being used to create child abuse material.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/parents-warned-not-to-publicly-share-childrens-images-amid-ai-abuse-risks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/parents-warned-not-to-publicly-share-childrens-images-amid-ai-abuse-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Zombie squirrels' carrying deadly virus are appearing in neighborhoods across America]]></title><description><![CDATA[WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: There has been a surge in 'zombie squirrel' sightings across the US, with the animals covered in oozing sores caused by a deadly virus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zombie-squirrels-carrying-deadly-virus-are-appearing-in-neighborhoods-across-america/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zombie-squirrels-carrying-deadly-virus-are-appearing-in-neighborhoods-across-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversial plan to dim the sun could choke airlines with clouds of 'hazardous' sulphuric acid, putting passengers and crews at risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A controversial plan to fight climate change by dimming the sun could choke the airlines with clouds of sulphuric acid, scientists have warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/controversial-plan-to-dim-the-sun-could-choke-airlines-with-clouds-of-hazardous-sulphuric-acid-putting-passengers-and-crews-at-risk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/controversial-plan-to-dim-the-sun-could-choke-airlines-with-clouds-of-hazardous-sulphuric-acid-putting-passengers-and-crews-at-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrifying 'zombie squirrels' carrying deadly virus invade Americans' backyards]]></title><description><![CDATA[WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: There has been a surge in 'zombie squirrel' sightings across the US, with the animals covered in oozing sores caused by a deadly virus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/terrifying-zombie-squirrels-carrying-deadly-virus-invade-americans-backyards/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/terrifying-zombie-squirrels-carrying-deadly-virus-invade-americans-backyards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data]]></title><description><![CDATA[AdaptHealth says attackers used social engineering to breach its systems and steal sensitive patient data, including passwords associated with insurance billing. The medical equipment company disclosed the attack to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, noting that attackers accessed internal patient management systems, document storage platforms, and external electronic health record system portals. The attack targeted an unwitting third-party contractor, through which the c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/adapthealth-says-attackers-sweet-talked-their-way-into-cloud-systems-and-stole-patient-data/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/adapthealth-says-attackers-sweet-talked-their-way-into-cloud-systems-and-stole-patient-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module]]></title><description><![CDATA[US startup Ampera has produced what it claims is the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module. The firm says it is working towards delivering scalable, emission-free power for datacenters, defense applications, and off-grid sites. Ampera unveiled its first nuclear reactor module during an event at the firm's innovation center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. More than 100 people attended, including local officials, business leaders and employees. Founder and CEO Brian Matthews revealed the prototy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startup-targets-datacenters-with-3d-printed-nuclear-reactor-module/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startup-targets-datacenters-with-3d-printed-nuclear-reactor-module/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions told to stay indoors as eye-burning toxins fill the air in 16 US states TODAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans across 16 US states are being urged to stay indoors if possible as toxic air sweeps a large swath of the nation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-stay-indoors-as-eye-burning-toxins-fill-the-air-in-16-us-states-today/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-stay-indoors-as-eye-burning-toxins-fill-the-air-in-16-us-states-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwave scam warning: Criminals target desperate Britons with fake air conditioner bargains that leave victims out of pocket]]></title><description><![CDATA[While Britain's sweltering heatwaves might have been unbearable, rushing to grab an air conditioner bargain leaves you seriously at risk of getting fleeced.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-scam-warning-criminals-target-desperate-britons-with-fake-air-conditioner-bargains-that-leave-victims-out-of-pocket/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-scam-warning-criminals-target-desperate-britons-with-fake-air-conditioner-bargains-that-leave-victims-out-of-pocket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech companies working with US law enforcement "significantly degraded" the NetNut residential proxy network as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt the tools cybercriminals use to conceal their activity, say researchers. The work was carried out by Google, Lumen, Shadowserver, the FBI, and others, and marks a continuation of the IPIDEA proxy network disruption from January. According to Google Cloud, those working on the operation believe NetNut was among the most popular residential proxy netw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/netnut-cracked-as-google-and-fbi-target-2-million-device-botnet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/netnut-cracked-as-google-and-fbi-target-2-million-device-botnet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly a third of corporate leaders report difficulty understanding and controlling operating costs when implementing business AI at scale, according to a survey from KPMG. In recent months, Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub have shifted some services away from flat-rate subscriptions toward usage-based billing. "As usage-based pricing models become more common, many organizations are still building the capabilities required to forecast, monitor, and manage AI spending effectively," KPMG said. The s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-bills-are-baffling-the-c-suite-after-shift-to-usage-based-pricing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-bills-are-baffling-the-c-suite-after-shift-to-usage-based-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain scan that could reveal a cold-blooded killer: Scientists discover key difference in people who commit premeditated murder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have uncovered the brain structure that could reveal whether someone is a cold-blooded killer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-brain-scan-that-could-reveal-a-cold-blooded-killer-scientists-discover-key-difference-in-people-who-commit-premeditated-murder/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-brain-scan-that-could-reveal-a-cold-blooded-killer-scientists-discover-key-difference-in-people-who-commit-premeditated-murder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nasa launches mission to save falling space telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-launches-mission-to-save-falling-space-telescope/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-launches-mission-to-save-falling-space-telescope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France records 2,025 excess deaths at peak of heatwave as Europe braces for more extreme weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forecasters are warning of further extreme temperatures on the continent in the next few days.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/france-records-2025-excess-deaths-at-peak-of-heatwave-as-europe-braces-for-more-extreme-weather/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/france-records-2025-excess-deaths-at-peak-of-heatwave-as-europe-braces-for-more-extreme-weather/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scotland's first gull ranger wants to boost their image]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eyemouth's gull ranger hopes for a more harmonious existence between gulls and humans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scotlands-first-gull-ranger-wants-to-boost-their-image/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scotlands-first-gull-ranger-wants-to-boost-their-image/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male runners are twice as likely to hit the wall during a marathon, and scientists say their egos might be to blame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suddenly hitting the wall when the race seemed to be going so well is a sensation many marathon runners will know and dread.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/male-runners-are-twice-as-likely-to-hit-the-wall-during-a-marathon-and-scientists-say-their-egos-might-be-to-blame/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/male-runners-are-twice-as-likely-to-hit-the-wall-during-a-marathon-and-scientists-say-their-egos-might-be-to-blame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union's proposed environmental rating system for datacenters may be amended in response to lobbying from IT industry heavyweights, making it easier to offset greenhouse gas emissions using clean energy certificates. According to the Financial Times, the European Commission is weakening its original proposals after pressure from datacenter operators and tech giants. The newspaper claims to have seen the revised draft of the regulations, set to be discussed by representatives of membe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-appears-to-find-datacenter-emissions-easier-to-offset-than-lobbyists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eu-appears-to-find-datacenter-emissions-easier-to-offset-than-lobbyists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Niño is RAPIDLY strengthening, experts say - and the consequences could be catastrophic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Super El Ni&ntilde;o has officially begun in the tropical Pacific and is now rapidly strengthening, scientists warn.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/el-nio-is-rapidly-strengthening-experts-say-and-the-consequences-could-be-catastrophic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/el-nio-is-rapidly-strengthening-experts-say-and-the-consequences-could-be-catastrophic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for clarity. After all, the company claimed to have unified OLTP and OLAP with "no data duplication." Databricks, which was founded around the open source unified analytics engine Apache Spark, called its invention LTAP, which stands for lake transactional/analytical processing. It works with Reyden &ndash]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/databricks-unifies-oltp-and-olap-depending-on-what-counts-as-a-copy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/databricks-unifies-oltp-and-olap-depending-on-what-counts-as-a-copy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC]]></title><description><![CDATA[ON CALL Fronting up to work on Friday morning can feel like a mistake, but The Register tries to make it worthwhile by bringing you a new installment of On Call &ndash; the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lee" who told us about his time as sysadmin at the headquarters of a retail company. "It was about the year 2000 and I was a newly minted Certified NetWare Engineer administering Novell servers," Lee reminisced. Before]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/user-swore-hacker-called-general-failure-had-invaded-his-pc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/user-swore-hacker-called-general-failure-had-invaded-his-pc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of fish killed in park pollution mystery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dead eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in a stretch of the River Pool.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thousands-of-fish-killed-in-park-pollution-mystery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thousands-of-fish-killed-in-park-pollution-mystery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track]]></title><description><![CDATA[The attempt by Australia&rsquo;s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/&pound;10.6 million), further humiliation after the project flopped. The ASX runs a platform called the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) to process and track trades on its exchange. In 2017, the ASX decided to replace CHESS, citing difficulties maintaining the application, which the bourse coded in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/failed-blockchain-project-ends-with-big-fine-for-fibs-about-it-being-on-track/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/failed-blockchain-project-ends-with-big-fine-for-fibs-about-it-being-on-track/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brace for weather chaos! El Niño is RAPIDLY strengthening, experts say - and the consequences could be catastrophic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Super El Ni&ntilde;o has officially begun in the tropical Pacific and is now rapidly strengthening, scientists warn.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brace-for-weather-chaos-el-nio-is-rapidly-strengthening-experts-say-and-the-consequences-could-be-catastrophic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brace-for-weather-chaos-el-nio-is-rapidly-strengthening-experts-say-and-the-consequences-could-be-catastrophic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the chance to do them. The service's name references an 18th-century machine that its inventor claimed could play chess - but which was actually operated remotely by a human. AWS launched Mechanical Turk in November 2005 &ndash; a time when the cloudy concern focused]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sustainability demands progress on several fronts at once. For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and ensure that communications equipment can operate off-grid to extend educational opportunities to children in remote areas. China-based telecoms giant ZTE pursues all of these. CDP, a non-profit that runs an environmental disclosure system, has included the company on its CDP A list for the last three years. ZTE's progress against ambitious goals for carbon emissions]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-a-volatile-world-a-consistent-sustainability-policy-is-critical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-a-volatile-world-a-consistent-sustainability-policy-is-critical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones's Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges - most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who runs programmatic SEO and insurance sites, told The Register that he doesn't have any workflow that generates AI images. Google suspended his account anyway. A suspension notification sent to Jones on June 7 justified the decision by stating his account "was engaged in abusive activit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dev-says-google-warned-him-about-account-hijack-then-charged-him-11000-anyway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dev-says-google-warned-him-about-account-hijack-then-charged-him-11000-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leading AI researcher Yan LeCun has a start-up which is developing a more flexible AI system.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-is-not-smart-so-whats-next-in-artificial-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-is-not-smart-so-whats-next-in-artificial-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage]]></title><description><![CDATA[MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the video conferencing and webinar startup to a Chinese corporate espionage operation. The legal complaint filed against Koi Security, its researchers, and Palo Alto Networks alleges that Koi used an LLM to generate the threat report, the AI system hallucinated findings about MeetingTV, and the security shop then published those as facts in a December 30 blog. It accus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI infrastructure doesn't come cheap. To keep up, rent-a-GPU outfits such as CoreWeave and Lambda have had to borrow billions of dollars from venture capitalists and hedge funds to bankroll their datacenter build outs. So long as their revenues are greater than the interest payments on the loans, they have the potential to make a profit. Unfortunately for entrepreneurs looking to cash in on the AI hype, not everyone with a bright idea can tap into this kind of funding. But don&rsquo;t worry, Nvi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nvidia-floats-double-dipping-datacenter-financing-scheme/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nvidia-floats-double-dipping-datacenter-financing-scheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies that add more AI also add more people]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI leads to job losses, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But a new survey of over 21,000 US firms implies the exact opposite: When companies invest in AI, they add positions, but not immediately. According to Ramp, an AI finance biz, and Revelio Labs, an HR biz, companies making a significant financial commitment to AI add jobs at a higher rate than low-intensity adopters. But job gains don't appear until six to 12 months later. One might be tempted to interpret this as the amount of time it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/companies-that-add-more-ai-also-add-more-people/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/companies-that-add-more-ai-also-add-more-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple shark sightings near one of America's busiest beaches force closures ahead of Fourth of July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans are packing the beaches for Independence Day, but humans are not the only ones making a return to the shoreline. Multiple beaches have been closed due to shark sightings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-shark-sightings-near-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches-force-closures-ahead-of-fourth-of-july/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-shark-sightings-near-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches-force-closures-ahead-of-fourth-of-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hour spent sitting down increases the risk of cancer by nearly a tenth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each extra hour sitting down may raise your risk of deadly cancer by nearly a tenth, a study from researchers at the University of Glasgow suggests.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/every-hour-spent-sitting-down-increases-the-risk-of-cancer-by-nearly-a-tenth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/every-hour-spent-sitting-down-increases-the-risk-of-cancer-by-nearly-a-tenth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[They're not bad; they're just prompted that way. Sysdig threat hunters documented what they say is the first-ever documented agentic ransomware infection with an LLM - not a human - driving the entire extortion operation, from gaining initial access to compromising a production database server and destroying data. The security shop&rsquo;s research team named the agentic intruder JadePuffer and said it gained initial access to an internet-facing Langflow instance by exploiting CVE-2025-3248, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/smooth-ai-criminal-drives-first-end-to-end-agentic-ransomware-attack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/smooth-ai-criminal-drives-first-end-to-end-agentic-ransomware-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious structure in NASA's Mars photo sparks theories of a long-lost civilization on the Red Planet]]></title><description><![CDATA[An image taken by Curiosity last month has sparked claims of a long-lost civilization on the Red Planet after some spotted a mysterious structure in the distance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-structure-in-nasas-mars-photo-sparks-theories-of-a-long-lost-civilization-on-the-red-planet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mysterious-structure-in-nasas-mars-photo-sparks-theories-of-a-long-lost-civilization-on-the-red-planet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a heatwave hit Taylor Swift's wedding?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simon King reports on the dangerous heat threatening North America.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-a-heatwave-hit-taylor-swifts-wedding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-a-heatwave-hit-taylor-swifts-wedding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank is set to get into the neocloud business in America, providing resources to hyperscalers and other customers seeking a platform on which to carry out their AI training. The Japan-based tech investment giant says it will establish a new company called SB Neo, Inc to operate its neocloud business in the US, and expects to start operations in fiscal 2027 (ending March 31, 2028). In actual fact, ownership of the nascent biz will be split, with 51 percent in the hands of SoftBank Corp, while]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/softbank-enters-the-rent-a-gpu-race-as-america-looks-for-support-for-ai-training/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/softbank-enters-the-rent-a-gpu-race-as-america-looks-for-support-for-ai-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just 10 MINUTES in a car can be deadly as millions set to roast under scorching heat across 27 states for days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medical experts warn that going outside during Thursday's heat wave could turn deadly within minutes as extreme temperatures threaten to mirror recent events in Europe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/just-10-minutes-in-a-car-can-be-deadly-as-millions-set-to-roast-under-scorching-heat-across-27-states-for-days/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/just-10-minutes-in-a-car-can-be-deadly-as-millions-set-to-roast-under-scorching-heat-across-27-states-for-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme heat and high humidity hitting north-eastern US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some areas may reach record temperatures over the long weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-heat-and-high-humidity-hitting-north-eastern-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/extreme-heat-and-high-humidity-hitting-north-eastern-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you find yourself editing text at the Linux command prompt, you've probably either used nano, which is simplest, or the more powerful but difficult-to-master Vim. In Vim, for example, even moving the cursor up, down, left, and right is less than straightforward. How about an ice cream-themed game to teach you all the "Vim motions" (keyboard shortcuts) you need to become a master? London-based developer and designer Marcus Michaels has created Vim Scoops, a simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript game that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/vim-text-editor-game-teaches-you-keyboard-shortcuts-with-ice-cream-delivery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/vim-text-editor-game-teaches-you-keyboard-shortcuts-with-ice-cream-delivery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAP is cutting hiring and business travel to boost its investment in AI amid intensifying competition in the enterprise application market. According to an internal email, SAP is set to "exclusively focus new hiring on selected profiles only, mainly core AI roles, that are critical for our long-term success." The missive, seen by Bloomberg, said travel unrelated to AI development would also be put on hold. The German software giant will also seek to cut spending with suppliers. In a statement, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sap-snaps-wallet-shut-for-travel-and-hiring-so-it-can-keep-shoveling-cash-into-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sap-snaps-wallet-shut-for-travel-and-hiring-so-it-can-keep-shoveling-cash-into-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning for 27 states as dangerous heat wave turns cars into death traps in just 10 minutes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medical experts warn that going outside during Thursday's heat wave could turn deadly within minutes as extreme temperatures threaten to mirror recent events in Europe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-for-27-states-as-dangerous-heat-wave-turns-cars-into-death-traps-in-just-10-minutes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-for-27-states-as-dangerous-heat-wave-turns-cars-into-death-traps-in-just-10-minutes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions told to check their sunscreen NOW after experts reveal 80% of products may not be safe... check for these three ingredients]]></title><description><![CDATA[As millions of Americans prepare to hit the beach this week, experts say there's one item in their beach bags they should check first: their sunscreen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-check-their-sunscreen-now-after-experts-reveal-80-of-products-may-not-be-safe-check-for-these-three-ingredients/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-told-to-check-their-sunscreen-now-after-experts-reveal-80-of-products-may-not-be-safe-check-for-these-three-ingredients/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare American bird seen in Jersey for first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birdwatchers saw the lesser yellowlegs, which stayed for one day, in a Jersey first.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-american-bird-seen-in-jersey-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-american-bird-seen-in-jersey-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security sleuths say last month&rsquo;s FortiBleed campaign is tied to two separate ransomware groups, after they found evidence of one initial access broker group member logged in to two affiliate panels. SOC Radar&rsquo;s Threat Research Unit (STRU) said at least one of the group&rsquo;s 20 members was actively negotiating with victims, which it believes signals a direct link between the thousands of FortiBleed victims and the ransomware ecosystem. STRU spent weeks mapping FortiBleed&rsquo;s i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ctrlaltoops-fortibleed-criminals-logins-stitch-two-gangs-together/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ctrlaltoops-fortibleed-criminals-logins-stitch-two-gangs-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Adults In San Francisco Hate AI: “It’s Like Having A Dumb Friend”]]></title><description><![CDATA[News of the backlash against AI is growing. San Francisco is the heart of AI in the world, and the culture is splitting in two: first, there are the AI tech workers themselves, who have their own culture. Then, there is everybody else. This is not isolated. Graduating classes across the nation booed commencement speakers when they told students that the world would be great because of AI.&nbsp; This is a death knell for the AI industry if it cannot convince the young adults to go along. AI leade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/young-adults-in-san-francisco-hate-ai-its-like-having-a-dumb-friend/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/young-adults-in-san-francisco-hate-ai-its-like-having-a-dumb-friend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget repotting! Scottish inventors unveil the world's first plant pot that GROWS as your houseplant gets bigger]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've ever groaned at the thought of wrestling a houseplant from one pot to another, those days could soon be over.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forget-repotting-scottish-inventors-unveil-the-worlds-first-plant-pot-that-grows-as-your-houseplant-gets-bigger/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forget-repotting-scottish-inventors-unveil-the-worlds-first-plant-pot-that-grows-as-your-houseplant-gets-bigger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombshell report exposes missing scientist's ties to secret experiments at UFO-linked lab before vanishing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking details about a missing nuclear lab worker have tied him to futuristic research that has the power to change the world of computing as we know it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-report-exposes-missing-scientists-ties-to-secret-experiments-at-ufo-linked-lab-before-vanishing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-report-exposes-missing-scientists-ties-to-secret-experiments-at-ufo-linked-lab-before-vanishing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's prediction that attackers probably wouldn't rush to exploit a newly-patched SharePoint bug hasn't aged especially well. CISA has added CVE-2026-45659, a remote code execution flaw in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after confirming that crimes are now actively exploiting it in the wild. The bug stems from an insecure deserialization issue and affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and Share]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-said-exploitation-was-less-likely-but-cisa-just-added-sharepoint-rce-to-kev-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-said-exploitation-was-less-likely-but-cisa-just-added-sharepoint-rce-to-kev-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombshell clues reveal missing scientist's secret ties to 'teleportation' experiments before vanishing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking details about a missing nuclear lab worker have tied him to futuristic research that has the power to change the world of computing as we know it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-clues-reveal-missing-scientists-secret-ties-to-teleportation-experiments-before-vanishing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-clues-reveal-missing-scientists-secret-ties-to-teleportation-experiments-before-vanishing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature]]></title><description><![CDATA[A feature in Meta's glasses which boosts the voice of people will be capped at three hours for free use.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-glasses-wearers-hit-with-paywall-to-use-built-in-feature/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-glasses-wearers-hit-with-paywall-to-use-built-in-feature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing scientist secretly worked on teleportation at a UFO-linked lab before vanishing, bombshell clues reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking details about a missing nuclear lab worker have tied him to futuristic research that has the power to change the world of computing as we know it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-scientist-secretly-worked-on-teleportation-at-a-ufo-linked-lab-before-vanishing-bombshell-clues-reveal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-scientist-secretly-worked-on-teleportation-at-a-ufo-linked-lab-before-vanishing-bombshell-clues-reveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alarm after herring gulls found covered in oil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thirteen birds were found covered in a sticky substance "smelling like fish oil", with many more seen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alarm-after-herring-gulls-found-covered-in-oil/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alarm-after-herring-gulls-found-covered-in-oil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medical device giant Medtronic is warning patients that their personal and health information may have been caught up in an April cyberattack in which intruders spent nearly a week inside parts of its corporate network. According to breach notification letters sent to affected individuals, the company detected unusual activity on April 15 and later determined an unauthorized party accessed certain corporate systems between April 13 and April 19. The compromised systems contained the sort of data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/pacemaker-manufacturer-medtronic-warns-patients-cybercrooks-may-have-swiped-health-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/pacemaker-manufacturer-medtronic-warns-patients-cybercrooks-may-have-swiped-health-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[India has asked WhatsApp to explain why it should not face regulatory action after it announced the global rollout of a new usernames feature amid fears that the new feature could lead to increased cyberattacks. The country's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) gave the Meta owned platform three days to respond to its July 1 letter and to halt the rollout of usernames until the government gives its approval. WhatsApp announced on June 29 that it was allowing users to reser]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/india-gives-whatsapp-three-days-to-defend-username-rollout-amid-security-fears/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/india-gives-whatsapp-three-days-to-defend-username-rollout-amid-security-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Locals baffled after spotting a large PURPLE seal on beach in California]]></title><description><![CDATA[Locals at a California beach have been baffled after spotting a large elephant seal with a very unusual colouration.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/locals-baffled-after-spotting-a-large-purple-seal-on-beach-in-california/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/locals-baffled-after-spotting-a-large-purple-seal-on-beach-in-california/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists propose launching giant 'airbag' into space to protect Earth from dangerous solar superstorms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have suggested launching a giant 'airbag' into space to protect Earth from terrifying solar superstorms.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-propose-launching-giant-airbag-into-space-to-protect-earth-from-dangerous-solar-superstorms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-propose-launching-giant-airbag-into-space-to-protect-earth-from-dangerous-solar-superstorms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attackers have been caught exploiting a critical flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module just six weeks after Oracle patched it &ndash; and before any public proof-of-concept exploit was available. Researchers at Defused said they observed the first known exploitation of CVE-2026-46817 on June 27. The attackers were targeting the Oracle Payments File Transmission component in E-Business Suite releases 12.2.3 through 12.2.15, they said. The vulnerability, fixed in Oracle's May Critical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-e-business-suite-was-under-attack-via-critical-flaw-before-the-public-exploit-code-was-even-released/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-e-business-suite-was-under-attack-via-critical-flaw-before-the-public-exploit-code-was-even-released/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google must pay &euro;4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-must-pay-euro41bn-fine-for-using-android-to-block-rivals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-must-pay-euro41bn-fine-for-using-android-to-block-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists BUILD a cell from scratch: Synthetic organism can feed, grow, copy its DNA and divide in world-first breakthrough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely artificial forms of life.