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Google has launched Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), a faster, more realistic image generation model that becomes the default across Gemini, Search, Lens, and Flow. TechCrunch reports: The new Nano Banana 2 retains some of the high-fidelity characteristics of the Pro model but produces images faster. The company says you can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, in different aspect ratios. Nano Banana 2 can maintain character consistency for up to five characters and fidelity of u
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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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AI hiring tools were supposed to eliminate human bias from recruitment. Instead, research shows they're absorbing and amplifying the same discriminatory patterns, while companies trust their "objectivity" without question. Read more ›
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There's very little to complain about when it comes to Boox's newest color 10-inch e-notebook, but the Note Air5 C fails to offer anything different from its predecessors. Read more ›
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Honor jumped aboard the professional photography kit train today. The maker released the Magic8 Pro Professional Imaging Kit, made by partner Telesin. It fits the Magic8 Pro and adds a magnetically-attachable camera grip, and a 2.35x Telephoto Extender lens that brings the Magic8 Pro's 85mm zoom lens to an effective 200mm. The kit consists of nearly 10 individual pieces. At the center of it is a case for the Magic8... Read more ›
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Saudi Arabia has announced a $100 billion technology investment fund targeting AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and advanced computing, marking its most aggressive move yet to build a post-oil economy while it still has the hydrocarbon revenues to fund the transition. Read more ›
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Nvidia plans to introduce AI-integrated chips into consumer laptops, combining CPU and GPU, while facing software compatibility and pricing challenges. Read more ›
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For anyone who has been following the soap opera unfolding between Netflix and Paramount Skydance over the past few months in their financial brinksmanship to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, the saga may be nearing its end. Today, WBD said its board of directors have determined that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance amounted to the better proposal. The media outfit gave Netflix four business days to match Paramount's terms, but... Read more ›
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F1 fans can get revved up for the approaching season with a tech boost from Apple Maps. Read more ›
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OpenAI has raised approximately $10 billion in a funding round valuing the company at $300 billion, marking a new phase in the intensifying global competition to build the most capable AI systems. Read more ›
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Я всегда с осторожностью смотрел в сторону искусственного интеллекта, но, в целом, старался не оставаться в стороне от современных технологий и тенденций. Работал локально с LLM, локально же генерировал картинки и даже видео, использовал публичные сервисы для работы, общался с разными чат-ботами и иногда писал об этом статьи. Но до поры до времени не касался темы вайбкодинга.Что ж. Настал тот день и час, когда обстоятельства и звезды сложились должным образом.... Read more ›
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Razer today introduced a new 16-inch laptop sleeve that has an integrated wireless charging feature for smartphones and other small devices like earbuds. Priced at $130, the sleeve includes two MagSafe-compatible wireless charging zones, so it can charge an iPhone and AirPods at the same time. The wireless charger is integrated into the top of the laptop sleeve, and the magnets serve as a clasp when the sleeve is closed... Read more ›
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Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's desire to renegotiate all […] Read more ›
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Research in sensory processing sensitivity reveals that people who need a full recovery day after socializing aren't antisocial. Their brains are processing every micro-expression, emotional undercurrent, and unspoken tension at a depth most people skip entirely. Read more ›
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Jack Dorsey's Block is cutting more than 4,000 jobs, or nearly half its workforce, as part of a deliberate shift toward becoming a smaller, "intelligence-native" company built around AI. The Verge reports: "We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. But something has changed. We're already... Read more ›
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Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables. Read more ›
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Every way the Samsung's new $1,300 ultra flagship compares to the prior models, with the Privacy Display providing a big upgrade. Read more ›
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They won't gush, they won't hug, and they barely smile when you walk in. But at midnight, your phone buzzes: "Did you get home okay?" The psychology behind people whose care speaks louder than their warmth. Read more ›
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China's naval capabilities have been expanding in recent years, but its newest aircraft carrier lags behind U.S. counterparts in some important ways. Read more ›
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Audio company iFi just introduced a new DAC (digital-to-analogue converter) that's both smaller and lighter than its previous model, and only costs $59. The iFi GO Link 2 connects to a smartphone or other audio-playing device over USB-C and can instantly improve the listening experience on wired headphones.Wireless earbuds and music streaming services have normalized listening to your favorite songs at a lower quality. For anyone who doesn't consider themselves... Read more ›
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A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI's remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: You wear them at work, you wear them at play, you wear them to relax. You may even get sweaty in them at the gym. But an investigation into headphones has found every single pair tested contained substances hazardous to human health, including chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminization of males. [...] Researchers say that while individual... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. "I still can't believe I'm writing this: as of today, my full-time job at Meta is AI Builder," he wrote. Guedj has... Read more ›
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OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Google and Meta are leveraging superior distribution to close the gap, and its product roadmap is dictated by whatever the research labs happen to discover rather than by deliberate product strategy. The company... Read more ›
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The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean -- TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 -- is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after more than two decades of sitting dormant, bound for recycling in South Africa. Subsea Environmental Services, one of only three companies in the world whose entire business is... Read more ›
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Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth "strike fighter." But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter's "computer brain," including "its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party software updates, just like 'jailbreaking' a cellphone, according to the Dutch State Secretary for Defense." TWZ notes that the Dutch defense secretary made the remarks during an episode of BNR Nieuwsradio's "Boekestijn en de Wijk"... Read more ›
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IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations. Anthropic said the shrinking pool of developers who understand... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. "You've likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it is currently unvetted and high-risk for our environment," he wrote in a Slack message with a red siren emoji. "Please keep Clawdbot off all company hardware and away from work-linked accounts." Grad isn't the only tech... Read more ›
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schwit1 writes: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. Financial Times has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The network was discovered because they all... Read more ›
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Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, reports The Register, since they're still relying on non-continuous funding from grants and donations. And it's not just because bandwidth is expensive, he said at this year's FOSDEM. "The problem is they... Read more ›
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