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The IMF is warning that advanced AI-powered cyberattacks pose a serious threat to global financial stability. "IMF analysis suggests that extreme cyber-incident losses could trigger funding strains, raise solvency concerns, and disrupt broader markets," the lender warned in a new report. The report urged greater international cooperation and emphasized resilience, since breaches are "inevitable" -- particularly for emerging economies with weaker defenses. Agence France-Presse reports: The study's authors hi
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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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After quite a long wait (first made official in October, 2025), Google’s new Gemini-powered Home Speaker is available for pre-order at $99. According to the Google Store, shipments should begin arriving at doorsteps next Friday, so it’s not much longer of a wait for buyers. We are curious if this is a device people seem... Read the original post: Wednesday Poll: Are You Buying Google Home Speaker? Read more ›
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SanDisk has announced an expensive way to boost the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. The company's new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD is an officially licensed PS5 accessory in capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The largest option can store up to 200 PS5 games (based on average installation sizes) SanDisk claims, but thanks to […] Read more ›
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Action RPG Black Myth: Wukong broke records on its release in 2024. It attracted the biggest concurrent peak player count of any single-player game in Steam history and established itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese live-streaming platforms on its first day of release. Developer Game Science would go on to announce its Chinese mythology inspired action-RPG had sold over 10m copies just four days after its launch. Read more Read more ›
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With Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced right around the corner and Codename Hexe still brewing (mostly) in secret, Ubisoft is finally saying goodbye to last year's Assassin's Creed Shadows. Its very last content update has now been released, and while its focus is on wrapping up Naoe and Yasuke's storyline, it's a big one, leading directly into next month's pirate remake. Read more Read more ›
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A new Kapwing report found that 59% of videos shown to new TikTok accounts are AI slop, roughly three times the rate found on YouTube. Read more ›
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Современные LLM выглядят как магия.Вы задаёте вопрос на естественном языке, а модель отвечает кодом, объясняет квантовую механику или помогает проектировать распределённую систему. Если открыть типичную статью про GPT или Llama, вас почти сразу завалят терминами вроде Embeddings, Attention, KV Cache, Multi-Head Attention и Positional Encoding.Проблема в том, что большинство объяснений начинают с готового Transformer на десятки миллиардов параметров. Это примерно как объяснять устройство автомобиля сразу с к Read more ›
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival seems to perfectly capture the essence of the films. Read more ›
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Epic Games has revealed a new tool for Unreal Engine 5.8 which allows generative AI large language models (LLMs) to plug into and communicate with the engine directly, using its tools while being directed by text prompts. Read more Read more ›
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A new study suggests that once the global warming exceeds a certain threshold, weather impacts of super El Niños could become less severe. Read more ›
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Porsche's 2027 Taycan comes with eight virtual gears, steering wheel paddles, and shift jerks, alongside a factory Manthey Kit for the Turbo GT. Read more ›
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The brands lining up to buy a piece of Freddy are going to fail; it shows how little America's pull depends on marketing, and how much it depends on the country getting out of its own way. Read more ›
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Mastercard's Raja Rajamannar says that AI is both a threat and opportunity in marketing, emphasizing creativity's growing importance amid AI slop. Read more ›
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It’s an early experiment in adding a measure of accountability to an increasingly lawless internet. Read more ›
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An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games' request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio. Read more Read more ›
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As a longtime Trader Joe's shopper, some of my favorite items to buy cost less than $5. I always grab the vegetable fried rice and garlic naan. Read more ›
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Seattle has enacted a one-year moratorium on new datacenters, making it the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the ban. The Guardian reports: Lawmakers have framed the pause as an opportunity to draft regulations specifically targeting the electricity-hungry datacenters being built nationwide to serve the AI sector, and to protect local residents... Read more ›
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A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to scams and shady business practices, with the court rejecting Google's argument that users could simply check the sources themselves. The Decoder reports: Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results... Read more ›
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The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple's changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: "If you insist on trying out macOS 27 as soon as possible, please ensure you install a secondary copy of macOS 26 first, or install macOS 27 itself... Read more ›
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BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast "Flash Chargers" across Europe by the end of 2027, with the first stations already appearing in Germany and the UK. The Verge reports: At an estimated cost of 580,000 euros (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network. The 1,500kW charging stations are significantly more powerful than Tesla's 500kW... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech had gone too far and that it would relax the rules around what speech was allowed. "We have been over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate political debate and censoring too much trivial content and subjecting too many people... Read more ›
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Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cards and says it will stop restocking them as retailers sell through remaining inventory. In a blog post, the company blamed persistent gift card scams as the reason, though Steam Digital Gift Cards will remain available and existing physical cards can still be redeemed. PC Guide reports: Valve says it has "responded to gift card scams over the years" -- but this doesn't stop... Read more ›
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Visa is integrating its payment network with ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and complete purchases on users' behalf. "It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user's behalf, at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa," reports the Associated Press. "The payment network's previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a single retailer or a small set of enrolled merchants." From... Read more ›
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A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can spawn a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges through a Defender race condition. The release came just hours after Microsoft fixed two previously disclosed flaws during its latest monthly Patch Tuesday drop -- its largest Patch Tuesday release ever. BleepingComputer reports:... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. That's a dramatic shift in the U.S. power mix. Just five years ago, coal generated 19.7% of U.S. electricity in May, while... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction. "If you simply ask someone to start walking, whether they are wandering around a museum, a supermarket, or even an empty room, it is surprisingly likely that they will drift counterclockwise," said Dr Inaki Echeverria Huarte at University of... Read more ›
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