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-build-a-cell-from-scratch-synthetic-organism-can-feed-grow-copy-its-dna-and-divide-in-world-first-breakthrough/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-build-a-cell-from-scratch-synthetic-organism-can-feed-grow-copy-its-dna-and-divide-in-world-first-breakthrough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer]]></title><description><![CDATA[BORK!BORK!BORK! Sometimes a digital sign can carry a message that means more than just words. Like this example, which could be a simple connectivity issue or speak to a deeper spiritual meaning: You're not connected to a network. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Vulture on a visit to Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, near the border with Austria, the digital sign normally displays information to individuals waiting in a nearby queue. Not today, though. From a purely technical standpoint, it appears the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/connect-disconnect-or-just-have-a-lovely-beer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/connect-disconnect-or-just-have-a-lovely-beer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists fear cuts may shut radio telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[The site is part of e-MERLIN, a globally significant group of seven radio telescopes across the UK.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-fear-cuts-may-shut-radio-telescope/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientists-fear-cuts-may-shut-radio-telescope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A United Nations report on AI warns the technology is moving faster than governments can keep up, and the window of opportunity to establish effective global governance of it will not be open forever. The Preliminary Report from the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence presents AI as something of a mixed blessing. It says that the potential benefits of AI are enormous. If deployed and applied thoughtfully, the technology could support progress towards sustai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/un-warns-of-need-for-global-governance-to-avoid-an-ai-pocalypse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/un-warns-of-need-for-global-governance-to-avoid-an-ai-pocalypse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access]]></title><description><![CDATA[PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we document serious security failures in hopes we can all learn from others&rsquo; mistakes. This week, we&rsquo;ll talk about how a lack of physical security can allow threat actors to take control of your network. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes to us from two professional red teamers, who get paid to break into offices and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-with-network-admin-access/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-with-network-admin-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The strife seldom stops at Supermicro, which this week has been forced to deny a raid on its office, and appears to have fallen victim to fraudsters in Singapore. The server-maker yesterday published a business update in which Chief Revenue Officer Matt Thauberge assured customers that police in Taiwan did not raid the company this week &ndash; the company is just helping local authorities after they detained four of its workers for questioning. Thauberge said Supermicro &ldquo;coordinated with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trouble-keeps-finding-supermicro-as-strange-server-shipments-attract-police-attention-in-taiwan-and-singapore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trouble-keeps-finding-supermicro-as-strange-server-shipments-attract-police-attention-in-taiwan-and-singapore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of China&rsquo;s emerging humanoid robotics companies has launched its most-realistic looking models yet and says it has already taken over 13,000 orders for the $17,600/ &pound;13,300 machines. Here&rsquo;s a shot of the new machines. You&rsquo;re looking at the UWORLD U1, which Chinese company UBTECH says enjoys 88 degrees of freedom thanks to use of &ldquo;a proprietary dual-pivot biomimetic cervical spine, enabling it to replicate up to 90 percent of fundamental human movements.&rdquo; T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-humanoid-robots-from-china-look-like-creepy-pop-star-action-figures-complete-with-slightly-dodgy-lip-synch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/new-humanoid-robots-from-china-look-like-creepy-pop-star-action-figures-complete-with-slightly-dodgy-lip-synch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect connected car apps to save your stolen car, experts say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kia told the BBC UK law prevented its location tracking function being used to live track vehicles.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dont-expect-connected-car-apps-to-save-your-stolen-car-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dont-expect-connected-car-apps-to-save-your-stolen-car-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle is burning hundreds of billions to finance AI datacenters for the likes of OpenAI. Now, the company is admitting they may not pay off. Amid the usual boilerplate, Big Red cited numerous risk factors related to its AI infrastructure investments in a regulatory filing published late last month. &ldquo;To grow our OCI business, which requires increased computing capacity, we must incur significant capital and operating expenditures to increase our existing data center capacity and to establi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-outlines-all-the-ways-it-could-lose-the-farm-it-bet-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-outlines-all-the-ways-it-could-lose-the-farm-it-bet-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[EvilTokens, the device-code phishing kit that can allow criminals to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and silently authenticate as the victim to the organization's Microsoft 365 applications, appears to be even more insidious than we all thought. Cisco Talos incident responders on Wednesday described how the lure reaches a victim's inbox, and revealed new capabilities alongside a &ldquo;more sophisticated evasion approach&rdquo; than documented in earlier EvilTokens research. Talos uncov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eviltokens-device-code-phishing-kit-totally-more-evil-than-we-all-thought/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eviltokens-device-code-phishing-kit-totally-more-evil-than-we-all-thought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released the latest version of its mid-sized model, Sonnet 5, which the company claims is its most &ldquo;agentic&rdquo; yet. For developers writing agents to automate tedious and recurring tasks, Sonnet 5 promises improved capabilities in reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work. This version is also less likely to pull embarrassing (for Anthropic) gaffes of misunderstanding, so the company asserts. &ldquo;Our safety assessments found that Sonnet 5 shows an overall lower ra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/claude-sonnet-50-heads-straight-down-the-middle-of-the-road-to-dodge-controversy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/claude-sonnet-50-heads-straight-down-the-middle-of-the-road-to-dodge-controversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says that it plans to remove hidden codes it added to Claude Code several months ago to catch other AI companies that are trying to steal from its models. Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code team, said on Tuesday that a fix should appear on July 1. "This is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation," Shihipar explained, using the industry term for copying AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropic-is-removing-its-covert-code-for-catching-chinese-competitors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropic-is-removing-its-covert-code-for-catching-chinese-competitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vibe coders apparently don't understand what their AI servants write - at least that&rsquo;s what the team behind open-source game engine Godot seems to be implying with a new policy that cracks down on AI-generated contributions. The Godot team announced on Tuesday that they were in the process of rewriting their contribution policy to prohibit almost all use of AI from contributors, citing an overwhelming number of pull requests that have poured in, many of which appear to be AI-generated. Nor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/godot-says-bye-bye-ai-bans-vibe-coded-contributions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/godot-says-bye-bye-ai-bans-vibe-coded-contributions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can't ask most models to help you make "ransomware" directly, but many will be more than willing if you give them the right prompt. DeepSeek and other LLMs with fewer safety and security controls make theoretical cyberthreats - like browser-only ransomware - much more likely to be used in real-world infections, according to Check Point researchers. The Israeli cybersecurity company analyzed a DeepSeek-generated sample in a Wednesday report that its threat hunters describe as in-browser ranso]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/somebody-told-deepseek-to-build-in-browser-ransomware-and-it-gleefully-complied/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/somebody-told-deepseek-to-build-in-browser-ransomware-and-it-gleefully-complied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First shark of the season spotted near one of America's busiest beaches amid Fourth of July warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first onshore shark was spotted lurking near one of America's busiest beaches after officials told beachgoers to stay alert as sightings of the apex predators often peak around the Fourth of July.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-shark-of-the-season-spotted-near-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches-amid-fourth-of-july-warning/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-shark-of-the-season-spotted-near-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches-amid-fourth-of-july-warning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of scientists in a Minnesota laboratory have made history, creating the first artificial cell with a complete life cycle. SpudCell, as the team behind it has dubbed the creation, is built entirely from known chemical components, and can grow, replicate its genome, divide into new generations of cells, and even demonstrate natural selection and competition as its genes change. That&rsquo;s not to say SpudCells are alive, mind you, as the team behind it aren&rsquo;t claiming to have become]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/an-artificial-cell-with-a-full-lifecycle-has-been-created-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/an-artificial-cell-with-a-full-lifecycle-has-been-created-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI answers are killing content publishers, as they cause readers to stay on Google or on the chatbot of their choice, rather than navigating to dedicated websites. The end result could be catastrophic for the open web. Alex Chan, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, floats that prediction based on an economic model he describes in a paper titled "AI and the collapse of the www." A paper from Saharsh Agarwal, assistant professor at the Indian School of Business, and Ananya Sen, associa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-search-could-kill-the-web-without-new-quality-signals-and-revenue-models/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-search-could-kill-the-web-without-new-quality-signals-and-revenue-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding]]></title><description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE Pentera Labs&rsquo; red teamers compromised a developer&rsquo;s AI agent via his Claude Desktop app and ultimately turned that access into full remote code execution on the dev&rsquo;s machine &ndash; demonstrating how an attacker could turn a trusted, chatty AI assistant into a double agent operating on their behalf. &ldquo;Claude&rsquo;s got a new voice,&rdquo; Pentera's offensive security services team leader Dvir Avraham told The Register. &ldquo;We acknowledge the huge trust in AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-teamers-turned-claude-desktop-into-a-double-agent-to-do-their-evil-bidding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-teamers-turned-claude-desktop-into-a-double-agent-to-do-their-evil-bidding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm said future games would still be sold in shops, but they would come with a digital code only.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/playstation-will-stop-releasing-games-on-discs-in-2028/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/playstation-will-stop-releasing-games-on-discs-in-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Time traveler' who says he is from the year 2118 makes chilling claims about World War 3 and secret CIA inventions]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man claiming to have traveled more than a century into the future says he returned from the year 2118 with alarming predictions about the fate of humanity..]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-who-says-he-is-from-the-year-2118-makes-chilling-claims-about-world-war-3-and-secret-cia-inventions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-who-says-he-is-from-the-year-2118-makes-chilling-claims-about-world-war-3-and-secret-cia-inventions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Place your bets, because it looks increasingly unlikely Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will carry astronauts again, if a NASA inspector general's report is anything to go on. Published on Tuesday, the OIG report on NASA's management of its Commercial Crew Program (CCP) examines how SpaceX and Boeing have performed in providing crew transportation to the International Space Station. The report notes that SpaceX worked through its own technical challenges getting humans into space and to the ISS. B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-unsure-boeing-starliner-will-ever-be-certified-for-human-flight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-unsure-boeing-starliner-will-ever-be-certified-for-human-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PlayStation announces plans to SCRAP physical discs from 2028 - forcing players to download games instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[PlayStation has announced that it will scrap physical games from January 2028.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/playstation-announces-plans-to-scrap-physical-discs-from-2028-forcing-players-to-download-games-instead/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/playstation-announces-plans-to-scrap-physical-discs-from-2028-forcing-players-to-download-games-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask most IT teams whether they're protected against a major outage or ransomware attack, and the answer will almost certainly be yes, because the backups are in place and the box marked 'disaster recovery plan' has been ticked. But there's a difference between having a backup and recovering from a disaster, and that gap tends to reveal itself at the worst possible moment. The backup problem nobody talks about Backups were built for a different era. When the biggest threat was hardware failure or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-backups-arent-enough-the-case-for-real-disaster-recovery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/when-backups-arent-enough-the-case-for-real-disaster-recovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood-red skies appear over Venezuela days after deadly earthquakes sparking fears of a biblical omen]]></title><description><![CDATA[An eerie crimson glow has engulfed parts of Venezuela, turning the skies blood-red just days after two deadly earthquakes rattled the region.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blood-red-skies-appear-over-venezuela-days-after-deadly-earthquakes-sparking-fears-of-a-biblical-omen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blood-red-skies-appear-over-venezuela-days-after-deadly-earthquakes-sparking-fears-of-a-biblical-omen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Fedora-derived Azure Linux 4 has hit a new milestone: you can now run it outside of Azure. The project's GitHub page now offers ISO file downloads in addition to its Azure Marketplace page. We covered the Azure Linux 4 announcement in May, and it is still in preview. You should not deploy this in production just yet. The availability of ISO files for installation in a local VM is a welcome step forward, though. They are not where you might expect to find them for a FOSS project on Gi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-lets-azure-linux-4-out-of-the-cloud-in-downloadable-iso-form/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-lets-azure-linux-4-out-of-the-cloud-in-downloadable-iso-form/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last month was the hottest June on RECORD for England, the Met Office says - with an average temperature of 17.1°C]]></title><description><![CDATA[England has sweltered through the hottest June ever, official figures show. Provisional figures reveal that across the country, the average temperature was 17.1&deg;C last month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/last-month-was-the-hottest-june-on-record-for-england-the-met-office-says-with-an-average-temperature-of-171c/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/last-month-was-the-hottest-june-on-record-for-england-the-met-office-says-with-an-average-temperature-of-171c/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skies turn blood red over Venezuela after deadly earthquakes spark fears of biblical omen]]></title><description><![CDATA[An eerie crimson glow has engulfed parts of Venezuela, turning the skies blood-red just days after two deadly earthquakes rattled the region.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/skies-turn-blood-red-over-venezuela-after-deadly-earthquakes-spark-fears-of-biblical-omen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/skies-turn-blood-red-over-venezuela-after-deadly-earthquakes-spark-fears-of-biblical-omen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonka Netflix show faces backlash for AI-generated Gene Wilder voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The actor, who died in 2016, appears in the Netflix show with the consent of his estate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wonka-netflix-show-faces-backlash-for-ai-generated-gene-wilder-voice/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/wonka-netflix-show-faces-backlash-for-ai-generated-gene-wilder-voice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England's warmest June on record following historic heatwave]]></title><description><![CDATA[England saw its warmest June since records began in 1865 and the second warmest for the whole of the UK according to data just released by the Met Office.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/englands-warmest-june-on-record-following-historic-heatwave/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/englands-warmest-june-on-record-following-historic-heatwave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercury retrograde is about to upend four zodiac signs as explosive secrets from the past return]]></title><description><![CDATA[The infamous Mercury in retrograde has returned, and astrology charts suggest it will wreck havoc on four specific signs, making them face difficult problems from their past.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mercury-retrograde-is-about-to-upend-four-zodiac-signs-as-explosive-secrets-from-the-past-return/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mercury-retrograde-is-about-to-upend-four-zodiac-signs-as-explosive-secrets-from-the-past-return/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare on Wednesday said it will soon prevent mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default, part of its ongoing efforts to give site publishers more control over how they engage with AI services. Apple, Google, and Microsoft's Bing operate crawlers that could fall afoul of Cloudflare's decision, although each of the tech giants offers an AI opt-out that may allow them to escape sanctions. Web crawlers make automated network requests to websites for various purp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-to-block-cynical-search-and-scrape-bots-from-ad-supported-web-pages/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-to-block-cynical-search-and-scrape-bots-from-ad-supported-web-pages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demand for water use highest since 2022 drought]]></title><description><![CDATA[Islanders urged to use water "wisely" after demand soared in heatwave.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/demand-for-water-use-highest-since-2022-drought/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/demand-for-water-use-highest-since-2022-drought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fewer Americans are buying PCs as rising component costs mean the sub-$500 bracket is rapidly disappearing, with laptop makers favoring higher-end machines &ndash; and things are likely to deteriorate throughout the year. According to stats compiled by Omdia, unit sales to US distributors plunged 7 percent year-on-year in Q1 to 15.8 million units. HP was hit hardest, shrinking by more than a fifth and losing its spot as the most purchased PC brand stateside. The decline reflects supply constrain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dram-it-cheap-pcs-being-priced-out-of-existence-as-memory-cost-bites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dram-it-cheap-pcs-being-priced-out-of-existence-as-memory-cost-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going round the bend! Scientists discover humans are naturally wired to walk anti-clockwise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you're pacing while on the phone or wandering around a park, chances are you're unconsciously turning in the same direction as almost everyone else.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/going-round-the-bend-scientists-discover-humans-are-naturally-wired-to-walk-anti-clockwise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/going-round-the-bend-scientists-discover-humans-are-naturally-wired-to-walk-anti-clockwise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to millions as toxic air carrying lung-penetrating particles sweeps across 10 states TODAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans across 10 states are being warned as toxic air sweeps across the region, with some alerts urging residents to stay indoors if possible.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-toxic-air-carrying-lung-penetrating-particles-sweeps-across-10-states-today/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/warning-to-millions-as-toxic-air-carrying-lung-penetrating-particles-sweeps-across-10-states-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How west London beavers are tackling flooding]]></title><description><![CDATA[New beavers in west London have prevented flooding to Greenford station three years in a row.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-west-london-beavers-are-tackling-flooding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-west-london-beavers-are-tackling-flooding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citrix says it has returned to the mainstream server virtualization market with the release of XenServer 9. The hypervisor was a contender in the early 2010s but struggled to compete with VMware and Microsoft. By 2014, analyst firm Gartner suggested Citrix had stopped trying to compete for workloads other than its own desktop virtualization and network security products. Citrix kept the product alive without much fanfare for years and rebranded it Citrix Hypervisor. After a pair of private equit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/citrix-says-its-back-as-a-mainstream-server-virtualization-player-that-wont-send-scary-bills/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/citrix-says-its-back-as-a-mainstream-server-virtualization-player-that-wont-send-scary-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do YOU pronounce 'happy' or 'chilly'? Here's what it says about your social class]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you pronounce 'happy', 'baby', 'chilly', or 'city'? According to a new study, the answer could say a lot about your social class.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-do-you-pronounce-happy-or-chilly-heres-what-it-says-about-your-social-class/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-do-you-pronounce-happy-or-chilly-heres-what-it-says-about-your-social-class/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain's competition watchdog wants to cast a close eye over the proposed takeover of Substantial, owner of Netomnia, by a consortium that includes Virgin Media O2 owners Liberty Global and Telef&oacute;nica. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has referred the acquisition for an in-depth investigation under its fast-track procedure at the merging parties' request. It notified the parties earlier this week that it was launching an inquiry, and today's decision means it is fast-tracking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-competition-cops-fast-track-2b-borging-of-netomnia-into-openreach-challenger/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brit-competition-cops-fast-track-2b-borging-of-netomnia-into-openreach-challenger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Purism has launched the Librem 16, a privacy-focused Linux laptop with a 16-inch display and hardware controls designed to disable potentially intrusive components. The machine runs Coreboot firmware and disables Intel's Management Engine. Founder and CEO Todd Weaver told The Register about doing this back in 2017. Purism also offers privacy-centric smartphones. The new laptop has two hardware kill switches located in the strip between the keyboard and the screen hinge. One of them disconnects t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/purism-launches-supersized-16-inch-laptop-for-buyers-who-put-privacy-before-price/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/purism-launches-supersized-16-inch-laptop-for-buyers-who-put-privacy-before-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three beaver kits born in Wyre Forest enclosure]]></title><description><![CDATA[New beaver kits are captured on camera after a family of six beavers were first released in 2024.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-beaver-kits-born-in-wyre-forest-enclosure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-beaver-kits-born-in-wyre-forest-enclosure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangerous heatwave to hit US ahead of holiday weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[North America will bake in extreme temperatures amid celebrations for the United States' 250th birthday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dangerous-heatwave-to-hit-us-ahead-of-holiday-weekend/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dangerous-heatwave-to-hit-us-ahead-of-holiday-weekend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent warning as ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June - with fears the planet is entering 'uncharted territory']]></title><description><![CDATA[The planet's oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, scientists have warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-ocean-surface-temperatures-hit-a-record-high-for-june-with-fears-the-planet-is-entering-uncharted-territory/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-warning-as-ocean-surface-temperatures-hit-a-record-high-for-june-with-fears-the-planet-is-entering-uncharted-territory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION Bosses say working from the office is all about productivity, but the truth is it's just a power trip driven by fear and narcissism. Executives who insist on people working from the office like to say it's all about productivity, culture, collaboration, and mentoring. Pull the other one; it has bells on. When executives demand that we "return to the office," they usually lean on a familiar set of talking points: remote work hurts productivity, people collaborate better in the office, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-peg-narcissistic-leadership-as-the-real-driver-behind-return-to-office-demands/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-peg-narcissistic-leadership-as-the-real-driver-behind-return-to-office-demands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE honored with two GeSI DWP Global Awards for Signal Reach Program in Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE has received two prestigious Digital with Purpose (DWP) honors - the Smart Cities Award and the Global Award - for its Signal Reach Program in Africa at the DWP Global Summit Shenzhen 2026. The awards span three core categories: Climate, Smart Cities, and Health &amp; Wellbeing. In addition, the event presents the coveted Global Award as its supreme annual honor. Dubbed the Award of the Awards, it is the year's sole top overall prize, selected from outstanding entries across all category div]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-honored-with-two-gesi-dwp-global-awards-for-signal-reach-program-in-africa/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-honored-with-two-gesi-dwp-global-awards-for-signal-reach-program-in-africa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider is shut down by CERN ahead of major upgrades to make it even more powerful]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful atom smasher, was switched off on Monday night ahead of major upgrades.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/large-hadron-collider-is-shut-down-by-cern-ahead-of-major-upgrades-to-make-it-even-more-powerful/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/large-hadron-collider-is-shut-down-by-cern-ahead-of-major-upgrades-to-make-it-even-more-powerful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's Home Office has awarded two global consultancies contracts worth up to &pound;350 million for data and analytics services, despite the government's commitment to spend less on consultants. Deloitte has won a four-year deal worth up to &pound;200 million to offer "strategic multifunctional teams" for data analytics, data matching and data insight services. PA Consulting has won a contract for up to &pound;150 million for the same services over the same period, according to procurement do]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukgov-vows-to-cut-consultancy-spending-then-hands-up-to-350m-to-consultancies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukgov-vows-to-cut-consultancy-spending-then-hands-up-to-350m-to-consultancies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Restaurant kiosks are hazardous places, and not only on the side of the screen where patrons jab greasy fingers. On the other side of the glass, things can also go wrong when Windows starts working against the kiosk software. Spotted in a Portuguese restaurant chain by eagle-eyed Register reader M&aacute;rio, the screen shows Windows 10 - though it could possibly be Windows 8.x - turning its nose up at a kiosk application. Either way, the sight of it would be enough to put even the most cast-iro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/portuguese-restaurant-kiosk-software-gives-windows-indigestion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/portuguese-restaurant-kiosk-software-gives-windows-indigestion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is crucial tech vulnerable to the heat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Energy grids and train services are among the vital services that are vulnerable to very hot weather.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-is-crucial-tech-vulnerable-to-the-heat/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-is-crucial-tech-vulnerable-to-the-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farming worries after India records driest June in over a decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weaker monsoon rains are likely to impact farm output but the government says it has enough grain stocks to deal with any shortages.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farming-worries-after-india-records-driest-june-in-over-a-decade/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/farming-worries-after-india-records-driest-june-in-over-a-decade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan has updated its national robotics strategy with a goal to adopt 10 million robots by the year 2040, with some intended to provide medical care. Minister for the Economy, Trade and Industry Ryosei Akazawa yesterday announced the amended strategy, which envisions more robots working to provide medical care, or taking on roles in the food and beverage manufacturing sectors. To make it happen, Akazawa announced investments in models for AI-powered robots and other forms of physical AI. As is o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/japan-wants-10-million-more-robots-by-2040-some-providing-medical-care/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/japan-wants-10-million-more-robots-by-2040-some-providing-medical-care/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears and celebrations as river 'wiggle' restored]]></title><description><![CDATA[The meander in the River Kemp has been restored in a project led by Severn Rivers Trust.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tears-and-celebrations-as-river-wiggle-restored/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tears-and-celebrations-as-river-wiggle-restored/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BIS Warns: Bursting Of AI Bubble, Collapse Of Circular Deals Are Among Top Risks To Global Financial System]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you remember the Enron collapse, which was caused by circular financing, hidden leverage, and revenues that may be less real than they look, you might see why some people are calling BS on the whole AI industry. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) sees the risks. The AI funding money is drying up, AI data center construction has hit a brick wall, and the public is rising up in every sector of the country: labor, homeowners, college graduates, and business employees. Tech oligarchs ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bis-warns-bursting-of-ai-bubble-collapse-of-circular-deals-are-among-top-risks-to-global-financial-system/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bis-warns-bursting-of-ai-bubble-collapse-of-circular-deals-are-among-top-risks-to-global-financial-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indonesian corruption court has sentenced the nation&rsquo;s former education minister Nadiem Makarim, who is also a hero of the nation&rsquo;s tech startup scene, to ten years in jail for his role in buying a stack of Chromebooks. Nadiem is a co-founder of Gojek, a so-called superapp that offers ride share, food delivery, digital payments, and even logistics services. In 2021, Gojek merged with its rival Tokopedia. The combined entity became a ubiquitous part of daily life in Indonesia and o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-indonesian-minister-and-startup-hero-jailed-for-chromebook-buys/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-indonesian-minister-and-startup-hero-jailed-for-chromebook-buys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Telco giant T-Mobile appears to be transitioning away from VMware and fighting a court battle for support it says Broadcom is bound to provide, according to court documents seen by The Register. The dispute relates to a deal T-Mobile struck with VMware in August 2023, which saw the telco acquire perpetual licenses and two years of support for some software, plus the option for a further year of support. When Broadcom acquired VMware in 2023, it stopped selling perpetual licenses and standalone s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/t-mobile-appears-to-be-quitting-vmware-and-fighting-a-very-familiar-battle-for-support-rights-on-the-way-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/t-mobile-appears-to-be-quitting-vmware-and-fighting-a-very-familiar-battle-for-support-rights-on-the-way-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-scooters being advertised for commuting despite UK road ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Press Association investigation found major retailers advertising e-scooters for "commuting" and "urban riding".