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• Tesla launches its Model X electric SUV with 'falcon wing' doors

  30-09-2015 10:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The launch of the luxury Model X represents a milestone for the loss-making Silicon Valley automaker during a period of high spending and modest growth.
  
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• Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

  30-07-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we show you how not to use your computer or your network. In this week’s fable of fecklessness, we talk about a teacher who had a lot to learn about security. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at [email protected]. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes courtesy of Kevin Walker, a seasoned IT veteran from the UK. At one point, he was providing his services to a school
  
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• Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law

  30-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  The OpenAI rogue agent behind the Hugging Face hack accessed four accounts on four services, according to updated company disclosures about the intrusion. One of those four accounts belonged to a Modal customer that had published an unauthenticated endpoint for running arbitrary code in a sandbox on the AI infrastructure provider, Hugging Face noted in its technical timeline and Modal later confirmed. “We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed an
  
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• Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one

  30-07-2026 07:59 via theregister.com
  
  Data protection vendor Veeam has decided the time is right to support half a dozen more hypervisors in case you are thinking of adopting a new one. Hypervisor migrations are currently a distinct possibility for VMware user who relies on vSphere for basic server virtualization, as Broadcom now focuses on its Cloud Foundation private cloud suite. That product is powerful and comprehensive, but Broadcom requires buyers to license at least 72 cores, which may be rather more than many small shops ope
  
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• Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees

  30-07-2026 05:38 via theregister.com
  
  NASA has shared new snaps captured by its Curiosity rover that show a large “field of honeycomb textures” on Mars. Here’s the best of the images Curiosity captured. It shows the honeycomb field, each element of which is four to eight centimeters across. NASA doesn’t know how the honeycomb formed, but The Register is willing to rule out space bees because Curiosity has seen this sort of thing before and scientists are pretty sure the patterns are the result of mud drying a
  
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• Police Are Deploying 60 MPH Flock Drones To Read Your License Plate From The Sky

  30-07-2026 04:56 via technocracy.news
  
  Oh, the thrill of it. Enter, Flock’s autonomous drone. Sixty miles per hour, continuous snaps of your license plate from 2,000 feet away, and everyone around you, to boot. Instantly integrated into Flock’s master database of 50 million other cars. Bonus card: Alpha streams thermal and high-definition video directly to dispatchers. Flock was founded with venture capital from Arch-Technocrat Marc Andreessen. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.If you thought Flock Safety’s Automated Lic
  
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• Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon

  30-07-2026 04:43 via theregister.com
  
  Qualcomm has predicted its entry to the datacenter market will yield $15 billion of annual revenue by FY 2029 – huge growth, but also a modest number compared to its more established rivals. The chip design firm dangled the $15 billion figure on Wednesday along with its Q3 results, which included a warning that revenue from its business selling modems to Apple is about to crater. Execs told investors that supply chain constraints mean Qualcomm expects “an acceleration in the step dow
  
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• Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements

  30-07-2026 03:09 via theregister.com
  
  Cisco has decided to “retire” its Azure Local offering due to changes Microsoft made to the hardware and partnerships it supports for the on-prem hyperconverged cloud stack. The networking giant quietly announced the change in a July 24 end of life and end of sale notice that reveals Cisco will stop selling its Azure Local bundles in October. That notice states Cisco will not offer a direct replacement for the product, but “does encourage customers to evaluate alternative HCI s
  
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• Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents

  30-07-2026 02:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.
  
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• Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest

  30-07-2026 01:17 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft on Wednesday reported $90 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, an increase of 18 percent, lifting its stock more than 7 percent in after hours trading. The cash intake was more than Wall Street analysts anticipated, and showed up where it counted – the company's cloud business and AI services. Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $59.3 billion, up 27 percent year-over-year, and its Azure business revenue grew 43 percent. Meanwhile, Microsoft 365 Copilot's paid user base i
  
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• Meta shares fall as frustration grows over AI spending plans

  30-07-2026 00:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the firm intends to sell its AI tools to other companies for the first time.
  
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• NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud

  29-07-2026 23:02 via theregister.com
  
  Uncle Sam will no longer be hosting his own supercomputers to predict the weather. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has picked Google Cloud to provide the infrastructure for its weather forecasting operations. In an announcement, NOAA boasted that it will be the first national weather prediction center to run on the commercial cloud, though the UK's Met Office is also in the process of moving its own weather prediction system to Microsoft Azure in a hybrid setup. Weather
  
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• Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel

  29-07-2026 22:44 via theregister.com
  
  The dream of having a mechanical maid to clean your home is real … sort of. San Francisco residents can now hire a robot cleaner for just $30 an hour, but there's a catch. The robots are at least partially controlled by humans who are watching your home remotely. Tau Robotics cofounder and CEO Alexander Koch announced in a post on X Tuesday that his company was launching the waitlist for its invite-only cleaning services on Tau’s website. Bereft of details like the specifics of the
  
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• Mystery deepens at Utah paranormal hotspot as buried 'UFO' clues emerge

  29-07-2026 21:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A paranormal hotspot in Utah notorious for UFO sightings, strange creatures and unexplained events may be hiding its greatest secret beneath the surface.
  
