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• Trans People’s Mental Health Is Being Weaponized Against Them

  07-07-2023 13:00
  
  A proposed "emergency rule" in Missouri directly attacked the medical autonomy of trans adults.
  
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• Mystery of missing UFO-linked Air Force general deepens as new photo reveals final moments before vanishing

  12-06-2026 23:45 via dailymail.com
  
  An unearthed image of the missing Air Force general in New Mexico tied to UFO secrets has raised new questions about what he was doing hours before he vanished without a trace.
  
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• Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

  12-06-2026 22:12 via theregister.com
  
  GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has surged, driven in large part by AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows. The code-sharing site has been trying to address those issues by expanding capacity and migrating more workloads to Azure infrastructure, but reliability remains uneven. In the May 2026 GitHub Availability Report, GitHub acknowledges nine incidents that degraded performance, one fewer than its April report. That
  
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• New photo of missing UFO-linked Air Force general just hours before he vanished reveals mysterious package

  12-06-2026 22:04 via dailymail.com
  
  An unearthed image of the missing Air Force general in New Mexico tied to UFO secrets has raised new questions about what he was doing hours before he vanished without a trace.
  
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• MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

  12-06-2026 21:10 via theregister.com
  
  MX Linux 25.2 is here, now with kernel 7.0 if you choose – although the Raspberry Pi edition still needs some work. MX Linux has been quietly turning into one of the Reg FOSS desk’s favorite distros for a few years now. It has a number of desirable attributes, and with version 25.2 released late last month, some of the slightly bumpier parts of the major upgrade to version 25 are getting smoothed out. We looked at MX Linux 25 in November last year, and reported that one of the niftie
  
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• Secret NASA audio captures 'alien base' comment during moon mission debrief

  12-06-2026 20:45 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

  12-06-2026 20:21 via theregister.com
  
  A disgruntled IT worker faces 21 months behind bars after being found guilty of sabotaging his former employer’s systems for more than a year and half. Ezekiel Dean Potter, 34, was fired from his IT support job at Iowa’s SaydelU Community School District (SCSD) in April 2023. He was found guilty of causing various technical damages to SCSD’s systems betwUeen May 2023 and January 2025.UU At his sentencing hearing on June 11, the court heard thaUt the IT worker had gathered and s
  
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• Fears of 'imminent' UFO invasion triggered urgent response from US military, new bombshell files reveal

  12-06-2026 19:37 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• ‘Jesus-Level Technologies’: China Beats Elon Musk To Launch World’s First Commercial Brain Chip

  12-06-2026 19:03 via technocracy.news
  
  Does Musk have a Messiah complex?  He says about Neuralink, “They’re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies.” As early as 2022, he said that the “blind will see and the lame will walk”, roughly paraphrasing Jesus in Luke 7:22. As a transhumanist, Musk supports the merger of human flesh with advanced technology. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured.
  
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• Glowing red orbs with 'plasma centers' seen hovering over US backyard... as FBI rushed to interview witnesses this year

  12-06-2026 17:48 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• New files reveal baffling transparent UFO that warped space itself when spotted over the US

  12-06-2026 17:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A newly released file reveals a UFO encounter in which federal agents reported seeing a transparent object that appeared to warp the view behind it.
  
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• KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

  12-06-2026 17:38 via theregister.com
  
  KPMG's October 2025 report on the wonders of agentic AI has been accused of demonstrating one of the tech's less desirable talents: making things up. Research outfit GPTZero claims a forensic review of the Big Four firm's October 2025 report, "Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI," found that only five of its 45 citations correctly pointed to the cited source; the rest ranged from mangled and misleading to partially fabricated or too vague to verify. The consulting in
  
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• Instagram and Facebook are DOWN: Worldwide outage leaves thousands of users unable to access Meta's apps

  12-06-2026 16:40 via dailymail.com
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues began at around 14:36 BST today. So far, more than 3,000 problems have been logged on the monitoring site.
  
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• New UFO files dump reveals CIA destroyed a 'message from space': Live updates

  12-06-2026 15:58 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• Instagram is DOWN: Worldwide outage leaves users unable to post Stories or send DMs

  12-06-2026 15:56 via dailymail.com
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues began at around 14:36 BST today. So far, more than 3,000 problems have been logged on the monitoring site.
  
