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• ‘Warning To Humanity”: 15,000 Scientists Declare Planetary Apocalypse Is Nigh

  13-11-2017 23:39 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats armed with faulty science continue to claim that the sky is falling: overpopulation, global warming, deforestation, extinction of species, etc. The only possible solution offered is Sustainable Development run by themselves. The petition was produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass. The Chair of the UCS Board is Anne R. Kapuscinski who is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science and chair of Environmental Studies Program, Dartmou
  
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• Mystery deepens at Utah paranormal hotspot as buried 'UFO' clues emerge

  29-07-2026 21:16 via dailymail.com
  
  A paranormal hotspot in Utah notorious for UFO sightings, strange creatures and unexplained events may be hiding its greatest secret beneath the surface.
  
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• Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake

  29-07-2026 21:02 via theregister.com
  
  The US government has signed a letter of intent to provide GlobalFoundries with $300 million in CHIPS Act funding and, at the same time, receive a one percent stake in the company worth roughly $269 million. The money's supposedly not a tit-for-tat, but an investment designed to spur development of silicon photonics networking technologies that the AI industry needs for datacenters. “With today’s compute supply chain investments, the Trump Administration is accelerating America&rsquo
  
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• Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug

  29-07-2026 20:33 via theregister.com
  
  The guardrails that prevent closed-source, frontier models from aiding threat actors have turned into handcuffs that prevent those bots from helping to find and fix serious vulns. Daniel Fox Franke, principal security researcher at Akamai Technologies, was recently trying to track down the source of a segmentation fault in ripgrep, and found OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol wouldn't cooperate. "OpenAI's cybersecurity classifier is a huge pain when you're trying to track down a segfault," he wrote in a socia
  
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• Hiroshima atomic bomb blast created a bizarre new metal that has NEVER been seen before on Earth, study finds

  29-07-2026 20:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered.
  
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• 'Crazy cat ladies' really DO exist! Study confirms women feel more attached to their pets than men do

  29-07-2026 20:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Scientists from the University of Lucerne have found that women tend to feel more attached to their pets than men do.
  
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• Ancient Egyptian history rewritten as new clues reveal advanced technology used to build pyramids

  29-07-2026 19:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Egypt's pyramids have fascinated the world for centuries, with the methods used to build the monuments with such extraordinary precision remaining a mystery.
  
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• Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

  29-07-2026 18:43 via theregister.com
  
  Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in Copilot for Word’s context, may alter document output and copy the instructions into newly created files that use the affected document as source material, without the victim noticing. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist with a PhD in applied AI and ML, publicly disclosed the issue in a blog post Tuesday. Måløy d
  
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• Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute

  29-07-2026 17:56 via theregister.com
  
  Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list. The country's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the charges on Wednesday, alleging that Telegram failed to remove channels, chats, and bots used by Ukrainian intelligence to recruit young Russians for sabotage and terrorism. The alleged offenses include armed attacks on law enforcement officers and arson targeting transport, energy, communications, and financial infr
  
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• Baby giraffe defies impossible odds following 'miracle' birth that stunned experts

  29-07-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  The newborn calf defied seemingly impossible odds after experts were forced to make a heartbreaking, life-or-death decision. Her survival has since been hailed as a miracle..
  
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• MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish

  29-07-2026 17:15 via theregister.com
  
  Conventional chatbots respond to individual prompts and often retain only limited context. AI agents may carry out longer, multi-step jobs that span sessions, making persistent memory more important. Object storage vendor MinIO claims it can provide that memory. AI agents can help make decisions, create documents, draft analyses, and answer questions once handled by people alone. MinIO characterizes the resulting output as organizational knowledge – a record of what an enterprise knows, de
  
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• The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy

  29-07-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Turn VMware’s mandate into an opportunity with Nutanix Many VMware customers assumed the most disruptive effects of Broadcom’s acquisition were already behind them. Licensing changes and pricing shifts required attention, but infrastructure strategy largely stayed the same. But that assumption is about to be tested. Before the October 2027 end of general support for vSphere 8, VMware customers must decide whether to upgrade or migrate1. And what sounds like a routine upgrade could ha
  
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• Millions told to close windows NOW as heart attack-causing toxins from wildfires engulf five US states

  29-07-2026 16:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes has toxins fill the air in multiple states this week.
  
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• Baby giraffe hailed as medical marvel after 'miracle' birth at US wildlife park

  29-07-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  The newborn calf defied seemingly impossible odds after experts were forced to make a heartbreaking, life-or-death decision. Her survival has since been hailed as a miracle..
  
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• NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning

  29-07-2026 16:29 via theregister.com
  
  Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is having some attitude problems on its way to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, resulting in a multi-axis spin and loss of communications. LINK has three reaction wheels for attitude control, pointing, and stability, but the company said two are currently not operable. NASA reported some loss of functionality in its cold-gas thruster system as well. LINK remains in contact with its controllers despite the sporadic communications, and its other major
  
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• The ideal number of daily coffees to drink, depending on your age - experts say have MORE in mid-life

  29-07-2026 16:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Coffee has long been one of Britain's favourite drinks, with 95 million cups consumed every day. So is there an ideal number of cups to drink as we age?
  