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/e-scooters-being-advertised-for-commuting-despite-uk-road-ban/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/e-scooters-being-advertised-for-commuting-despite-uk-road-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude Code users are reporting that the app is silently deleting conversation transcripts &ndash; yours may even already be gone if you don&rsquo;t know to change a default setting that the platform never bothers to tell users about. Claude Code&rsquo;s GitHub repo features multiple open issues from the past couple of months, as users of the coding tool are finding their conversation transcripts gone. The problem appears to come down to the cleanupPeriodDays configuration option, which defaults]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/claude-code-users-complain-their-chat-records-are-being-mysteriously-wiped-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/claude-code-users-complain-their-chat-records-are-being-mysteriously-wiped-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm is finally getting serious about AI infrastructure, but its push into the datacenter hinges on the success of an ambitious near-memory compute architecture designed to deliver better inference economics than today's GPUs. Announced during its 2026 investor day last week, the tech will see Qualcomm stack layer upon layer of DRAM on top of its XPUs to form a single unified compute and memory module it's calling high-bandwidth compute (HBC). &ldquo;We offer all of the performance advantage]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/qualcomms-proposed-solution-to-catch-up-in-ai-infra-bury-the-compute-under-the-dram/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/qualcomms-proposed-solution-to-catch-up-in-ai-infra-bury-the-compute-under-the-dram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelter-in-place orders issued after freight train carrying hazardous materials derails in Pennsylvania]]></title><description><![CDATA[A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in a Pennsylvania community Tuesday afternoon, triggering a shelter-in-place order as emergency crews raced to the scene.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shelter-in-place-orders-issued-after-freight-train-carrying-hazardous-materials-derails-in-pennsylvania/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shelter-in-place-orders-issued-after-freight-train-carrying-hazardous-materials-derails-in-pennsylvania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sophisticated AI models tend to require a lot of memory and take up a lot of storage space. One of the ways to reduce that footprint involves a process called quantization, which changes how model weights are represented and stored. But quantization has its drawbacks. Andr&eacute;s Mac Allister, CEO and founder of The SEMQ Group, believes there's another way to make machine learning more efficient and less resource intensive. Instead of compressing model weights (specifically embeddings), he con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/changing-ai-math-could-reduce-the-hardware-burden-researchers-show/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/changing-ai-math-could-reduce-the-hardware-burden-researchers-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several US states enter 'zone of sweaty despair' with humidity worse than the Amazon rainforest]]></title><description><![CDATA[A suffocating surge of moisture is turning parts of the US into a 'zone of sweaty despair,' with humidity levels rivaling, and in some cases exceeding, the Amazon rainforest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/several-us-states-enter-zone-of-sweaty-despair-with-humidity-worse-than-the-amazon-rainforest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/several-us-states-enter-zone-of-sweaty-despair-with-humidity-worse-than-the-amazon-rainforest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perhaps bots aren't the answer to everything when it comes to finding flaws. Fully automated pentesting has been a letdown for many security teams, according to offensive security firm Cobalt, as support for the approach has fallen sharply over the past year. Cobalt&rsquo;s recent 2026 State of Pentesting report found, among other things, that security practitioners are rapidly ditching autonomous pentesting tools, in large part because they&rsquo;re simply failing to detect critical vulnerabili]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-professionals-sour-on-automated-pentesting-tools/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-professionals-sour-on-automated-pentesting-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombshell claims raise fears CIA's secret mind-control program is still experimenting on Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-claims-raise-fears-cias-secret-mind-control-program-is-still-experimenting-on-americans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-claims-raise-fears-cias-secret-mind-control-program-is-still-experimenting-on-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange formation in NASA's Mars photo fuels claims of extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet]]></title><description><![CDATA[An unusual sighting in a NASA image has reignited speculation that something extraterrestrial once existed on Mars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strange-formation-in-nasas-mars-photo-fuels-claims-of-extraterrestrial-life-on-the-red-planet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strange-formation-in-nasas-mars-photo-fuels-claims-of-extraterrestrial-life-on-the-red-planet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CIA's secret mind-control horrors exposed as new claims of torturing Americans emerge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A notorious CIA mind-control program is back in the spotlight amid fresh allegations of torture and deadly human experiments.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cias-secret-mind-control-horrors-exposed-as-new-claims-of-torturing-americans-emerge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cias-secret-mind-control-horrors-exposed-as-new-claims-of-torturing-americans-emerge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan said he is aware of &ldquo;questionable, long-term threat actor communications&rdquo; between a threat hunter who is still employed with the security firm and a cybercriminal, and called this &ldquo;poor judgment.&rdquo; &ldquo;In one particular exchange, our current teammate disclosed to a threat actor that law enforcement had reached out to them about the threat actor,&rdquo; Hanslovan said in a blog post, addressing a former employee&rsquo;s accusations that the cu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim-about-law-enforcement-probe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim-about-law-enforcement-probe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CIA's secret mind-control horrors exposed as chilling new MKUltra claims emerge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A notorious CIA mind-control program is back in the spotlight amid fresh allegations of torture and deadly human experiments.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cias-secret-mind-control-horrors-exposed-as-chilling-new-mkultra-claims-emerge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cias-secret-mind-control-horrors-exposed-as-chilling-new-mkultra-claims-emerge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombshell claims raise fears CIA's MKUltra mind-control program is still experimenting on Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-claims-raise-fears-cias-mkultra-mind-control-program-is-still-experimenting-on-americans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-claims-raise-fears-cias-mkultra-mind-control-program-is-still-experimenting-on-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those who can't move their fingers to type, a brain-computer interface that can help them communicate by decoding neural activity is a lifeline. Researchers at Meta have been working on a noninvasive - no surgery required - brain-computer interface that is better than its predecessors, but still far from practically usable after more than a year of work. Meta announced the second iteration of its system designed to pick up and decode brain signals that fire when users are typing, called Brai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/metas-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-isnt-great/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/metas-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-isnt-great/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Database management work will soon be mostly automated by AI agents, just like coding, according to the CEO of Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed database of the same name. Spencer Kimball told The Register that the proliferation of databases demanded by the explosion of AI agents in coding and business functions will mean that managing them in a largely manual way is out of the question. &ldquo;Nobody's going to do manual work on a database, just like almost nobody's doing manua]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-agents-cause-of-database-sprawl-and-also-the-proposed-solution/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-agents-cause-of-database-sprawl-and-also-the-proposed-solution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombshell testimony warns CIA's MKUltra mind-control program may still be experimenting on Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[A notorious CIA program known as MKUltra is back in the spotlight as experts claim the mind control experiments used against American citizens may have continued after the 1970s.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-testimony-warns-cias-mkultra-mind-control-program-may-still-be-experimenting-on-americans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bombshell-testimony-warns-cias-mkultra-mind-control-program-may-still-be-experimenting-on-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potentially dangerous heatwave to sweep across the eastern United States]]></title><description><![CDATA[A heatwave developing across the eastern United States will bring daytime heat, high humidity and stifling overnight temperatures as Ben Rich explains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-dangerous-heatwave-to-sweep-across-the-eastern-united-states/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-dangerous-heatwave-to-sweep-across-the-eastern-united-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the key to youthful skin moisturising three times a day? Study reveals your morning cream has worn off by lunchtime]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most women start their day with a cleanse, tone and moisturise routine - but your morning cream has likely worn off by lunchtime, according to a new study.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-the-key-to-youthful-skin-moisturising-three-times-a-day-study-reveals-your-morning-cream-has-worn-off-by-lunchtime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-the-key-to-youthful-skin-moisturising-three-times-a-day-study-reveals-your-morning-cream-has-worn-off-by-lunchtime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now not only can you run Linux from within Windows without third-party tools, but can do so within containers. Microsoft has continued the trend of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) being one of the company's more interesting developer technologies with the arrival of a public preview of WSL containers. According to Microsoft, the update adds a pair of new features to WSL: "A built in Linux container CLI and an API for Windows applications to run Linux containers as part of their app logic."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-previews-linux-containers-that-run-in-windows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-previews-linux-containers-that-run-in-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this spring, AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to bring coherence to AI infrastructure and establish a specification for co-packaged optics (CPO) scale-up networks. The architecture they aligned on is a slow and wide non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation paired with wavelength-division multiplexing. OCI GEN1 supports four wavelengths at 50 Gbps per channel, delivering 200 Gbps per direction per fiber,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-the-oci-msa-didnt-solve-for-ai-scaling/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/what-the-oci-msa-didnt-solve-for-ai-scaling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technocrat Zillionaires Are Starting To Get Scared As The Public Turns Against Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[On every conceivable front &ndash; students, homeowners, labor, businesses &ndash; Americans are rising up to reject AI and the Technocrats behind it. Klaus Schwab&rsquo;s statement 10 years ago about &ldquo;you will be happy&rdquo; was just as stupid as &ldquo;visualize world peace&rdquo;; you don&rsquo;t speak your reality into existence. Behind that fisod, their lies and propaganda are catching up with them. Their bunkers and billions won&rsquo;t help them in the end.&nbsp;&#8259; Patrick Woo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocrat-zillionaires-are-starting-to-get-scared-as-the-public-turns-against-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/technocrat-zillionaires-are-starting-to-get-scared-as-the-public-turns-against-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Red Hat build engineer has ended his second experimental effort at using a high-end Arm64 desktop computer as his daily driver. His conclusions are instructive. Marcin Juszkiewicz&rsquo;s series of posts on his tech blog about running a Fedora-powered beast of an Arm desktop computer has been interesting reading for about a year now. Almost exactly a year ago, he built a beast of an Arm workstation. He spent some &euro;1,800 building a machine around an Ampere Altra, which as The Register desc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/arm64-on-the-desktop-its-spendy-and-its-sluggish/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/arm64-on-the-desktop-its-spendy-and-its-sluggish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering new requirements around "steering" for Apple and Google's mobile platforms. The consultation concerns restrictions the CMA says are "currently preventing UK app developers from 'steering' their customers away from Apple and Google's platforms for payment." Direct engagement with customers allows developers to bypass the tech giants' app stores and avoid the fees they charge. According to the CMA, Apple currently prohibits the practi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-regulator-wants-apple-and-google-to-let-devs-steer-clear-of-app-store-fees/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-regulator-wants-apple-and-google-to-let-devs-steer-clear-of-app-store-fees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent recall for popular air conditioner due to fire risks: Stop using NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[A nationwide air conditioner recall is affecting thousands of Americans just as a dangerous heat dome blankets more than 30 states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-recall-for-popular-air-conditioner-due-to-fire-risks-stop-using-now/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/urgent-recall-for-popular-air-conditioner-due-to-fire-risks-stop-using-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers find millions more insect species]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists estimate at least between 14 and 30 million insect species, not just six million.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/researchers-find-millions-more-insect-species/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/researchers-find-millions-more-insect-species/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in less than 3 kilobytes. Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer comes from an era at Microsoft when Notepad handled the simple stuff, and WordPad handled everything else. "We had some clear rules," said the Task Manager author on his YouTube channel, Dave's Garage. "Notepad was for plain text. WordPad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/former-microsoft-engineer-shrinks-notepad-down-to-size/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ark of the Covenant mystery blown wide open as 'biblical relic' is discovered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have made a breakthrough in the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant, which vanished from the biblical record before the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 586 BC.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ark-of-the-covenant-mystery-blown-wide-open-as-biblical-relic-is-discovered/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ark-of-the-covenant-mystery-blown-wide-open-as-biblical-relic-is-discovered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies and toddlers under the age of two should have NO screen time at all, landmark study says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Babies and toddlers under the age of two should not receive any intentional screen time at all, according to a new study.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/babies-and-toddlers-under-the-age-of-two-should-have-no-screen-time-at-all-landmark-study-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/babies-and-toddlers-under-the-age-of-two-should-have-no-screen-time-at-all-landmark-study-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, AI still has work to do]]></title><description><![CDATA[A UK law firm has put AI-generated wills on trial, and the chatbot didn't fare particularly well under cross-examination. SE Solicitors has taken an AI chatbot to task after asking it to draft a will for a fictional client, concluding that while the result looked convincing enough, it missed many of the questions a probate solicitor would normally ask before putting anything into writing. The firm asked the chatbot to prepare a will for "Daniel," an unmarried 42-year-old with two adult children,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/where-theres-a-will-ai-still-has-work-to-do/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/where-theres-a-will-ai-still-has-work-to-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flooding hits Ghana's capital killing 13 people - with another storm forecast]]></title><description><![CDATA[People have been urged to relocate to high ground or stay indoors as more rain is expected to come.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/flooding-hits-ghanas-capital-killing-13-people-with-another-storm-forecast/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/flooding-hits-ghanas-capital-killing-13-people-with-another-storm-forecast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A head for heights... and maths! Study shows giraffes can do simple mental arithmetic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giraffes are head and shoulders above the savanna competition when it comes to crunching numbers, according to a new study.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-head-for-heights-and-maths-study-shows-giraffes-can-do-simple-mental-arithmetic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-head-for-heights-and-maths-study-shows-giraffes-can-do-simple-mental-arithmetic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number]]></title><description><![CDATA[The distro formerly known as Raspbian has received some modest tweaks &ndash; and a whole new kernel version. Raspberry Pi Ltd is a little capricious when it comes to version numbering for Raspberry Pi OS, and although this release contains a fairly significant change, it doesn't seem to have a different version number. While PiOS is based on Debian 13 "Trixie," the company significantly customizes upstream Debian, including newer kernels. For 13 years now, Raspberry Pi has been adding new secti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/raspberry-pi-os-gets-a-new-kernel-but-apparently-not-a-new-version-number/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/raspberry-pi-os-gets-a-new-kernel-but-apparently-not-a-new-version-number/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle is moving to stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port of the Java Development Kit (JDK) from version 27, which is expected in September. JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal) 8386091 states that "Oracle engineers will stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27." A few days ago, while noting that the JEP was still in a draft state, a pull request to implement the deprecation was submitted by Mikael Vidstedt, senior director Java Virtual Machine at Oracle. Building the JDK for macOS/x64 would req]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/no-more-java-refills-for-intel-macs-after-jdk-27-says-oracle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/no-more-java-refills-for-intel-macs-after-jdk-27-says-oracle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full Strawberry Moon captured over the UK in stunning photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skygazers captured stunning photos of the first full Moon of summer shining bright above the UK]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-strawberry-moon-captured-over-the-uk-in-stunning-photos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-strawberry-moon-captured-over-the-uk-in-stunning-photos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp to let people chat without swapping phone numbers - but you'll have to be quick to reserve your username]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exchanging numbers could soon be a thing of the past - as WhatsApp is introducing a feature to let people chat via username.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-let-people-chat-without-swapping-phone-numbers-but-youll-have-to-be-quick-to-reserve-your-username/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-let-people-chat-without-swapping-phone-numbers-but-youll-have-to-be-quick-to-reserve-your-username/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp to let people chat by swapping usernames instead of phone numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The app's new usernames feature will be rolled out globally over the next few months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-let-people-chat-by-swapping-usernames-instead-of-phone-numbers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-let-people-chat-by-swapping-usernames-instead-of-phone-numbers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track]]></title><description><![CDATA[HS2 is set to ditch some of its most ambitious railway technology in a bid to make Britain's most troubled infrastructure project easier to finish. A report by spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) published on Monday reveals the Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed changes to simplify parts of the railway's technical specification as part of HS2's latest reset, which began in January 2025. The report is the first full assessment of the project since the reset got underway. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hs2s-latest-reset-ditches-autonomous-train-tech-to-get-project-back-on-track/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hs2s-latest-reset-ditches-autonomous-train-tech-to-get-project-back-on-track/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lab-grown eye cells offer fresh hope for millions at risk of blindness: Scientists say their breakthrough paves way for 'continuous supply' of retinal tissue]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revolutionary technique to grow eye cells from scratch offers fresh hope for millions at risk of blindness.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lab-grown-eye-cells-offer-fresh-hope-for-millions-at-risk-of-blindness-scientists-say-their-breakthrough-paves-way-for-continuous-supply-of-retinal-tissue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lab-grown-eye-cells-offer-fresh-hope-for-millions-at-risk-of-blindness-scientists-say-their-breakthrough-paves-way-for-continuous-supply-of-retinal-tissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals]]></title><description><![CDATA[After eight years of development, the UK Home Office&rsquo;s new system for managing immigration and asylum applications is failing to help the department learn from the politically sensitive appeals process. According to a report from Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, the number of appeals to decisions on asylum status has rocketed from 8,000 in 2022-23 to well over 29,000 in 2023-24. However, the new case management system, Atlas, which completed its handover from the leg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/atlas-shrugs-new-uk-asylum-seeker-it-system-failed-to-help-case-workers-learn-from-appeals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/atlas-shrugs-new-uk-asylum-seeker-it-system-failed-to-help-case-workers-learn-from-appeals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The network has become the nervous system of any organization running AI at scale. A single distributed training run can chew through thousands of GPUs for weeks, and one congested uplink can slash throughput by more than 30 percent. Plenty of datacenter networks aren't keeping up now that AI sits at the center of the workload. The traffic itself has changed. China&rsquo;s daily AI token consumption jumped from roughly 100 billion a day at the start of 2024 to more than 30 trillion by mid-2025.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-is-ai-changing-datacenter-network-fabrics/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-is-ai-changing-datacenter-network-fabrics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pictures: Stunning Strawberry Moon lights up the sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clear night skies over Hampshire and Dorset give stunning shots of the Strawberry Moon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-pictures-stunning-strawberry-moon-lights-up-the-sky/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-pictures-stunning-strawberry-moon-lights-up-the-sky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has built a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings. &ldquo;Bots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend,&rdquo; wrote Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam in a Monday post. &ldquo;For example, after connecting a third-party service to a meeting, some users have found that its bot continues joining future meetings automatically.&rdquo; Ajam thinks bots butting into meetings that include discussion of sensitive matters is a potential secu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-builds-a-bouncer-to-keep-bots-out-of-teams-meetings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-builds-a-bouncer-to-keep-bots-out-of-teams-meetings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Complete mess' as drinks could rise by 50p under new bottle return plan, experts say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shoppers could face higher drink prices and reduced choice under a new recycling scheme, industry leaders say.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/complete-mess-as-drinks-could-rise-by-50p-under-new-bottle-return-plan-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/complete-mess-as-drinks-could-rise-by-50p-under-new-bottle-return-plan-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band]]></title><description><![CDATA[The government of South Korea and local tech giants yesterday announced over &#8361;1 quadrillion of investment related to AI &ndash; or about $900 billion &ndash; that it says will see the country emerge a &ldquo;K-Semiconductor powerhouse&rdquo; and a global leader in robotics and AI. The plan is called &ldquo;3S+1F&rdquo;, shorthand for Speedily building fabs in regional hubs called &ldquo;Strongholds&rdquo;, while aiming to Spearhead innovation in new forms of semiconductors that are needed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-koreas-hot-new-sensation-is-3s1f-a-quadrillion-won-ai-plan-not-a-band/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/south-koreas-hot-new-sensation-is-3s1f-a-quadrillion-won-ai-plan-not-a-band/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2025, the Reserve Bank of India created the .bank.in subdomain and required all local banks to start using it for their online presences. Indian is home to thousands of banks and the new rule meant all needed to register for and use a bankname.bank.in domain, a move designed to make life harder for phishers and fraudsters. Now a security researcher has alleged that the entity chosen as the sole registrar of the subdomains &ndash; the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technolog]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-central-bank-mandated-use-of-bank-domains-to-enhance-trust-but-its-registry-leaked-sensitive-info/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/indias-central-bank-mandated-use-of-bank-domains-to-enhance-trust-but-its-registry-leaked-sensitive-info/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers say that machine learning models cannot reliably distinguish between authorized and unauthorized input, ensuring that prompt injection will continue to present a threat until developers find new ways to have machine learning systems process inputs. AI models provide responses to user-supplied prompts. The problem is that AI models may receive adversarial prompts &ndash; directly from a user or indirectly from an ingested document &ndash; that tell the model to take action contrary to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-researchers-tricked-llms-into-giving-them-cocaine-recipes-by-abusing-role-models-for-prompt-injection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-researchers-tricked-llms-into-giving-them-cocaine-recipes-by-abusing-role-models-for-prompt-injection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four years into the Kremlin&rsquo;s illegal invasion of its neighboring country, Russian influence operations have moved beyond their near-exclusive focus on Ukraine to their former favorite targets: the US and Europe, and especially covert cyber-ops intended to undermine political stability within these countries and the unity between them, according to Google Threat Intelligence. &ldquo;This shift is significant because it likely signals increased focus outside of Ukraine, warning that pro-Rus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/four-years-into-ukraine-invasion-russia-turns-influence-ops-back-to-us-and-europe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/four-years-into-ukraine-invasion-russia-turns-influence-ops-back-to-us-and-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare 'Strawberry Moon' will be the lowest full moon in nearly 20 years TONIGHT... here's how to see it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tonight's full Strawberry Moon will hang lower than any full moon seen from the Northern Hemisphere in nearly 20 years, creating an unusually large and dramatic display.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-strawberry-moon-will-be-the-lowest-full-moon-in-nearly-20-years-tonight-heres-how-to-see-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rare-strawberry-moon-will-be-the-lowest-full-moon-in-nearly-20-years-tonight-heres-how-to-see-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not everyone is willing to follow responsible disclosure of vulns. An anonymous researcher has dumped what they say is working exploit code for zero-day vulnerabilities across 15 software products and open source projects without notifying any vendors or maintainers prior to publishing - and attackers are already exploiting at least two of these. The first is CVE-2026-55200, a critical, pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in libssh2, a popular client-side C library that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anonymous-researcher-drops-0-day-exploitarium-repo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anonymous-researcher-drops-0-day-exploitarium-repo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to mobile phone geolocation data, a decision privacy advocates have sought for years. The Court's ruling in Chatrie vs. United States [PDF] concluded, "Police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Chatrie&rsquo;s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information." Police did so through a so-cal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/supreme-court-rules-cops-need-a-warrant-to-vacuum-up-phone-location-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/supreme-court-rules-cops-need-a-warrant-to-vacuum-up-phone-location-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The end has come for CERN&rsquo;s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but it&rsquo;s not being turned off for fear of the world being sucked into some sort of cosmic anomaly - it&rsquo;s getting a major upgrade. Physicists at CERN are still bidding goodbye to the LHC, per a Monday announcement from the lab, but this is very much a &ldquo;the king is dead, long live the king&rdquo; sort of moment, as the four-year shutdown will result in the completion of the High-Luminosity LHC, or HiLumi LHC, not a fu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/large-hadron-collider-goes-offline-to-make-room-for-its-enhanced-successor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/large-hadron-collider-goes-offline-to-make-room-for-its-enhanced-successor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's support policy for its .NET runtime and development platform is too short for enterprises, according to a developer who has revived a long-standing complaint in a new GitHub issue. The current release lifecycle for modern .NET, formerly known as .NET Core, is an annual major release, with even-numbered versions being long-term support (LTS) for three years, and odd-numbered versions maintained for two years. The legacy and Windows-only .NET Framework, which is in maintenance, is defi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nets-long-term-support-is-not-long-term-enough-dev-complains/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nets-long-term-support-is-not-long-term-enough-dev-complains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can YOU spot the fake faces? Take the test to see if you can distinguish between real and AI-generated people]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can you tell the difference between a real person and an image generated by artificial intelligence (AI)? According to a new study, it might be a lot harder than you think.