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• What it's like to chase solar eclipses around the world

  09-08-2026 03:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For many, a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for a dedicated few, it's a deep passion.
  
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• Wild theory claims Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds TOMORROW in cosmic catastrophe

  11-08-2026 22:52 via dailymail.com
  
  A shocking conspiracy theory claims NASA has been working on a plan to survive a doomsday-like event that would kill millions worldwide.
  
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• Millions of Americans across Midwest placed under urgent tornado warning as Chicago braces for impact: 'Take cover now!'

  11-08-2026 18:32 via dailymail.com
  
  Extreme winds and heavy rain have struck Illinois and Indiana, setting off tornado warnings throughout the region.
  
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• Millions of Americans placed under urgent tornado warning near major US city: 'Take cover now!'

  11-08-2026 18:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Extreme winds and heavy rain have struck Illinois and Indiana, setting off tornado warnings throughout the region.
  
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• Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy

  11-08-2026 18:01 via theregister.com
  
  Intel stands to raise $20 billion from a public offering of common stock after increasing the deal from the $15 billion announced on Monday, although analysts disagree over what the chip giant wants the cash for. The Santa Clara biz initially announced a $15 billion offering before pricing the shares at $95 apiece and increasing the deal to $20 billion. Intel is offering 210,526,315 shares at a price understood to represent a 6.5 percent discount to Friday's closing level. It has also granted un
  
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• Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers

  11-08-2026 17:33 via theregister.com
  
  Ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran, and the FIFA World Cup, all contributed to a DDoS walloping of media organizations throughout 2026 so far, according to Cloudflare’s latest data, which identified the sector as the most targeted this year. Attacks on media, production, and publishing accounted for 14.2 percent of all DDoS attacks launched since January 1. Over the first six months of the year, the sector saw nearly four times the number of attacks leveled at the second most-targeted sector
  
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• California 'in the crosshairs' of mega earthquake within months, warns scientist who predicted deadly Colombia disaster

  11-08-2026 17:15 via dailymail.com
  
  A scientist who said Colombia would be struck by a major earthquake two months before it happened has now warned that multiple hotspots in the US are at risk for a megaquake in 2026.
  
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• Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure

  11-08-2026 16:36 via theregister.com
  
  US cyber agencies are warning critical infrastructure operators to patch their internet-facing kit after Gunra ransomware affiliates were spotted exploiting known vulnerabilities to break into networks. Gunra first surfaced in 2025 and has wasted little time expanding. CISA, the FBI, NSA, Secret Service, and partner agencies in the US and South Korea say it now operates as ransomware-as-a-service, with affiliates attacking organizations worldwide. Targets have included healthcare, financial serv
  
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• The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans: Scientists identify unusual fungi that contains an entirely new hallucinogenic compound

  11-08-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  For nearly a century, scientists have been baffled by bizarre reports of hallucinations that leave people seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny human figures.
  
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• Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands

  11-08-2026 15:24 via theregister.com
  
  A cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA has disrupted warehouses across Europe and exposed customer data belonging to a growing list of big-name clients, including Valve and Ajax. The France-headquartered shipping outfit, which operates more than 1,000 warehouses worldwide and generated $18.3 billion in revenue last year, was attacked between July 29 and August 1, according to a notification Valve sent to customers. Eight CEVA warehouses in Europe were affected, industry news site FreightWaves rep
  
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• Think twice before embracing the silver hair! Going grey makes wrinkles stand out more, study finds

  11-08-2026 15:04 via dailymail.com
  
  A new study suggests that if you really want your skin to appear wrinkle-free, you should be focusing on your hair.
  
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• Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

  11-08-2026 14:27 via theregister.com
  
  Spain's national police say they caught a cybercriminal after a momentary technical glitch exposed his face to a video identification platform. The unnamed man allegedly made 38 attempts to impersonate 30 people and obtain digital certificates in their names, succeeding on multiple occasions. A digital certificate uses public key infrastructure to bind a cryptographic key to a verified identity, allowing its holder to authenticate themselves and create legally recognized electronic signatures. I
  
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• Revealed: The common hair mistake that makes you look OLDER, according to science

  11-08-2026 14:03 via dailymail.com
  
  A new study suggests that if you really want your skin to appear wrinkle-free, you should be focusing on your hair.
  
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• Scientists discover dangerous chemicals lurking in popular toiletries - including face creams marked as '100 per cent natural'

  11-08-2026 14:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Unlabelled chemicals are lurking in nearly all personal care and cleaning products, an ominous study has revealed.
  
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• Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

  11-08-2026 13:36 via theregister.com
  
  Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering someone had accidentally committed an unencrypted copy of the private key to a GitHub repository. The browser maker disclosed the mishap on Monday, saying the GPG private subkey was checked into a private GitHub repository accessible only to a small number of Mozilla employees. All of them were already authorized to access the key through other means. Still, leaving an unencrypted private sign
  
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• Super El Niño could wreak havoc on your HEALTH: Terrifying report reveals how marine heatwaves can trigger heart and breathing issues - and even PTSD

  11-08-2026 13:04 via dailymail.com
  
  With Super El Niño now well underway, a terrifying report has revealed the impact the climate event could be having on your health.
  
