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• Uber is tracking dangerous drivers with smartphone sensors

  26-01-2016 12:11
  
  Uber has started using smartphone sensors to record if drivers are going too fast or accelerating too aggressively.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs

  09-06-2026 22:49 via theregister.com
  
  If your phone is too compelling, your sex life might not be. American birth rates have been declining for nearly two decades now, and researchers believe they’ve identified a potential new culprit: The iPhone. That’s right: A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper examines AT&T mobile broadband coverage from the iPhone’s 2007 launch until the company lost carrier exclusivity in 2011. Comparing birth rates across counties and controlling for confounding factors,
  
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• NASA faces backlash after revealing four astronauts for key Artemis III moon mission

  09-06-2026 22:00 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA has unveiled the four astronauts chosen for a key moon mission, but the Artemis III crew selection has drawn criticism from the public.
  
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• Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos

  09-06-2026 21:32 via theregister.com
  
  It's here. Anthropic's Mythos model, supposedly too dangerous for public release in April, is now available to wreak havoc or tackle other tasks for a hefty price and with some new guardrails in place. Just make sure you don't mind having Anthropic keep some of your data for a while. The AI biz on Tuesday announced public availability of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, and private availability of Claude Mythos 5 for Glasswing partners. Both are distinct from Mythos Preview, the model famil
  
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• UFO whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill with explosive claims about alien life

  09-06-2026 20:16 via dailymail.com
  
  UFO whistleblowers and US lawmakers joined forces to reveal shocking new claims about alien life and the coverup to hide it from the public.
  
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• Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source

  09-06-2026 20:05 via theregister.com
  
  As if the Miasma situation weren't bad enough, now this weapon is spreading like wildfire. Someone open sourced the entire Miasma worm supply-chain attack toolkit, likely using previously compromised developers' accounts to publish GitHub repositories containing the self-spreading malware’s source code over the last 24 hours. SafeDep, a company focused on open source supply chain security that developed Package Management Guard (PMG), spotted the malicious repos, named “Miasma-Open-S
  
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• MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer

  09-06-2026 19:31 via theregister.com
  
  The process for producing triple-layer drug-delivery particles and materials for tissue regeneration could get easier, thanks to a new advance in creating the electrospray nozzles used to make them. A team of MIT researchers has now used a 3D resin printer to output tiny electrospray nozzles without the expensive cleanrooms they normally require. A team led by MIT principal research scientist Dr. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García detailed its work developing tiny arrays of triaxial el
  
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• NASA faces backlash after revealing four astronauts set to fly to the moon on Artemis III mission

  09-06-2026 19:13 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA has unveiled the four astronauts chosen for a key moon mission, but the Artemis III crew selection has drawn criticism from the public.
  
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• Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap

  09-06-2026 18:13 via theregister.com
  
  Apple says that its next-gen operating system will allow users to update their weak and compromised passwords with a single tap. Upgrades coming to iOS 27, announced at Tim Cook’s last Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, introduce a significant change to the way users manage their passwords. “Building on its ability to alert users about weak and compromised passwords, Passwords can now automatically fix these for users with just a tap,” Apple said on Monday. &ldqu
  
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• Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition

  09-06-2026 17:30 via theregister.com
  
  "The no-kill-switch kind of thing? It's increasingly becoming a requirement," says Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem. This is one of the reasons behind the company's decision to buy GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software platform built on the graph database, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Palantir, the controversial US spy-tech biz. The purchase has been in the offing for a while, but the timing of the announcement was fortuitous for Neo4j. On the same day, the European Commission p
  
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• Steven Spielberg sparks Christian fury amid claims his new movie will destroy beliefs

  09-06-2026 16:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Steven Spielberg has ignited a fierce online debate after suggesting his new Disclosure Day film could prompt Christians to reexamine some of their core beliefs.
  
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• LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

  09-06-2026 16:27 via theregister.com
  
  The Document Foundation has taken a swing at Euro-Office, accusing the self-described sovereign productivity suite of doing Microsoft's content lock-in strategy a favor while wrapping itself in the language of European digital independence. The attack came from Italo Vignoli, a founding member of The Document Foundation, who published an open letter on Monday, just hours before after Euro-Office 1.0 debuted as what its backers describe as a "truly open" and sovereign alternative to Microsoft Off
  
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• Invasion of flesh-eating parasites triggers quarantines in multiple US counties as deadly outbreak spreads

  09-06-2026 16:10 via dailymail.com
  
  A major quarantine has been issued, affecting thousands of people, as fears of a large-scale spread of parasites becomes reality.
  
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• Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

  09-06-2026 15:36 via theregister.com
  
  Research by AppSec biz Checkmarx finds that 70 percent of developers believe AI-generated code has more vulnerabilities, and 30 percent knowingly ship vulnerable code into production. The report is based on responses from 2,350 global developers, CISOs, and AppSec managers, and follows similar annual surveys since 2023. The number of respondents is 54 percent higher this year than last, and the increased sample size may account for a somewhat surprising statistic: the reported proportion of AI-g
  
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• Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

  09-06-2026 14:41 via theregister.com
  
  Signal insists that plans to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children announced by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at London Tech Week "will not keep children safe." "It endangers us all," the encrypted messaging platform said, adding that the mechanism required to implement it would be "dangerous." And it wouldn't be a pro-privacy statement without calling it "dystopian." Signal argues that the proposed technology could at some point be repurposed to enable sta
  
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• Experts issue urgent warning over trendy 'squishy dumpling' toys - as tests reveal some versions contain hazardous chemicals

  09-06-2026 14:26 via dailymail.com
  
  While the original toy is made by RMS, dupes are now being producted by a wide range of manufacturers. However, tests show that many of these toys contain hazardous chemicals.
  
