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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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Sydney Stoner was dismissed by doctors despite having signs of colon cancer. She lied and said she had blood in her stool to get a colonoscopy. Read more ›
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Several teasers later, Motorola has finally announced the launch date for the Edge 70 Pro+. The company recently confirmed the phone’s design, color options, and key features. Once launched, the new model will join the Edge 70, Edge 70 Pro, Edge 70 Fusion, and Edge 70 Fusion+ in India. The Motorola Edge 70 Pro+ will debut in India on June 4, the company confirmed in an official X post. While... Read more ›
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My daughter needed independence when she went to college. Even with my background in child development, it was hard for me to let go. Read more ›
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Case renders for the Galaxy S26 FE have surfaced online, revealing its design and possible color options months ahead of its expected October launch. Read more ›
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Yatra Online reported what Chairman Dhruv Shringi called the “most profitable year in the company’s 20-year history,” even as India-Pakistan conflict, the Air India crash and travel disruptions across parts of the Middle East disrupted parts of its business during the fourth quarter. The impact was concentrated primarily in international corporate group travel and meetings, […] Read more ›
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Anthropic illustrates the first months of Mythos Preview, saying it discovered thousands of critical and high-severity bugs. Read more ›
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Tech industry layoffs may be worse at large tech companies than the rest of the IT industry. The New York Times argues those layoffs have now shifted the culture at Big Tech companies, after interviewing more than two dozen of their workers. "Cooperation and collegiality are on the wane; chumminess between employees and managers has cooled as mutual suspicion pervades their relationships; and a throbbing economic anxiety infects almost every... Read more ›
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Каждый, кто погружается в тему личной продуктивности, рано или поздно приходит к идее единого инструмента. Одно приложение для задач, заметок, планов, целей, конспектов и базы знаний. Звучит как мечта. Выглядит как идеальная система. В этой статье я расскажу, чем опасна ставка на один «божественный» инструмент вроде Obsidian, и как децентрализованный подход неожиданно вернул мне гибкость и снизил прокрастинацию. Читать далее Read more ›
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Vilnius-based Backoffice has raised a €150,000 investment from Baltic venture funds FIRSTPICK and Lost Astronaut to support its expansion into European markets. The company develops operations management software for restaurants, cafes, and hotels, offering tools for shift scheduling, payroll tracking, work-hour management, and staff communication. The platform is intended to replace the mix of spreadsheets […] Read more ›
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Copilot is getting a dockable sidebar in Windows 11 that works similarly to Gemini in Chrome, an approach that Microsoft already tried and scrapped. Read more ›
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Milwaukee has built a strong reputation on the back of the quality of its products. Many of the company's hand tools are fan favorites for this reason. Read more ›
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Before Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took his great big American road trip, Mikah Meyer did it first. Meyer is a travel writer and blogger. In 2019, he became the first person to visit all of the National Park Service sites in a single journey — over 400 in total. The full list includes national monuments, […] Read more ›
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John Lennon's last interview — just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980 — has become a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, debuting Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. In a new interview with the Associated Press, Soderbergh defends the film's limited use of AI to visualize concepts from that two-hour interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Soderbergh was resolved to let the audio play. He could... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The World Health Organization declared on Saturday that the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was a global health emergency. The announcement was made a day after Africa's leading public health authority reported that an outbreak in a province in the northeast of the country was linked to dozens of suspected deaths.... Read more ›
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The CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading and market manipulation in prediction markets, using AI tools, blockchain tracing, and other surveillance systems to flag suspicious bets. It's also monitoring activity by U.S. traders accessing offshore platforms like Polymarket through VPNs. Wired reports: [T]he Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees prediction markets, wants you to know that it's watching very, very closely. The agency is searching... Read more ›
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Microsoft is testing long-requested Windows 11 customization options, including a resizable taskbar, smaller taskbar buttons, and a more configurable Start menu that lets users reduce recommended content. BleepingComputer reports: Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8493, the taskbar can now be configured to use smaller buttons and moved to the bottom, top, left, or right side of the screen. "The ability to move the taskbar to the top or... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Going back to grad school has long been the Plan B of young professionals who aspire to climb higher in their careers or struggle to get promoted in a tough job market. New data show that getting a master's degree isn't the guarantee it used to be. The unemployment rate for workers under 35 with a master's degree has... Read more ›
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After three weeks of testimony, which was covered extensively here on Slashdot, a U.S. jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding that he waited too long to bring his claims that the company betrayed its nonprofit mission. Reuters reports: The trial had widely been seen as a critical moment for the future of OpenAI and artificial intelligence generally, both in how it should be... Read more ›
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Meta is expected to begin cutting about 8,000 jobs this week as it pours more money into AI infrastructure and looks to "offset" other investments, with additional layoffs reportedly possible later this year. According to CNBC, the morale has worsened inside the company. "Internally, there's an emerging sense of dread across wide swaths of the company," the report says, citing current and former Meta employees. "That's in part because more... Read more ›
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Nintendo is trying to secure a touchscreen-specific monster-catching patent that could be relevant to Palworld Mobile. Japan's patent office has initially rejected the application for lacking an inventive step over prior art, but the company could appeal or amend the claims. Games Fray reports: The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has now made a new monster-catching patent application by Nintendo public. Patent Application No. 2026-019762 covers monster-catching of the kind already... Read more ›
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A researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day dubbed MiniPlasma, which BleepingComputer confirmed can grant SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 11 systems. The researcher claims the bug is effectively a still-exploitable version of a 2020 flaw Microsoft said it had fixed. From the report: At the time, the flaw was assigned the CVE-2020-17103 identifier and reportedly fixed in December 2020. "After... Read more ›
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The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which could let it query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a commercial database. 404 Media reports: "The FBI has a crucial need for accessible LPRs to provide a diverse and reliable range of collections across the United States. This data should be available across major highways and in... Read more ›
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