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• Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts

  11-08-2026 12:31 via theregister.com
  
  US power companies must decide how much capacity to build for soaring datacenter demand, knowing that some planned facilities may never materialize and the AI bubble could deflate. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company says the greater near-term risk is building too little. Driven by the AI craze, a boom in datacenter building is expected to see the energy consumed by these facilities grow by 26 percent this year, as The Register reported not too long ago. McKinsey's own figures indicate that d
  
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• The dismal state of the climate: Damning report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global sea level and ocean heat in 2025

  11-08-2026 11:47 via dailymail.com
  
  A damning report has confirmed greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level and ocean heat all reached record highs last year.
  
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• Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G

  11-08-2026 11:37 via theregister.com
  
  Researchers have found that a malicious SIM card can tell some phones and cellular-connected devices to leak data, drop to 2G, shut themselves down, or even execute code, all thanks to functionality that's supposed to be there. The research [PDF], presented at the USENIX WOOT conference in Baltimore this week, examines proactive SIM functionality, which allows a SIM to issue commands to the device hosting it. One of those is RUN AT, which allows the SIM to request the execution of AT commands, t
  
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• Sick of the heatwave? Temperatures will drop by 'several degrees' for around an hour this week - thanks to the solar eclipse

  11-08-2026 11:10 via dailymail.com
  
  With the UK in the midst of yet another heatwave, many Brits are desperate for some respite from the heat. Well, there's good news, as that sweet relief will come this week.
  
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• Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it

  11-08-2026 10:00 via theregister.com
  
  Hybrid cloud breaks down when every environment has its own provisioning process, security model, monitoring stack, and cost structure. In practice, many hybrid strategies were built around where infrastructure happened to live, not around each workload’s latency, data governance, resilience, performance, and cost requirements.Why has hybrid cloud become so hard to run? Most enterprises didn't choose hybrid so much as stumble into it. A cloud-first push might have handled greenfield develo
  
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• OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs

  11-08-2026 07:52 via theregister.com
  
  Octave Klaba, the CEO of France-based cloud operator OVH has warned that it will soon hike the price of server rental by up to 87 percent. Klaba said the price OVH pays for memory rose 6x in the year to June 2026, will rise to 9x by September, and hit 12x next year. He has also seen a 7x price increase for NVMe drives, hard disk prices rise 3.5x, and the cost of CPUs, motherboards, and network cards rise by 15 to 20 percent. He thinks those prices will climb further in the near future, and blame
  
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• Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation

  11-08-2026 06:59 via theregister.com
  
  Japan has successfully launched the last of the current generation of the satellite navigation orbiters it will use to operate a sovereign positioning system. The satellite, known as “Michibiki No. 7”, aka QZS-7, made it into orbit early on Tuesday, local time, aboard an H3 rocket. The H3 is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) latest mid-range launcher and has flown nine times. Two of those missions failed, most recently in December 2025 when glue caused fat
  
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• Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI

  11-08-2026 02:48 via theregister.com
  
  Alibaba is one of the world’s leading sources of large language models, yet its cloudy arm is proudly showing off its own technology that finds ways to avoid using them. Alibaba Cloud has built a system to analyze its customers’ tech support queries that often avoids using large language models to solve the problem, an approach it says has proven faster, cheaper, and more accurate. China’s top cloud provider shared its work at this week’s SIGKDD 2026, the annual conferenc
  
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• Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

  11-08-2026 02:27 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated by future models it launches in the EU, as part of its effort to comply with content and transparency rules in the bloc's AI Act. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," the company said in a help document published on Monday. The AI biz is also working on models it has already released, to add output marking during the transition period
  
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• Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

  10-08-2026 23:25 via theregister.com
  
  Not getting enough out of that ChatGPT Business subscription? OpenAI is hoping you’ll take it up on a new “premium” Business tier seat that’s up to $100 more a month for some added capacity and higher usage limits. Sam Altman’s AI outfit announced ChatGPT Business Premium seats on Monday, describing the new offering as an option for Business-tier customers who feel they’re chafing under the old Business limitations. Business Premium seats, which can be combine
  
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• DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection

  10-08-2026 23:08 via theregister.com
  
  DEF CON hackers expanded their efforts to provide free cyber-defenses to rural water systems in the US to include managed detection and response providers, digital twins, and AI agents. On Friday, at the annual hacker’s conference, DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) announced a new program called the Water Watch Center. It will initially fund five providers - Defendify, Legato Security, L1 Secure, Rapid7, and Sentinel Technologies - to help small water utiliti
  
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• The Future is for Billionaires, the rest will get open weight AI models, maybe

  10-08-2026 22:49 via theregister.com
  
  In a public post titled "The Future is for Everyone," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declares, "We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history." For Zuck to posit that "The Future is for Everyone" is at once facile for being so vague it could mean anything – are there people now living who are excluded from the future? – and foolish for its failure to address real issues that actually affect people's lives. We are perhaps not so fortunate as the unpopular but wealthy Zuck, wor
  
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• The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

  10-08-2026 22:49 via theregister.com
  
  OPINION In a public post titled "The Future is for Everyone," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declares, "We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history." For Zuck to posit that "The Future is for Everyone" is at once facile for being so vague it could mean anything – are there people now living who are excluded from the future? – and foolish for its failure to address real issues that actually affect people's lives. We are perhaps not so fortunate as the unpopular but wealthy Z
  
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• Biblical Moses may finally have been found as ancient secrets emerge from Egypt

  10-08-2026 22:09 via dailymail.com
  
  While Moses is one of the Bible's most famous figures, there are no records of him. Experts have made the case that a commoner may have been the prophet.
  
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