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• Vibrating boot that unblocks arteries in your legs

  12-12-2017 00:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A vibrating plastic boot could help to clear clogged arteries in the leg — initial research shows the boot boosts blood flow to the lower leg and foot by more than 40 per cent
  
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• Urgent tsunami alert after massive 7.7 earthquake topples buildings in Panama

  09-10-2026 23:19 via dailymail.com
  
  A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has rocked Panama, prompting an urgent tsunami threat message. Panama City, about 122 miles from the epicenter, experienced major shaking.
  
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• Hurricane Isaias intensifies to Category 3 storm as emergency evacuations ordered and Gulf Coast braces for devastation

  09-10-2026 22:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Hurricane Isaias has rapidly intensified overnight, exploding into a Category 3. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered.
  
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• AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials

  09-10-2026 21:15 via theregister.com
  
  Bob, possibly the same Bob whose conversations with Alice draw so much interest from eavesdropping Eve, was browsing a site we'll call TechHub. The site hosts an AI agent served by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Bob asked the agent for help understanding the content of a URL, a credential endpoint – in raw JSON, if you don't mind. The endpoint returned data from the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), which provides metadata about cloud instances and VMs at providers like AWS, Azure, and Google C
  
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• Psychopaths hiding in plain sight could be exposed by their writing as scientists reveal the hidden clues

  09-10-2026 18:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Psychopaths are generally difficult to identify because they are skilled at masking their traits, but a new study has uncovered surprising clues that give them a way.
  
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• Monster Hurricane Isaias barrels toward Florida and Alabama with 120mph winds as residents flee, gas stations are swamped and nine-foot storm surge threatens Gulf Coast: Live updates

  09-10-2026 18:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Category three Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall at 7pm tonight as strong winds and storm surges lash the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage

  09-10-2026 18:14 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft 365 subscribers on Family, Premium, or Pro tiers who make full use of their OneDrive storage allotments consider this a warning: It’s fixin’ to shrink. Redmond published a support page this week detailing changes to Microsoft 365 shared storage allotments, and while the company is painting them as offering greater flexibility for users, they also represent a massive reduction in capacity. The former storage allotment schema offered 1TB per user on all three of those tiers,
  
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• Move over .com! Major online shake-up could see websites ending in .fart and .taylorswift

  09-10-2026 17:57 via dailymail.com
  
  In the biggest shakeup of the internet in over a decade, the way you look for websites could get a lot sillier.
  
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• SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

  09-10-2026 17:55 via theregister.com
  
  SpaceX is looking to take on the incumbent mobile networks in the US with a combination of low-band spectrum that can penetrate indoors together with the 2 GHz spectrum supported by its Starlink Gen2 satellites for bandwidth. The rocket-flinging operation says it cut a deal to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio of up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band, which will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major cellular carrier in the US. SpaceX agreed
  
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• Hurricane Isaias threatens catastrophic destruction as Gulf Coast residents are ordered to evacuate before landfall tonight: Live updates

  09-10-2026 17:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Category three Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall at 7pm tonight as strong winds and storm surges lash the Gulf Coast.
  
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• System-wide outage hits Southwest Airlines as departures reportedly halted across US

  09-10-2026 17:18 via dailymail.com
  
  A systems outage has disrupted series on Southwest flights, reportedly leaving travelers stuck at airports throughout the US.
  
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• Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters

  09-10-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Large-scale AI training has already escaped the confines of a single datacenter. Google said Gemini was trained synchronously across clusters in multiple locations; Microsoft has connected AI data centres in Wisconsin and Georgia into what it describes as one distributed AI supercomputer; AWS has connected AI compute clusters across wide areas to allow Anthropic to build Claude models; Meta has built high-capacity datacenter interconnects to support model training; and CoreWeave and Google Cloud
  
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• Super El Niño could cut off your internet! Experts warn wet and stormy conditions may trigger broadband blackouts this winter

  09-10-2026 16:58 via dailymail.com
  
  An 'unprecedented' El Niño will trigger severe storms and power cuts that could leave millions offline this winter, experts have warned.
  
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• Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world

  09-10-2026 16:44 via theregister.com
  
  Oracle's new Fusion Claw runtime could give customers more control over AI agents automating business processes, analysts say. But they warn that adoption remains at an early stage and customers risk becoming more tightly tied to Oracle's applications and cloud. Having promised "applications that can reason, decide, and act in pursuit of defined business objectives" back in March, Big Red has now introduced a runtime to govern their actions, running on its cloud and integrated with its Fusion ap
  
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• Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand

  09-10-2026 15:44 via theregister.com
  
  The global PC market has taken a beating, with shipments plunging more than 20 percent in the third quarter as the AI-driven memory shortage pushes up prices and buyers decide their existing machines will do just fine. New figures from Omdia show worldwide shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 21.2 percent year-on-year to 58.1 million units in Q3 2026. IDC tells a similar story, estimating a 20.1 percent decline to 62.7 million units. The research firms differ on shipment total
  
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• The first-date diet: Scientist reveals garlic could boost your sex appeal while fizzy drinks and sweeteners may ruin your chances

  09-10-2026 15:22 via dailymail.com
  
  The days of worrying about what to wear on a first date may be over - as what you've eaten beforehand could be just as important, according to a nutritionist.
  
