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Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be a superior offer. From a report: Earlier this week, Paramount raised its bid to buy the entirety of WBD to $31 per share, up from $30 per share, all cash. It was the latest amendment to Paramount's multiple offers in recent months -- and since moving forward with a hostile bid to buy the company -- and it's now unseated a deal betwee
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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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Reading question-returning as deflection misses the point. It's a defensive system built in childhood — the brain's way of staying in control of a conversation that used to be unsafe to be the subject of. Read more ›
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Kids and retirees are vibe coding with AI tools. Meet the unlikely users redefining who can build with AI. Read more ›
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Rei Onoda bought a $50,000 abandoned home in rural Japan while pregnant — she and her husband quit their jobs. Read more ›
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Charles Yang spent 10 years building startups in China, then 10 in the US. Here's what he learned about the two systems. Read more ›
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Red Lobster once blamed its blockbuster Endless Shrimp deal for its downfall. Now the all-you-can-eat promo is back — but the vibe is different. Read more ›
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Founder Taylor James launched the two-sided platform late last year to give independent venues an alternative to traditional advertising — connecting them with more than 350 vetted local content creators. Read more ›
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Founder Taylor James launched the two-sided platform late last year to give independent venues an alternative to traditional advertising — connecting them with more than 350 vetted local content creators. Read more ›
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The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are known for retaining their value quite well, but one of these two Toyota pickups has a slight disadvantage here. Read more ›
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Elon Musk testified on day two of his trial against OpenAI, saying he helped create the company as a nonprofit counterweight to Google and would not have backed it if the goal had been private profit. CNBC reports: Musk on Tuesday was the first witness called to testify in the trial. He spoke about his upbringing, his many companies, his role in founding OpenAI and his understanding of its structure.... Read more ›
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Tecno introduced the Spark 50 5G in March, followed by the Spark 50 4G earlier this month. A new report now suggests that the company is gearing up to launch the Spark 50 Pro 5G, and has revealed its key specifications and launch timeline. The Tecno Spark 50 Pro is said to debut in India in May, but will arrive in global markets slightly earlier. The Tecno Spark 50 According... Read more ›
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Streaming services made smart TVs popular, but many built-in operating systems now struggle with performance, updates, and long-term app support. Read more ›
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Satya Nadella unveiled Microsoft's largest-ever Australian investment alongside Anthony Albanese in Sydney last week, with plans to expand local Azure capacity by 140%, extend the ASD Cyber-Shield, and skill three million Australians by 2028. Read more ›
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Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons. Read more ›
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Federal authorities are now reviewing a string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to sensitive U.S. aerospace and nuclear work, though officials have not established any confirmed link between the cases. The FBI says it "is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists," adding that it "is working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state ... and local... Read more ›
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NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors. The finding strengthens the case that ancient organic material can survive in the Martian subsurface, though it does not prove past life because the compounds could also come from geology or meteorites. Phys.org reports: The study was led by Amy Williams, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would surpass most countries' defense budgets and rank among the... Read more ›
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CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging battery that can go from 10 percent to 98 percent in under seven minutes," reports Interesting Engineering. From the report: The launches were made during a 90-minute event in Beijing ahead of the Beijing Auto Show, where automakers are expected to showcase next-generation EVs and... Read more ›
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A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was... Read more ›
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Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media,"... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as... Read more ›
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Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport, one that requires rapid decisions and precision execution, the project's leader said. Ace did so by employing high-speed perception, AI-based control and a state-of-the-art robotic system. There have... Read more ›
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