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The UK regulator Ofcom fined 4chan nearly $700,000 (520,000 pounds) for failing to implement age checks and address illegal content risks under the Online Safety Act, but the platform mocked the penalty and signaled it won't pay. A lawyer representing the company responded with an AI-generated cartoon image of a hamster, writing in a follow-up post on X: "In the only country in which 4chan operates, the United States, it is breaking no law and indeed its conduct is expressly protected by the First Amendment
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Осенью 2025 года заработал новый закон о персданных. Ввели новые требования и штрафы, достигающие 15 000 000 рублей.И если в ноябре того года «письма счастья» были единичными, то теперь РКН запустил автоматический бот и проверки стали массовыми. Я как юрист уже успел насмотреться всякого от РКН. Давайте на примере реальных предписаний разберем, как проверить себя и свою компанию, чтобы не влететь. Читать далее Read more ›
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Copenhagen- and Stockholm-based Atech has raised $800K in pre-seed funding to rethink how hardware gets built, closing a round led by Nordic Makers and Emblem, with participation from Lovable, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund, alongside angel backing from Lovable CEO Anton Osika. The company is developing what it describes as […] Read more ›
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We consulted preparedness experts and WIRED's team of testers for the essential gear to keep on hand in case of wildfires, earthquakes, and lord knows what else. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Надя Скребец, я DevRel СВОЙ Тех.Обычно здесь рассказывают про архитектурные победы, эпичные факапы или магию Kubernetes. Это круто, но за каждой строчкой кода и каждым релизом стоит человек. Сегодня я хочу показать вам CTO «Свой Банк» — Максима Гречихо.Для многих позиция технического директора — это вершина карьеры, «финальный босс» в мире ИТ. Но какой вид открывается с этой вершины? Чтобы это выяснить, я буквально зажала Максима... Read more ›
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In the early weeks of the Covid pandemic, in those days when public spaces emptied and hospitals filled up, I used to see this magazine cover from 2017 being passed around social media. The story was a familiar one to me, because I was the one who had written it: Read more ›
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Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 29, 2026 — and the AI power struggle just got personal. Elon Musk is on the stand, accusing OpenAI of betraying its safety mission; China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion AI acquisition; and Google is ... Read more ›
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Motorola introduced the Motorola Signature earlier this year in two colors - Pantone Martini Olive and Pantone Carbon. Now, a new leak suggests the brand will introduce a third colorway, which might be called House of Moto Indigo. Reliable leakster Evan Blass shared a bunch of images of this new colorway, revealing its design. Motorola Signature House of Moto Indigo version's leaked images The difference between this colorway and the... Read more ›
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Framework has just launched a new graphics module featuring the RTX 5070 mobile 12GB, and it costs a cool $1,200, representing a 72% raise in pricing over the 8GB variant, that's $699. Both GPUs are identical apart from the memory capacity (and bandwidth), but Framework says pricing is out of its control. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Светлана Долгополова. Я менеджер бизнес-приложений в Ингосстрахе и уже несколько лет отвечаю за сопровождение систем и сервисов, используемых в нашей компании.Моя зона ответственности – стабильность работы сервисов на проде. В 2025 году наша команда техподдержки столкнулась с ростом нагрузки в связи с увеличением количества поддерживаемых сервисов, а следовательно, и с ростом заявок.Ниже – мой опыт участия во внедрении методов улучшения наших внутренних процессов работы с заявками... Read more ›
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Привет, я Дмитрий, занимаюсь развитием LLMaaS. Перед нашей командой встала задача подбора «средней» языковой модели с примерно 9B параметров для обслуживания клиентских задач: оперативные чат-боты, саммаризация документов, генерация кода и аналитика на длинных контекстах. В таких сценариях критичны не только качество ответов, но и скорость, и стоимость инференса — ведь модель должна работать на одном GPU и при этом выдерживать заданный поток запросов.Классические подходы — взять проверенную плотную модель в Read more ›
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Startup Fence uses blockchain technology and tokenization in the background to automate processes that many asset managers still rely on manual workflows. Read more ›
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«Давай на 1-on-1 обсудим задачи, блокеры и что планируешь делать дальше».Даже не звучит как нормальная рабочая встреча. А на практике часто получается полчаса нуднейшего созвона, где сотрудник молчит, руководитель говорит 80% времени, а после у обоих остаётся ощущение, что прогуляться вместо этой встречи было бы полезнее.Про прогулку — это, кстати, справедливо для подавляющего большинства встреч. Но 1-on-1 всё‑таки можно сделать чуть лучше.Для руководителей IT‑команд, которые сами проводят 1-on-1 и хотят... Read more ›
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Почему в компаниях с вежливыми и адекватными людьми бывает невыносимо работать — и как это распознать до того, как стало поздно. Читать далее Read more ›
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The electrician who retired two years ago sits at his nephew's wedding while lifelong friends ask if he's "still doing that electrical thing," and in that moment discovers why being unseen by those who should know you best creates a loneliness that no amount of solitude can match. Read more ›
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Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two recently discussed the upcoming game's price, and while it won't give us that all important figure, it stressed that its "job is to charge way, way, way less of the value delivery". Read more Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would surpass most countries' defense budgets and rank among the... Read more ›
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CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging battery that can go from 10 percent to 98 percent in under seven minutes," reports Interesting Engineering. From the report: The launches were made during a 90-minute event in Beijing ahead of the Beijing Auto Show, where automakers are expected to showcase next-generation EVs and... Read more ›
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A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was... Read more ›
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Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media,"... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as... Read more ›
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Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport, one that requires rapid decisions and precision execution, the project's leader said. Ace did so by employing high-speed perception, AI-based control and a state-of-the-art robotic system. There have... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump, has "frozen" all... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone --... Read more ›
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