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• Ocean explorer tracks down terrifying 'alien' sharks that can clone themselves lurking off US shores

  29-07-2026 16:18 via dailymail.com
  
  A wildlife biologist has tracked down four of the strangest creatures in the shark family living in the waters around the US.
  
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• Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems

  29-07-2026 15:49 via theregister.com
  
  Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 Minnesota water facilities. Neither state-level nor federal officials have made any claims regarding attribution for the attacks, however, Tenable reckons the operational pattern is consistent with the crew's previous raids, noting the timing relative to recent government warnings. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated a
  
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• Scientists say we need to HALVE Earth's population to just 4 billion to save the planet

  29-07-2026 15:26 via dailymail.com
  
  It might sound like the evil plan of a nefarious villain, but scientists now say that we need to halve Earth's population to save the planet.
  
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• AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning

  29-07-2026 15:17 via theregister.com
  
  The AI infrastructure boom isn't just eating all the memory – it's also driving demand for storage, giving high-capacity hard drives a new lease of life, according to Seagate. The storage veteran says cloud operators are buying ever more mass-capacity hardware as AI applications generate and retain growing volumes of data. "Datacenter demand now represents approximately 90 percent of our exabyte shipments," chairman and CEO Dave Mosley told analysts during a call to discuss Seagate's Q4 an
  
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• Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike

  29-07-2026 14:45 via theregister.com
  
  Microsoft faces an investigation by the UK's competition watchdog over whether customers were misled when it added features to Microsoft 365 subscriptions and raised prices. The issue dates back to January 2025, when Microsoft added new features, including Copilot, to its consumer package. At renewal, customers were automatically moved onto a more expensive tier containing those features unless they switched plans or canceled altogether. Existing customers could switch to a cheaper "Classic" pla
  
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• AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started

  29-07-2026 14:11 via theregister.com
  
  More than 1,200 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a petition calling for US government support to develop ways of slowing automated AI development if necessary. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Google DeepMind chief strategy officer Jasjeet Sekhon, and Meta AI chief scientist Shengjia Zhao are among the signatories to the petition, which calls for tools to "deliberately pace frontier-wide progress." "The world's leading AI companies believe they cou
  
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• After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

  29-07-2026 13:28 via theregister.com
  
  Having built a SQLite-compatible database from scratch in Rust, cloud database provider Turso is attempting something more ambitious: a Postgres-compatible implementation on the same foundation. "I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with Postgres. If there was something wrong with Postgres, we wouldn't rewrite it," Turso CEO Glauber Costa told The Register. But, like SQLite, Postgres could be freshened up for the cloud-native era. Turso has grander ambitions than putting another n
  
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• Buzz off! Spray-free hacks for warding off bugs and mosquitos this summer revealed by experts - from 'miracle' £6 body oil and herbs to quirky gadgets

  29-07-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Hotter days tend to make bugs and mosquitos more active, while longer daylight hours draw people outdoors into their biting range.
  
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• Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package

  29-07-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  The World Cup may be over but a reminder of the staggering sums footballers are paid has emerged from an unexpected quarter: NetApp's latest signing to its squad of execs. Chief Product Officer Syam Nair, who succeeded Harvinder Bhela in July last year after moving from Zscaler, is being made to feel very welcome, judging by the sums involved. According to NetApp's proxy statement ahead of its annual shareholder meeting in September, Nair received total compensation of $34.27 million in the fisc
  
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• NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

  29-07-2026 12:08 via theregister.com
  
  NHS England has admitted that a data protection document inaccurately stated who could access patient information, failing to disclose that Palantir staff could view identifiable data held within part of its Federated Data Platform. The US spy-tech firm won a £330 million contract to provide the platform in 2023 after it was awarded £60 million in COVID-era contracts without competition. The system is designed to improve data sharing across the NHS in England and help tackle the back
  
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• Free-range eggs aren't all they're cracked up to be! Organic options are TWICE as bad for the environment as those from chickens living in cages, study finds

  29-07-2026 11:55 via dailymail.com
  
  If you want to do your bit to save the planet, you might think that opting for free-range organic eggs would be the most eco-friendly choice.
  
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• Scientists reveal the most attractive EYES - and Anya Taylor-Joy and Jeremy Allen White are the closest real-life examples

  29-07-2026 11:32 via dailymail.com
  
  If you've ever wondered what makes a pair of eyes truly captivating, scientists may finally have the answer.
  
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• AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness

  29-07-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Your brain apparently spends the night remixing reality rather than simply replaying it, according to researchers armed with AI and more than 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life. Researchers at Italy's IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca used natural language processing (NLP) to analyze more than 3,700 reports of dreams and waking experiences from 287 adults and found dreams are neither random mental noise nor faithful replays of the day's events. Instead, the sleeping brain appears to re
  
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• Seeing double? Incredibly rare two-headed gecko is born in Pennsylvania

  29-07-2026 10:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Named Simon and Garfunkel, the tiny crested gecko hatched unexpectedly at Rockstar Geckos, a breeding business based in north-eastern Pennsylvania.
  
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