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Brain rot — the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on a phone — afflicts "plenty of people," writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URL here.] He's suffering from it too — "These days, it's tough to even finish a book."
But is the answer just avoiding distractions with a stripped-down $600 phone "that barely does anything"? For a week he tested the Light Phone III...
The newest version, which began shipping in March and is set for a broader release in July
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Искусственный интеллект уже несколько лет подряд меняет не только алгоритмы и приложения, но и всю инфраструктуру, которая его поддерживает. Обучение LLM и особенно массовый запуск сервисов на их основе требуют все больше серверов с высокопроизводительными ускорителями. Эти машины выделяют столько тепла, что привычные способы охлаждения и подключения к электросетям на суше начинают упираться в потолок возможностей.Конечно, компании ищут способы решения проблемы. Один из вариантов, который сейчас активно про Read more ›
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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Victoria waves a fond farewell to Eurogamer, and us to Victoria; Connor dabbles on Guild Wars on mobile; Sherif tackles yet another Soulslike; and Bertie discovers he's lost any skill he had at playing Hades 2. Read more Read more ›
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Halo Campaign Evolved isn't just a simple remake, but a blend of original content and new features designed for a modern shooter. Read more ›
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В первой статье синус оказался не просто функцией из учебника, а тенью крутящейся стрелки. Там я показал три главные двери: заморозить стрелку — проекция, пустить во времени — колебание, сложить несколько — волны. Здесь дверей будет больше — к трём главным добавятся поворот и кривизна, плюс бонус.Эта статья — каталог. Сорок два примера по пяти дверям и бонусу, и каждый со своим живым графиком: ниже не одна обложка на дверь,... Read more ›
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Hisense's new Safe Streaming remote connects directly to the kid-safe VIDAA Kids, powered by Kidoodle.tv. Read more ›
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ClipboardAI saves copied text, links, codes, images, and more into a searchable history across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Read more ›
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We have Oppo's latest Enco Air5 and Air5s in the office for unboxing. Let's kick it off with the Air5. This is an in-ear bud with active noise cancellation that seemingly sits just under the Air5 Pro, though both buds share the same 12mm dynamic driver and triple microphones. The Air5 ships in either Glossy White or Midnight Black, and with three sets of silicone eartips. Looking at the specs... Read more ›
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Shares of insurtech company Turtlemint are set to list on the bourses on Monday (June 29) after its IPO was… Read more ›
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Oxyfinz has launched a new initiative to help independent wealth managers and boutique firms in the UAE scale operations, offering free access to institutional-grade portfolio automation tools for firms operating in the Dubai International Financial Centre and Abu Dhabi Global Market. Read more ›
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Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-sized exoplanets with densities lower than cotton candy, making them the lightest known worlds of their size. The rare "super-puffs," located about 1,110 light-years away, are likely composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope expected to probe their atmospheres. The Associated Press reports: [University of Oxford's George Dransfield] suspects these fluffy, wispy worlds are probably white or blue,... Read more ›
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На PreparedStatement обычно заканчивается вводный курс по JDBC / PostgreSQL. Все довольно просто, пока не задумываешься: а работает ли оно как надо в моем крутом инновационном приложении?Дальше интереснее: как PostgreSQL выбирает custom или generic plan? кто именно кэширует statements? как с этим дружат ORM и внешние пулы?По закону подлости все выясняется на собеседовании, в контексте “начальных банальных вопросов по БД”. Разберемся в подробностях и закроем эту тему Читать далее Read more ›
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The Cleer Arc 5 have loads of features, but they're expensive and don't sound amazing. Read more ›
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, including its most powerful and its most affordable models yet. Read more ›
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Billionaire's are bracing for California's wealth tax, setting up for a pricy ballot fight and likely legal challenges. Read more ›
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With guest turns from Barack Obama, Jon Hamm, Isla Fischer and Vince Vaughn, here's how to watch Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness from anywhere. Read more ›
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If you have low spots in your yard, they can be problematic for multiple reasons. Here's a tool you can use to fix them without breaking the bank. Read more ›
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Indian startups cumulatively raised more than $1.1 Bn across 16 deals between June 21 and June 26, a massive 2.5X … Read more ›
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A Silicon Canals piece on why AI exposure follows available training data and task legibility, not a simple ranking of job difficulty. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Student loan borrowers who enroll in automatic payments will get a much bigger discount on interest starting July 1, the U.S. Department of Education says. Auto pay has long offered a modest discount off borrowers' interest rate -- .25 percentage points -- but after millions of borrowers opted out during the long COVID repayment pause, with some making no payments for years,... Read more ›
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The Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal. But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploit, according to a new statement Friday from the FSF: We have been working with these researchers since their initial report, and have also addressed additional security issues they submitted. All reported issues have been patched thanks... Read more ›
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Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period... "The execution of... Read more ›
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's... Read more ›
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CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' — a practice often... Read more ›
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CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the... Read more ›
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Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He... Read more ›
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This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks." The... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming... Read more ›
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