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Today, Apple updated the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with support for its new M5 chips. It also unveiled a pair of all-new Studio Display XDR monitors. Longtime Slashdot reader jizmonkey shares details about the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which look to be fairly major updates from the previous generation: Apple announced its newest CPUs today, which it claims has the fastest single-threaded performance in the world. Both the M5 Pro and M5 Max have eighteen-core designs, versus twelve or fourteen in the M4 Pro
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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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War has ravaged the Middle East for 43 days, but the damage could take years to repair amid tension at the Strait of Hormuz and damaged oil hubs. Read more ›
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Microsoft’s aggressive AI push sparked backlash and the “microslop” trend. Now, the company is quietly scaling things back, shifting toward more subtle, useful AI across Windows and its apps. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed an attack on his San Francisco home in a personal blog post on Friday, noting rising criticism of the AI industry and saying there is a need to “de-escalate the rhetoric.” Earlier that day, San Francisco police arrested a man for allegedly throwing a Molotov ... Read more ›
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Apple may tackle smart glass privacy concerns with a more visible recording indicator design, aiming to improve trust. Read more ›
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Harbor Freight has some brand-new tools in its Hercules lineup for April 2026. Here's what you can find among the latest offerings during your next visit. Read more ›
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Zerodha cofounder Nithin Kamath didn’t mince words when he said foreign investor interest in India has “pretty much died out.”… Read more ›
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Get to your local Harbor Freight now before the end of April 2026 to take advantage of these seven great deals. Read more ›
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Macie Strum was on high alert throughout her 3-day visit to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Read more ›
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Telegram сейчас в странной позиции.С одной стороны — ограничения, нестабильный доступ, часть аудитории уходит. С другой — это всё ещё одна из немногих платформ, где можно получить живой трафик без вложений и довольно быстро проверить идеи.Я в какой-то момент начал тестировать это на практике — без бюджета, просто пытаясь понять, откуда вообще берутся подписчики.И довольно быстро стало понятно: никакого “одного способа” нет.Зато есть система, которая в итоге начинает работать. Читать... Read more ›
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Ранее я уже рассказывал о Skaro. С тех пор проект заметно изменился: вторая версия получилась не косметическим обновлением, а довольно глубокой переработкой самой модели работы.Поэтому сейчас хочется не просто показать список новых функций, а нормально объяснить, что такое Skaro, для чего он нужен, почему я вообще продолжаю его развивать и куда хочу вести дальше. Читать далее Read more ›
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Fruit names aren't uncommon in the technological space, with major brands like Apple or Blackberry coming front to mind. However, Nano Banana is a bit odd. Read more ›
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"Rust's rise shows signs of slowing," argues the CEO of TIOBE. Back in 2020 Rust first entered the top 20 of his "TIOBE Index," which ranks programming language popularity using search engine results. Rust "was widely expected to break into the top 10," he remembers today. But it never happened, and "That was nearly six years ago...." Since then, Rust has steadily improved its ranking, even reaching its highest position... Read more ›
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The retirement books warned me about boredom and purpose — nobody mentioned that most of my friendships had an expiration date printed right on my employee badge. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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EVs have become increasingly mainstream and even offer impressive performance - even when electric tech is mounted to a mostly-forgotten car from the 1970s. Read more ›
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Vice President JD Vance traveled to Pakistan on Saturday to engage in peace talks with Iran. However, the two countries failed to reach a deal. Read more ›
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The Internet Bug Bounty program "has been paused for new submissions," they announced last week. Running since 2012, the program is funded by "a number of leading software companies," reports InfoWorld, "and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers who have reported bugs " Up to now, 80% of its payouts have been for discoveries of new flaws, and 20% to support remediation efforts. But as artificial intelligence makes it... Read more ›
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NASA's Artemis astronauts are now entering "the lunar sphere of influence," reports NBC News, "meaning the pull of the moon's gravity will become stronger than Earth's." Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts "are chasing after Apollo 13's maximum range from Earth," reports the Associated Press, hoping to beat its distance from Earth by more than 4,100 miles (6,600 kilometers). They'll begin their six-hour lunar... Read more ›
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Russia's "great crackdown" on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram's messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It "triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram's billionaire founder Pavel Durov said." "Telegram was banned in Russia, yet 65 million Russians still use it daily via VPNs," Durov said Saturday in a post on Telegram. "The government has spent years trying to ban... Read more ›
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"It's finally time," writes Phoronix — since "no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support." "A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel." More details from XDA-Developers: Authored by Ingo Molnar, the change, titled "x86/cpu: Remove... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI skeptics aren't the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models' outputs -- that's what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it's also been getting dinged on social media over Copilot's terms of use, which appear to have been last updated... Read more ›
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Halter, a New Zealand agtech startup now valued at $2 billion, has raised $220 million to expand its AI-powered cattle management system. "Halter is now valued at $2 billion following the Series E, which was led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund with participation from Blackbird, DCVC, Bond, Bessemer, and several others," reports Inc. From the report: alter plans to use the funding to expand its existing footprint in the U.S.,... Read more ›
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More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper middle class, up from about 10% in 1979, according to a report released this year by the right-leaning American Enterprise... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. Shchukin... Read more ›
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Samsung says it will discontinue its Samsung Messages app in July 2026 and is directing Galaxy users to switch to Google Messages instead. Android Central reports: [...] Samsung says users can switch to Google Messages as their default app to maintain a consistent Android messaging experience. The fine print also states that once the app is discontinued, "sending messages via Samsung Messages on your phone will no longer be possible,... Read more ›
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Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by a human mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970. NASA... Read more ›
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