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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the world, tech leaders, educators, and nonprofits to collaborate on practical solutions that expand access to educational tools while strengthening protections for children in digital environments (Day 2 WH summary). The Times begins:
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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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If you’ve looked around lately, you’ve probably noticed something. The way people work, and the kinds of jobs they hold, look very different from what they did even ten years ago. Friends are switching industries every few years. Cousins are freelancing across three or four different gigs at once. People in their forties are going ... Read more Read more ›
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Private markets giants are more bullish than ever on their data center bets. After all, with a $900 billion opportunity, there's room for everyone. Read more ›
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A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations. Read more ›
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Ina Garten's blueberry-ricotta breakfast cake is super easy to make. It's light, delicious, and will delight your entire family on Mother's Day. Read more ›
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ВступлениеПрошло время и на мой взгляд я довёл игру до состояния в котором её можно пихать в "Ранний доступ" и начал искать и читать информацию о поддержке инди разработчиков, сделал сайт и занялся серверной частью.PS Буду рад любым людям, кто захочет поиграть и помочь с плей тестами т.к. в одну каску протестировать всё сложновато, да и взгляд замыливается на очевидных вещах. Поиграть уже можно, сервер онлайн.Кстати о сайтах вот они... Read more ›
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Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more. Read more ›
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Buying from Harbor Freight can feel like a roll of the dice, especially with mechanics tools, which are typically a lot more expensive when bought elsewhere. Read more ›
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A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic's Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price. Read more ›
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Pet tech feels like anxiety with Wi-Fi, but smart feeders, trackers, cameras, and health alerts become harder to mock when cats start acting weird. Read more ›
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Testimony at Musk v Altman trial is painting vivid new portraits of the two of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. Read more ›
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История одной отладки и перехода в серию: как лишний трансформатор портил полезный сигнал с технологией HiPoE и что мы с этим сделали. Читать далее Read more ›
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Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996. Read more ›
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Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals about us. Read more ›
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The Fitbit Air is an excellent companion to a Pixel Watch 4, but Google missed the ball on a few things. Read more ›
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The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw. Read more ›
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GameStop is reportedly preparing a potential offer for eBay, an unusually ambitious move given that eBay's roughly $46 billion market value is nearly four times GameStop's. Reuters reports: GameStop is preparing an offer for eBay as CEO Ryan Cohen pursues plans to boost the struggling videogame retailer's market value more than tenfold, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Shares of eBay, which has a market capitalization of about $46... Read more ›
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The once-a-year free comic book giveaway "is splitting in two," according to a local news report. Launched in 2002 by Diamond Comic Distributor, comic book giants like Marvel and DC have historically participated together. But things changed after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankrupt in 2025, "leaving other companies to swoop in and pick up where Diamond left off." The rights to the "Free Comic Book Day" brand were sold to... Read more ›
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Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it's roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two years... Read more ›
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This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients. But... Read more ›
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Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug-of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price... Read more ›
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"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet... Read more ›
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Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company —... Read more ›
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"Nuclear AI startup" Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, "three times the amount typically consumed by New York City." Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes — artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections —... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to... Read more ›
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