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• This AI can recreate Nobel-winning experiments

  17-05-2016 10:37
  
  A group of Australian research teams have used artificial intelligence to replicate a complex experiment which won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns

  14-10-2026 10:15 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is pushing ahead with its AI ambitions yet is dragging its feet on replacing aging IT systems that leave departments vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a damning assessment from Parliament's spending watchdog. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), warns in his second annual report that Whitehall is failing to tackle its longstanding technology problems, even as AI gives criminals and hostile states new ways to attack go
  
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• It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill

  14-10-2026 09:30 via theregister.com
  
  Why are we in such a hurry? Are we in a race? Where's the finish line? Are we in the lead? Far behind? I increasingly hear these questions about AI from people who feel a gritty sense of being unpleasantly overstimulated – like a three-year-old allowed to stay awake too long and now unable to sleep. That feeling has become worse since last November when AI tools suddenly became "good enough" to be broadly useful. A whole cohort of engineers – myself included – found themselves
  
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• Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'

  14-10-2026 07:00 via theregister.com
  
  Tim Beasley, a senior incident response consultant at Semperis, was investigating a cyberattack involving Russia’s Midnight Blizzard when a package containing nesting dolls and other regional gifts showed up on his doorstep. At the time, Beasley served as the lead investigator for Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART). He assumed it was from the group, which has been linked to the Kremlin’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), although the sender didn’t leave a no
  
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• Staggering modern breakthroughs that prove the Bible is true: From Noah's Ark's resting place to bloody clues on the Shroud of Turin, experts reveal evidence that convinced them

  14-10-2026 02:19 via dailymail.com
  
  For some, the Bible is a collection of parables: a series of deeply resonant stories, designed to guide you throughout your life. Yet for others it is a historical document.
  
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• Sorry, Sir Paul! Scientists say you CAN'T remember being born - and explain what's really behind those 'first day of life' memories

  14-10-2026 01:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Sir Paul McCartney's claim that he can remember being born may be extraordinary, but scientists say it is almost certainly impossible.
  
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• Apple HomeView hands-on: SHIVALI BEST is one of the first people to test the £299 home device - so, should you buy one for your family?

  14-10-2026 00:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Unveiled at an event in New York, the gadget won't go on sale until November 13. However, the Daily Mail's Science & Technology Editor, Shivali Best, was among the first to get her hands on it.
  
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• Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code

  14-10-2026 00:37 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic's Claude models have been emitting so much code that the company's coding infrastructure hasn't been able to keep up. It's a symptom of the AI coding imperative and all-you-can-eat inference. Microsoft's GitHub in April published a blog post attributing recent availability problems to the exponential growth in pull requests and commits. The code flood has been noted by academic researchers, among others. For Anthropic, writing code is no longer a productivity bottleneck. Instead, the p
  
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• CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many

  13-10-2026 22:57 via theregister.com
  
  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has killed many of the industry partnerships it used to enhance security, but don't tell the organization's acting director. Speaking on Tuesday at a virtual public sector cyber resilience summit hosted by infosec firm Rubrik, Nick Andersen claimed that CISA’s public-private partnerships are the most critical aspect of his agency’s mission. “We don’t see everything. We’re not a law enforcement agency, in
  
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• Power grid emergency declared across 13 US states in urgent bid to prevent blackouts

  13-10-2026 22:32 via dailymail.com
  
  An emergency order has been issued to keep widespread blackouts from impacting over 60 million people in the US.
  
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• OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt

  13-10-2026 22:20 via theregister.com
  
  If you use OpenAI's dot, don't be surprised if it consumes a lot of tokens on its own. According to AI agent security and governance outfit Geordie, one dot agent produced 155 separate activity sequences and consumed more than 300,000 tokens - all without further human interaction, and all in the course of a day. Geordie has been testing the “always on” agentic assistant, dot, since OpenAI announced it in September, following in the footsteps of Meta Muse and Grok Bot. Compared to ot
  
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• Winter blast puts four states on alert as up to 14 inches of snow threaten travel: 'Proceed with caution'

  13-10-2026 22:19 via dailymail.com
  
  A winter blast is bringing up to 14 inches of snow to some parts of the US, threatening slick roads, disrupted commutes and dangerous conditions.
  