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/can-you-spot-the-fake-faces-take-the-test-to-see-if-you-can-distinguish-between-real-and-ai-generated-people/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/can-you-spot-the-fake-faces-take-the-test-to-see-if-you-can-distinguish-between-real-and-ai-generated-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS]]></title><description><![CDATA[The central bank for central banks is concerned about the eye-watering sums being invested into AI, and it's raising the specter of a global recession should the bubble burst.In its annual report for 2026, the Bank for International Settlements compared the current craze to historical events, including canal and British railway mania in the 1800s, electrification exuberance of the 1920s, and the dotcom boom of the 1990s.The report states: &ldquo;all shared one common trait: a genuine technologic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-the-ai-bubble-could-pop-and-take-down-the-global-economy-according-to-the-bis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-the-ai-bubble-could-pop-and-take-down-the-global-economy-according-to-the-bis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution's first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork of Mandriva, itself formerly known as Mandrake Linux. We last looked at Mageia alongside the other Mandrake descendants in 2022. What sets Mageia apart from OpenMandriva Lx, PCLinuxOS, and Russia's ROSA Linux is its continued support for 32-bit x86 PCs. Its GNOME and KDE Plasma live images are available only for x86-64, while the Xfce edition comes in both x86-64 and x86-32]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mageia-10-keeps-the-32-bit-linux-flame-alive/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mageia-10-keeps-the-32-bit-linux-flame-alive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay-alert warnings issued as sharks return to one of America's busiest beaches]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 'stay-alert' warning has been issued to hundreds of thousands of beachgoers ahead of the Fourth of July weekend due to the return of one of the ocean's greatest predators.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/stay-alert-warnings-issued-as-sharks-return-to-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/stay-alert-warnings-issued-as-sharks-return-to-one-of-americas-busiest-beaches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in an $8 billion cash-and-stock deal, potentially creating another challenger to SpaceX and Amazon for vertically integrated satellite broadband. Both Rocket Lab and Iridium's boards unanimously agreed to the deal, which was jointly announced on Monday and is expected to close by the middle of next year. Rocket Lab separately described the move in an investor slide deck [PDF] as positioning it as a "fully integrated, self-launching, tier-1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocket-lab-buys-its-way-into-the-satellite-big-league-with-8b-iridium-deal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rocket-lab-buys-its-way-into-the-satellite-big-league-with-8b-iridium-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffocating 'mega heat dome' to engulf 35 states as forecasters issue urgent health alert]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major heatwave is breaking out across most of the US as 200 million people are trapped under a 'mega heat dome' set to cause severe illnesses.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suffocating-mega-heat-dome-to-engulf-35-states-as-forecasters-issue-urgent-health-alert/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suffocating-mega-heat-dome-to-engulf-35-states-as-forecasters-issue-urgent-health-alert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catholic nun issues chilling warning about aliens amid religious conflict]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Catholic nun is sounding the alarm over the growing fascination with aliens, warning that alleged encounters could have spiritual implications and may play a role in a coming religious conflict.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/catholic-nun-issues-chilling-warning-about-aliens-amid-religious-conflict/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/catholic-nun-issues-chilling-warning-about-aliens-amid-religious-conflict/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford rehires 'veteran' engineers after AI failed to match their skills and experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford has revealed it was forced to call veteran engineers out of retirement after AI failed to match their skills and expertise.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ford-rehires-veteran-engineers-after-ai-failed-to-match-their-skills-and-experience/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ford-rehires-veteran-engineers-after-ai-failed-to-match-their-skills-and-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffocating 'mega heat dome' to engulf 200 million as forecasters issue urgent health alert]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major heatwave is breaking out across most of the US as 200 million people are trapped under a 'mega heat dome' set to cause severe illnesses.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suffocating-mega-heat-dome-to-engulf-200-million-as-forecasters-issue-urgent-health-alert/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/suffocating-mega-heat-dome-to-engulf-200-million-as-forecasters-issue-urgent-health-alert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft says it is trying to help the European Commission see off a legal threat to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework agreement - relied on by organizations to legally move data between the bloc and the US. In a weekend blog post, the software biz confirmed the Court of Justice of the European Union had granted its application to formally intervene in a case challenging the framework, which has supported data between the two economic super-powers since 2023. Microsoft thinks the case before the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-to-assist-european-commission-in-defense-of-eu-us-data-sharing-agreement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-to-assist-european-commission-in-defense-of-eu-us-data-sharing-agreement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is best to see the Strawberry Moon?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first full Moon of the summer will be visible tonight, reaching its peak in the early hours of Tuesday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/where-is-best-to-see-the-strawberry-moon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/where-is-best-to-see-the-strawberry-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial video shows extent of deadly flash flooding in Kentucky]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least four people are dead, with 60 water rescues and evacuations carried out across the state.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aerial-video-shows-extent-of-deadly-flash-flooding-in-kentucky/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aerial-video-shows-extent-of-deadly-flash-flooding-in-kentucky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep an eye out for tonight's Strawberry Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Strawberry Moon is set to rise in UK skies tonight, marking the first full Moon of the summer season.It will reach its peak in the early hours of Tuesday, 30 June, according to the Royal Observatory Greenwich.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/keep-an-eye-out-for-tonights-strawberry-moon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/keep-an-eye-out-for-tonights-strawberry-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity]]></title><description><![CDATA[KETTLE AI commands all the headlines nowadays, but the biggest security story of the week is all about human laziness and poor password habits &ndash; just like the good old days. This week on the Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by US editor Avram Piltch and security editor Jessica Lyons to talk about the Klue breach, which was blamed on a "compromised legacy credential" that ought to have been deleted a while ago. The hole allowed cybercriminals to access the SalesForce environments o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-may-be-good-at-finding-security-vulnerabilities-but-it-cant-beat-human-stupidity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-may-be-good-at-finding-security-vulnerabilities-but-it-cant-beat-human-stupidity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bone hidden in a drawer for 40 years that turned out to be Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil: Rediscovered remains belonged to a titanosaur - the largest animal to ever walk the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[For 40 years it has been lying forgotten in a drawer - but a rediscovered fossil has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-bone-hidden-in-a-drawer-for-40-years-that-turned-out-to-be-antarcticas-first-dinosaur-fossil-rediscovered-remains-belonged-to-a-titanosaur-the-largest-animal-to-ever-walk-the-earth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-bone-hidden-in-a-drawer-for-40-years-that-turned-out-to-be-antarcticas-first-dinosaur-fossil-rediscovered-remains-belonged-to-a-titanosaur-the-largest-animal-to-ever-walk-the-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong earthquake rocks 'Ring of Fire' off US coast amid alarming Pacific tremor streak]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest jolt comes amid a busy stretch for the Pacific Ring of Fire, where a series of earthquakes has struck over the past several days.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strong-earthquake-rocks-ring-of-fire-off-us-coast-amid-alarming-pacific-tremor-streak/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strong-earthquake-rocks-ring-of-fire-off-us-coast-amid-alarming-pacific-tremor-streak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching into 2027, beyond the end of mainstream support for the operating system, as confirmed on its Windows Release Health dashboard. Mainstream support for Windows Server 2022 ends on October 13, 2026, with extended support running to October 14, 2031. Hotpatching generally ends with mainstream support, but Microsoft will keep updates flowing into next year for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition - likely mindful of users who depend on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-keeps-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-alive-into-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-keeps-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-alive-into-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blue Origin's boss has reiterated that the Jeff Bezos-owned space biz will return to flight this year after an explosion destroyed a New Glenn rocket and severely damaged its launchpad. CEO Dave Limp last week used X to praise workers who have been clearing the wreckage from Launch Complex 36. "We have started reconstruction and still plan to fly again this year," he said. Over the weekend, Limp posted a video showing the assembly of a crane beside the launchpad's tower, which is being dismantle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blue-origin-insists-new-glenn-will-rise-from-the-ashes-this-year-after-explosion-deleted-launchpad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blue-origin-insists-new-glenn-will-rise-from-the-ashes-this-year-after-explosion-deleted-launchpad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compliant farmers could face fewer inspections under new pollution proposals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest draft Nutrients Action Policy caused controversy when it was initially launched last year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/compliant-farmers-could-face-fewer-inspections-under-new-pollution-proposals/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/compliant-farmers-could-face-fewer-inspections-under-new-pollution-proposals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The car-maker found AI quality checks failed to match the skill of veteran technicians.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ford-rehires-human-engineers-after-ai-fails-to-match-quality-checks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ford-rehires-human-engineers-after-ai-fails-to-match-quality-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture]]></title><description><![CDATA[BT and Verizon are putting their international enterprise networking businesses into a 50:50 joint venture, creating a company with roughly $4 billion in annual revenue as both telcos re-focus on the markets that actually make them money. The proposed venture, announced on Monday, will combine BT International with Verizon's international enterprise wireline business. Once regulators sign off, the new company will serve more than 3,000 multinational customers across 180 countries, while its two]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bt-and-verizon-spin-off-international-networking-arms-into-4b-joint-venture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bt-and-verizon-spin-off-international-networking-arms-into-4b-joint-venture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great parenting divide: Sons and daughters ARE treated differently by their parents, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parents may insist that they treat all their children equally, but a new study suggests that sons and daughters are raised in strikingly different ways.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-great-parenting-divide-sons-and-daughters-are-treated-differently-by-their-parents-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-great-parenting-divide-sons-and-daughters-are-treated-differently-by-their-parents-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nissan has joined the growing list of Oracle customers cleaning up after a cyberattack, warning employees that payroll records, bank details, Social Security numbers, and other personal data may have been stolen. In a filing submitted to the California Attorney General on Friday, Nissan Americas said Oracle had informed it of "a cyber event" involving the personnel records of "hundreds of companies." The automaker said it later learned Nissan had been "specifically targeted" in the attack. A not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nissan-says-oracle-peoplesoft-break-in-may-have-spilled-payroll-records-ssns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nissan-says-oracle-peoplesoft-break-in-may-have-spilled-payroll-records-ssns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is recovering DDR4 memory from old servers, installing it in new machines, and using a custom Compute Express Link (CXL) ASIC to share the memory across applications &ndash; without encountering latency problems. The social networking giant calls its tech "Vistara" and will present it at ISCA 2026 on Monday, but The Register found the company's paper ahead of the talk. The document opens with the admission that Meta can't increase the amount of memory in around 40 percent of its vast server]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zuck-saves-meta-bucks-by-reusing-memory-from-old-servers-with-a-custom-cxl-asic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zuck-saves-meta-bucks-by-reusing-memory-from-old-servers-with-a-custom-cxl-asic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the key to preventing a Super El Niño? Scientists say dimming the SUN could shield the oceans from heatwaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[As scientists warn that the coming Super El Ni&ntilde;o could be the worst in recorded history, one group of researchers has proposed a drastic solution - dimming the sun.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-say-dimming-the-sun-could-shield-the-oceans-from-heatwaves/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-say-dimming-the-sun-could-shield-the-oceans-from-heatwaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlucky in love? Blame your DNA! Genetics influence who is most likely to experience a relationship breakdown, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you're unlucky in love, your DNA could be to blame. Scientists have discovered that the genes you inherit may influence whether you're more likely to split from your partner or stay together.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/unlucky-in-love-blame-your-dna-genetics-influence-who-is-most-likely-to-experience-a-relationship-breakdown-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/unlucky-in-love-blame-your-dna-genetics-influence-who-is-most-likely-to-experience-a-relationship-breakdown-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's most dangerous snake strikes in Suffolk: Dad is bitten by an adder while paddleboarding - leaving him with an 'elephant leg' and unable to walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dad's relaxing day of paddleboarding turned into a nightmare when he was bitten by the UK's only venomous snake - and was left with an 'elephant leg' and unable to walk.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-most-dangerous-snake-strikes-in-suffolk-dad-is-bitten-by-an-adder-while-paddleboarding-leaving-him-with-an-elephant-leg-and-unable-to-walk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-most-dangerous-snake-strikes-in-suffolk-dad-is-bitten-by-an-adder-while-paddleboarding-leaving-him-with-an-elephant-leg-and-unable-to-walk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE released all-in-one FTTR-B solution for SME AI and connectivity at MWC Shanghai 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE recently unveiled its AI-Powered Enterprise-Grade FTTR-B Gateway and unified all-in-one enterprise solution at MWC Shanghai 2026. The new product ushers in a new era of integrated enterprise networking and intelligent digital management, delivering streamlined, secure and high-efficiency digital infrastructure tailored for global small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As businesses face escalating operational complexities, the need for a seamless, all-in-one infrastructure has never been]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-released-all-in-one-fttr-b-solution-for-sme-ai-and-connectivity-at-mwc-shanghai-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-released-all-in-one-fttr-b-solution-for-sme-ai-and-connectivity-at-mwc-shanghai-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE released AI FTTR solution, empowering home network security]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE recently showcased its innovative AI-powered Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTR) Solution at MWC Shanghai 2026, bringing intelligent, secure and all-scenario home network upgrades to global users and marking a major breakthrough in smart home network security and intelligent iteration. More than just a Wi-Fi gateway, this sleek, multifunctional device integrates a 10.95 inch magnetic detachable display, HD camera, smart speaker, and 8K media decoder, offering seamless adaptability across work, study, e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-released-ai-fttr-solution-empowering-home-network-security/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-released-ai-fttr-solution-empowering-home-network-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service]]></title><description><![CDATA[The BBC called time on Radio 4 Long Wave broadcasts and, unlike the waves of hot weather sweeping across Europe, the service is unlikely to make a comeback any time soon. This is the UK's last long wave radio station in the UK, and the station permanently terminated broadcasts on the service at 0100 BST on June 27. The Long Wave platform is set to close on June 30. It has been a while coming &ndash; the BBC first announced it expected Long Wave to close in 2022, and in March 2024, the corporatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/end-of-era-as-the-bbc-switches-off-radio-4-long-wave-service/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/end-of-era-as-the-bbc-switches-off-radio-4-long-wave-service/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch me if you can! Inside NASA's daring plan to save a space telescope from plunging back to Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA is preparing to launch a daring mission to save a precious space telescope from plunging back to Earth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/catch-me-if-you-can-inside-nasas-daring-plan-to-save-a-space-telescope-from-plunging-back-to-earth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/catch-me-if-you-can-inside-nasas-daring-plan-to-save-a-space-telescope-from-plunging-back-to-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts]]></title><description><![CDATA["Am I confident on the data set? As long as I'm doing the cases, I don't really give a f*** if it's old as long as it's making money." According to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), this was part of a message sent by the director of a company fined for targeting financially vulnerable people with unlawful texts, including fake bailiff messages. The message, sent by KRA Consultancy Ltd (KRA) director Khuram Rezvan Ahmad, appeared in the watchdog's monetary penalty notice, which sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-firm-bombarded-debt-ridden-people-with-55m-texts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-firm-bombarded-debt-ridden-people-with-55m-texts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's most dangerous snake strikes in Suffolk: Dad is bitten by an adder while paddleboarding - leaving him unable to walk with an 'elephant leg']]></title><description><![CDATA[A dad's relaxing day of paddleboarding turned into a nightmare when he was bitten by the UK's only venomous snake - and left unable to walk with an 'elephant leg'.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-most-dangerous-snake-strikes-in-suffolk-dad-is-bitten-by-an-adder-while-paddleboarding-leaving-him-unable-to-walk-with-an-elephant-leg/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/britains-most-dangerous-snake-strikes-in-suffolk-dad-is-bitten-by-an-adder-while-paddleboarding-leaving-him-unable-to-walk-with-an-elephant-leg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist proposes radical new theory of consciousness - and it could explain the origins of space and time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most mysterious phenomena in the universe, but one scientist says it could be even weirder than we thought.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-proposes-radical-new-theory-of-consciousness-and-it-could-explain-the-origins-of-space-and-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-proposes-radical-new-theory-of-consciousness-and-it-could-explain-the-origins-of-space-and-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION Microsoft is making massive progress in quantum computing, says Microsoft. Oh no they're not, say researchers. Anthropic's frontier models are too powerful for general use, says the US government. No, it's just Anthropic being punished for not doing what the US government tells them, say critics. Humans-in-the-loop are a pain-in-the-neck, says Amazon exec. Go do one, says this human. Three tech news stories from last week, six interpretations. You can probably decide between Microsoft PR]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telling-internet-platforms-where-to-stick-public-service-media-will-serve-nobody-turn-it-on-its-head/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/telling-internet-platforms-where-to-stick-public-service-media-will-serve-nobody-turn-it-on-its-head/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the key to preventing a Super El Niño? Scientists consider dimming the SUN to shield the oceans from heatwaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[As scientists warn that the coming Super El Ni&ntilde;o could be the worst in recorded history, one group of researchers has proposed a drastic solution - dimming the sun.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-consider-dimming-the-sun-to-shield-the-oceans-from-heatwaves/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-preventing-a-super-el-nio-scientists-consider-dimming-the-sun-to-shield-the-oceans-from-heatwaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHO, ME? The world of work is basically broken, which is why The Register uses Monday mornings to remind readers of that foul fact in a new instalment of &ldquo;Who, Me?&rdquo; &ndash; the reader-contributed column that shares your mistakes and reveals how you recovered from them. This week, meet a reader we&rsquo;ll Regomize as &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; who told us his career started in the 1990s with a gig as sysadmin for a small town poultry factory that was an outpost for a larger company. &ldquo;I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sysadmin-broke-hardware-worth-more-than-he-made-in-a-month-and-lied-his-way-out-of-the-mess/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sysadmin-broke-hardware-worth-more-than-he-made-in-a-month-and-lied-his-way-out-of-the-mess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First dinosaur bone from Antarctica found in a drawer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-dinosaur-bone-from-antarctica-found-in-a-drawer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-dinosaur-bone-from-antarctica-found-in-a-drawer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wants to revive the lost art of the National Internet Registry, which APNIC has deprecated and isn&rsquo;t keen to bring back The government of Malaysia has commenced a consultation on whether it should regulate management of IP addresses and autonomous systems numbers, over objections from regional internet registry the Asian Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). Malaysia announced its consultation in June, when the nation&rsquo;s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) posted a p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malaysia-ponders-regulating-management-of-ip-addresses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malaysia-ponders-regulating-management-of-ip-addresses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN’s OECD Demands Nations To Use Shared Digital Public Infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UN has long been used by Technocrats to spread global contagion about Technocracy, especially the OECD, or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The demand was made in Digital Government Outlook 2026 report.&nbsp;Why should the UN care about mandatory IDs for all and global databases to share with all governments? Can you say global Technocracy? &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recommended that in order f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uns-oecd-demands-nations-to-use-shared-digital-public-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uns-oecd-demands-nations-to-use-shared-digital-public-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s government has decided to double the fines it can levy companies that don&rsquo;t take appropriate steps to enforce the country&rsquo;s ban on children under 16 accessing social media &ndash; and said Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are under investigation for possible non-compliance. The decision to increase fines came after publication of a study that found around 80 percent of kids in Australia continue to use social media despite the ban, mostly because ag]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australia-investigating-five-social-media-giants-for-not-enforcing-ban-on-kids/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australia-investigating-five-social-media-giants-for-not-enforcing-ban-on-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vets warn of 'ticking time bomb' for animal welfare as owners turn to AI instead of professional advice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts are warning of a 'ticking time bomb' for animal welfare as owners are increasingly turning to AI for advice.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/vets-warn-of-ticking-time-bomb-for-animal-welfare-as-owners-turn-to-ai-instead-of-professional-advice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/vets-warn-of-ticking-time-bomb-for-animal-welfare-as-owners-turn-to-ai-instead-of-professional-advice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that Europe is not prepared for high temperatures.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-heatwave-linked-to-1300-deaths-who-says-as-germany-hits-record-417c/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-heatwave-linked-to-1300-deaths-who-says-as-germany-hits-record-417c/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three firefighters die battling huge wildfires on Colorado-Utah border]]></title><description><![CDATA[A number of blazes have been raging across Utah and Colorado, leading both governors to declare states of emergency.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-firefighters-die-battling-huge-wildfires-on-colorado-utah-border/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-firefighters-die-battling-huge-wildfires-on-colorado-utah-border/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers affiliated with ETH Zurich have devised a multifunction picture element, or pixel, that can both emit and measure light. Traditional pixels generally do one or the other &ndash; illuminating a display screen or capturing light in a camera sensor. A team led by David Norris, professor at ETH Zurich's Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, has found a way to combine the two functions. The research raises the possibility of two-way screens that take and present pictures, holographic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-build-a-better-pixel-capable-of-emitting-and-receiving-light/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffins-build-a-better-pixel-capable-of-emitting-and-receiving-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chilling visions of hell that a doctor says reveal we're living in God's simulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reoccurring pattern amongst people having near-death experiences has now been tied to the wild theory that the human race is living inside a computer program.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-chilling-visions-of-hell-that-a-doctor-says-reveal-were-living-in-gods-simulation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-chilling-visions-of-hell-that-a-doctor-says-reveal-were-living-in-gods-simulation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the WAGS sleep over! As the England manager bans overnight stays for wives and girlfriends, research reveals pre-exercise sex can actually BOOST performance for footballers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critics say it'll take the England team skill, speed and a little bit of luck to get to the World Cup final once again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/let-the-wags-sleep-over-as-the-england-manager-bans-overnight-stays-for-wives-and-girlfriends-research-reveals-pre-exercise-sex-can-actually-boost-performance-for-footballers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/let-the-wags-sleep-over-as-the-england-manager-bans-overnight-stays-for-wives-and-girlfriends-research-reveals-pre-exercise-sex-can-actually-boost-performance-for-footballers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why you should let your wife do the talking: Women negotiate as effectively as men - but leave people happier, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chaps, the next time you're haggling over a new car or trying to knock a few thousand off a house price, you might want to let your wife take the lead.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-you-should-let-your-wife-do-the-talking-women-negotiate-as-effectively-as-men-but-leave-people-happier-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-you-should-let-your-wife-do-the-talking-women-negotiate-as-effectively-as-men-but-leave-people-happier-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full Strawberry Moon set to light up night sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first full Moon of summer will rise across UK skies this week]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-strawberry-moon-set-to-light-up-night-sky/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/full-strawberry-moon-set-to-light-up-night-sky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out]]></title><description><![CDATA[BORK!BORK!BORK! It's not all sunshine and Pastel de nata in Portugal. Behind the hundreds of ways of cooking fish and bottles of sweet, fortified wine lurks our old friend &ndash; a BIOS screen misbehaving in a window. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader M&aacute;rio in Lisbon, the digital sign looking out on the street from a branch of Banco CTT looks like it is in imminent danger of a storage failure. The "S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad" indicates that something has made the storage media (hard drive]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/portuguese-bank-signs-storage-is-about-to-cash-out/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/portuguese-bank-signs-storage-is-about-to-cash-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the man building an 'underground world' before World War III: Survival specialist is creating secret bunkers for wealthy clients with years of supplies to outwit the apocalypse]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the ultra-rich need to lay out some plans for their impregnable stronghold, Phillip Pauley is the one they turn to.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meet-the-man-building-an-underground-world-before-world-war-iii-survival-specialist-is-creating-secret-bunkers-for-wealthy-clients-with-years-of-supplies-to-outwit-the-apocalypse/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meet-the-man-building-an-underground-world-before-world-war-iii-survival-specialist-is-creating-secret-bunkers-for-wealthy-clients-with-years-of-supplies-to-outwit-the-apocalypse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoo repopulating one of UK's rarest butterflies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dartmoor Zoo hopes to repopulate rare black-veined white butterflies in the UK.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zoo-repopulating-one-of-uks-rarest-butterflies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zoo-repopulating-one-of-uks-rarest-butterflies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why some trees might fall during extreme heat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists are studying how trees respond to hotter, drier conditions caused by climate change.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-some-trees-might-fall-during-extreme-heat/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-some-trees-might-fall-during-extreme-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Lost' ant species reintroduced to woodland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Southern red wood ants are considered a keystone species, benefiting the ecosystems around them.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-ant-species-reintroduced-to-woodland/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-ant-species-reintroduced-to-woodland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear my son crying beneath the rubble, says Venezuela earthquake survivor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andreina Valerio says she fears for her son, who is trapped with her partner and in-laws beneath a collapsed building.