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Meta Platforms plans to lay off of around 8,000 employees next month, with further job cuts expected to occur in the second half of the year, Reuters reported. The initial wave of 8,000 layoffs is scheduled to begin May 20 and will account for about 10% of Meta’s worldwide headcount, Reuters ...
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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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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open — but there’s no peace deal yet, and there are plenty of unanswered questions. Here’s what we […] Read more ›
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India will not require smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung to preload devices with a state-owned biometric identification app, reports Reuters. The Unique Identification Authority of India asked the IT ministry to start talks with Apple and other tech companies about the possibility of mandatory preinstallation of the Aadhaar identity app, but the IT ministry told Reuters today that it reviewed the proposal and is "not in favor" of mandating... Read more ›
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Peking University's dual agent AI solved Anderson's 2014 algebra conjecture in 80 hours with no human intervention and full verification. Read more ›
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NIST is narrowing how it handles CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), saying it will only automatically enrich higher-priority vulnerabilities. "CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not automatically be enriched by NIST," it said. "This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025. We don't expect this trend to let up... Read more ›
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The company announced the coming of 'Infinity Vision' with its September re-release of 'Avengers: Endgame,' building up to December's 'Avengers: Doomsday.' Read more ›
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!['We can lose three [computers] and still ride through’: Inside the 8-CPU brain of NASA’s Artemis II that ‘votes’ on every move](https://times42.com/media/8/4/5/12295845_640x200.jpg "'We can lose three [computers] and still ride through’: Inside the 8-CPU brain of NASA’s Artemis II that ‘votes’ on every move")
NASA’s Orion spacecraft uses eight synchronized processors and layered redundancy to maintain operations in deep space, where hardware failures cannot be repaired. Read more ›
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Lawyers for Elon Musk said Friday that they may drop their fraud claims against OpenAI in his case charging the ChatGPT maker with violating its charitable mission and breaking promises to Musk. Dropping the claims would make Musk’s legal position more consistent with a court filing from earlier ... Read more ›
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The Anker SOLIX F3800 Portable Power Station is down to $1,899.99 on Amazon, marking the lowest price of the year. Read more ›
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Just because you enjoy 420 doesn't mean you enjoy the smell of cannabis smoke. GermGuardian's new filter could help. Read more ›
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A Sam Altman-backed firm warns AI could soon break facial recognition, as it rolls out a new “proof of human” system to restore trust online. Read more ›
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Взял MacBook Pro M2 Max, 64GB, и задал простой вопрос: какой MLX-сервер реально готов держать Qwen 3.5 35B как локальный API для команды? Оказалось - серверов восемь, каждый в README обещает «blazing fast», а по факту между ними пропасть.Написал харнесс на Python, прогнал пять итераций на восьми промтах - от AIME до 52k токенов. Single-user тройка идёт ноздря в ноздрю. Но стоит пустить два запроса параллельно - и четыре фреймворка... Read more ›
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The new design tool lets anyone use text prompts to create prototypes, slides, and one-pagers. The jury's still out if it does a good job. Read more ›
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Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states." Read more ›
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YouTube TV is reportedly still ironing out ESPN Unlimited issues ahead of WrestleMania 42. Read more ›
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Meta is preparing a new round of layoffs, setting May 20 as the starting point for cuts that will affect roughly 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its global workforce, according to an exclusive report from Reuters. The move marks ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they're a real human, provided they've already stared into one of World's glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot... Read more ›
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NJ Transit hikes train fares to $150 per round-trip for the FIFA World Cup at MetLife Stadium, and only 40,000 tickets per game will be available. Read more ›
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Hong Kong has granted its first licenses to issue stablecoins to HSBC and a joint venture of Standard Chartered, allowing them to issue crypto tokens pegged to Hong Kong dollars. The move comes as Hong Kong pushes to become a global fintech and crypto hub, even as mainland China continues ... Read more ›
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CoreWeave, a provider of cloud computing for AI, on Friday said it had struck a multi-year deal to develop and run Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The company expects the first servers to come online for Anthropic later this year. The two companies didn’t disclose the size of the deal. This is ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is bringing on three senior OpenAI executives who helped lead the ChatGPT-maker’s ambitious Stargate cloud and data center initiative, according to two people with direct knowledge, marking a notable escalation in the battle for AI infrastructure talent. The executives are joining ... Read more ›
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At tech giants like Meta Platforms, employees may have embraced the idea of “tokenmaxxing” as a way to show off how dedicated they are to using AI in their jobs. Don’t expect businesses beyond the deepest-pocketed tech giants to follow their lead, though. As The Information reported on Monday, employees inside Meta have been competing to see who could rank highest on an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics as the most... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Meet the father of Claude Code• Artificial Intelligence: The hijinks around tokenmaxxing • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Who Blew Up the Georgia Guidestones?” “Those Who Are About to Die” and “It Was Just an Accident”Over a good many years, “Silicon Valley,” the HBO show, accomplished a very rare feat: It got the elite of Silicon Valley, the place, to laugh... Read more ›
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Wall Street’s sell-off of enterprise software stocks resumed in earnest late last week, sending stocks such as ServiceNow and Snowflake down around 8% or so on Friday, as jitters over the impact of new AI tools on older software firms intensified. But the panic may be too indiscriminate. One way of sorting out which software firms may have more of a future is to look at their spending on research... Read more ›
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We interrupt our regular AI programming to talk about something more entertaining: Netflix! The video-streaming giant kicks off tech earnings season on Thursday with its first-quarter earnings. It’s the first quarterly report since Netflix walked away from its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio operations, so that distraction is gone. Now we’re back to guessing how long Netflix can keep growing at its recent annual... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed an attack on his San Francisco home in a personal blog post on Friday, noting rising criticism of the AI industry and saying there is a need to “de-escalate the rhetoric.” Earlier that day, San Francisco police arrested a man for allegedly throwing a Molotov ... Read more ›
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As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months. A newly created team under Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context,” including a team of always-on agents... Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, has hired Jeremy Pollack, most recently vice president of Kinexys by JPMorgan, the bank’s blockchain business unit, to be its institutional expansion manager. Based in New York City, Pollack will build institutional partnerships to promote the usage ... Read more ›
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