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Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: "The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an 'agile' makeup -- comprising smaller, siloed squads -- and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects." OMG, as they say: "Sudden outbreak of common sense." According to the Boston Globe, Fidelity is cutting about 1,000 jobs even as it plans to hire roughly 5,300 new workers, many of them early-career engineers. Half of the 3,300 new worke
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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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I excelled in biology, but it wasn't my passion. I eventually fell into a career my mom knew I was suited for all along. Read more ›
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Rather than seeing astrology as some mystical prediction tool, some modern users and app developers frame its symbolism as a prompt for self-reflection. Recognizing this shift, apps such as Hint.app combine artificial intelligence (AI) technology with traditional astrological systems in an effort to connect symbolic interpretation with psychology-inspired reflection. In this model, astrology functions less […] Read more ›
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iQOO started teasing the upcoming 15T yesterday, and today the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo has revealed its full specs. The phone allegedly comes with a 6.83-inch QHD+ flat OLED screen, a dual rear camera system (200MP + 50MP), a 16MP selfie camera, and support for 100W wired charging. iQOO 15T official image It's powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC, and will have a... Read more ›
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In less than a year, Xpeng updated its Tesla-rivaling G6 model with over 20,000 incremental developments and I’ve driven it Read more ›
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Some Apple Watch models included a dash of red on the digital crown for years, but Apple abruptly stopped adding it with Series 10 models. How come? Read more ›
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Почему понимание токенов, весов и словарей — ключ к продуктивной работе с AI-агентами. Первая глава цикла “Битва за контекст”. Читать далее Read more ›
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Chinese tech giant Tencent has sold its entire 1.05% stake in insurtech platform PolicyBazaar’s parent entity PB Fintech via a… Read more ›
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This Mother's Day, Megelin is slashing prices on its best-selling laser and LED devices. Read more ›
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The Senate Banking Committee announced it would hold its markup hearing for the Clarity Act on March 14. Read more ›
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Apple and Intel are reportedly exploring a manufacturing partnership that could reshape how future Apple chips are produced. But despite the headline, this does not mean Apple is abandoning Apple Silicon or returning to Intel-powered Macs. According to a new Wall Street Journal report, Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to […] Read more ›
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Finding something to watch on Prime Videos may soon feel more like scrolling Shorts than browsing a streaming menu. Read more ›
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Представьте ситуацию: у вас есть робот на колёсах, небольшой дрон или просто симулятор телеметрии на учебном стенде. Wi-Fi поблизости нет, радиоканал нестабилен, а из связи — только SIM-карта с минимальным интернетом. Возникает логичный вопрос: как передавать координаты или телеметрию без SMS, звонков и специализированного оборудования?Один из самых неожиданных вариантов — использовать обычные сообщения во ВКонтакте.Звучит странно, но как учебный эксперимент это работает удивительно неплохо. В этой статье р Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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The Department of War just dumped a huge batch of UFO files, but does it have proof of aliens? Here's what we make of it. Read more ›
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As Lenskart’s six month IPO lock-in period expired yesterday, existing backers sold the eyewear giant’s shares worth at least ₹3,861.1… Read more ›
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With watchOS 26.5, Apple is introducing a Pride Luminance face, and it's one of the most versatile and customizable watch faces. There are pre-configured color options, but the face also supports custom colors. You can select 1 to 12 colors from a palette that has every color of the rainbow, some in-between shades, and black, white, brown, and gray. The colors you pick are distributed across the watch face in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain -- meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly... Read more ›
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NASA engineers have tested a next-generation lithium-plasma electric propulsion system that reached 120 kilowatts, a new U.S. record and about 25 times the power of the electric thrusters on NASA's Psyche spacecraft. "Designing and building these thrusters over the last couple of years has been a long lead-up to this first test," said James Polk, who is a senior research scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's a huge moment... Read more ›
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GameStop is reportedly preparing a potential offer for eBay, an unusually ambitious move given that eBay's roughly $46 billion market value is nearly four times GameStop's. Reuters reports: GameStop is preparing an offer for eBay as CEO Ryan Cohen pursues plans to boost the struggling videogame retailer's market value more than tenfold, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Shares of eBay, which has a market capitalization of about $46... Read more ›
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The once-a-year free comic book giveaway "is splitting in two," according to a local news report. Launched in 2002 by Diamond Comic Distributor, comic book giants like Marvel and DC have historically participated together. But things changed after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankrupt in 2025, "leaving other companies to swoop in and pick up where Diamond left off." The rights to the "Free Comic Book Day" brand were sold to... Read more ›
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Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it's roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two years... Read more ›
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This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients. But... Read more ›
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Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug-of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price... Read more ›
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"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet... Read more ›
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Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company —... Read more ›
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