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In 2016 an online "swarm intelligence" platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren't even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems performed in 2023, 2024, and 2025 — but their predictions were still pretty bad. Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026?
This year's winner was 24-to-1 longshot "Golden Tempo" — though a lot of oddsmakers had favored a horse named Further Ado (whic
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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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Coway's most popular air purifier gets an upgrade in looks and purification strength, though I wish it had wheels and an app. Read more ›
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In Y Combinator's "Startup School," partner Diana Hu advocated for startups to begin tokenmaxxing — with leaner staff. Read more ›
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Philosophy majors are being recruited by AI companies to help decide how machines should think and behave. Read more ›
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The video game doesn't replace real training, Ukraine's defense ministry added, but it's "a great way to relax." Read more ›
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1980s muscle cars may not have been as cool as their '60s predecessors, but there were still plenty of cool ones - and some that look even better now. Read more ›
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Sam Altman asked GPT what it would like for its launch celebration. Its suggestions included toasts from its creators (but not the AI itself). Read more ›
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You've probably felt it — that slightly hollow, going-through-the-motions quality when an AI interaction goes flat. Science is starting to explain why that happens, and who's responsible for it. Read more ›
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Одной из главных задач любой компании является быть более конкурентоспособной, чем другие компании, занимающиеся аналогичным бизнесом. Для этого существует достаточно много способов, которые пытаются реализовать руководители компаний. Однако эти разные способы объединяет одно – они касаются главным образом повышению эффективности операционных процессов и производительности труда участвующих в них сотрудников. Однако деятельность компании не ограничивается только операционными процессами. Мало кто обращает в Read more ›
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TL;DRЯ сделал библиотеку для генерации PDF на Java, в которой:Документ описывается семантически (модули, секции, параграфы, таблицы, слои), а не через moveTo/lineTo/showText.Layout и рендер — это два разных прохода. Геометрия резолвится один раз, потом её рисуют. Поэтому документ можно тестировать до того, как написан хотя бы один байт PDF.Под капотом — ECS-архитектура в стиле игровых движков: Entity / Component / System. Сущности документа лежат в EntityManager, компоненты прицепляются и снимаются, системы Read more ›
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В этой подборке — несколько устройств, которые сложно отнести к одной категории. Здесь есть гибрид накопителя и мини-ПК, клавиатура с встроенным экраном, карманный компьютер на Raspberry Pi, самодельная «печатная машинка» и смартфон с E Ink-дисплеем. У всех разная идея, но объединяет их одно: они сильно отличаются от «коллег». А некоторые так и вообще уникальны. Практически у всех явно не будет большого спроса, поскольку они заточены под определенные сценарии. Но тем... Read more ›
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Lindsey Hall came across a conversation her boyfriend had with ChatGPT that included harsh thoughts about her. She said it ended their relationship. Read more ›
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Зачем колонизировать Луну, Марс, Венеру, Ганимед и Титан, а также пояс астероидов, а затем Альфа Центавра и другие звёздные системы за его пределами?Среди распространённых ответов на этот вопрос — выживание, ресурсы и крутость. Колонизация других планет и далёких миров обеспечила бы выживание человечества даже в случае катастрофы на Земле (включая неизбежный конец Солнечной системы через несколько миллиардов лет). Это позволило бы нам использовать огромные запасы полезных ископаемых и энергетических ресурсо Read more ›
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Can smart glasses help you hear better? As a hearing-impaired person, I wore the Nuance Audio high-tech smart specs to find out if they work. Read more ›
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Despite your intelligence and track record of success, these invisible mental traps are silently sabotaging your most important decisions—and the smarter you are, the more vulnerable you become to their influence. Read more ›
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The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase Americans' sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with... Read more ›
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It's "the curious case of... the Pokémon Go pro who celebrated too hard," reports the gaming news site Aftermath. It all started on the first weekend in April... Firestar73, a competitive Pokémon Go player who placed seventh at last year's world championships, managed to narrowly cinch a game-five finals win at the 2026 Pokémon Orlando Regional Championships after battling his way out of the dreaded losers' bracket. As stress and... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing "brain breaks" in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, "including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation." Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little... To engage students, teachers say they often feel the need to deliver teaching not only in shorter bursts,... Read more ›
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In March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the moon-orbiting "Lunar Gateway" space station was being "paused" to focus instead of missions to the moon's surface. And Ars Technica agrees that the project was essentially "spending billions of dollars to make it more difficult to reach the lunar surface and faced the prospect of watching Chinese astronauts wander around on the Moon from orbit instead of being there themselves." "But... Read more ›
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Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World: [I]t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the laptop already sold out. [A later Framework social media post added "Spoke too soon, we're onto Batch 8."] "Also nice validation of our approach, the Ubuntu configurations are outselling the Windows ones!"... Read more ›
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How will Apple change in September under its new CEO — former hardware chief John Ternus? The blog Geeky Gadgets is already expecting "significant updates to the iPhone over the next three years," as well as streamlined internal engineering (plus durability enhancements and high-capacity batteries). 2026: Foldable display 2027: Bezel-less iPhone 20 (celebrating the iPhone's 20th anniversary) CNET's web sites (which include ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable and Lifehacker) are even hosting... Read more ›
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"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde: I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out of them. They were small, sexy, and... they ran Unix! Unfortunately, they were a commercial failure. There were so many things wrong with them — not just stuff that broke, but the baseline configuration was nigh on worthless. I recently was able to get... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an "everything app" with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month... Early users testing the service have touted competitive perks, including 3% cash back on eligible purchases and a 6% interest rate on cash savings... Read more ›
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Are AI agents already facing Indirect Prompt Injection attacks? Google's Threat Intelligence teams searched for known attacks that would target AI systems browsing the web, using Common Crawl's repository of billions of pages from the public web). We observed a number of websites that attempt to vandalize the machine of anyone using AI assistants. If executed, the commands in this example would try to delete all files on the user's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres: Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene... Now the Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants... Read more ›
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