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The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital" through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. "It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters. "So, the people that want to reskill, that want to carry on, we're
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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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The 'disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson' strategy is a bold choice. Read more ›
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Apple has unveiled watchOS 27 with Siri AI, smarter fitness tools, Apple Intelligence integration, redesigned apps, and improved everyday assistance for Apple Watch users. Read more ›
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OpenAI's Sam Altman outlines AI's third phase, focusing on abundance, safety, and global collaboration as the company plans an IPO. Read more ›
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В прошлой статье про ГИГАХРУЩ мы показали игру как живой weird-проект: браузерный survival horror / ARPG без движка, ассетов и спокойной жизни.С тех пор проект уже стал заметен в локальном инди-комьюнити: в него играют, о нем спорят, его архитектурные решения стали отдельной темой. Поэтому этот текст не питч и не просьба оценить демку. Это инженерный разбор проекта, который уже обрастает сообществом: где данные, где системы, где рендер, что хранится постоянно,... Read more ›
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At the WWDC 2026 keynote, Apple detailed iOS 27 changes like a new version of Siri with a dedicated Siri app and Apple Intelligence features across multiple apps, but there are dozens of smaller but still important changes that Apple didn't have time to go through. Apple shared an image summarizing some of the bug fixes and optimizations it made in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, and there... Read more ›
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You may have seen gas stations with a torch logo popping up recently, but you might not know that the story behind that brand goes back more than a century. Read more ›
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Apple is trying to solve one of Safari's biggest weaknesses with AI. Safari has long lacked the robust library of extensions that its rivals have, mainly due to the stringent development requirements from Apple. But now, Apple is inviting users to essentially vibe code their own extensions. In a demo shared by Apple, the company […] Read more ›
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Lisa Su says AMD is working on improving compute, says "compute actually equates to intelligence". Read more ›
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The hackers pretended to be locked out of the accounts and used a VPN to bypass location-based safeguards. Read more ›
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A new Galaxy S27 Pro leak points to a 6.5-inch display and 5,000mAh battery, giving Samsung fans a potentially more practical flagship option to look forward to. Read more ›
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Apple previewed its next generation of software at WWDC 2026. It includes an AI-powered Siri, new photo tools, and heftier parental controls. Read more ›
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Every year, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference gives us a first look at what's coming next to the company's many operating systems. But missing from today's keynote, apart from a single graphic listing all current Apple OSes next to a big "27," was any mention of tvOS. The whole structure of this year's WWDC was different, […] Read more ›
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The headline feature Apple unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference today is undoubtedly Siri AI, but the company has also revealed some other Apple Intelligence features that are coming to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27. The Photos app now "taps into more powerful image models" to let you make edits, "while respecting the original moment as it was captured", Apple says. With Spatial Reframing,... Read more ›
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Last Thursday, Wired reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into software installed on millions of phones. In a follow-up report, Wired says the tech giant has now removed the face-recognition-related code, while saying "no final decision" has been made about whether the feature will launch. From the report: On Thursday, WIRED reported that Meta had quietly integrated substantial portions of the NameTag system... Read more ›
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Twenty years after Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's Stockholm data center and seized its servers, the site remains online. In fact, the 2006 crackdown arguably made it more famous, helping turn it into "one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the internet," reports TorrentFreak. From the report: On May 31, 2006, less than three years after The Pirate Bay was founded, 65 Swedish police officers entered a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive into the flexible work arrangements at one unnamed Fortune 500 tech company, reveals... Read more ›
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Texas is adding another large solar project as ERCOT electricity demand rises. According to Electrek, Vesper Energy has secured $236 million in financing for its 201 MW Nazareth Solar farm in Swisher County, which will be capable of generating enough electricity for about 53,000 homes. The project is expected to begin construction in June 2026 and come online in fall 2027. From the report: Nazareth Solar will sit on more... Read more ›
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Google has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years. The effort is part of the company's Debug program, which uses Wolbachia-infected males to reduce populations of disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Google cites a similar approach in Singapore that helped suppress mosquito populations and reduce dengue cases. The Guardian reports: As part of its successful "Debug" program,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many GitHub Copilot users are reporting some extreme sticker shock as they realize just how quickly their previous "normal" usage is burning through their newly limited monthly allotment of AI credits.... Read more ›
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New EU battery rules taking effect early next year are pushing tech makers toward user-replaceable batteries in products like headphones, e-readers, handheld consoles, laptops, and possibly earbuds. But carve-outs for smartphones and tablets may mean replaceable batteries won't necessarily return to phones in the way many users remember. The Verge's Dominic Preston reports: Since the upcoming law doesn't actually come into force until February 18th, 2027, companies still have plenty... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader Matt_Bennett shares a blog post from Adafruit: Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, including statements about Flux's intellectual... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. The order asks companies, on a voluntary basis, to participate in a benchmarking process to assess a model's "advanced cyber capabilities" and determine whether it should be considered a "covered frontier model." It... Read more ›
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Microsoft has unveiled Scout, an experimental always-on AI "autopilot" agent for Microsoft 365 that can operate across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts, browsers, and external apps via MCP. "Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine, a Microsoft veteran who recently announced he is leading a new team... Read more ›
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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac will reportedly drop into "reduced functionality mode" on July 13, 2026, when a license-validation certificate expires, leaving perpetually licensed apps able to open files but not edit or save them. Slashdot reader joshuark shares a report from OSnews: "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set... Read more ›
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