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• Why you should indulge the 'Dad jokes' this Father's Day, according to science

  18-06-2023 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dad jokes are important in helping children learn to be embarrassed by their parents, Marc Hye-Knudsen, a researcher of humour and lab manager at Aarhus University.
  
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• Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

  14-06-2026 09:30 via theregister.com
  
  MPs looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains got a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it. Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists on the impact of digital devices on infants and young children, Professor Denis Mareschal, director of the
  
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• Rare butterfly find drives conservation research

  14-06-2026 08:11 via bbc.com
  
  Gareth Tilley is credited as being the first to discover the elusive black hairstreak in Surrey.
  
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• UFO leakers expose disturbing government tactics used to keep America's alien cover-up a secret

  13-06-2026 16:15 via dailymail.com
  
  A trio of whistleblowers and witnesses have come forward claiming they paid a steep personal price after speaking out about UFOs they encountered.
  
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• World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs

  13-06-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  The team behind the AI Octopus Euro 2024 predictor has updated its simulator for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this time allowing users to throw natural-language scenarios at the model and see how the tournament might shake out. "Sensible questions work – a red card, a key injury, a heat wave, a squad switching base camp – but so do the daft ones, e.g. 'What if the tournament were played with rugby rules?'" said Luzmo CTO and co-founder Haroen Vermylen. The system is simple: enter a scena
  
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• What would really happen if AI took over: Terrifying simulation reveals how bots could destroy society entirely within four days

  13-06-2026 15:09 via dailymail.com
  
  In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists created a virtual world for AI agents to run without humans. However, the researchers watched in horror as the bots devolved into violent anarchy.
  
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• Calls to restore chalk grassland for rare insects

  13-06-2026 15:01 via bbc.com
  
  Buglife says the project aims to restore more than 30 hectares of the vital ecosystem.
  
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• AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

  13-06-2026 13:00 via theregister.com
  
  Amazon has developed a new networking topology that's up to a third faster and up to 40 percent more energy efficient than traditional hierarchical network designs. The novel architecture, called Resilient Network Graphs (RNG), is based on random graph theory. "Traditional networks have always been hierarchical," explained Matt Rehder, VP of global network engineering at AWS, in a recent interview. "They're sort of like an org chart where one network device will talk to the boss network device w
  
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• How a new arrival could help save rare giraffe

  13-06-2026 12:03 via bbc.com
  
  Three-year-old Stanley will be critical to helping the Wiltshire safari park conserve his species.
  
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• NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

  13-06-2026 11:30 via theregister.com
  
  Patients in England cannot stop their data being processed by the Palantir-built NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), but individual NHS trusts can choose not to use it, health minister Preet Kaur Gill has told MPs. The minister, who was appointed last month to cover health innovation and safety, told fellow Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan that patients can only opt out of secondary uses of data such as planning and research. On the main opt-out mechanism, she said: "The National Data Opt-Out does no
  
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• XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway

  13-06-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  BORK!BORK!BORK! We're big fans of retro computing here at Vulture Central, and so it is with a certain delight that we can report XP-era Windows has been spotted disgracing itself on London's Docklands Light Railway. Spotted by Register reader Tim Hayward, the wonderfully named DaisySignApp.exe has thrown up an application error. While the Windows shell might be shorn of all of XP's fripperies, the Recycle Bin icon hints at the operating system's origins. Hayward reckoned that XP was stalking th
  
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• Zoo celebrates birth of second pair of Sengi pups

  13-06-2026 07:49 via bbc.com
  
  It says Nuru and Mela are proving to be "exceptional parents".
  
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• The UFO files the government won't ever release: I've read them all. They fear a full-blown national crisis and destruction of religious faith... but it's time for the REAL disclosure day. Here's what you deserve to know

  13-06-2026 01:32 via dailymail.com
  
  One of the biggest names in the UFO disclosure movement says a pivotal moment may be approaching.
  
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• NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

  13-06-2026 01:07 via theregister.com
  
  NanoClaw, a secure agent framework, has partnered with supply chain platform JFrog to allow AI agents to fetch resources from JFrog's reviewed registries. Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo AI, announced the tie-up on Thursday evening in San Francisco at a JFrog event that concluded with a World Cup watch party. Cohen explained that one of the features of Claw agents – OpenClaw and variations like NanoClaw – is that they can improve themselves by fetching too
  
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• Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in charts

  13-06-2026 01:05 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC breaks down how the tech mogul's fortune has grown.
  
