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• Volkswagen’s Electric ID. Buzz Looks Well Worth the Wait

  09-03-2022 22:47
  
  VW's all-electric people carrier has finally been revealed. It's bursting with tech, can power your home, and even remember how you drive.
  
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• Dolphins caught on video displaying never-before-seen ability that shocks marine scientists: 'I was screaming'

  18-08-2026 19:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Dolphins have learned to use a new tool in a shocking sign of growing intelligence that was recently caught on camera.
  
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• US government hiding bodies of FOUR alien races, Pentagon's UFO scientist claims: 'I've seen the evidence'

  18-08-2026 17:36 via dailymail.com
  
  A Pentagon scientist has asked for presidential immunity so he can reveal the details about four alien races he allegedly saw in classified military files.
  
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• CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug

  18-08-2026 17:26 via theregister.com
  
  CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical 2025 vulnerability in Ray, the widely used open source framework for scaling Python and machine-learning workloads. Tracked as CVE-2025-62593 and rated 9.4 under CVSS v4, the bug was first disclosed in November 2025. It allows an attacker to use Firefox or Safari to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on a vulnerable Ray system. The open source distributed computing framework is used and supported by major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, and
  
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• The World Reacts To Sam Altman’s Vision Of The Future

  18-08-2026 17:12 via technocracy.news
  
  Unfortunately, I think Altman is right when he says AI will “have perfect context of your whole life” and that it will occur “sometime in the next six months.” This is reminiscent of the Black Mirror episode, Nosedive, where, based on total transparency of activities, a social credit system took over society. Fantasy aside, for this and other reasons, I have moved my AI Multiplier to 3.3 from 3.5, which forecasts the speed of doubling in capacity.
  The multiplier is curren
  
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• 'Aegyo' is the latest Korean trend sweeping the world - with adults using baby voices and 'cute' mannerisms to appear more youthful

  18-08-2026 17:00 via dailymail.com
  
  From mukbangs to K-Beauty, many popular trends hail from South Korea. Now, a new Korean trend is sweeping the world, in which adults use baby voices to appear more youthful.
  
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• Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse

  18-08-2026 16:56 via theregister.com
  
  Apple has released a batch of vulnerability fixes for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, including an image-processing flaw that experts say has the hallmarks of a spyware delivery vector. The most notable patch is for CVE-2026-65346, a defect in the ImageIO framework Apple uses to parse image files. Discovered and reported by Nik Tsytsarkin of Meta's Red Team X, CVE-2026-65346 is an integer-overflow bug that could allow arbitrary code execution when an affected device processes an image. The bug affects
  
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• Boys as young as 13 are showing signs of misogyny: Study reveals 30% of youngsters think men have more of a right to a job than women

  18-08-2026 16:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Nearly a third of young boys believe men have more of a right to a job than women, a new study reveals.
  
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• Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70

  18-08-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. According to an AmigaNews report, King's family said he passed at the end of July. King was a superb programmer – although he accomplished rather more than that. His most widely experienced work was a key component of the original Commodore Amiga's operating system. His port of Cambridge University's TRIPOS OS to the Motorola 68000 CPU became AmigaDOS. His rapid work gettin
  
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• Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu

  18-08-2026 15:17 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft's making some major changes to File Explorer and the context menu in order to resolve quality issues and offer more user flexibility when you right click. "Windows" and "quality" are rarely used positively together, something Microsoft admitted this year. Even the company's boss, Satya Nadella, noted that the company needed to "win back" its fans. For many Windows users, the face of the operating system is File Explorer, and the application has suffered from feature overload, poorly th
  
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• Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

  18-08-2026 15:00 via theregister.com
  
  Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant – eventually tricking it into sending sensitive data to an external server and poisoning its persistent memory, by repeatedly asking Copilot why an attack wouldn’t work. Varonis Threat Labs uncovered the vulnerability, which they named "CoSnitch" and reported to Microsoft in December 2025. Redmond, we’re told, planned to issue a patch and formally identify the CVE on Tuesday. In re
  
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• Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions

  18-08-2026 14:05 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft Teams will continue censoring profanity in captions by default for some government users until the end of August, a month later than planned. In 2023, Microsoft introduced a toggle controlling the profanity filter in Teams Live Captions. Enabled by default, the filter replaced naughty words with asterisks. It was a user-level preference rather than something controlled by the meeting organizer or tenant administrator. Earlier this year, Microsoft had a change of heart and decided to di
  
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• Passport out-of-control at French airport

  18-08-2026 13:20 via theregister.com
  
  BORK!BORK!BORK! Europe's airports can be a minefield for the unwary traveler, especially when that traveler inserts a passport into a waiting kiosk and finds Windows staring back. An eagle-eyed Register reader (they said we could use their name, but we will keep them anonymous for fear of them being added to some sort of list) encountered the Windows desktop where it probably didn't belong this month, while traveling through that little-known French provincial airport: Paris-Charles de Gaulle. O
  
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• Move aside, Usain Bolt! Watch as a humanoid robot dubbed 'Superman' sets a new world speed record - hitting 28.3mph

  18-08-2026 12:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Chinese scientists have developed a robot that can outrun Usain Bolt.
  
