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President Trump on Tuesday issued a memorandum directing the FDA and HHS to crack down on misleading direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads, requiring clearer disclosure of risks and ensuring that promotions don't overstate benefits or push costly drugs over generics. Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares an excerpt from the memorandum: The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to ensure transparency and accuracy in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising,
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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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Nothing online lasts forever, but Sony's shutdown of services is especially severe, and affects over 70 products Read more ›
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All the ways to watch Portugal vs Nigeria live streams – including for FREE – with Cristiano Ronaldo set to feature in the World Cup 2026 warm-up in Leiria. Read more ›
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Seattle has enacted a one-year moratorium on new datacenters, making it the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the ban. The Guardian reports: Lawmakers have framed the pause as an opportunity to draft regulations specifically targeting the electricity-hungry datacenters being built nationwide to serve the AI sector, and to protect local residents... Read more ›
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AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment. Read more ›
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Calgary-based company replaces methane-rich natural gas with liquid nitrogen to reduce emissions. Read more ›
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Summer might be right around the corner, tempting us out toward sun, sand, and sea, but that isn't stopping Sony from releasing a strong list of PS Plus Premium and Extra games in June that might just tempt you to stay inside. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing a significant change that will affect users of Office 2019 for Mac, despite the software being sold as a one-time purchase. Beginning July 13, Microsoft will no longer renew the security certificate used to validate Office 2019 licenses on macOS, causing affected applications to enter what the company calls “reduced functionality mode.” Once this happens, users will still be able to open and view existing files, but... Read more ›
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My daughter was graduating, and the grief was almost too much to bear. But when I saw her on the stage, I was proud of her and myself. Read more ›
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"I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here," Biden wrote on X. Read more ›
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Google has placed an order for Intel to build more than 3 million of its TPUs in 2028 after months of testing Intel's advanced packaging. Read more ›
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Виртуализация в России — тема горячая. VMware ушёл, Hyper‑V под вопросом, Proxmox — открытый, но не «суверенный». Я задался вопросом: а можно ли написать платформу управления KVM с нуля, с полным контролем ресурсов через cgroups v2, без единой строки GPL‑кода?Спойлер: да. Встречайте Eskvisor — мой проект, переросший в зарегистрированную в Роспатенте программу для ЭВМ. Под капотом — архитектура, грабли с cgroups, и почему полностью суверенный проект был мертворожденным. Читать далее Read more ›
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Apple only just announced iOS 27, but if you're itching to try it out, there is currently a developer beta available. Just be aware of the potential risks. Read more ›
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Продолжаем рассказывать об альтернативном способе подтверждения возраста на веб-ресурсах без использования биометрии, интеграции с ЕБС и раскрытия персональных данных. О том, как это можно сделать, мы подробно писали в прошлой статье. Теперь разберемся, как реализовать подобный сценарий с помощью WebAssembly и какие возможности это открывает для веб-платформ. В этом материале показываем код, ищите под катом. Читать далее Read more ›
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Как мы превратили панель управления NAS в платформу для расширений, зачем туда Log Manager и для чего Plugin Template.В новой версии 3.6.4 я добавил возможность устанавливать плагины. Перед реализацией возникло много вопросов. Наша ключевая фишка — мультисеть (позволяет переключать фронтенд на бэкенд другого сервера для его мониторинга и управления). Значит, и модуль плагинов должен уметь переключаться.И...... Что же дальше... Read more ›
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Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: "We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems," said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum. That would still require huge further... Read more ›
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Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit] said the team behind the software had also introduced... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the... 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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