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• Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year

  09-06-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, but has disclosed little beyond the bare technical details. The company patched the issue in the latest Stable Channel releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It also awarded a $55,000 bounty to the
  
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• France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack

  09-06-2026 13:27 via theregister.com
  
  French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light on June 7 when France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) detected suspicious activity on Tchap, the government's homegrown messaging service used across ministries and public sector organizations. The French Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), which operates the platform, said it im
  
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• Apple just made five popular Apple Watches 'obsolete' - and it will leave users without any support if something goes wrong

  09-06-2026 13:20 via dailymail.com
  
  After Apple unveiled its latest software updates at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), some tech fans are in for an unexpected disappointment.
  
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• Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages

  09-06-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  Timing, as we noted previously, is everything. Now hard-pressed tech services biz Kyndryl is dishing out shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to execs in the middle of a redundancy program – and some staff are not amused. According to SEC filings made on June 5, chairman and CEO Martin Schroeter was awarded 19,406 units of common stock, valued at $12.25 per share. On the same day, Kyndryl confirmed Group President Elly Keinan and interim CFO Harsh Chugh were given 133,894 shares a
  
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• Britain is crazy for SALMON: Demand for the fish skyrockets as health-conscious TikTokers flock to stock up

  09-06-2026 12:14 via dailymail.com
  
  New figures released by Salmon Scotland have revealed how demand for the humble fish has soared over the last year.
  
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• Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks

  09-06-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  BORK!BORK!BORK! Good news from the Paris Metro. To show off the nation's technological prowess, Parisian techies have eschewed such fripperies as advertisements and transit information in favor of a good, old-fashioned directory browser. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader "DJ Finsletown," the screen adorned a carriage of Line 11 at the Chatêlet terminus earlier in June. It looks to us as though a web server threw a bit of a wobbly and showed users its undercarriage. Then again, France d
  
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• The ominous pattern leading up to a Super El Niño: NASA satellites reveal how warming ocean waters impact marine life across the globe

  09-06-2026 11:41 via dailymail.com
  
  As the world faces the imminent threat of a Super El Niño, NASA satellites have revealed the ominous patterns behind this building weather pattern.
  
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• Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records

  09-06-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  The patient tally from the Synnovis ransomware attack continues to grow two years later, with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirming it was caught up in the breach. The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing. The disclosure follows a similar announcement by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which earlier this month said that almost 33,000 patient records had been caught
  
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• World's shark attack hotspots revealed: As a great white is spotted in the Mediterranean, experts reveal the areas where you're most likely to be bitten

  09-06-2026 11:13 via dailymail.com
  
  The world's shark attack hotspots have been revealed, after a great white shark was spotted in the Mediterranean Sea.
  
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• UK.gov warned that digital transformation hype is no substitute for delivery

  09-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  At the beginning of last year, the UK government was riding high in its first term, having swept to power the previous July. It wasted no time making bold claims: publicly funded services, including the NHS, local councils, and central government were missing out on a potential £45 billion ($55 billion) in productivity savings due to outdated or poorly used technology. To tackle these issues, Peter Kyle, the then Technology Secretary, promised "digital tools, AI and common sense to overhau
  
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• Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

  09-06-2026 03:17 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION The US government is reportedly weighing whether to take a financial stake in AI companies, which looks a bit like negotiating for a seat on the Titanic. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic, the marquee brands in US AI, are profitable yet. While Anthropic may be nearer to that point if its accounting survives scrutiny, OpenAI's $1.4 trillion in financial commitments over the next eight years have been interpreted as a red flag for investors. This raises (at least) two questions: Should the US g
  
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• Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid

  09-06-2026 01:25 via theregister.com
  
  At its 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple offered a vision of how to integrate AI with its products that stands out for its sobriety, responsibility, and plausibility. In contrast to the job-killing, security-breaking, human-replacing hype promulgated by the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI, company execs dialed down their usual superlative-laden effusiveness to convey how AI tools can actually help software developers, as well as those using Apple products. Capabilities like Safari's Noti
  
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• Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto

  09-06-2026 00:13 via theregister.com
  
  There's another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency - and this one doesn't even involve embedding IT workers at high-profile tech giants. A previously unseen phishing crew, suspected to have DPRK ties, sent more than 250 emails to people working in almost 100 organizations, mostly based in the US, over six weeks in April and May. According to security sleuths, it is yet another digital-heist attempt designed to
  
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• The Final Lock: UK Clamps Down On Digital ID To Access The Internet

  09-06-2026 00:12 via technocracy.news
  
  In my new book, The New Economics of Technocracy, I revealed that the final lock for Technocracy is Digital ID after Programmable Money and Asset Tokenization are in progress. All three are in lock-step in the UK. Google and Apple are driving the process in the UK with mandatory age verification. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.The Labour government in Britain is accelerating its assault on digital privacy under the well-worn banner of child protection. Fresh plans leaked to the press reveal minist
  
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