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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 digital assistants, known as agents, to automate searches so that s
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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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Media platform Plex today said that it is increasing the price of its Lifetime Plex Pass option to $750, which is a $500 increase from the current $250 price tag. Plex said that the updated price reflects the "real, ongoing value" of the software that it plans to build and maintain. The company has considered removing the Lifetime Plex Pass because recurring subscriptions pay for long-term development, but Plex wants... Read more ›
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You don't need to have a ton of space to work on your car; there are plenty of maintenance tasks you can do even in a tiny, single-car garage. Read more ›
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Google has a lot to prove, but its smart glasses will have a few big advantages. Read more ›
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NASA’s Voyager spacecraft still operates using ancient assembly code while the engineers who understood their systems gradually disappear forever. Read more ›
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Commentary: Forget "Ask YouTube." Google should prioritize the AI work it's doing in science. Read more ›
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The venture capital landscape on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, is defined by an aggressive transition from model experimentation to industrial-scale deployment. This shift, colloquially termed the “Agentic Infrastructure Super-Cycle,” follows a historic first quarter where global venture investment surged to ... Read more ›
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Google I/O 2026 was all about improvements in AI. Gemini is getting smarter, faster and more customized. See what was presented at this year's event, from a more intuitive Gemini Omni to the realization of Android XR with consumer products coming in the fall. We've got the highlights. Read more ›
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Police said the 70-year-old driver was testing out the truck's Wade Mode setting. He ended up spending the night in jail. Read more ›
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Google had a slew of Gemini announcements to share at I/O 2026. Here are the big ones. Read more ›
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Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter. Read more ›
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Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that […] Read more ›
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Did you download the latest iOS update? Discover the three brilliant new tools Apple just quietly added to your car's infotainment screen this month. 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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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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Find the best TV deal at Amazon. Save 42% on the Hisense 75-inch E7 Cinema Series at Amazon. Read more ›
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Work smarter, not harder with some help from this lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac 2021. 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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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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder,... Read more ›
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