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• Scientists: Meat Is Absolutely Crucial For Human Health

  02-05-2023 19:29 via technocracy.news
  
  Scientists find that studies promoting an end to meat consumption in favor of vegetarian or insect consumption are fatally flawed and destructive to human health. Instead, meat has always been a staple of the human diet and societies that have little access to meat suffer huge health issues. Anti-meat rhetoric is nothing more than globalist propaganda to degrade the human population on planet earth. ⁃ TN EditorScientists have called for zealots to stop pushing vegetarian and 
  
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• Try before you buy! Tesco is testing virtual tech that lets you see what F&F clothes look like on you

  25-09-2026 11:47 via dailymail.com
  
  The Sandhurst Extra store is trialling the system, which will allow shoppers to virtually try on 1,500 items of F&F clothing across womenswear and menswear.
  
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• Men don't need to splash the cash to impress women! Study reveals spending just £40 is enough to get in the good books

  25-09-2026 11:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Forget fancy dinners and flashy gifts - women are actually less attracted to men who are too generous, according to a new study.
  
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• The teenager with a SUPER-memory: 16-year-old can 'time travel' through any event from the age of three

  25-09-2026 11:28 via dailymail.com
  
  While many of us struggle to recall what happened last week, one teenager has the ability to remember almost everything he has ever done.
  
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• Revealed: The people most likely to complain in restaurants, according to science - and it throws the 'Karen' stereotype out the window

  25-09-2026 11:28 via dailymail.com
  
  We all know the dreaded 'Karen' stereotype. But a new study suggests that when it comes to complaining in restaurants, age and gender actually have little to do with it.
  
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• Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!

  25-09-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  A 72-year-old Ohio man who planted a GPS tracker on a Pokémon card delivery van has been sentenced to a year of probation – including 90 days wearing a tracker of his own. Kent Kubasta, of Medina, Ohio, attached a Spytec device to the woman's van. She discovered it while making a delivery to Walmart on June 18 and was described in court documents as "a carrier/vendor of Pokémon cards." Kubasta initially pleaded not guilty to illegal use of a tracking device, but later waived
  
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• Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right

  25-09-2026 10:45 via theregister.com
  
  EVENT: The Register is hosting a private dinner in Soho on Tuesday 20 October for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders, with LucidLink. Joe Fay takes the chair, it runs under the Chatham House Rule, and nothing said is on the record. The problem on the table is the one most organisations have stopped saying out loud. Unstructured file data keeps growing, distributed teams keep needing to reach it, and the infrastructure underneath is still legacy NAS, a VPN and a sync-and-download
  
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• UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters

  25-09-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government says it is pumping £90 million ($119 million) into building and improving heat networks that redirect excess heat energy generated by a datacenter or factory and use it to warm homes or for other purposes. According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), more than 750,000 homes will get cheaper heating as part of the scheme, which includes plans for a “mega heat project” that involves distributing hot water via a tunnel under the River Tha
  
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• Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud

  25-09-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  Shanghai, China, September 18, 2026: On September 18, Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote titled "The Agentic Cloud for the Agentic World: Build Together, Grow Together" at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026. He shared Huawei Cloud's latest progress. He announced the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), a key step in Huawei Cloud's strategy to strengthen the silicon bedrock on the cloud and reinforce the foundation for agentic AI. The k
  
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• Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it

  25-09-2026 08:37 via theregister.com
  
  Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register’s reader-contributed Friday column that celebrates the unique workplace cultures that make delivering tech support such delightful fun. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Antonio” who told us that in the late 1990s he worked for a multinational financial services organization. Not long after taking the job, Antonio was dispatched to Hong Kong to oversee the regional rollout of a new reverse proxy. Antonio gather
  
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• Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’