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-hear-my-son-crying-beneath-the-rubble-says-venezuela-earthquake-survivor/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-hear-my-son-crying-beneath-the-rubble-says-venezuela-earthquake-survivor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech firms are blaming AI for mega device and console price rises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xbox consoles, Nintendo's new Switch 2 and Valve's Steam Deck are just some of the gadgets seeing price hikes in recent months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-firms-are-blaming-ai-for-mega-device-and-console-price-rises/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tech-firms-are-blaming-ai-for-mega-device-and-console-price-rises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could legal 'personhood' help save Lough Neagh?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rights of Nature could give Lough Neagh the same status as a person, entitled to the same protections.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-legal-personhood-help-save-lough-neagh/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/could-legal-personhood-help-save-lough-neagh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's deadly heatwave breaks German record and halts public events]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany's highest ever temperature of 41.3C is recorded provisionally in Saarbr&uuml;cken, over the border from France.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-deadly-heatwave-breaks-german-record-and-halts-public-events/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/europes-deadly-heatwave-breaks-german-record-and-halts-public-events/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meteorologists reveal the five cities in America's 'Ring of Fire' as heat dome fuels severe weather threat for millions TOMORROW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions have been warned to brace for a potential 'Ring of Fire' weather pattern as a powerful heat dome develops across parts of the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meteorologists-reveal-the-five-cities-in-americas-ring-of-fire-as-heat-dome-fuels-severe-weather-threat-for-millions-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meteorologists-reveal-the-five-cities-in-americas-ring-of-fire-as-heat-dome-fuels-severe-weather-threat-for-millions-tomorrow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're drying your hair wrong! Expert reveals the best way to remove moisture - and why you should never wrap it in a towel turban]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you step out of the shower and rub your hair dry with a towel, you could be ruining your locks, experts have warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youre-drying-your-hair-wrong-expert-reveals-the-best-way-to-remove-moisture-and-why-you-should-never-wrap-it-in-a-towel-turban/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/youre-drying-your-hair-wrong-expert-reveals-the-best-way-to-remove-moisture-and-why-you-should-never-wrap-it-in-a-towel-turban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist proposes radical new theory of consciousness - and it rules out AI becoming conscious in the future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most mysterious phenomena in the universe, but one scientist says it could be even weirder than we thought.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-proposes-radical-new-theory-of-consciousness-and-it-rules-out-ai-becoming-conscious-in-the-future/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-proposes-radical-new-theory-of-consciousness-and-it-rules-out-ai-becoming-conscious-in-the-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber extreme heat warning extended before cooldown ends record-breaking heatwave]]></title><description><![CDATA[The record-breaking heatwave is set to end with cooler and more unsettled weather bySunday.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amber-extreme-heat-warning-extended-before-cooldown-ends-record-breaking-heatwave/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amber-extreme-heat-warning-extended-before-cooldown-ends-record-breaking-heatwave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA researchers are testing an AI clinical decision support system to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during deep-space missions. The Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) is powered by a Red Hat-backed open source tool called RamaLama, designed to simplify how developers run, pull, and serve AI models. While it's no Star Trek-esque Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) quite yet, it could be a boon to ailing astros far from home. Earlier this year, NASA decided to brin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-tests-ai-medic-for-astronauts-too-far-from-earth-to-call-a-doctor/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nasa-tests-ai-medic-for-astronauts-too-far-from-earth-to-call-a-doctor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a "messy" summer for security folks, especially when it comes to fixing the open source code that underpins their organizations. That's according to Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, a software supply-chain security company leading Athena, a newly formed coalition of about two dozen companies that wants to make the process of finding and fixing open source bugs "as easy to consume as possible." The members have committed to using AI to prevent attacks on open source]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-looking-like-a-hot-messy-summer-for-security-teams-as-ai-finds-countless-previously-hidden-vulns/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-looking-like-a-hot-messy-summer-for-security-teams-as-ai-finds-countless-previously-hidden-vulns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we in for a summer of serial heatwaves?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forecasters have suggested that summer is likely to be warmer than average with an increased chance of more heatwaves, as Simon King explains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/are-we-in-for-a-summer-of-serial-heatwaves/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/are-we-in-for-a-summer-of-serial-heatwaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why GTA 6 will launch without a disc - and what it means for gamers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Music and films are now largely digital-only - does the lack of a disc for GTA 6 mean gaming is going the same way?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-gta-6-will-launch-without-a-disc-and-what-it-means-for-gamers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-gta-6-will-launch-without-a-disc-and-what-it-means-for-gamers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GTA 6 will launch as download only - does that mean the disc is dead?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Music and films are now largely digital-only - does the lack of a disc for GTA 6 mean gaming is going the same way?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gta-6-will-launch-as-download-only-does-that-mean-the-disc-is-dead/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gta-6-will-launch-as-download-only-does-that-mean-the-disc-is-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[It seems like nobody wants to carry a work phone and that includes even those charged with protecting the US president. The US Secret Service&rsquo;s extremely lax mobile phone security practices - including using unsecured personal devices during mission operations - put America&rsquo;s leaders&rsquo; and agents&rsquo; lives at risk, according to a government-issued report. Secret Service agents routinely used personal cell phones to communicate with law enforcement and each other, including du]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-the-secret-service-wont-use-company-issued-phones/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/even-the-secret-service-wont-use-company-issued-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future generations being failed if more trees not planted, experts say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Statistics show the number of trees being planted is increasing, but conservationists say it is not meeting targets.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/future-generations-being-failed-if-more-trees-not-planted-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/future-generations-being-failed-if-more-trees-not-planted-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw unreleased UFO files at a secret meeting in the Tennessee mountains. We prayed after seeing what these 'humanoid beings' did... the world is not prepared]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Christian pastor with knowledge of America's alien disclosure rollout is revealing the dark secrets behind the plan, and shocking evidence yet to be released.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-saw-unreleased-ufo-files-at-a-secret-meeting-in-the-tennessee-mountains-we-prayed-after-seeing-what-these-humanoid-beings-did-the-world-is-not-prepared/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-saw-unreleased-ufo-files-at-a-secret-meeting-in-the-tennessee-mountains-we-prayed-after-seeing-what-these-humanoid-beings-did-the-world-is-not-prepared/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's back! After Donald Trump shuttered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate.gov website in 2025, cutting off public access to its 15-year archive of climate information, former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain. &ldquo;Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change,&rdquo; Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release. Lindsey, who previously served as the Clim]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions warned to brace for blackouts as extreme wildfire threat sweeps across nine states: 'Particularly dangerous situation']]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans have been warned to prepare for possible power outages as a sprawling outbreak of extreme fire weather threatens nine states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-warned-to-brace-for-blackouts-as-extreme-wildfire-threat-sweeps-across-nine-states-particularly-dangerous-situation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-warned-to-brace-for-blackouts-as-extreme-wildfire-threat-sweeps-across-nine-states-particularly-dangerous-situation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than three years now, we've been hearing from AI execs who insist that the government regulate their industries &hellip; until there's a chance such oversight could hurt business. OpenAI and Anthropic have led the way with the latter's CEO, Dario Amodei, calling for "binding regulations" in June 2026, only to push back when his latest models were suspended. Now Google, which has also called for AI regulation, would like to clarify its request for government intervention and ask for a "m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-wants-ai-regulation-but-on-its-own-terms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-wants-ai-regulation-but-on-its-own-terms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fossil identified as first dinosaur ever found in Antarctica]]></title><description><![CDATA[Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fossil-identified-as-first-dinosaur-ever-found-in-antarctica/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fossil-identified-as-first-dinosaur-ever-found-in-antarctica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrifying discovery inside trendy 'squishy dumpling' toys after dad runs safety test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Squishy dumpling toys have captivated children and adults alike with their satisfying, stress-relieving texture and the thrill of collecting. But a dad in California found they are hiding a dirty secret.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/terrifying-discovery-inside-trendy-squishy-dumpling-toys-after-dad-runs-safety-test/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/terrifying-discovery-inside-trendy-squishy-dumpling-toys-after-dad-runs-safety-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals]]></title><description><![CDATA[If a self-driving car is going to stop, it may need to stop itself. US vehicle safety regulators are proposing to let robotaxi designers get rid of brake pedals, calling regulatory requirements for manually operated methods of stopping driverless vehicles a barrier to innovation. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking on Friday to modify federal brake safety standards for light vehicles by eliminating the requirement for vehicles e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-auto-regulators-want-to-kill-robotaxi-brake-pedals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-auto-regulators-want-to-kill-robotaxi-brake-pedals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A high-severity flaw in Amazon's AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code meant that opening the wrong Git repository could allow an attacker to execute code on a developer's machine and potentially hand them the keys to the dev's cloud environment. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-12957 and assigned a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.5, centers on how Amazon Q handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configurations. Wiz found the extension would automatically load a repository's .amazonq/mcp.json file and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-q-flaw-let-booby-trapped-git-repos-execute-code-swipe-cloud-creds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-q-flaw-let-booby-trapped-git-repos-execute-code-swipe-cloud-creds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle has promised a new phase in its custodianship of MySQL following the creation of a lobby group concerned about its future independence and long-term development. A new governance model, a new steering committee, and support for the MySQL community are among the measures Big Red announced for the open source database whose intellectual property it owns. However, a co-founder of the OurSQL Foundation &ndash; an independent organization claiming to represent the interests of MySQL users and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ground zero' for mega heat dome revealed as 271 million Americans brace for 'face-melting' Fourth of July heat]]></title><description><![CDATA[While the mega heat dome is forecast to be over the central and eastern US, a meteorologist has identified the state expected to bear the brunt of the scorching conditions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ground-zero-for-mega-heat-dome-revealed-as-271-million-americans-brace-for-face-melting-fourth-of-july-heat/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ground-zero-for-mega-heat-dome-revealed-as-271-million-americans-brace-for-face-melting-fourth-of-july-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yuri Zaporozhets of QRV Systems is a busy chap. He's built a new RISC-V-based personal computer, a mainframe on an FPGA, and rewritten QNX &ndash; twice. Seemingly every month or two, The Reg FOSS desk gets an email telling us about some astonishing project that he has just got working. We're delighted to see that his most recent one, a new OS called QSOE, is winning some attention in the FOSS world at present. But first, we thought we could tell a more complete story of how he got here by descr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/one-man-two-kernels-and-a-lot-of-risc-v/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/one-man-two-kernels-and-a-lot-of-risc-v/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossiping is good for you! People who spread rumours are more likely to be in a relationship and have children, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spreading rumours is often frowned upon. But gossiping could have a reproductive advantage, according to a new study.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gossiping-is-good-for-you-people-who-spread-rumours-are-more-likely-to-be-in-a-relationship-and-have-children-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gossiping-is-good-for-you-people-who-spread-rumours-are-more-likely-to-be-in-a-relationship-and-have-children-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collaboration platform Notion is shutting down its AI-powered Gmail client, Notion Mail, on September 22 after users increasingly handed control of their inboxes to the company's agents. "As Notion agents have gotten more capable, we've seen more users hand off email workflows to them," the company wrote on X. "Today, more than half of Notion Mail users manage emails without ever opening their inbox. So, we're going all in on using agents to run your inbox." Notion Mail, which became widely avai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/notion-kills-its-gmail-client-after-ai-agents-keep-humans-from-troubling-inbox/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/notion-kills-its-gmail-client-after-ai-agents-keep-humans-from-troubling-inbox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden eagle released in conservation project shot with 17 pellets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gamekeepers in the Lammermuir Hills spotted the bird with damaged wings around the beginning of June.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/golden-eagle-released-in-conservation-project-shot-with-17-pellets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/golden-eagle-released-in-conservation-project-shot-with-17-pellets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jiangsu's first AI-powered 10 Gbps all-optical campus network launched at Southeast University]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE has officially launched Jiangsu Province&rsquo;s first "AI-empowered 10 Gbps All-Optical Campus Demonstration Network" at SEU's Sipailou Campus. Leveraging the core 50G-PON technology, the project establishes a new digital foundation for smart education across all teaching, research, and administration scenarios at this 120-year-old top-tier university in China, delivering robust digital momentum to drive its long-term development. The demonstration network fully covers core campus areas inc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/jiangsus-first-ai-powered-10-gbps-all-optical-campus-network-launched-at-southeast-university/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/jiangsus-first-ai-powered-10-gbps-all-optical-campus-network-launched-at-southeast-university/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First AI-powered 10 Gbps all-optical campus network in Jiangsu province goes live at Southeast University in China]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE, in partnership with Southeast University (SEU), has officially launched Jiangsu Province&rsquo;s first "AI-empowered 10 Gbps All-Optical Campus Demonstration Network" at SEU's Sipailou Campus. Leveraging the core 50G-PON technology, the project establishes a new digital foundation for smart education across all teaching, research, and administration scenarios at this 120-year-old top-tier university in China, delivering robust digital momentum to drive its long-term development. The demonst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-ai-powered-10-gbps-all-optical-campus-network-in-jiangsu-province-goes-live-at-southeast-university-in-china/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-ai-powered-10-gbps-all-optical-campus-network-in-jiangsu-province-goes-live-at-southeast-university-in-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Miasma malware campaign has claimed another victim, poisoning more than 20 versions of legitimate npm packages used by the Leo Platform and RStreams ecosystems as its operators continue refining their self-propagating supply chain worm. Microsoft Threat Intelligence said in a post on X that the attack began late on June 24 after attackers compromised an npm maintainer account, "czirker," and used it to publish poisoned updates to more than 20 packages in a "coordinated, fully automated opera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/miasma-campaign-poisons-20-plus-npm-packages-hunts-for-developer-secrets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/miasma-campaign-poisons-20-plus-npm-packages-hunts-for-developer-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE and Tianyi Digital Life jointly unveil flagship home AI router]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE together with Tianyi Digital Life Technology Co., Ltd., today announced the joint launch of the Flagship Home AI Router. As China Telecom&rsquo;s first AI-native Wi-Fi 7 router, the device incorporates full-domain AI capabilities to act as a home network intelligent agent, elevating smart home user experiences and driving China Telecom&rsquo;s &ldquo;Better Home&rdquo; ecosystem into a new phase of proactive intelligence. Home networking devices have evolved from simple connectivity tools in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-and-tianyi-digital-life-jointly-unveil-flagship-home-ai-router/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-and-tianyi-digital-life-jointly-unveil-flagship-home-ai-router/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE showcases practical path to Level-4 autonomous networks through agentic AI and cross-domain innovation at DTW Ignite 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased its latest innovations in autonomous networks at DTW Ignite 2026, highlighting how Agentic AI, multi-agent collaboration and cross-domain intelligence are enabling the industry to accelerate operational transformation, enhance customer experience and unlock greater business agility. As the telecommunications industry advances toward AI-native operations, operators are increasingly seeking practical pathways to move beyond isolated automation and achieve higher levels of network aut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-showcases-practical-path-to-level-4-autonomous-networks-through-agentic-ai-and-cross-domain-innovation-at-dtw-ignite-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-showcases-practical-path-to-level-4-autonomous-networks-through-agentic-ai-and-cross-domain-innovation-at-dtw-ignite-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bite of history: Sabre-toothed tiger skull with 7-inch fangs expected to fetch £1.5m at auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[The terrifying jaws of an Ice Age super-predator are about to go under the hammer.&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-bite-of-history-sabre-toothed-tiger-skull-with-7-inch-fangs-expected-to-fetch-15m-at-auction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/a-bite-of-history-sabre-toothed-tiger-skull-with-7-inch-fangs-expected-to-fetch-15m-at-auction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE presents full-stack intelligent energy storage solutions at the Smarter E Europe 2026, powering Europe's energy transition]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased its end-to-end capabilities in project delivery, technology innovation and intelligent energy at The Smarter E Europe 2026, to support Europe&rsquo;s accelerating energy transition. As Europe continues to expand renewable energy deployment, energy storage is evolving from a standalone asset into a strategic platform for flexibility, resilience and value creation. At the same time, the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is creating a new category of energy demand, driving close]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-presents-full-stack-intelligent-energy-storage-solutions-at-the-smarter-e-europe-2026-powering-europes-energy-transition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-presents-full-stack-intelligent-energy-storage-solutions-at-the-smarter-e-europe-2026-powering-europes-energy-transition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget astronauts or doctors! 60% of children now say they want to be social media influencers when they grow up, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[While children once wanted to be astronauts and doctors when they grew up, today's youngsters would much rather be TikTok stars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forget-astronauts-or-doctors-60-of-children-now-say-they-want-to-be-social-media-influencers-when-they-grow-up-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/forget-astronauts-or-doctors-60-of-children-now-say-they-want-to-be-social-media-influencers-when-they-grow-up-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE advances "AI and Gaming" strategy at MWC Shanghai 2026 with nubia Neo 5 Series leading the way]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased the latest progress in its "AI+Gaming" strategy at MWC Shanghai 2026, with nubia Neo 5 series taking center stage. The showcase highlighted the introduction of four new models including nubia Neo 5 GT Special Edition featuring "liquid + air" dual active cooling system, nubia Neo 5 GT MVP Edition, nubia Neo 5 Max - a new 7.5-inch large-screen PadPhone, and nubia Neo 5 Max MVP Edition, accompanied by the NeoVerse ecosystem. The exhibition also featured the AI-Native Phone Pioneer nub]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-advances-ai-and-gaming-strategy-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-with-nubia-neo-5-series-leading-the-way/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-advances-ai-and-gaming-strategy-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-with-nubia-neo-5-series-leading-the-way/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE and GSMA announce co-location between ZTE Global Summit &amp; User Congress and GSMA M360 ASEAN at MWC26 Shanghai]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE has signed an agreement to become the Strategic Partner of GSMA's M360 ASEAN event. The two parties will co-locate the 15th ZTE Global Summit &amp; User Congress and GSMA M360 ASEAN, with the ZTE Global Summit &amp; User Congress taking place on 8&ndash;9 September and GSMA M360 ASEAN taking place on 9&ndash;10 September 2026. The events will bring together global ICT leaders, operators and technical experts to conduct in-depth discussions and practical exploration centering on the evolution]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-and-gsma-announce-co-location-between-zte-global-summit-amp-user-congress-and-gsma-m360-asean-at-mwc26-shanghai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-and-gsma-announce-co-location-between-zte-global-summit-amp-user-congress-and-gsma-m360-asean-at-mwc26-shanghai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is facing fresh regulatory grief in Europe after Italy's competition watchdog opened an investigation into claims Redmond added AI features to Microsoft 365 and automatically moved subscribers to more expensive plans unless they opted out. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) is investigating Microsoft Ireland Operations and Microsoft Italy over what it describes as a potentially unfair commercial practice surrounding recent Microsoft 365 subscription changes. The regulator's state]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/italy-probes-ai-fueled-price-hikes-in-microsoft-365/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/italy-probes-ai-fueled-price-hikes-in-microsoft-365/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE CDO Cui Li at GTI Summit 2026: Co-creating an intelligent, ubiquitous 6G future and exploring new opportunities in the mobile AI era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cui Li, ZTE's Chief Development Officer, was invited to deliver a keynote speech at GTI Summit 2026, themed "Mobile AI Powering 6G Future". Under the title "Co-Creating an Intelligent, Ubiquitous 6G Future", she shared ZTE's strategic insights, key priorities, and innovative practices in 6G. Cui Li noted that, as AI becomes more powerful and pervasive, agent-driven connections are set to grow exponentially. This signals that mobile AI is redefining network value, moving from "connectivity" to "r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-cdo-cui-li-at-gti-summit-2026-co-creating-an-intelligent-ubiquitous-6g-future-and-exploring-new-opportunities-in-the-mobile-ai-era/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-cdo-cui-li-at-gti-summit-2026-co-creating-an-intelligent-ubiquitous-6g-future-and-exploring-new-opportunities-in-the-mobile-ai-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE AIR Core unleashes a new era of agent services beyond connectivity]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased at MWC Shanghai 2026 its AIR Core, designed for the era of AI agents. Building on deep expertise in core networks and AI, AIR Core drives a paradigm shift from traditional "connectivity pipes" to "intent-driven intelligent services". By integrating AI, computing, data, and security capabilities, it constructs an Agent Service Network (ASN) that spans across devices and ecosystems, comprehensively empowering diverse demands from individuals, smart homes, connected vehicles, and mass]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-air-core-unleashes-a-new-era-of-agent-services-beyond-connectivity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-air-core-unleashes-a-new-era-of-agent-services-beyond-connectivity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former Constellation Energy engineer has been accused of making $1.4 million from insider trading ahead of the company's announcement that it would restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to supply power to Microsoft. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and federal prosecutors allege in their lawsuits that Casey Muggleston purchased share options based on knowledge officially deemed material non-public information (MNPI). In September 2024, Microsoft and Constellation Energy &ndash; wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/engineer-accused-of-insider-trading-tied-to-microsofts-reboot-of-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/engineer-accused-of-insider-trading-tied-to-microsofts-reboot-of-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abundant but expensive energy source that's under your feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start-ups are taking fresh approaches to geothermal energy, but will the economics work?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-abundant-but-expensive-energy-source-thats-under-your-feet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-abundant-but-expensive-energy-source-thats-under-your-feet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never miss a connection again! Incredible map shows where every tube, train, boat and bus is in London in real-time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any commuter will be familiar with the frustration of just missing a bus or watching their train pull away from the platform. But a new map promises to make travelling around London a little easier.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/never-miss-a-connection-again-incredible-map-shows-where-every-tube-train-boat-and-bus-is-in-london-in-real-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/never-miss-a-connection-again-incredible-map-shows-where-every-tube-train-boat-and-bus-is-in-london-in-real-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The California Science Center has unveiled its Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit, featuring the retired spacecraft mounted in launch position with the familiar orange external tank and twin solid rocket boosters. The exhibit will be housed in the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which is due to open on November 13, 2026, after a multi-year construction effort. Endeavour arrived at the California Science Center in 2012 after an overland journey from LAX. Following several years parked in what ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/space-shuttle-endeavour-stacks-up-nicely-for-new-california-exhibit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/space-shuttle-endeavour-stacks-up-nicely-for-new-california-exhibit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge asteroid a MILE wide will zoom past Earth tomorrow - here's how to spot it]]></title><description><![CDATA[A huge asteroid measuring a mile across will zoom past Earth in an exceptionally close pass tomorrow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/huge-asteroid-a-mile-wide-will-zoom-past-earth-tomorrow-heres-how-to-spot-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/huge-asteroid-a-mile-wide-will-zoom-past-earth-tomorrow-heres-how-to-spot-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning a staycation? Pick up the latest games and toys for less from Amazon to stay entertained this summer - from a classic board game to a £600 best-selling LEGO set]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's finally that time to grab some outstanding deals in this year's Amazon Prime Day sale.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/planning-a-staycation-pick-up-the-latest-games-and-toys-for-less-from-amazon-to-stay-entertained-this-summer-from-a-classic-board-game-to-a-600-best-selling-lego-set/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/planning-a-staycation-pick-up-the-latest-games-and-toys-for-less-from-amazon-to-stay-entertained-this-summer-from-a-classic-board-game-to-a-600-best-selling-lego-set/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the mercury climbs to disgusting heights, The Reg FOSS desk has picked out a few FOSS highlights from its overflowing mailbox, in case you fancy some Super Productivity while monitoring your AI habit. Prism Carbon Tracker The Prism carbon tracker is a neat idea for helping to instill a tiny bit of self control in the more dedicated botlickers on your development team. It's a plugin that integrates into Visual Studio Code. As the developer uses various "online coding assistants," Prism shows a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-foss-projects-for-developers-procrastinators-and-media-wranglers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/three-foss-projects-for-developers-procrastinators-and-media-wranglers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry]]></title><description><![CDATA[EPISODE 12 "What's everybody here for?" the Boss asks, peering worriedly at the long line of people extending out of the wedged-open door of Mission Control, continuing on down the corridor. "It's the amnesty," the PFY replies. "The amnesty?" "Oh, I forget!" the PFY says. "You've not been here that long. Every year or so we run an amnesty, where users can fess up to damaging, destroying, or losing our equipment, no questions asked." "No questions?" "Well, typically they'll explain what they did,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bofh-amnesty-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bofh-amnesty-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security boss thought MFA would be too much security]]></title><description><![CDATA[ON CALL Supporting IT and keeping it secure is a serious endeavor. Which is why The Register lightens up Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your tales of tech support trauma. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Colin" who told us about a recent gig at a customer that decided to improve the security of its Microsoft 365 implementation &ndash; chasing the Secure Score that Redmond uses to rate resilience. "We spent a good amount o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-boss-thought-mfa-would-be-too-much-security/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-boss-thought-mfa-would-be-too-much-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has oh-so-quietly extended its offer of extended security updates for consumer users of Windows 10. The Windows giant ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, when it stopped shipping fixes and updates &ndash; unless users coughed up for an extended patch package. Redmond&rsquo;s offer for business users includes an option for an extra three years of support, albeit with ratcheting costs that demonstrate Microsoft has an enormous preference for customers to adopt Windows 11. C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-extends-extended-updates-for-windows-10-in-the-most-muted-way-imaginable/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-extends-extended-updates-for-windows-10-in-the-most-muted-way-imaginable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese cybersecurity vendor Qihoo 360 claims it&rsquo;s built an AI bug-finder that&rsquo;s better than Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos model. CEO Zhou Hongyi revealed the model in a speech at the 14th Beijing Cybersecurity Conference, which Qihoo 360 organizes. Chinese media outlets have transcribed the talk, in which Zhou described Mythos as &ldquo;equivalent to a &lsquo;cyber nuclear weapon&rsquo;,&rdquo; because the USA&rsquo;s ban on foreign nationals accessing the model gives America a tool with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Trump’s New Quantum EO Locks Technocracy Into Place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump signed Executive Orders, Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation and Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks on the same day.<br />
