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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that AI's success should be measured by its impact on economic growth rather than achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), emphasizing that true progress will come when AI finds a transformative application akin to email or Excel. The Register reports: "Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking," the chief executive said during an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's YouTube show this month. Nadella thinks a better benchmark
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Craig Gillespie and Ana Nogueira dive into the narrative and musical choices made with 'Supergirl.' Read more ›
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New reports claim that Apple is preparing an M5 Ultra Mac Studio this year, with an M7 Ultra model and improved cooling planned for the future. Read more ›
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A six-month study of more than 120 adults in their 70s found that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) may offer a key advantage over other forms of exercise: it helped reduce body fat while preserving valuable muscle mass. While moderate and low-intensity workouts also led to some fat loss, only HIIT maintained lean muscle, which becomes increasingly important with age. Read more ›
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Опенсорсное приложение Nearby Glasses сканирует Bluetooth-идентификаторы окружающих устройств. Умные очки можно распознать по идентификаторам компаний в рекламном фрейме BTLE, ADV_INV, сверяя информацию с базой производителей. Читать далее Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! У всех нас есть хобби, а выходные — самое время поговорить о своих! Не только о проектах, ИИ и о том, когда этот пузырь лопнет. Я 22 года играю на электрогитарах, и захотелось написать об этом статью — такой путеводитель по своему гитарному пути, учитывая, что в коллекцию недавно попал инструмент 1976 года выпуска.Вспомнилось: как‑то я спросил у одного из своих техлидов, почему он так допоздна сидит и... Read more ›
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Партия IT и инженеров? Почему технократия- не утопия а шанс "починить" страну. Самый логичный патч для страны? Читать далее Read more ›
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Tesla's proposed Megapod AI data center project faces significant hurdles before it even begins – trademark conflicts, established competition and more. Read more ›
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Astronomers have finally cracked the mystery of the famous “Pink Planet,” a strange world 57 light-years away that has puzzled scientists for more than a decade. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers discovered that its atmosphere contains water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and something never directly confirmed before in such an object: salty clouds. Read more ›
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Джеймс Бонд — это имя, связывающее нас с 70-летней франшизой, которая не перестаёт радовать зрителя шпионской атмосферой, интригами и предательствами, ураганным экшеном, а также сексуальными главными героями и их напарницами. Тяжело найти человека, не знакомого с похождениями легендарного агента британской разведки.Однако нельзя не отметить тот факт, что последние 20 лет франшиза определенно находится в упадке. После стильного и приземленного «Казино Рояль» эпоха Крейга пошла максимально не туда. Кроме спор Read more ›
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На страницах всевозможных статей было написано, что управление микросхемой памяти SDRAM это очень сложно. Отчасти это верно, есть масса тонкостей. Процесс освоения новичкам осложнён отсутствием примеров на русском языке. Вашему вниманию предлагается небольшой пример, как можно подключить оперативную память к ПЛИС. Эти заметки для новичков, таких как и я. А следовательно не торопитесь, проверяйте всё что будете использовать. Особенно реализацию платы, если она у вас самодельная. Опытным пользователям можно н Read more ›
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In China, chip companies may have found a new clientele for their semiconductors: IPO investors. Kunlunxin Technology, an AI chip firm majority owned by search engine company Baidu, is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, according to a person who participated in a recent investor road show by the company and another person with direct knowledge of Kunlunxin’s plans. And as it... Read more ›
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Homescreen Heroes: BandLab is a free music-making app for recording vocals, making beats, and mixing demos Read more ›
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Persona 6 looks as if it's heading in a darker, more mature direction, and that in itself is a positive first step — here's why. Read more ›
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In the past two years, businesses have been trying to fit large language models (LLMs) into support, analytics, development, and internal automation like never before. Along with the increasing adoption of AI technology, another trend is gaining momentum — cybercriminals are taking advantage of the disconnect between assumptions about LLMs and their actual characteristics.In 2025 and 2026, several independent sources have highlighted the same trend: Prompt injection remains one of... Read more ›
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Coverd has launched a gamified credit platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz’s Speedrun accelerator, offering consumers the chance to earn up to 100% instant cashback on everyday purchases through real-time, point-of-sale rewards. Read more ›
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404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend's license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 — even searching for her mom's license plate at least 24 times. The police office was charged with stalking and hacking-related offenses, serving one day in prison with five years of probation — but his case "was not a one-off." [Alternate link... Read more ›
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PC Gamer reports: The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told BBC Breakfast earlier this week, "We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions." To be clear, no specific restrictions... Read more ›
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Electrek reports: Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads... Tesla filed the "Megapod" trademark (serial number 99893717) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month, through its longtime IP counsel. It's an intent-to-use application, meaning Tesla is claiming the name for a product it hasn't... Read more ›
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"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots." Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about — from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries — are about changing the chemistry... Read more ›
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The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field. Importantly, this is... Read more ›
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"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube." The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran... Read more ›
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A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him £300,000." Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore's University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was caught in February 2023 after a student handed... Read more ›
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America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years." Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner might be kept in a dozen places... Now a group of 19 prison systems are... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died. Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986. Since then, the company... Read more ›
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UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their... Read more ›
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