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Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman, famous for his 2000 hit "Because I Got High", has won a defamation lawsuit that seven Ohio police offers filed against him. A jury found he did not defame the officers in music videos he made about a 2022 police raid of his home. In August 2022, Adams County Sheriff's Department raided Afroman's home on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping. Neither drugs nor kidnapping victims were found, and charges were never
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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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Children who watched their parents stay in unhappy marriages often develop a specific form of relational paralysis in adulthood: the ability to endure almost anything, paired with no template for what endurance is supposed to protect. Read more ›
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You'll need additional hardware to use the blood pressure monitoring tool on your Samsung Galaxy smartwatch. Read more ›
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India Gets Its 128th Unicorn KreditBee has become the second Indian unicorn of 2026. Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, the lending… Read more ›
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Apple today released a minor iOS 26.4.1 update for the iPhone 11 and newer. While the release notes for the update only mention unspecified "bug fixes," we have since learned about two specific changes that are included in it. First, 9to5Mac spotted an Apple Developer Forums thread suggesting that iOS 26.4.1 fixes an iOS 26.4 bug that affected iCloud syncing in some apps. Second, an enterprise-focused Apple support document indicates... Read more ›
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After decades of using "someday" as your safety net, hitting 60 strips away the comforting illusion of endless time and forces you to confront the raw truth about change—you either want it right now for its own sake, or you don't want it at all. Read more ›
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Not everyone with a small social circle chose it as a lifestyle preference. Many built a wide one first, watched a crisis reveal who actually showed up, and quietly restructured around the evidence. Read more ›
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Google Gemini now features "Notebooks" to organize chats, files, and projects in sync with NotebookLM. Read more ›
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Кто мог предвидеть, что главным коммерческим применением космоса станут вычисления? Я прочёл немало научной фантастики, но такого сюжета не встречал. Сегодня сразу несколько серьёзных компаний планируют вывести десятки тысяч спутников на солнечно-синхронные орбиты — эти аппараты станут орбитальными дата-центрами. Читать далее Read more ›
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Chinese memory chips from YMTC are on track to make it the world’s third-largest NAND producer by end-2026 CXMT posted US$8 billion in 2025 revenue, up 130%, as Chinese memory chips ride an AI-driven super cycle China’s two leading memory chipmakers are moving into a global market that, for once, has room for them. Demand ... Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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The model comes from a team of AI leaders and developers poached from other AI companies last year. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1755 on April 9 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Launched in 2022, Apple's self-service repair program provides customers with access to genuine parts, tools, and manuals to repair select iPhones, iPads, Macs, Studio Displays, and Beats Pill speakers. Apple says the program is "intended for individuals who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices." Apple today started selling parts and tools for seven new devices through its self-service repair store in the U.S., Canada, and many European... Read more ›
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Whether AI or clever 3D-printed mock-up, that's not a real foldable iPhone going around the internet. Read more ›
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Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson said her goal is to "preserve and continue" In-N-Out's business and honor her family's legacy, not trade control for growth. Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for April 9, No.1,033. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 9, No. 563. Read more ›
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Reuters reports that SpaceX has confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO, reportedly targeting a valuation above $1.75 trillion. Reuters reports: SpaceX puts more rockets in space than any other company and promises a chance to invest in humanity's return to the moon and attempt to colonize Mars. The company aspires to put artificial intelligence data centers in space, while running a lucrative satellite communications system that opens up much of... Read more ›
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Scientists say extreme March heat caused an unusually rapid collapse of snowpack across the American West that's leaving major basins at record or near-record lows. "This year is on a whole other level," said Dr Russ Schumacher, a Colorado State University climatologist. "Seeing this year so far below any of the other years we have data for is very concerning." The Guardian reports: [...] The issue is extremely widespread. Data... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: OpenAI hasn't been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety advocacy groups, the company has apparently decided it's best to stay in the shadows -- even if it means hiding from the people actually pushing for policy changes. According to a report from the San Francisco Standard, a number... Read more ›
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Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share -- more than double macOS's 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers show Windows losing 4.28%, down... Read more ›
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Nvidia has begun rolling out a beta feature that automatically compiles game shaders while a PC is idle. It won't eliminate shader compilation the first time a game runs, but Ars Technica reports it could help reduce those repeated wait times. From the report: Nvidia's new Auto Shader Compilation system promises to "reduc[e] the frequency of game runtime compilation after driver updates" for users running Nvidia's GeForce Game Ready Driver... Read more ›
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Even on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, astronauts apparently still have to deal with broken Microsoft Outlook. One of the crew members, Reid Wiseman, jokingly reported that he had "two Microsoft Outlooks" and neither worked. 404 Media reports: On April 1, four astronauts from the U.S. and Canada embarked on a 10-day flight to loop around the moon. Spotted by VGBees podcast host Niki Grayson on the NASA... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in... Read more ›
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AmiMoJo shares a report from Phoronix: Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options. The 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 was announced at $83.75 USD for those... Read more ›
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IBM and Arm are teaming up to let Arm-based software run on IBM Z mainframes. Network World reports: The two companies plan to work on three things: building virtualization tools so Arm software can run on IBM platforms; making sure Arm applications meet the security and data residency rules that regulated industries must follow; and creating common technology layers so enterprises have more software options across both platforms, IBM said... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% "fuel and logistics" surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher. The fees take effect on April 17 for customers of the company's Fulfillment by Amazon service -- which is used by many of the independent sellers... Read more ›
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