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• The best place to work in Ireland has been revealed siliconrepublic.com/careers/indeed…

  28-03-2018 09:00 via twitter.com
  The best place to work in Ireland has been revealed siliconrepublic.com/careers/indeed…
  
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• NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

  13-10-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  NetBSD seems to be thriving of late: as the Linux world goes pro-AI, some of the AI-averse are turning to this explicitly AI-free project. The NetBSD project’s Mastodon feed reports that it received a record 120 donations last month, and it has far exceeded its target: “We received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!” It’s a welcome contrast to the usual stories of u
  
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• Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks

  13-10-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has lifted the lid on the next generation of its Azure Maia custom AI chips, saying it will usher in a new phase of its compute infrastructure where everything is closely integrated to meet the demands of agentic inference. The Redmond giant says its Azure Maia 200, announced earlier this year, is now serving production workloads and that a successor is already planned for 2027. Azure Maia 300 is described as "a complete intelligent system" designed for the new types of AI workloads em
  
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• AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns

  13-10-2026 14:44 via theregister.com
  
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become the latest financial heavyweight to warn that the AI spending frenzy could end in tears, with consequences extending well beyond the tech sector. In its latest Global Financial Stability Report, published on Tuesday, the IMF warns that financial markets are increasingly exposed to an AI-driven correction, especially if the billions poured into the tech fail to deliver the profits investors expect. AI investment has helped keep markets and economic
  
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• I was secretly poisoned by my husband and died. Then I met Jesus and made a shocking discovery in heaven

  13-10-2026 14:34 via dailymail.com
  
  A wife and mother claims she had a life-changing meeting with Jesus in the afterlife while her husband attempted to kill her before he could be cut out of her life insurance policy.
  
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• I was secretly poisoned and died. Then I met Jesus and questioned everything my Christian upbringing taught me about heaven

  13-10-2026 14:20 via dailymail.com
  
  A wife and mother claims she had a life-changing meeting with Jesus in the afterlife while her husband attempted to kill her before he could be cut out of her life insurance policy.
  
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• Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C

  13-10-2026 14:00 via theregister.com
  
  Cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems reportedly pushed temperatures as high as 50°C (122°F), affecting hundreds of stores in France and forcing retailers to discard food. Major supermarkets such as Carrefour, Coopérative U, Intermarché, Monoprix, and more were hit by the attacks, which spoiled perishable food and left stores without fresh produce. The affected equipment includes cold-storage units used to hold food before it reaches supermarket shelves. The cri
  
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• '123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

  13-10-2026 13:14 via theregister.com
  
  A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company's account protected by the password "123456." The person told Danish news outlet Politiken they had no intention of selling or leaking the data. The newspaper reported that at least three company accounts, including an administrator account, used the same password. Denmark's CPR administration confirmed a breach affecting the information belonging to 8.8 mi
  
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• European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene

  13-10-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  Datacenters are forecast to consume a growing share of Europe's electricity by 2035, potentially pushing up consumer prices and prompting governments to impose price caps or restrictions on bit barns, according to Moody's. The credit rating agency is keeping tabs on the financial implications for datacenter operators and electricity networks. It predicts that while power consumption by server farms is relatively modest today, these facilities are set to become major drivers of electricity demand
  
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• Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection

  13-10-2026 11:45 via theregister.com
  
  The owner of Hobbs, Phase Eight, and Whistles is the latest fashion retailer to suffer a cyberattack, leaving several IT systems offline and customers facing order delays. South African retail giant The Foschini Group (TFG) confirmed on Tuesday that its UK business, TFG London, discovered a cybersecurity incident on October 11 that affected all three brands. Two days later, several systems remain unavailable, and the company is still trying to establish whether any personal or sensitive informat
  
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• UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system

  13-10-2026 11:00 via theregister.com
  
  The UK Cabinet Office has scrapped a recruitment platform, recording a £7.8 million loss, while disclosing a potential penalty of up to £8.9 million over its handling of contractors' tax status. The department's annual report for 2025-26 said the Civil Service Jobs Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Programme, a central government plan for a unified, cross-departmental hiring system, was being closed to "align with the Shared Services for Government Strategy," which the Prime Minister's
  
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• Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users

  13-10-2026 10:15 via theregister.com
  
  If you're encountering some odd IPv6 networking issues, the culprit might be the Intel Connectivity Performance Suite (ICPS), although the chipmaker has kept quiet about the problem. A Samsung Galaxy Book owner contacted The Register about some decidedly odd networking behavior that they eventually traced to unwanted ICPS optimizations. And by "optimization", we mean "borked networking." For our reader, the problem showed up in OneDrive and OneNote. Notebooks were showing as empty, even though t
  
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• Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks

  13-10-2026 09:31 via theregister.com
  
  The Home Office's latest attempt to speed up asylum decisions with AI has hit an awkward snag: a new report says more than one in five interview summaries checked by experts failed accuracy tests. A 20-page investigation by the Open Rights Group (ORG) claims the department is pressing ahead with AI tools despite concerns about their accuracy, oversight, and promised efficiency gains. The findings, based on Freedom of Information requests and correspondence with ministers, concern two systems use
  
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• VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood

  13-10-2026 09:01 via theregister.com
  
  VMware has discovered so many flaws in its products using AI that it felt the need to create a new product to help users manage them. Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division of Broadcom, told The Register that VMware recently moved to deliver monthly software updates, in part to address bugs found by AI. He admitted, however, that users struggled to keep up with the pace of change before the move to monthly releases because it takes tim
  
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• I was secretly poisoned and died. Then I met Jesus and questioned everything my Catholic upbringing taught me about heaven

  13-10-2026 00:22 via dailymail.com
  
  A wife and mother claims she had a life-changing meeting with Jesus in the afterlife while her husband attempted to kill her before he could be cut out of her life insurance policy.
  
