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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 in training the AI avatar, the Financial Times rep
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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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Presented by AWSAutonomous agents are compressing software delivery timelines from weeks to days. The enterprises that scale agents safely will be the ones that build using spec-driven development.There’s a moment in every technology shift where the early adopters stop being outliers and start being the baseline. We’re at that moment in software development, and most teams don’t realize it yet.A year ago, vibe coding went viral. Non-developers and junior developers... Read more ›
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Oppo's upcoming flagship is trading secrets for style. The company just teased the finishes for the new Ultra. Read more ›
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Shigella bacteria are increasingly resisting all antibiotics that can easily treat them, a recent report shows. Read more ›
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US fintech enters an AI-led phase as capital concentrates on established players, stablecoins gain traction, and success hinges on timing, scale, and compliance heading into Q2. Read more ›
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A new supply-chain report claims Apple has increased MacBook Neo orders and raised shipment forecasts after stronger-than-expected demand Read more ›
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Just what employees want, a Zuckerberg chatbot serving as their personal Clippy. Read more ›
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Infinix originally unveiled the Note 60 Pro in mid-February, and today the phone has finally landed in India, just as promised. You can pre-order one for INR 31,999 with 128GB of storage, or INR 34,999 with 256GB of storage. Both options come with 8GB of RAM. Pre-orders will start shipping on April 20, which is also when the first open sale will be live. [#InlinePriceWidget,14499,1#] The Infinix Note 60 Pro... Read more ›
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Несколько лет назад в одном из моих проектов на чистом JavaScript возникла задача: валидировать большие вложенные объекты со сложной структурой. Объекты содержали различные подобъекты, к каждому из которых применялись свои правила валидации в зависимости от типа.Задача усложнялась двумя дополнительными требованиями: Читать далее Read more ›
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After over 1,000 creatives signed an open letter speaking out against the merger, the company issued a swift but not exactly reassuring response. Read more ›
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The 250 Series Toyota Land Cruiser is quite a desirable SUV on paper, for various reasons. How will it depreciate after five years of ownership? Read more ›
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Debbie, a New York fintech firm, has closed a $5.3 million USD seed round and launched Rewards 2.0, a cash rewards platform structured around building savings and reducing debt rather than incentivizing consumer spending. The round was led by Trustage Ventures and Reseda Group, with participation from One Way Ventures and Zeal Capital Partners – ... Read more ›
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Justin Bieber headlined Coachella on Saturday for his first major performance in years. He opted for a laid-back set that rejected pop-star spectacle. Read more ›
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After decades of fitness classes that left me feeling stagnant and weak, I joined a gym and I noticed results shortly after I started my regimen. Read more ›
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Americans have never felt worse about the economy, based on the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. Gas prices are partially to blame. Read more ›
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Russia launched a covert operation to sabotage subsea cables while the world was distracted by the Middle East. Read more ›
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With the second beta of iOS 26.5, Apple is continuing to prepare for ads in the Apple Maps app. There's a new splash screen in the app that says it will display ads based on approximate location, current search terms, or a view of the map when searching. Ads will also be shown in the "Suggested Places" section that was added in the first beta. Apple says that advertising information... Read more ›
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Getting a hair transplant in New York City can cost up to $20,000. We followed one man all the way to Istanbul, where he paid a fraction of that. Read more ›
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Katie Couric's husband died of colon cancer at 42. It prompted her to make three major changes to reduce her risk with diet, exercise, and screening. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. Shchukin... Read more ›
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Samsung says it will discontinue its Samsung Messages app in July 2026 and is directing Galaxy users to switch to Google Messages instead. Android Central reports: [...] Samsung says users can switch to Google Messages as their default app to maintain a consistent Android messaging experience. The fine print also states that once the app is discontinued, "sending messages via Samsung Messages on your phone will no longer be possible,... Read more ›
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Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by a human mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970. NASA... Read more ›
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The Associated Press is offering buyouts to U.S. journalists "as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s," the not-for-profit outlet reported today. AP says it is making the move from a position of strength, responding to shrinking newspaper revenue and growing demand from digital, broadcast, and tech clients. "The AP is not in trouble," said Julie Pace, executive editor... Read more ›
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A teardown video of LG's never-released Rollable phone helps explain why rollable phones never became a real product category: they were likely too expensive, fragile, and complicated to manufacture at scale. "The complexity of the internals would have made the Rollable extremely expensive to manufacture, and it would have demanded a high price tag," reports Ars Technica. "Durability is also a big concern. There's just a lot going on inside... Read more ›
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OpenAI is proposing (PDF) sweeping policy changes to help manage the societal disruption caused by advanced AI, including taxes on automated labor, a public wealth fund, and experiments with a four-day workweek. The company said the policy document offered a series of "initial ideas" to address the risk of "jobs and entire industries being disrupted" by the adoption of AI tools. Business Insider reports: Among the core policy suggestions is... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 (PDF) in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute test covered 36km at 220km/h and 300 meters altitude, with the aircraft returning safely after completing its planned maneuvers. State media described it as the world's... Read more ›
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LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users' browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is "running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history." "The program runs silently, without any visible indicator to the user," the group says. "It does not ask for consent. It does not disclose what it is doing. It reports... Read more ›
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theodp writes: "Gates Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center for Panoptic Computing" reads the headline of an April Fools' Day story that ran in the Humor section of The Stanford Daily (with the further disclaimer that "This article is purely satirical and fictitious"). The story begins: "Following revelations that the billionaire founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, had a longstanding relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Stanford has... Read more ›
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