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Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger," passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86.
He became Internet phenomenon after "Chuck Norris Facts" went viral online with such wildly hyperbolic statements as, "Chuck Norris had a staring contest with the sun -- and won," and, "When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push h
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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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B2B manufacturing startup Zetwerk is reportedly looking to raise up to $550 Mn via its initial public offering (IPO) at… Read more ›
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The studio must feel good about its post-'Doomsday'' and 'Secret Wars' world as films now go into 2029. Read more ›
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I was at a café a few weeks ago, waiting for a coffee, and the woman in front of me thanked the barista three times in the space of about thirty seconds. Once when she ordered. Once when she paid. And once when the cup was handed over. It wasn’t performative. She wasn’t trying to ... Read more Read more ›
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In 2005, Barb Trammell gathered some friends for a charity basketball game to raise money for an old historic building in Lansing, Iowa. Abiding by the 1920s women’s 6-on-6 game rules created in her home state and donning the classic “bloomer” uniforms, the exhibition game of “Granny basketball” was a hit with locals. More than […] Read more ›
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"I've NEVER seen Hartsfield Jackson this bad," one local reporter in Atlanta wrote. Read more ›
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The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar states from messing with the "national strategy to achieve global AI dominance." The plan advises […] Read more ›
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ChatGPT ran 50,000 tournament simulations, weighed efficiency ratings, coaching tendencies, and upset history — then asked me something no bracket sheet ever has: do you want to be right, or do you want to win money? Read more ›
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Когда врач ищет клинические рекомендации, ему обычно нужен не весь PDF, а конкретный фрагмент: схема лечения, критерии диагностики, раздел для детей или взрослых, связь с МКБ-10. На этом месте официальный рубрикатор и обычный поиск по документам начинают проигрывать реальному сценарию. В статье разбираю задачу с инженерной точки зрения: почему одного каталога недостаточно, зачем нужны нормализация, версионирование, гибридный поиск, офлайн-кэш и ссылки на источник. На примере клинических рекомендаций Минздр Read more ›
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Six years after the debut of the original model, Apple has officially announced the AirPods Max 2. While the exterior design remains largely unchanged, the second-generation headphones introduce significant internal upgrades aimed at improving audio fidelity and processing power. The core of the update is the integration of the H2 chip, which enables several advanced features: Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC): Apple claims the new model is 1.5x more effective... Read more ›
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E Ink displays have expanded beyond e-readers. They're now used in digital photo frames, smartphones, and even the price tags found on grocery store shelves. VidaBay's Classic Plus NFC E-Ink Fridge Magnet - which looks like a Polaroid photo - features the same low power color E Ink screens used in those electronic price tags, […] Read more ›
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Fortnite's new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you're good enough at the game and win enough "rivalries" in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the world, Epic will give you a free RTX 5080. Read more ›
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The company plans to bundle ChatGPT, the Atlas browser and the Codex coding tool into one, according to a news report. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from CNN: The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of U.S. laws barring exports to that country without a license. Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally; Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven; and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy, were charged with conspiring to violate export... Read more ›
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Huawei is launching the Enjoy 90 Pro Max in China on March 23, and the company already started teasing it alongside the Enjoy 90 Plus earlier this month. Today, a new rumor from the prolific Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo purportedly reveals the Enjoy 90 Pro Max's battery capacity: 8,500 mAh. Huawei Enjoy 90 Pro Max official image That is the typical value which will... Read more ›
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Just when I'd decided to grab the MacBook Air M5, something came along that made the Air M4 much better value. Read more ›
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The Starship rocket could take on a central role in the Artemis missions, propelling astronauts to lunar orbit and landing them on the surface. Read more ›
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Famous designer Jonathan Ive has created The Clock, a bedside clock that uses light instead of an analog mechanism to tell the time 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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sdinfoserv writes: After running a Reddit clone for a couple of months, the Digg beta shut down again. The website is a splash memo from CEO Justin Mezzell, blaming the latest "Hard Reset" on bots. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different," writes Mezzell. "We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team..." The decision was made... Read more ›
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AI services may not stay cheap for long, as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are currently subsidizing usage to rapidly grow market share. As these companies move toward profitability and potential IPOs, Axios reports that investors will likely push them to increase prices and improve margins. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Flashback: Silicon Valley has seen this movie before. The so-called "millennial lifestyle subsidy" meant VC... Read more ›
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Iranian drone strikes shut down a major helium facility in Qatar, removing about 30% of global helium supply and raising concerns for the semiconductor industry, which relies on the gas for chip fabrication. "QatarEnergy declared force majeure on existing contracts on March 4, freeing it from supply obligations to customers," reports Tom's Hardware. The industry outlet Gasworld reports that no imminent restart is planned. From the report: Helium consultant Phil... Read more ›
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Meta plans to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram direct messages by May 8, 2026. "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months," says Meta. "Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp." The Hacker News reports: The American company first began testing E2EE for Instagram direct messages... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A top Senate administrator on Monday gave aides the green light to use three artificial intelligence chatbots for official work, a reflection of how widespread the use of the products has become in workplaces around the globe. The chief information officer for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the chamber's computers as well as security, said in a one-page memo... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader tsuliga writes: Two new episodes of Doctor Who that were previously lost have been found. The original Doctor Who episodes were wiped or deleted by the BBC because they were not aware of the future use of re-runs of these shows. Ninety-five of the 253 episodes from the program's first six years are currently missing. How many more episodes are out there waiting to be rediscovered? "The... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. Top executives... Read more ›
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Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It's plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives." But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon — and is suing Texas over its ban on cell-cultivated... Read more ›
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"A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli: According to research cited in Foxit's State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end users say AI tools make them feel more productive, the actual time savings shrink dramatically once people account for reviewing and validating AI-generated output. The survey of 1,000 desk-based workers and... Read more ›
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