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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) -- the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT -- successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted. The AI researchers Simon Lermen and Daniel Paleka said LLMs make it cost effective to perform sophi
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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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Naveen Rao, a longtime California resident, ascended to a rarefied tier of wealth last year when his startup, Unconventional AI, was valued at $4.5 billion. The company is based in Palo Alto, but with the specter of a new tax on billionaires looming over the state, Rao began considering other places to live. Last month, he found one: a $20 million mansion in Incline Village, a charming mountain town on... Read more ›
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Even with a missing telephoto lens, the OnePlus 15R's massive new battery makes it unbeatable in its category. Read more ›
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Trust Wallet CEO Felix Fan and Mesh CTO Arjun Mukherjee said AI agents are creating a new role for crypto wallets. Read more ›
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And just like that, Mother’s Day is tomorrow, May 10th, which is too soon for most online purchases to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to pick up a gift this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your […] Read more ›
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Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months. Read more ›
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Newegg’s latest AM5 combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB DDR5 memory, a Samsung Gen 5 SSD, a free Corsair PSU, and a NordVPN subscription. Read more ›
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The world's largest asset manager filed paperwork to expand its tokenized fund lineup as real-world assets grow 200% year over year. Read more ›
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After initially framing the exploit as a developer configuration failure, LayerZero said it “owns” the decision to let its own verifier secure high-value transfers in a vulnerable setup. Read more ›
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When my husband became CEO of the company I call "my baby," I had to teach myself to trust him, especially during financial challenges. Read more ›
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Vyper Chairs are known for premium shop stools and garage seating, but the story behind the company goes beyond the products themselves. Read more ›
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28 fake Android apps promising to spy on anyone's call history racked up 7.3 million downloads on Google Play — and the scariest part isn't that the apps were fraudulent, it's that so many people wanted them to work. Read more ›
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The Ugreen DXP4800 Pro is a sophisticated four-bay NAS at a price that makes sense for both home and small business users. Read more ›
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On average, US parents spend 21.9% of their income on costs related to raising their children each year, a report found. Read more ›
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The Nextorage NEM-PAC is a quiet contender with good performance and a PS5-compliant heatsink. It’s a competent Gen 4 SSD but is otherwise unexciting. Read more ›
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Если взять случайный крейт с crates.io и поставить его под Miri, шанс увидеть undefined behavior где-то в зависимостях стремится к единице. Разбираемся, почему: pointer provenance, Stacked Borrows, Tree Borrows и почему noalias в LLVM выключали три раза. Читать далее Read more ›
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It looks as though the upcoming vlogging camera from Insta360 will offer a detachable remote control unit. Read more ›
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The friend who never has an opinion about the restaurant isn't always being generous. Often they're running a survival strategy from a childhood where having a preference cost too much. Read more ›
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Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart are targeting high-income consumers with premium services, lifting their quarterly earnings and stock prices. Read more ›
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The once-a-year free comic book giveaway "is splitting in two," according to a local news report. Launched in 2002 by Diamond Comic Distributor, comic book giants like Marvel and DC have historically participated together. But things changed after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankrupt in 2025, "leaving other companies to swoop in and pick up where Diamond left off." The rights to the "Free Comic Book Day" brand were sold to... Read more ›
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Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it's roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two years... Read more ›
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This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients. But... Read more ›
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Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug-of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price... Read more ›
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"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet... Read more ›
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Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company —... Read more ›
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"Nuclear AI startup" Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, "three times the amount typically consumed by New York City." Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes — artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections —... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to... Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post: Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound... Read more ›
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