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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself "a highly creative hypochondriac" — who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters.
He discusses the pros and cons of its "diffusion-weighted imaging" technology combined with the pattern recognition of AI, which theoretically "has the potential to save our lives by revealing budding cancers, silent aneurysms and other hidden would-be killers before they become deadly. "
But the scans cost $2,500 a pop and.
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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 release of the Royal Pop collection, a collab between Swatch and Audemars Piguet, was so chaotic that stores had to call police to control crowds. Read more ›
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There are small multitools, and then there are really small multitools. This company specializes in the latter - without compromising on functionality. Read more ›
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Это гайд по настройке через UI русифицированного приложения для OpenWRT с hiddify-core - HomeProxy Hiddify, он позволяет настроить подключение к NaiveProxy, Mieru, ShadowTLS, Hysteria2, XRay, VLESS (XHTTP), VMESS, Trojan, TUIC и иным протоколам которые поддерживает Hiddify App в т.ч. с помощью подписок (subscription). В статье рассмотрим установку и настройку приложения для раздельного туннелирования на примере списков Re:filter Читать далее Read more ›
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AI isn’t helping either side – with scammers using it to refine attacks and consumers blindly trusting output. Read more ›
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With record numbers of bear attacks on humans, Japan has been increasingly turning to high-tech solutions like the Monster Wolf robot. But production can't keep up with demand. Read more ›
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Ann Cavoukian served as Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner from 1997 to 2014. The seven foundational principles of Privacy by Design were formalised under her tenure in 2009, adopted as an international standard by the global data-protection commissioners’ conference in Jerusalem in October 2010, and written into European law as Article 25 of the GDPR […] Read more ›
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Passkeys are pretty great. The tech is solid, based on well-established, secure cryptographic principles, and the ease of use is through the roof compared to remembering traditional passwords. In case you are not in the know, the passkey paradigm has you generating a secure private key that you keep locally on your device and a corresponding public key that you give out to websites/services/apps you want to log into. Once... Read more ›
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Turtle Beach has just launched its latest flagship headset, the Stealth Pro 2, and does it deliver. With outstanding audio, exceptional battery life, insane wireless range, and a microphone that's more at home in a professional studio than a gaming setup, it absolutely excels in almost every arena imaginable. Read more ›
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It's frustrating to pause too frequently to restring your weed eater right when you're getting into the swing of things. Try these tips to prevent breakage. Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to "the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like 'Copy Fail' and 'Dirty Frag'": Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker "Jasper Nuyens" got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure kernel modules across large fleets of Linux systems in the near future. So he wrote ModuleJail, a GPLv3 shell script that scans a running... Read more ›
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С чего строительной компании стоит начинать внедрение ИИ, если нужен быстрый и понятный бизнес-эффект? Расскажем, почему практичнее запускать не масштабную цифровую трансформацию, а прикладное решение — видеомониторинг строительной площадки с ИИ. Читать далее Read more ›
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Vehicle mods don't have to cost a lot to get a performance boost. In fact, there are several ways to increase your car's horsepower on a budget. Read more ›
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ASML and Tata Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy ASML's equipment at India's first fab. Read more ›
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Before you switch carriers or upgrade your phone, try these nine fixes for a stubbornly weak signal. Read more ›
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California’s Protect Our Games Act has cleared another major hurdle, pushing publishers closer to preserving online games after server shutdowns. Read more ›
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Bill Gates’ charitable trust has sold all of its Microsoft stock and no longer owns any shares in the company, it disclosed Friday. The Gates Foundation Trust reported that it had sold around $3 billion worth of Microsoft stock in the first quarter of 2026. Gates, who is the sole trustee of the ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. "While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools," the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. "As part of our builder... 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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