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Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.…

King Charles III kept his composure with Donald Trump during what could have been a 'moment of suppressed tetchiness,' a body language expert has claimed.

An experimental pill funded by a leading AI architect is designed to reverse age-related brain decline by clearing accumulated debris, with human trials beginning soon.

If the hyperscalers are masters of anything, it is driving scale up and driving costs down so that a new type of information technology can be cheap enough so it can be widely deployed. …

Google Shows Off Its Inference Scale And Prowess was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The American right-wing activist was shot dead while giving a speech on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10 2025.

A bomb squad rushed to Turning Point USA's headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona after a 'suspicious bag' was left outside.

Nurse Anika Moughal is suing her GP brother for unfair dismissal, with a glasgow tribunal hearing Dr Mohammed Moughal's attempt to 'sofen the blow' left her not knowing she had been sacked.

Light pollution now doubles every eight years globally as LED adoption accelerates artificial brightness worldwide. A recent study measured 10% annual growth in light pollution from 2011 to 2022. Northern Chile's Atacama Desert remains one of the few Bortle Scale 1 locations -- the darkest rating for astronomical observation -- though La Serena's population has nearly doubled in 25 years. The region hosts major observatories including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachon. Satellite constellations pose additional challenges: numbers have increased from hundreds decades ago to 12,000 currently operating satellites. Astronomers predict 100,000 or more satellites within a decade. Chile faces pressure from proposed mining operations including the 7,400-acre INNA green-hydrogen facility near key astronomical sites despite national laws limiting artificial light from mining operations that generate over half the country's exports.

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Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes. …

The World Health Organisation claims their roll-out prevented 14.4 million deaths worldwide in their first year, with some estimates closer to 20 million.

One councillor said they didn't know a single resident in favour of the plan

Accused killer of Charlie Kirk was revealed to have a dark online trail and a secret kink for homoerotic furry games and art.

Henry Southan has sparked concern among fans after revealing he was rushed to the hospital with a mystery illness. 

The little girl is understood to have been hit thrice by a pellet at around 1.30pm in Chakeshill Drive, Brentry in Bristol on September 2. Now police are searching for the offender.

A man in his 80s and a woman in her 70s were found dead at a property in Milton, Abington.

A giant space rock the size of New York's Chrysler Building will make a close pass by Earth Thursday, and it could get even closer in the future.

The warm welcome afforded to Donald Trump by Yvette Cooper was a far cry from her past comments about the Republican politician.

The First Lady wore an extraordinarily large wide-brimmed purple wool hat which for the most part, kept her eyes hidden.

Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.…

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models. The Register: The admission came in a paper [PDF] published in early September, titled "Why Language Models Hallucinate," and penned by three OpenAI researchers and Santosh Vempala, a distinguished professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology. It concludes that "the majority of mainstream evaluations reward hallucinatory behavior." The fundamental problem is that AI models are trained to reward guesswork, rather than the correct answer. Guessing might produce a superficially suitable answer. Telling users your AI can't find an answer is less satisfying. As a test case, the team tried to get an OpenAI bot to report the birthday of one of the paper's authors, OpenAI research scientist Adam Tauman Kalai. It produced three incorrect results because the trainers taught the engine to return an answer, rather than admit ignorance. "Over thousands of test questions, the guessing model ends up looking better on scoreboards than a careful model that admits uncertainty," OpenAI admitted in a blog post accompanying the release.

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