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Amazon's newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with developers. Cord Cutters News reports: This week, Amazon announced the upcoming launch of a new Fire TV Stick HD. The new model will run on Amazon's Vega OS, rather than Android, so most streaming apps will be supported, but users won't be add third party apps. Now, on the product page to preorder the new Fire Stick, some Amazon customers are getting
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Google's big Gemini overlay and Live redesign is starting to roll out for some users. Read more ›
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The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. […] Read more ›
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Tanker ships are sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what 'completely open' looks like right now. Read more ›
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The specter of price hikes caused by the current AI-driven demand for memory and storage appears to have convinced a fair share of people to buy a new computer. According to data analyzed by Counterpoint Research, global PC shipments grew around 3.2 percent year-over-year in Q1 2026, "driven by pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level" and Microsoft forcing some customers to upgrade by ending support for... Read more ›
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Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new AI product for creating designs, prototypes, slides, and more. Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, a new AI model that was introduced earlier this week. Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable vision model, and it can see images in greater resolution. Anthropic says that it is "more tasteful and creative" when doing professional tasks. It is able to create higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs,... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla's email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, and workflows while still offering things like chat, research tools, automation, and integration with enterprise systems through the Haystack AI framework. Native apps are planned... Read more ›
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The film's opening and a new poster reveal Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are up to their old tricks again. Read more ›
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The former Instagram executive is departing the ChatGPT-maker, and the company is sunsetting its “OpenAI for Science” application. Read more ›
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As humanity prepares to land on the moon in future Artemis missions, NASA's combustion tests will be critical to assuring astronaut safety. Read more ›
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Cursor is back in the spotlight—and this time, the numbers are hard to ignore. The AI coding startup is in talks to raise at least $2 billion in fresh funding at a $50 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar ... Read more ›
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В прошлой статье я немного слукавил, сказав, что мы будем разбирать атомики, барьеры и системные вызовы. Я пару дней поразмышлял и осознал – а зачем вообще это объяснять, если мы даже не знаем про причину их возникновения и проблемы, которые они решаютВ части 1.1 мы рассмотрели базовые инструкции, которые выполняет наш CPU и которыми в конечном счете и являются наши прекрасные строчки на Go. Но возникает закономерный вопрос: “Окей, мы... Read more ›
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There's a loophole that doesn't require Airbnb to delist properties when hosts convert legal listings into illegal ones. Airbnb could help — but does it really want to? Read more ›
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The 1MORE S50 Fit open earbuds are down to just $65 right now, offering impressive sound quality and comfort. Read more ›
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GPT-Rosalind is intended to help scientists streamline their research and drug discovery. Read more ›
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After forty years of being everyone's go-to electrician who never said no, I discovered that the deepest exhaustion isn't physical—it's the haunting realization that you've become a stranger in your own life, unable to answer simple questions like what you want for dinner because you've forgotten you're allowed to want anything at all. Read more ›
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Компьютерная система, установленная на борту нынешней лунной миссии «Артемида-2», кардинально отличается от той, что использовалась в эпоху «Аполлона». Астронавты «Аполлона» совершали посадку на поверхность Луны с помощью компьютера, оснащённого процессором с тактовой частотой 1 МГц и примерно 4 килобайтами памяти, дополненной более объёмным массивом постоянной памяти на ферритовых кольцах. Хотя это было чудо инженерной мысли 1960-х годов, функциональный диапазон навигационного компьютера «Аполлона» был узк Read more ›
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Microsoft has started stripping Copilot branding out of Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic "writing tools" label. The AI features themselves aren't going away, but Microsoft seems to be backing off the heavy-handed Copilot branding and extra entry points. Windows Central reports: As promised, Microsoft is now beginning its effort to reduce and remove Copilot branding across Windows 11, with the latest Notepad... Read more ›
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San Francisco police arrested a suspect after a Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at Sam Altman's home and threats were later made outside OpenAI's headquarters. "Thankfully, no one was hurt," said OpenAI in a statement to WIRED. "We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe. The individual is in custody, and we're assisting law enforcement with their investigation." From... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the Guardian: The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected. The law, which was a carve-out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to... Read more ›
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Researchers say the world's largest known wild chimpanzee community in Uganda fractured into rival factions and has been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight years. "It is not clear exactly why the once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park are at loggerheads, but since 2018 the scientists have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants," reports the BBC. From the report: [O]ver several... Read more ›
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NASA's Artemis II crew safely splashed down off the California coast after completing a 10-day trip around the moon and back. "This is not just an accomplishment for NASA," sad NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "This is an accomplishment for humanity, again, a historic mission to the moon and back." From a report: Isaacman is aboard the USS John. P Murtha Navy recovery vessel, where the astronauts will be brought once... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: As the Trump administration seeks to fill a national shortage of air traffic controllers, officials are targeting a new talent pool: gamers. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday is making a recruiting push aimed at avid players of video games, as the agency strives to fill thousands of vacancies that lawmakers have said leave the traveling public less safe.... Read more ›
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Attackers briefly hijacked part of CPUID's backend and swapped legitimate download links on its site with malware-laced ones. "The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn't right when installers tripped antivirus alerts or showed up under odd names," reports The Register. From the report: CPUID has since confirmed the breach, pinning it on a compromised backend component rather than... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued (PDF) to Reddit, the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC. The Intercept described the subpoena today. "According to... Read more ›
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"Every single Star Trek series has been canceled..." reports ScreenRant. "There is "no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade." While there were five active Star Trek series just a few years ago, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds filmed its fifth and final season in the fall of 2025, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy "wrapped filming its second and final season at the... Read more ›
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Phoronix staged "a showdown" between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04. JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStream is focused on intensive portions of modern JavaScript and WebAssembly web applications... Google Chrome 147 came in at 1.47x the performance of Mozilla Firefox 149. A very strong showing... Read more ›
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