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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Princeton University will soon require exams to be supervised for the first time in 100 years -- all thanks to students using artificial intelligence to cheat. For 133 years, the Ivy League school's honor code allowed students to take exams without a professor present, but on Monday, faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person exams starting this summer. A "significant" number of undergraduate students and faculty requested the change, "giv
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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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If you're a DeWalt brand loyalist when it comes to tools, you might want to check out these deals on some handy equipment you can use any time. Read more ›
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Experts are calling for more EV repairability, as range-focussed battery packs could seriously hurt residual values Read more ›
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OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and catch up, including by cutting back on "side quests," […] Read more ›
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A Bitcoin holder reportedly recovered 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000 with the help of Anthropic's Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they changed their wallet password while "stoned" and forgot it, unable to regain access for more than 11 years. Tom's Hardware reports: After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude... Read more ›
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A key piece of crypto legislation passed the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, moving one step closer to becoming law and handing a win to the crypto industry in a political battle against the banking lobby. The crypto market structure bill, called the Clarity Act, would set clear rules for ... Read more ›
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Графические нейронки подарили редакторам сайтов, телеграм-каналов и прочим вебмастерам хорошую возможность – создать иллюстрации по текстовому описанию. Текст есть, ИИ-генератор есть, в чем же проблема?Проблема не столько в том, что иллюстрация может не подойти к материалу или к стилю сайта. Проблема в том, что ИИ-модели, даже самые мощные, не так-то просто заставить креативить. То есть, выдавать что-то небанальное и интересное.Особенно если вы не готовы сформулировать максимально точно, что хотите получить Read more ›
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If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right now they’re on sale in Meta’s biggest deal event outside Black Friday. As part of the company’s Summer Sale event, which runs through May 26th, the original model is on sale starting at $224.25 ($74 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Meta, matching […] Read more ›
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Дело было в девяностых годах прошлого века.Время беспокойное. Страна развалилась, люди обеднели, многие пытались уехать за границу. Особенно успешно отъезды получались у девушек, которые находили заграничных женихов.На этой ниве процветали брачные агентства, которые помогали с перепиской и оформлением документов. Но некоторые девушки пытались решить такие проблемы самостоятельно.И вот, ко мне обратилась за помощью одна знакомая. Хочу, говорит, вести переписку без агентства. Нужен компьютер и интернет.- Хоро Read more ›
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OpenAI appears to be headed into conflict with another big name partner, Apple. The AI startup is considering legal action against Apple over breach of contract related to the ChatGPT integration deal it announced with Apple two years ago, said an OpenAI employee familiar with the matter. The AI company has been trying to improve its relationship with Apple over the past few months, but there’s been a lack of... Read more ›
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Manny A. Varas, Miami developer known as the "Billionaire's Builder," discusses luxury home trends and what his wealthy clients want in their homes. Read more ›
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Swatch and Audemars Piguet's Royal Pop drop has fans camping in Times Square. The pocket watch collaboration has drawn excitement and division. Read more ›
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The mini projector is 35% off right now, featuring 1080P resolution and a smart design that transforms your viewing. Read more ›
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The distinction between various flavors of HDMI can get a bit technical. Read more ›
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The trial is wrapping up with closing arguments on Thursday, so it's time to speculate! Read more ›
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Google is testing a new feature for Android phones that will learn from your usage habits and automatically recommend suggestions. The feature which is called Contextual suggestions is buried inside the Google services settings and the folks over at 9to5Google were able to access it on several Pixel 10 series devices (including the 10a) running Android 16 with Google Play services version 26.18. Contextual suggestions on Pixel 10a (credit: 9to5Google)... Read more ›
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Companies including Philips and Pandora say they plan to seek tariff reimbursements after the Supreme Court ruled Trump's sweeping duties illegal, with the U.S. potentially facing up to $175 billion in refunds. Many firms say tariffs hurt earnings, but CFO survey results suggest companies applying for refunds are unlikely to pass savings back to consumers through lower prices. CNBC reports: Companies across Europe are flagging disruption from tariffs as a... Read more ›
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In honor of World Password Day, Kaspersky researchers revisited their study on the crackability of real-world passwords and found that 60% of MD5-hashed passwords could be cracked in under an hour with a single Nvidia RTX 5090, and 48% could be cracked in under a minute. "The bottom line is that passwords protected only by fast hashing algorithms such as MD5 are no longer safe if attackers obtain them in... Read more ›
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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 Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI ended its second week, the Tesla CEO started scoring points against Sam Altman. His witnesses landed three solid punches in testimony about how Altman runs OpenAI as CEO, raising concerns about his dedication to AI safety, the nonprofit's mission, and his honesty as a leader of the organization. [...] This week, Musk's legal... Read more ›
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Wired describes the recent Canvas breach as an unusually disruptive ransomware-style extortion incident because one attack on Instructure's learning platform temporarily paralyzed thousands of schools during finals and end-of-year assignments. The hackers using the "ShinyHunters" name claim more than 8,800 schools were affected, while Instructure says exposed data included names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and platform messages. From the report: Higher education has long been a target of ransomwar Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt construction company. It took 14 hours and used a massive pontoon ship built specifically... Read more ›
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Cloudflare plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, or more than 1,100 employees, as it restructures around an "agentic AI-first operating model." Reuters reports: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn said in a message to employees that the company was reimagining every team and function to operate in what they described as an agentic AI era. Cloudflare said the job cuts reflect a redesign of internal processes... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy's Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all,... Read more ›
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Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It's still unclear which Apple products would use Intel-made chips, but the deal would mark a major potential win for Intel's foundry ambitions and give Apple another manufacturing option beyond TSMC. Read more of this... Read more ›
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