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• US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway

  09-10-2026 14:44 via theregister.com
  
  American defense biz Shield AI says combined US government funding and its own investment commitments have reached $400 million to advance its autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter drone toward flight testing. The X-BAT aircraft was unveiled at an event in Washington DC last year for an audience of military leaders. According to Shield AI, the US Navy has committed an additional $150 million on top of earlier funding for the project. The company is stumping up a further $150 mi
  
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• The AI 'mathpocalypse': Artificial intelligence systems crack hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking fears that mathematicians could become obsolete

  09-10-2026 14:43 via dailymail.com
  
  OpenAI announced that an unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) has cracked hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking a crisis in the mathematics world.
  
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• How to stay in Vogue: Study reveals Madonna's voice has barely aged despite decades in the spotlight

  09-10-2026 14:42 via dailymail.com
  
  She's the pop icon who famously refuses to act her age. And according to a new study, Madonna may have applied that philosophy to her voice, too.
  
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• Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch

  09-10-2026 13:43 via theregister.com
  
  Citrix is urging customers to patch another critical NetScaler vulnerability after weeks of disclosures involving actively exploited flaws. CVE-2026-107406 affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway and can lead to remote code execution (RCE) or denial of service (DoS). It carries a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.5. The affected configurations depend on the software version. Older builds are vulnerable when configured as a SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) service provider (SP) or identity provid
  
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• Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

  09-10-2026 12:42 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic has updated its rules to stop people being mean to Claude, apparently deciding that its AI chatbot needs protection from the humans paying to use it. The AI developer's latest usage policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models. The rules take effect November 12, giving users just over a month to get any lingering insults out of their systems. "The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward ou
  
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• Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

  09-10-2026 11:46 via theregister.com
  
  A Norwegian startup says it ran up a $17,600 bill using Claude in Microsoft Foundry after assuming its Azure credits would cover the cost. We reported a similar case in March, involving third-party model charges that weren't covered by Azure sponsorship credits. This time, the customer says Microsoft and Anthropic each directed it to the other to resolve the charges. Vegalabs AS says it received $25,060 in Azure credits through Microsoft for Startups and deployed Claude in August, expecting its
  
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• Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

  09-10-2026 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information.
  
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• Life on Mars: NASA rover captures breathtaking Martian dawn as mysterious cliffs emerge from the darkness

  09-10-2026 11:28 via dailymail.com
  
  NASA's Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of a Martian dawn, revealing mysterious cliffs emerging from the darkness.
  
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• BOFH: Smells like team spirit

  09-10-2026 11:04 via theregister.com
  
  CRISIS! The ancient computer in the basement – which has something to do with our waste water system – has stopped. And while we may not know exactly what it does when it's running, we definitely know what happens when it stops. The PFY and I took a look, and while (in theory) it's possible that we could fire up a replacement machine, I can pretty much guarantee the two ISA cards, identified only by the markings "#1" and "#2", will cause a problem. This is definitely one of those sit
  
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• Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?

  09-10-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  Most enterprise software estates run to somebody else’s calendar. End-of-support dates, license model changes and needless upgrades arrive on the vendor’s schedule, and the IT team absorbs them: the migration nobody budgeted for, the re-platforming that displaces a project the business actually asked for, the patch cadence that is really a product roadmap in disguise. Origina, an independent provider of software maintenance and support, puts figures on the pressure. As a rule of thum
  
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• Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell

  09-10-2026 09:31 via theregister.com
  
  Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column which often shares your stories of what happens when incompetent people climb the greasy pole and send their failures straight back down into the lap of tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Preston," who wrote to share his story of working as a field service tech in the late 1990s. "I'd risen to the rank of senior field service engineer and was offered a position in consultancy," Prest
  
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• Nvidia-backed data centre firm scraps IPO as AI valuation concerns deepen

  09-10-2026 09:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firmus said it had made the decision due to "recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions".
  
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• 'Careless use of AI is the real threat - not the ghost stories'

  09-10-2026 09:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meredith Whittaker says the tech has been misunderstood, in an exclusive interview with BBC Global Women.
  
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• Why Elon Musk is taking on India's richest man over Starlink

  09-10-2026 08:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Musk has taken pot-shots at Reliance owner Mukesh Ambani as Starlink struggles to launch in India.
  
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