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"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post:
Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound waves vibrate the oxygen faster than the.
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Здравствуйте, дорогие читатели! Сегодня - ещё одна статья из рубрики джангологии. Раньше я уже писал о своих идеях (1 и 2) о том, как сделать django асинхронным. Они основывались, вслед за sqlalchemy, на использовании гринлетов. Несмотря на то, что proof-of-concept был успешно получен, а трудностей - встречено меньше, чем ожидалось, я всё-таки отказался от этого подхода: во-первых, он уже применяется в sqlalchemy. Во-вторых, это ведёт к усложнению, и растёт так... Read more ›
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По пути Японией пошли Китай и Южная Корея, и сейчас, когда региональная вычислительная школа ЮВА занимает наряду с США лидирующие позиции в сфере вычислительных технологий повторяется история с японским проектом FGCS. Только на этот раз речь идет не просто об умных суперкомпьютерах, а об ИИ и управлении криптовалютами и массивами big data, каковые были слишком сложными для их обработки с помощью традиционного ПО. За последние десять лет два очередных съезда... Read more ›
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vivo continues to tease the X Fold6 ahead of its expected launch later this month. Following the confirmation of OriginOS 6 Fold and its productivity-focused features, the company has now disclosed the chipset that will power the foldable. In a post on Weibo, a vivo executive revealed that the X Fold6 will be the world's first foldable phone powered by a new MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Super Edition chipset. According to... Read more ›
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Слухи о Windows 12 ходили уже несколько лет. Кто-то ждал модульной системы с глубокой интеграцией искусственного интеллекта, кто-то — просто новой версии ОС с «нескучными обоями». Однако Microsoft решила пойти другим путем и продолжила развивать Windows 11. Компания регулярно добавляет в систему новые ИИ-функции и одновременно готовит ее к более широкому распространению устройств на базе процессоров с архитектурой Arm. Такой поворот событий сложно назвать неожиданным. Еще в 2024–2025 годах стало... Read more ›
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Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As you may know, if you use many of the existing […] Read more ›
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Drone footage appears to show several bridges burning and suffering visible structural damage. Read more ›
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Маркетологи делятся на два лагеря. Одни попробовали ChatGPT для стратегии, получили воду на 15 страниц и потратили вечер. Другие строят стратегии за 20 минут с ИИ и говорят, что это магия. Правда ближе к первому, я сам так начинал.С нейросетями для стратегии всё нормально. Проблема в том, что большинство пишет «напиши маркетинговую стратегию для SaaS» и удивляется, когда получает красиво оформленный набор банальностей. Покажу, как это работает у нас, с... Read more ›
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In 1994, a New South Wales park ranger abseiled into a hidden canyon outside Sydney and found a grove of conifers last seen in the fossil record 90 million years ago. The Wollemi pine's wild location remains undisclosed — and for biological reasons that have nothing to do with theatre. Read more ›
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Anthropic is increasingly launching applications that directly compete with its own enterprise customers, triggering fears in the software and AI startup sectors, The Information reported. This friction boiled over during Anthropic’s recent launch of Claude Design, when Figma dropped out of ... Read more ›
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NASA ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation after a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module's transfer tunnel. The Guardian reports: The four astronauts of NASA's Crew-12 mission on the station -- two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut -- received orders from NASA mission control at 9.04am ET (2pm BST) on Friday to... Read more ›
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Valve says its long-awaited Steam Machine and Steam Frame are both "shipping this summer." The company is also expanding its Verified program beyond Steam Deck to cover the new hardware. "Steam Verified is a developer-focused program where game makers ensure that their titles are capable of running on the Deck (meaning they'll run fine under Linux), that the UI elements and text are readable at standard resolutions, and that sensible... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: There's been a lot of pushback in recent months around the impact of AI data centers on local communities, with the use of water being a key issue for many. Google, in an expansion of its "water stewardship" programs, is making commitments that include replenishing more water than it uses at its data center sites. AI data centers go through a lot... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: The American Business Software Alliance (BSA) does not consider mandatory open-source licensing to be an appropriate indicator of sovereignty. This is among the "pointed messages" they sent to the French government consultation (closed) today. "What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a company files its corporate papers," said Thomas Boue of BSA. "Criteria of this kind raise costs,... Read more ›
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The UK's Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tender notice published in February 2025, the contract covers around 17 percent of payments made... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit's repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history, that is, in case you're not aware, not very good for... Read more ›
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Bitcoin briefly fell below $60,000 on Friday, "extending its weekly loss to nearly 20% and threatening to fall below $59,000," reports CoinDesk. Crypto was also hit by a 40%-plus plunge in Zcash after Shielded Labs disclosed a years-old bug that could have allowed undetected counterfeit ZEC creation. From the report: Now, with stocks in plunge mode -- the Nasdaq down nearly 4% on Friday -- bitcoin finds itself perfectly correlated.... Read more ›
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Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term "bridge capacity" to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contract to bolster its pitch for a historic public offering. TechCrunch reports: The deal is similar in... Read more ›
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A security researcher says evidence suggests the U.S. military has been using an obscure GPS message field for nearly 20 years to broadcast encrypted key-distribution data, effectively turning GPS satellites into a global "numbers station." The hidden-looking 176-bit messages appear tied to the Pentagon's Over-the-Air Distribution system for remotely updating cryptographic keys, meaning ordinary GPS receivers may have been receiving the traffic all along without anyone outside the military noticing.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different -- and typically smaller -- reactor designs, only one of them has been fully licensed so far, and there are no plans to actually build any... Read more ›
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