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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In what reads a bit like a Sopranos plot, The Information suggests some of those in the recent batch of terminated Microsoft engineers may have in effect been forced to dig their own AI graves. The (paywalled) story begins: "Jeff Hulse, a Microsoft vice president who oversees roughly 400 software engineers, told the team in recent months to use the company's artificial intelligence chatbot, powered by OpenAI, to generate half the computer code they write, according to
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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 Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken Kentucky to federal court, accusing the state of overstepping its authority in… Continue reading CFTC sues Kentucky over prediction markets amid regulatory battle Read more ›
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Всем привет! Меня зовут Константин Ушенин, я — ведущий научный сотрудник в AIRI, занимаюсь приложениями искусственного интеллекта в химии и фармакологии. В конце марта 2026 года мы с коллегами выиграли суточный хакатон от Сбера, ИТМО и СПБ ГБУ Молодёжного пространства «ПРОСТО» по созданию ИИ‑ассистента для планирования синтеза в лаборатории органической химии. Мероприятие прошло три месяца назад, однако мы завершили рефлексию результата только сейчас и решили сделать полный разбор.В этом посте... Read more ›
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Tantor Postgres 18 - масштабный релиз СУБД, за которым стоят месяцы тестирования, сотни часов нагрузочных прогонов и десятки исправлений, о которых пользователь никогда не узнает просто потому, что они были найдены и устранены до выхода версии. Александр Симонов, руководитель направления развития 1С в "Тантор Лабс", рассказывает, как устроен процесс тестирования изнутри - почему одного эталонного прогона недостаточно, что делать, когда ванильный PostgreSQL 18 ломает собственные оптимизации, и как Tantor Pos Read more ›
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A tense battle between investors is happening at FromSoftware's parent company, and Elden Ring is at the heart of a debate over whether its CEO should remain in his role. Read more Read more ›
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As if the Smiths couldn't get any more surreal, they're about to launch an ode to David Lynch. But when is Rick and Morty season 9 episode 6 coming to a streaming platform near you? Read more ›
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From budgeting, meal prepping, to buying secondhand, we want to hear how you save money. Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from the AFP: The latest heatwave sweeping across Europe is a stark reminder that it is the world's fastest-warming continent, stretching into an Arctic that is heating at an even greater pace. Britain, France, Italy and Spain have issued red alerts and health warnings for much of their territory this week as the region endures its second heat episode since May. Here is a look at... Read more ›
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Here's why I will always pick Polaroid instant film over Fujifilm Instax, despite the cost. Read more ›
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Rising component costs and fading subsidies are accelerating the Mainland China PC market decline, forcing hardware vendors to pass component price spikes directly to buyers Hardware procurement is split down the middle, as notebook shipments plunge while commercial desktop contracts see localised spikes. The PC market decline in Mainland China had steepened during the first ... Read more ›
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One of the best parts of my job is discovering lesser-known cities and exploring their tech and startup ecosystems. Often, it's the places that attract the least attention that leave the biggest impre... Read more ›
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Partly, creators of the Interpreter AI model for the automotive repair supply chain, has raised $50m (£38m) in Series B funding and announced its launch into the US market. Partly builds frontier AI for parts as core infrastructure for the automotive industry. Interpreter is the result of five years of training on human feedback and ... Read more ›
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UK-based startup LabCycle has received £180,000 in funding from the British Design Fund (BDF) to support the development of what it calls the ‘world’s first’ AutoDecon system, designed to safely recyc... Read more ›
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At SoftBank Group’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record highs is a bubble waiting to deflate. He treated the question itself as the problem. To […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Всем привет!Недавно я опубликовал свою первую статью про восстановление легендарного компьютера: «Воскрешение „Пентагона-128“ из пепла и безвейтовый контроллер клавиатуры и джойстиков на ATmega8 своими руками». Честно скажу, то, как её встретили — лайки, добавления в закладки и первые подписки на меня — очень сильно воодушевило. По свежим следам и на этой волне вдохновения я сразу же решился опубликовать ещё одну свою разработку. На этот раз — девайс полностью самостоятельный, а... Read more ›
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At the recently concluded The (un)Banked in Amsterdam, banking leaders, fintech innovators and investors highlighted how stablecoins and on-chain infrastructure are rapidly moving from niche experimentation to becoming integral components of mainstream financial services and global payments. Read more ›
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The European Commission has declined (PDF) to propose a law requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable, despite the Stop Killing Games initiative collecting nearly 1.3 million verified signatures. Instead, it plans to develop a voluntary industry code covering end-of-life transparency and preservation. Dextero reports: The Commission's full communication said a legal obligation to keep games playable, as requested by the initiative, "would not be proportionate." It cited concerns... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from independent journalist Ed Zitron: Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified by the Financial Times, that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 2025, as well as other crucial details about the financial condition of the company. [...] At the end of the year, OpenAI had just over $50 billion in assets,... Read more ›
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Reuters reports a cyber extortion group has claimed responsibility for breaching Novo Nordisk's network, stealing roughly 1.3 terabytes of data, including source code, drug research, clinical-trial records, employee and physician information, production-system details, and internal AI model data. The group says it's exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding $25 million from the company. From the report: FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, said... Read more ›
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Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for "games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes," reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large file needs of modern game development as well as multimedia/entertainment purposes. Lore is designed... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus, which is aimed at... Read more ›
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Anthropic employees say they remain confused and increasingly convinced that the Trump administration is singling out the company after officials gave it less than 90 minutes to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over alleged national security concerns. Cybersecurity experts, however, argue that the cited behavior of helping to identify vulnerabilities in software is also available in rival models and is more valuable to defenders than attackers. The New York... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, Siemens, and other companies have joined the newly launched Appia Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The project aims to create common specifications and assessment frameworks that organizations can use to demonstrate AI systems meet emerging safety, trust, and compliance requirements. According to the Linux Foundation, the framework is designed to allow conformity evidence to be reused across the AI supply chain, potentially reducing... Read more ›
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Carvana is testing a radically different new-car dealership model in Dallas, turning the location into a test-drive center and themed "playground" while requiring every purchase to be completed through its online platform. "Every single car that we sell, whether it's used or new, is online," said Tom Taira, Carvana president of special projects who's leading the new vehicle operations. "That's a very inherent difference. Even coming into the store, you're... Read more ›
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CCS Insight expects global smartphone shipments to fall 15% this year as AI-driven demand pushes memory manufacturers toward higher-margin server chips. "[S]ome entry-level devices have already seen their sticker prices go up by more than 50 percent since last year," reports The Register. From the report: The firm found that the primary smartphone market (meaning new devices) contracted 4.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, despite sales channels... Read more ›
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wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Wednesday published an advisory acknowledging the public disclosure of a vulnerability in Defender that could lead to privilege escalation. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score of 7.8), was dropped last week by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse (also known as Chaotic Eclipse). "We are working to provide a high-quality security update that addresses this vulnerability. We will provide information in this... Read more ›
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