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• Web giants ordered to delete extremist material within an hour or face fines

  20-08-2018 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the first time the European Commission has shown it will get tough on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Extremist material includes videos uploaded by members of Islamic State.
  
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• United cancels ALL flights at major airport after cut wire triggers travel chaos and seven-hour delays across US

  21-09-2026 23:44 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers at several East Coast airports were left stranded Monday after an accidentally severed cable brought flights to a halt.
  
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• The chilling threat to Americans floating over their heads... as insiders reveal how the next world war will actually take shape

  21-09-2026 23:14 via dailymail.com
  
  After a string of mysterious rocket launches by SpaceX this month, the United States military has finally confirmed what many had suspected.
  
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• Secret war above our heads: Grainy photos of mysterious mega-weapons, shadowy rocket launches into orbit and a $1.2 trillion battle between superpowers

  21-09-2026 23:11 via dailymail.com
  
  After a string of mysterious rocket launches by SpaceX this month, the United States military has finally confirmed what many had suspected.
  
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• Millions across 17 US states warned to brace for surprise nor'easter in HOURS

  21-09-2026 23:06 via dailymail.com
  
  A major nor'easter is taking aim at the US and millions could face life-threatening conditions for several days.
  
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• Accidentally cut wire triggers travel chaos at major US airports as passengers face seven-hour delays

  21-09-2026 22:54 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers at several East Coast airports were left stranded Monday after an accidentally severed cable brought flights to a halt.
  
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• Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

  21-09-2026 21:10 via theregister.com
  
  The US appears to be inching ever so slowly toward holding AI executives legally liable for their models’ criminal activities. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday: “It is the humans who are responsible, not the AI,” for the bots’ bad behavior. “The Hugging Face incident is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." He also referenced current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees’ dire warnings about AI eradicating
  
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• Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing

  21-09-2026 20:47 via theregister.com
  
  Google is trying once again to escape the Chromebook reputation for cheap, chintzy hardware and compromised computing. $899 for a glorified web terminal isn’t exactly the easiest sell, but that’s not stopping the search and advertising giant from trying. On Monday, Google unveiled five new Googlebooks in collaboration with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus. Googlebook, if you aren't familiar, is what Google describes as a new category of laptops, rather than a Chromebook or a rebrandi
  
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• Move over, Pavarotti! World's only singing lemur opens its mouth wider on higher notes - just like a trained soprano

  21-09-2026 20:07 via dailymail.com
  
  The world's only singing lemur uses special techniques shared with the very best opera singers, according to a new study.
  
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• London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street

  21-09-2026 19:15 via theregister.com
  
  London-based neocloud Nscale has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange after expanding rapidly on the back of the AI infrastructure boom. The rent-a-GPU business, which emerged from cryptocurrency miner Arkon Energy, filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. It intends to list under the ticker NSCL. The document does not specify the number of shares it'll offer, their expected price, or the valuation Nscale hopes to achiev
  
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• AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land

  21-09-2026 18:35 via theregister.com
  
  AI infrastructure growth is running into limits on energy, water, and land, according to researchers at Forrester, which predicts governments will increasingly make datacenter operators pay for the resources they consume. Governments, utilities, datacenter operators, and enterprises will have to rethink how that growth is funded, managed, and regulated, the firm said in its 2027 sustainability predictions. The scale of the infrastructure buildout needed to support AI across businesses, governmen
  
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• Chairman Xi Comes To Washington

  21-09-2026 18:18 via technocracy.news
  
  Last Sunday morning, the Treasury Secretary Bessent and the Vice Premier of China sat down to negotiate the commercial future of the two largest economies on earth. They did not meet at the Treasury or at a consulate, but rather at the Manhattan headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. This seems a little fishy to me.
  The official explanation, given to Reuters by one unnamed person, is that UN security made the building convenient and that JPMorgan was not a party to the talks. But when two governments n
  
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• AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals

  21-09-2026 18:00 via theregister.com
  
  AWS has entered the open source agentic AI game, claiming its new Strands harness matches rivals on benchmarks while using around a quarter fewer tokens. The Strands harness, as its name suggests, is built on AWS’ Strands Harness SDK, but is packaged up and ready to roll out of the box, either locally or deployed to work with whatever AI provider a customer prefers. "The moment you build your own agent, you're on your own," AWS noted in its announcement. "It's tricky wiring up the right pr
  
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• Mysterious glowing UFO hovers silently over Iran in shocking new video

  21-09-2026 17:28 via dailymail.com
  
  A mysterious craft has been spotted over a city with a population of millions, nearly 50 years to the day after another infamous UFO sighting investigated by the Pentagon.
  
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• RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment

  21-09-2026 17:19 via theregister.com
  
  Namibia's computer security incident response team has confirmed unauthorized activity in the defense ministry's network and linked it to the RansomHouse cybercrime group. In an unusually direct attribution, NAM-CSIRT named the group after RansomHouse listed the supposed victim on its leak site on September 16. RansomHouse identified the victim as the "Namibian Defence Force," although the domain in its listing belongs to the Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (MODVA), the government depar
  
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• Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

  21-09-2026 16:29 via theregister.com
  
  A datacenter's cooling architecture can have a decisive effect on its water and energy use, according to Schneider Electric, which argues that operators should evaluate it early in the design process. In a white paper published today, the energy management specialist compares four modeled 100 MW datacenter designs, ranging from traditional air cooling to optimized liquid-cooling systems. The paper, "Water Usage at AI Scale: Insights from a 100 MW Comparative Analysis," concludes that moving from
  
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• The science behind the catsuit: Experts reveal how Keely Hodgkinson's all-black speed suit helped propel her to victory

  21-09-2026 15:35 via dailymail.com
  
  When middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson stormed to victory in London last week, the crowd were as wowed by her outfit as her performance.
  
