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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon's effort to "punish" Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional rights. "Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government
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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 Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said autonomous agents will need crypto-based trust systems to transact across the open internet. Read more ›
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Basel, Switzerland – The Swiss biotech industry reached record revenues in 2025 and saw its highest funding for privately-financed companies, according to a report released Tuesday at a biotechnology conference in Basel. The report by the Swiss Biotech Association, EY, and partner organizations noted the industry’s resilience as a difficult capital market environment challenged the ... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s FBI director was the subject of an embarrassing story. Now, the FBI is going after the reporter. What’s happening? On Wednesday, MS […] Read more ›
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If you're prone to neck pain, the SKG G7 Pro Fold massager could be for you. Read more ›
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Nearly two decades later, Studio Madhouse's high-octane sci-fi anime racing film still feels like the future of animation. Read more ›
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Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode to more prominently surface "Expert Advice" from public discussions, social platforms, forums, blogs, and Reddit. Engadget reports: Via a new "Expert Advice" section that can appear in AI responses, Google will display "a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media and other firsthand sources." In the sample screenshot the company provided, quotes from forums, WordPress blogs and Reddit were arranged... Read more ›
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Google’s Pixel devices are now receiving the May 2026 update, which brings several bug fixes and other improvements. The update is currently being rolled out to the Pixel 7a and later, and the Pixel Tablet. While the May 2026 update doesn’t introduce any new features, Google has addressed several persistent bugs. The update carries the build number CP1A.260505.005 and includes the latest May Android security patch. Google Pixel 10a According... Read more ›
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Senior figures from CoinShares, Calamos, ProShares and Flow Traders flagged Coinbase-heavy custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and creation-flow inefficiency as being among the next set of problems to solve. Read more ›
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It’s Wednesday, May 6, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s funding rounds reflect a market increasingly centered on AI infrastructure, quantum computing, autonomous software development, and industrial-scale energy systems. Investors continue to pour ... Read more ›
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carLG Display’s Concept Car demo at SID Display Week 2026 began on the outside, where the 29-inch Outdoor LTPS LCD demonstrated how displays could become part of a vehicle’s communication system, not just its infotainment setup. Positioned at the back of the concept car, the screen is designed for V2X (Vehicle-to-everything) communication between the vehicle and its surroundings, potentially showing signals or information to pedestrians, nearby drivers, or other road... Read more ›
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The new 'dreaming' feature doesn't mean Claude is sleeping on the job. Quite the opposite. Read more ›
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Samsung’s idea could let one key do two jobs, depending on whether your hand is resting on the laptop or hovering above it. Read more ›
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White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as proof federal crypto holdings need safeguarding. Read more ›
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Elon Musk once offered Sam Altman a seat on Tesla’s board of directors as part of discussions about OpenAI possibly joining Musk’s electric vehicle company, a Musk ally testified on Wednesday. Shivon Zilis, who has worked for several of Musk’s ventures and has four children with the tech tycoon, ... Read more ›
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Chinese researchers used supercomputers to model Yellowstone, revealing that tectonic forces shaped magma pathways and sparking ambitions for full planetary simulation systems. Read more ›
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To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure. Read more ›
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Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent. Read more ›
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Canonical's plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has sparked pushback from users who are concerned it could follow Windows 11's AI-heavy direction. "After Canonical's announcement earlier this week that it's bringing AI features to Ubuntu, replies included requests for an AI 'kill switch' or a way to disable the upcoming features," reports The Verge. Canonical says it has no plans for a "global AI kill switch" but it will... Read more ›
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A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, calling his claims of DOJ witness intimidation "wildly conspiratorial" and unsupported by the record. Judge Lewis Kaplan said (PDF) the FTX founder's motion appeared tied to a pre-indictment plan to recast himself as a Republican victim of Biden's DOJ in hopes of gaining sympathy, leniency, or even a Trump pardon. Ars Technica reports: Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: Elon Musk returned to the witness stand Wednesday in Oakland federal court for a second day of testimony in his case against OpenAI, detailing his shift from being an enthusiastic supporter of the nonprofit to feeling betrayed. He also clashed repeatedly with OpenAI's attorney over questions that Musk believed were unfair. He said his feelings towards OpenAI CEO Sam... Read more ›
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Tesla has produced the first Semi from its new high-volume production line at Gigafactory Nevada, a milestone for the long-delayed electric Class 8 truck program after years of pilot builds and delays. Electrek reports: The Tesla Semi has had one of the longest gestation periods in Tesla's history. First unveiled in 2017, the truck was originally promised for production in 2019. That target slipped repeatedly -- to 2020, then 2021,... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from ZeroHedge: The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Cloudera, accusing the enterprise data and artificial intelligence company of deliberately engineering a hiring process that excluded American workers from at least seven lucrative technology positions while the firm pursued permanent residency sponsorship for foreign workers on temporary visas. In a 14-page complaint filed with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, the department's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The system prompt for OpenAI's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query." The explicit operational warning was made public last week as part of the latest open source... Read more ›
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A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country's population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), "the permanent resident population must not exceed 10 million before 2050, and Switzerland should abandon its freedom of movement agreement with the EU," reports Reuters. From the report: Switzerland's population is now more... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that Charles Lieber, the former Harvard scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments and ties to China, is now leading China's state-funded i-BRAIN lab in Shenzhen, where he has access to advanced nanofabrication tools and primate research facilities for brain-computer interface work. From the report: Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world's leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back than ever, releasing "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" along with other documentation and notes from its developer. Today's source release is so... Read more ›
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RightsCon, one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and "thematic issues," while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent meeting with the government. 404 Media reports: Minister of Technology and Science Felix Mutati first announced the postponement on April... Read more ›
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