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• 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Will Be Impossible to Beat

  12-04-2023 21:07
  
  Mario was too iconic to fail. Game adaptations after him will have to try harder.
  
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• Autopsy reveals chilling new details in mysterious death of missing scientist found skeletonized in the woods

  15-08-2026 17:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Shocking details about the final moments of a missing nuclear lab worker have been revealed, which one expert believes points to a murder and not a suicide.
  
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• Inside the eerie American ghost town where stolen souvenirs are blamed for illness and ruin

  15-08-2026 14:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Legend warns that anyone who takes even a rock, nail or speck of dust will be plagued by terrible misfortune.
  
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• Bum or boobs? Study reveals most men have a 'clear preference' for women's behinds

  15-08-2026 12:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology asked men how important they consider buttocks and breasts in a partner. And the results revealed a clear preference for bums.
  
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• You're taking care of your cat wrong! Scientists claim you SHOULD let your pet roam outside - because it makes them less destructive

  15-08-2026 12:41 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're a cat owner, one of the biggest questions you face is whether your kitty will be allowed to roam outside or kept safely indoors.
  
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• Home overrun by flies? Expert reveals the simple way to grab them with your bare hands - and why you should always approach 'from above'

  15-08-2026 12:41 via dailymail.com
  
  If your home has become a fly-filled nightmare this summer, there could be a surprisingly simple solution - and you don't need a swatter or spray.
  
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• ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses

  15-08-2026 12:31 via theregister.com
  
  A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, Shai-Hulud was the name of the giant self-sustaining desert sandworms that moved silently beneath the surface of the planet Arrakis. So it made sense that when some new self-replicating malware with computer worm-like behavior appeared in September 2025, security researchers would name i
  
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• Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine

  15-08-2026 10:32 via theregister.com
  
  Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope yet – a model built at approximately minifig scale that dwarfs the observatory included with its Space Shuttle Discovery set. The first thing to say about this set is that there is an awful lot of grey. This is perhaps the greatest weakness of an otherwise excellent set and feels a little penny-pinching on the part of the Danish brick botherer. Lego has produced several versions of Hubble over the years. There is a version to fit in the
  
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• Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

  15-08-2026 02:44 via theregister.com
  
  In an effort to "watermark" text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic unveiled a plan on Friday to modify its bots' choice of words in a way that would be detectable as AI. Traditional watermarks are patterns or images overlaid on currency, postage, or official documents as an assertion of authenticity. In the digital realm, the term is more flexible and can refer to a variety of techniques for applying an identifier to electronic data. Anthropic's approach involves
  
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• DR PHIL: There are crystal clear secret UFO videos the government's hidden in plain sight. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. What I've heard... and the terrifying reason for the cover-up may be more damaging than a PANDEMIC

  15-08-2026 01:57 via dailymail.com
  
  'There's not any context to this. There's very seldom any follow-up information,' Dr Phil said. 'Is that an accident? The pattern suggests that it's not really an accident.'
  
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• DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in

  14-08-2026 22:25 via theregister.com
  
  DeepSeek has piqued the interest of the developer community by releasing an early version of its open source agent harness. This happens as harnesses have become increasingly important to those working with machine learning models. "Powered by the Cordis meta-framework, DeepSeek Harness is an agent harness built around one core idea: Everything is a plugin," the China-based AI biz said. "Models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration, and UI are ALL implemented as
  
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• Ancient 250-mile blob moving toward NYC leads scientists to shocking discovery

  14-08-2026 22:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists probing an ancient hot 'blob' moving toward New York City discovered a mysterious structure lurking nearby.
  
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• Mysterious underground structure found near 250-mile blob moving toward New York City

  14-08-2026 21:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists probing an ancient hot 'blob' moving toward New York City discovered a mysterious structure lurking nearby.
  
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• Turner: The Technate Builds Its Fab

  14-08-2026 19:35 via technocracy.news
  
  Elon Musk speaks the language of Technocracy: terrawatts, functional sequences, capacity, allocation, etc. Terrafab is not an AI data center. It is a 100,000,000 square foot manufacturing facility to build components for the next generation of Ai data centers. Given his propensity for huge, will he announce plans for 100,000,000 square foot AI data center? Or a series of them? How about 200,000,000 square foot center? ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.On Thursday, August 6, SpaceX and Tesla formally
  
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• 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack

  14-08-2026 19:34 via theregister.com
  
  Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone numbers, according to Have I Been Pwned. RingCentral disclosed the breach on July 28 and said “it was the target of a sophisticated social engineering campaign” affecting a “limited portion of RingCentral customers.” The comms platform said that it promptly responded to the intrusion upon detecting it, “took steps to stop the unauthoriz
  
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• Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

