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"For-profit companies are pushing the narrative that they can do space inexpensively," writes Slashdot reader RUs1729 in response to an opinion piece from SpaceNews. "Their track record reveals otherwise: cutting corners won't do it for the foreseeable future." Here's an excerpt from the article, written by Robert N. Eberhart: The headlines in the space industry over the past month have delivered a sobering reminder: space is not forgiving, and certainly not friendly to overpromising entrepreneurs. From iSp
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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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Apple's annual WWDC developers conference is in the rearview mirror, but there is still a lot to look forward to over the next year and beyond. In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman listed around 20 products that he expects Apple to release across the remainder of 2026 and 2027. Now that the more intelligent and personal version of Siri has finally arrived in beta, a full two... Read more ›
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Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you're willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks. Read more ›
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После моей первой статьи про Pulse я не ожидал, честно говоря, примерно ничего. Но к моему удивлению увидел реакцию: немного поддержки, немного критики, несколько советов по UX.Эта статья про то, как один комментарий заставил меня задуматься о безопасности, утечках данных, о проведении аудита и изменению подхода к разработке своего небольшого мессенджера. Читать далее Read more ›
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This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware." "Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well." More details from the blog It's FOSS:... Read more ›
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After using iOS 27 on my iPhone for over a week, I've found the Liquid Glass slider to be one of the update's most underrated features. Here's how it works and why it's worth trying. Read more ›
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For the first time in over a decade, 'Naruto' is going back to trading cards for an all-new competitive game. Read more ›
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NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support. Read more ›
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According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips. The videos […] Read more ›
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Разработка на WordPress часто начинается с установки готовых решений из официального репозитория. По мере роста проекта и усложнения требований к безопасности и производительности стандартный подход перестаёт работать. Обычные плагины требуют активации, могут быть случайно отключены или скомпрометированы через уязвимости в графическом интерфейсе. На определённом этапе разработки возникает необходимость внедрить правила, которые применяются на уровне самого сервера и не могут быть изменены через администрати Read more ›
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JD Vance dedicated his new memoir, "Communion," to his wife, Usha Vance. Here's what the book says about their relationship. Read more ›
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot was killed when his twin-engine private plane crashed enroute to an airshow. Aside from building the French gaming empire, Guillemot was also a licensed and avid pilot. Read more ›
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AirPods get blamed for making people antisocial, but tiny earbuds have also become a normal way to make loud public spaces feel survivable. Read more ›
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Here's what I'd advise you to consider buying now ahead of likely price hikes, especially if you can get a decent deal. Read more ›
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Love sticking pretty lights in your patio? Govee’s lights are an easy, but very spendy way to do it. Read more ›
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Don't leave home without these five travel photography essentials if you're going on vacation this summer Read more ›
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Featuring a 32-inch 1000R curved QHD panel, 165 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms MPRT response time, and AMD FreeSync support, the Samsung Odyssey G5 G55C has dropped to its lowest price of $189.99 ahead of Prime Day. Read more ›
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Classic trucks might not have the most amenities, but they're still beloved for collecting purposes and because their reliability is often unmatched. Read more ›
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Our favorite 60% budget gaming keyboard, the Royal Kludge R65, is back down to just $44 with coupon at Amazon, its lowest-ever price. This wired clacker delivers excellent sound and feel for the price, thanks to lubed switches, a gasket mount, and silicone pads. It also has a metal knob and QMK/VIA support. Read more ›
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"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and other claims. Blizzard Entertainment claims that Project Ascension is a "lucrative way to exploit and profit from the popularity of the WoW game experience," according... Read more ›
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America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM: It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer of AI models and agents into one system researchers can access. The DOE has taken to calling it 'a national operating system for science.' That... Read more ›
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Phoronix reports: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot. Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers left working on the AMD R600g driver that covers from the Radeon HD 2000 series through Radeon... Read more ›
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"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market." Wang's big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta's first jump into... Read more ›
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Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview. "It's much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak."... Read more ›
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UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register — but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it." Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists... Read more ›
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Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin. Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint: The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0): AI watermarking — "AI-generated or edited images can now carry a visible Copilot watermark. You choose Never, Always, or Ask Every Time in Settings, with a confirmation when saving. The watermarking is off... Read more ›
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"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working on the tools to get the time savings that they're professing," said Paul Leonardi, Duca Family professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara." Leonardi is one of the co-authors of... Read more ›
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"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery were down 4.77% to $80.83 per barrel by 8:27 p.m. ET. Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery traded about 4% lower to $83.77 per barrel.... Read more ›
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"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs — refreshing resumes,... Read more ›
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