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• Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod

  12-06-2026 15:54 via theregister.com
  
  Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk says data related to clinical trial participants was stolen as part of a cyberattack. The affected patient data was pseudonymized and not directly linked to names or other direct identifiers, the company said. The maker of the Wegovy weight-loss drug said the affected data types include patient ID, information on trial participation, gender, year of birth, biomarkers, health/immunogenicity data, and lifestyle factors including smoking status, alcohol use, and BM
  
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• Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year

  12-06-2026 15:08 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon says its datacenters used about 2.5 billion gallons of water last year, but claims that's far less than rival hyperscalers and that it remains on track to become "water positive" by 2030. In a blog post, the digital tat bazaar and cloud computing biz says the 2.5 billion gallon figure covers its entire global datacenter footprint for 2025. It downplayed the number by comparing it to the volume of water Americans - a country of 350 million people - used on lawns and gardens over the same p
  
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• Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

  12-06-2026 15:05 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And the company's Copilot AI software inadvertently helped identify the faulty firmware. According to Jack Darcy, a security researcher based in Australia, his instance of Microsoft Copilot stumbled across the bug after being asked to adjust the screen backlighting
  
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• Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

  12-06-2026 15:05 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And the company's Copilot AI software inadvertently helped identify the faulty firmware. According to Jack Darcy, a security researcher based in Australia, his instance of Microsoft Copilot stumbled across the bug after being asked to adjust the screen backlighting
  
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• I found alien DNA hidden in human genes: Inside a scientist's hunt for extraterrestrial hybrids as CIA is accused of secretly tracking them

  12-06-2026 14:52 via dailymail.com
  
  A geneticist attempting to find alien-human hybrids on Earth says he knows what the CIA is allegedly looking for in public DNA databases like 23andMe.
  
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• Trump releases THIRD bombshell tranche of UFO files revealing shape-shifting orbs over the US and CIA reports hidden for decades

  12-06-2026 14:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The Trump administration on Friday opened another chapter in its UFO disclosure campaign, releasing a third wave of previously hidden files.
  
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• Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops

  12-06-2026 14:14 via theregister.com
  
  Google has sued an alleged China-based cybercrime operation it says used AI-powered phishing kits to blast out millions of scam text messages and funnel victims to fake websites designed to steal passwords, payment cards, and other sensitive information. The complaint targets a group Google refers to as the "Outsider Enterprise," which the company describes as a sprawling criminal network that operates on Telegram and supplies phishing tools to other fraudsters. According to Google's filing, the
  
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• The most handsome footballers at the World Cup, according to science - and Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't even make the top 40

  12-06-2026 14:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts have used the Golden Ratio to uncover the most beautiful players competing at the World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
  
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• SpaceX's $75B IPO has investors seeing stars

  12-06-2026 13:38 via theregister.com
  
  SpaceX has priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share, raising $75 billion and valuing Elon Musk's rocket biz at roughly $1.78 trillion. The haul could rise to about $86 billion if underwriters exercise their option to buy more stock, making it the largest IPO in US history. The company confirmed [PDF] that 555.6 million shares of Class A common stock were sold in the offering, with another 83.3 million available to underwriters. SpaceX is a loss-making company. In its Form S
  
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• Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

  12-06-2026 13:38 via theregister.com
  
  UPDATED SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share on Friday, raising $75 billion and valuing Elon Musk's rocket biz at roughly $1.78 trillion. Retail investors piled in to get a handful of Musk's magic beans, sending shares up 19% on the first day, valuing the company at over $2.1 trillion, and turning the South African native into the world's first trillionaire based on his stakes in both SpaceX and Tesla. The haul for the space exploration and satellite company coul
  
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• The fungal network hidden beneath our feet: Secret web of fungi could circle Earth 2.7 TRILLION times

  12-06-2026 13:26 via dailymail.com
  
  It might sound like something out of The Last of Us, but scientists have uncovered a hidden fungal network lurking beneath our feet.
  
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• The most handsome footballers at the World Cup, according to science - and Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't even make the top 40

  12-06-2026 12:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts have used the Golden Ratio to uncover the most beautiful players competing at the World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
  
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• Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

  12-06-2026 12:51 via theregister.com
  
  London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is planning to cut around 700 extra frontline posts after being blocked from awarding a software contract to US supplier Palantir, Commissioner Mark Rowley said. On May 20, the capital's deputy mayor for policing and crime Kaya Comer-Schwartz refused to approve the MPS's plan to hand its Unified Operational Analytics (UOA) contract, worth up to £50 million over two years, to Palantir. The force already uses Palantir in professional standards inves
  
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• Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe

  12-06-2026 12:32 via theregister.com
  
  Plymouth City Council has joined the growing ranks of public bodies defeated by the humble BCC field after exposing the email addresses of around 500 home-schooling families in a mass-mailing mishap. The blunder comes barely a week after City of York Council disclosed a similar mistake that exposed the email addresses of hundreds of disabled residents, suggesting that some public sector workers remain engaged in an ongoing battle with one of email's oldest features. The message, sent by Plymouth
  
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• UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

  12-06-2026 12:13 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government has set up an advisory board for its digital ID project, intended "to challenge the government on emerging ideas or policy decisions to ensure the system works for everyone," says the Cabinet Office. The board includes David Rogers, an Internet of Things security expert and CEO of security consultancy Copper Horse. He is no stranger to government advisory panels, having previously sat on a group formed in 2020 to consider telecoms diversification. A year later, as chairman of t
  
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