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• Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

  18-08-2026 12:34 via theregister.com
  
  The new "bullet-proof" KDE Software Initiative brings long-term fixes to Kubuntu – and other distros can take advantage of them too. Announced late last week, the effort aims to provide "at least" three years of backported fixes for KDE Plasma 6.6 and the associated KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps. It is aimed at Kubuntu 26.04, the latest LTS release of Ubuntu's official KDE Plasma flavor, but other distros are free to pick up the maintained components. This effectively makes Plasma 6.6,
  
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• See Britain's drought from space: Satellite images show southern England turning brown - with London's Hyde Park almost entirely scorched

  18-08-2026 12:06 via dailymail.com
  
  The European Union has released shocking satellite images, showing vast swathes of the country turning brown.
  
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• UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails

  18-08-2026 11:45 via theregister.com
  
  Britain is putting Google AI in the flight-planning loop to see whether airliners can dodge the patches of sky where their vapor trails are most likely to stick around and warm the planet. The UK government is backing a trial to predict where persistent contrails will form over the North Atlantic and help participating aircraft avoid those areas by adjusting their routes or altitude. The Department for Transport is putting £2.6 million into the 30-month project, which will combine Met Offi
  
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• See Britain's drought from space: Shocking satellite images show southern England turning brown - with London's Hyde Park almost entirely scorched

  18-08-2026 11:30 via dailymail.com
  
  The European Union has released shocking satellite images, showing vast swathes of the country turning brown.
  
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• AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find

  18-08-2026 11:00 via theregister.com
  
  The process of training an AI model becomes a paradox at scale – the more it remembers, the less it remembers about the source of its memories. MIT computer scientists went looking for a way to attribute AI model output to specific training data, in the hope that understanding could inform AI regulation. What they found, described in a paper titled, "Outputs of Generative Diffusion Models are Often Unattributable," looks like it will actually make regulation more difficult. Scientific jour
  
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• Hit Me Baby One More Time: Album releases are linked to a spike in car crashes - as distracted drivers try to access music online

  18-08-2026 10:40 via dailymail.com
  
  There's nothing like singing along at the top of your voice while driving - but scientists have discovered new album releases are linked to a spike in car crashes.
  
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• UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%

  18-08-2026 10:31 via theregister.com
  
  Fewer skilled overseas workers are applying for UK tech visas, with numbers down for the third year running even as ministers talk up Britain's chances in the global technology race. The tally fell 7 percent, from 37,376 applications in 2024 to 34,936 last year, according to UK Visas and Immigration figures obtained by accounting company RSM UK and shared with The Register. That's a long way from the 53,729 applications recorded in 2022, when the numbers peaked. RSM reckons the decline risks mak
  
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• Eight of Britain's most popular cars with electric alternatives to cater for all budgets

  18-08-2026 09:04 via dailymail.com
  
  We've chosen some of the most popular new petrol and hybrid cars on sale in Britain that have a very close electric equivalent.
  
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• Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

  18-08-2026 08:43 via theregister.com
  
  Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit. Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 and started making losses. Its balance sheet never climbed back to a safe altitude and in May 2026 the airline grounded itself permanently. The low-cost carrier entered liquidation to wind itself up and is now auctioning assets to raise cash and settle at least some of its debts. A court document [PDF] filed last week reveals that one of the assets up for sale is a huge tro
  
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• Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced

  18-08-2026 07:20 via theregister.com
  
  If you’re struggling to stay up to date with Redmond’s regular product re-branding exercises, here’s the site for you: The Microsoft Rebrand Registry. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Loryan Strant created the site because he thinks it’s a valuable resource, and also in the hope it makes visitors “chuckle.” Readers may remember that Strant has also created the site Let Me Correct That For You, which lists the exact names of Microsoft products –
  
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• Man's best friend until the very end: Archaeologists discover 16 mummies crammed into an ancient Egyptian tomb - including a dog placed on top of a man and woman

  18-08-2026 06:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 16 people and a mummified dog crammed into an ancient Egyptian tomb.
  
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• Tokenization Of H2O: Is O2 Next?

  18-08-2026 05:24 via technocracy.news
  
  Water is the foundation of life itself. The UN says we are entering an age of “Global Water Bankruptcy” and therefore we should be subjected to “bankruptcy management,” where “conservators” are appointed by the court to manage the sale of remaining assets. Hence, tokenization enters stage right: sell the scarcity to the world in a price auction. The whole scheme is indisputably evil! ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.The Elites are Claiming the World’s Water
  
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• Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains

  18-08-2026 03:59 via theregister.com
  
  The Xen Project, home of the open-source hypervisor, has decided it’s time to get serious about formal safety. That’s not an admission of security woes, but a push to ensure the hypervisor complies with formal safety standards like IEC-61508, which defines the processes and practices used in software that runs in devices and settings that could conceivably harm humans. Xen has in recent years emphasized work to make its code more suitable to run in embedded workloads and devices like
  
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• Mysterious swarms of dragonflies descend on California as experts reveal what is fueling invasion

  18-08-2026 00:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Swarms of giant insects are sweeping across California, and experts say it's a very good thing for the region.
  
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• Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

  17-08-2026 23:35 via theregister.com
  
  Are web coders losing their respect for standards? A recent review of the world’s largest sites suggests so. ValidateHTML, a project by independent French developer Théo Ducreux, examined the contents of the 5,000 most widely used web domains, as estimated by the Tranco research project. They include the usual suspects (Google, YouTube, Akamai) plus those without public-facing components (Google’s “gstatic,” EZVIZ’s “Ezviz7”). Ducreux found more t
  
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• Disturbing new tactic cheaters are using to hide their affairs... and experts reveal telltale signs you must know

  17-08-2026 23:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A woman discovered her boyfriend was cheating after an apparently innocent message started to raise alarm bells. It soon turned out that her suspicions were justified.
  
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