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Four years ago a small Microsoft Research team started creating an analog optical computer. They used commercially available parts like sensors from smartphone cameras, optical lenses, and micro-LED lights finer than a human hair. "As the light passes through the sensor at different intensities, the analog optical computer can add and multiply numbers," explains a Microsoft blog post.
They envision the technology scaling to a computer that for certain problems is 100X faster and 100X more energy efficient
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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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Honda hasn't issued that many recalls in 2026, but the ones it has announced have involved well over 600,000 cars. Is your Honda one of those vehicles? Read more ›
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Instagram has expanded its algorithm personalization features to its main feed. Read more ›
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Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to the former flagship […] Read more ›
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Если оглянуться вокруг, можно заметить что практически вся физическая и цифровая инфраструктура, которой мы пользуемся ежедневно — дороги, дома, электростанции, системы водоснабженияи канализации, интернет — спроектирована, построена и обслуживается преимущественно мужчинами.При этом, согласно макроэкономической статистике, структура перераспределения капитала выглядит иначе. Возникает логичный вопрос: как именно распределяются финансовые потоки в обществе и почему традиционная «экономика отношений» сегодня Read more ›
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Ubisoft is reportedly trying to cut costs without leaving key franchises like Rainbow Six: Siege in the lurch with a new round of layoffs. Read more ›
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Instagram is giving users real control over their feeds with Your Algorithm, a feature that lets you add and remove topics across the whole app. Read more ›
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Users are complaining about the sensitive guardrails built into the company's new "Mythos-class" model, Fable 5. They're also worried about might happen next. Read more ›
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Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data. Read more ›
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Недавно знакомый попросил помочь с небольшой задачей по проверке внешнего периметра сети компании. Сразу уточню: речь шла об инфраструктуре, на проверку которой было разрешение.Под внешним периметром обычно понимают всё, что доступно из интернета: публичные IP-адреса, домены, поддомены, облачные или VPS-серверы, а также сервисы, которые слушают внешние порты.Задача была простой по формулировке, но интересной технически: нужно понять, какие адреса доступны извне и к каким портам можно подключиться. Читать да Read more ›
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Steam Gift Cards are disappearing from store shelves. Valve says scammers kept finding ways to abuse physical cards despite warnings, retail restrictions, and other anti-fraud measures. Read more ›
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In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem. Read more ›
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The macOS 27 Golden Gate update refines what's there and sets the stage for foldable iPhones and touchscreen Macs. Read more ›
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Помните мою прошлую статью, где мы гоняли один и тот же современный альбом на четырёх типах лент через трёхголовочную Kenwood KX-1100G? Тот эксперимент показал: аналоговый звук жив, но характер цифрового мастера и точность калибровки деки часто влияют на результат сильнее, чем разница между Type I и Type IV.За кадром осталась другая проблема. Современный стриминговый релиз — это −8…−10 LUFS integrated, True Peak на 0 dBFS и выше, плотный верх, широкий... Read more ›
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BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC are attracting the vast majority of new bitcoin ETF money, leaving smaller funds increasingly sidelined as institutional investors consolidate around the industry's largest players. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice released an opinion on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it significantly harder for plaintiffs who face employment discrimination to prevail in court. The opinion was released by the Office of Legal Counsel, an institution that interprets federal law […] Read more ›
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Коротко тезис: открытый Ollama — это бесплатный GPU для атакующего, и охота за таким compute давно поставлена на поток. Но за май наша сеть ханипотов (приманки в DE/US/RU) зафиксировала не только воровство инференса, а нечто новое — использование LLM-эндпоинта как SSRF-плацдарма для кражи облачных учёток. Разберём по данным. Читать далее Read more ›
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Five Canadian companies are among 250 of the world’s “top-performing” cleantech companies. Read more ›
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Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. "These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications -- including attach and detach force -- to help you build a high-quality accessory band," Google says on a store page listing. 9to5Google reports: Noting how the "community has already come up with innovative and creative... Read more ›
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Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run locally on devices equipped with just 16GB of VRAM, making advanced AI more accessible to developers, researchers... Read more ›
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According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost production.... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader whitroth shares a report from Politico, with the caption: "shutting down Microsoft Office for the International Criminal Court (ICC) was clearly a wake-up call." From the report: The EU is moving to counter American dominance in technology by reaching for one of the oldest tools in its arsenal: industrial strategy. As the European Commission unveiled a plan Wednesday to reduce Europe's reliance on the foreign technology providers... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Fedora Linux 43 users upgrading to the latest Dovecot mail server discovered something rather unsettling: some older Microsoft Outlook configurations may have been silently ignoring SSL/TLS settings for POP3 email connections for years. According to a Fedora community blog post, affected Outlook clients reportedly continued using insecure port 110 connections even when encryption was enabled in the application settings. The issue surfaced after Dovecot 2.4 disabled plaintext authenticat Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere's repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, "no-tech" tractor to solve what... Read more ›
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Amazon has reportedly killed its planned new Stargate series despite giving it a series order in 2025. According to Variety, studio executives were worried it would only appeal to longtime fans. ScreenRant reports: Reports of what became Gero's Stargate series started in 2022, after Amazon acquired MGM Studios. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the 1994 Stargate movie with Emmerich, was another executive producer for the Amazon show, as were Joby Harold... Read more ›
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NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after the Mars orbiter stopped responding in December, apparently after an unexpected spin drained its batteries and knocked out communications. Launched in 2013 and orbiting Mars since 2014, MAVEN spent more than a decade studying how the planet lost its atmosphere and helped explain how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world into the cold, dry planet seen today. The New York Times... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers' content in its AI-generated search features. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. "In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power... Read more ›
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joshuark shares a report from The Verge: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas' App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a new Apple account will need to verify they're... Read more ›
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