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Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg "personally authorized and actively encouraged" massive copyright infringement by using pirated books, journal articles, and web-scraped material to train Meta's Llama AI systems. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it will fight the case, arguing that courts have recognized AI training on copyrighted material as potentially fair use. Variety reports: "In their effort to win the AI 'arms race' and build a f
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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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Sherpa.ai, a company specialisingin artificial intelligence for data privacy and security, has raised $18million in a funding round to accelerate the development of its AI platform forenterprises and ... Read more ›
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Veteran trader Peter Brandt said gold is going to gain substantially on bitcoin. Read more ›
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Swiss photonics startup Aylight has raised€4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round to support the development of itschip-scale multiwavelength laser technology. The round was co-led by Elaia andSwissc... Read more ›
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Локальная LLM может тормозить и галлюцинировать при полностью «зелёном» мониторинге. Рассказываем, что мониторить помимо инфраструктуры, как устроена трассировка через OpenTelemetry. Плюс два кейса: фрагментация видеопамяти GPU и молчаливый отказ RAG. Читать далее Read more ›
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Alibaba Group and ByteDance will stop offering their chatbot apps’ features that enable users to create their own personalized AI agents, as Beijing prepares to enforce new rules on humanlike AI interactions. ByteDance’s Doubao, China’s most popular AI app by users, and its rival Qwen from ... Read more ›
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Клиент - производитель строительных материалов.Каждый день на погрузку стройматериалов приезжают десятки фур. При этом, габариты паллет, на которых грузят материалы, фиксированы жестко, а вот реальные размеры машин — нет. Внешне кузов может выглядеть ровным прямоугольником, а внутри могут быть скрыты «сюрпризы»: заниженная к кабине крыша, выгнутые борта или самодельные крючки на дверных стойках. Глазом эту кривизну не оценить. В момент погрузки, вилочный погрузчик заносит паллету шириной 2,40 метра, а она... Read more ›
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Heavy volume pushed XRP through resistance, but sellers met the move near $1.16 and left traders watching whether former resistance can now hold as support. Read more ›
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A stalling rebound in AI and chip stocks and a stronger dollar kept the mood cautious as the second half gets underway. Read more ›
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The iPhone Ultra, Apple’s foldable phone, is rumored to go official in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. However, a new report suggests the foldable iPhone won't be available for pre-orders immediately after its unveiling, with shipments likely to begin at a later date. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the iPhone Ultra will be available in limited quantities at launch due to manufacturing challenges. As a result, pre-orders are... Read more ›
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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and the Abu Dhabi Housing Authority will offer UAE nationals instant Shari'a-compliant home financing approvals through a shared digital Read more ›
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Base44 said its new AI model aims to be faster, burn through fewer credits, and produce better designs than frontier models. We put it to the test. Read more ›
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Thought Machine just hit $100m ARR. Its CEO wants to double it before going public Read more ›
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Corbin and Parmida were dumped on 'Love Island USA' after a public vote, and the internet is mourning the loss of CorbinGPT. Read more ›
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Разобраться как были устроены исторические типы памяти интересно просто чтобы в очередной раз восхититься, каким изощренным и изворотливым может быть человеческий разум, особенно при нехватке ресурсов. Читать далее Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Mexico vs England replays and highlights for free online – without any spoilers after the most controversial game of the FIFA World Cup 2026 so far. Read more ›
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USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff's office: Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington's peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office... The smallest amount lost was $3,500, which someone purchased in Apple gift cards for a scammer posing as an employee with Microsoft technical support, the sheriff's office... Read more ›
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The planets Neptune and Uranus may be better described as "magma-ocean giants" rather than "ice giants," according to a team of researchers from the University of California. Gizmodo reports: While the Voyager flyby confirmed the planets' classification as ice giants... [a]s the least explored planets in the solar system, the two planets have never been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, scientists aren't sure where the planets originally formed in the early solar... Read more ›
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IBM has unveiled "what it says is the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip technology," reports ZDNet, "designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM's earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021... Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors." At the heart of the announcement is NanoStack. This is a three-dimensional, nanosheet-based transistor design that scales... Read more ›
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"Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves," reports the New York Times. "Just how many jobs will AI upend?" asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the new coalition says it's time to ready the U.S. workforce for a "major" disruption —... Read more ›
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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch: Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature... Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next... Read more ›
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Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly... Read more ›
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