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The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt from the announcement: For 30 years, KDE has been providing the free and open-source software essential for digital sovereignty in personal, corporate, and pu
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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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It’s Thursday, June 4, 2026, and the AI race just changed arenas. The smarter models are now table stakes. The real war is for the atoms: who controls the chips, the gigawatts of power, the cloud capacity, the regulatory guardrails, ... Read more ›
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Annie Nicol, 76, is homeschooling her grandson, who lives with her son in a tiny home on her property to live frugally. Read more ›
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The annual percentage yield (APY) for the Apple Card's savings account was lowered from 3.5% to 3.4% this week. If you deposited $1,000 in the account and maintained that balance for one year, you would earn $34 in interest at this APY. Tag: Apple CardThis article, "Apple Card Savings Account's Interest Rate Lowered" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums Read more ›
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Samsung is following in the footsteps of Fitbit's big Google Health rebrand and totally changing its Health app. Read more ›
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After around two years in testing, Meta's AI Business Agent is now rolling out across WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and more. Read more ›
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Я — Денис, и в последнее время мне интересна тема кассет и винила. Хочу в этой статье рассказать про один из самых удачных, по моему мнению, плееров среди новоделов в индустрии ретро-девайсов. Читать далее Read more ›
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Google’s wired Nest Doorbell gets a straight $40 price drop, making it a great time to buy. Read more ›
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It sounds as though developer Insomniac's Wolverine game is far narrower in scope than its Spider-Man games. There won't be a wider city to explore in the way Spider-Man swings around New York, nor will there be a base of operations for downtime between missions (any hopes of exploring Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters have been squashed now Insomniac has confirmed the X-Men don't exist here). In Marvel's Wolverine, the... Read more ›
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Monterey Park says no to data centers, as public opinion turns against AI and the infrastructure required to power it. Read more ›
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Amazon wants warehouse workers to stop programming robots and start talking to them. At an event near London on Thursday, the e-commerce giant introduced an upgraded version of Proteus, its autonomous warehouse robot, capable of responding to employees’ conversational instructions. ... Read more ›
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It's almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn't have to be this way. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more have ramped up content authentication efforts over the last year, with many now automatically applying labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators. That's all very […] Read more ›
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AI toys could compromise children's relationships with their parents, NYU professor Jonathan Haidt said. Read more ›
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Bitcoin's drop reflects capital rotation into AI, Saylor argues, but the bears have a darker reason. Read more ›
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Грант — смешная штука. Пока его не получил, кажется, что это просто деньги на развитие: сделал заявку, выиграл, запустил проект, молодец. А потом открываешь документы и понимаешь: вместе с поддержкой получил еще и набор обещаний, которые теперь надо выполнить.В заявке уже написано, что именно вы сделаете, за какие деньги, в какие сроки, с какими показателями и чем потом докажете, что все это действительно случилось.И если заявку писали одни люди, а... Read more ›
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Living in Denmark challenged one American mother's ideas about parenting, independence, and the pressure to constantly optimize childhood. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money laundering,... Read more ›
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Robinhood is launching beta support for a new feature that will let AI agents make payments and trade stocks on users' behalf. The company is also rolling out a virtual credit card for AI agents, with spending limits and approval controls. TechCrunch reports: Robinhood said users on its platform can now create a separate account for their AI agents and connect them to a dedicated wallet. While these agents would... Read more ›
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IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called "Project Lightwell," which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: The technology giant Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands' regulatory agencies to the US House of Representatives. The civil servants affected by the leak work at the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), according to the NL Times. They are involved in implementing the Digital Services... Read more ›
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Valve's Steam Deck has sold out again despite a steep price increase that pushed the 1TB OLED model as high as $949 -- about $300 above its original price. "Even with the $300 price bump, the Steam Deck sold out after less than 24 hours back in stock," reports IGN's Jacqueline Thomas. "I don't know how many units Valve was able to stock into its store, but it does seem... Read more ›
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Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday passed a landmark AI safety bill (SB 315) that would require major AI companies to publish safety plans, submit annual third-party testing reports, report serious incidents quickly, and protect whistleblowers who flag emerging risks. OpenAI and Anthropic supported the bill, which could make Illinois a testing ground for state-level AI governance as federal regulation remains stalled. Ars Technica reports: To force companies to be more transparent... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In an era where Silicon Valley's conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it's strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of today's tech industry means that its products tend to also be seen as serving right-wing interests, either in their actual operation (like X's openly and unrepentantly... Read more ›
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expected best-in-class benchmark results, but there's also particular attention to how the model manages bad or uncertain data.... Read more ›
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A new Grundfos report warns that Europe's datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load is about 10 GW today, and is expected to rise to 35 GW by 2030 -- just four years away. These facilities account for about 3... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the most common type of lithium-bearing mineral. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve... Read more ›
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