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• Warning over popular erectile dysfunction pill - scientists find it could BLIND you

  05-08-2026 00:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say patients taking tadalafil - commonly prescribed under the brand name Cialis - may be up to 33 per cent more likely to develop glaucoma.
  
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• I attended a secret UFO meeting preparing Christians for 'the truth' and saw shape-shifting beings. Trump's files hide a clue to where these 'aliens' come from

  07-08-2026 22:19 via dailymail.com
  
  The man who claims he brought pastors from around the US to a secret UFO disclosure meeting has revealed what he says are missed clues in the latest declassified files.
  
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• Declassified UFO files reveal hunt for 'dead spaceman' after mysterious sphere crashed in city

  07-08-2026 22:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Declassified UFO files have revealed how US officials investigated reports that a 'dead spaceman' had been discovered inside a mysterious metal sphere.
  
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• Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks

  07-08-2026 21:53 via theregister.com
  
  With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked - most likely by Iran - we have to get better at cyber defense, according to retired General and Ex-NSA chief Paul Nakasone, who was speaking to reporters at DEF CON. “We have to have higher standards,” Nakasone said. “These PLCs should not be connected to the internet.” In late July, the FBI said it was investigating attacks conducted by “malicious cyber actors” targeting operational technolog
  
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• AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

  07-08-2026 20:53 via theregister.com
  
  The AI giants have joined forces to ask the world’s developers to all please write their agentic skills and tools into the same format. In return, coders will be able to move these superpowers easily from one platform to another (such as when they get laid off). It's designed to be write once, run everywhere. Vercel posted the initial draft of the Agent Plugins spec on Thursday, with input from Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI, which all pledged fidelity (and engineers) to the project
  
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• Trump releases new UFO footage as files expose silent 500ft triangle over US base and mysterious body with indecipherable markings

  07-08-2026 20:41 via dailymail.com
  
  The fifth tranche of Trump's UFO files has been released, exposing dozens of reports and videos previously hidden from the public.
  
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• Blind psychic Baba Vanga's chilling 2026 warnings resurface as clock ticks on three prophecies

  07-08-2026 20:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Three of Baba Vanga's darkest warnings are still looming as 2026 enters its final months, as her followers are sure two of the five have already come true.
  
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• Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI

  07-08-2026 18:45 via theregister.com
  
  Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in July, with UK firm Comparitech counting 799 incidents, up from 668 in June. Of those, 51 had been confirmed by victims. The tally makes July the second-busiest month of the year for ransomware, behind March, albeit just barely, when the firm recorded 805 attacks. The most interesting data after this surging month of attacks is the targets: While news of widespread cyberattacks targeting water infrastructure in the United States may be dominating sec
  
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• Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

  07-08-2026 18:12 via theregister.com
  
  Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) say that they have overcome plasma instability issues standing in the way of commercial fusion power plants. The boffins overseeing the MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) Upgrade installation at UKAEA's Culham Campus in Oxfordshire conducted a fifth series of experiments on it during 2025 and 2026 and produced more than 1,100 fusion plasmas. During these experiments, the team demonstrated the highest pressure ever achieved with the MAST Upgrade
  
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• Chilling map reveals where ground could give way beneath 6.5 million Americans... is your home at risk?

  07-08-2026 17:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have issued a dire warning after discovering 6.5 million Americans live on terrain at risk of potentially deadly landslides.
  
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• Chilling map exposes hidden danger threatening 6.5 million Americans' homes... is your family at risk?

  07-08-2026 17:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have issued a dire warning after discovering 6.5 million Americans live on terrain at risk of potentially deadly landslides.
  
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• N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands

  07-08-2026 17:01 via theregister.com
  
  N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central zero-day made it into customer networks, as the vendor pushes out a second mandatory hotfix just days after the first. The security shop published an update on Thursday detailing what happened after attackers exploited CVE-2026-18577, the critical N-central flaw that can hand an unauthenticated attacker administrative access to the remote monitoring and management platform. According to N-able, attackers exploited vulnerable N-central server
  
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• ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses

  07-08-2026 16:53 via theregister.com
  
  Hackers have dumped data stolen from Abbott’s cancer diagnostics business after the healthcare giant apparently declined to pay up, with the leak containing 10.9 million unique email addresses alongside personal and health information. Have I Been Pwned added the Exact Sciences breach to its database on Friday after data stolen by the ShinyHunters extortion crew was published online. The leak includes names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, and personal
  
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• Chilling map exposes landslide danger zones threatening 6.5 million Americans

  07-08-2026 16:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists have issued a dire warning after discovering 6.5 million Americans live on terrain at risk of potentially deadly landslides.
  