A &ldquo;whole-of-government&rdquo; approach to quantum computing<br />
The two goals: to optimize economic activity and to secure all internet traffic, transactions and data with new cryptographic algorithms<br />
Quantum computing sets the final lock for TechnocracyWho cares about quantum computers, anyway? Are they just smoke and mirrors? Are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-trumps-new-quantum-eo-locks-technocracy-into-place/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-trumps-new-quantum-eo-locks-technocracy-into-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/teens-who-hacked-tfl-were-known-to-police-years-before-cyber-attack/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/teens-who-hacked-tfl-were-known-to-police-years-before-cyber-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI-POCALYPSE Several leading US AI companies joined with former US government officials on Thursday to form a bipartisan coalition focused on helping to prepare workers for the AI tsunami, even as many companies seem to be in a race to see who can replace human workers the fastest. Founded by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, RAISE US aims to "design and pilot new corporate incentives to retrain and redeploy workers, new approaches to support pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-giants-back-non-profit-to-retrain-workers-left-behind-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-giants-back-non-profit-to-retrain-workers-left-behind-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new self-destructing backdoor called Mistic used in intrusions since April appears to be linked to a criminal gang that compromises corporate networks and then sells that access to ransomware groups, according to security researchers. This backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, was first documented by Zscaler earlier this month, with the security shop suggesting the novel malware is &ldquo;likely used in ransomware attacks to establish a foothold for lateral movement.&rdquo; In a Wednesday thr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/self-destructing-mistic-backdoor-linked-to-access-broker-selling-corporate-footholds-to-ransomware-gangs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/self-destructing-mistic-backdoor-linked-to-access-broker-selling-corporate-footholds-to-ransomware-gangs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine learning and high-resolution CT scans. In 2023, researchers managed to decipher a few words from among the char and ash that make up the bulk of the scrolls. Some of those same prize-winning researchers recovered more passages from one of the scrolls, PHerc.Paris.4, netting them the $700,000 grand prize fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/theyve-read-the-scroll-thing-ai-helps-decipher-ancient-document-charred-by-vesuvius/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/theyve-read-the-scroll-thing-ai-helps-decipher-ancient-document-charred-by-vesuvius/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine learning and high-resolution CT scans. In 2023, researchers managed to decipher a few words from among the char and ash that make up the bulk of the scrolls. Some of those same prize-winning researchers recovered more passages from one of the scrolls, PHerc.Paris.4, netting them the $700,000 grand prize fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/they-read-the-scroll-thing-ai-helps-decipher-ancient-document-charred-by-vesuvius/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/they-read-the-scroll-thing-ai-helps-decipher-ancient-document-charred-by-vesuvius/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security firm Huntress allegedly has a turncoat insider leaking info to a ransomware operation, according to an ex-employee who took his grievances to social media after claiming the security shop tried to &ldquo;silence&rdquo; him with legal threats. And it all started with a Pinocchio GIF and clown emoji. Late last week, Huntress disclosed that it is among the &ldquo;hundreds of Klue customers&rdquo; compromised in the supply-chain attack, stating that &ldquo;Huntress believes in radical trans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ex-huntress-analyst-claims-company-insider-fed-info-to-a-ransomware-crim-social-media-drama-ensues/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ex-huntress-analyst-claims-company-insider-fed-info-to-a-ransomware-crim-social-media-drama-ensues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[A company can learn a lot about the market by looking at its own employees. OpenAI says that its team members are switching from chatbots to agents as their primary form of AI interaction, a trend also detected (though less pronounced) among external organizations and users. Instead of one-off ChatGPT prompts, workers are asking Codex agents to tackle multi-step tasks that take long periods of time. And those doing so are increasingly non-developers. OpenAI insists that its findings have implica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-says-employees-moving-beyond-chat-to-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-says-employees-moving-beyond-chat-to-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[A company can learn a lot about the market by looking at its own employees. OpenAI says that its team members are switching from chatbots to agents as their primary form of AI interaction, a trend also detected (though less pronounced) among external organizations and users. Instead of one-off ChatGPT prompts, workers are asking Codex agents to tackle multi-step tasks that take long periods of time. And those doing so are increasingly non-developers. OpenAI insists that its findings have implica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-says-979-percent-of-its-employees-are-now-using-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-says-979-percent-of-its-employees-are-now-using-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple hikes some prices by nearly 20% while Xbox raises console cost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple said it had "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-hikes-some-prices-by-nearly-20-while-xbox-raises-console-cost/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-hikes-some-prices-by-nearly-20-while-xbox-raises-console-cost/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden earthquake threat discovered beneath California could unleash devastating magnitude 7 tremor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geologists have confirmed a hidden earthquake threat lurking beneath California that could unleash widespread devastation if it awakens.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-earthquake-threat-discovered-beneath-california-could-unleash-devastating-magnitude-7-tremor/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hidden-earthquake-threat-discovered-beneath-california-could-unleash-devastating-magnitude-7-tremor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yet another Martian rock formation has revealed what may be signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. While these findings aren't as scientist-wowing as those reported last year, they add to growing evidence that ancient Mars contained organic carbon and may once have been habitable. An international team of scientists working on examining Martian rock samples collected and analyzed by the Perseverance rover reported in Science Advances Wednesday that they&rsquo;d found signs of macromolecular ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/perseverance-rover-finds-even-more-signs-of-extinct-life-on-mars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/perseverance-rover-finds-even-more-signs-of-extinct-life-on-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eerie 'apocalyptic' sounds heard on Mount Shasta lead horseback riders to bizarre discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few places in America have a reputation as mysterious as Mount Shasta, and one California family recently experienced why firsthand.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eerie-apocalyptic-sounds-heard-on-mount-shasta-lead-horseback-riders-to-bizarre-discovery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eerie-apocalyptic-sounds-heard-on-mount-shasta-lead-horseback-riders-to-bizarre-discovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calls for government action on chemical pollution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cherwell District Council leader urges forever chemical pollution action around former RAF base.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/calls-for-government-action-on-chemical-pollution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/calls-for-government-action-on-chemical-pollution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grotesque 'zombie squirrels' with oozing flesh pods spark alarm across the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reports of 'zombie squirrels' lurking in Americans' backyards have surged in recent weeks. These animals are found with oozing sores on their bodies and patchy fur.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/grotesque-zombie-squirrels-with-oozing-flesh-pods-spark-alarm-across-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/grotesque-zombie-squirrels-with-oozing-flesh-pods-spark-alarm-across-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's bananas! Hilarious recordings reveal how great apes LAUGH in a similar rhythm to humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered another thing we have in common with our closest living relatives: our laugh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thats-bananas-hilarious-recordings-reveal-how-great-apes-laugh-in-a-similar-rhythm-to-humans/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thats-bananas-hilarious-recordings-reveal-how-great-apes-laugh-in-a-similar-rhythm-to-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language &ndash; but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that. An interesting new proposal on the Discourse forum of the LLVM compiler suite has turned into a new standalone BASIC compiler. The original RFC was Adding BASIC09 frontend tool to LLVM. Author Boisy Petre proposed adding a front-end to enable LLVM to compile BASIC source code, and this has now turned into a standalone compiler called basic09c, which uses LLVM as a libr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/foss-dev-builds-a-basic-compiler-using-llvm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/foss-dev-builds-a-basic-compiler-using-llvm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's bananas! Great apes LAUGH in a similar rhythm to humans, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered another thing we have in common with our closest living relatives: our laugh.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thats-bananas-great-apes-laugh-in-a-similar-rhythm-to-humans-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thats-bananas-great-apes-laugh-in-a-similar-rhythm-to-humans-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recovery has to keep up with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents now write code and run tasks at machine speed, and sometimes those same agents delete the wrong thing. AI-enabled attackers can also use AI to find zero-day vulnerabilities more easily. Most recovery systems still run at human speed, which widens the gap between how fast data can be lost and how fast it can be restored. Eon was built to close that gap. In our latest Hot Seat, Tim Phillips talks to Gonen Stein, president and co-founder of Eon, about what recovery should look like in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/recovery-has-to-keep-up-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/recovery-has-to-keep-up-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The online Apple Store went offline Thursday morning, but instead of such a move marking the launch of upgraded products, it came back online with nothing new to offer but higher prices. The budget-priced MacBook Neo wasn&rsquo;t even spared from the spike, with its entry-level price climbing from $599 to $699. Along with the Neo, entry-level MacBook Air prices rose by $200 and base MacBook Pro machines increased by $300, putting the lowest-spec machines in the lines at $1,299 and $1,999, respec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-passes-rampocalypse-costs-on-to-consumers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-passes-rampocalypse-costs-on-to-consumers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auto Workers v. Robots: Epic Battle Brewing Between UAW And GM]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have long thought that unions might play a part in pushing back against Technocracy, and here they are. Auto workers are already organized, assertive, very vocal, and very visible when they take to the streets. They have proven ability to bring corporate giants to their knees. By contrast, when office workers are displaced by AI, they disappear into the woodwork. This demonstrates the power of numbers. Hopefully, it is not too little and too late. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.General Motors ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/auto-workers-v-robots-epic-battle-brewing-between-uaw-and-gm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/auto-workers-v-robots-epic-battle-brewing-between-uaw-and-gm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Users with hopelessly borked Windows devices have a new avenue of recovery in the form of point-in-time restore for Windows 11. The service is designed to restore a Windows 11 PC to its exact state at an earlier point in time and is accessed through the Troubleshoot menu in the Windows Recovery Environment. According to Microsoft, each restore point covers the operating system, apps, settings, and local files. It is stored locally and automatically deleted after 72 hours or when free disk space]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-11-can-now-turn-back-the-clock-when-updates-go-bad/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-11-can-now-turn-back-the-clock-when-updates-go-bad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove  GitHub dependency]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swift Package Index (SPI), a search engine for open source packages for the Swift programming language, is now part of Apple, though it will remain open source. Dave Verwer, who created SPI over six years ago along with Sven A. Schmidt, said on Mastodon that "I'll be joining Apple to continue working on everything related to Swift packages." Apple senior product manager Dave Lester said that SPI has become an "essential part of the Swift ecosystem" and referenced the intent to build a compre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-takes-over-swift-package-index-vows-to-remove-github-dependency/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apple-takes-over-swift-package-index-vows-to-remove-github-dependency/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pictures: Britain swelters in record-breaking June heat]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare red weather warning is in place as extreme temperatures continue across much of the UK.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-pictures-britain-swelters-in-record-breaking-june-heat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/in-pictures-britain-swelters-in-record-breaking-june-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has promised a $13 billion chunk of its mammoth capex plans to build AI and cloud infrastructure in India. The cloud services and software giant has said it expects $200 billion capex for 2026 as, like other vendors in the market, it struggles to build compute capacity to support the expected explosion in demand for AI services. Having announced a $35 billion investment in India in 2025, Amazon's commitments in the country between 2010 and 2030 total more than $88 billion, some of which i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-pours-another-13b-into-indias-ai-and-cloud-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-pours-another-13b-into-indias-ai-and-cloud-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shocking memo reveals missing UFO-linked scientist was trying to escape a secret Pentagon network before vanishing]]></title><description><![CDATA[New evidence tied to the missing Air Force general in New Mexico suggests the veteran officer was attempting to cut his ties to the Pentagon before he vanished without a trace.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shocking-memo-reveals-missing-ufo-linked-scientist-was-trying-to-escape-a-secret-pentagon-network-before-vanishing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/shocking-memo-reveals-missing-ufo-linked-scientist-was-trying-to-escape-a-secret-pentagon-network-before-vanishing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay-inside advisories issued in two states as lung-penetrating toxins choke parts of the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions across parts of two US states are being urged to stay indoors on Thursday as toxic air carrying lung-penetrating particles triggers health alerts.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/stay-inside-advisories-issued-in-two-states-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-choke-parts-of-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/stay-inside-advisories-issued-in-two-states-as-lung-penetrating-toxins-choke-parts-of-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First red squirrel kits born at sanctuary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sanctuary staff say the litter will help boost population numbers of an endangered British species.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-red-squirrel-kits-born-at-sanctuary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/first-red-squirrel-kits-born-at-sanctuary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has reached the preliminary position that Azure and AWS should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The gatekeeper designation would mean requirements imposed on the cloud giants, with fines of up to 10 percent of worldwide turnover if those requirements are not met. According to the Commission, AWS and Azure, "the largest and second largest cloud computing services in the EU respectively," are a gateway between businesses and their customers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/european-commission-lines-up-amazon-and-microsoft-for-cloud-gatekeeper-status/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/european-commission-lines-up-amazon-and-microsoft-for-cloud-gatekeeper-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collabora has released version 26.04 of CODE, the company's web-based office suite. CODE stands for "Collabora Online Development Edition" &ndash; "Development" indicating that this is a preview of what will be coming soon in Collabora Online, its web-based function-rich office suite. The announcement is Collabora staking its claim to a slice of the increasingly competitive online office suite market. What's new Depressingly, the first bullet point in each section of the release announcement &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/collabora-releases-code-2604-as-rivalry-between-foss-cloudy-office-suites-heats-up/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/collabora-releases-code-2604-as-rivalry-between-foss-cloudy-office-suites-heats-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's secretive space plane releases an unidentified object into orbit - and experts say it could be a spy satellite]]></title><description><![CDATA[A secretive Chinese space plane has released an unidentified object into orbit, a US-based surveillance company has revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinas-secretive-space-plane-releases-an-unidentified-object-into-orbit-and-experts-say-it-could-be-a-spy-satellite/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinas-secretive-space-plane-releases-an-unidentified-object-into-orbit-and-experts-say-it-could-be-a-spy-satellite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk about a blast from the past! Commodore unveils a Y2K-inspired flip phone with texting, maps and music - but NO social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fans of retro tech are in for a treat as the classic computer brand Commodore unveils a T2K-inspired flip phone.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/talk-about-a-blast-from-the-past-commodore-unveils-a-y2k-inspired-flip-phone-with-texting-maps-and-music-but-no-social-media/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/talk-about-a-blast-from-the-past-commodore-unveils-a-y2k-inspired-flip-phone-with-texting-maps-and-music-but-no-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've searched the Amazon Prime sale for the top tech deals - and there's lots of big brand offers on TVs, headphones and smart watches including 30% off Apple AirPods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get ready to grab yourself some unmissable bargains in this year's amazing Prime Day sale with our top tech picks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ive-searched-the-amazon-prime-sale-for-the-top-tech-deals-and-theres-lots-of-big-brand-offers-on-tvs-headphones-and-smart-watches-including-30-off-apple-airpods/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ive-searched-the-amazon-prime-sale-for-the-top-tech-deals-and-theres-lots-of-big-brand-offers-on-tvs-headphones-and-smart-watches-including-30-off-apple-airpods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE builds a TCO-optimal AI factory to fuel token economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased at MWC Shanghai 2026 its comprehensively boost to TPS. Powered by multiple dimensional co-design, deep optimization, and acceleration - from chips, servers, clusters, and AIDC, to software algorithms and scheduling platforms - this innovation empowers customers to build TCO-Optimal AI factories providing robust support for the efficient development of the Token Economy. As large models enter the phase of scaled inference deployment, the "cost per Token" has emerged as the ultimate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-builds-a-tco-optimal-ai-factory-to-fuel-token-economy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-builds-a-tco-optimal-ai-factory-to-fuel-token-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elastic, whose products include Elasticsearch and Kibana, has announced an "approximately" 7 percent reduction in its workforce. In a blog post, CEO Ash Kulkarni thanked employees for their hard work as he announced the layoffs. He stated that the customer-facing sales team would continue to grow, but for others, "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams." Kulkarni also noted that engineering, "where the nature of the work is evolving fastest," would be split into t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/elastic-stretches-workforce-7-thinner-as-ai-does-more-of-the-heavy-lifting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/elastic-stretches-workforce-7-thinner-as-ai-does-more-of-the-heavy-lifting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE announced that Cui Li, the company's Chief Development Officer, delivered a keynote speech titled "Unlocking Value and Embracing Uncertainty in the AI Era" at MWC Shanghai 2026. Cui Li noted that the world is undergoing a profound paradigm shift. AI is iterating at a breakneck pace and generating more customized demands, where the "one-size-fits-all" model is no longer applicable. We are now in an era where uncertainty is the only certainty. In this time of change, ZTE put forward the "All i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-cdo-cui-li-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-unlocking-value-and-embracing-uncertainty-in-the-ai-era/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-cdo-cui-li-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-unlocking-value-and-embracing-uncertainty-in-the-ai-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think this is bad? Imminent super El Niño could make UK temperatures even HOTTER later this summer, expert warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[An imminent 'Super El Ni&ntilde;o' could send the mercury even higher later this year, experts have warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/think-this-is-bad-imminent-super-el-nio-could-make-uk-temperatures-even-hotter-later-this-summer-expert-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/think-this-is-bad-imminent-super-el-nio-could-make-uk-temperatures-even-hotter-later-this-summer-expert-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZTE showcases full-stack AI capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, empowering new era of token operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased the TCO-optimal AI factory, an AIOS-powered ecosystem spanning scenario-based applications and innovative terminals, and cutting-edge breakthroughs in AI-driven networks at MWC Shanghai 2026. Through the extreme synergy across computing, network, storage, energy, and software, as well as system-level architecture innovations, ZTE fully unlocked new momentum for token operations. As AI agents become widespread, industry competition focus is shifting from computing power scale to tok]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-showcases-full-stack-ai-capabilities-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-empowering-new-era-of-token-operations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/zte-showcases-full-stack-ai-capabilities-at-mwc-shanghai-2026-empowering-new-era-of-token-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM says it has created the world's first known chip tech below 1 nanometre - but it will be some time before it's ready for production.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-hails-new-block-of-flats-design-breakthrough-for-ultra-tiny-chips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-hails-new-block-of-flats-design-breakthrough-for-ultra-tiny-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has developed a sub-nanometer (nm) chip technology it says could be used to produce commercial chips within five years, and has mapped a path to 0.1 nm. Big Blue claims its new process node can cram nearly 100 billion transistors onto a silicon die the size of a fingernail, almost double the density of the 2 nm technology it unveiled back in 2021. The new process as disclosed is actually for 0.7 nm or 7 Angstroms (7A), compared with the cutting-edge manufacturing nodes now being prepared for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-stacks-up-a-sub-nanometer-chip-future/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ibm-stacks-up-a-sub-nanometer-chip-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk about a blast from the past! Commodore unveils a T2K-inspired flip phone with texting, maps and music - but NO social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fans of retro tech are in for a treat as the classic computer brand Commodore unveils a T2K-inspired flip phone.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/talk-about-a-blast-from-the-past-commodore-unveils-a-t2k-inspired-flip-phone-with-texting-maps-and-music-but-no-social-media/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/talk-about-a-blast-from-the-past-commodore-unveils-a-t2k-inspired-flip-phone-with-texting-maps-and-music-but-no-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The minutes of the government's recently announced digital ID advisory group will not be published, Cabinet Office minister James Frith has told a Conservative MP, while not answering his questions about its budget or how its members were selected. Andrew Snowden, MP for Fylde and an assistant whip, asked the Cabinet Office whether the minutes, recommendations, and advice of the digital ID advisory group announced earlier this month will be published. In separate parliamentary written questions,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/digital-id-brain-trust-will-meet-behind-closed-doors-as-minister-ducks-cost-questions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/digital-id-brain-trust-will-meet-behind-closed-doors-as-minister-ducks-cost-questions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is half a century since the Soviet Union launched the final crewed Almaz space station, also known as Salyut 5, which was home to two crews, while a third mission failed to dock and nearly came to a watery end. The Almaz stations were launched for the Soviet military and are better known as Salyut 2, 3, and 5. There were additional stations under construction, but the crewed program was canceled after Salyut 5. While we hesitate to use the word "cursed," Salyut 5 was certainly an eventful pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salyut-5-at-50-the-soviet-space-station-that-sickened-one-crew-and-nearly-drowned-another/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salyut-5-at-50-the-soviet-space-station-that-sickened-one-crew-and-nearly-drowned-another/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the realm of agentic AI, is often discussed through the lens of accelerators, model sizes, and training clusters. However, making large-scale agentic AI systems functional relies heavily on the CPU within these pipelines. As agentic AI deployments expand across cloud and enterprise environments, the CPU increasingly acts as the control plane for the entire system. It manages the coordinated movement of data between storage, memory and accelerators, ensur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-cpus-growing-role-in-agentic-ai-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-cpus-growing-role-in-agentic-ai-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found]]></title><description><![CDATA[PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we school ourselves on others' security failures. This week, we&rsquo;ll learn about a school where the entire network was like an open-book test &hellip; and the IT department got a zero. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Our tale of academic pwnage comes courtesy of a reader we&rsquo;ll Regomize as Nathan. Nathan was 17 and attending s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-schools-network-left-wide-open-for-invasion-student-found/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-schools-network-left-wide-open-for-invasion-student-found/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Infosys chairman Nandan M. Nilekani has predicted AI &ndash; even AI that does the kind of coding work his company does for many clients &ndash; will be good for services companies. Nilekani made his prediction in a speech delivered at the Indian services giant&rsquo;s annual general meeting on Tuesday. &ldquo;The industry is going through a major technology transition and whenever there is such a transition, questions are asked about our relevance, leadership or ability to maintain growth and m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosys-boss-says-vibe-coding-is-no-threat-because-theres-more-to-writing-software-than-writing-software/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosys-boss-says-vibe-coding-is-no-threat-because-theres-more-to-writing-software-than-writing-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has established dedicated teams to counter nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure, the org&rsquo;s director general Mike Burgess revealed yesterday. &ldquo;We discovered nation-state hackers had compromised the network of an Australian critical infrastructure provider,&rdquo; Burgess said yesterday in remarks accompanying the release of ASIO&rsquo;s annual threat assessment, a task it performs in its role as Australia&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nation-state-actors-cracked-critical-australian-infrastructure-to-cripple-it-at-a-time-of-their-choosing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nation-state-actors-cracked-critical-australian-infrastructure-to-cripple-it-at-a-time-of-their-choosing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your dog's WALK could reveal if they've got dementia: Shorter strides are an early warning sign in senior pooches, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your senior pooch is starting to take shorter strides, it could be an early warning sign of dementia.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-dogs-walk-could-reveal-if-theyve-got-dementia-shorter-strides-are-an-early-warning-sign-in-senior-pooches-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-dogs-walk-could-reveal-if-theyve-got-dementia-shorter-strides-are-an-early-warning-sign-in-senior-pooches-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Memory-maker Micron has found a way to keep prices for its products sky-high for another five years, by signing 16 &ldquo;strategic customer agreements&rdquo; (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with &ldquo;a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.&rdquo; Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company&rsquo;s Q3 earnings call. He explained that Micron]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gta-6-will-cost-70-and-physical-edition-will-not-contain-a-disc/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/gta-6-will-cost-70-and-physical-edition-will-not-contain-a-disc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad news for vegans: Plant-based foods contain TWICE as many additives as their meaty alternatives, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[They're often seen as healthy alternatives to meat, but a new study might put you off plant-based foods.