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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glimpse into the first stages of galaxy formation. Phys.org reports: In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at Kanazawa University, Japan, describes how they used the telescope to study a part o
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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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macOS 27 Golden Gate brings a major improvement to iPhone Mirroring, allowing users to resize the window beyond the iPhone's fixed aspect ratio for the first time. Until now, iPhone Mirroring has been limited to the iPhone's native aspect ratio in a small window. Users could adjust the window's overall size somewhat, but its proportions remained locked. With macOS 27, users can now change the aspect ratio of the iPhone... Read more ›
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Just weeks ago, Anthropic quietly filed paperwork to go public. SpaceX is already on the road pitching investors. Now OpenAI has entered the race. The company behind ChatGPT announced Monday that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering ... Read more ›
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We hope the latest fixes definitively address these lingering connectivity problems. Read more ›
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I've always insisted on family dinners. As my kids get older and our schedules get more packed, it's sometimes the only time we have together. Read more ›
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Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games was worried last year about Mina the Hollower's launch after such a long time away from the public, but it turns out it had nothing to worry about. Mina's debut has now sold over 500k copies in less than two weeks. Read more Read more ›
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The Simple Height Adjustable Desk is, well, a simple height adjustable desk. It’s got sturdy legs, a decent desktop, especially for the money, and all of the basic features you want, without the fluff and price you don’t. Read more ›
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Apple's first iOS 27 developer beta, released on Monday, includes a new feature in the Find My app that lets you temporarily hide your location from select people. A new "Hide Location" option appears in the user's Find My card in the People section, under "My Location." Tapping it hides your location temporarily for 12 hours before reverting to your previous shared location state. When enabled, the option switches to... Read more ›
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A humanoid robot named Pemba reached Ecuador’s Chimborazo summit, but the climb also showed the limits of robot autonomy, especially when humans had to carry it through tougher terrain. Read more ›
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Всем привет! Меня зовут Вардан Манучарян, я аналитик в команде Монетизации Авито, и мы отвечаем за механику алгоритмов продвижения, то есть управляем порядком, в котором пользователи видят объявления. Для этого нам нужно отслеживать, как изменения в ранжировании влияют на бизнес и покупателей. В этой статье расскажу про интерливинг, — метод, который помогает корректно проводить A/B-тесты с изменением ранжирования. Статья будет интересна аналитикам, которые проводят много A/B-тестов. Читать далее Read more ›
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Xbox Game Pass lost millions of subscribers following the fall 2025 price hike, Xbox's chief strategy officer Matthew Ball has revealed. Read more Read more ›
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Save $550 on this AMD pre-built from iBuyPower, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 5070, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $1,449 right now. Read more ›
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In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work. Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson introduced something they called the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a questionnaire, and four decades later it is still one of the ... Read more Read more ›
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У бизнеса часто возникает закономерный вопрос: зачем нужна ВАТС, если уже есть мобильная связь и городская линия. Разница становится очевидной при масштабировании. Cуть в тщательно контролируемой модели коммуникаций, где всё имеет значение: кто принимает вызов, где фиксируется история звонков, как система работает при увеличении нагрузки, и как все эти данные использовать для контроля и анализа? Свежий обзор провайдеров ВАТС с актуальными ценами для увлечённых специалистов и рациональных руководителей - в... Read more ›
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Apple yesterday held its WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union, detailing a wide range of updates to its developer tools and platforms, headlined by a major expansion of the Foundation Models framework. The main announcement was free access to Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute for developers with fewer than two million first-time App Store downloads, removing infrastructure costs as a barrier to building AI-powered features. The... Read more ›
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Broadcom delivers stellar earnings report and in-line guidance, but investors respond by dumping shares, highlighting concerns about an AI bubble in the making. Read more ›
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Apple's CarPlay changes means you'll soon be able to watch videos in your vehicle. But please, please, please tread with caution 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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Russia's FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording conversations, and activating microphones or cameras. "This software is used to steal existing data, eavesdrop on ongoing conversations, and conduct covert acoustic and video monitoring of the environment near electronic devices, all aimed at obtaining sensitive information," the FSB said. The Register reports: T Read more ›
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The European Parliament is replacing Google with French search engine Qwant as the default on in-house computers, citing digital sovereignty and privacy concerns. Politico reports: As of Thursday June 4, "Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers," officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO. The change is being made "in line with the Parliament's commitment to digital sovereignty and the protection of users'... Read more ›
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A new Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and published on June 2, 2026, warns that AI could undermine mathematics by flooding the field with plausible but flawed proofs, weakening attribution, shifting incentives, and giving tech companies too much influence over research priorities. "Mathematicians should find it quite striking that tech companies are suddenly interested in their work," said Kevin Buzzard, a mathematician at Imperial College London, in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The platform, dubbed "Project Solara," is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely new scenarios for computing... Read more ›
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