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Meta has delayed the release of its next major AI model after internal tests showed it lagging behind competing systems from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The New York Times reports: The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta's previous A.I. model and did better than Google's Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from November, they said. As a result, Meta has delayed Avocado's release to at least May from this month, the people said..
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Team secures $1.4-million NSERC grant for further development and validation. Read more ›
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Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary. Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a... Read more ›
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After Covid exposed how brittle travel's customer service infrastructure was, the industry pitched AI as the fix. Now, with the Middle East chaos, much of the tech that was supposed to help vanished from the narrative. Read more ›
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The conflict in the Middle East has forced Meta's 2Africa Red Sea and 'Pearls' sections to go on hold. Read more ›
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I need to tell you something. And that took me a very long time to admit. For most of my career, I thought that writing raw SQL is a sign of failure. It meant you couldn’t make the ORM do what you wanted. It meant your abstractions had broken down. Senior engineers used ORMs. Junior ... Read more ›
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Начинающие свой путь в сфере IT могут быть шокированы открывающимися перед ними горизонтами возможностей и объемами информации. Множество направлений, бесконечное число книг и онлайн-курсов. С чего начать? На что обратить внимание и к чему обратиться в первую очередь, а что изучать далее? Вопросов много и вот эта непонятность может стать причиной ступора. Или завести в ложном направлении, что в итоге может послужить причиной того, что человек просто бросит, так толком... Read more ›
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iQOO recently launched the Z11 Turbo in China and is now set to expand the lineup with the Z11 variant. Ahead of the launch, the company has revealed the phone’s design and key features. In a post on Weibo, iQOO’s Product Manager Xing Cheng shared new details about the upcoming Z-series smartphone. They also included an image of the phone showcasing its design. The iQOO Z11 will come with a... Read more ›
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In a world where even our lunch breaks have become multitasking marathons, the most productive people have discovered a counterintuitive secret: they're strategically scheduling blocks of absolute nothingness into their calendars, treating empty time like crucial business meetings that can't be rescheduled. Read more ›
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to stress modern hardware. The dataset now hosted in the cloud weighs in at over 130TB, while the full working dataset used during the calculation reached about 2.1PB... Read more ›
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OKX has partnered with the DeFi-first blockchain Katana to integrate native, activity-driven onchain yield directly into its exchange. Read more ›
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I spent two days debugging a model that trained without errors, printed loss every epoch, and still sat near random guessing — barely above the 10% floor for a ten-class problem. I went through the usual checklist. Wrong loss function? No. Mismatched labels? No. Bad learning rate? No. I printed a batch of images. The ... Read more ›
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Amazon is launching Prime Video Ultra, a $4.99 monthly add-on that removes ads from Prime Video for existing Prime or Prime Video subscribers starting April 10. Read more ›
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Dreo's spring sale offers a great deal on the Chefmaker combi cooker, plus discounts on WIRED's favorite bathroom heater and tower fan. Read more ›
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T-Mobile, who once deemed themselves the “Uncarrier,” is back this week with another very carrier move. By the end of March, T-Mobile is planning to fully eliminate a couple of Google One subscription perks they offered to customers and send those folks to Google, where their billing will continue. For some, the special 2TB plan they’ve … Continued Read the original post: T-Mobile Kicks 2TB + Unlimited Google Photos Customers... Read more ›
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Spring is as good a time as any to buy some fun new hardware, and Ace Hardware has you covered. Here are some exciting tools available from the retailer. Read more ›
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darwinmac writes: Mozilla is working on a huge redesign for its Firefox browser, codenamed "Nova," which will bring pastel gradients, a refreshed new tab page, floating "island" UI elements, and more. "From the mockups, it appears Mozilla took some inspiration from Googles Material You (or at least, the dynamic color extraction part of it) because the browser color accent appears influenced by the wallpaper setting," reports Neowin. "Choosing a mint-green... Read more ›
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In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors. "System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform's Chinese parent organization ByteDance. ByteDance owns a vast array of different apps spanning social media, entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other sectors. The leading one is Douyin, the Chinese version of... Read more ›
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Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands as examples of products that benefit from its technology, but Oura will clearly be looking to incorporate it into its rings, in theory allowing you to control your connected devices with hand movements. Oura said in a press release that the deal sees it... Read more ›
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency (ESA): Last year, an approximately 60 meter near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032. Now, that... Read more ›
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The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence... Read more ›
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Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats. The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report. Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint... Read more ›
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