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Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health - The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
'My husband stole £600k for sex and antiques' - medication side effects tearing families apart - Side effects of a common Parkinson’s medications had devastating consequences on one family, BBC hears.
BBC confronts romance scammer who was back on dating app days after jail release - An undercover reporter catches a serial fraudster back on a dating app days after leaving jail.
Steven Spielberg donates $25,000 to James Van Der Beek's $2m GoFundMe - The family of the late Dawson's Creek star have thanked contributors to the $2m collection pot.
The science of soulmates: Is there someone out there exactly right for you? - For many, the idea of soulmates still shapes how love is understood.
The Register
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration - Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport Skyrora is eyeing the wreckage of fellow British rocketeer Orbex following the latter's announcement that it will appoint administrators.…
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats - Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way - Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, they didn’t hold back.…
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales - This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents - Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…
New Scientist - Home
RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins - Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this
Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time - The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow
Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for - The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster for longer
Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases - The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect
Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all - It's hard not to despair about the state of the world today, but here are five reasons to be a little bit hopeful, says Fred Pearce
Hacker News
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Slashdot
Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash - Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. From a report: In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners ... The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety." [...] Over the last few weeks, the company has faced significant public anger over its connection to Flock, with Ring users being encouraged to smash their cameras, and some announcing on social media that they are throwing away their Ring devices. The Flock partnership was announced last October, but following recent unrest across the country related to ICE activities, public pressure against the Amazon-owned Ring's involvement with the company started to mount. Flock has reportedly allowed ICE and other federal agencies to access its network of surveillance cameras, and influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp - An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, the Kremlin said on Thursday, suggesting Russians turn to a state-backed "national messenger" instead. "Due to Meta's unwillingness to comply with Russian law, such a decision was indeed taken and implemented," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, proposing that Russians switch to MAX, Russia's state-owned messenger. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links - Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve as both a plain text and rich text editor. An attacker only needed to create a Markdown file containing file:// links pointing to executables or special URIs like ms-appinstaller://, and a Ctrl+click in Markdown mode would launch them. Microsoft's fix now displays a warning dialog for any link that doesn't use http:// or https://, though the company did not explain why it chose a prompt over blocking non-standard links entirely. Notepad updates automatically through the Microsoft Store. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
CIA Makes New Push To Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants - An anonymous reader shares a report: Just weeks after a dramatic purge of China's top general, the CIA is moving to capitalize on any resulting discord with a new public video targeting potential informants in the Chinese military. The U.S. spy agency on Thursday rolled out the video depicting a disillusioned mid-level Chinese military officer, in the latest U.S. step in a campaign to ramp up human intelligence gathering on Washington's strategic rival. It follows a similar effort last May that focused on fictional figures within China's ruling Communist Party that provided detailed Chinese-language instructions on how to securely contact U.S. intelligence. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement that the agency's videos had reached many Chinese citizens and that it would continue offering Chinese government officials an "opportunity to work toward a brighter future together." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US - IBM said it will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, even as AI appears to be weighing on broader demand for early-career workers. From a report: While the company declined to disclose specific hiring figures, it said the expansion will be "across the board," affecting a wide range of departments. "And yes, it's for all these jobs that we're being told AI can do," said Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM's chief human resources officer, speaking at a conference this week in New York. LaMoreaux said she overhauled entry-level job descriptions for software developers and other roles to make the case internally for the recruitment push. "The entry-level jobs that you had two to three years ago, AI can do most of them," she said at Charter's Leading With AI Summit. "So, if you're going to convince your business leaders that you need to make this investment, then you need to be able to show the real value these individuals can bring now. And that has to be through totally different jobs." Read more of this story at Slashdot.