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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centers, a United Nations report (PDF) said on Thursday. The use of artificial intelligence by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta drove up their global indirect emissions because of the vast amounts of energy required to power data centers, the report by the International Telecommunic
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In case you missed it — this is the post for people who only read headlines — Apple has announced that it will be releasing iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 later today. Apple shared this information in a press release on its Newsroom website. The software updates will re-enable the Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2 models sold in the United States. It... Read more ›
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Switzerland said efforts to negotiate a fixed price for the F-35A jet were not successful, making it vulnerable to costs from tariffs and inflation. Read more ›
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The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs Ryzen 9 9950X competition is intense, so we put the chips through a six-round faceoff to find the winner. Read more ›
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Apple today released the third public betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, allowing the public to test the updates ahead of their September launch. The third public betas come a week after the second public betas, and the updates correspond with the sixth developer betas. Beta testers that have registered on Apple's website can download the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates by opening the Settings app, going to... Read more ›
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Jess Ciesla loves to read. With the help of her fiancé and his best friend, they transformed a backyard shed into a pink, cozy library. Read more ›
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Millions of Steam users worldwide can no longer use PayPal for purchases in most currencies, leaving affected regions to rely on alternative methods or Steam Wallet codes. Valve cites a bank decision behind the disruption but gives no clear timeline for restoring support, impacting global gamers. Read more ›
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Back in October of last year, Google announced several security-related changes coming to its Google Messages app. Those features were scheduled to rollout over time and the most noteworthy of them all has apparently (finally) reached wide rollout to all users. We’re talking about the “Sensitive Content Warnings” for things like incoming photos that contain … Continued Read the original post: Google Messages Starts Blurring Nudes Read more ›
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It is well known by now that Apple plans to launch its more personalized version of Siri next year, but apparently the company has even bigger plans. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Wednesday reported that Apple is preparing a "visually redesigned" version of Siri that will debut on the iPhone and iPad "as early as next year." However, he did not provide any specific details about the new design. Gurman said... Read more ›
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Companies such as OpenAI are running what amounts to a giant social experiment Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he has taken notice of how attached some users have become to specific AI models. Read more ›
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Apple today released iOS 18.6.1 for the iPhone and watchOS 11.6.1 for the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. The updates re-enable blood oxygen monitoring in the United States. iOS 18.6.1 can be downloaded on eligible iPhones over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. watchOS 11.6.1 is available for newer Apple Watch models that have blood oxygen monitoring disabled, and... Read more ›
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Just because it looks boring on the outside doesn't mean there's nothing interesting going on. Read more ›
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What version of Android TV does that screen run? What kind of update support will it get? Too often, it's anyone's guess. Read more ›
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Apple today provided public beta testers with a third beta of macOS Tahoe, the newest version of macOS that's set to launch this fall. The third beta comes one week after the second macOS Tahoe public beta, and it corresponds to the sixth developer beta. Public beta testers can download macOS Tahoe from the Software Update section of the Settings app after signing up for the betas on Apple's website.... Read more ›
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How MrBeast's production team turns an idea into hundreds of millions of views, according to staffers who have worked on his YouTube videos. Read more ›
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Place and pacing are what Mafia: The Old Country does best. The artists and programmers at Hangar 13 have crafted an evocative and unflinching rendering of Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century: dappled lemon groves; vineyards snaking down steep hills; mines filled with indentured slaves, every face and fruit bowl lit with the exquisite, high-drama flair of a Caravaggio painting. The scriptwriters and narrative designers have kept up... Read more ›
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"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in... Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from The Register: Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base -- if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is. "This is the NASA 025 Command Vehicle," current owner Jonathan Kitzen says of the once-silver, now... Read more ›
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xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10... According to StatCounter, nearly 43% of Windows users still use the old version on their desktop computers.... "With only three months until support ends for Windows... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has cast doubt on whether those models have even a basic understanding of general logical concepts or an accurate grasp of their own "thought process."... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Two different firms have tested the newly released GPT-5, and both find its security sadly lacking. After Grok-4 fell to a jailbreak in two days, GPT-5 fell in 24 hours to the same researchers. Separately, but almost simultaneously, red teamers from SPLX (formerly known as SplxAI) declare, "GPT-5's raw model is nearly unusable for enterprise out of the box. Even OpenAI's internal... Read more ›
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AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. "The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections that relied on the familiar screech of a modem handshake," remembers Slashdot reader BrianFagioli (noting that dial-up Internet "was once the gateway to the web for... Read more ›
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In 2023 a 13-year-old girl "made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates," reports the Associated Press. But when the school's surveillance software spotted that joke, "Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says." Her parents filed a lawsuit against the school system, according to the article (which... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost. Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made... Read more ›
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"General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge," reports the Verge, "after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery." The potentially record-breaking run took place over seven days on public roads near GM's Milford Proving Ground and Detroit's Belle Isle "using smart driving techniques" that included limiting the speed to 20-25 mph. The truck was a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV... Read more ›
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IBM and Google report they will build industrial-scale quantum computers containing one million or more qubits by 2030, following IBM's June publication of a quantum computer blueprint addressing previous design gaps and Google's late-2023 breakthrough in scaling error correction. Current experimental systems contain fewer than 200 qubits. IBM encountered crosstalk interference when scaling its Condor chip to 433 qubits and subsequently adopted low-density parity-check code requiring 90% fewer qubits than Read more ›
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