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New submitter haroldbasset writes: Canada's Immigration Department rejected an applicant because the duties of her current job did not match the Canadian work experience she had claimed, but the Department's AI assistant had invented that work experience. She has been working in Canada as a health scientist -- she has a Ph.D. in the immunology of aging -- but the AI genius instead described her as "wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting." "
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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 deal brings a regulated transfer agent into the Bullish stack, expanding the firm's end-to-end tokenization capabilities. Read more ›
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Sony hasn’t said a word yet, but the internet already has pictures of it’s upcoming headphones. Actor Damson Idris was spotted wearing an unreleased pair of Sony over-ear headphones in New York City ahead of the Met Gala, giving the world its first real look at what’s reportedly called the WH-1000XX or ‘The ColleXion’. Sony […] Read more ›
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AI is making digital advertising easier to run. It is also making fraud easier to scale. Read more ›
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My mother, on a phone call last spring, asked me three questions in roughly two minutes. The first was whether I was eating properly, because she’d seen a photo and thought I looked thin. The second was whether I’d thought about what I was going to do with my life now that the restaurants were ... Read more Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр. Меня зовут Кирилл Комиссаров, я работаю в IT с 2013 года, последние несколько лет — тимлидом. Сейчас руковожу командой разработки в юните саппорта в Авито.Поговорим про манипуляции: что это, почему они работают, чем они плохи и как с ними жить — так, чтобы не вредить ни себе, ни окружающим.Я не психолог. Я тимлид, который много лет наблюдает, как одни и те же сценарии повторяются в код-ревью, на дейли,... Read more ›
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Temenos has expanded its AWS SaaS offering while extending its banking technology work with FAB in Saudi Arabia. Read more ›
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Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union be recognized as joint representatives, with 98 percent […] Read more ›
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Focus Entertainment has announced that its hit grimdark third-person shooter Space Marine 2 is getting a third year of post-launch support. Read more Read more ›
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Last month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that OpenAI was developing an AI-agent smartphone slated for mass production in 2028. Now, Kuo suggests the timeline may have been accelerated and has also shared some early specifications of the device. According to Kuo, the OpenAI smartphone is now expected to enter mass production in the first half of 2027. The analyst attributes the accelerated timeline to the growing AI phone market, along... Read more ›
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Neuralink director Shivon Zilis is the mother of four of Elon Musk's children and an ex-OpenAI board member. Learn more about the Canadian-born VC. Read more ›
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Как AI меняют карьерный лифт в разработке: почему проблема не в исчезновении сеньоров, а в том, что рынок всё хуже выращивает новых инженеров. Разбираем автоматизацию нижнего слоя задач, AI-потолок джунов, контур ответственности и риск разрыва воспроизводства специалистов. Читать далее Read more ›
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В марте Минцифры опубликовало проект закона «Об основах государственного регулирования сфер применения технологий искусственного интеллекта». В апреле документ смягчили под давлением бизнеса (на портале regulation.gov.ru поступило 428 предложений от более чем 150 экспертов. Из них учтено полностью - 30, частично - 128), а 23 апреля Совет по кодификации при президенте под руководством Павла Крашенинникова отклонил его с формулировкой «юридически пустая, хоть и модно звучащая инициатива». Тем не менее Мишусти Read more ›
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Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application. Read more ›
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An enthusiast has taken the time to recreate the Apple Lisa, the first commercial PC with a GUI, with an FPGA board. Read more ›
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Microsoft's latest report says even more big changes are coming to AI in the workplace. Read more ›
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Researchers say infrasound -- low-frequency vibrations from things like pipes, HVAC systems, and traffic that humans can't consciously hear -- may help explain why some old buildings feel unsettling or "haunted." Rodney Schmaltz, senior author and professor at MacEwan, says: "Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual. In an old building, there is a good chance that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard a dispute over labels on the popular Roundup weed killer, which thousands of people blame for their cancers. How the Supreme Court rules could have implications for tens of thousands of lawsuits against Roundup maker Monsanto, which is now owned by Bayer. The case centers on who decides about warning labels on chemicals: the... Read more ›
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Bay Area homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan is trying to swap a 13-acre Mill Valley property for Anthropic equity instead of cash. He created a LinkedIn page for the home, describing the move as a "diversification play" because he is "under-concentrated in AI investments relative to the importance of AI in the future, and over-concentrated in real estate." A young Anthropic employee, Duncan says, might be "in the exact... Read more ›
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fjo3 writes: The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday that it would exit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (source paywalled; alternative source), or OPEC, along with the wider group of partners known as OPEC+, effective May 1, in what could be a blow to control over prices by the group, long led in practice by Saudi Arabia. The move "reflects the UAE's long-term strategic and economic vision and evolving... Read more ›
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Google has reportedly signed a classified agreement allowing the Pentagon to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." While the deal is said to discourage domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight, it apparently does not give Google the power to block how the government actually uses its models. The Verge reports: The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software's dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed into the Terminal -- not only earnings and asset prices, but... Read more ›
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Apple is adding a new App Store subscription option that lets developers offer lower monthly prices in exchange for a 12-month commitment. "This model will allow developers to offer discounted rates to customers in exchange for more predictable long-term revenue," reports TechCrunch. "This also caters to how many developers have already been marketing their annual subscriptions in their apps." From the report: Often, app developers will display the lower monthly... Read more ›
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Sony is reportedly rolling out a 30-day online check-in requirement for some digital PS4 and PS5 games, meaning players could temporarily lose access if their console does not reconnect to renew the license. Tom's Hardware reports: In the info page of an affected game, you'd see a new validity period and a "remaining time" deadline. At first, this seemed like a software bug, but now PlayStation Support has confirmed its... Read more ›
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Apple's Vision Pro has been used in what's described as the world's first cataract surgery performed with the headset. MacRumors reports: [New York opthalmologist] Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD completed the initial procedure in October 2025 and has since performed hundreds of additional cases using ScopeXR, a surgical platform he co-developed for Apple's mixed reality device. ScopeXR streams live feeds from 3D digital surgical microscopes directly into the Vision Pro,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee -- so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him. His latest project: discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of coffee simply by sending an electrical current through a sample beverage. The results appear in... Read more ›
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