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  • Israel receives remains of hostage that Hamas says is IDF soldier killed in 2014
    Hadar Goldin was killed on Aug. 1, 2014, two hours after a ceasefire took effect ending that year's war between Israel and Hamas.

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  • A first-time HPV vaccination campaign sees some success -- and strong resistance
    The goal: inoculate 90% of girls in parts of Pakistan to immunize them against the infection that causes cervical cancer. "Our biggest challenge was to counter misinformation," says a spokesman.

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  • Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
    "I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

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  • Many would-be buyers are frozen out of the housing market
    Only about one in five homes sold in the last year went to a first-time buyer. And the average person buying their first home was 40 years old ? a record high. A new report from the National Association of Realtors shows how challenging it's become for young people to get a foothold in today's costly housing market.

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  • Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines
    Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country's northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday.

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  • Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment
    A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.

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  • Trump says boat crews are narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP finds
    In interviews in villages on Venezuela's northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.

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  • 4 dead, 11 injured after a car chased by police plows into a crowd outside Tampa bar
    A deadly crash in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood early Saturday morning has left four people dead and 11 injured.

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  • After 40 years, plans to deploy a new undersea habitat are in progress
    A British engineering and research company is unveiling a "subsea human habitat," a base that four people can live and work in for missions of a week or more. It's the first new underwater habitat developed since the 1980s.

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  • CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study
    An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease.

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  • UK to help protect Belgium after suspected Russian drone incursions
    Sir Richard Knighton, the UK military chief, says his Belgian counterpart requested assistance in the form of personnel and equipment this week.

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  • A moment of stillness for Royal Family and veterans at poignant Remembrance
    King Charles was joined by about 20 World War Two veterans at the annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations.

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  • BBC bosses treating 'systemic bias' allegations seriously, culture secretary says
    The broadcaster's chair is set to issue a response to a parliamentary committee over claims a Panorama documentary misled viewers.

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  • HMRC to review suspending 23,500 child benefit payments
    The tax body had used travel data to conclude that thousands of parents had left the country permanently but many say they just went on holiday.

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  • New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade'
    The NHS has now issued a "flu jab SOS" as fears grow that this will add up to a brutal winter.

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  • Super typhoon makes landfall in Philippines as nearly a million evacuated
    Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.

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  • Care workers charged following BBC Panorama probe
    Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in 2022.

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  • 'The best friend you'd love to have' - How Claudia Winkleman conquered TV
    She's taken The Traitors to new heights - but what's next comes with risk, too.

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  • Women are hiding their boyfriends online and there's more than one reason why
    Many women seem reluctant to hard-launch their relationship on social media - but what's behind that?

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  • Thousands of Chinese lured abroad and forced to be scammers - now Beijing is cracking down
    Myanmar's scam clans are being brought to justice in the full glare of Chinese state TV.

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rss: the register

  • Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

    Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share?

    A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi.?



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  • Here's one way to cut support ticket volume? send them to another company entirely

    Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house

    The CEO of the company behind note-taking app Obsidian says the well-known video game house of the same name has sent one of its customer queries to his own team ? claiming that "off-the-shelf AI support software" is why the gaming firm gave a user the wrong email address.?



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  • Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map

    Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade'

    interview Digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders.?



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  • Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

    At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend

    OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's "legendary approach to quality control." While the robustness of Windows NT in decades past might qualify as "legendary", anybody who has had to use the company's wares in recent years might quibble with the word "quality."?



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  • Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

    The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off

    Meta on Friday floated plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028 as part of a massive datacenter expansion.?



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  • ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members

    All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty

    Law students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law last month held a mock trial to see how AI models administer justice.?



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  • Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones

    'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed

    A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it in April.?



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  • AI benchmarks are a bad joke ? and LLM makers are the ones laughing

    Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

    AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful.?



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  • Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize

    Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to

    Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" about selling the coveted chips to the Middle Kingdom.?



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  • Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history

    It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

    A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.?



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rss: ars technica

  • Blue Origin will ?move heaven and Earth? to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says
    "We have some ideas that we think could accelerate the path to the Moon."

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  • James Watson, who helped unravel DNA?s double-helix, has died
    His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.

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  • Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
    New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

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  • Commercial spyware ?Landfall? ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
    Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

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  • The government shutdown is starting to have cosmic consequences
    "The FAA is concerned with the system's ability to maintain the current volume of operations."

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  • Higher prices, simpler streaming expected if HBO Max folds into Paramount+
    The end of HBO Max is "certainly plausible."

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  • FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site
    Tucows subpoenaed in criminal probe for info on ?customer behind archive.today."

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  • Questions swirl after Trump?s GLP-1 pricing deal announcement
    It's unclear how much savings the deal provides or how many people will benefit.

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  • Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool
    ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

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  • With Skigill, the classic RPG skill tree becomes a crowded battlefield
    Vampire Survivors-esque battler sets itself apart with great weapons, unique graphics.

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