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An anonymous reader shares a report: Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company's ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached.
An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, O
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"I'm not impressed," former President Barack Obama said at a private fundraiser. Read more ›
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In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to 1.82 million. Read more ›
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Sindhu Mahadevan moved to the US to study. After growing disillusioned with the immigration system, she applied for permanent residency in Canada. Read more ›
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Emirates agreed a $180 million deal to buy four Airbus A380s from a lessor, and plans to continue flying them through the 2030s. Read more ›
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In an exclusive interview, Sally Susman, a pioneer in corporate comms, recounts finding out that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was viable. Read more ›
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A Switch 2 owner has had their Nintendo console 'restricted' after installing a Switch game they bought on the used market. Read more ›
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Inflation is speeding up after a period of cooling down earlier this year. Read more ›
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Faced with the risk of ICE detention, Regina Higuera decided to leave her family behind in the US to move back to Mexico. Read more ›
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The reward rate for USDC on the exchange is 4% as of July 2025, but rates are subject to change by Coinbase. Read more ›
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First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech. Read more ›
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JPMorgan said investment banking fees rose 7%, defying Wall Street projections and tariff woes. It's the first big bank to report second-quarter earnings. Read more ›
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Dozens of troops with Stinger missiles, machine guns, and grenade launchers were filmed riding the subway and practicing movement in stations. Read more ›
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From Hitler apologist to anime waifu: Musk's xAI debuts "Companions" in a whiplash-inducing pivot. Read more ›
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Harsh soap can strip you cast-iron of its slick surface. This kitchen staple lifts even the stickiest stains without doing any damage. Read more ›
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Today, we can share with you some camera samples shot on the upcoming Realme 15 Pro. We will be discussing basic camera features and specifications but final judgement and other details will be reserved for the full review. The Realme 15 Pro has a dual camera system on the back. This includes a 50MP main camera and a 50MP ultra-wide. Here are some samples from the main camera. Main camera... Read more ›
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Keeping baby bottles clean and sterilized is a chore. We tested automatic bottle washers to see if they're worth buying. Read more ›
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At Microsoft, software engineers can make $284,000 in base pay, per work visa data from the first quarter of 2025. Read more ›
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Munich-based 36ZERO Vision has raised €3.6 million in a pre-Series A round to accelerate the expansion of its AI-powered visual quality inspection system across Europe and different sectors. The latest funding was led by JOIN Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Vanagon Ventures, with additional backing from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and Alchemist. According to CEO Heiko ... Read more ›
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Meta is building data centers and building them fast. Using on-site power generation, lightweight building materials, and billions of dollars, Meta is looking to scale up its AI infrastructure as quickly as possible. Read more ›
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Microsoft is keen to show employees how much AI is transforming its own workplace, even as the company terminates thousands of personnel. From a report: During a presentation this week, Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff said artificial intelligence tools are boosting productivity in everything from sales and customer service to software engineering, according to a person familiar with his remarks. Althoff said AI saved Microsoft more than $500 million last... Read more ›
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Over 240 browser extensions with nearly a million total installs have been covertly turning users' browsers into web-scraping bots. "The extensions serve a wide range of purposes, including managing bookmarks and clipboards, boosting speaker volumes, and generating random numbers," reports Ars Technica. "The common thread among all of them: They incorporate MellowTel-js, an open source JavaScript library that allows developers to monetize their extensions." Ars Technica reports: Some of the... Read more ›
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"Firefox is dead to me," wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols last month for The Register, complaining about everything from layoffs at Mozilla to Firefox's discontinuation of Pocket and Fakespot, its small market share, and some user complaints that the browser might be becoming slower. But a new rebuttal (also published by The Register) argues instead that Mozilla just has "a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its... Read more ›
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A federal appeals court struck down a "click-to-cancel" rule that would have required companies to make cancelling services as easy as signing up. The Federal Trade Commission rule was scheduled to take effect on July 14 but was vacated by the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that the Biden-era FTC failed to follow the full rulemaking process required under US law. The... Read more ›
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Senator Dick Durbin questioned a Texas-led effort to move Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston, describing it as an expensive "heist" costing an estimated $305 million, not the $85 million initially budgeted. "This is not a transfer. It's a heist," said Durbin during a budget markup hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "A heist by Texas because they lost a competition 12 years ago." In April,... Read more ›
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James Gunn's Superman "appears to be succeeding in rebooting DC Studios and its most iconic comic book franchise," writes The Hollywood Reporter, noting the film is "headed for a possible record domestic box office debut of $115 million to $120 million." Gunn is in a unique position, being both the film's writer-director and the co-head of the Warner Bros.-owned DC, which he co-runs with Peter Safran. Overseas, Superman is launching... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Jalopnik: On July 2, the 88th anniversary of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced an expedition [which will launch in November] to confirm whether or not the wreckage of her plane has been found. Satellite imagery from a decade ago indicated the presence of something that sure looks plane-like under the waters of Nikumaroro Island, an uninhabited spit of land in... Read more ›
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Restaurants and bars face mounting financial pressure from music licensing fees as the number of Performing Rights Organizations has expanded from three dominant players to at least six nationwide. The National Restaurant Association reports members pay an average of $4,500 annually for music licenses, representing 0.5% of total sales for small establishments. Hotels have experienced even steeper increases, with one major chain seeing costs rise 200% from 2021-2025, and some... Read more ›
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Researchers have created the world's first mRNA-based vaccine against a deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium — and they did it using the platform developed for COVID-19 vaccines. Medical Express publishes their announcement: The vaccine developed by the team from the Institute for Biological Research and Tel Aviv University is an mRNA-based vaccine delivered via lipid nanoparticles, similar to the COVID-19 vaccine. However, mRNA vaccines are typically effective against viruses like COVID-19 —... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shared this report from Nerds.xyz: NVIDIA just put out a new security notice, and if you're running one of its powerful GPUs, you might want to pay attention. Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that Rowhammer attacks, which are already known to affect regular DRAM, can now target GDDR6 memory on NVIDIA's high-end GPUs when ECC [error correction code] is not enabled. They pulled this... Read more ›
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