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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. The admission comes after weeks of complaints about technical problems and irregularities during the exam administration, reports the Los Angeles Times. The State Bar disclosed that its psychometrician (a person skilled in administrating psychological te
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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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The price of the 512GB storage model is going up by $100, while the 1TB variant will see its price go up by $150 in the US. Read more ›
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Bluetooth speakers are a summer party must, and JBL is the brand I'm eyeing up this Prime Day. Read more ›
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Apple today raised prices on many of its products, including all Macs and iPads, as well as the Apple TV, HomePod, HomePod mini, and Vision Pro. We shared a list of the price increases, which range from $30 for the HomePod mini to up to $1,300 for the Mac Studio. iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods prices have not changed, at least for now. In a statement shared with MacRumors, Apple... Read more ›
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A few well-chosen accessories can change how your Pixel feels day to day. These are the ones most likely to earn a permanent spot. Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced significant price increases of $100 USD and beyond for its Xbox Series X/S consoles, blaming the rising costs of memory and storage for the move. Read more Read more ›
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Some devs working on Marathon have also been laid off and studio head Justin Truman has stepped down. Read more ›
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Apple's M7 silicon, expected in early 2027, will reportedly include Pro, Max, and Ultra variants with boosted memory bandwidth. Read more ›
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GLM-5.2 tops web leaderboard using strong templates, library integration, and pricing advantage over Claude Fable 5 Read more ›
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Save 67% off this 4TB Sandisk Creator SSD, now $350 down from $1050 but hurry up this anti Prime Day offer ends in 11 hours. Read more ›
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The FCC's proposed changes to Know Your Consumer rules are generating alarm among privacy experts. Read more ›
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Ford won a major quality award after years of recall headaches. It says the turnaround came from veteran engineers and rethinking AI. Read more ›
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Losing my dream job forced me to rethink my identity, my career, and what security actually means in an era of constant layoffs. Read more ›
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Just two weeks after Bitcoin fell to $59,000 in its worst weekly stretch since 2022, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is back under pressure. On Thursday morning, Bitcoin plunged as much as 5% to roughly $58,000, its weakest level since 2024, ... Read more ›
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Cellebrite claims the hardware predates current sanctions and was used without its consent. Read more ›
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Polestar, a division of Volvo is officially exiting the U.S. market. Here's what the company said and what it means for owners and prospective buyers. Read more ›
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Several users have reported a Pixel 4a bug where the phone refuses to go past the boot screen. Read more ›
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Google has begun rolling out Android 17, the June Pixel Feature Drop, and Wear OS 7 simultaneously across supported Pixel phones and watches. Highlights include floating app bubbles, improved foldable multitasking and gaming, tighter location and contact permissions, stronger lost-device protections, new Pixel AI tools, and up to 10% better Pixel Watch battery life. PhoneArena reports: Pixel owners are the clear winners, since everything here reaches Pixel first and a... Read more ›
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Apple is allowing iPhone developers in Brazil to distribute apps through authorized alternative marketplaces and use third-party payment systems following action by the country's competition regulator. "In other words, developers in Brazil will be able to circumvent the App Store and Apple's in-app purchase system, but there are still fees," reports MacRumors. Apple will collect commissions ranging from 5% on externally distributed apps to as much as 26% for some... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping transfer of wealth and power from the industry to the American public. The legislation, shown first to The Associated Press, would create a sovereign wealth fund overseen by an independent commission and financed through a one-time 50% tax on the stock... Read more ›
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Midjourney is expanding beyond AI image generation with plans for a medical-imaging business built around a water-based, full-body ultrasound scanner that uses hundreds of thousands of sensors and AI to reconstruct MRI-like images. "As you descend into the water, hundreds of thousands of tiny elements take turns, sending out waves, listening together, compressing and then streaming data to a massive cluster where thousands of computers split the task," Midjourney explained... Read more ›
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California's proposed "billionaire tax" has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, setting up a major fight between labor unions and some of Silicon Valley's richest figures. From the report: The California Billionaire Tax Act, colloquially known as the billionaire tax, would levy a one-time 5% tax on any California resident worth more than $1bn. The proposal is backed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West... Read more ›
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Adobe is expanding its Firefly AI assistant into Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, where it can automate all sorts of tasks such as organizing clips, renaming assets, adding interview markers, rearranging layers, and finding missing fonts. It's available starting today as part of a public beta. TechCrunch reports: Adobe is slowly transforming Firefly to increasingly resemble Canva, at least when it comes to AI features, loading up the app with... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but suspicion immediately focused on the network's role in tracking climate change. But the OOI also provides data... Read more ›
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Rolls-Royce SMR has secured a multibillion-pound agreement to build three small modular reactors on Sweden's west coast, "marking a major step in the British engineering group's ambition to become a leading supplier of the technology in Europe," reports Euronews. From the report: Following a rigorous selection process that started in 2022, UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce's nuclear division, Rolls-Royce SMR, won the contract to build nuclear reactors for Sweden. As part... Read more ›
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NASA has selected Relativity Space to build and launch Aeolus, a 2028 Mars orbiter that would provide daily global measurements of dust, winds, and atmospheric temperatures to support future robotic and human missions. TechCrunch reports: The structure of the contract is akin to the deals that NASA made with SpaceX to fly cargo to the International Space Station, or Firefly Aerospace to put a lander on the Moon. The government... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online... Read more ›
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