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Pocket Casts is being flogged for showing advertisements to legacy users who were promised an ad-free experience. From a report: The first reports started to appear in early September in the Pocket Casts support forum and subreddit. The issue is a bug, according to Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Pocket Casts' parent company Automattic, and will be corrected. Pocket Casts launched as a purchase-only app in 2010, charging users a one-time download fee of up to $10, depending on the OS and platform. The service la
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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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Charter would have expanded member eligibility and focused on alleged injuries. Read more ›
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Glendale Community College president Tiffany Hernandez blamed a "new AI system" when some graduates' names weren't read while they walked. Read more ›
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Samsung has lifted the lid on its premium Android XR glasses — and some familiar fashion brands have lent a hand. Read more ›
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Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future. Read more ›
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Еще недавно создание ролика требовало камеры, оператора, монтажа, света, актеров, локации и бюджета. Даже короткое видео для рекламы или соцсетей могло занимать несколько дней. Сейчас все заметно проще: генерация видео позволяет получить готовый ролик по тексту, фото, картинке или даже на основе другого видео. Пользователь описывает сцену, выбирает модель, задает движение камеры, настроение и стиль — а нейросеть собирает короткое видео.Но вместе с удобством появилась новая сложность. Инструментов стало мног Read more ›
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The biggest news from Google's annual developer conference, from Gemini Spark, Omni and Search to Shopping, XR and more. Read more ›
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Airwallex has launched a Global Economic Advisory Council featuring senior policymakers and finance leaders to bridge digital innovation with global regulatory and economic policy. Read more ›
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Удивительно, как за такой короткий период времени нейросети для генерации песен стали фигурировать в мировых чартах, не говоря уже о массовом появлении в социальных сетях, в YouTube, в TikTok и рекламе. Впрочем, это не удивительно, ведь сегодня каждый может создать уникальную дорожку, не обладая музыкальным образованием и даже слухом. Весь процесс за Вас могут выполнить нейросети. Но есть две проблемы — цензура и недоступность в нашем гео. Мы — команда... Read more ›
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Google on Tuesday announced a new video model, upgrades to search and a slightly streamlined coding agent offering at its annual conference. The Google I/O event is officially a developer conference, but in practice Google has also used it in recent years to showcase new consumer AI offerings ... Read more ›
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The Department of Education excluded advanced nursing degrees from higher student-loan borrowing caps. A new bipartisan bill would change that. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most... Read more ›
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Google’s new Universal Cart taps into AI to help you get better online shopping deals at checkout. Read more ›
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Deborah is desperately trying to get her Madison Square Garden ticket sales moving, despite being tough graft. But when does Hacks season 5 episode 9 drop on HBO Max? Read more ›
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Gemini is gaining the power of sight and mobility. Today at the I/O conference, Google and Volvo announced that the AI-powered assistant will be able to access external cameras in the upcoming EX60 SUV to help explain and interpret its surroundings to vehicle owners. The upgrade is possible thanks to Volvo's use of Google's embedded […] Read more ›
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The most recent season of the post-apocalyptic Prime Video series is now out on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD. Read more ›
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Microsoft and G42's planned $1 billion AI data center in Kenya has stalled amid disagreements over power commitments, with President William Ruto saying the country would need to "switch off half the country" to support the project at full scale. Tom's Hardware reports: The project, announced in May 2024 during Ruto's visit to Washington, was supposed to bring a geothermal-powered data center to the Olkaria region in Kenya's Rift Valley.... Read more ›
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Google is teasing a new line of "Googlebook" laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says Chromebooks will continue "after the launch of Googlebook" and "...all Chromebooks will continue to receive support through their device's existing date commitment." The Verge reports: "We'll have more to share on the exact... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house "MeshClaw" product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on... 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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