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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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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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While society assumes midlife singles are broken or afraid, the truth is far more radical: they've discovered that genuine solitude feels so fulfilling that settling for lukewarm companionship would actually be the lonelier choice. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cord Cutters News: Sony has notified owners of its recent BRAVIA television models that significant changes to the built-in TV Guide for its OTA TV antenna users and related menu features will take effect starting in late May 2026. The update affects a range of premium sets released between 2023 and 2025, marking another instance of feature adjustments for older smart TV hardware... Read more ›
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If Governor Janet Mills signs it, it will block construction of new data centers over 20 MW. Read more ›
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For those who live on the bleeding edge, a fresh Canary build is now available to download. Read more ›
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They've traded small talk for self-discovery, finding that an evening alone with their thoughts delivers insights no crowded room ever could—and psychology confirms they're not missing out, they're tuning in. Read more ›
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Consumer Reports takes several metrics into account when determining vehicle safety, leading to some popular models not making the publication's safety list. Read more ›
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Midi Health is using AI to train providers and scale care for menopausal women. Here's how it built its own chatbot and reshaped operations. Read more ›
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The person who can walk into any room and make everyone feel comfortable often can't name a single thing they want for dinner. Both the social skill and the personal deficit developed from the same childhood pattern of outward-focused emotional surveillance. Read more ›
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Salesforce has launched a tool that lets its customers connect other companies’ AI agents with their Salesforce data, an executive said on LinkedIn. The tool, known as a hosted Model Context Protocol server, shows how Salesforce is finding a way to generate revenue from customers using outside ... Read more ›
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Fintech’s IPL Playbook Fintech giants are reclaiming the IPL ad space in 2026. Unlike the growth-at-all-costs frenzy of 2021-22, fintech… Read more ›
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The black-and-white Mickey-Mouse-with-a-gun game backs up its signature art style with a surprisingly mature detective yarn. Read more ›
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more ›
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Jason Blum said he thinks AI-generated content is more likely to compete with scrolling on social media, rather than watching a movie. Read more ›
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Children who watched their parents suppress conflict at the dinner table didn't learn deception. They learned that love means protecting others from uncomfortable truths, and they became adults who confuse withholding with kindness. Read more ›
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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73% разработчиков сообщают о симптомах выгорания. При этом программисты выгорают совсем не так, как представители ряда других профессий. Если врачи и учителя страдают от эмоционального перегруза, от чужих проблем, которые приходится пропускать через себя, то айтишники — от постоянного ощущения невидимости собственного труда. В этой статье мы не будем зацикливаться на важности тайм-менеджмента, хобби и отказа от думскроллинга (хотя это тоже важно). Вместо этого посмотрим, какие факторы действительно запускаю Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1761 on April 15 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group of Russian government hackers have hijacked thousands of home and small business routers around the world as part of an ongoing campaign aimed at redirecting victim's internet traffic to steal their passwords and access tokens, security researchers and government authorities warned on Tuesday. [...] The hacking group targeted unpatched routers made by MikroTik and TP-Link using previously disclosed vulnerabilities according... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends raw data back to Earth for later analysis, the satellite performed the computation itself while still in orbit. The system... Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from the New York Post: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble and how easy it is to find repairability information, gave Apple a C-minus in laptop repairability and a D-minus in cell phone repairability.... Read more ›
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Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a large virtual screen in visionOS. It supports up to 4K resolution and will let you dynamically adjust the curve of the display. The Mac Observer reports: Steam Link does not support VR titles in this beta, and Valve clearly states that the app is limited to 2D game streaming,... Read more ›
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Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt's developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. "I didn't receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings," Mounir Idrassi, VeraCrypt's developer, told 404 Media. From the report: VeraCrypt is an open-source tool for... Read more ›
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Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang's leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The model accepts voice, text and image inputs, but produces... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternative source), as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran's Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Union, told the FT on Wednesday that Iran... Read more ›
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Starting May 20th, Amazon will stop Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier. After that date, those devices will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content." Owners can still read content already on the device, but if an affected device is reset or deregistered after the cutoff, it can't be re-registered. The Verge reports: The complete list of affected... Read more ›
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A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest circumstantial candidate yet for being Satoshi Nakamoto. The report citing overlaps in writing style, ideology, technical background, and old posts that outlined key parts of Bitcoin years before its launch. Carreyrou is a renowned investigative journalist and author, best known for exposing the massive fraud at Theranos while at the Wall Street... Read more ›
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