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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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A new biodegradable device made from gelatin, table salt, and activated charcoal can generate electricity from humidity in the air, opening new possibilities for battery-free wearable tech. Read more ›
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В четыре проекта Laravel-Lang был внедрён вредоносный код, предположительно, ворующий креды с устройств, на которых он запускался.Под удар попали популярные проекты - Lang, Actions, Attributes и HTTP Statuses.Инцидент касается не только Laravel... Узнать подробности Read more ›
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There are huge discounts on Garmin watches this weekend, and I'm rounding up the top deals, including up to 35% off the Vivoactive 6, Forerunner 265, and Instinct 3. Read more ›
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Former Credit Suisse global head of portfolio and Risk Dimensions CIO Mark Connors says bitcoin has broken out of its longest stretch of underperformance in history and is ready to beat stocks, bonds, and gold as inflation stubbornly sticks around. Read more ›
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I've finally found time to dive into the sixth Monkey Island game, which originally came out in 2022. Read more ›
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For its 10th anniversary, the Crunchyroll Anime Awards gave out wins to 'My Hero Academia,' 'Demon Slayer,' and...'Lazarus'? Read more ›
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The ownership setup of Murphy USA gas stations changed when its parent company, Murphy Oil Company, began focusing on independent exploration and production. Read more ›
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The Free Software Foundation announced this week that "its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far." (And new dates and locations are being added daily.) The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›
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Equal1's RacQ fits seamlessly into a standard Dell frame for easy future deployment. Read more ›
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В этой статье я расскажу о интересной находке во время моих экспериментов с языковыми моделями, которую я решил назвать "мета-трансформерами".Или я нашел реально что-то интересное, или выдал желаемое из действительное, а обьективную оценку может дать только (технически подкованный) внешний наблюдатель, поэтому этот текст и был опубликован. Особенно тут кстати будут спецы по архитектуре трансформеров. Все подробности в статье. Читать далее Read more ›
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Apple has announced the expansion of sleep apnea notifications and hearing test features to India. Sleep apnea is a condition in which a person's breathing momentarily stops during sleep, preventing the body from getting enough oxygen. If left untreated, it can lead to health consequences over time, including increased risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiac issues. Apple Watch helps its users detect signs of sleep apnea. It's done... Read more ›
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If you use a MacBook and have never thought of yourself as a gamer, these three story-driven games are easy to get into, emotionally sharp, and surprisingly hard to forget. Read more ›
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Starbucks is scrapping its AI-powered inventory tool across North America after the system reportedly struggled with frequent counting and labeling errors. Read more ›
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В своёй работе мне часто необходимо подключаться к серверам через SSH и по другим протоколам. Часто эти сервера не имеют доменного имени, а подключаться необходимо по IP‑адресу. Когда этих серверов 2-3, ещё как-то запоминаешь что на каком сервере находится. Но когда их становится больше 10, то помнить что находится на xxx.xxx.xxx.115, а что на yyy.yyy.yyy.71 проблематично. Выход есть, можно дать этим адресам локальные доменные имена.Привет! Меня зовут Игорь, я занимаюсь... Read more ›
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Apple Preview has quietly grown into one of the most powerful apps on your Mac. From editing PDFs to removing image backgrounds, here are 7 things it can do that might surprise you. Read more ›
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Tevas straddle the line between style and functionality; they're the perfect vacation shoe. Read more ›
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I tested the reMarkable Paper Pure, and it's the reMarkable 3 in all but name. Read more ›
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"Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol," writes the Washington Post's "climate coach." The "chasing arrows" symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and more for decades. The majority of the items emblazoned with the mark have been virtually impossible to recycle for most... Read more ›
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"Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol," writes the Washington Post's "climate coach." The "chasing arrows" symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and more for decades. The majority of the items emblazoned with the mark have been virtually impossible to recycle for most... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that Apple's two-year-old partnership with OpenAI "has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter." Bloomberg describes OpenAI as "failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal action." OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near future, said the people, who asked not to be identified... Read more ›
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Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis "wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software," according to his entry on Wikipedia, "and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary OS." He's also KeithCu (long-time Slashdot reader #925,649), and has written a blog post on "How I added an LLM-based grammar checking + TeX math import to LibreOffice." : At Microsoft,... Read more ›
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"Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet," explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. "Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press..." Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies... The hardest problem with an infinite, on-demand encyclopedia is internal... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it's redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It's one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom's impact on everyday Americans... NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and... Read more ›
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Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier. Owners can continue reading ebooks that they've already downloaded, and they can also still sideload books using a USB cable (from, for example, Project Gutenberg). And PCMag points out that "There are plenty of e-stores where you can... Read more ›
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Computer Weekly reports on "the long-awaited reform of Britain's outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation's cyber security professionals and researchers for years." The Computer Misuse Act was passed 35 years ago in response to a high-profile hacking incident involving no less than the King's father, the late Duke of Edinburgh. It defined the offence of unauthorised access to a computer —... Read more ›
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xAI has launched Grok Build, "a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals' products, such as Anthropic's Claude Code," reports Engadget: As Bloomberg notes, xAI has been trying to catch up to its rival companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, previously admitted that it has fallen behind its competitors when it comes to coding. A couple of months ago,... Read more ›
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Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That's the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search results: This month, the programming language R matched its all-time high by reaching position #8 in the TIOBE index once again. This is not a coincidence. The statistical programming language market is clearly... Read more ›
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