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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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Elon Musk faced another day of cross-examination. Jared Birchall, Musk's wealth manager, was the next witness called in the blockbuster OpenAI trial. Read more ›
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Apple is rumored to be getting really serious about Ultra branding in the coming months, with the iPhone Fold expected to actually be launched as the iPhone Ultra. There will also be a MacBook Ultra, and a new pair of AirPods Ultra. These will basically be the AirPods Pro 3, but with added cameras. The cameras will be used by Siri - that is, the new, revamped, AI-ified Siri powered... Read more ›
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New Chinese iron battery design could deliver decade-long lifespan while cutting reliance on expensive lithium. Read more ›
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Satellites enable us to study the world in a way that is genuinely helpful in areas where we normally can't or don't go. That's how they helped prove this myth. Read more ›
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Google built the AI search surfaces displacing travel’s organic traffic. Now it’s bringing travel advertisers into the system that powers them — and the price is the keyword control paid search has run on for decades. Read more ›
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Samsung and Google have spent years leading the U.S. foldable market while quietly ignoring its biggest flaw. Motorola just walked in and made that very hard to ignore. Read more ›
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1X releases new Neo Home Robot production video that puts the robots to work — building themselves. Read more ›
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A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw dubbed "Copy Fail" can let a local, unprivileged attacker gain root access on major Linux distributions, with researchers claiming the bug affects kernels shipped since 2017. "The POC exploit works out of the box today, but a future version that can escape from containers like Docker is promised soon," writes Slashdot reader tylerni7. "Technical details are available here." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shares a report... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was […] Read more ›
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Докатились. Я хотел писать про фейлы менеджеров, но теперь пишу про целое государство.Все мысли исключительно мои. Для улучшения стилистики был использован собственный мозг. Сойти с ума с автором Read more ›
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Google's Gemini can now easily generate files for you. Supported formats are: Workspace files (Docs, Sheets and Slides), .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .csv, LaTeX, Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF) and Markdown (MD). This feature is now available globally to all Gemini users. All you need is a prompt and Gemini will generate the file you want. Google says this new feature "will allow you to easily move your work... Read more ›
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В конце апреля 2026 года вокруг Турции возникла довольно типичная ситуация: сначала прозвучало громкое заявление про возможные «20 лет без налогов на иностранные доходы», после чего это мгновенно превратилось в десятки пересказов в Telegram и YouTube, а через несколько дней люди уже начали массово задавать один и тот же вопрос — стоит ли срочно открывать ИП в Турции, пока это “не прикрыли”.Проблема здесь в том, что в одном обсуждении смешались... Read more ›
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Apple held its earnings call for the second fiscal quarter (first calendar quarter) of 2026 today after announcing its best March quarter ever. Apple saw revenue of $111.2 billion with double-digit growth across every geographic segment and across every product category. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple CFO Kevan Parekh provided insight into iPhone sales, Mac sales, RAM supply issues, and more. We've rounded up the most interesting takeaways from... Read more ›
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Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars. As its leaders made the rounds among tech’s largest investors, they started to hear an unfamiliar message: No, thanks. Many investment firms usually capable of writing the largest checks into startups, including Iconiq and other late-stage tech investors, had just invested billions of dollars into OpenAI... Read more ›
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AI coding startup Cursor, which recently agreed to a potential $60 billion acquisition by SpaceX, last month hit $2.7 billion in annualized revenue, 14 times higher than that revenue pace a year ago, The Information reported Thursday. Some investors expected annualized revenue to hit more ... Read more ›
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DeepSeek on Friday launched V4, its highly anticipated new series of open-source AI models with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities. This is the first new-generation model that DeepSeek released since its R1 model became a global sensation in January 2025. DeepSeek announced two new ... Read more ›
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AI startups are struggling to access Nvidia graphics processing units as Microsoft and other cloud providers divert GPU stockpiles to their internal teams or bigger cloud customers, leaving smaller firms scrambling for the remaining servers at higher prices. The supply crunch is impacting well-funded AI startups that have raised money from Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and other major investment firms, according to founders and investors... Read more ›
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The Canadian AI lab Cohere will acquire the German AI lab Aleph Alpha for an undisclosed price, the companies said Friday. Schwarz Group, the German investment firm that is one of Aleph Alpha’s biggest backers, will also invest $600 million in Cohere’s upcoming Series E funding round, the ... Read more ›
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Intel shares jumped 25% on Friday in the wake of the company’s first quarter earnings report, which showed the all-important data center and AI revenue rising 22%, lifting overall revenue 7%. Intel projected second quarter revenue would rise as much as 14.7%. Intel, once the leading chip maker, ... Read more ›
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The Chinese government is planning to restrict tech firms from receiving funding from the U.S. without prior approval, as part of Beijing’s response to Meta Platform’s acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, Bloomberg reported. Officials have told some tech firms in recent weeks that they should ... Read more ›
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Meta and Amazon announced a deal on Friday for Meta to use Amazon’s Graviton chips. The deal, which a spokesperson said will total several billion dollars over multiple years, comes as Meta has been spending heavily on chips and cloud storage as it tries to turn itself into an AI powerhouse. ... Read more ›
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Last year, Pat Gelsinger found himself pondering a thorny, existential question: What should he do with his life after Intel? The chipmaker had unceremoniously ousted him in December 2024, and shortly after, his wife Linda gave him a firm nudge. “You’re not done yet,” she told him, as Gelsinger recalls it. So Gelsinger considered roles in government and private equity. Neither seemed right. Instead, he decided to embark on an... Read more ›
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Google has agreed to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, deepening a multi-pronged relationship that also includes a major expansion of Anthropic’s access to AI servers. The search engine company, an early backer of Anthropic, will initially invest $10 billion in at a $350 billion valuation, ... Read more ›
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