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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it's a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with several verification methods with varying degrees of heavy-handedness.
"The most lightweight way is with something like
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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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Tapbots recently launched Pastebot 3, the newest version of its popular clipboard management software. Like prior versions of Pastebot, Pastebot 3 records everything you copy so that it's easy to find and paste when needed. You can store links and other content that you often paste, and organize the snippets by category in Custom Pastebins. There are also rule-based Smart Pastebins for automatic organization, like every link or image copied... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg is doing a big AI public relations push. It's unclear if it will move the needle. So why not try cold, hard cash? Read more ›
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Most tech giants have been raising their AI capex forecasts. Microsoft is an outlier. Read more ›
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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Safari Technology Preview 249 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, Animations, CSS, Editing, Forms, HTML, JavaScript, Media, Rendering, Spatial Web, Web API, Web Audio, Web Inspector, WebAssembly, WebDriver,... Read more ›
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The technology available to filmmakers is improving dramatically, but there's a big backlash brewing around the use of generative AI Read more ›
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Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal hinted there's always a chance of Tom Hardy and Tom Holland could meet up. Read more ›
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Google has dismantled the original AlphaFold team, according to Financial Times (paywalled), reassigning many researchers to Gemini and Isomorphic Labs. Several other key members, including Nobel laureate John Jumper, left for Anthropic. Engadget reports: AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the... Read more ›
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Nearly a year after debuting on Friday Night Baseball, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is helping Apple rethink live sports production with new camera angles at the MLS All-Star Game. Read more ›
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Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […] Read more ›
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Я добавил в Quince AVX2, FMA и немного unsafe. По всем красивым схемам торговая VM после этого должна была полететь.Она не полетела…Сначала SIMD проиграл памяти. Потом кольцевым буферам. Затем выяснилось, что сама VM съедает часть ускорения. А в конце оказалось, что CI уверенно показывал результаты кода, который процессор вообще не исполнял.Туториал на моих ошибках о том, как правильно внедрять SIMD без веры в чудесные х4. Читать далее Read more ›
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Представьте LLM-агента, который читает торговые сигналы из публичных источников, анализирует их и принимает решение покупать/продавать токены. Каждый день он управляет миллионами долларов. Такие агенты встречаются везде: в Discord, Twitter, Telegram, на собственных серверах компаний.Проблема? Как и большинство LLM-систем в production, они работают на открытых моделях - LLaMA, Mistral и т.д.Открытая модель означает одно: атакующий может скачать её веса и локально оптимизировать адверсариальную атаку через гр Read more ›
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RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that "prices are going to go up" on the company's products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week […] Read more ›
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A Pew Research Center survey found that for the first time more Americans support than oppose all-day cellphone bans in schools. Read more ›
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IPO-bound fintech company InCred Holdings’ lending tech arm InCred Financial Services (InCred Finance) said that it reported a consolidated net… Read more ›
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Here is a weekly selection of Android wallpapers created by our readers and members of the Android Authority team! Read more ›
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The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer. Read more ›
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Money has a way of revealing what headlines often don’t. Over the past 12 hours, the biggest venture checks flowed to companies building AI infrastructure and enterprise technology rather than the next consumer sensation. If today’s funding activity is any ... Read more ›
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"General Motors has been pulling a Tim Cook and boosting its software and subscription business," reports Business Insider. During the automaker's Tuesday earnings call, executives said they're increasingly leaning on software subscriptions like OnStar and Super Cruise to generate high-margin recurring revenue long after customers buy their vehicles. GM says OnStar brought in about $800 million in the second quarter, while Super Cruise revenue grew about 70% year over year.... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader BeaverCleaver shares a report from the BBC: The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on April 11, 1952, following multiple-engine failure shortly... Read more ›
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Northrop Grumman has launched a private satellite-servicing mission to attach life-extending "jetpacks" to aging communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. "It's the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep spacecraft running as long as possible," reports Phys.org. From the report: Launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman's mission robotic vehicle -- dubbed MRV -- and its jetpacks will spend the next year angling into... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Verisign is finally bringing web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting. Verisign says the .web top-level domain has finally been delegated into the DNS root, clearing the way for public registrations later in 2026. Until now, consumers could not buy normal working .web domains, despite the extension attracting a record $135 million winning bid in 2016. The launch could make .web one of the more... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: It's rare that cancerous tumors can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumors among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The discovery represents the first known transmissible cancer in fish and one of very few transmissible cancers ever found, reported the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Julie... Read more ›
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Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider... Read more ›
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Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid: The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), Yu Deng of the University of Chicago, John Pardon of Stony Brook University and Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto. In the awards' 90-year history,... Read more ›
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Ford will become the first automaker to embed Apple Maps directly into its vehicles, starting with an all-electric midsize pickup built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform. "The pickup -- with Ford testing preproduction models on roads now -- is expected to start at $30,000 when it comes to market in 2027," reports the Detroit Free Press. "Ford has said several other EVs off that platform will follow, including... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Many gamers have been lamenting Sony's recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision. In a social media thread Thursday morning, Piscatella shared insights into Circana's tracking data on physical game sales in the U.S.... Read more ›
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Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video, adding a new "Games" tab where Prime members can play titles like "Hogwarts Legacy," "EA Sports FC 26," "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle," "Clue," and "Taboo." The games will be available starting today on Fire TVs in the U.S. and U.K., with additional supported devices and countries in the coming months. TechCrunch reports: With this move, Amazon is... Read more ›
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