  25-09-2026 06:46 via theregister.com
  
  Astronomer and author, Dr. Tony Phillips, says he has found a way to turn SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation into a barometer. Phillips runs spaceweather.com, which tracks solar flares, the solar wind, shifts in Earth’s geomagnetic field, and other phenomena. On Tuesday, he published an article that opens “Starlink has many downsides.” “The megaconstellation interferes with astronomy, pollutes the atmosphere with metallic re-entry debris, and has pushed Low E
  
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• 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop

  25-09-2026 05:04 via theregister.com
  
  FreeBSD is now available for the desktop, in a roundabout way. Colin Percival, a maintainer and release engineering lead for the open-source OS’s release, announced the desktop distro on Thursday. “Most people think of FreeBSD as being a server OS which is used only via the command line, but as anyone who has attended a BSD conference can attest, it works just fine with a GUI too,” he wrote. He’s not wrong about that, but left unsaid is that FreeBSD doesn’t include
  
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• Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter

  25-09-2026 01:57 via theregister.com
  
  Google has augmented its live dialogue model Gemini 3.8 Live with a feature called "Live Avatar" that's capable of conjuring animated characters and realistic human simulacra to lip-sync Gemini's machine-generated speech. "Conversation is inherently multimodal: we listen, look, speak, and use facial expressions to communicate," explained Shuo-yiin Chang, research scientist at Google DeepMind, and CJ Zheng, Gemini software engineer, in a blog post. "Live Avatar brings these capabilities to enterp
  
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• Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs

  25-09-2026 01:32 via theregister.com
  
  A crook has been using three open source AI harnesses to target hundreds of online retailers and other companies, swiping more than 600,000 credit card records and installing card-stealing skimmers - and all at trivial cost. AI security company Gambit recovered the human operator’s staging server, and used that access to reconstruct the data-theft campaign, whose victims include a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, a large private US industrial supplies distributor, and a
  
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• Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week

  25-09-2026 00:12 via theregister.com
  
  Google will loft its tensor processing units (TPUs) into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket next week, in the latest phase of its previously announced Project Suncatcher space datacenter initiative. The launch is part of a test mission to better understand how its homegrown compute platform will handle both the rigors of launch and the harsh environment of space. Long term, the Chocolate Factory believes that space-based datacenter clusters powered by a limitless supply of solar energy from our sun co
  
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• F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown

  24-09-2026 22:52 via theregister.com
  
  Undeterred by a looming Google policy change that could effectively destroy it, open-source Android app store F-Droid has released its largest upgrade in a decade. F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google’s Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app. The F-Droid team describes version 2.0 as a complete redesign on both the visual side and beyond. “For more than a decade, F-Droid ha
  
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• Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real

  24-09-2026 21:51 via theregister.com
  
  In a market where AI agents keep breaking the rules and escaping their containers, Docker has a new solution. On Thursday, the company debuted Cloud Sandboxes in a bid to keep AI agents within boundaries. Despite the existence and implementation of sandboxing technology as a way to limit the reach of AI agents, industry leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI keep reporting containment failures. On Thursday, Australian officials disclosed that an OpenAI agent had accessed an Australian government port
  
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• DNA discovery on Shroud of Turin corroborates biblical account of Jesus's resurrection

  24-09-2026 21:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A recent DNA analysis of samples taken from the burial cloth believed to have wrapped the body of Jesus following the crucifixion aligns with details in the Bible.
  
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• Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing

  24-09-2026 21:01 via theregister.com
  
  Security flaws in Salesforce Agentforce allowed poisoned leads to hijack its AI agents, silently steal CRM data without requiring a click, and send phishing messages under the agents’ identities. Zenity Labs uncovered the three vulnerabilities, collectively called SalesBleed, and reported them to Salesforce, which worked with the AI agent security provider to fix the issues. While these attack chains no longer work, Zenity co-founder and CTO Michael Bargury told The Register that the vulne
  
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• Why Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack

  24-09-2026 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia, which has strict social media restrictions and has proposed controls on algorithms and smart glasses, announced the breach at the UN.
  