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• Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door

  21-09-2026 15:28 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon has blocked Meta's new Muse AI agent from shopping on its website, apparently deciding that having someone else's bot wandering through customer accounts and placing orders is a step too far. The ecommerce giant cut off Muse after unsuccessfully asking Meta to prevent the personal AI agent from accessing its store, GeekWire reported. Users who try anyway are told that access by an "unauthorized AI agent" violates Amazon's Conditions of Use. The Register asked Muse to find the "best-review
  
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• Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site

  21-09-2026 14:46 via theregister.com
  
  Clop has discovered what life is like on the receiving end of an extortion demand after rival crew ShinyHunters hijacked its leak site and demanded an eight-figure payout. The takeover surfaced over the weekend, when Clop's dark web leak site displayed a large "DOMAIN SEIZED BY SHINYHUNTERS" banner and the tagline "rooting your systems since '19 ;)." ShinyHunters told Reuters that it broke into the site on Friday by exploiting a vulnerability in the software powering it. The crew claimed this ga
  
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• Earth is on track for the hottest year on record, experts say - amid warnings Super El Niño could send temperatures soaring even higher in 2027

  21-09-2026 14:24 via dailymail.com
  
  Earth is on track for its hottest year on record after a brutal summer of extreme temperatures, experts say.
  
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• NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon

  21-09-2026 14:01 via theregister.com
  
  NASA has added almost $1 billion to SpaceX's commercial crew contract for three more Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The $946 million contract modification covers Crew-15, Crew-16, and Crew-17, along with ground operations, launch, in-orbit services, return and recovery, cargo transportation, and lifeboat capability while the spacecraft is docked to the ISS. The addition brings the value of SpaceX's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract to $5.
  
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• Girls are better at paying attention from BIRTH! Study finds newborn girls can focus for longer than boys

  21-09-2026 13:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Girls really are better at paying attention than boys, and the difference is clear right after birth.
  
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• Minute-by-minute, what would happen if the Yellowstone SUPERVOLCANO erupted

  21-09-2026 13:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Experts have revealed a blow-by-blow account of what would happen if a Yellowstone super-eruption took place today.
  
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• American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

  21-09-2026 13:15 via theregister.com
  
  Just when you thought concerns over datacenter power generation in the US couldn't get any worse, the Trump administration gets rid of emissions restrictions on power plants. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. You can also subscribe on those platforms to be notified when a new episode goes live. The EPA is also considering getting rid of reporting requirements on small-scale polluters (e.g., datacenters with on-site power generat
  
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• Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload

  21-09-2026 12:33 via theregister.com
  
  The Rust project has warned that attackers appear to be targeting its contributors and crate owners in an attempt to compromise their devices and accounts, potentially allowing malware to be distributed through its package ecosystem. Posting to the Rust blog, security-focused software engineer Adam Harvey said the tactics resemble those used in North Korean fake recruiter campaigns. "A video call is set up for something positive – maybe for a job, maybe for a project, maybe for a contract
  
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• It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity

  21-09-2026 11:45 via theregister.com
  
  It rained in Amsterdam last week. There was a 24-hour public transport strike. And something called LOTA stopped working in the elevators of the Mövenpick hotel. Digital signage in elevators is all the rage nowadays. Where once there might have been peeling menus or faded posters extolling the virtues of long-closed bars, there are now displays trying to grab the attention of elevator passengers who want to get from one floor to another with minimal fuss. We're not sure if LOTA decided to w
  
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• Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how

  21-09-2026 11:07 via theregister.com
  
  Nothing demonstrates how deeply Fortune 500 companies depend on Salesforce quite like a global outage lasting more than seven hours. The interruption struck during the second day of last week's Dreamforce conference, where the $40 billion-a-year SaaS vendor was pitching AIforce and a growing collection of AI products. The question now is how the company will charge for them. AIforce illustrates why the per-user licensing model is becoming harder to sustain. Unveiled at Dreamforce, it uses Salesf
  
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• Your cloud survived everything except the real world

  21-09-2026 10:03 via theregister.com
  
  You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Great lyric, lousy data retention policy. Amazon Web Services said last week that war damage to its Middle East infrastructure had permanently destroyed resources and data hosted exclusively in its now rather badly named Bahrain Availability Zones. The damage overwhelmed the resilience built into the region. Customers without copies elsewhere no longer had their data. Sorry about that. This may have surprised anyone who mistook cloud redundancy for
  
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• VMware has quietly walked its SmartNIC ambitions

  21-09-2026 09:02 via theregister.com
  
  VMware has quietly stopped selling firewalls for SmartNICs. SmartNICs, aka data processing units (DPUs), are network cards that include a modest processor. Hyperscale clouds routinely use the devices to handle security and networking chores, by running network functions as VMs on the SmartNIC’s processor. Cloud operators like SmartNICs because they free CPU cores to rent to their customers. Running some housekeeping workloads on SmartNICs can also improve isolation and security – AWS
  
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• VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions

  21-09-2026 09:02 via theregister.com
  
  VMware has quietly stopped selling firewalls for SmartNICs. SmartNICs, aka data processing units (DPUs), are network cards that include a modest processor. Hyperscale clouds routinely use the devices to handle security and networking chores, by running network functions as VMs on the SmartNIC’s processor. Cloud operators like SmartNICs because they free CPU cores to rent to their customers. Running some housekeeping workloads on SmartNICs can also improve isolation and security – AWS
  
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