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A New York Times analysis found Google's AI Overviews now answer questions correctly about 90% of the time, which might sound impressive until you realize that roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong. "[F]or Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the
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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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A trove of robotic floats is bringing our knowledge of the deep sea to new depths. Read more ›
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Iran's government is reportedly reviewing Pakistan's request for a two-week ceasefire positively, according to an Axios report. Read more ›
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After decades of exhausting performance and endless proving, a retired electrician discovers why his seventy-something customers look ten years younger than their stressed-out middle-aged kids—and what happens when the masks we've worn for forty years finally come off. Read more ›
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If your home has space limitations, you might have considered a stackable washer and dryer set. Are there any downsides to this sort of setup? Read more ›
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The Artemis II space mission is making history. Farthest humans have ever traveled in space? Check. First Black, woman, and Canadian astronauts to make it around the moon? Also check. First time a toilet has made this journey? Big, important check. Because while there are many significant questions about space — Is life out there? […] Read more ›
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On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to listen to. Prompted Playlists were originally launched as a beta feature in December, but previously only worked for music. You can use the feature to effectively generate customized Discover […] Read more ›
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As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure. Read more ›
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Статья объясняет что такое WIC (Windows Imaging Component) и как с ним работать(с примерами), рассчитано для тех кто никогда не слышал, или почти никогда не слышал о WIC. Является переписью того, что написано в MSDN, но: на русском, понятно, кратко. Читать далее Read more ›
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Rumors about the iPhone Fold have been going on for years at this point, and Apple is expected to introduce its first non-slab phone this September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro series. We now have a new look at how the trio compares size-wise thanks to case mold images shared by Sonny Dickson. The Fold features a peculiar, wide design just as previously rumored. We can spot a dual camera... Read more ›
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Продолжаем data mining путешествие в погоне за удачей. Сегодня разберем как устроены богатство, социальные связи и образование. Эти категории достаточно сложны, но статистически хорошо подтверждены. Откалибровать их было довольно просто. Читать далее Read more ›
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She's no longer framed as a villain—but what's her role in the sequel series? Emmy-winning actor Ann Dowd explains. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony ruling, the Supreme Court has vacated the contributory copyright infringement verdict against ISP Grande Communications, ordering the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new precedent. [...] The order (PDF) effectively removes the case from the Supreme Court docket, urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another... Read more ›
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Когда в 1С «просто тормозит», стандартные метрики и журнал регистрации почти бесполезны: они показывают факт, но не причину. Технологический журнал — один из немногих инструментов, который позволяет увидеть, что именно происходит внутри платформы: какие запросы реально выполняются, где возникают блокировки, и на каком участке кода уходит время. В этой статье — без лишней теории: как быстро включить техжурнал, что в нём действительно важно, и как за несколько минут находить медленные... Read more ›
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Turns out there might be a very understandable reason why your cat leaves its bowl half-empty. Read more ›
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Intel is working on its own neural texture compression with similar compression performance to Nvidia's counterpart. Best of all, Intel has a fallback version of its compression tech that will work with GPUs that don't come with Intel's XMX engine. Read more ›
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Anthropic's latest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so adept at finding software vulnerabilities that the lab is holding it back to allow companies and institutions to proactively patch their products against the 'thousands' of bugs it has already uncovered. Read more ›
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A top EU official is urging Europeans to work from home, drive less, and cut air travel as the bloc braces for a prolonged energy crisis triggered by the Gulf conflict. The European Commission is also pushing member states to accelerate renewables and other energy-security measures as oil and gas disruptions continue. Politico reports: In a speech with echoes of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, EU energy chief... Read more ›
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bobthesungeek76036 shares a report from the Register: Oracle laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it ramps spending on AI infrastructure projects internally and with major technology partners. The layoffs were carried out via email, according to copies of the message viewed by Business Insider. The email told affected workers they would be terminated immediately and to provide a personal email for follow-up. The cuts echo a TD Cowen... Read more ›
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Polestar and Volvo are ending Polestar 3 production in Chengdu, China, and consolidating all output of the electric SUV at Volvo's plant in South Carolina. "The move to consolidate global Polestar 3 production in Charleston help[s] generate efficiencies for both companies, whilst also underscoring our confidence in the plant and the role it plays in our manufacturing footprint," said Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive of Volvo Cars. "The U.S. is a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia's digital minister said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia's "great crackdown," the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major messenger services while giving sweeping powers to cut off mass communications. "The... Read more ›
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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly," apparently due to an "internal energetic source" rather than a collision. "The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks," reports Scientific American. From the report: The satellite lost communication at about 560 kilometers above Earth, Starlink said. While the statement from Starlink, which is a subsidiary... Read more ›
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MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour. In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing the... Read more ›
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Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said hospitals could already replace many radiologists with AI for some imaging tasks -- if regulators allowed it. He argued the technology presents an opportunity to simultaneously cut costs and expand access. Radiology Business reports: Katz -- who has led the 11-hospital organization since 2018 -- said he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast... Read more ›
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Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions ... that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub." From the report: Programmers combing through the... Read more ›
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darwinmac writes: OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its editors into a new project called Euro-Office, according to a report from Neowin. The move comes just days after Nextcloud and partners like IONOS announced the fork as part of a broader push for European digital sovereignty. In a statement, the company accused the project of violating its licensing terms and international intellectual property law, claiming... Read more ›
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