  14-08-2026 18:52 via theregister.com
  
  Sanctions and Nvidia’s exit from Russia in 2022 haven’t stopped its Jetson Orin hardware from turning up in Russian weaponry, according to Ukrainian military intelligence. The Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported this week that it spotted an Nvidia Jetson Orin module in the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome cruise missile. The S-71M is an air-launched weapon with autonomous capabilities that can reportedly search for and engage targets using optical sen
  
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• Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

  14-08-2026 18:22 via theregister.com
  
  President Trump has ordered the US Navy to draw up plans to replace electromagnetic aircraft catapults and weapons elevators with old-fashioned steam and hydraulic systems. America’s commander-in-chief issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of defense, in consultation with the secretary of the Navy, to come up with a plan to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) on the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) with the older steam-powered system. The same note
  
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• Warning over incurable mad cow disease infecting humans as new threat closes in on US

  14-08-2026 18:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Biologists are sounding the alarm over two growing threats on a potentially dangerous collision course with the US.
  
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• Scientists sound alarm over incurable mad cow disease infecting humans as new threat closes in on US

  14-08-2026 17:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Biologists are sounding the alarm over two growing threats on a potentially dangerous collision course with the US.
  
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• Gold medal for delusion: Nearly four in 10 men believe they could qualify for the 2028 Olympics if they started training now, study reveals

  14-08-2026 17:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Athletes who compete in the Olympics have usually spent most of their lives preparing for the event. But four in 10 British men believe they could qualify for the next Games if they started training now.
  
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• Fears incurable mad cow-like disease could jump to humans as new threat closes in on US

  14-08-2026 17:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Biologists are sounding the alarm over two growing threats on a potentially dangerous collision course with the US.
  
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• French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records

  14-08-2026 16:27 via theregister.com
  
  France's tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a purported database of 2 million taxpayers. Using the alias "ZeroBytes," the alleged crook behind the attack on the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) advertised the stolen database on a cybercrime forum on Wednesday. They claimed the database contained details of more than 2 million French taxpayers and that they gained access using stolen
  
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• Hurricane warning issued as Hawaii braces for historic direct hit in hours

  14-08-2026 16:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Residents and tourists in the Hawaiian islands are bracing for flooding and dangerous winds as a hurricane may make landfall for the first time in modern history.
  
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• Virgin Galactic flights stay grounded while ticket prices head for the Moon

  14-08-2026 15:45 via theregister.com
  
  Virgin Galactic has delayed its return to commercial spaceflight until February 2027, and plans to raise ticket prices later this year. The delay was disclosed alongside the company's financial results, which showed a net loss of $56 million for the second quarter of 2026, down from $67 million a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter was $0.1 million, compared to $0.4 million in 2025. According to CEO Michael Colglazier, demand exceeded the number of seats offered in the first $750,000 batch, pr
  
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• Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure

  14-08-2026 15:03 via theregister.com
  
  In early July, attackers used open source AI agents to autonomously hack government systems and energy companies, signaling to defenders that AI-powered attacks against critical infrastructure are no longer theoretical. "There is a clear and present danger," Tom Kellermann, TrendAI VP of AI security and threat research, told The Register. "As the geopolitical tension boils, systemic destructive cyberattacks launched by autonomous AI will occur," he said. "Weaponized AI will disable the safety sy
  
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• Bad news for red wine lovers: Widespread drought could spell the end for Pinot Noir, experts say

  14-08-2026 14:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Wine lovers could be forced to say goodbye to some of the world's finest Pinot Noir as climate change brings more frequent droughts, scientists warn.
  
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• Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

  14-08-2026 14:16 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft has yanked Mico from the Copilot spotlight less than a year after unveiling the anthropomorphic assistant intended to make its AI a little less soulless. As part of Microsoft's announcement that its consumer and work Copilot applications will merge, the company confirmed that the weird blob thing would shuffle out of Copilot Voice and into Learn Live, a voice-based study mode that guides users through subjects and assignments. "Mico helped us learn about warmth, expressiveness, and how
  
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• TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant

  14-08-2026 13:44 via theregister.com
  
  TalkTalk Business and UK technology services biz ARO plan to merge, creating what they say will be one of the country's largest communications and managed services providers. The pair claim the combined organization will be "uniquely positioned" to serve as a single technology partner for British firms pursuing digital transformation. It will have annual revenue of about £200 million ($270 million) and a combined customer base of more than 70,000 companies. Analyst firm Megabuyte noted tha
  
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• The best time to run a wash, revealed: Interactive tool shows exactly how Britain is being powered - and the ideal slot to switch on your appliances

  14-08-2026 12:30 via dailymail.com
  
  It's now easy to work out the best time to put on a wash, charge an electric car or run the dishwasher.
  
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• Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach

  14-08-2026 12:29 via theregister.com
  
  Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a breach at one of its shipping partners exposed the personal data of more than 13,000 customers. The company's initial findings suggested the breach was limited to orders placed in certain countries during the previous 90 days. New information indicates that earlier orders may also be affected. The breach exposed the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses of 11,742 customers in the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Br
  
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