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• Mystery of missing UFO-linked Air Force general deepens as new photo reveals final moments before vanishing

  12-06-2026 23:45 via dailymail.com
  
  An unearthed image of the missing Air Force general in New Mexico tied to UFO secrets has raised new questions about what he was doing hours before he vanished without a trace.
  
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• SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?

  12-06-2026 23:05 via theregister.com
  
  Amid the unrelenting demand for AI infrastructure, SK Hynix, the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory used in high-end GPUs, now expects to triple its wafer capacity. You'll just have to wait through two more US presidential elections and then some. All that capacity won’t come online until 2034, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won told Nikkei Asia in a recent interview. SK Hynix’s valuation has soared in recent months. The company is one of three major producers of NAND flash and
  
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• Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

  12-06-2026 22:12 via theregister.com
  
  GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has surged, driven in large part by AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows. The code-sharing site has been trying to address those issues by expanding capacity and migrating more workloads to Azure infrastructure, but reliability remains uneven. In the May 2026 GitHub Availability Report, GitHub acknowledges nine incidents that degraded performance, one fewer than its April report. That
  
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• New photo of missing UFO-linked Air Force general just hours before he vanished reveals mysterious package

  12-06-2026 22:04 via dailymail.com
  
  An unearthed image of the missing Air Force general in New Mexico tied to UFO secrets has raised new questions about what he was doing hours before he vanished without a trace.
  
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• MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

  12-06-2026 21:10 via theregister.com
  
  MX Linux 25.2 is here, now with kernel 7.0 if you choose – although the Raspberry Pi edition still needs some work. MX Linux has been quietly turning into one of the Reg FOSS desk’s favorite distros for a few years now. It has a number of desirable attributes, and with version 25.2 released late last month, some of the slightly bumpier parts of the major upgrade to version 25 are getting smoothed out. We looked at MX Linux 25 in November last year, and reported that one of the niftie
  
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• Secret NASA audio captures 'alien base' comment during moon mission debrief

  12-06-2026 20:45 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

  12-06-2026 20:21 via theregister.com
  
  A disgruntled IT worker faces 21 months behind bars after being found guilty of sabotaging his former employer’s systems for more than a year and half. Ezekiel Dean Potter, 34, was fired from his IT support job at Iowa’s SaydelU Community School District (SCSD) in April 2023. He was found guilty of causing various technical damages to SCSD’s systems betwUeen May 2023 and January 2025.UU At his sentencing hearing on June 11, the court heard thaUt the IT worker had gathered and s
  
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• Fears of 'imminent' UFO invasion triggered urgent response from US military, new bombshell files reveal

  12-06-2026 19:37 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• ‘Jesus-Level Technologies’: China Beats Elon Musk To Launch World’s First Commercial Brain Chip

  12-06-2026 19:03 via technocracy.news
  
  Does Musk have a Messiah complex?  He says about Neuralink, “They’re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies.” As early as 2022, he said that the “blind will see and the lame will walk”, roughly paraphrasing Jesus in Luke 7:22. As a transhumanist, Musk supports the merger of human flesh with advanced technology. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured.
  
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• Elon Musk gets public trading of SpaceX under way from Texas

  12-06-2026 17:56 via bbc.com
  
  SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he gave the company "less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all" when it first started, and it is now going public "with the largest IPO ever".
  
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• Glowing red orbs with 'plasma centers' seen hovering over US backyard... as FBI rushed to interview witnesses this year

  12-06-2026 17:48 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files that includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.
  
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• New files reveal baffling transparent UFO that warped space itself when spotted over the US

  12-06-2026 17:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A newly released file reveals a UFO encounter in which federal agents reported seeing a transparent object that appeared to warp the view behind it.
  
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• KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

  12-06-2026 17:38 via theregister.com
  
  KPMG's October 2025 report on the wonders of agentic AI has been accused of demonstrating one of the tech's less desirable talents: making things up. Research outfit GPTZero claims a forensic review of the Big Four firm's October 2025 report, "Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI," found that only five of its 45 citations correctly pointed to the cited source; the rest ranged from mangled and misleading to partially fabricated or too vague to verify. The consulting in
  
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• What is the super new Moon?

  12-06-2026 17:30 via bbc.com
  
  A super new Moon is coming. While you won’t be able to see it, it's still going to have an impact. But, what exactly is it and what does it have to do with the tide?
  
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• Instagram and Facebook are DOWN: Worldwide outage leaves thousands of users unable to access Meta's apps

  12-06-2026 16:40 via dailymail.com
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues began at around 14:36 BST today. So far, more than 3,000 problems have been logged on the monitoring site.
  
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