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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory approval, would result in a company that leads in nearly every aspect of the US power and utility industry, includin
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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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A security exploit may have revealed sensitive customer data, and that isn't the only embarrassing aspect for the company. Read more ›
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Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, "getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries," reports the New York Times. "In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google's main search page." From the report: The company will also offer... Read more ›
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The 'Lost,' 'Watchmen,' and 'Lanterns' writer correlates his exit to a key issue in a galaxy far, far, away. Read more ›
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Деплоите LLM? Значит, обвешиваете её гардами. Сначала safety, потом PII, потом prompt injection, потом toxic BERT - и в один прекрасный день обнаруживаете, что у вас 5 классификаторов на каждой ноде и 20 forward-ов на один пользовательский запрос.GLiNER Guard (GLiGuard) - возможность схлопнуть этот стек в единый schema-driven энкодер. И да, его можно тоже промптить: через zero-shot + description. Читать далее Read more ›
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XREAL and Google showcased Project Aura at Google I/O 2026, giving attendees a closer look at XREAL’s upcoming wired Android XR glasses. The device is scheduled to launch globally in 2026, but today’s update is a developer and demo milestone, not yet a full-blown retail launch. Project Aura is not in the same product category as Google and Samsung’s new audio-first smart glasses, unveiled today at I/O. It is a... Read more ›
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What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind's leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with Senior AI Reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. […] Read more ›
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Route 66, one of the most famous highways in America, is turning 100 thus year, and one city is going all out with a massive retro celebration. Read more ›
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A bipartisan bill would ask electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid drivers to pay annual fees because they don't pay gas taxes. Read more ›
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If you're into headphones, then you're no doubt familiar with Sony's WH-1000X series, which is easily one of the most popular wireless over-ear noise-cancelling headphones around. One could say that alongside the Bose QuietComfort 35, which started the trend, Sony's 1000X series has been the most popular option for years. An achievement remarkably maintained even after many others, including Apple, joined the space. Sony's line of wireless over-ear ANC headphones... Read more ›
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According to Gemini’s transcript of the Google I/O keynote today, AI was mentioned nearly 100 times on stage. One of the mentions had to do with updated AI subscription plans, including a new $100/month AI Ultra plan. Below you can find the details of the new AI Ultra plan, but the highlights include Gemini 3.5,... Read the original post: Google Updates AI Subscription Plans, Highlighted by New $100 AI Ultra... Read more ›
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Google has announced its integrating Google Play with the Gemini app, enabling app and conten discovery. The company has also revealed Play Shorts, a short-form video feed for browsing apps, and Ask Play, a conversational AI search tool that can help users find the right apps. Read more ›
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Pennsylvania residents fiercely opposed expanding data center developments, accusing Governor Shapiro of prioritizing corporate growth over community well-being. Read more ›
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Google today said that its first "intelligent eyewear" product is set to launch this fall. It is teaming up with Samsung and eyewear manufacturers Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to launch new AI audio glasses. The glasses will run Android XR, which is Google's platform for smart glasses and AR/VR headsets. There are cameras, speakers, and microphones in the glasses, but there is no display in the lenses. Google previewed... Read more ›
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The TSA is experimenting with new ways to make airport security less of a headache, and it's leaning more on private companies to do it. Read more ›
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Roamie became a victim of test-and learn. Expedia found that a chatbot that's an end-to end solution isn't practical for now — but it might be in the future. Read more ›
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Итак, в предыдущей части мы остановились на поиске решения задачи линейной регрессии. Сформулировали в общем виде задачу машинного обучения, поняли суть параметров, рассмотрели функции ошибок и начали копать в сторону линейной регрессии. Ещё раз повторю, что этот цикл статей является лишь взглядом на ML с моей колокольни, так что он не обязательно является истиной во всех редакциях в последней инстанции. Так что буду рад всякому, кто исправит меня, коли сверну... Read more ›
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South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Musk's lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman's trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New York Times: Before Elon Musk left OpenAI in... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Phys.org: Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading bloodsuckers. "It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: CERN, a longtime Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad ("KEE-kad"), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional electronics communities. It's gotten so widely used that users can now submit their KiCad design files directly to several electronics fabricators (rather than the traditional step of converting the layouts to Gerber files). Over... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and atop toilet paper dispensers at the Facebook owner's offices, encouraged staffers to sign an online petition against the move. "Don't... Read more ›
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Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world's leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A's account for nearly... Read more ›
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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,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where its business is growing [...]. LinkedIn employs more than 17,500 full-time workers globally, its... Read more ›
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A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports: Proof of concept code for Fragnesia is already out there. There is a two-line patch for addressing the issue within the Linux kernel's skbuff.c code. That patch hasn't yet been mainlined or picked... Read more ›
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Microsoft is adding a Windows Update feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can automatically roll back faulty drivers to a previously known-good version without waiting for hardware makers or users to fix the problem manually. PCWorld reports: The way faulty drivers work today is that the hardware partner is responsible for pushing an updated driver, or the end user is responsible for manually uninstalling the problematic driver. "This creates a... Read more ›
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