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A $500,000 "Survivor"-style corporate retreat for 120 Plex employees in Honduras "turned into a week-long disaster involving illness, wild animals, armed guards, and employees stranded on a remote island," reports the Daily Beast. The CEO was bedridden by E. coli, staff were collapsing in brutal heat during Navy SEAL-led drills, there were fire ant attacks, uncooked food, and failing utilities. At one point, a porcupine even crashed through the ceiling of a guest's room. Here's an excerpt from the report: T
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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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Eternal’s Q4 Highlights Eternal fired on all cylinders in Q4 FY26. Profits and revenues soared, Blinkit remained the growth engine,… Read more ›
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На станах горячего проката металлургического комбината ЕВРАЗ НТМК прокатывают заготовки разных марок стали. В начале цикла их разогревают в печах до температуры, позволяющей придать нужный профиль. Печей несколько, они различаются конструкцией, состоянием, горелками и износом футеровки — это теплоизолирующий материал. Путь заготовки до первой клети стана тоже разный. Ещё на процесс влияют особенности серий заготовок, сортамента сталей, температуры перед посадом, текущее состояние агрегатов, время перевалки, Read more ›
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Интуиция подсказывает — чем больше пул-реквест, тем выше соблазн по-быстренькому пробежаться глазами по коду и аппрувнуть изменения. Предлагаем вам вместе с нами проверить утверждение из заголовка! В статье посмотрим, к чему пришли исследователи, проанализировавшие 50К+ пул-реквестов, обсудим, какие когнитивные искажения на это влияют, и разберем, как изменилась ситуация с появлением ИИ-помощников. Поехали! Читать далее Read more ›
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Huawei is attempting to rewrite the playbook for digital transformation in banking, moving away from fragmented product sales toward a structured, multi-party ecosystem Read more ›
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Air conditioning is a must for a large chunk of the country, especially in summer. How long can you realistically expect your AC unit to last? Read more ›
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Approval that has to be extracted isn't approval. Why some of the people we spent our twenties trying to impress were structurally incapable of granting what we were asking for, and how to spot the loop you might still be running. Read more ›
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From Perplexity cofounder Aravind Srinivas and Anthropic CTO Rahul Patil to big tech giants such as Google’s Sundar Pichai and… Read more ›
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Veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry who founded their own robotics outfit told BI that AV experience has a lot of transferable skills. Read more ›
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Netflix has renewed Stranger Things: Tales From '85 for season 2 despite divisive reviews. The animated spinoff holds the franchise's lowest scores on both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. Read more ›
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Chronic pre-emptive apologising looks like politeness but functions as threat management — a small payment offered up front to head off blame that, in childhood, often did arrive. Here's what the research says, and what actually helps. Read more ›
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Gemini has become more contextual with these new Workspace upgrades, including making migrating from M365 even quicker. Read more ›
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Mere hours ago the upcoming Motorola Razr 70 and Razr 70 Ultra leaked in some official-looking shots, ahead of their expected unveiling tomorrow, and now we have a surprise third member of the family getting the same treatment: the Motorola Razr 70 Plus. Yes, the Razr 70 Plus, not the Razr+ 2026. This means that, unlike what it did last year, Motorola won't be keeping the Plus model exclusive to... Read more ›
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Over $800,000 has already been raised, which is more than 80 times the Lumia 2's original goal. Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 10a is an excellent mid-range smartphone, but there are several other phones that are comparable in price while offering better performance. Read more ›
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Following last week's discovery of still wallpapers, we can finally see these in action. Read more ›
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Теперь возможно экспортировать в C++ код игр Sega MegaDrive (Genesis) для последующей модификации, включая ресурсы игры.https://github.com/testdriveupgrade/MegaDriveRecomp Читать далее Read more ›
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The rapid evolution of technology continues to redefine traditional industries, and few sectors are experiencing a transformation as dynamic as online casino gaming. Once considered purely recreational spaces, digital gambling platforms are evolving into sophisticated ecosystems powered by artificial intelligence, ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with the artificial intelligence start-up Cursor that could result in its acquiring the young company for $60 billion. SpaceX is making the deal just as it prepares to go public in what is likely to be one of the largest initial public offerings... Read more ›
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Federal authorities are now reviewing a string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to sensitive U.S. aerospace and nuclear work, though officials have not established any confirmed link between the cases. The FBI says it "is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists," adding that it "is working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state ... and local... Read more ›
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NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors. The finding strengthens the case that ancient organic material can survive in the Martian subsurface, though it does not prove past life because the compounds could also come from geology or meteorites. Phys.org reports: The study was led by Amy Williams, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would surpass most countries' defense budgets and rank among the... Read more ›
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CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging battery that can go from 10 percent to 98 percent in under seven minutes," reports Interesting Engineering. From the report: The launches were made during a 90-minute event in Beijing ahead of the Beijing Auto Show, where automakers are expected to showcase next-generation EVs and... Read more ›
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A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was... Read more ›
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Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media,"... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as... Read more ›
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