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The EU has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over a new WhatsApp policy that could block rival AI assistants from accessing the platform. Complaints from smaller AI developers triggered the probe, which could lead to fines of up to 10% of Meta's global revenue if the company is found to have abused its dominance. Reuters reports: EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said the move was to prevent dominant firms from "abusing their power to crowd out innovative competitors." She added interim measures co
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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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The Ford F-150 is bigger and badder than the mid-size Ranger, but do those advantages extend to depreciation? Which of these two holds its value better? Read more ›
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Phasmophobia maker Kinetic Games has apologised to players for issues with its long-awaited 'Player Character Update', admitting it "missed the mark" and "didn't deliver on our promises to you". Read more Read more ›
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Test scores "are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.," reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. "Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 grades. This means that students were 60% of one school year behind where their peers were in reading a decade earlier and 40% of... Read more ›
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Теперь, когда в вашей клиентской библиотеке появились сообщения, можно перейти к созданию ROS2 ноды и связанных с ней элементов (издателей, сервисов и т.п.). На самом деле процесс добавления этих элементов мало отличается от создания обёртки для таймера, описанный в первой части, поскольку всё сводится к надстройке над функциями библиотеки rcl. Поэтому я не буду рассматривать их подробно, а остановлюсь только на отдельных особенностях. Читать далее Read more ›
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The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/16/26 featuring funding details for Ciridae, Exaforce, Vapi, and twenty other deals representing $6.4B in new funding that you need to know about. Read more ›
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel particularly negative about […] Read more ›
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Acasis FlowCore Series introduces Thunderbolt 5 storage claiming independent bandwidth per drive for high-performance multi-bay AI and media workflows. Read more ›
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More money, more problems, as they say. Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das paints a bleak picture of the mood in Silicon Valley right now. Read more ›
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Users can choose between keeping conversations for 30 days, one year or forever, according to Bloomberg. Read more ›
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Кейс компании ПАКС ЛАЙВ. Что мы построили за полгода и зачем команде из 15 человек 7 рабочих приложений, когда можно один.Полгода назад мы начали делать ONEMIX не потому что мир ждал ещё один мессенджер, а потому что у нас были технические ограничения Telegram Bot API для своих AI-продуктов. Через шесть месяцев Telegram в России начало замедлять, и наш «внутренний инструмент» оказался востребован командами которые ищут альтернативу.Расскажу что получилось на самом... Read more ›
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The JLab JBuds Open Wireless headphones are hands-down the most interesting headphones I've tested this year, but not the best Read more ›
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AI-агенты — одна из самых спорных тем в разработке. Одни видят в них следующий шаг после Copilot и способ быстрее закрывать рутину. Другие — источник технического долга, проблем с безопасностью и ещё одну волну завышенных ожиданий вокруг AI.В этой статье разберём как устроен агентный подход, как работают популярные инструменты Cursor и Claude Code и что важно знать для работы с агентами. Что использовать в 2026 году → Read more ›
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While SSD prices are still higher than last year, the Samsung 990 Pro at $429.99 feels far more reasonable than it did just a few weeks ago. Read more ›
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Pressure washers can cost hundreds of dollars, so you will want to make sure you do all you can to extend the lifespan of yours as much as possible. Read more ›
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Вы уверены, что продаёте рынку свой ум, а не унылый отчёт типографии?Большинство ИТ-специалистов пишут резюме «по форме»: «Собирал требования, писал ТЗ, настраивал права доступа». Это похоже на описание книги как физического объекта. Вы рассказываете о плотности бумаги и ровности шрифта, полностью стирая Историю, которая написана внутри. Но зрелый бизнес нанимает вас не ради процесса перелистывания страниц. Ему нужен автор, способный спасти сюжет от финансового или системного краха.Почему крутые эксперты по Read more ›
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Геометрия Attention: почему QK Norm это не просто костыль для стабильности, а способ заставить сеть понимать смысл Читать далее Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. No more over-the-air updates. No more connected services. No more warranty. The manufacturer was dead. What happened next... Read more ›
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"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so." In 2024, The New York Times "reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies," remembers TechCrunch, "and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result." Now... Read more ›
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This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution "to businesses of all types and sizes." Any business can now ship, store, and deliver "using the same supply chain that supports Amazon," according to Monday's announcement of "Amazon Supply Chain Services." The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx "tumbling" Monday writes GeekWire. And though both stocks bounced back as the week went on, GeekWire sees this as... Read more ›
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Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab... 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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