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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 author to technical auditor or expert.
"While la
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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 Associated Press reports: On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then alerted the state's forest service and largest electric utility. One of dozens of AI cameras installed for the utility Arizona Public Service had spotted early signs of what came to be known as the Diamond Fire. Firefighters... Read more ›
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These days, as retirees, the only things Tye and Chip Pierpont schedule and adhere to are doctor appointments. Read more ›
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Snapdragon still makes excellent chips, but this year’s Exynos and MediaTek results make the old “Qualcomm always wins” story look a lot lazier. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Николай Гусев · 29 апр в 12:00 · Старший инженер внедрения, Группа Астра «NEVER FUCKING GUESS! - и именно это я и сделал. Я угадал, что удаление staging volume через API будет ограничено staging-окружением. Я не проверил. Я не читал документацию Railway.»- AI-агент Cursor на Claude Opus 4.6, письменное признание после удаления production-базы PocketOSПривет, меня зовут Николай, я 23 года в DevOps, последние несколько лет - внедряю продукты Группы Астра.... Read more ›
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These jigs improve accuracy, safety, and versatility for woodworkers of all skill levels, helping make everyday cuts and projects more precise and controlled. Read more ›
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Toyota has a well-earned reputation for making reliable vehicles, and JD Power's 2026 Dependability Survey awards the automaker top honors in multiple segments. Read more ›
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A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. "Many of humanity's most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago." "The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution." Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way... Read more ›
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Данная статья рассказывает о "Текстуре" в Direct2D , с конкретными примерами, кратко, понятно и на русском(в отличие от машинного перевода MSDN) Читать далее Read more ›
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Один аналитический запрос способен испортить p99 latency всего OLTP-трафика — на время, пока горячий рабочий набор не прогреется заново с диска. Это cache pollution, и с ним рано или поздно сталкивается любая СУБД с честным LRU.Разбираем, как мы решили эту проблему в нашем OLTP-движке: почему выбрали Clock-sweep вместо LRU, как BufferRing изолирует полные сканы от горячих данных, и почему no-steal — это не стилистический выбор, а требование корректности recovery. С... Read more ›
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Итак, только вычислительная часть обучения пятой версии ChatGPT обошлась в $500 миллионов. А вот уже полные затраты с исследованиями, данными и экспериментальными прогонами - от $1.25 до $2.5 млрд по разным оценкам. И речь пока именно о старте новой линейки, которая релизнулась чуть больше года назад. Далее - сервер с восемью H100 стоит от $270K до $450K, и это не считая сети, охлаждения и инфраструктуры. И это все при том,... Read more ›
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Get the most out of your iPhone with our guided tour through iOS 26's best-kept secrets. Read more ›
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Results from Google, Microsoft and Amazon last week showed AI is still fueling cloud revenues, news that helped lift the stock market to fresh records on Friday. This week, we’ll get a clearer glimpse into whether AI can also lift the lagging prices of software stocks such as Palantir and ServiceNow.Palantir kicks off the week’s wave of corporate earnings reports on Monday. Stock in the company, which sells software to... Read more ›
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Looking for a great record player to listen to your growing vinyl collection? I've listened to the best turntables from Audio-Technica, Rega, U-Turn and more. Read more ›
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'I don’t believe we’ll hit AGI' — Steve Wozniak has some major AI skepticism, and a love of the slimmest iPhone. Read more ›
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iSeeCars recently put out a list of cars that did and did not hold their value well over a five-year period. This car had the biggest drop, and for good reason. Read more ›
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Are AI agents already facing Indirect Prompt Injection attacks? Google's Threat Intelligence teams searched for known attacks that would target AI systems browsing the web, using Common Crawl's repository of billions of pages from the public web). We observed a number of websites that attempt to vandalize the machine of anyone using AI assistants. If executed, the commands in this example would try to delete all files on the user's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres: Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene... Now the Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants... Read more ›
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"California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Oregon and Washington have all passed comprehensive right-to-repair regulations," reports CNBC, "covering everything from consumer electronics and farm equipment to wheelchairs and automobiles." And the consumer movement "continues to gain political momentum" across America... As of this year, advocates are tracking 57 right-to-repair bills across 22 states. In Maine, the state senate just advanced a bill that would bring the right to repair to... Read more ›
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Public stock exchanges "appear to be warming to climate tech startups," reports TechCrunch. "Or at least some of them." This week, nuclear startup X-energy went public, raising $1 billion in an upsized share offering that appears to have delivered a windfall for its investors, including Amazon [and Google]. Retail investors apparently can't get enough, with the stock popping 25% in its first hour of trading. Also this week, geothermal startup... Read more ›
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"There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States," says Andy Hunter, the founder/CEO of Bookshop.org. Fast Company checks in on his site, which gives over 80% of its profit margin to independent bookstores, structuring itself as a B Corporation (a for-profit company certified for its social-impact) while providing an alternative to Amazon and other online booksellers: Hunter created Bookshop.org in January... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It's been an epoch in AI since then, and while DeepSeek has released several updates to that model and its other V3 series,... Read more ›
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California's proposed billionaire tax appears headed for the November ballot after backers said they gathered more than 1.5 million signatures, well above the threshold needed to qualify. SF Standard reports: Backers of the initiative announced this weekend that more than 1.5 million people signed a petition to bring the one-time, 5% wealth tax to a statewide vote come November. That's well beyond the 875,000 names needed to qualify the measure,... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is ending revenue-sharing payments to OpenAI (paywalled; alternative source) and making the partnership non-exclusive. "The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies," Microsoft said Monday in a blog post. Bloomberg reports: The revised deal is meant to simplify a complicated relationship between two partners that has been foundational to OpenAI's rise and the broader... Read more ›
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GitHub said in a blog post today that it is moving Copilot to usage-based billing starting June 1. Base subscription prices will remain the same but premium requests will be replaced with monthly AI Credits that are consumed based on token usage. "Instead of counting premium requests, every Copilot plan will include a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits, with the option for paid plans to purchase additional usage," the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the suspect took $195,000 from the bank's vault and fled before the police arrived. A detective interviewed witnesses and reviewed the bank's security footage. But with no leads, the officer relied on a so-called geofence warrant to sweep up location data from all the... Read more ›
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