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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military's most troubled space programs might finally bear fruit. The GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, or OCX, is designed for command and control of the military's constellation of more than 30 GPS satellites. It consists of software to handle new signals a
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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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Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go. Read more ›
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They're not antisocial—they're operating on a frequency where every forced smile and "we should grab coffee sometime" registers as white noise, and they've realized that life's too short to keep adjusting the dial for people who will never truly tune in. Read more ›
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Когда тимлид перестаёт справляться, первое что хочется сделать: найти виноватого.Кто то винит систему, кто то самого человека. Психолог в IT написал статью, где утверждает: дело не в слабой личности, а в системных ловушках.Но давайте посмотрим на это под другим углом. Читать далее Read more ›
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Predictions site Polymarket is in discussions with investors about $400 million in funding at around a $15 billion valuation, which would add to $600 million that Intercontinental Exchange recently invested in the company, The Information reported. This valuation is substantially lower than ... Read more ›
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SpaceNews reports: Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable "off-nominal" orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate... AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satellites this year for its D2D constellation, but BlueBird 7 is the first to launch since BlueBird 6 launched... Read more ›
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Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket for the first time, marking progress in reusability - though a payload issue shows there’s still work ahead. Read more ›
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The slow responders aren't disorganized or avoidant — they're often people who used to reply in ninety seconds and discovered what that taught everyone around them. A closer look at the quiet psychology of delayed replies, resentment, and the precedents we set without meaning to. Read more ›
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The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks. The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, which the exchange announced last month without disclosing the valuation. It’s looking... Read more ›
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India’s Patent Paradox India emerged as the world’s sixth-largest patent filer in FY26. While commerce minister Piyush Goyal was quick… Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 20 No. 574. Read more ›
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TAB Global hosts The Asian Banker Summit 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, gathering 800+ leaders to explore “Imagining the AI Bank” and AI-driven transformation. Read more ›
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The reflex to apologise for your own tears, even with no one in the room, isn't oversensitivity. It's the fingerprint of a childhood where emotion was treated as mess to be tidied before anyone saw it. Read more ›
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The National Security Agency is using Anthropic’s powerful new AI model, Mythos Preview, even though the agency’s parent, the Department of Defense, has sought to blacklist the AI startup from government contracts, Axios reported. Axios didn’t say how the NSA is using Mythos, though other ... Read more ›
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Lego Batman isn’t even out yet, but it’s already doing more for the Dark Knight than recent AAA flops. Arkham fans might finally have something to smile about. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1766 on April 20 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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"Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI's CEO," reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department: The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge... [The person in the passenger seat] put their hand out the window and... Read more ›
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Anthropic recently "hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world" for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post: Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude's moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how the chatbot should respond to users who are grieving loved ones and whether... Read more ›
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Will some programmers become "AI babysitters"? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: "AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system," explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So "As AI-generated code becomes more accurate and ubiquitous, the role of the computer scientist shifts from... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received medical care at various Sutter and MemorialCare... Read more ›
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Maine is on track to become the first U.S. state to impose a temporary statewide ban on new data center construction. "Lawmakers in Maine greenlit the text of a bill this week to block data centers from being built in the state until November 2027," reports CNBC. "The measure, which is expected to get final passage in the next few days, also creates a council to suggest potential guardrails for... Read more ›
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According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, "so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it." The Verge reports: Meta may start allowing creators to make AI avatars of themselves if the experiment with Zuckerberg succeeds, according to the Financial Times. [...] Zuckerberg is involved... Read more ›
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Booking.com says hackers accessed customer reservation data in a breach that may have exposed booking details, names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, and messages shared with accommodations. PCMag reports: On Sunday, users reported receiving emails from Booking.com, warning them that "unauthorized third parties may have been able to access certain booking information associated with your reservation." The email suggests the hackers have already exploited customer information. "We recently notic Read more ›
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"The new Linux kernel was released and it's kind of a big deal," writes longtime Slashdot reader rexx mainframe. "Here is what you can expect." Linuxiac reports: A key update in Linux 7.0 is the removal of the experimental label from Rust support. That (of course) does not make Rust a dominant language in kernel development, but it is still an important step in its gradual integration into the project.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature -- reportedly known inside the company as "Name Tag" -- would hand stalkers, abusers, and federal agents the ability to silently identify strangers in public. The... Read more ›
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The FBI searched the Texas home of a 20-year-old man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco residence. Authorities say the suspect also made threats at OpenAI's headquarters, and reports indicate he had written extensively about fears over AI and opposition to AI executives. The suspect reportedly authored a Substack blog and was a member of the Discord server PauseAI, an activist group focused on banning... Read more ›
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