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bad-news-for-vegans-plant-based-foods-contain-twice-as-many-additives-as-their-meaty-alternatives-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bad-news-for-vegans-plant-based-foods-contain-twice-as-many-additives-as-their-meaty-alternatives-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI vendors have been pushing organizations to board the AI hype train as it races by at full speed. But many of the companies doing so, unable to move quite that fast, have stumbled along the way. According to a survey of 406 IT decision makers, 93 percent of organizations have experienced AI-caused infrastructure incidents, but a mere 19 percent had the necessary governance to respond. The survey, conducted in April by Panterra Group at the behest of Spacelift, forms the basis of the orchestrat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/companies-are-not-looking-before-theyre-leaping-into-the-ai-playpen/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/companies-are-not-looking-before-theyre-leaping-into-the-ai-playpen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s looking like another tough week (month? year?) for Switchzilla amid reports of new serious vulnerabilities under attack. First up is a server-side request forgery bug in its Unified Communications Manager tracked as CVE-2026-20230. Cisco disclosed and patched this flaw in early June. The comms control platform doesn&rsquo;t properly validate some HTTP requests, and an attacker could exploit this bug to gain root privileges on a compromised device. At the time, Cisco said that a proof-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-hits-keep-on-coming-for-cisco-vulnerabilities/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-hits-keep-on-coming-for-cisco-vulnerabilities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters]]></title><description><![CDATA[We knew it was coming, but now it's official: Qualcomm is making a major push into the datacenter market. And though it is late to the game, the mobile-chip giant believes it can make an impact by delivering a lower total cost of ownership and better performance per watt than rival platforms. It has to go somewhere, and the company is already dominating the chip space elsewhere, Qualcomm's datacenter EVP and GM Tony Pialis said during the company&rsquo;s Investor Day presentation on Wednesday. P]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/qualcomm-claims-its-not-too-late-for-dragonfly-to-land-in-datacenters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/qualcomm-claims-its-not-too-late-for-dragonfly-to-land-in-datacenters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writing prompts is so &hellip; 2025! AI influencers and industry luminaries have declared that prompts are out and loops are in, and maddeningly this has become blog fodder and grist for the news cycle. Never mind that AI agents, which are models using tools in a loop, have involved loops since people started yammering about them last year. Never mind that programming has always had constructs for repetition, even before the do-loop appeared in Fortran. The word from the AI-pilled is that if you]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/loop-engineering-latest-ai-buzzword-still-needs-humans-in-the-loop/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/loop-engineering-latest-ai-buzzword-still-needs-humans-in-the-loop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Christian text hidden for centuries reveals new insight into the Bible's most chilling mystery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A forgotten manuscript preserved in a Polish library has revealed long-lost sermons in which St Augustine grappled with one of the Bible's most unsettling encounters.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-christian-text-hidden-for-centuries-reveals-new-insight-into-the-bibles-most-chilling-mystery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-christian-text-hidden-for-centuries-reveals-new-insight-into-the-bibles-most-chilling-mystery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI and Broadcom have teamed up &ndash; with a little help from some of the former&rsquo;s AI models &ndash; to develop the frontier model lab&rsquo;s very first inference chip, dubbed Jalape&ntilde;o, the companies announced in a press release on Wednesday. Details of the spicily named silicon are scarce in the announcement, with the company admitting that it&rsquo;s running engineering samples of Jalape&ntilde;o in its lab &ldquo;at target frequency and power,&rdquo; but noting that it won&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-gets-chippy-with-broadcom/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-gets-chippy-with-broadcom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is THIS the key to tackling future heatwaves? Scientists propose controversial 'Weather Jiu-Jitsu' technique to combat extreme weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a new study, researchers claim that a technique called 'Weather Jiu-Jitsu' could be used to 'nudge' weather systems away from harmful trajectories.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-tackling-future-heatwaves-scientists-propose-controversial-weather-jiu-jitsu-technique-to-combat-extreme-weather/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/is-this-the-key-to-tackling-future-heatwaves-scientists-propose-controversial-weather-jiu-jitsu-technique-to-combat-extreme-weather/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, its friends, and international law enforcement - with an AI assist - disrupted two widely used pieces of malware and their infrastructure, in what Redmond describes as a novel approach to cybercrime disruption that targets the cyberattack supply chain instead of a single tool or service. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s new is how we&rsquo;re combining AI analysis with an expanded use of that law,&rdquo; Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsoft&rsquo;s Digital Crimes Unit, said in a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-uses-ai-to-link-two-malware-operations-in-racketeering-suit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-uses-ai-to-link-two-malware-operations-in-racketeering-suit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPINION On June 24, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 11, unveiling a new and controversial operating system. Five years on, how has that worked out for you, Redmond? Windows 11 has always been a problem child for Microsoft. It was announced in June 2021 and became generally available on October 5 that year, while much of its customer base was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, The Register called it pointless rather than a point release of Microsoft's flagship operating syst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-11-turns-five-leaving-some-important-lessons-for-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-11-turns-five-leaving-some-important-lessons-for-microsoft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panic as earthquake triggers warnings across three US states to 'drop and cover']]></title><description><![CDATA[A major earthquake has sent shockwaves across three states, triggering urgent shelter in place warnings for millions of Americans.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/panic-as-earthquake-triggers-warnings-across-three-us-states-to-drop-and-cover/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/panic-as-earthquake-triggers-warnings-across-three-us-states-to-drop-and-cover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article rightly concludes, &ldquo;private crypto has a seat at the table, and the Fed&rsquo;s version of a digital dollar does not.&rdquo; As Technocrat-in-Chief, Trump has banded together with the billionaire arch-Technocrats who have taken control of Washington, in order to create a privatized financial system for America run by them. This private system far exceeds the Fed&rsquo;s CBDC by including tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).<br />
Who proposed this amendment to the 21st Century R]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-senate-passes-housing-bill-with-four-year-fed-cbdc-ban/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/us-senate-passes-housing-bill-with-four-year-fed-cbdc-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How hot is your commute? As temperatures in London hit 36°C, Daily Mail tests popular tube lines and bus routes - with some above the legal limit for transporting CATTLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the mercury crept up, the Daily Mail's Senior Science &amp; Technology Reporter, Wiliam Hunter, set out on some of the popular Underground lines and bus routes, armed with a thermometer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-hot-is-your-commute-as-temperatures-in-london-hit-36c-daily-mail-tests-popular-tube-lines-and-bus-routes-with-some-above-the-legal-limit-for-transporting-cattle/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-hot-is-your-commute-as-temperatures-in-london-hit-36c-daily-mail-tests-popular-tube-lines-and-bus-routes-with-some-above-the-legal-limit-for-transporting-cattle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutant sewer rats spreading through major US cities as scientists discover disturbing DNA changes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking mutations in the DNA of common pests found in every major US city could help spark the next deadly pandemic, researchers fear.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mutant-sewer-rats-spreading-through-major-us-cities-as-scientists-discover-disturbing-dna-changes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mutant-sewer-rats-spreading-through-major-us-cities-as-scientists-discover-disturbing-dna-changes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next major release of Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, will include new commands to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technology. Deno desktop will compile an application from a plain TypeScript file or from frameworks such as Next.js, Astro, Deno Fresh, TanStack Start or Vite SSR (server-side rendering). A distinctive feature is that the native WebView is used by default, rather than bundling the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). The advantage is much smaller applic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deno-project-is-going-to-add-cross-platform-desktop-apps-in-next-major-update/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/deno-project-is-going-to-add-cross-platform-desktop-apps-in-next-major-update/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hottest June day on record for the UK as temperature reaches 36C]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare red warning for extreme heat is in effect as soaring temperatures continue.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hottest-june-day-on-record-for-the-uk-as-temperature-reaches-36c/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hottest-june-day-on-record-for-the-uk-as-temperature-reaches-36c/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors']]></title><description><![CDATA[Prestigious journal Nature has published a peer-reviewed critique of Microsoft's claims to have made quantum computing breakthroughs &ndash; and the scientist who wrote the paper has essentially said Redmond got it wrong. Microsoft made its claims of a quantum breakthrough in February 2025 when it revealed tech called Majorana and predicted "this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years." The software giant's ap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI models used to help diagnose medical conditions have a problem: They&rsquo;re ready and willing to identify patients whose data was used to train them. German researchers reported in a Nature paper published Wednesday that discriminative AI models - those used to classify data and make predictions about new inputs based on their training sets - are particularly susceptible to membership inference attacks (MIAs) that query the models in an attempt to figure out whether a particular datapoint i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/medical-diagnosis-ais-can-be-tricked-into-telling-whose-data-trained-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/medical-diagnosis-ais-can-be-tricked-into-telling-whose-data-trained-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist publishes fresh doubts over Microsoft's quantum claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tech giant has consistently stood by its Majorana chip research despite scepticism from some experts in the field.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-publishes-fresh-doubts-over-microsofts-quantum-claims/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scientist-publishes-fresh-doubts-over-microsofts-quantum-claims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat pump growth stalls as government support cut, warns climate watchdog]]></title><description><![CDATA[The growth in sales has slowed significantly after a critical government grant programme was cut.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heat-pump-growth-stalls-as-government-support-cut-warns-climate-watchdog/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heat-pump-growth-stalls-as-government-support-cut-warns-climate-watchdog/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Home Office is looking for a software engineering boss ready to support systems that when they go down can ruin the day of many thousands of people and make headlines internationally. The Director of Engineering for Home Office Digital will be responsible for managing and deploying nearly 1,000 engineers working on more than 600 systems. Among many other things, these systems enable 76 million e-gate border crossings, 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property and seven mill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/british-home-office-seeks-techie-to-herd-nearly-1000-engineers-looking-after-600-systems/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/british-home-office-seeks-techie-to-herd-nearly-1000-engineers-looking-after-600-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British government wants "trusted" news sources to be made more prominent on social media in plans that seem set to cause controversy with free speech advocates. In a Green Paper published Tuesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) laid out its aim to improve access to reliable news sources on online platforms. This is part of broader reforms to the UK's public service media system, intended both to ensure it continues to serve the British public and to support an eventual m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-government-wants-trusted-news-sources-promoted-above-the-social-media-noise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-government-wants-trusted-news-sources-promoted-above-the-social-media-noise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gartner has slammed AI vendors' lack of transparency, saying developers are facing sharply increased costs from coding agents. Since the main AI coding agent vendors have shifted from seat-based licensing to consumption-based pricing, developer teams now face highly variable cost structures. Developer teams face an emerging problem of escalating costs, said Nitish Tyagi, senior principal analyst at Gartner. AI coding bills were leaping from $20 or $100 to $2,000 to $5,000 per developer per month]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-coding-agents-could-soon-cost-more-than-the-developers-using-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-coding-agents-could-soon-cost-more-than-the-developers-using-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why this heatwave feels worse than the last one]]></title><description><![CDATA[A combination of factors is making this heatwave more uncomfortable than some we have had in the past, as Simon King explains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-this-heatwave-feels-worse-than-the-last-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/why-this-heatwave-feels-worse-than-the-last-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London cops bring live facial recognition to West End]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will start using static live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in London's West End and Soho by the end of this year following a six-month pilot in the south London borough of Croydon. Static LFR involves the police temporarily attaching cameras to lampposts or similar infrastructure, with the feeds monitored remotely and officers on the ground stopping people whom the technology matches to images on its watchlist. The MPS said that each of the 24 deployments]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/london-cops-bring-live-facial-recognition-to-west-end/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/london-cops-bring-live-facial-recognition-to-west-end/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) investigation into Microsoft's business software ecosystem has attracted a full range of comments from the unsurprising to the hyperlocal. The watchdog is looking at whether product bundling, the alleged embedding of in-house AI products like CoPilot, and licensing practices are limiting UK customer choice. Asking for submissions from customers and rivals allows the regulator to weigh Microsoft's arguments against the concerns and grievances of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rivals-line-up-to-tell-uk-watchdog-where-the-software-behemoth-hurt-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-rivals-line-up-to-tell-uk-watchdog-where-the-software-behemoth-hurt-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From 'Lean on Me' to 'Bad Blood': Song lyrics have become less focused on friendship and loyalty and more about cheating and betrayal over the past 60 years, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Older generations often complain that they don't make songs like they used to. Now, a study confirms that this really is the case, as song lyrics have shifted from moral virtues to vices.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-lean-on-me-to-bad-blood-song-lyrics-have-become-less-focused-on-friendship-and-loyalty-and-more-about-cheating-and-betrayal-over-the-past-60-years-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-lean-on-me-to-bad-blood-song-lyrics-have-become-less-focused-on-friendship-and-loyalty-and-more-about-cheating-and-betrayal-over-the-past-60-years-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irresistible force, meet immovable object. Tech leaders are under pressure to satisfy growing demand for AI while keeping a lid on costs. That is becoming harder as Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub shift some services away from flat-rate subscriptions toward usage-based billing. Database vendors claim they can help by cutting the number of calls made to AI models and handling the new workloads generated by developer agents. According to IDC research director Devin Pratt, "demand for the underlying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/database-vendors-pitch-themselves-as-the-cure-for-runaway-ai-costs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/database-vendors-pitch-themselves-as-the-cure-for-runaway-ai-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The REAL cost of the heatwave: Study reveals how hot weather could knock 3% off your income]]></title><description><![CDATA[The powerful heatwave gripping the UK and Europe could make a dent on your income, a new study has warned.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-real-cost-of-the-heatwave-study-reveals-how-hot-weather-could-knock-3-off-your-income/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-real-cost-of-the-heatwave-study-reveals-how-hot-weather-could-knock-3-off-your-income/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alpine Linux 3.24 is out, bringing a new desktop environment that should make for a very high-performance combination. Version 3.24.1 followed just four days later to fix some OpenSSL security issues. The 3.24 series contains new versions of GRUB, LLVM, Rust, Go, Qt, and NGINX. Alpine isn't an entirely GNU-free Linux distro, but it doesn't use many components from the GNU Project: it's systemd-free and doesn't use the GNU standard C library, replacing it with musl libc. Even so, version 3.24 off]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alpine-linux-324-scales-new-desktop-heights-with-cosmic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/alpine-linux-324-scales-new-desktop-heights-with-cosmic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia]]></title><description><![CDATA[BORK!BORK!BORK! A blast from the past greets customers at a coastal McDonald's, or is it just that the kiosk is seeking a return to the happier and simpler times of 2009? An eagle-eyed Register reader spotted a very unhappy terminal at a branch of the McDonald's fast-food chain in Worthing, England. Where a customer might normally smear a finger over suggestions for ways to sate their desire for grease, the display instead reveals the kiosk's clearly PC origins: a BIOS utility. It's not clear wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ordering-a-trip-back-to-2009-with-a-side-of-nostalgia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ordering-a-trip-back-to-2009-with-a-side-of-nostalgia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explainer: Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU]]></title><description><![CDATA[When your accelerators sit idle, the problem usually isn't the chips. It's everything between them and the data. Rather than thinking purely about GPU performance, it's time to think about storage as an active engine for throughput, rather than a passive archive. Legacy storage architectures aren't built that way. What is GPU starvation? A starved GPU is an accelerator waiting around with nothing to do because data isn't arriving quickly enough. Sometimes the network is choking; in other cases,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/explainer-why-your-legacy-storage-is-choking-your-expensive-gpu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/explainer-why-your-legacy-storage-is-choking-your-expensive-gpu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Train services are resuming across Germany this morning, after rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) last night shut down operations after its wireless network failed. At 10:30 PM local time on Tuesday night, DB advised that its GSM-R network was down, meaning all trains had to be held at stations. GSM-R is a version of the 2G GSM standard tuned to the needs of rail operators, who use it to power private networks that carry information necessary to keep their services rolling. The tech is considered]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/germany-went-off-the-rails-as-wireless-outage-saw-all-trains-cancelled/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/germany-went-off-the-rails-as-wireless-outage-saw-all-trains-cancelled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental plan is largely off track, warns watchdog]]></title><description><![CDATA[A report says many of the measures are "well within the reach" of government and it was a matter of "moving away from planning into delivery".]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/environmental-plan-is-largely-off-track-warns-watchdog/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/environmental-plan-is-largely-off-track-warns-watchdog/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survey finds 'significantly more' ancient woodland]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wildlife trust says there are 50% more sites in Hertfordshire than previously recorded.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/survey-finds-significantly-more-ancient-woodland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/survey-finds-significantly-more-ancient-woodland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese telco KDDI has messed up by allowing an attacker to access systems powering an email service it manages for itself and other local ISPs, and which stores info on up to 14.2 million users. The company yesterday posted a confession [PDF] that it detected unauthorized access to the email system it offers to third-party customers on June 17th. Machine translation of the confession suggests that KDDI investigated the situation and found attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party soft]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/you-have-got-to-be-kddi-ng-japanese-telco-exposes-142-million-managed-email-credentials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/you-have-got-to-be-kddi-ng-japanese-telco-exposes-142-million-managed-email-credentials/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list]]></title><description><![CDATA[The TOP500 list of Earth&rsquo;s mightiest supercomputers has a new leader: the 2.198 Exaflop/s LineShine machine housed at the National Supercomputer Center (NSC) in Shenzhen, which took the top spot without using any kit from Nvidia, Intel, or AMD. Which is not to say that LineShine is an entirely Chinese creation. As explained in a pre-press paper, the machine&rsquo;s LX2 processors are a local effort but use Armv9 designs &ndash; so chalk up a win for Blighty, the home of Arm. The machine al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-supercomputer-using-local-processors-heads-top500-list/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/chinese-supercomputer-using-local-processors-heads-top500-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of schools plan closures ahead of red heat alerts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The temperature topped 34.6 C in Wisley, England, on Tuesday while Scotland and Northern Ireland saw their hottest days of the year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hundreds-of-schools-plan-closures-ahead-of-red-heat-alerts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/hundreds-of-schools-plan-closures-ahead-of-red-heat-alerts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK's summers are getting hotter - but how prepared are we?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Based on current trends parts of the UK are set to see 40C summers regularly within a couple of decades.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-uks-summers-are-getting-hotter-but-how-prepared-are-we/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-uks-summers-are-getting-hotter-but-how-prepared-are-we/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's YouTube settles social media addiction case with teen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 15-year-old plaintiff's case against three other tech giants begins next month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/googles-youtube-settles-social-media-addiction-case-with-teen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/googles-youtube-settles-social-media-addiction-case-with-teen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion can have same effect as taking DRUGS: Rituals trigger the release of opioids in the brain, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Religious rituals are practised all around the world - and experts may now have worked out why they're so popular.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/religion-can-have-same-effect-as-taking-drugs-rituals-trigger-the-release-of-opioids-in-the-brain-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/religion-can-have-same-effect-as-taking-drugs-rituals-trigger-the-release-of-opioids-in-the-brain-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's oldest known asteroid impact: Crater in Western Australia was created when a space rock smashed into Earth 3 BILLION years ago, study reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified the world's oldest recorded asteroid impact, revealing new evidence of Earth's violent history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/worlds-oldest-known-asteroid-impact-crater-in-western-australia-was-created-when-a-space-rock-smashed-into-earth-3-billion-years-ago-study-reveals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/worlds-oldest-known-asteroid-impact-crater-in-western-australia-was-created-when-a-space-rock-smashed-into-earth-3-billion-years-ago-study-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern SSDs have a limited number of write cycles before they expire. Now, OpenAI is scrambling to fix a flawed logging implementation that has been shortening the lives of Codex users' solid state drives (SSDs) with excessive data writes and lowering the devices' value by a significant amount of money. A bug report opened last week for the company's Codex coding agent warns of the consequences in its title: "Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance #28]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is killing off its existing Claude in Slack app in favor of an always-on agentic alternative dubbed Claude Tag that will listen and learn from everything it&rsquo;s given access to. Claude Tag can now join organizational Slack instances &ldquo;as a team member,&rdquo; according to Anthropic&rsquo;s announcement, where it will have access to whatever channels domain administrators decide upon, as well as the tools, data, and codebases they contain. Anyone in a channel with Claude Tag ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropic-reimagines-claude-in-slack-as-nosy-always-on-agentic-ai-coworker/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/anthropic-reimagines-claude-in-slack-as-nosy-always-on-agentic-ai-coworker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day. A security researcher and Mythos Preview found the flaw and reported it to project maintainers, who fixed the code earlier this month. Squid is widely used by large cor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mythos-discovers-squidbleed-a-memory-leak-thats-gone-undetected-since-clinton-era/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mythos-discovers-squidbleed-a-memory-leak-thats-gone-undetected-since-clinton-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Frankenstein' rabbits with tentacles sprouting from their heads invade several US states]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sightings of rabbits transformed into grotesque, horned-looking creatures with dark, tentacle-like growths emerging from their heads are increasing in the US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frankenstein-rabbits-with-tentacles-sprouting-from-their-heads-invade-several-us-states/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frankenstein-rabbits-with-tentacles-sprouting-from-their-heads-invade-several-us-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta halts worker tracking for AI training due to privacy fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company had started just two months ago tracking workers&rsquo; computer usage for AI training data.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-halts-worker-tracking-for-ai-training-due-to-privacy-fears/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/meta-halts-worker-tracking-for-ai-training-due-to-privacy-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drowning deaths soar in France as Europe buckles in peak of heatwave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since last Thursday, Prime Minister S&eacute;bastien Lecornu says.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/drowning-deaths-soar-in-france-as-europe-buckles-in-peak-of-heatwave/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/drowning-deaths-soar-in-france-as-europe-buckles-in-peak-of-heatwave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rocket Lab has just completed one of the most rapid space launches ever, kicking off a complicated exercise that will test the US Space Force&rsquo;s ability to respond to and characterize potential threats in orbit. The Victus Haze mission, as the project is known, saw Rocket Lab lob one of its Pioneer spacecraft into orbit for the Space Force on June 19 in just 16 hours and 42 minutes, beating the notice-to-launch record set during the 2023 Victus Nox tactically responsive space mission (TacRS]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/space-force-goes-to-pretend-orbital-war-following-record-fast-rocket-lab-launch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/space-force-goes-to-pretend-orbital-war-following-record-fast-rocket-lab-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date]]></title><description><![CDATA[Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) will switch off its 2G network starting in summer 2029, meaning that anyone still operating devices that use the technology must start planning an upgrade. The UK network operator says it will start to switch off its 2G signal in 2029 as part of an ongoing mobile transformation plan. This will see it expand and upgrade its 4G and 5G support, leading to reduced energy consumption and a faster and more reliable service for customers. 2G cell networks first started operating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/o2-joins-uk-2g-switch-off-with-summer-2029-start-date/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/o2-joins-uk-2g-switch-off-with-summer-2029-start-date/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“It’s That Bad”: Virginia Residents Battling Constant Noise From Data Center Generators]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is blatant hypocrisy. There are rules for Technocrat oligarchs, and then there are rules for the rest of us. Forget the environment. Forget the regulations and laws. Forget the people whose lives you are destroying. They don&rsquo;t care. They are saving the world, after all. The resistance is building to a fever pitch across the nation, from neighborhoods like this one to corporate workers who have had their fill of AI. &#8259; Patrick Wood Editor.For more than a year, residents living nex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-that-bad-virginia-residents-battling-constant-noise-from-data-center-generators/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/its-that-bad-virginia-residents-battling-constant-noise-from-data-center-generators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions in UK could claim share of £3bn after Apple case given green light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple rejected the suggestion its practices are anti-competitive, saying many customers rely on third-party alternatives.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-in-uk-could-claim-share-of-3bn-after-apple-case-given-green-light/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/millions-in-uk-could-claim-share-of-3bn-after-apple-case-given-green-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts reveal how to stop hay fever immediately - as Britain braces for a 'pollen bomb']]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK is on course to see record-breaking June temperatures of 38C today, and those with pollen allergies - officially known as hay fever - are being warned to brace themselves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experts-reveal-how-to-stop-hay-fever-immediately-as-britain-braces-for-a-pollen-bomb/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/experts-reveal-how-to-stop-hay-fever-immediately-as-britain-braces-for-a-pollen-bomb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing scientist found dead after 11 months took two shocking items with her that cast doubt on suicide theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mystery surrounding a nuclear lab employee found dead 11 months after she disappeared has deepened as new evidence emerges about her final movements.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-scientist-found-dead-after-11-months-took-two-shocking-items-with-her-that-cast-doubt-on-suicide-theory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/missing-scientist-found-dead-after-11-months-took-two-shocking-items-with-her-that-cast-doubt-on-suicide-theory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apocalyptic weather sweeps the globe: UK and Europe suffer intense heatwaves while a Saharan dust storm hits the US - as experts warn extreme events are becoming the norm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billions of people around the world are suffering the wrath of apocalyptic weather events this week.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apocalyptic-weather-sweeps-the-globe-uk-and-europe-suffer-intense-heatwaves-while-a-saharan-dust-storm-hits-the-us-as-experts-warn-extreme-events-are-becoming-the-norm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/apocalyptic-weather-sweeps-the-globe-uk-and-europe-suffer-intense-heatwaves-while-a-saharan-dust-storm-hits-the-us-as-experts-warn-extreme-events-are-becoming-the-norm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve has opened pre-orders for its forthcoming Steam Machine &ndash; but it is going to cost you quite a lot, thanks to the AI-induced storage shortage. However, the company is expecting such high demand that it is setting up an automated lottery system, so that the lucky people whose orders go through will get random places on the waiting list. The machine will come with an AMD Zen 4 hexacore CPU, as we covered back in November when the company's three new hardware models were announced. The d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/valve-opens-steam-machine-pre-orders-with-queue-lottery-and-hefty-prices-amid-ai-squeeze/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/valve-opens-steam-machine-pre-orders-with-queue-lottery-and-hefty-prices-amid-ai-squeeze/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From cool-down spots to chalk on windows - how Europe is coping with the heat]]></title><description><![CDATA[People across the continent are taking measures to cope with the searing temperatures gripping Europe.