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Australia warned it's in danger of missing its 2035 climate targets without deeper pollution cuts, which in turn threatens the nation's ambitions to reach net zero by mid-century. From a report: Emissions are set to fall 48% by 2035 from 2005 levels based on current projections [non-paywalled source], the government said in a report on Thursday. That's short of an official pledge to cut greenhouse gases between 62% and 70%. The forecast doesn't take into account new action planned under the nation's Net Zer
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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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OpenAI has partnered with Malta to provide nationwide access to ChatGPT Plus, marking one of the company’s most ambitious government AI rollouts yet. Read more ›
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While most modern cars have a single exhaust pipe coming out the back, it is not totally uncommon to have multiple. There is usually a good reason why. Read more ›
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Minisforum releases a cheaper Panther Lake M2 mini PC, while the more powerful M2 Pro announced at CES 2026 remains unavailable. Read more ›
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Kenya has reportedly raised concerns over Microsoft’s planned $1 billion AI data center, warning that the project could consume a massive chunk of the country’s electricity supply. Read more ›
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Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it's now being retired in favor of a more simplified Teams experience. The feature used AI […] Read more ›
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Secure messaging apps are designed to protect chats, but one iPhone case involving Signal shows why device-level privacy can be more complicated than it seems. Read more ›
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WhatsApp has been testing the View-Once disappearing messages feature on its Android app since last month, and we now hear it is being tested on iOS as well. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who spotted this View-Once disappearing messages feature on beta version 26.19.10.72 of WhatsApp for iOS. This feature can be enabled via the "After reading" option in the Default message timer > Message timer menu.... Read more ›
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Продолжаем приближать ИИ доступный для всех (ну или восстание машин, как повезет). Продвигаем нейропанк, короче.На этот раз будем пробовать обучить компактную открытую языковую модель на 270 млн параметров от Google управлять гусеничным роботом с робо-рукой, пока чисто в симуляции. Читать далее Read more ›
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Forbes describes it as "definitely already out there, and under active exploitation according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, urging all organizations to prioritize timely remediation as the attack vector poses a significant risk." "We have issued CVE-2026-42897 to address a spoofing vulnerability affecting Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA)," Microsoft told SecurityWeek. "We recommend customers enable EEMS to be better protected, and to follow our guidance available here."... Read more ›
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Several Chevy Silverado medium-duty trucks are being discontinued in 2026, marking a major shift for GM's commercial truck lineup and a longtime partnership. Read more ›
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Costco can be a great place to find deals on all sorts of technological goodies, but though its selection is wide, not everything is worth shelling out for. Read more ›
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Samsung's early Memorial Day TV sale is live, and I have the best deals, including up to $1,500 off top-rated 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs. Read more ›
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Island nations increasingly face internet blackout risks because fragile undersea cables remain exposed. Read more ›
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The Kylo Ren movie may be dead, but Charles Soule and Will Sliney have fans covered with another comic about his fall to darkness. Read more ›
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Dodge versus Ford is a battle as old as time, especially on the drag strip. Judging by this race, though, it's not always a particularly close one. Read more ›
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AI стал писать код быстрее, чем я успевал удерживать контекст работы. Код вроде написан, diff вроде разумный — но почему именно так, какие варианты отбросили, что обещали не трогать, куда делись follow-ups? Всё это жило в чате, а репозиторий видел только финальный diff.Это третья статья серии про память AI-агентов. В первых двух — https://habr.com/ru/articles/1006756/ и https://habr.com/ru/articles/1033388/ — разбирал устройство Memory MCP Server: зачем агенту постоянная память, semantic search, грабли по... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine.... Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to alter how the motor responds based on clutch lever position. Pull the clutch halfway in, and... Read more ›
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Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 "has been around since 2011," Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3's library fully playable, "bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page." But their dev team "took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users 'stop submitting AI slop code pull requests' to its GitHub page." Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted... Read more ›
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In Polymarket's prediction market, "most people end up losing money," reports the Washington Post — typically a few bucks. "Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money... and an even smaller group — .05 percent of users — has gone home with most of the overall profits, according to a new analysis from finance researcher Pat Akey and colleagues." A lot of... Read more ›
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The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project "following legal threats from Bambu Lab," reports Tom's Hardware: Jarczak's fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bambu Connect, a middleware application that severely limits OrcaSlicer's access to remote printer functions in the name of security. Jarczak said in a note on... Read more ›
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Ford's sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025, reports Electrek. "Hybrid sales fell 32% to 15,758 vehicles, while EV sales continued to crash with just 3,655 all-electric models sold last month, 25% fewer than in the year prior." After discontinuing the F-150 Lightning in December, sales of the electric pickup have been in free fall. Ford sold just 884 Lightnings last... Read more ›
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Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel's 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip. And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix: Supporting those vintage GPUs without the Time Stamp Counter "TSC" instruction are becoming a burden... TSC-capable Intel Pentium processors and the likes will still be supported with this just being for TSC-less... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with "agentic misalignment." Apparently... Read more ›
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Apple now requires Education Store shoppers in the U.S. and several other countries to verify their student, educator, parent, or homeschool-teacher status through UNiDAYS, ending the previous honor-system approach. 9to5Mac reports: Starting today, Apple requires shoppers in the United States to complete verification when making a purchase via the Education Store. This change also applies to Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Canada, and Chile. In many other markets around the world,... Read more ›
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Google says it has seen the first evidence of cybercriminals using AI to create a zero-day vulnerability. "Google reported its findings to the unnamed firm affected by the vulnerability before releasing its report," reports Politico. "The company then issued a patch to fix the issue." From the report: Google Threat Intelligence Group researchers detailed the development in a report released Monday. Zero-day exploits are considered the most serious type of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media on May 8, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group, told graduating humanities students that AI is the "next industrial revolution," and was met with thousands of booing graduates. "And let's face it, change can be... Read more ›
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