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Alaska owns dozens of crumbling schools. It wants underfunded districts to take them onRural school district superintendents are trying to find the best use of limited resources. Taking on the state's unmaintained buildings, they say, will only increase their burden.
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Disaster and insurance costs are rising. The middle class is struggling to hang onMiddle-class families are struggling to afford insurance in southwest Florida. Realtors say a wave of foreclosures could be coming.
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More women are renting dresses, coats and ugly sweaters as clothing prices tick upMore women are planning to deck the halls in rented fashion this year, just as inflation and tariffs are poised to push clothing prices higher.
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She lost her purse ? but strangers stepped in to save the dayOn a trip to Chicago, Lavonne Schaafsma lost her purse. Two women saw a man rifling through it ? and stepped in to help.
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Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boatsNPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
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A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how ? and whyWell-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
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How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in AmericaForty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.
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A spat over Taiwan is threatening China-Japan tiesLess than a month into her term, Japan's conservative leader has stirred tensions with China by suggesting a Chinese move against Taiwan could prompt a Japanese military response.
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Chile's presidential race heads to a polarizing runoff after Sunday voteA closely fought first-round vote on Sunday has set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarizing the country.
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Thanksgiving could be more expensive this year. Here's how to navigate higher prices
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Trump reverses position and urges own party to vote for release of Epstein files"We have nothing to hide," the US president writes after previously resisting publishing the documents.
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Devices that enable keyless car thefts being sold for £20k online, BBC findsIt is not illegal currently to own the gadgets but the government has promised to ban them.
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Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe. How worried should we be?Drones have been found across Western Europe near airports, military bases and power plants, as part of a suspected programme of 'hybrid warfare'
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Parents arrested after complaining about school on WhatsApp say police have paid £20kA couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages.
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Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBCNew evidence raises doubts about the longest US war crimes investigation of the Iraq war and how US forces are held to account.
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Man who grabbed Ariana Grande at premiere jailed in Singapore"Serial intruder" Johnson Wen was given nine days in jail for being a public nuisance.
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How my on-air 'brain fog' moment sparked a big debateWhen the BBC's Zoe Kleinman spoke about going through perimenopause she got a huge response.
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Criminals buy haulage firms to steal lorryloads of goods, BBC findsThese tactics and others, such as raids on lorries stopped in traffic, are driving a freight-crime surge.
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Pauline Quirke's family on her dementia: 'She's still funny and recognises us'The family of the Birds of a Feather actress say "she's still funny, she's talking, she's happy".
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Three things you can do if your child's friends annoy youIt's tempting to tell your child they can't hang out with a friend, but that often won't solve the problem.
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AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry
Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered ? could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.?
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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas ? and explain how you escaped.?
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Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives
It?s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner
The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.?
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Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting
PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more
Asia In Brief India?s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).?
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Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack
PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more
INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.?
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Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?
Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.?
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Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory
Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.?
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Apple?s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
When is an app not an app? When it?s a mini app inside another app
Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.?
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Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%
Leaving buyers to cry, AI AI AI
If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. ?
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Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee
Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack
Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.?
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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidenceChimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.
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Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species
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US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffsTech industry primed for big refunds if SCOTUS rules against Trump tariffs.
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The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board
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As shutdown ends, dubious CDC panel gets back to dismantling vaccine schedulePediatricians are calling for members to be replaced and all their decisions reversed.
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How two Nissan Leafs help make a regional airport more resilientWe've seen schoolbuses and big pickups do V2G; how about a smaller car?
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?How about no?: FCC boss Brendan Carr says he won?t end news distortion probesCarr rejects criticism from four former FCC chairs, including three Republicans.
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What?s it like to compete in the longest US off-road rally with no GPS?Hydrogen and solar power the rally infrastructure, but navigation is low-tech.
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Three astronauts are stuck on China?s space station without a safe ride home"This does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return."
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Forget AGI?Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rulesOngoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.
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