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• MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

  07-08-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at DEF CON 34 that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses against Spectre v2. Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) shared their paper [PDF] with The Register ahead of publication. Their attack targets mitigations designed to neutralize potentially hostile branch predictor states before sensitive code runs. Such neutralization is an important def
  
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• Flock Is Losing Dozens Of Contracts As Citizens Push Back

  07-08-2026 16:10 via technocracy.news
  
  The public hates surveillance cameras and, in particular, Flock cameras. The FBI says they don’t work to solve or prevent crime. Local police love them as a shiny new toy, but police don’t run the cities and they are taking the heat for it. City councils, pushed by citizens, are fighting back to stop Flock and other companies as well. Courtenay Turner and I wrote the Digital Bill of Rights for you to take to all local elected and appointed officials, to show them the right way to pro
  
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• Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder

  07-08-2026 15:59 via theregister.com
  
  A Scottish NHS trust is investigating a data breach concerning the medical records of a nine-year-old girl who died earlier this week and was named publicly for the first time on Wednesday after a man was charged with her death. The alleged breach occurred at Ninewells Hospital in Arbroath, and reportedly involved staff members accessing the girl’s medical records without authorization or clinical need. A spokesperson for NHS Tayside, which oversees Ninewells Hospital, said: “NHS Tay
  
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• Trump releases new UFO footage as files expose silent 500ft triangle over US base and mysterious body with undecipherable markings

  07-08-2026 14:57 via dailymail.com
  
  The fifth tranche of Trump's UFO files has been released, exposing dozens of reports and videos previously hidden from the public.
  
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• Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

  07-08-2026 14:39 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft is killing Live chat in Teams about 18 months after launch as it seeks to "focus investments on newer customer engagement and communication experiences." The service will be retired on October 5, when customer messages will stop reaching Teams. Microsoft blocked new setups on August 6 and told users to remove the widget from their websites before retirement. Any remaining instances will be hidden afterward. Live chat was a relatively simple feature available with the Teams versions of
  
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• Artificial Armageddon? As AI designs 16 brand-new VIRUSES, scientists raise fears bots could come up with a catastrophic bioweapon

  07-08-2026 14:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Simon Clarke, amicrobiologist at the University of Reading, warned the technology could potentially be used to create dangerous bioweapons.
  
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• Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account

  07-08-2026 13:32 via theregister.com
  
  US defense and aerospace supplier IEH Corporation 'fessed up that a criminal managed to break into its Microsoft 365 mailbox in a filing with regulators. In a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, IEH said one of its staffers fell for a phishing scam that gave an attacker access to its M365 environment. The attacker "impersonated a prospective business contact" and sent the employee what appeared to be a genuine Microsoft sharing link. The accompanying fake logi
  
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• Vets tell Brits to ditch Pugs for Jugs and Puggles: Crossbreeds have the same lovable personalities as flat-faced breeds - but a fraction of the health problems

  07-08-2026 13:05 via dailymail.com
  
  It's one of the most popular dog breeds in the UK. But if you're considering getting a Pug, vets suggest you look at Jugs or Puggles instead.
  
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• Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk

  07-08-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million people, making it the largest healthcare breach reported to regulators so far this year. The attack dates to last October, when Ohio-based medical software maker Unlimited Technology Systems (UTS) detected someone poking around its commercial datacenter. The company disclosed the breach in July but did not initially say how many people were affected. The scale is now clearer
  
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• 'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

  07-08-2026 12:03 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE Don't waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they're essentially already there, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis. “If they pass the Turing test to everyone that they come into contact with, they're probably already there,” he told The Register during an interview at the Black Hat security conference. “They don't have the kind of agency and aspiration that comes with sentience, but they have something approaching it.&
  
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• Have YOU seen a ghost? Study maps the 'uncanny' experiences we rarely talk about - and it turns out they're much more common than we thought

  07-08-2026 11:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Have you seen a ghost, had an out-of-body-experience, or experienced deja vu? If so, you're not alone - as a study reveals 'uncanny' experiences are more common than we thought.
  
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• Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses

  07-08-2026 11:26 via theregister.com
  
  A former Merseyside police officer will today begin his 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after being found guilty of Computer Misuse Act (CMA) and Data Protection Act (DPA) offenses while serving. Daniel Hughes, 40, from Liverpool, carried out repeated unauthorized searches using police computer systems between 2016 and 2019, often including intelligence related to firearm and drug cases involving members of serious organised crime. Between 2019 and 2021, the Crown Prosecution
  
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• See the damage left behind by SpaceX on the moon: Shocking photos reveal new lunar crater carved out by one of Elon Musk's discarded rockets

  07-08-2026 11:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Shocking images have revealed the damage left behind when Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon.
  
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• Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

  07-08-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs each Friday to share your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Darwin," who once worked as a sysadmin for a Wall Street law firm – the sort of outfit that charges four-figure hourly fees and justifies them by pointing to its exceptionally smart and experienced staff. Darwin was busy updating a PC when one of the lawyer's secretaries called. "The lawyer needed help wit
  
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• China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products

  07-08-2026 06:24 via theregister.com
  
  China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed “to ensure the safe and stable operation of critical information infrastructure, prevent cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, and safeguard national security.” And that’s all Beijing has to say on the matter. A Palo Alto spokesperson provided The Register with the following statement: "We maintain
  
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• ‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

  07-08-2026 04:40 via theregister.com
  
  Cloudflare chief financial officer Thomas Seifert has run the numbers on internet traffic trends and predicted that human-generated packets will soon account for a trivial amount of overall traffic. The internet-grooming company has previously predicted that machine-generated traffic would exceed human-generated throughput in 2027 – but got that wrong because its measurements found machines took over in May 2026. During the company’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday, Seifert stuck his ne
  
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