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• Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks

  13-10-2026 21:16 via theregister.com
  
  In an effort to give its employees better access to GPU resources for inference tasks, Apple has rounded up its Minions, not the animated yellow creatures, but a distributed system that puts idle GPUs across its Macs to work on AI workloads. Apple researchers describe it as "a dynamic and distributed virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs across macOS devices to execute large-scale machine learning inference workloads." Apple's researchers said the company has used Minions to
  
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• Historic earthquakes strike Atlantic as expert raises fears of seismic 'chain reaction'

  13-10-2026 19:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Two major seaquakes have struck the Atlantic, setting off tsunami monitoring stations along the US East Coast and sparking fears of a larger seismic trend.
  
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• Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing

  13-10-2026 19:18 via theregister.com
  
  An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide through an online form run by the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). The tip, filed July 18 through PhillyUnsolvedMurders[.]com by “someone who might have information about the case,” went straight into the inbox’s spam folder. Anthropic discovered it on September 28, notified the PPD on October 7, and sent representatives to the police HQ the following day. Anthropic told the police the AI submitted
  
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• Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

  13-10-2026 18:49 via theregister.com
  
  Nothing sells AI products as well as fear. Using new research, Anthropic claims that self-replicating AI worms could be just months away from spreading across vulnerable IoT devices, which would be a problem if it came true. The frontier lab published a research report Monday suggesting that AI models could eventually self-replicate without relying on datacenter hardware, with a 9-billion-parameter model successfully setting up inference on eight of the nine hardware types Anthropic tested. &ldq
  
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• Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'

  13-10-2026 18:30 via theregister.com
  
  A financial analyst is questioning whether the collapse in AI costs owing to the arrival of Chinese, low-cost and open source models will cause a “reset” in the AI story as cloud providers struggle to recoup trillions of dollars of capital spending. In a recent research note focused on Asian markets, Jefferies estimates that about half of the roughly $2.3 trillion contracted backlog at Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Oracle is owned by OpenAI and Anthropic. Yet Chinese AI models, ope
  
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• Apple launches the HomeView: £299 smart home device can recognise six family members and brings up a personalised experience for each

  13-10-2026 17:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Called the Apple HomeView, the £299 device was announced at an event in New York today, and is described as a 'smart home management' system.
  
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• Trump Says AI Doesn’t Need Guardrails, Calls Growing Concerns ‘A Hoax’

  13-10-2026 17:12 via technocracy.news
  
  President Trump is essentially channeling Peter Thiel, who is stumping around the around the county talking about the Antichrist. Thiel says that the Antichrist are those who want to limit accelerationism and slow down AI development. This is flat out backassward. Both Thiel and Trump (and all the other arch-Technocrats in Washington) are gaslighting the nation and slamming those who are resisting. As for Biblical scholarship, the whole lot of them can be summed up by one screen actor: Archie Bu
  
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• Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage

  13-10-2026 16:55 via theregister.com
  
  It's the end of support for Office 2021 LTSC and it seems like Microsoft is celebrating with a Microsoft 365 outage for some European customers. The affected service is Global Secure Access (GSA), which customers use to access services including Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Teams, and Windows 365 Cloud PCs. We'd argue the "365" moniker is perhaps a little inaccurate at this point. According to Microsoft, the cause is: "A section of GSA infrastructure is performing below acceptable perfo
  
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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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• Horrifying video reveals what really happens when a bee stings you: Tiny detached stinger keeps drilling into flesh and pumping venom

  13-10-2026 16:05 via dailymail.com
  
  If you've ever grimaced after being stung, new footage might make you wince even more.
  
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• An AI apocalypse could actually be GOOD for humanity: Expert reveals how machines might improve society rather than destroy it

  13-10-2026 15:33 via dailymail.com
  
  The AI apocalypse might be a terrifying concept, but some experts claim that a machine takeover could actually be good for humanity.
  
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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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