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• Dogs really DO understand their master's voice! Study confirms pooches process speech in a way previously only seen in humans

  24-09-2026 20:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Whether it's 'walkies' or 'dinner' dogs seem to have a knack for picking out the words they want to hear. Now, scientists have found that canine brains process speech in a surprisingly human-like way.
  
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• Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi?

  24-09-2026 19:44 via theregister.com
  
  Meta became the latest to dip its toes into the fraught world of hardware AI widgets this week after it unveiled a Tamagotchi-sized handheld AI companion called the Muse Charm. The Social Network now joins several hardware startups which have attempted to use handheld devices to bring agentic AI to a more mainstream audience. The Humane AI pin and Rabbit’s r1 are just two examples. The Muse Charm follows a similar trajectory. The handheld device appears to be roughly the size of an Apple W
  
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• Oracle Invokes Force Majeure on Project Jupiter AI Data Center

  24-09-2026 19:03 via technocracy.news
  
  This may be the pinprick that pops the AI data center boom. Oracle buried itself in a massive AI data center boondoggle that went south because they couldn’t get the energy permits needed to run it. Then the financing disappeared. Oracle is using “force majeure” as an excuse to avoid losses and liability. If a court doesn’t strike this down, the entire industry will follow Oracle. This is the proverbial crack in the dam. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Oracle has invoked for
  
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• Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows

  24-09-2026 19:00 via theregister.com
  
  Security researchers affiliated with Austria's Graz University of Technology have found flaws in the implementation of file notification systems on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows that leak potentially compromising system information. "We found decades-old bugs on [these operating systems], all rooted in the file-notification subsystems that every modern OS ships to inform applications when files change," said Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a doctoral student at TU Graz, in an email to The Register
  
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• iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink

  24-09-2026 18:34 via theregister.com
  
  There’s nothing a quick break for a can of ice-cold sparkling water can’t solve - including improving thermal management on the iPhone 18 Pro, as it turns out. Software developer Matt Birchler provided the data to prove it in a recent blog post detailing a bit of extra experimentation he did with his new iPhone 18 Pro alongside some benchmarking work. To make a long story short, a cold can of La Croix (in Birchler’s case – the cooling potential of an aluminum can isn&rsqu
  
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• CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle

  24-09-2026 18:33 via theregister.com
  
  Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu kernel releases to one a week as AI-assisted bug hunting helps bury defenders under an ever-growing pile of CVEs. The Ubuntu maker is overhauling how it ships kernel Stable Release Updates (SRUs), replacing its current four-week regular and two-week security cycles with overlapping two-week cycles that will push a kernel release every week. Canonical says the change is needed because the number of reported vulnerabilities has exploded, with AI deserving some of th
  
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• AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market

  24-09-2026 18:00 via theregister.com
  
  First they came for our natural resources, and now the AI datacenter boom looks set to excise a significant chunk of the budget smartphone market. The latest forecast from Counterpoint Research spells dark skies for sub-$200 pocket 'puters, with shipments expected to fall by around 40 percent between 2025 and 2030, removing more than 230 million devices a year from the market by the end of the decade. Counterpoint attributes the contraction to rising memory and chipset costs, increasingly demand
  
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• Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first

  24-09-2026 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
  
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• Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data

  24-09-2026 17:13 via theregister.com
  
  Asus has warned eShop customers that an intruder got into part of its online store and may have helped themselves to contact details and order records. The PC maker disclosed the incident in an email sent to customers, first reported by KitGuru, in which it said had identified "unauthorized access to part of the Asus eShop environment," although exactly when that access occurred remains unclear. "Our investigation indicates that certain customer order information, including contact details and o
  
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• Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public

  24-09-2026 16:49 via theregister.com
  
  EVENT: HPE and NVIDIA are sending their AI infrastructure leads to a dinner table in Washington where nothing said is on the record. The Register is hosting, our editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff takes the chair, and there is one table, on Thursday 29 October. Most AI programs in regulated industries do not stall on the model. They stall on where the data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as evidence a year from now. Sovereignty is not one requirement either: what can leave a ju
  
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