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-cool-down-spots-to-chalk-on-windows-how-europe-is-coping-with-the-heat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/from-cool-down-spots-to-chalk-on-windows-how-europe-is-coping-with-the-heat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Do not drive' warnings issued across five US states as destructive storms batter parts of the nation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of Americans have been warned to stay off the roads as extreme weather could turn cars into deathtraps.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/do-not-drive-warnings-issued-across-five-us-states-as-destructive-storms-batter-parts-of-the-nation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/do-not-drive-warnings-issued-across-five-us-states-as-destructive-storms-batter-parts-of-the-nation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle's workforce shrank by 21,000 over the last year, according to the company's annual report. In June 2025 [PDF], Big Red reported that it employed "approximately 162,000" employees. By June 2026 [PDF], that figure had fallen to 141,000. US headcount fell by 9,000, while the international workforce declined by 12,000. "Our periodic workforce restructurings and reorganizations can be disruptive," Oracle stated. "Deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may contin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/21000-oracle-jobs-vanish-amid-big-reds-big-bets-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/21000-oracle-jobs-vanish-amid-big-reds-big-bets-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump has ordered the development of a quantum computer to ensure that the US maintains a strategic technical advantage, along with a nationwide migration to post-quantum cryptography to protect sensitive data against just such a computer. In an executive order signed Monday, Trump directed various federal agencies to establish a national program to deliver a quantum computer, aimed at driving scientific discoveries and keeping the US at the forefront of technology. To be precise, it c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bold-move-cotton-trump-administration-tells-us-techies-it-expects-american-quantum-computer-by-2028/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bold-move-cotton-trump-administration-tells-us-techies-it-expects-american-quantum-computer-by-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kylie Jenner collaborates with Meta on &pound;359 AI glasses with built-in cameras - and they even sing 'Rise and Shine' to you in the morning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &pound;359/$399 smart glasses feature a slim oval frame, which is 'inspired by Kylie's personal style'.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kylie-jenner-collaborates-with-meta-on-pound359-ai-glasses-with-built-in-cameras-and-they-even-sing-rise-and-shine-to-you-in-the-morning/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/kylie-jenner-collaborates-with-meta-on-pound359-ai-glasses-with-built-in-cameras-and-they-even-sing-rise-and-shine-to-you-in-the-morning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has demonstrated that there is life in the old dog yet with an update to the Access relational database management system that addresses a limitation stemming from the days of cathode-ray tube monitors. The fix, currently in beta and set to roll out in the Current Channel preview by July 21, 2026, removes a 22-inch form-size limitation dating back to the era of cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors. It's a weirdly restrictive limitation, considering that widescreen monitors have been around]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-access-finally-breaks-free-of-its-22-inch-form-limit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-access-finally-breaks-free-of-its-22-inch-form-limit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime]]></title><description><![CDATA[AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs, built on its Firecracker virtual machine monitor, which can run isolated Linux containers with runtimes of up to eight hours, in contrast to the 15-minute limit on containers in Lambda functions. MicroVMs form a new core feature of Lambda, the AWS serverless platform. Developers provide a Dockerfile defining a container along with application artifacts, and upload it to Amazon S3. Lambda builds this into a Firecracker snapshot, which can then be run with multi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-debuts-lambda-microvms-with-up-to-8-hours-runtime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-debuts-lambda-microvms-with-up-to-8-hours-runtime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steam Machine launches with £879 price tag as Valve cites component costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve said the cost of its PC-console hybrid reflects a broader trend of component costs rising over time.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/steam-machine-launches-with-879-price-tag-as-valve-cites-component-costs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/steam-machine-launches-with-879-price-tag-as-valve-cites-component-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to stay cool as Britain swelters under a 'heat dome' and temperatures soar past 30&deg;]]></title><description><![CDATA[A powerful 'heat dome' is expected to send temperatures soaring beyond June's record from 1976 of 35.6C today, with some forecasters predicting highs of up to 38C in parts of the UK.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-to-stay-cool-as-britain-swelters-under-a-heat-dome-and-temperatures-soar-past-30deg/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-to-stay-cool-as-britain-swelters-under-a-heat-dome-and-temperatures-soar-past-30deg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red squirrel sickness reports under investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tests are being carried out to establish if there is an outbreak of squirrelpox in the Borders.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-squirrel-sickness-reports-under-investigation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/red-squirrel-sickness-reports-under-investigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form]]></title><description><![CDATA[Development of GIMP has picked up speed in recent years, but now its first public release is back as a Flatpak, allowing the 1996 version to run on modern x86-64 Linux distros, even under Wayland, without the nightmare of finding and installing its 30-year-old dependencies. If you are just looking for a quick and lightweight image editor &ndash; especially if you want modern features such as edge detection or generative fill &ndash; this is not the package for you. It's mainly for the software a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blast-from-the-past-as-gimp-054-is-revived-in-flatpak-form/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/blast-from-the-past-as-gimp-054-is-revived-in-flatpak-form/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your cats don't care about you&hellip;or each other! Felines groom one another out of SPITE, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it can be hard to tell whether a cat likes or utterly despises you - and it turns out they're aloof even with their own kind.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-cats-dont-care-about-youhellipor-each-other-felines-groom-one-another-out-of-spite-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/your-cats-dont-care-about-youhellipor-each-other-felines-groom-one-another-out-of-spite-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spider which uses spring trap to capture prey discovered in Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers say their hunting method - which allows them to prey on dangerous ants - is unprecedented.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spider-which-uses-spring-trap-to-capture-prey-discovered-in-australia/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spider-which-uses-spring-trap-to-capture-prey-discovered-in-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[The majority of Britons still believe Big Tech should be contributing more to the public purse, new research suggests. Polling by the Fair Tax Foundation, shared with The Register, finds that 67 percent of respondents believe the UK should ensure large technology companies such as Meta, Google, Apple, and Amazon pay more in Digital Services Tax (DST) to increase their overall tax contribution. The same proportion of Brits said the government should aim to become a world leader in regulating cryp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brits-still-reckon-big-tech-isnt-paying-enough-tax/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/brits-still-reckon-big-tech-isnt-paying-enough-tax/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwaves could trigger BLACKOUTS this summer: Grid operator warns of a 600% surge in wildfires - leaving vital transmission lines at risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's sweltering temperatures could cause chaos for power grids - leaving Brits at risk of blackouts this summer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwaves-could-trigger-blackouts-this-summer-grid-operator-warns-of-a-600-surge-in-wildfires-leaving-vital-transmission-lines-at-risk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwaves-could-trigger-blackouts-this-summer-grid-operator-warns-of-a-600-surge-in-wildfires-leaving-vital-transmission-lines-at-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought last night's thunderstorm was intense? Scientists say this could become the NORM - because of climate change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Brits were woken up last night by a huge thunderstorm. Now, scientists have warned that these intense storms could become the norm - thanks to climate change.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thought-last-nights-thunderstorm-was-intense-scientists-say-this-could-become-the-norm-because-of-climate-change/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/thought-last-nights-thunderstorm-was-intense-scientists-say-this-could-become-the-norm-because-of-climate-change/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siting datacenters either on the water or underwater is an idea that just won't sink, and there is increasing interest in it, despite the obvious fact that water and IT equipment are a potentially disastrous combination. The attraction of having a data facility in or on the water is that it offers virtually limitless natural cooling, which is an increasingly vital consideration for operators deploying hot-running systems filled with GPUs for AI processing. But set against that are potential issu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/datacenters-dip-a-toe-back-into-waterborne-computing-despite-obvious-challenges/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/datacenters-dip-a-toe-back-into-waterborne-computing-despite-obvious-challenges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[BORK!BORK!BORK! Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty person? Some distressed digital signage on the island of S&atilde;o Miguel in Portugal's Azores is running on empty, judging by today's entry into the files of signage silage. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader, a Coca-Cola display has clearly had too much of the carbonated beverage and urgently needs to free up some space, a feeling many an over-caffeinated techie will be familiar with after chugging one Diet Coke too many. It']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/digital-indigestion-fizzy-coca-cola-display-chokes-on-full-storage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/digital-indigestion-fizzy-coca-cola-display-chokes-on-full-storage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The leaders of intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations &ndash; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK &ndash; have together issued strongly worded advice calling for leaders to nail cybersecurity basics or fall victim to ruinous AI-powered attacks. &ldquo;The rapid pace of frontier AI development means cyber risk assumptions can become outdated in months, not years,&rdquo; the advice warns, and calls for organizations to take rapid action to ensure their defenses remain pote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/five-eyes-spooks-warn-ai-means-infosec-incidents-can-become-major-operational-and-financial-crises/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/five-eyes-spooks-warn-ai-means-infosec-incidents-can-become-major-operational-and-financial-crises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Buyers in the world&rsquo;s two most populous nations, India and China, bought just 13.1 million PCs in the first quarter of 2026, according to analyst firm Omdia. The firm&rsquo;s analysts last week declared that Indian buyers acquired 4.4 million PCs &ndash; 3.5 million of them laptops &ndash; during Q1. That figure represented 32 percent year-over-year growth. &ldquo;Brands and channels front-loaded their inventory, to secure pricing ahead of anticipated increases,&rdquo; the firm wrote. &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/india-and-china-are-home-to-29-billion-people-and-together-they-bought-just-13-million-pcs-in-q1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/india-and-china-are-home-to-29-billion-people-and-together-they-bought-just-13-million-pcs-in-q1/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia's coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case]]></title><description><![CDATA[The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australias-coal-and-gas-exports-violate-our-human-rights-group-says-in-new-un-case/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/australias-coal-and-gas-exports-violate-our-human-rights-group-says-in-new-un-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The JavaScript development ecosystem may be a security nightmare, but it's also ripe for improvement. One such tool is the CVE Lite CLI, a free open source dependency scanner that helps reduce the risk of software supply chain attacks. It runs locally and provides actionable vulnerability fixes, if any are available. The tool, endorsed by OWASP, has recently been updated to include override auditing, which has the potential to avert transitive dependency vulnerabilities such as the March 2022 no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sniff-out-stale-ai-override-advice-with-this-open-source-cli/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/sniff-out-stale-ai-override-advice-with-this-open-source-cli/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI announced a flurry of cybersecurity-related AI news on Monday, releasing an improved version of GPT&#8209;5.5&#8209;Cyber, its most advanced vulnerability-finding model, along with an expanded partner program for cybersecurity vendors, an update to its Codex Security scanner&#8288;, and an initiative to &ldquo;Patch the Planet&rdquo; &ndash; or at least 30 high-profile open source projects. The announcements come as Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos mess keeps getting more complicated, with nation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-yoo-hoo-look-over-here-we-do-that-security-stuff-too/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openai-yoo-hoo-look-over-here-we-do-that-security-stuff-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How 100 hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[For four days, dozens of Romanian hospitals went offline, as cyber-experts sought to defeat the hackers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-100-hospitals-switched-to-pen-and-paper-to-defeat-a-national-cyber-attack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/how-100-hospitals-switched-to-pen-and-paper-to-defeat-a-national-cyber-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know your 'sweat score'? The rise of hydration tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hydration tracking gadgets are flooding the market but is it too much information?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/do-you-know-your-sweat-score-the-rise-of-hydration-tech/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/do-you-know-your-sweat-score-the-rise-of-hydration-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seabed damaged by fishing showing signs of recovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners say improvements to the area trashed by illegal dredging show that marine protection works.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/seabed-damaged-by-fishing-showing-signs-of-recovery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/seabed-damaged-by-fishing-showing-signs-of-recovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Never mind the fact that datacenter environmental concerns have come under growing scrutiny across the United States. Microsoft has just inked a deal with fossil fuel giant Chevron to supply one of the largest single-capacity additions to its datacenter fleet with 2.67 gigawatts of natural gas power for a full two decades. Chevron said today that it signed a two-decade power purchase agreement with Microsoft through its subsidiary Energy Forge One to supply 2.67 GW of power for a new datacenter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/texas-lassoes-massive-microsoft-datacenter-and-20-years-of-gas-turbine-emissions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/texas-lassoes-massive-microsoft-datacenter-and-20-years-of-gas-turbine-emissions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare on Monday said that it has joined with the three leading commercial browser makers to create a privacy-preserving protocol that websites can use to separate desirable web traffic from undesirable network requests. Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by a human or bot with legitimate int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell bots from people]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare on Monday said that it has joined with the three leading commercial browser makers to create a privacy-preserving protocol that websites can use to separate desirable web traffic from undesirable network requests. Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by human or bot with legitimate inten]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-bots-from-people/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-bots-from-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims]]></title><description><![CDATA[The list of Klue customers whose Salesforce data was stolen in the latest supply-chain heist keeps growing, with an increasing number of cybersecurity companies disclosing that they are among the victims of a new data-theft and extortion crew called Icarus. Klue, which provides market intelligence to more than 250,000 companies worldwide, hasn&rsquo;t said how many of its customers were caught up in the breach and didn&rsquo;t immediately respond to The Register&rsquo;s inquiries. Huntress was o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-shops-among-the-hundreds-of-klue-hack-victims/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/security-shops-among-the-hundreds-of-klue-hack-victims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames issues on 'fiber cut' in North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions are struggling to access popular websites on Monday after a major outage triggered widespread disruptions across the internet. Dozens of sites have gone offline.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-the-internet-goes-down-as-cloudflare-blames-issues-on-fiber-cut-in-north-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-the-internet-goes-down-as-cloudflare-blames-issues-on-fiber-cut-in-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massive cloud of Saharan dust set to engulf parts of the US in DAYS with lung-penetrating particles]]></title><description><![CDATA[A giant dust plume from the Sahara Desert is making landfall in the US in the coming days. The plume is carrying fine particles that can cause health issues when breathed in.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/massive-cloud-of-saharan-dust-set-to-engulf-parts-of-the-us-in-days-with-lung-penetrating-particles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/massive-cloud-of-saharan-dust-set-to-engulf-parts-of-the-us-in-days-with-lung-penetrating-particles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth spurt! Humans 'jumped' in size two million years ago, scientists reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Early humans experienced a 'growth spurt' around two million years ago, making it easier for them to travel long distances, a new study has revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/growth-spurt-humans-jumped-in-size-two-million-years-ago-scientists-reveal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/growth-spurt-humans-jumped-in-size-two-million-years-ago-scientists-reveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is pushing agentic AI for scientific computing, and says that this requires a new scientific computing stack, which the GPU giant is ready to deliver, of course. At the ISC High Performance 2026 event in Hamburg, Germany, Nvidia is lauding its own achievements in supercomputing, highlighting just how many of the world&rsquo;s top compute clusters use its hardware these days. But just as agentic AI has become this year&rsquo;s buzzword in the machine intelligence industry, so the GPU sling]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nvidia-gets-all-agentic-about-supercomputing-for-scientific-research/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nvidia-gets-all-agentic-about-supercomputing-for-scientific-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost chapter of human evolution exposed after 300,000-year-old cave discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-chapter-of-human-evolution-exposed-after-300000-year-old-cave-discovery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/lost-chapter-of-human-evolution-exposed-after-300000-year-old-cave-discovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in a coma for 18 days but spent a YEAR in hell where I was tormented by demons... the horrifying experience made me abandon the Catholic Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[She was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city she compared to a ruined New York, with collapsed buildings, screaming people and chaos everywhere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-was-in-a-coma-for-18-days-but-spent-a-year-in-hell-where-i-was-tormented-by-demons-the-horrifying-experience-made-me-abandon-the-catholic-church/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-was-in-a-coma-for-18-days-but-spent-a-year-in-hell-where-i-was-tormented-by-demons-the-horrifying-experience-made-me-abandon-the-catholic-church/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators]]></title><description><![CDATA[FEATURE Today Postgres is one of the most widely used database systems, but its launch and subsequent development were inauspicious to say the least. If it weren&rsquo;t for a league of exceptionally devoted open source contributors, it probably would be another forgotten also-ran just like Ingres, the database system on which it was based (&ldquo;Postgres&rdquo; was shorthand for &ldquo;Post-Ingres&rdquo;). The creator of both systems, Michael Stonebraker, is perhaps the preeminent database pio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-database-that-refused-to-die-how-postgres-survived-its-own-creators/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-database-that-refused-to-die-how-postgres-survived-its-own-creators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia&rsquo;s equipment losses in Ukraine are about to become the world&rsquo;s gain, as Kyiv has decided to hand out its intel on seized Russian battlefield assets to its international partners. And it has launched a new site to do so. Announced on Friday by Ukraine&rsquo;s Ministry of Defense, the TrophyLab is being billed as a place for Ukraine and its allies to analyze Russian military technology for the benefit of both Kyiv&rsquo;s government in its current fight against Moscow, and for an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukraine-puts-its-russian-war-trophies-online-for-allies-to-pick-apart/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ukraine-puts-its-russian-war-trophies-online-for-allies-to-pick-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer and greeting cards that play musical jingles have in common? DARPA cites both of them as the inspiration for a project seeking low-resource computing paradigms to be used on future battlefields. DARPA on Friday put out a request for information (RFI) for new low-resource computing (LRC) paradigms and processes that haven't been utilized yet in microscale systems not unlike the tiny chip-and-battery combos found in greeting cards]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/inspired-by-musical-greeting-cards-darpa-demands-tiny-cheap-self-modifying-systems/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/inspired-by-musical-greeting-cards-darpa-demands-tiny-cheap-self-modifying-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[The global memory crisis has developed a new twist as buyers turn to "legacy" products such as DDR2 and DDR3 to meet demand, according to market watcher TrendForce. The Taiwanese firm says DRAM buyers are turning to older products to secure larger supply allocations, driving up prices for components including DDR2 and DDR3. As Reg readers will be well aware by now, the AI craze has led to memory chipmakers prioritizing production of more profitable HBM and server DRAM silicon to power AI infrast]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange detail in 1977 Elvis concert photo fuels wild time-travel theories]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shocking recording from 50 years ago shows what some are claiming is a piece of 21st century technology at the King of Rock and Roll's final performance.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strange-detail-in-1977-elvis-concert-photo-fuels-wild-time-travel-theories/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/strange-detail-in-1977-elvis-concert-photo-fuels-wild-time-travel-theories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a 'good Catholic girl' until I spent&nbsp;a YEAR in hell... being tormented by demons convinced me to leave the church once I'd cheated death]]></title><description><![CDATA[She was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city she compared to a ruined New York, with collapsed buildings, screaming people and chaos everywhere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-was-a-good-catholic-girl-until-i-spentnbspa-year-in-hell-being-tormented-by-demons-convinced-me-to-leave-the-church-once-id-cheated-death/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/i-was-a-good-catholic-girl-until-i-spentnbspa-year-in-hell-being-tormented-by-demons-convinced-me-to-leave-the-church-once-id-cheated-death/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp to be led by Indian start-up founder as Will Cathcart steps back]]></title><description><![CDATA[WhatsApp's leadership shake-up comes as Meta looks to strengthen its app's already booming presence in India.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-be-led-by-indian-start-up-founder-as-will-cathcart-steps-back/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/whatsapp-to-be-led-by-indian-start-up-founder-as-will-cathcart-steps-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Cloud Summit came to London last week, and we took the opportunity to sit down with database execs Sailesh Krishnamurthy (VP engineering) and Yasmeen Ahmad (product executive Agentic Data Cloud). The event was wall-to-wall agentic AI, and true to the theme, Ahmad told us that "we're putting agents at the center ... with the goal that humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years. It&rsquo;s going to be humans orchestrating agents, and agents actually doin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-new-database-world-according-to-google-inexact-queries-and-ai-in-everything/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-new-database-world-according-to-google-inexact-queries-and-ai-in-everything/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames major outage on 'fiber cut' in North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions are struggling to access popular websites on Monday after a major outage at Cloudflare triggered widespread disruptions across the internet. Dozens of sites have gone offline.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-the-internet-goes-down-as-cloudflare-blames-major-outage-on-fiber-cut-in-north-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/half-the-internet-goes-down-as-cloudflare-blames-major-outage-on-fiber-cut-in-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Rebels: Americans Turning Against AI In Incredible Numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt: the heaviest users are the most hostile. That&rsquo;s the opposite of the adoption curve the entire AI industry&rsquo;s valuations are priced on, where familiarity is supposed to breed dependence and then acceptance. The CEOs driving the AI buildout are starting to panic as public sentiment is turning against them. The keyword here is &ldquo;loathe&rdquo;.<br />
The people with the most direct exposure to AI return the lowest positive score in the entire survey, meaning th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-rebels-americans-turning-against-ai-in-incredible-numbers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ai-rebels-americans-turning-against-ai-in-incredible-numbers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye to airport queues and passport checks? Inside the 'airport of the future' - where your face is the boarding pass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Airports are set for a major overhaul as new technology promises to replace long queues and paper passports with biometric travel.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/goodbye-to-airport-queues-and-passport-checks-inside-the-airport-of-the-future-where-your-face-is-the-boarding-pass/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/goodbye-to-airport-queues-and-passport-checks-inside-the-airport-of-the-future-where-your-face-is-the-boarding-pass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X is DOWN: Elon Musk's social media app crashes for thousands around the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[X, formerly known as Twitter, has crashed this afternoon in an outage affecting thousands of users around the world.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/x-is-down-elon-musks-social-media-app-crashes-for-thousands-around-the-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/x-is-down-elon-musks-social-media-app-crashes-for-thousands-around-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian power utility says customer data may have walked out the door during a security incident, but isn't yet saying whether the intruders got anywhere near the systems responsible for keeping the lights on. London Hydro, which distributes electricity to more than 160,000 customers in and around London, Ontario, said on Saturday that it is investigating a data security incident that "may have impacted a portion of personal information on some accounts" and has started notifying affected cus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canadian-utility-fesses-up-to-data-breach-but-key-details-remain-off-grid/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/canadian-utility-fesses-up-to-data-breach-but-key-details-remain-off-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heatwave hack could prove DEADLY: 'DIY AC unit' trend leaves users at risk of electric shocks, experts warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[While you might be tempted to give viral heatwave hacks a go, experts from Electrical Safety First have warned that they could prove fatal.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-hack-could-prove-deadly-diy-ac-unit-trend-leaves-users-at-risk-of-electric-shocks-experts-warn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/heatwave-hack-could-prove-deadly-diy-ac-unit-trend-leaves-users-at-risk-of-electric-shocks-experts-warn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 &ndash; unless they're on 26H1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has issued a stark warning for Windows users everywhere: "Get ready for Windows 11, version 26H2." Unless, of course, you're running Windows 11 26H1, in which case 26H2 will not be offered and you'll have to wait for a later upgrade path. 26H2, due for general availability in the coming months, uses the same Windows core as Windows 11 25H2 and Windows 24H2. As such, it will be delivered via an enablement package that switches on the new features and updates the versioning. 26H1 is an a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-tells-windows-users-to-get-ready-for-26h2-ndash-unless-theyre-on-26h1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-tells-windows-users-to-get-ready-for-26h2-ndash-unless-theyre-on-26h1/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Cup travel chaos as flash flooding threatens millions in two US states TODAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions are facing the threat of flash flooding today as severe storms target the Northeast during the World Cup.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/world-cup-travel-chaos-as-flash-flooding-threatens-millions-in-two-us-states-today/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/world-cup-travel-chaos-as-flash-flooding-threatens-millions-in-two-us-states-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long have we known that technology speeds up everything, and it's no different with British prime ministers. In the last ten years, the UK has gone through six prime ministers; it took 34 years to get through the previous six. Nonetheless, Sir Keir Starmer had hoped to make an impact on the UK tech industry and the government's use of technology during his tenure. Given the results, it may be a mixed blessing that, after nearly two years, he has achieved little. The signs were not good from the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/as-another-uk-prime-minister-bites-the-dust-a-contradictory-tech-legacy-remains/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/as-another-uk-prime-minister-bites-the-dust-a-contradictory-tech-legacy-remains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tiny artefact that shakes up Sutton Hoo helmet's origin story: Die stamp found in Kent suggests the Anglo-Saxon treasure was manufactured nearby - and NOT in Scandinavia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The history of an iconic British treasure could be rewritten after a tiny artefact was unearthed in a field in Kent.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-tiny-artefact-that-shakes-up-sutton-hoo-helmets-origin-story-die-stamp-found-in-kent-suggests-the-anglo-saxon-treasure-was-manufactured-nearby-and-not-in-scandinavia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-tiny-artefact-that-shakes-up-sutton-hoo-helmets-origin-story-die-stamp-found-in-kent-suggests-the-anglo-saxon-treasure-was-manufactured-nearby-and-not-in-scandinavia/</guid></item></channel></rss>