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China's birth rate fell to 5.6 per 1,000 people in 2025, the lowest figure since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, and the country's total population contracted by 3.39 million, the sharpest decline since the Mao Zedong era. The drop marks the fourth straight year of population decline and comes despite government efforts to encourage childbearing, including subsidies of about $500 annually per child born on or after January 1, 2025.
Beijing has also imposed a 13% value-added tax on contracep
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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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Trump's remarks came at the close of a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more ›
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Hill County passed a one-year ban on data center projects, as the country authorities study the effects their effects on the community. Still, the County Attorney warned that they could get sued if they pass this moratorium, with a Texas State Senator asking the State Attorney General to investigate counties that have done so. Read more ›
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What's going on with the U.S. job market? "The economy is growing. Unemployment is low," notes the Washington Post. "And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades," with the hiring rate "well below pre-pandemic levels for more than a year." Part of the problem? "Of the net 369,000 positions added across the entire economy since the start of... Read more ›
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Знаменитый ученый-биолог Ричард Докинз опубликовал эссе о возможности наличия сознания у LLM после двухдневной беседы с Claude AI. К сожалению, само эссе в платном доступе, но вы можете ознакомиться с переводом от @SLY_G здесь на Хабре.Сначала остановлюсь на том, почему именно эссе этого автора вызвало столько шума в научных кругах, хотя тысячи людей убеждают в наличии сознания у их ИИ-компаньонов. Они выкладывают простыни диалогов с LLM, где плотность слов «сознание»,... Read more ›
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Look forward to Metal Sonic causing endless trouble for Sonic, Amy, and everyone else when 'Sonic 4' arrives next March. Read more ›
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From Beyoncé to Ariana Grande, these stars are making their home states proud after making it big in Hollywood. Read more ›
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These days, crew cab trucks are some of the most popular models out there. The first one on the scene, however, wasn't a huge hit among the public. Read more ›
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В наше время, когда секретов почти нет, еще сильней хочется спрятать свои секретики. Но спрятать ты можешь не все. Тем более, если ты лицо юридическое, например, - фирма, работающая в США. Самое большое хранилище информации — IRS налоговая служба (ну кто бы сомневался). Но если нам надо проверить надежность контрагента или его финансовое состояние, то мы не сможем написать туда или позвонить и спросить: "Скажите, а фирма Рога и копыта.inc... Read more ›
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DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the 2020 crypto boom. But as hacks evolved and users chased yields over protection, most of the sector collapsed under the same risks it was built to cover. Read more ›
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I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn't have to say much to get me excited about its successor. The $399 Nova Pro Omni that came out on May 5th has a similar design to the 2022 model, but with some new and improved features - support for wireless hi-res […] Read more ›
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New-age tech stocks saw a bearish week as investors turned selective amid the ongoing Q4 earnings session. Forty six out… Read more ›
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When you need concrete for a project, you have two options: buying dry concrete and mixing it yourself or ordering ready-made concrete. Which is cheaper? Read more ›
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A survey of Tom's Hardware readers has revealed that 60% of PC gamers are not planning to build a new PC in the next two years. Read more ›
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Вы всё ещё используете map и filter с лямбдами в 2026 году? Подготовил большой гайд по анонимным функциям в Python: от самого первого lambda x для новичков до разбора байт-кода, замыканий и жестких антипаттернов, за которые бьют по рукам на код-ревью. Читать далее Read more ›
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Что мы себе представляем себе, когда думаем про Северную Корею? Скорее всего это будут не только фотографии пухлых лидеров с трибуны Народного дворца учёбы на площади Ким Ир Сена, но и баллистические ракеты с ядерными боевыми частями. И это не случайно, ведь КНДР пока единственная страна, которая вошла в ядерный клуб не благодаря, а вопреки лидерам мнений всего остального человечества. Стоит разобраться с тем, как это получилось.История молодого государства началась... Read more ›
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Google's account creation process already asks for a phone number in some cases, and now there's a sweetener. Read more ›
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A planned $1 billion artificial intelligence data center in Kenya, spearheaded by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42, has stalled due to disagreements over energy guarantees. The project has encountered delays after the Kenyan government declined to meet Microsoft’s demand for guaranteed annual capacity payments. Highlighting the immense energy requirements of the facility, Kenyan President William Ruto noted that powering the full-scale project would necessitate shutting off half of... Read more ›
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A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new... Read more ›
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CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got... Read more ›
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All 20 of America's state-run healthcare marketplace sites "include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies," reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg: Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Nextdoor, and LinkedIn, among others. Some of the data collected and shared with... Read more ›
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Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models," reports SC World, "and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain." [Cisco's Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a "fingerprint" for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins.... Read more ›
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"Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops," reports ScienceAlert, "and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows.... to germinate in 'anticipation' of the coming deluge." The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense and respond to sounds in nature... "The energy of the rain... Read more ›
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September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization's "Trump Phone" — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward: FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name "T1" show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January... [T]he phone was submitted for testing by another company... Read more ›
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NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it's now "at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention," reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that "just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone." On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to intervene before Swift's fate is sealed, completed its slate of environmental testing... Read more ›
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To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's... Read more ›
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Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, "a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices," reports ZDNet, "to keep code flowing as download counts grow.... Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can't keep up. "That growth has brought a surge in bot traffic, automated publishing, security reports, and outright... Read more ›
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While Nvidia has dominated the "infrastructure boom" since 2022's launch of ChatGPT and "the generative AI craze," CNBC writes that "This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a 'changing of the guard in AI.'" Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and fiber-optic cable maker Corning climbed about 18%.... Read more ›
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