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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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EV rapid-charging startup Exponent Energy has raised ₹200 Cr ($21.1 Mn) in a funding round co-led by 360 ONE Asset… Read more ›
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The Milwaukee M12 lineup includes surprising tools you may not expect, from infrared temp guns to drain cameras, tackling a wide range of jobs. Read more ›
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Community management and security startup Mygate has raised ₹225 Cr ($23.6 Mn) in a fresh funding round from Dharana Capital… Read more ›
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The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S27 has now been spotted in the GSM Association's IMEI database. This confirms its name and its model number, that is SM-S952 with a letter affixed to that, which signifies which market(s) it's intended for. The specific model in the IMEI database is the SM-S952U, as you can see in the screenshot below. This one is going to US carriers. Of course, having this confirmation that... Read more ›
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Can OpenAI do anything simply? Many companies, when publicly acknowledging the possibility of an IPO, emphasize that the final decision will depend in part on “market conditions.” That’s what OpenAI’s rival Anthropic did last week. But the ChatGPT firm chose to be more cryptic. Revealing its confidential IPO filing on Monday, OpenAI said it might hold off on its debut for a while “because there are things we want to... Read more ›
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Rivian’s R2 blends smart cost-cutting engineering with strong performance, off-road capability, and premium feel, making it a compelling new contender in the crowded mid-range electric SUV market. Read more ›
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Australia’s end-of-financial-year sales are a good time to pick up a new phone for less if you’re in the market for an upgrade. Read more ›
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Transaction is one of the largest private credit fundraisings, fuelling Claude maker’s AI growth plans Read more ›
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Have you ever seen a 17.3 mph limit and wondered if it was a typo? Discover the surprising reason some traffic signs use such weird numbers. Read more ›
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Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or "spirit week" theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones - the new Siri can finally do this. After […] Read more ›
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Ukraine claims allied funding could help produce millions of military drones annually while expanding deep strike operations inside Russia. Read more ›
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Здравствуй, брат по (надеюсь) уму‑разуму!Начитался и насмотрелся я в интернете всяких сайтов и сервисов, и были там статьи про один очень страшный вирус в игре «Смешарики. Компьютер Ёжика». И решил я затеять одно дельце: пересказать эту легенду максимально подробно. И затеял…Короче, я публикую полную версию пересказа легенды об игре «Смешарики. Компьютер Ёжика». В эту версию входят сразу 2 части легенды — про 1-й и про 2-й вирус… Хочешь стать смелым?... Read more ›
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Одна из моих IP камер перестала сохранять настройки для FTP сервера и перестала в него писать. В остальном она работает, поток RTSP смотреть можно. Камера писала в формате DAV, а роутер будет писать как получится. Роутер тот самый, что пишет онлайн радио в себя и делает другие безобразия. Надо бы ему, наверно, уже имя дать. А получится так: rtsp из камеры, в бесплатное облако, из облака m4s куски в роутер... Read more ›
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For decades, US sunscreens lagged behind formulas in Europe and Asia. Now, a new FDA-approved ingredient is helping America catch up. Read more ›
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Если вы пользовались моим LxBox или десктопным лаунчером, то могли натыкаться на оранжевый баннер: «с этим узлом, скорее всего, не соединится». Так клиент честно сознаётся, что наткнулся на узел с транспортом XHTTP, а ядро sing-box, на котором всё крутится, его не умеет. В этот момент лаунчер тихо даунгрейдит конфиг до HTTPUpgrade.А еще сразу как я выпустил приложение пришли запросы с AWG/AWG2 и такие: сделай! а я сюдаВ какой-то момент я... Read more ›
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Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire m3ter, a London-based metering and rating platform built for consumption-based billing. The deal will integrate m3ter’s infrastructure natively into Agentforce Revenue Management, giving Salesforce customers the ability to launch, track, and bill usage-based and outcome-based pricing models without leaving the platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Claude Fable 5 рвет конкурентов в кодинге и текстах. Полный обзор, как пользоваться новой нейросетью, зачем ей 1 млн токенов и как получить доступ из России. Читать далее Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The platform, dubbed "Project Solara," is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely new scenarios for computing... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation's $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves, fisheries, coastal flooding, and climate change. The NSF said it would send ships in June to begin the removal of the instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn't just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory. This isn't yet captured in headlines -- for example, about last weekend's barrage of Russian drones and missiles around Ukraine --... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Phone by Google wants to combat the "growing threat of impersonation scams" and protect Android users against "sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks" with fake call detection. [...] Fake call detection requires that both parties are on Android and use the Phone by Google app, while Google Messages and Google Contacts also have to be installed. When a contact calls, their phone "sends a... Read more ›
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Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: "We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems," said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum. That would still require huge further... Read more ›
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Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit] said the team behind the software had also introduced... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the... Read more ›
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Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. "These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications -- including attach and detach force -- to help you build a high-quality accessory band," Google says on a store page listing. 9to5Google reports: Noting how the "community has already come up with innovative and creative... Read more ›
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Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run locally on devices equipped with just 16GB of VRAM, making advanced AI more accessible to developers, researchers... Read more ›
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According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost production.... Read more ›
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