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Spotify founder Daniel Ek will step down as CEO by year's end, transitioning to executive chairman after nearly two decades at the helm. In his place will be Gustav Soderstrom and Alex Norstrom as co-CEOs. TechCrunch reports: "Over the last few years, I've turned over a large part of the day-to-day management and strategic direction of Spotify to Alex and Gustav -- who have shaped the company from our earliest days and are now more than ready to guide our next phase," Ek said in a statement. "This change si
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A team at Stanford University has developed a new method of printing a micrometer-thin diamond layer directly onto semiconductors, directly coating transistors with incredible thermal dissipation. The Stanford team expects the tech to reach the U.S. government and beyond. Read more ›
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The U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel, acquired in August, transformed a struggling chipmaker's fortunes into a $73 billion market share uptick while reinforcing America's national security and industrial sovereignty. Read more ›
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Hemant Taneja says that insurance should cover longevity care to incentivize staying healthy, versus ending up in the hospital for expensive care. Read more ›
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Round, square or visor – those are the usual suspects when we’re talking about smartphone camera islands, but Realme has its eyes set on bringing a more personalized look. Realme GT8 Pro is the brand’s first smartphone with an interchangeable camera housing, which allows you to completely change your phone’s look in a few simple steps. Realme GT8 Pro's camera islands The GT8 Pro’s camera deco features two Torx screws... Read more ›
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Couples with kids order from restaurants more often than those without, who dine out less often than average, new Technomic consumer data shows. Read more ›
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Jon Stewart has assessed whether or not Trump qualifies as a "king" following more "No Kings" protests over the weekend. Read more ›
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Here are some tricks to help you separate robot writing from text written by humans. Read more ›
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Sora lets you make videos using other people's faces. Great! Except when your face is used in a "fetish" video, like one about feet or pregnancy. Read more ›
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How much do each of Disney+'s plans cost per month, and what does each plan get you? Let's break it down. Read more ›
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The white-collar war over AI is getting ugly: 'When the dogs won't eat the dog food.' Read more ›
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As of Oct. 20, save $9.95 on Pokémon TCG White Flare Elite Trainer Box at TCGPlayer compared to Amazon. Read more ›
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Chipmind, a Zurich-based startup creating AI tools to improve microchip development, has launched after a period of stealth. Zurich-based Chipmind, a startup building AI agents to accelerate the development of microchips, announced its launch from Stealth, along with $2.4M (approximately €2M) in its pre-seed round. Founderful led the funding round with the participation of prominent ... Read more Read more ›
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Andrew Clark's commute can take up to three hours, but he values in-person time with his team. He would ask for a raise if he had to go in every day. Read more ›
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Last week, it was announced that the Department of Homeland Security is buying new planes — and they're not your usual private jets. Read more ›
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Atari has taken retro gamers by surprise with its announcement of the Intellivision Sprint- a console celebrating 45 years of its old foe. Read more ›
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Jennifer Aniston said her father, John Aniston, warned her that she would suffer nothing but rejection when she told him she wanted to act. Read more ›
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Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that's designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device's included "sensors" point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom. According to Kohler, Dekoda is a health tracker that can monitor gut health and hydration, as well as detect the presence of blood in the toilet.... Read more ›
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Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes... Read more ›
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"The gig economy is facing a reckoning," argues Business Insider's BI Today newsletter." Two stories this past week caught my eye. Uber unveiled a new way for its drivers to earn money. No, not by giving rides, but by helping train the ride-sharing company's AI models instead. On the same day, Waymo announced a partnership with DoorDash to test driverless grocery and meal deliveries. Both moves point toward the same... Read more ›
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"Eleven days ago, the nonprofit entity that develops the protocol, Signal Messenger LLC, published a 5,900-word write-up describing its latest updates that bring Signal a significant step toward being fully quantum-resistant," writes Ars Technica: The mechanism that has made this constant key evolution possible over the past decade is what protocol developers call a "double ratchet." Just as a traditional ratchet allows a gear to rotate in one direction but... Read more ›
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Instant coffee beat drip coffee in blind taste tests conducted by researchers at the Drexel Food Lab. Jonathan Deutsch and Rachel Sherman tested 84 participants across two rounds of tastings for The Guardian's Filter US newsletter. They first narrowed 24 instant coffee varieties to the best options. Those finalists then competed against drip coffees in a second test. 77% of participants preferred instant coffee over drip. The top-performing instant coffee... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: GIMP has officially launched its own Snap package for Linux, finally taking over from the community-maintained Snapcrafters project. The move means all future GIMP releases will now be built directly from the team's CI pipeline, ensuring faster, more consistent updates across distributions. The developers also introduced a new "gimp-plugins" interface to support external plugins while maintaining Snap's security confinement, with GMIC and OpenVINO already supported. This Read more ›
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Canada's Prime Minister "paused an electric-vehicle sales mandate that was set to take effect next year," reports the Wall Street Journal, which argues a kind of retreat from electric-vehicle ambitions "is spreading around the globe." Even the U.K.'s Prime Minister "has allowed for a more flexible timetable to hit the country's EV targets." And demand is expected to drop in the U.S., where global consulting firm AlixPartners now predicts EVs... Read more ›
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China now generates well over twice as much electricity as the United States. The country's economy has become substantially larger than America's in real terms, measured at purchasing power parity, economist Paul Krugman wrote this week. The Trump administration has moved aggressively against renewable energy development. It rolled back Biden's tax incentives for renewables through the One Big Beautiful Bill. The administration is attempting to stop a nearly completed offshore... Read more ›
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Alexis Ohanian, who helped build Reddit, says much of the internet has become dominated by bots and AI. Speaking on the podcast TBPN, he described the internet as increasingly "quasi-AI" and filled with what he called "LinkedIn slop." Ohanian referenced dead internet theory, the assertion that bot activity exceeds human activity on the web. In September, Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, posted that while he had not taken the theory seriously,... Read more ›
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The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. From a report: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations. The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: The European Commission has revised the Ecodesign requirements for external power supplies (EPS). The new rules aim to increase consumer convenience, resource efficiency, and energy efficiency. Manufacturers have three years to prepare for the changes. The new regulations apply to external power supplies that charge or power devices such as laptops, smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and computer monitors. Starting in 2028, these products... Read more ›
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