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Electronic Arts (EA) has partnered with Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, to co-develop generative AI tools aimed at accelerating game development. "I use the term smarter paintbrushes," Steve Kestell, Head of Technical Art for EA SPORTS said in the announcement. "We are giving our creatives the tools to express what they want." Engadget reports: To start, the "smarter paintbrushes" EA and Stability AI are building are concentrated on generating textures and in-game assets. EA hopes to create "Phys
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Roughly a month after the release of the latest flagship iPhone models, it's looking the new iPhone Air isn't selling as well as Apple had hoped for, and that's leading to significant production cuts as Apple seeks to balance supply to meet demand. This week also saw a new round of betas for iOS 26.1 and related updates with a significant tweak for Liquid Glass, while we heard more rumors... Read more ›
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview located outside of Chicago has become a focal point for protesters who want to resist the agency. A viral photo of an ICE agent at the site pepper spraying a pastor in the face has come to exemplify the aggressive and violent tactics federal officers are […] Read more ›
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I visit Brevard, North Carolina, every fall. I think the mountain town is home to nice shops and restaurants, and has amazing access to hiking trails. Read more ›
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Google may be working on a feature that will let tablet users put any Android app in a floating bubble. Read more ›
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Smart detectors help detect the deadly gas anywhere in your house: We tested for the most reliable models. Read more ›
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Counter-Strike 2 received an update yesterday that prompted the worst market crash in the game's history. Cosmetics worth over $6 billion fell to almost $3 billion after Valve made it easier to acquire them. Less scarcity means lower barrier of entry, but it also means less desirability for traders who'd invested everything into the game. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said a friend of his, who he did not name, gave a $130 million gift to the Pentagon during the government shutdown. Read more ›
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The chip which paved the way for AMD’s illustrious future in the CPU business entered mass production 50 years ago. Read more ›
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The Windows 10 end-of-support deadline is driving the largest coordinated PC replacement cycle in years across the industry, and Apple is emerging as one of the main beneficiaries as Mac shipments accelerate. Counterpoint Research this week reported that nearly 40% of the global installed PC base was still running Windows 10 ahead of the October 2025 cutoff, triggering early fleet renewals across both commercial and consumer channels. This pressure lifted... Read more ›
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2021 saw five times as many unruly passengers as the year before, and incidents have remained high. International rules classify them into four levels. Read more ›
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Shark isn't just for appliances. The company has some of the best cordless vacuums we've tested, with a variety of vacuums with strong suction, long battery life, and impressive warranty periods. Read more ›
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Technical Business Development for Startups lead at Microsoft complains 'my whole job is begging for GPUs.' Read more ›
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Magazine editors Lauren Brown and Kristina O'Neill share tips they gleaned from writing a book on what to do after losing a job. Read more ›
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Switching a physical SIM takes seconds, why do I need to call Verizon for an eSIM? Read more ›
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The long-standing assumption that low-flying jets would not be detected is now "obsolete," Air Vice-Marshal James Beck said. Read more ›
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Joe Friend, a former Microsoft manager laid off in May, shares why his next role won't be in Big Tech. 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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British Columbia is permanently banning new cryptocurrency mining operations from connecting to its power grid to conserve electricity for industries that generate more jobs and tax revenue. The province is also capping power allocations for AI and data centers, while launching a competitive allocation process in January 2026. CoinDesk reports: The move from the government of Canada's third-most populous province is part of a broader legislative and regulatory overhaul unveiled... 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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Investigators recovered the OceanGate Titan sub's underwater camera nearly intact, discovering a SanDisk SD card that survived the 2023 implosion and still contained 12 images and 9 videos. TechSpot reports: Scott Manley, the science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer, posted about the latest find: a hardened SubC-branded Rayfin Mk2 Benthic Camera containing the undamaged SD card. The titanium and synthetic sapphire crystal camera is rated to withstand depths of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: With gingko "memory-boost tinctures," fennel "tummy-soothing syrups" and "citrus-immune gummies," AI "slop" has come for herbalism, a study published by a leading AI-detection company has found. Originality.ai, which offers its tools to universities and businesses, says it scanned 558 titles published in Amazon's herbal remedies subcategory between January and September this year, and found 82% of the books "were likely written" by AI. "This... Read more ›
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Cory Doctorow has always warned that companies "enshittify" their services — shifting "as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves." But this week Doctorow writes in Communications of the ACM that enshittification "would be much, much worse if not for tech workers," who have "the power to tell their bosses to go to hell..." When your skills are in such high demand that you... Read more ›
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The Guardian reports that atmospheric carbon dioxide "soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows." But what's more troubling is why: Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a pledge by the world's countries in 2023 to "transition away" from coal, oil and gas. Another factor was an upsurge in wildfires in conditions made... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group did this by digging through its caches of stolen Salesforce customer data.... Read more ›
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