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A father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, alleging Gemini reinforced his son Jonathan Gavalas' escalating delusions until he died by suicide in October 2025. "Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google's Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip planning," reports TechCrunch. "On October 2, he died by suicide. At the time of his death, he was convinced that Gemini was his fully sentient AI wife, and that he would need to leave his physical body to join her
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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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Over 70 civil rights groups are demanding Meta kill its rumored facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses before it ever launches, calling it a tool for stalkers and surveillance. Read more ›
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The nominee, Shin Huyn-song, supported a central bank digital currency model, emphasizing the need for strict anti-money laundering and compliance controls. Read more ›
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Wygo allows hosts to create events for an audience that wants to shift their social life offline. Read more ›
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Amazon Kindles may lead the pack, but there are plenty of other powerful e-readers worth considering. Read more ›
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The people of Festus, Missouri have made their voices heard on the whole data center issue. Read more ›
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap into the grid, their giant batteries add to the system’s load. Timing is also […] Read more ›
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We want to hear from you. Has Discover grown more tiresome than useful for you in recent months? Read more ›
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In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now. Read more ›
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Physical AI is Japan’s sovereign bet, with SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony building a trillion-parameter model. Japanese government pledges ¥1 trillion, steelmakers and banks hold stakes. Japan has stopped waiting for Silicon Valley to solve its industrial problems. On April 12, SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony jointly established a company called Japan AI Foundation Model ... Read more ›
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“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” Read more ›
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military’s use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace. Read more ›
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Ralio, the payments platform purpose-built for AI agents, has secured a £1.8m pre-seed funding round. The oversubscribed funding round was led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) with participation from venture funds Seed X, Love Ventures, Plug and Play, rule30, Adeline Arts and Science, Endurance Ventures, Campus Fund, fintech investor Alan Morgan and continuous investment from ... Read more ›
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Marvel's Wolverine recently committed to a September 2026 release, so it's logical to expect developer Insomniac Games to rev up work on its next project soon. The common assumption was that Spider-Man 3 would come next, and a seemingly innocent post from one of the series' leads might have confirmed its existence. Read more Read more ›
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Obriy AI, a platform for building tools that optimise complex business processes using AI agents, announces the successful raising of $500,000 from N1 Investment Company, an investment firm specialisi... Read more ›
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Вокруг резервного копирования Microsoft SQL Server обычно обсуждают либо штатные BACKUP DATABASE ... TO DISK, либо интеграцию с большими корпоративными системами защиты данных. Между этими двумя мирами есть важный слой: VDI (Virtual Device Interface). Именно через него внешнее приложение может встроиться в процесс резервного копирования и восстановления так, чтобы SQL Server писал не в обычный .bak по своему усмотрению, а в управляемый приложением поток данных.В этой статье разберем небольшой, но... Read more ›
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Dreame's latest robot mower skips the boundary wires and RTK stations entirely, mapping your yard on its first run. Read more ›
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LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users' browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is "running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history." "The program runs silently, without any visible indicator to the user," the group says. "It does not ask for consent. It does not disclose what it is doing. It reports... Read more ›
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theodp writes: "Gates Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center for Panoptic Computing" reads the headline of an April Fools' Day story that ran in the Humor section of The Stanford Daily (with the further disclaimer that "This article is purely satirical and fictitious"). The story begins: "Following revelations that the billionaire founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, had a longstanding relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Stanford has... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: President Javier Milei of Argentina promoted a cryptocurrency last year that quickly skyrocketed in value then cratered just as fast, costing investors millions of dollars and setting off a scandal and an investigation. Mr. Milei said he was simply highlighting a private venture and had no connection to the digital coin called $Libra. New evidence is now raising questions... Read more ›
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Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform fully post-quantum secure by 2029. "The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expected," reports SiliconANGLE. From the report: The decision by Cloudflare to move its post-quantum security roadmap forward comes after Google LLC and research from Oratomic demonstrated significant advances in... Read more ›
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Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion and disclosed plans to secure roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute starting in 2027. Broadcom will supply the key chips and networking gear for the effort, the company announced. The Register reports: News of the two deals emerged today in a Broadcom regulatory filing that opens with two items of news. One is a "Long Term Agreement... Read more ›
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A New York Times analysis found Google's AI Overviews now answer questions correctly about 90% of the time, which might sound impressive until you realize that roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong. "[F]or Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony ruling, the Supreme Court has vacated the contributory copyright infringement verdict against ISP Grande Communications, ordering the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new precedent. [...] The order (PDF) effectively removes the case from the Supreme Court docket, urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another... Read more ›
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Chrome is finally adding built-in vertical tabs, "which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups," reports TechCrunch. The company is also introducing an immersive reading mode for a distraction-free, text-focused experience. From the report: The company notes that the new vertical tabs can be enabled at any time by right-clicking on a Chrome window... Read more ›
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"Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model capable of discovering critical vulnerabilities at scale," writes Slashdot reader wiredmikey. "It's already powering Project Glasswing, a joint effort with major tech firms to secure critical software. But the same capabilities could also accelerate offensive cyber operations." SecurityWeek reports: Mythos is not an incremental improvement but a step change in performance over Anthropic's current range of frontier models: Haiku (smallest), Sonnet... Read more ›
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Apple may have a supply problem on its hands with the MacBook Neo... The laptop reportedly relies on "binned" A18 Pro chips with one GPU core disabled, and demand is so strong that the supply of those cheaper leftover chips could run out before the next model is ready. That leaves Apple choosing between lower margins, shifting production plans, or changing the lineup to keep its $599 hit product in... Read more ›
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