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Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world's leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A's account for nearly two-thirds of all undergraduate letter grades. That's up from roughly a quarter 20 years ago. More than 50 member
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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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Moneybox crowned Europe’s newest unicorn as it gears up to test London’s Pisces market Read more ›
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Production AI changes infrastructure economics in ways most teams underestimate. Read more ›
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — On a sweltering afternoon in June, I stood in what was essentially a roadside ditch. Sandwiched between a four-lane highway and the parking lot of a faith-based recreation center near Birmingham, the ditch was filled with cool, flowing water, a bit of trash, and, apparently, some highly endangered fish. Jeffrey Drummond, a […] Read more ›
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The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online. Read more ›
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Southeast Asia tech funding hit $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, up 130% from a year earlier, according to Tracxn. Singapore absorbed 94% of it, and a single data centre firm accounted for more than half the regional total. Southeast Asia tech funding reached $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, more ... Read more ›
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Wherever you go in the UK technology industry right now, one word comes up again and again: sovereignty. It is a priority for government, and increasingly a focus in boardrooms. For good reason. The world has become more uncertain. Geopolitics, trade tensions and security concerns are starting to shape how organisations think about their technology ... Read more ›
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Nearly three years ago, I showed you an awesome $8 cable tester that quickly tells you if your USB-C cable is likely fast, slow, powerful, or weak. Sadly, that gadget got discontinued, and I've never found anything as intuitive or inexpensive since. But if you've got a Mac with Apple Silicon chips, you can simply […] Read more ›
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Arizona gambling regulators have expanded their enforcement campaign against unlicensed online gambling operators, issuing cease-and-desist orders to five platforms after… Continue reading Arizona orders five online gambling operators to halt activities Read more ›
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DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a complicated choice for businesses. Read more ›
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Есть большая и сложная система сборки Gradle и андроид-плагин AGP для установки большей части компонентов Android SDK, необходимых для вашего приложения. Но что, если вам не хочется руками устанавливать Android Studio, Android SDK, cmake, scrcpy и прочие нужные вещи? Здесь на помощь приходит mise — при кажущейся простоте он умеет все, что нам нужно. Читать далее Read more ›
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Microsoft is the latest hyperscaler to blame AI for rising emissions, at 25%, following similar rises from Google (25%) and Amazon (16%). Read more ›
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She spent a year trying to stay in tech. The industry's obsession with AI drove her to pursue a career in nursing. Read more ›
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Год назад я уже делал обзор на девайс TerraMaster F8 Pro, если интересно то эта статья есть в моем профиле. Это довольно необычный NAS, полностью построенный вокруг NVMe-накопителей. Устройство получилось действительно быстрым, но после публикации обзора многие читатели задали вполне закономерный вопрос: Читать далее Read more ›
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Пользователи допускают опечатки при регистрации, и база данных постепенно превращается в хаос. Мы столкнулись с этим в одном из наших проектов в компании, где система поддерживала артистов и помогала координировать выступления.Меня зовут Илья Новиков, я технический директор компании «Исходный код».Ранее карточки артистов создавались автоматически на основе заявок на выступления. Поначалу это казалось вполне приемлемым: артист подает заявку, система создает карточку, администраторы могут с ней работать.На пр Read more ›
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Apple faced pressure from the White House to use Intel's chipmaking plants while it was negotiating relief from semiconductor tariffs last summer, reports The Wall Street Journal ($). In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports – a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line. Apple reportedly secured an exemption... Read more ›
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Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg: The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kronor, or roughly $8.2 billion, in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown... The Swedish price-comparison website argued that Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search... Read more ›
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Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect. The government says the changes will also give the eSafety Commissioner more power to demand information from platforms and age-assurance providers as teens continue finding ways around the law. Euronews reports: The government said Sunday it... Read more ›
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Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen from about an hour to 35 minutes. Axios reports: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social... Read more ›
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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027, nearly 10 years after the console's launch. In its place, the company will release updated versions of the Switch 2 and several controllers with user-replaceable batteries to comply with new EU regulations. The Verge reports: The news comes as Nintendo is making a bunch of changes to the rest of its lineup due to EU regulations requiring user-replaceable... Read more ›
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Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business. "Our business is changing because the world around it is changing. The way technology is built, deployed, and used is transforming faster than at any point in my time here," said Amy Coleman, EVP and chief people officer at Microsoft. "Our customers' needs are shifting,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of user trust." Last week, a web developer known as "Thereallo" was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using "prompt steganography" to... Read more ›
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The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey. "The core issue seems to be whether Xinuos even has the right to litigate the matter, or if some ancient legalese in the original agreements means the window for legal argument has long since expired," reports The Register.... Read more ›
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SK Hynix is launching a Nasdaq listing expected to raise about $28 billion, giving US investors easier access to one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI memory-chip boom. Reuters reports: The company will sell 17.79 million new shares in the depository receipt listing on the Nasdaq. Ten ADRs will represent one common share and the stock will be sold in a price range that is due to be revealed... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to... Read more ›
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locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year. The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item's molecular profile to an AI model... Read more ›
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