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Has the rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies really shattered our attention spans and driven books out of our culture? Maybe not, argues social psychologist Adam Mastroianni (author of the Substack Experimental History):
As a psychologist, I used to study claims like these for a living, so I know that the mind is primed to believe narratives of decline. We have a much lower standard of evidence for "bad thing go up" than we do for "bad thing go down." Unsurprisingly, then, stories about the end of
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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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Shares of EV maker Ola Electric continued their upward movement, surging nearly 20% to hit the upper circuit today. The… Read more ›
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We've been waiting four years for Euphoria season 3 to hit HBO Max — but according to its damning first reviews, we might have been better off without it. Read more ›
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John Deere will also have to make its software tools available to third parties for 10 years. Read more ›
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Canada’s top court is stepping into a case that could reshape how online gambling works across the country, with provinces,… Continue reading Canada top court weighs Ontario cross border online gambling case as Loto-Québec joins fight Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Я Полина Ященко, старший инженер по разработке ПО в YADRO. Мы с командой тестируем гипотезы и активно применяем искусственный интеллект, чтобы усовершенствовать процессы разработки. Так, недавно мы зарелизили AI-ревьюера — бота-помощника, который помогает искать проблемы в стиле и логике кода.Мы разработали бота, чтобы упростить процесс ревью пулл-реквестов. В команде есть стажеры, которые совершают базовые ошибки, включая открытие очень больших PR, и иногда просто не хватало сил, чтобы воврем Read more ›
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The Realme C100 series has been expanding over the last few weeks and the latest addition is the C100 4G. It brings a familiar design, MediaTek’s Helio G92 Max chipset and a massive 8,000mAh battery, which is even larger than the one on the C100 5G. Realme C100 4G Realme claims the C100 4G can deliver over 23 hours of video streaming, 20+ hours of navigation or 13+ hours of... Read more ›
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The 13th installment of Ryan Murphy's eerie anthology series is throwing it back to the show's much-loved witchy third season. Read more ›
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When the MacBook Neo arrived last month, I knew Windows laptop makers were in trouble. For $599, the Neo offers fantastic build quality and solid performance in a sleek and ultra-portable package. Windows laptops in this price range tend to be ugly, cheap-feeling, and a little slow. Despite years of rumors, the MacBook Neo still […] Read more ›
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Home Safety Hotline, the wonderful analogue call centre horror from developer Night Signal Entertainment, is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Love and Monsters director Michael Matthews. Read more Read more ›
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New rules introduced by the Central Bank should make it easier for customers to deal with insurance claims and in turn, help consumers reach fairer insurance settlements. In addition, the new rules around insurance quotes will make it easier for customers to understand how certain actions, such as accumulating penalty points – or paying insurance […] Read more ›
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A federal appeals court denied Anthropic's bid to temporarily block the Pentagon's blacklisting, meaning the company remains shut out of Defense Department contracts while the case continues, even though a separate court has allowed other federal agencies to keep using Claude for now. CNBC reports: "In our view, the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government," the appeals court said in its decision. "On one side is a... Read more ›
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Revolut has launched its in-app AI assistant AI by Revolut (AIR), which is designed to support how its millions of users interact with their money, manage their lifestyle and grow their money intelligence. AIR aims to move beyond the traditional chatbot format by allowing users to navigate their financial life through conversation. Users can gain ... Read more ›
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In Seattle, activists inside tech giants are leaning into grassroots fundraising and peer support as petitions and protests draw little response from executives. Read more ›
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South Korea is taking government action to reduce the pressure of the DRAM and NAND crisis on its population. Read more ›
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This tracker attaches to your pet’s collar to monitor location and activity, charting trends over time to better understand your pet’s health. Read more ›
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Sybol, a Spanish startup specialised in corporate digital identity and verifiable credentials, has closed a funding round of over € 1 million to accelerate the deployment of its enterprise verification platform and its corporate wallet based on digital identity. The round combines public and private investment and is backed by the Spanish Society for Technological ... Read more ›
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YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform's fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: OpenAI hasn't been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety advocacy groups, the company has apparently decided it's best to stay in the shadows -- even if it means hiding from the people actually pushing for policy changes. According to a report from the San Francisco Standard, a number... Read more ›
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Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share -- more than double macOS's 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers show Windows losing 4.28%, down... Read more ›
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Nvidia has begun rolling out a beta feature that automatically compiles game shaders while a PC is idle. It won't eliminate shader compilation the first time a game runs, but Ars Technica reports it could help reduce those repeated wait times. From the report: Nvidia's new Auto Shader Compilation system promises to "reduc[e] the frequency of game runtime compilation after driver updates" for users running Nvidia's GeForce Game Ready Driver... Read more ›
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Even on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, astronauts apparently still have to deal with broken Microsoft Outlook. One of the crew members, Reid Wiseman, jokingly reported that he had "two Microsoft Outlooks" and neither worked. 404 Media reports: On April 1, four astronauts from the U.S. and Canada embarked on a 10-day flight to loop around the moon. Spotted by VGBees podcast host Niki Grayson on the NASA... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in... Read more ›
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AmiMoJo shares a report from Phoronix: Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options. The 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 was announced at $83.75 USD for those... Read more ›
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IBM and Arm are teaming up to let Arm-based software run on IBM Z mainframes. Network World reports: The two companies plan to work on three things: building virtualization tools so Arm software can run on IBM platforms; making sure Arm applications meet the security and data residency rules that regulated industries must follow; and creating common technology layers so enterprises have more software options across both platforms, IBM said... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% "fuel and logistics" surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher. The fees take effect on April 17 for customers of the company's Fulfillment by Amazon service -- which is used by many of the independent sellers... Read more ›
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OpenAI is acquiring tech news podcast TBPN, a fast-growing daily show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial independence, even though the acquisition is widely viewed as part of a broader effort to influence public discourse around AI. CNBC reports: In the announcement, OpenAI CEO of AGI Deployment Fidji Simo wrote that their mission of bringing artificial general intelligence comes with a responsibility... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from the Kathmandu Post: In Nepal, helicopter rescue on high altitude is, by any measure, a genuine lifesaving operation. At high altitude, where oxygen thins and weather changes without warning, the ability to airlift a stricken trekker to Kathmandu within hours has saved countless lives. But threaded through that legitimate system, exploiting its urgency, its opacity, and its distance from oversight, is one of the most... Read more ›
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