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Subscribing to an online service is often as easy as a click of a button. Is it illegal if it takes a maze of clicks to cancel? That issue is at the heart of a civil trial beginning this week that will scrutinize the tactics Amazon uses to entice consumers to sign up for its signature Prime service -- and to steer them away from leaving. WSJ: The Federal Trade Commission alleges the online giant has duped nearly 40 million customers, in violation of consumer-protection laws. It is seeking civil penalties, r
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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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Microsoft's Office 2019 apps for Mac will stop working next month, because the company isn't renewing a certificate that validates Office licenses. Owners of Office 2019 for Mac are being warned they'll have to purchase Office 2024 or a Microsoft 365 subscription if they want to continue editing documents. Microsoft previously promised that "all your […] Read more ›
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Attackers now exploit vulnerabilities faster than enterprises can realistically patch them. Read more ›
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A24 is now in the business of making video game adaptations, and while everyone's eyes are on Elden Ring, it sounds like Death Stranding could be rapidly approaching production, too. During a recent chat about The Death of Robin Hood, writer-director Michael Sarnoski - who directed 2024's A Quiet Place: Day One, as well - shared information about his upcoming Death Stranding movie. Read more Read more ›
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ИИ, большие языковые модели, ассистенты, агенты — нам обещали безграничную свободу и автоматизацию, но на практике отсыпали еще больше ограничений, правил и страхов.В итоге мы получаем длинные списки запретов, требований по безопасности и постоянно переживаем, что любой промпт может случайно спровоцировать утечку.Но я не хочу добавлять вам головной боли и нагнетать, поэтому расскажу про guardrails на примере всеми любимых мультфильмов и сказок — мы же не грустить сюда пришли. Читать... Read more ›
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Beta spent roughly $14 in energy for the 30-minute demonstration flight over Vermont, or roughly the price of a large movie-theater popcorn. Read more ›
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После прошлой статьи я каждый день заходил на барахолки и искал ещё одну версию терминала «Сбера». Это более новая модель под названием Kozen P10F, её часто можно видеть в киосках самообслуживания и на кассах магазинов. Чем же она отличается от квадратного терминала? Можно ли накатить свою прошивку? Что же у неё внутри? Можно узнать далее в статье Read more ›
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MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins. Read more ›
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![[Перевод] Claude против краевых случаев: как LLM-агент нашёл баги в NumPy и других Python-библиотеках](https://times42.com/media/7/4/0/12558740_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] Claude против краевых случаев: как LLM-агент нашёл баги в NumPy и других Python-библиотеках")
Исследователи Anthropic собрали LLM-агента, который читает код Python-библиотек, сам формулирует свойства, пишет property-based тесты на Hypothesis и ищет контрпримеры. В результате он нашёл баги в NumPy, aws-lambda-powertools, tokenizers и других проектах — часть патчей уже приняли мейнтейнеры. Разбираемся, как работает такой агент, почему property-based тестирование хорошо подходит для LLM и где у подхода пока границы. Читать далее Read more ›
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Меня зовут Юлия Аравина, я карьерный стратег и коуч IT-руководителей, а также ведущая кейс-клубов на курсе «Технический директор — СТО» в Яндекс Практикуме PRO. В своей практике я замечаю одну закономерность: многие кризисы после повышения выглядят одинаково.Человек становится тимлидом, и сначала всё идёт хорошо. Но через несколько месяцев начинает происходить что-то странное: он работает больше, несёт большую ответственность, принимает более сложные решения — и при этом всё чаще думает: «Кажется,... Read more ›
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Uncovr, a surgical AI startup focused onclinical documentation and workflow intelligence, has raised $7 million in seedfunding. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp,Fr... Read more ›
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The two groups made up more than half of Meta's layoffs in California and Washington state. Meta is embracing small teams and AI tools internally. Read more ›
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According to WSO customers who spoke with Business Insider, the fee is well worth it — if only for the networking benefits alone. Read more ›
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AWS Chief Marketing Officer Julia White discussed efforts to fill open roles and curb attrition, according to a recording of the meeting. Read more ›
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Carbon13 is launching its tenth SEIS fund, Carbon13 SEIS Fund X, with exclusive rights to invest in startups built through its venture builder in Cambridge. Carbon13 is a climate tech venture builder based in Cambridge and Berlin, and has invested in 107 startups since 2021 across the UK and EU. The new fund will invest ... Read more ›
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Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world. It built realistic 3D worlds to better anticipate natural disasters and unpredictable edge cases. It created a virtual representation of a hyperattentive driver to test against its own autonomous vehicles in a series of simulated scenarios […] Read more ›
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Я недавно начал пользоваться Krita, и после Фотошопа основной болью для меня было отсутствие удобного инструмента для умного выделения объектов выделения объектов.Мне захотелось попробовать сделать плагин, который будет реализовывать такую функцию, используя локальную модель.Идея простая:1. Пользователь обводит объект лассо.2. Нажимает кнопку Select object with AI.3. Плагин локально строит мягкую alpha-маску.4. Krita получает обычное выделение, с которым дальше можно работать штатными инструментами.Назват Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn't just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory. This isn't yet captured in headlines -- for example, about last weekend's barrage of Russian drones and missiles around Ukraine --... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Phone by Google wants to combat the "growing threat of impersonation scams" and protect Android users against "sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks" with fake call detection. [...] Fake call detection requires that both parties are on Android and use the Phone by Google app, while Google Messages and Google Contacts also have to be installed. When a contact calls, their phone "sends a... 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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