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An anonymous reader shares a report: KPMG, one of the world's largest auditors of public and private companies, negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of AI and threatened to find a new accountant if it did not agree to a significant fee reduction, the people said.
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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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One of 2026's hottest gaming rumours came at the end of March when trusted leaker Nate the Hate revealed that a new Star Fox game and a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are to arrive this year on Nintendo Switch 2. Read more Read more ›
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As a resident of Japan, I've seen tourists to my country scared to break rules or make etiquette mistakes. But respect matters more than perfection. Read more ›
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A rogue Bing update took Windows 11 Start Menu search offline for some users since April 6, and Microsoft's fix is as hands-off as the bug was unexpected. Read more ›
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Привет! Меня зовут Даниил Замешаев, я frontend-разработчик в компании МойСклад, и в том числе занимаюсь развитием внутреннего UIKIT компании.В этой статье я расскажу про подход к анализу дизайнерских требований для frontend-разработчиков. На примере реального кейса я хочу поговорить о двух практических вещах:- как анализировать дизайнерские требования так, чтобы на выходе получать понятные технические требования, пригодные для реализации;- как решать, какие из получившихся требований можно оставить декларат Read more ›
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Smartwatches are useful, life-saving tools, but I don't think they're 'cool' anymore — and nothing's going to change. Read more ›
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Proton VPN has launched a new update for iOS devices, introducing improved Shortcuts, Quick Actions, and Siri integration to make securing your mobile connection faster and easier than ever. Read more ›
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В этой подборке мы собрали устройства, которые идут против мейнстрима: от радикальных инструментов для цифрового детокса до возрождения физических клавиатур и забытых поворотных механизмов. Здесь есть несколько необычных смартфонов, нечто вроде коммуникатора и умные часы с полностью открытой прошивкой. Поехали! Читать далее Read more ›
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Netflix is detailing an AI video tool that goes beyond simple cleanup. Its system, called VOID, cuts elements from footage while keeping everything else behaving in a way that still feels grounded. That marks a shift for AI video editing. Existing tools can erase unwanted elements, but they often leave behind movement that feels off, […] Read more ›
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В этой статье мы завершим решение задачи внешней баллистики разбором шестого и седьмого случаев. В них мы учтём уменьшение гравитации с высотой, а также кривизну Земли. Читать далее Read more ›
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If you live in Los Angeles, you may soon be able to hail a Volkswagen ID. Buzz robotaxi from the Uber app. The companies' previously announced "multi-year strategic partnership" is nearing a public launch, with on-road testing with a safety driver underway.The vehicles use tech from MOIA America, the US wing of Volkswagen's self-driving subsidiary. Uber and MOIA plan to deploy thousands of ID. Buzz vehicles across the US over... Read more ›
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io9 has an exclusive clip from the new episode featuring Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt) and Aleida Rosales (Coral Peña). Read more ›
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Vertigenius, the pioneering MedTech company transforming the treatment of vertigo, has announced the successful close of a €2.55M funding round to drive its growth in the US. The investment – which follows a €2.1M fundraising round in 2024 – was led by Atlantic Bridge and supported by Enterprise Ireland, MedTech Syndicate, IRRUS Investments, Xcendra Ventures, […] Read more ›
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Insta360 just announced the Snap, a new smartphone accessory designed to improve the quality of your selfies. It works like a digital mirror magnetically attached to the back of your Android or iOS smartphone so you can preview and properly frame shots using its more capable rear cameras, while touchscreen functionality lets you control camera […] Read more ›
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Insta360, the company best known for its action cameras, just released the Snap selfie screen. It's a small display that connects via USB-C and sits on the back of your phone, helping you to use your rear camera for higher resolution vlogging or selfies. The 3.5-inch touchscreen allows you to adjust camera settings like zoom and focus and frame your selfies before you take them. The company has also released... Read more ›
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Handhold, a Tallinn-based AI-agent platform that turns visitors into customers without sales reps, today announced a €3 million Seed round to accelerate go-to-market efforts and see its agents shift from converting leads to managing clients’ entire customer base. The round was led by Entourage Capital, with participation from Inovia Capital and e2vc. Angel investors include ... Read more ›
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After struggling financially in Los Angeles, my husband and I moved in with his parents in North Carolina. Our lives have improved in so many ways. Read more ›
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Patent work has always been the highest-stakes corner of legal practice - one missed claim can define a company's competitive position for decades. Patlytics has quietly become the platform that more than 40% of the Am Law 100 relies on to handle it, and the company just closed $40M to accelerate what comes next. What does a company do with that kind of traction and that kind of capital in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour. In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing the... Read more ›
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Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said hospitals could already replace many radiologists with AI for some imaging tasks -- if regulators allowed it. He argued the technology presents an opportunity to simultaneously cut costs and expand access. Radiology Business reports: Katz -- who has led the 11-hospital organization since 2018 -- said he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast... Read more ›
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Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions ... that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub." From the report: Programmers combing through the... Read more ›
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darwinmac writes: OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its editors into a new project called Euro-Office, according to a report from Neowin. The move comes just days after Nextcloud and partners like IONOS announced the fork as part of a broader push for European digital sovereignty. In a statement, the company accused the project of violating its licensing terms and international intellectual property law, claiming... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country's schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish... Read more ›
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In classic Cloudflare fashion, the CDN provider used April Fool's Day to unveil an actual, "not a joke" product. Today, the company announced EmDash -- an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress that aims to solve plugin security. Phoronix reports: With the help of AI coding agents, Cloudflare engineers have been rebuilding the WordPress open-source project "from the ground up." EmDash is written entirely in TypeScript and is a server-less design.... Read more ›
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ZipNada writes: Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the modern internet. In their presentation, Dylan Ayrey, founder of Truffle Security, and Mike Nol Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: When Ubisoft pulled the plug on The Crew's servers without warning, players were left with a worthless game they'd already paid for. Now, consumer watchdog UFC-Que Choisir is fighting back, demanding gamers' right to play regardless of publisher whims. Supported by the "Stop Killing Games" movement, this landmark case challenges unfair terms before the Creteil Judicial Court (Val-de-Marne near Paris), and aims to protect players... Read more ›
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NASA's Artemis II mission has launched four astronauts around the moon and back, marking humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in 53 years and the first test flight of NASA's Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) with people on board. Five minutes into the flight, Commander Reid Wiseman saw the team's target: "We have a beautiful moonrise, we're headed right at it," he said from the capsule. The Associated Press... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that SpaceX has confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO, reportedly targeting a valuation above $1.75 trillion. Reuters reports: SpaceX puts more rockets in space than any other company and promises a chance to invest in humanity's return to the moon and attempt to colonize Mars. The company aspires to put artificial intelligence data centers in space, while running a lucrative satellite communications system that opens up much of... Read more ›
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