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Remember Bard? It was the original name of Google’s AI chatbot, but the Gemini brand long ago replaced it. Just as you’ve likely forgotten that history, you’re not likely to remember Rufus in 12 months’ time, either. Rufus, the name of Amazon’s AI-powered shopping chatbot, got tossed on Wednesday and replaced with Amazon’s well-established Alexa virtual assistant brand name. I could make lots of jokes about what a terrible name Rufus was (although it was my grandfather’s first name, so I won’t do that). Let
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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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Prime Day 2026 drops the Google Pixel 10a to its lowest price ever, pairing Tensor G4 power with Google's AI tools. Read more ›
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The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is now $400 off in Amazon’s Prime Day sale, making the premium foldable a much more tempting prospect. Read more ›
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Compact flagship fans get a standout Pixel 10 Pro deal, with Amazon cutting $300 off the 128GB model for Prime Day. Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 10 is $250 off for Prime Day 2026, matching its lowest price we've tracked this year on Amazon. Read more ›
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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft combines reading, handwritten notes, and document markup. Read more ›
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Even Apple is getting in on the Prime Day action, with a discount you're unlikely to see any other time of the year. Read more ›
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A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō. The discovery reveals that volcanoes and climate upheaval were reshaping the country’s wildlife and driving extinctions long before humans arrived. Read more ›
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Amazon's newest Kindle Paperwhite gets a teasing Prime Day price cut. Read more ›
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Valve has finally decided to put a launch date and sale price on its Steam Machine gaming PC. The 512GB version is priced at $1049, and the 2TB version is $1349. However, those are the prices without a controller. If you want Valve’s Steam Controller, you will have to opt for the bundle, which is $1128 for the 512GB model, and $1428 for the 2TB model. You don’t have to... Read more ›
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Класс угроз в корпоративной безопасности «Insider threat» подразумевает два сценария: кто ушёл, но остался в системе — и кто ещё здесь, но уже уходит. Это разные угрозы, и они требуют разных инструментов. Два кейса из AI Innovation Lab — о том, как AI закрывает оба. Читать далее Read more ›
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Amazon's most compact Kindle gets an eye-catching Prime Day discount. Read more ›
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Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of French video game publisher Ubisoft, reportedly died in a plane crash. Read more ›
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The IPO of insurtech company Turtlemint continued to witness a lukewarm response on the final day of bidding, with the… Read more ›
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19 июня Линус Торвальдс влил merge, который убрал из ядра Linux функцию strncpy — шесть лет работы, 362 коммита, семьдесят человек ради одной функции стандартной библиотеки C. Разбираю, почему «просто заменить небезопасную функцию» в C совсем не просто: strncpy только выглядит как «безопасный strcpy» из-за параметра n, а на деле это даже не строковая функция, а реликт fixed-width полей из AT&T Unix 1979 года. Главное в истории не сам выпил,... Read more ›
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Цифровая трансформация сегодня — не отдельный проект, а основа конкурентоспособности любой крупной компании. Скорость изменений на рынке ритейла и электронной коммерции требует от бизнеса ежедневных технологических решений, гибкости и готовности к экспериментам.О том, как меняется роль ИТ в крупной компании, почему амбициозные сроки важнее формального соблюдения дедлайнов, где искусственный интеллект уже приносит измеримый эффект, а где пока требует осторожности, рассказал генеральный директор ИТ-компании « Read more ›
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Google Wallet is great, but this new Apple Wallet upgrade is something it needs to add today! Read more ›
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Немного раннее я писал лонгрид о том, почему наступает выгорание и как с ним справляться. Это достаточно актуальная история для людей из IT, а особенно сегодня - во времена адаптации к работе с ИИ. Здесь хочу поделиться выжмкой из лонгрида. Конечно, это больше похоже на краткий перессказ, но постарался выделить главные мысли оттуда.Я знаю людей, которые ведут идеальный таск-менеджер, следят за почтой, делают ретроспективы, расставляют приоритеты — и всё равно... Read more ›
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SpaceX announced it agreed to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion on Tuesday. The announcement came only a few days after SpaceX went public at a valuation of about $1.77 trillion. Since the IPO, SpaceX stock has risen 42% to close on Monday at $193.50, valuing it at $2.5 trillion. The ... Read more ›
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Ornn, a startup that tracks the cost of computing power for artificial intelligence, has launched a service to track the price of tokens produced by the leading AI labs. The new benchmark comes as AI firms’ customers and financial backers search for better ways to track major AI costs. The Ornn ... Read more ›
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Polymarket and Kalshi are racing to turn more major events into opportunities to place bets, including everything from daily temperature highs during a New York City heat wave to the latest contestant to be eliminated from “Love Island,” the reality TV hit. That’s helped the young markets become high-profile sentiment gauges and generate meaningful revenue, with Kalshi’s annualized revenue hitting around $1.5 billion in May and Polymarket pacing at roughly... Read more ›
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Remember the last time Anthropic tussled with the Trump administration, all the way back in February, when a coterie of competing AI researchers and CEOs (even Sam Altman!) quickly came to Anthropic’s defense?Remember the last time Anthropic tussled with the Trump administration, all the way back in February, when a coterie of competing AI researchers and CEOs (even Sam Altman!) quickly came to Anthropic’s defense?That doesn’t seem to be happening... Read more ›
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The U.S. military used xAI’s Grok to help plan its bombing missions against Iran earlier this year, according to a court filing from a Pentagon official. A Grok model is deployed as part of Maven Smart Systems, a government AI service, to support “vital national security missions” including ... Read more ›
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Robinhood said on Tuesday it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 290 roles, and closing a small number of open roles, in an effort to stay lean. “Because our financial position is strong, we are making this change proactively,” CEO Vlad Tenev said in a note to employees. “We must be a lean, ... Read more ›
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Snap on Tuesday unveiled the latest version of its augmented reality glasses, Specs, as it tries to catch up to similar products from Meta Platforms and Google. The device, which will cost $2,195, will offer features like real-time translation, web browsing and video recording, and it will have ... Read more ›
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As AI spending has eaten into corporate budgets, generating concern over rising costs at Fortune 500 firms from Uber to ServiceNow and Snowflake, some companies are beginning to throttle employees’ usage. The latest is AT&T, which has begun limiting some employees’ access to Microsoft’s Github Copilot, according to a person at the company. In a more striking example, Meta is also limiting employees’ AI spending on services from Anthropic and... Read more ›
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The $12 billion valuation that Cyera snagged in a $600 million fundraise announced last week shows how hungry investors were for the cybersecurity startup’s AI-focused pitch. The five-year-old startup sells software that can protect companies’ data from hackers equipped with increasingly powerful AI tools—a threat highlighted by Anthropic’s warnings about the cyber capabilities of its Mythos model.For the VC fund Cyberstarts, the Cyera round gives it more bragging rights after... Read more ›
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The U.S. government’s latest battle with Anthropic has revived long-simmering concerns throughout the AI industry that the White House has placed a bullseye on their reliance on foreign AI talent. The Trump administration appears to have targeted only Anthropic so far, warning the company on Friday in a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that it would need a license to make its latest models available to “foreign persons,” including... Read more ›
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