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AleRunner writes: "China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades," reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that "China's decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis spurred by Trump's war against Iran," and that "Chinese exports of solar equipment to Cuba skyrocketed from about $5 mi
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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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The customer is technically in charge of booking decisions, but social media and AI systems are increasingly making the decisions for them. Read more ›
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Back in the hazy days of the early 90s, Nintendo used puppet versions of Fox McCloud, Slippy, Falco and Peppy to promote its then-upcoming release of SNES classic Star Fox (or Starwing, if you must). After the campaign had run its course, however, the puppets faded from the public eye (though, not from our memories). But, what actually happened to them? Read more Read more ›
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A Marine unit recently struggled to confront enemy drones in realistic training, underscoring gaps as the Corps races to form new counter-drone teams. Read more ›
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In a fun little piece of marketing, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and director Destin Daniel Cretton add notes to the pages. Read more ›
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Federal regulators have taken Wisconsin to court, turning up the heat in a widening fight over who gets to police… Continue reading CFTC Sues Wisconsin in Escalating Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation Read more ›
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For Uber, this is bait to drive more sign-ups to its paid subscription service. For Expedia, it's an incremental channel. For hoteliers, another distribution tax of sorts. Read more ›
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В 2026 для VPN нужна маскировка. А нет никакой лучшей маскировки, чем уже работающий легитимный сервис. Силами NGINX-streams и HTTP2 это сделать довольно легко. Читать далее Read more ›
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A Dorsey-funded, AI-free reboot of Vine just launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Read more ›
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A metric tracking U.S. spot demand has flipped red just as onchain data shows realized losses surging to $5.97 billion. Read more ›
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Montréal-based payments firm sells US hospitality business for nearly $350 million less than it paid. Read more ›
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Save 25% on this Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, on sale at Woot for a limited time only. Read more ›
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В программировании (как и в написании HDL кода и подобных профессиях) есть две школы мысли: чистолисты (строят свою архитектуру с чистого листа и пишут так чтобы поменьше отлаживать) и чистильщики (отлаживают что есть, дополняя мусором из интернета, чтобы поменьше писать). На это накладывается менеджмент, который пытается комбинировать чистолистов и чистильщиков, иногда неправильным образом, то есть ставит чистолистов править то, что налабали чистильщики. Это происходит потому, что чистильщики постоянно выг Read more ›
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While the world celebrates quick thinkers and smooth talkers, the most intelligent people have discovered something counterintuitive: they've grown quieter, slower to respond, and surprisingly comfortable admitting ignorance—and science reveals why this paradox might be the truest sign of a brilliant mind. Read more ›
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Uber has unveiled hotel booking, in-car snack delivery, and a wave of new travel features at its annual event. Read more ›
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President Trump has suggested there's 'tremendous interest' in the soon-to-be-released alien files. So how can you access them? And, more, importantly, how can you access them without leaving your data open to prying eyes? Read more ›
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Elon Musk is taking on OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, and has had some choice words to say on the opening day. 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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alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduces heat generation and power consumption while enabling instantaneous frequency switching within the several GHz range. This breakthrough is expected to Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this year's energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes. [...] Around 80% of the trapped oil was destined for... Read more ›
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