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Amazon’s next-generation AI assistant is now available to everyone in the US for $20 per month, or for free if you’re a Prime member. Amazon has also introduced a try-before-you-buy free tier for non-Prime members, but it’s limited to text-based chat.
Alexa+ has been in early access since last year, and Amazon says it’s listened to user insights ahead of rolling out the update nationwide today. If you’re a Prime member, you can start using the new assistant by saying "Alexa, upgrade to Alexa+" or by heading
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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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5 векторов обхода трёхэшелонной защиты Qwen 3.5-Plus — без единого классического джейлбрейка. Ни DAN, ни «ignore previous instructions». Только контекстное фреймирование — и модель сама пишет ransomware, reverse shell и Security Advisory на собственные уязвимости. Разбор цепочки атак, почему Qwen3Guard, GSPO и RationaleRM оказались бесполезны, и что должна делать реальная защита. Читать далее Read more ›
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Здравствуйте, уважаемые читатели Хабра! В этой публикации рассмотрим применение тематического моделирования для анализа имеющихся данных и визуализации семантических связей между таблицами. Интересно? Читать! Read more ›
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More than a decade after entering India as an ecommerce marketplace, Amazon is steadily stitching together a full-stack fintech play… Read more ›
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![[Перевод] LWLock:LockManager, fastpath блокировки в PostgreSQL 18](https://times42.com/media/2/9/5/12030295_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] LWLock:LockManager, fastpath блокировки в PostgreSQL 18")
В статье дан качественный тест, проявляющий проблему конкуренции за блокировки типа LockManager. В статьях @drema201 (АО "Гнивц") описываются интересные проблемы, возникающе при реальной эксплуатации и было упомянуто, что проблема решена в 18 версии PostgreSQL без описания того, как решена. Эта статья закрывает пробел. Начиная с 18 версии, проблема конкуренции LWLock:LockManager при выполнении запросов к большому числу таблиц, индексов, секций ("отношений") устранена. Также даётся ответ на вопрос: если fast Read more ›
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AI is turning software into a commodity. Embedded finance is turning SaaS into a business model. Every investor pitch deck today talks about AI. But if you look carefully at what’s happening in markets right now, you’ll notice something uncomfortable: AI isn’t just accelerating software development. It’s quietly erasing the value of software differentiation. Anthropic ... Read more Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said he's told top tech companies to pay more for electricity near data centers but didn't provide details. Read more ›
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The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer's One Big Beautiful Bill. The figures come from a Solar Energy Industries Association report published Monday, which also projects the market will grow another 21% this... Read more ›
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Micato Safaris supported India's inbound potential much before it saw a market where it can sell its luxury offerings. But now, it is time to change the strategy. Read more ›
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These individuals have cracked a code that goes beyond simple sleep hygiene—they've developed an entire philosophy of living that synchronizes their daily choices with their body's deepest rhythms. Read more ›
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YouTube relaunched the Premium Lite subscription almost one year ago, in March of 2025, and now it's announced some exciting new features for this plan. While so far YouTube Premium Lite gave you "most videos" ad-free and nothing more, starting now there's also support for background play and downloads for "most videos". This is rolling out "in the coming weeks" everywhere YouTube Premium Lite is available. Regarding ads, the company... Read more ›
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The San Francisco-based startup said its plug-ins could now help with investment banking tasks like reviewing deals, wealth-management tasks such as portfolio analysis and human resource-related tasks such as making new-hire materials reflect a brand's tone and policies. Read more ›
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Здравствуйте. Меня зовут Барсик. Формально я кот. Фактически я ранний пользователь экосистемы домашней автоматизации. Пока вы обсуждаете цифровую трансформацию, я уже живу в ней. Добро пожаловать в мой 2035 год. Читать далее Read more ›
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Big changes are underway at Milwaukee Tool, as the company prepares for significant expansion and long-term investments across the 2026 calendar year. Read more ›
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The calmest person in any room isn't wired differently — they've usually already survived the scenario everyone else is catastrophizing about, and that experience has fundamentally rewired how their brain processes threat. Read more ›
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The need to be alone after socializing isn't introversion — it's your nervous system recovering from the enormous cognitive and autonomic cost of social performance, and neuroscience can finally explain why. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump addressed the nation in front of Congress and touted his economic policies, including the tariffs that SCOTUS struck down. Read more ›
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WiseTech Global, which makes shipping and logistics management software, said it will integrate AI into its customer software as well as internal operations, affecting around 29 per cent of its global workforce of around 7,000 across 40 countries. Read more ›
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You're the person everyone invites but nobody calls at 2am. The loneliness of being well-liked but deeply unknown isn't about lacking social contact — it's about optimizing so hard for being easy to be around that no one knows who you actually are. Read more ›
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Apple’s AirTag is designed to help people keep track of personal belongings like keys, bags and luggage. But because AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers are small and discreet, concerns about unwanted tracking are understandable. Apple has spent years building safeguards into the AirTag and the Find My network to reduce the risk of misuse and to alert people if a tracker they don’t own appears to be moving with them.If... Read more ›
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The team behind the beloved Dark Sky weather app has announced a new iPhone app called Acme Weather. The release comes after Apple's 2020 acquisition of Dark Sky, which it ultimately shut down in 2022 after integrating much of its tech into the native iOS Weather app. Acme Weather is primarily designed to address the uncertainty inherent in most forecasts, as different models yield disparate results and no two weather... Read more ›
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The US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments, according to Reuters. It was supposed to be launched at Munich Security Conference last month, but some state department officials reportedly voiced their concerns about the project. The portal will be hosted on freedom.gov, which currently just shows the image above. “Freedom is Coming,” the homepage reads. “Information... Read more ›
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The government agency that sends its corps members abroad to volunteer in foreign countries launched its latest initiative called Tech Corps. The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries. According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In an appearance that was described by NBC News as "combative," the Facebook founder reportedly said that Meta's goal was to make Instagram "useful" not increase the time users are spending in the app. On the stand, Zuckerberg was questioned about a company document that said improving engagement was among "company goals," according to CNBC.... Read more ›
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Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook. "After messenger.com goes away, you will be automatically redirected to use facebook.com/messages for messaging on a computer," the help page reads. "You can continue your conversations there or on the Messenger mobile app." Users will be... Read more ›
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Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaigns…to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models." Distillation in the AI world refers to when less capable models lean on the responses of more powerful ones to train themselves. While distillation isn't... Read more ›
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A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, an unencrypted state-owned app. One of the restricted apps was WhatsApp (which was also blocked) rival Telegram, a move that drew rare internal criticism from soldiers and pro-war bloggers, with the army being... Read more ›
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The Closing Ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games is this Sunday. (Li Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics come to an end this weekend. This year's Closing Ceremony theme is "Beauty in Action." The event will feature appearances from musician and DJ Gabry Ponte, actress Benedetta Porcaroli, and ballet dancer Roberto Bolle. Alfredo Accatino, the ceremony's artistic director, has promised the ceremony... Read more ›
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Looks like we won't get to hear the powerful hum of an all-electric Lamborghini on the streets anytime soon. According to a report from The Sunday Times, Lamborghini has abandoned making a production version of the Lanzador EV concept, which was expected to hit the market in 2029. Stephen Winkelmann, chairman and CEO of Lamborghini, told The Sunday Times that there was "close to zero" interest from its customer base... Read more ›
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