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China's economy increasingly relies on 200 million "flexible workers" who lack formal employment contracts, pensions and urban residency permits despite comprising 25% of the national workforce and 40% of urban workers. The demographic includes 40 million day-wage factory workers and 84 million platform economy workers performing deliveries and ride-share driving. Factory gig workers average 26 years old, are 80% male, and 75-80% single and childless. These workers face systemic exclusions from urban benefi
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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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'The Vampire Lestat: After Dark' will feature interviews with series stars and creatives. Read more ›
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Nintendo recently teased the “Choose Your Game” Switch 2 console and digital game bundle, coming in early June. However, multiple retailers (including Nintendo itself) are already offering the $499.99 bundle. The list currently includes GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, and the Nintendo Store. It’s a deal worth hopping on ahead of the holiday season, since Nintendo […] Read more ›
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Google's Search makeover incorporates yet more AI, but Google promises to leave room for classic results. Read more ›
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TCL is rolling out a firmware update to many TVs from 2023 onwards to deliver Dolby Vision Filmmaker Mode, upgraded FlexConnect and a fix for audio in Disney+ Read more ›
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Google has big promises for its AI-powered future - and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier. Gemini Spark, Google's always-on AI agent, can help organize an upcoming event, while Daily Brief can offer a rundown […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory approval, would result in a company that leads in... Read more ›
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Gmail Live answers inbox questions by voice, Docs Live turns rambling speech into structured documents, and Google Pics lets you edit one element of an image without touching the rest. Read more ›
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Google is betting that the future of productivity software starts with your voice, not your keyboard. At its I/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, the company unveiled voice-based prompting features for Docs, Keep, and Gmail, all powered by its Gemini AI models. The headline feature is Docs Live, which lets users create and edit documents entirely […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Get ready for some solid deals on Ryobi tools during the Ryobi Days 2026 sale. Here are some of the best discounts you can get during the sale. Read more ›
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Google just made its most aggressive move yet in the rapidly evolving agentic coding market. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company unveiled Antigravity 2.0, transforming what started as a Cursor competitor into a sprawling developer platform complete with an updated desktop app, a new command-line tool, and an SDK for building custom agents. The original […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his perspective. Read more ›
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Группа компаний "Орион" (более известная под маркой "Орион Телеком") - крупный провайдер услуг интернета, телевидения и телефонии в Сибири. Компании группы используют единую сетевую и серверную инфраструктуру.30.07.2025 г. на сайте Орион Телекома появилось объявление о возможной утечке персональных данных в результате кибератаки 12.06.2025. За пару месяцев до этого как раз вступили в силу новые "дорогие" штрафы за масштабные утечки (так называемые "оборотные штрафы за утечки", хотя они не оборотные на... Read more ›
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Depreciation hits some cars much harder than others, especially when expensive repairs, aging technology, and fading buyer interest start to pile up fast. Read more ›
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To no one’s surprise, today’s Google I/O keynote was all about AI, Gemini, and how it will potentially change our lives by making us more productive or by allowing Gemini to do things proactively, for us. Gemini truly is getting a handful of major changes and features that could end up doing a lot for... Read the original post: Gemini App Getting So Many Crazy New Features Read more ›
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Google’s Gemini app is getting a major upgrade with cinematic video generation, morning briefs, richer answers, and a 24/7 agent that handles tasks. Read more ›
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The High-end smartwatch is now available for $849.99, featuring a solar-charged display and advanced performance tracking. Read more ›
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Google is betting that the future of email search is not typing, but talking. At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled Gmail Live, a voice-powered conversational search feature that lets users ask their inbox questions out loud instead of fumbling with keywords. The feature is built on Gemini, Google’s flagship AI model, and works a bit […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, says it reached an agreement with the hackers who stole 3.5 terabytes of student and university data. The company says it received "digital confirmation" that the information was destroyed and that affected schools and students would not be extorted. The BBC reports: Paying cyber criminals goes against the advice of law enforcement agencies around the world, as it can fuel... Read more ›
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South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Musk's lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman's trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New York Times: Before Elon Musk left OpenAI in... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Phys.org: Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading bloodsuckers. "It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: CERN, a longtime Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad ("KEE-kad"), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional electronics communities. It's gotten so widely used that users can now submit their KiCad design files directly to several electronics fabricators (rather than the traditional step of converting the layouts to Gerber files). Over... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and atop toilet paper dispensers at the Facebook owner's offices, encouraged staffers to sign an online petition against the move. "Don't... Read more ›
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Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world's leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A's account for nearly... Read more ›
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The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt from the announcement: For 30 years, KDE has been providing the free and open-source software essential for digital sovereignty in personal,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where its business is growing [...]. LinkedIn employs more than 17,500 full-time workers globally, its... Read more ›
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A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports: Proof of concept code for Fragnesia is already out there. There is a two-line patch for addressing the issue within the Linux kernel's skbuff.c code. That patch hasn't yet been mainlined or picked... Read more ›
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