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Iran's government "wants to charge the world's largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz," reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran's state-linked media outlets "have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don't pay."
Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab countries to Europe and Asia. "We will impose fees on internet cables," Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghar
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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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Here's how you can watch Tony Awards 2026 live online and from anywhere in the world, as the Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead the nominations. Read more ›
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Editor’s note, June 7, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below originally published on November 3, 2024. This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that […] Read more ›
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI confusion, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started At first, AI influencers were relatively easy to identify - and to […] Read more ›
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Object 4, one of 16 satellites in the first operational batch of Russia's Rassvet broadband network, re-entered Earth's atmosphere on approximately June 6th. Read more ›
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Car thefts in the United States are trending downward, hopefully to stay that way - but there's one so-called "anti-theft device" that might not help, though. Read more ›
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Instead of moving to either of our hometowns, my husband and I chose a neutral third city. We wanted to avoid resentments and start fresh. Read more ›
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Разбираю, как я отделил жизненный цикл задачи от владельца следующего действия, чтобы AI-агент видел не просто список дел, а очередь: что можно брать в работу, что ждет человека, что требует ревью и что заблокировано. Читать далее Read more ›
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in AI companies, remembers the Associated Press. And then OpenAI's Sam Altman "told Sanders that he, too, wants the public to have equity in AI companies." Though the CEO said he couldn't support Sanders' threshold of 50%, he nonetheless wanted to work with him to advocate for the general idea, according to people with... Read more ›
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Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007. Read more ›
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There are multiple ways to watch every single match of FIFA's massive soccer event, and you don't need a cable package. Read more ›
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We've found a sneaky way to stream the Roland-Garros men's final for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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There's no direct replacement for Samsung Gallery, but one of the options below might end up scratching a similar itch. Read more ›
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pip install, requirements.txt, virtualenv, black, isort, flake8, mypy, setup.py... Если вы настраиваете Python-проект так же, как в 2020 году, эта статья для вас. Показываю современный стек, который заменяет всё вышеперечисленное.В 2026 году экосистема Python-инструментов наконец собралась в нечто цельное. Два инструмента (uv и ruff) + один файл (pyproject.toml) заменяют 7+ отдельных утилит. Вот как это работает. Читать далее Read more ›
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In 2016, the century-old Wagh Bakri Tea Group, incorporated in 1919, couldn’t ignore the power of the internet and decided… Read more ›
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Код стало писать дешевле: большие команды и AI-агенты быстрее создают новые файлы, паттерны и, иногда, дубли. Если поиск copy-paste работает медленно, его легко убрать из каждого pull request и запускать только иногда. Я попробовал сделать быстрый Rust-клон jscpd, чтобы duplicate-code check оставался достаточно дешевым для обычного CI. Читать далее Read more ›
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Maggie Sellers Reum described how Steven Bartlett is applying his playbook to "Hot Smart Rich" as he expands his company beyond "Diary of a CEO." Read more ›
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We moved away to gain independence, and then we had kids. Now I understand how important it is to have support nearby. Read more ›
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The Zig programming language wants to be a modern alternative to C (including better memory safety features). It's maintained by as an open-source project by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a network of contributors. But Business Insider notes that Zig bans the submission of AI-assisted code: On the JetBrains podcast, Zig President Andrew Kelley called AI-assisted contributions "invariably garbage." "People are sending us contributions that have no value whatsoever," Kelley said.... Read more ›
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The state of Ohio — one of America's hot regions for data center construction — "is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states," reports the Associated Press. The move "comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets," the article points out. But they also note the expanding data center industry "is under pressure to... Read more ›
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You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new "virtual museum," according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was "shocked" by how easy it was to run it, "and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from." Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox... Read more ›
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"In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources," writes The Register. InfoWorld writes that "numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have." The foundation is now inviting contributions to the... Read more ›
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Almost a fifth of the earth's population lives in Africa. And Africa's next generation of power projects "is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage," reports the Associated Press, "as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster and more reliable electricity." The shift is visible in a $1.5 billion energy agreement between China and Zambia announced in... Read more ›
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Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu "suffered a catastrophic 70% drop in its second weekend," reports Variety, suggesting the movie isn't finding audiences "beyond an aging group of core fans." "Despite playing on far more screens, The Mandalorian and Grogu landed in third place on weekend charts behind Backrooms and Obsession." (described as "two buzzy horror films.") Suprisingly, both movies were directed by 20-something YouTube stars, "and cost nearly... Read more ›
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Axios reports: The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S., released a 10-point plan to introduce AI and screen-time guardrails in classrooms. The plan would limit AI use and ban screens for students in prekindergarten through second grade "unless there is a compelling reason," such as supporting students with special needs. The teacher union's president Randi Weingarten warned that young students "are drowning in tech," according... Read more ›
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A historian-turned-software engineer warns that "so little is ever written down" by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company: Perhaps there's an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long time ago and others that have been left to molder in the codebase.... Read more ›
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"Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world's intercontinental telecommunications data," reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And "networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world's seabeds." Now to protect them, the U.S., Australia and the U.K. "are planning to develop new unmanned... Read more ›
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ScienceAlert reports: In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it... [I]t seemed to have a large, wave-like structure — as though a chunk of... Read more ›
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