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• Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake

  29-07-2026 21:02 via theregister.com
  
  The US government has signed a letter of intent to provide GlobalFoundries with $300 million in CHIPS Act funding and, at the same time, receive a one percent stake in the company worth roughly $269 million. The money's supposedly not a tit-for-tat, but an investment designed to spur development of silicon photonics networking technologies that the AI industry needs for datacenters. “With today’s compute supply chain investments, the Trump Administration is accelerating America&rsquo
  
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• Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug

  29-07-2026 20:33 via theregister.com
  
  The guardrails that prevent closed-source, frontier models from aiding threat actors have turned into handcuffs that prevent those bots from helping to find and fix serious vulns. Daniel Fox Franke, principal security researcher at Akamai Technologies, was recently trying to track down the source of a segmentation fault in ripgrep, and found OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol wouldn't cooperate. "OpenAI's cybersecurity classifier is a huge pain when you're trying to track down a segfault," he wrote in a socia
  
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• Hiroshima atomic bomb blast created a bizarre new metal that has NEVER been seen before on Earth, study finds

  29-07-2026 20:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered.
  
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• 'Crazy cat ladies' really DO exist! Study confirms women feel more attached to their pets than men do

  29-07-2026 20:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from the University of Lucerne have found that women tend to feel more attached to their pets than men do.
  
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• Ancient Egyptian history rewritten as new clues reveal advanced technology used to build pyramids

  29-07-2026 19:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Egypt's pyramids have fascinated the world for centuries, with the methods used to build the monuments with such extraordinary precision remaining a mystery.
  
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• Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

  29-07-2026 18:43 via theregister.com
  
  Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in Copilot for Word’s context, may alter document output and copy the instructions into newly created files that use the affected document as source material, without the victim noticing. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist with a PhD in applied AI and ML, publicly disclosed the issue in a blog post Tuesday. Måløy d
  
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• Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute

  29-07-2026 17:56 via theregister.com
  
  Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list. The country's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the charges on Wednesday, alleging that Telegram failed to remove channels, chats, and bots used by Ukrainian intelligence to recruit young Russians for sabotage and terrorism. The alleged offenses include armed attacks on law enforcement officers and arson targeting transport, energy, communications, and financial infr
  
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• Baby giraffe defies impossible odds following 'miracle' birth that stunned experts

  29-07-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The newborn calf defied seemingly impossible odds after experts were forced to make a heartbreaking, life-or-death decision. Her survival has since been hailed as a miracle..
  
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• MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish

  29-07-2026 17:15 via theregister.com
  
  Conventional chatbots respond to individual prompts and often retain only limited context. AI agents may carry out longer, multi-step jobs that span sessions, making persistent memory more important. Object storage vendor MinIO claims it can provide that memory. AI agents can help make decisions, create documents, draft analyses, and answer questions once handled by people alone. MinIO characterizes the resulting output as organizational knowledge – a record of what an enterprise knows, de
  
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• The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy

  29-07-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Turn VMware’s mandate into an opportunity with Nutanix Many VMware customers assumed the most disruptive effects of Broadcom’s acquisition were already behind them. Licensing changes and pricing shifts required attention, but infrastructure strategy largely stayed the same. But that assumption is about to be tested. Before the October 2027 end of general support for vSphere 8, VMware customers must decide whether to upgrade or migrate1. And what sounds like a routine upgrade could ha
  
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• Millions told to close windows NOW as heart attack-causing toxins from wildfires engulf five US states

  29-07-2026 16:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes has toxins fill the air in multiple states this week.
  
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• Baby giraffe hailed as medical marvel after 'miracle' birth at US wildlife park

  29-07-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  The newborn calf defied seemingly impossible odds after experts were forced to make a heartbreaking, life-or-death decision. Her survival has since been hailed as a miracle..
  
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• NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning

  29-07-2026 16:29 via theregister.com
  
  Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is having some attitude problems on its way to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, resulting in a multi-axis spin and loss of communications. LINK has three reaction wheels for attitude control, pointing, and stability, but the company said two are currently not operable. NASA reported some loss of functionality in its cold-gas thruster system as well. LINK remains in contact with its controllers despite the sporadic communications, and its other major
  
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• The ideal number of daily coffees to drink, depending on your age - experts say have MORE in mid-life

  29-07-2026 16:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Coffee has long been one of Britain's favourite drinks, with 95 million cups consumed every day. So is there an ideal number of cups to drink as we age?
  
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• Ocean explorer tracks down terrifying 'alien' sharks that can clone themselves lurking off US shores

  29-07-2026 16:18 via dailymail.com
  
  A wildlife biologist has tracked down four of the strangest creatures in the shark family living in the waters around the US.
  
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• Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems

  29-07-2026 15:49 via theregister.com
  
  Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 Minnesota water facilities. Neither state-level nor federal officials have made any claims regarding attribution for the attacks, however, Tenable reckons the operational pattern is consistent with the crew's previous raids, noting the timing relative to recent government warnings. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated a
  
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