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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain's record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills. Under the new plans, people could be encouraged to run dishwashers and washing machines or charge up their electric vehicles when there is more wind and solar power than the electricity grid needs. The plan will be delivered with the help of energy suppliers, which may choose 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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If you have Netflix and haven't watched 'Scavengers Reign,' you may want to sooner than later. And if you have, may as well do it again, yeah? Read more ›
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В последнее время все чаще звучат идеи — что капча переоценена, и что развитие ИИ технологий медленно но верно убивает индустрию сервисов распознавания капчи. «Нейросеть научилась решать капчу лучше человека», «сервисы распознавания капчи все», «ИИ решает капчу быстрее человека» и так далее в том же духе. А давайте разберемся в этом чуть глубже — есть ощущение, что не все так однозначно, как кажется на первый взгляд. Читать далее Read more ›
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Firestone and Pep Boys are two familiar auto shop chains, but their ownership, warranty coverage, tire options, and retail histories are not the same at all. Read more ›
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"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so." In 2024, The New York Times "reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies," remembers TechCrunch, "and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result." Now... Read more ›
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Cloudflare, a prominent internet infrastructure and security firm, has announced the layoff of approximately 1,100 employees, representing 20% of its global workforce. The decision comes despite the company reporting its strongest financial quarter to date, with revenue reaching $639.8 million—a 34% increase compared to the previous year. While the company still reported a net loss of $62 million, its future contract backlog exceeds $2.5 billion, suggesting robust business health. CEO... Read more ›
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Нагрузочное тестирование — одна из самых избегаемых тем, когда речь заходит о контроле качества ПО. Корпорации, конечно, не обходят его стороной, но если говорить о продуктах меньшего масштаба, то нагрузочное тестирование часто пропускается. Команда (и, в целом, справедливо) полагает, что продукт справится с нагрузкой — на малых объёмах это обычно прокатывает. А потом внезапно наступает день, когда пользователей стало больше, а система не готова.Почему команды не тащат нагрузку в релизный... Read more ›
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Counterfeit DDR5 RAM sticks with fake labels and even dummy plastic chips are reportedly flooding PC markets amid rising memory prices. Read more ›
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Meta has officially ceased support for manual end-to-end encryption (E2EE) within Instagram’s Direct Messages (DMs). As of May 8, the feature is no longer available, and the company has begun the process of deleting encrypted chat histories. This move signals a shift in Meta’s strategy, as it encourages users seeking high-level privacy to transition their conversations to WhatsApp. The decision to remove the protection stems from low user engagement; according... Read more ›
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A new study found professionals feel insulted when clients consult AI, damaging trust and reducing willingness to continue helping. Read more ›
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Ncontracts launches ‘Nquiry Ntelligence’, an AI compliance tool delivering fast, fully cited and auditable answers to regulatory queries. Read more ›
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Guerrilla Games co-founder and former Epic tech director Arjan Brussee is working to build a new game engine as an "European alternative" to US-centric engines like Unreal and Unity. Read more Read more ›
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I gave my daughter more independence at a young age, and it shaped her confidence — and how I approach parenting. Read more ›
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update. Read more ›
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Миф о том, что с ИИ можно собрать полноценный проект за вечер без опыта, звучит красиво только в теории. На примере футбольного менеджера рассказываю, почему даже с опытом в разработке и активным использованием ИИ путь до живой системы занял почти год: из-за архитектуры, механик, дизайна, ассетов и постоянной ручной сборки продукта. Читать далее Read more ›
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Luxury SUVs are already pricey, and factoring in those that don't require premium gas to function can help to mitigate the costs of ownership. Read more ›
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I built deep friendships through my kids, but distance and time pulled us apart — and I still miss those connections. Read more ›
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The upcoming Onyx Boox Poke 7 series brings a fresh, stylish design to the e-reader market while continuing to challenge Kindle with Android flexibility. Read more ›
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A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics... Read more ›
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A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer... 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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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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"Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable," writes Engadget: OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These "optional animated companions" don't do any coding themselves, but serve as a floating overlay that can tell you what Codex is working on, notify you when Codex completes a task or whether it needs your input on something. The new feature lets developers... Read more ›
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"So yesterday the Devteam (it is always the Devteam) released version 5.0 of legendary and venerable rogueike compuer game NetHack," writes the Rogue-like games column @Play. "It is 39 years old..." MilenCent (Slashdot reader #219,397) writes: In addition to play changes it's left for players to discover, this version updates the code to compile with C99, makes it much easier to cross compile the code for other systems than the... Read more ›
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Age verification became mandatory for chat access on Roblox in January — and Friday morning Quartz reported it's apparently impacted the company's financials: Roblox cut its full-year 2026 bookings forecast by roughly $900 million at the midpoint on Thursday, blaming stronger-than-expected headwinds from its mandatory age-verification rollout on an audience that skews heavily toward children and teenagers. Full-year 2026 bookings are now projected at $7.33 billion to $7.60 billion, a... Read more ›
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A Wall Street Journal opinion piece warns of "a troubling trend" in AI's growth. "Rather than selling software, some AI companies are paying their partners to use it." It cites OpenAI's $1.5 billion joint venture with private-equity firms, Anthropic's $200 million contribution to a private-equity firm joint venture, and Google's $750 million subsidization of Gemini's adoption by consulting firms. "These agreements muddy the distinction between a company's sound growth trajectory... Read more ›
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The Independent reports that "more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures" for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters "suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with children reporting 'tricking' platforms into thinking they are older. " Parents also said they had caught... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it... Read more ›
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