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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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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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My husband and I retired to our Oregon farm and now share the home with our daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild. Read more ›
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Судебный процесс в арбитражном суде для коммерческой организации — это не просто правовой спор, а контролируемый инвестиционный проект со своими рисками, операционными затратами и прогнозируемой окупаемостью (ROI). Когда компания сталкивается с необходимостью защиты активов, взыскания убытков или оспаривания доначислений налогового органа, на первый план выходит финансовая составляющая. Информационное пространство перенасыщено коммерческими предложениями, где разброс цен на ведение одного и того же кейса мо Read more ›
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UK police are done waiting for tech companies to act and are now pushing the government to block under-16s from unsafe platforms entirely. Read more ›
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An Always On USB port is a handy feature, but it's not always easy to spot. We explain what it does and how to identify your USB ports with confidence. Read more ›
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В третьей части мы закончили с линейной регрессией. Теперь пора перейти к задаче классификации․В задачах регрессии модель пытается предсказать некоторое число: цену автомобиля, размер обуви, ожидаемую выручку бизнеса и так далее.Классификационная модель, в свою очередь, занимается распределением объектов по классам. Читать далее Read more ›
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On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word "disregard". Google's AI Overview responded "Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!" below an icon for hearing the word "disregard" pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace. "The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll..." Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI... Read more ›
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If you've been looking to build a 4K-ready but the prices during the AI boom has scared you off, we've got just the deal to start you off. You can grab AMD's top-tier Ryzen 9 9850X3D CPU and RX 9070 XT GPU for less than $1,000 right now on Newegg. You're getting a combined savings of almost $200 across both items. Read more ›
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Google says the casting issues affecting older Chromecast devices have now been resolved after users feared the company had quietly killed support for the aging hardware. Read more ›
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The World Happiness Report found that the more time you spend on social media, the greater the loss to your well-being, and young people in the West are feeling it the most. Read more ›
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Жил-был разработчик. Работал на Unity. Любил свою работу.Разработчик любил архитектуру. Поэтому подключил DI-контейнер. Потом второй, потому что в первом не было ScriptableObject-биндингов. Потом третий, потому что во втором не работали async scope. Везде была фабрика фабрик, IServiceProvider, который под капотом резолвил IServiceProviderFactory, и пять способов сконфигурировать один и тот же InventoryService.Разработчик любил чистый код. Поэтому развёл IInventoryService, IInventoryRepository, IInventoryFac Read more ›
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Mini-LED TVs are the better bet for your World Cup viewing, and there are a few key reasons why. Read more ›
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The Cinemagoal app retransmitted content from major platforms like Netflix and Disney+. Read more ›
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Всем привет!Хотелось бы поговорить о выбросах тепла ЦОД в атмосферу и способах его использования. Все уже слышали про прогрессивные скандинавские проекты, когда лишнее тепло ЦОД используется в разных отраслях: в ЖКХ, деревообработке и даже в общественных финских саунах.Все это красивые проекты, призванные популяризировать такой безотходный подход к использованию энергии. Но действительно ли он имеет практический смысл или это очередная мода на “зеленую” энергию? Давайте разбираться.В этой статье речь пойдет Read more ›
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Two men face years in prison after federal prosecutors charged them with creating troves of sexual AI deepfakes featuring real women. Read more ›
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"The vulnerability is simple in practice," writes Tom's Hardware: "run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine." And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports: Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-assisted memory safety system designed to make memory corruption... 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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