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• The script to help you shut down a gaslighter, according to a psychologist

  12-10-2026 23:07 via dailymail.com
  
  A psychologist has shared a short response that can help interrupt a gaslighter's mind games and put your boundaries back at the center of the conversation.
  
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• I was poisoned and went to heaven... there is no 'darkness' when you die. What I witnessed in the afterlife completely transformed how I see God

  12-10-2026 21:49 via dailymail.com
  
  A wife and mother claims she had a life-changing meeting with Jesus in the afterlife while her husband attempted to kill her before he could be cut out of her life insurance policy.
  
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• Hurricane-fueled storms threaten six US states as severe weather sparks tornado warnings

  12-10-2026 21:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Hurricane-fueled storms are set to barrel across a large swath of the US, unleashing hazardous weather for several days.
  
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• NASA astronaut cites biblical warning as proof that UFOs are 'demonic'

  12-10-2026 21:12 via dailymail.com
  
  A NASA astronaut has issued a chilling claim that UFOs are demonic beings rather than extraterrestrials, citing a warning in the Bible as proof.
  
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• Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble

  12-10-2026 19:55 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft took down the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) today after a code change left administrators facing an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access the service. Microsoft first admitted that something was amiss at 0937 UTC on October 12, noting, "When attempting to access the Exchange admin center, affected admins may encounter an 'Internal Server Error' message." Any administrator attempting to access the EAC could be affected. It was more than an hour before the company stated: "We've id
  
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• Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning

  12-10-2026 19:13 via theregister.com
  
  If you thought everyone was into chatbots, think again: about half of US adults never use the AI tools, and most have no interest in starting. According to Pew Research Center, older adults are the least likely to use chatbots, with roughly three-quarters of those aged 65 and older saying they never use them. That may be expected, yet more than half (58 percent) of adults aged 50 to 64 don't use them either. Those aged 18 to 29 use chatbots the most, at 66 percent, however even a third of them s
  
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• Pastor claims the Rapture is just hours away as he announces new date for Jesus's return

  12-10-2026 18:43 via dailymail.com
  
  A controversial pastor claims the end of the world has arrived, and millions of Christians will soon disappear as evil descends on Earth.
  
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• No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally

  12-10-2026 18:27 via theregister.com
  
  What is DNS? That's right, it's a database. You can disagree with me but you would be wrong. What can you put in a database? Strings, ints (and you learn the difference right quick if your AWS account ID has a leading zero!), JSON objects, coordinates; some of the databases out there have some pretty esoteric types. PostgreSQL supports circle, a polygon, a macaddr8, and a tsquery. Oracle will store a ROWID and your dignity. In a word, databases store data. Can you put answers in a database? Well
  
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• Storm Rachel batters Southern California, brings flooding to Las Vegas

  12-10-2026 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Large waves from the post-tropical cyclone battered homes in Long Beach, and brought flooding to parts of Las Vegas near the famed Strip.
  
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• AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit

  12-10-2026 17:51 via theregister.com
  
  AMD is expanding its rack-scale AI lineup with a design to run AI agents, offering CPU-only configurations or integrated CPU/GPU deployments, and liquid-cooled or air-cooled versions. Revealed at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit 2026 in San Jose, California, the chipmaker's new rack reference design is named Helion, while its existing system carries the moniker Helios, which we can't help feeling is inviting confusion a little. Helion offers an OCP-compliant blueprint for agentic AI infrast
  
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• Why Gen Z NEVER answers the phone: Young people say surprise calls trigger anxiety and feel like a demand for 'immediate attention'

  12-10-2026 17:32 via dailymail.com
  
  For many young people, few things are more alarming than seeing their phone light up with an unexpected call.
  
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• Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary?

  12-10-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  EVENT: Every sovereign AI architecture is a trade, and the currency changes with the option: capital, capability, elasticity, or the fine print about who operates it. The cost you notice last is usually the one that decides whether the pilot ever becomes production. Nobody chooses badly on purpose. They choose with the information available at the planning stage, and the costs that matter most, in capability and in operations, tend to show up later. Which is why the honest comparison is hard to
  
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• Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot

  12-10-2026 16:56 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has closed a loophole that let users sidestep the need for an account during setup for consumer versions of Windows 11. If users clicked "Learn More" when the setup process prompted for a Microsoft account, the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) skipped directly to the point where they just had to enter a name and password. Windows prodder "Bob Pony," who first documented the loophole, reported its removal. We tried the original trick on real Intel hardware and found it was possible to skip
  
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• Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline

  12-10-2026 15:45 via theregister.com
  
  Yandex engineers are working to restore services after Ukraine launched drone strikes on three of its five Russian datacenters. The strikes began overnight on October 7-8, "seriously damaging" Yandex's Sasovo datacenter and leading to a total shutdown. Ukrainian drones struck again on the morning of October 9, targeting the company's Kaluga datacenter, resulting in part of its infrastructure being taken offline. Dima Pirogov, head of Yandex's fintech division, confirmed via Telegram on Sunday mo
  
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• Stinky 'skunk' plant cleared from river

  12-10-2026 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The plant is said to smell like "rotting meat" and is is native to swamps and other wetlands in the Pacific Northwest.
  
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