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Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology that he has chased with a talent war for top AI engineers. From a report: The social media giant is among the large technology companies that have chased high-profile deals and doled out multi-million-dollar pay packages in recent months to fast-track work on machines that can outthink humans on most tasks.
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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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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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A second season of the Apple TV horror comedy is on the way, but its creator also has spinoff ideas too. Read more ›
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The highest capacity Optimus GX Pro 850P drive for the PS5 almost tops the $3,000 mark. Read more ›
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Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done. Read more ›
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Epic Games has detailed some of the features in its next generation Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 6 - and one of the ideas it's testing is the ability for players to move their Fortnite skins into other Unreal Engine games, and for other Unreal Engine games to put their skins into Fortnite. Read more Read more ›
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The 0.2% tax on any business activity involving digital assets was added last-minute, and is unlikely to change, two people familiar with the matter said. Read more ›
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The 753-billion-parameter model outperformed GPT-5.5 on several software engineering benchmarks, offers a 1-million-token context window, and is available under an unrestricted MIT license. Since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, the AI industry’s most capable models have largely come from a ... Read more ›
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In this week's Crypto Long & Short, trusted indexes turn fragmented digital assets into a mature market that big institutions can confidently invest in, writes Kirsten Wegner. Then, the division between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto is disappearing, says Dave LaValle, President of CoinDesk Data & Indices. Read more ›
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We’re seeing good early Prime Day deals ahead of the event next week, and unsurprisingly, some of the best deals are on Amazon’s own devices. Several Echo speakers have dropped to new low prices, including the Echo Dot Max, which is on sale for $64.99 ($35 off) at Amazon. Our smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison […] Read more ›
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A little-known Windows 11 update is tackling one of the OS's most frustrating problems, and older PCs could see the biggest gains. Read more ›
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AI startup Pramaana Labs, a startup that is building a “verification layer” for AI, has raised a $27 Mn (about… Read more ›
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Если плагиат оценивает текст великого классика как сгенерированный, что делать обычному студенту, который использует современные технологии для обучения? Разбираемся. Читать далее Read more ›
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The C-130 Hercules airlifter's versatility, longevity, and cargo capacity have made it a valuable asset to the Air Force and over 40 countries. Read more ›
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The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Экран, в котором я живу 4 месяца. Не открываю IDE — всю god crm пишу внутри god crm.Всё на скрине — строки одной postgres-таблицы. заметка, тикет, агент — одна сущность. поэтому заменило мне ноушн, обсидиан и мессенджер сразу.Код открыт, mit: github.com/holetron/godcrm Прочитать как я ем собачий корм Read more ›
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Blackstone-led consortium to take over software company and inject $150mn to help cut its debt load Read more ›
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A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to scams and shady business practices, with the court rejecting Google's argument that users could simply check the sources themselves. The Decoder reports: Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results... Read more ›
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The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple's changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: "If you insist on trying out macOS 27 as soon as possible, please ensure you install a secondary copy of macOS 26 first, or install macOS 27 itself... Read more ›
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BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast "Flash Chargers" across Europe by the end of 2027, with the first stations already appearing in Germany and the UK. The Verge reports: At an estimated cost of 580,000 euros (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network. The 1,500kW charging stations are significantly more powerful than Tesla's 500kW... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech had gone too far and that it would relax the rules around what speech was allowed. "We have been over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate political debate and censoring too much trivial content and subjecting too many people... Read more ›
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Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cards and says it will stop restocking them as retailers sell through remaining inventory. In a blog post, the company blamed persistent gift card scams as the reason, though Steam Digital Gift Cards will remain available and existing physical cards can still be redeemed. PC Guide reports: Valve says it has "responded to gift card scams over the years" -- but this doesn't stop... Read more ›
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Visa is integrating its payment network with ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and complete purchases on users' behalf. "It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user's behalf, at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa," reports the Associated Press. "The payment network's previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a single retailer or a small set of enrolled merchants." From... Read more ›
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A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can spawn a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges through a Defender race condition. The release came just hours after Microsoft fixed two previously disclosed flaws during its latest monthly Patch Tuesday drop -- its largest Patch Tuesday release ever. BleepingComputer reports:... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. That's a dramatic shift in the U.S. power mix. Just five years ago, coal generated 19.7% of U.S. electricity in May, while... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction. "If you simply ask someone to start walking, whether they are wandering around a museum, a supermarket, or even an empty room, it is surprisingly likely that they will drift counterclockwise," said Dr Inaki Echeverria Huarte at University of... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist, captioned: "For years we've had unconfirmed reports, rumors, hints... now we know." From the report: Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defense industry, marking a watershed moment in warfare. The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled "Terminator" drones on the front... Read more ›
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