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The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner's story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the report: Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in London, awards its short story prize to one writer in each of five regions: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. One overall winner is then selected
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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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ZDNet reports on June's Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled "Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed." Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote that "the [Linux] kernel is moving toward Rust. Git is moving toward Rust. Lots of projects are starting to move toward Rust." He didn't always feel that way. Kroah-Hartman added,... Read more ›
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Это очередное продолжение статьи «Материалы по хакингу на русском».Напомню: я перевожу топовые книги по информационной безопасности и выкладываю их на сайте библиотеки. Под катом — список новых книг. Читать далее Read more ›
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Ananya Joshi, a scientist, moved from the US to Germany after her H-1B plans fell through. Her boyfriend is still living in America. Read more ›
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Infiltrating one organisation in the network can open up access to hundreds more Read more ›
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Big Tech-backed financing has cut borrowing costs but deepened industry’s AI exposure Read more ›
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Governments look at banning ransom payments as organisations face increasingly sophisticated threats Read more ›
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The Chinese AI startup said it saw massive demand over the last two days and had to pause new subscriptions to reduce strain on its GPUs. Read more ›
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Criminal groups are building deepfake personas on an industrial scale to trick people into divulging information Read more ›
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Use of AI deepfake employees to infiltrate companies highlights wider risk of internal security breaches Read more ›
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Mold is the bane of many a resident, and it's especially common in dark, damp garages. Here's how to remove mold and keep it from returning. Read more ›
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Рассказываю почему и показываю 3 сигнала, по которым видно, что медийная реклама начала работать.Есть ошибка, которую часто наблюдаю:– запустили кампанию– прошла неделя– лидов резко больше не сталоВывод: «Ну все, медийка не работает».Проблема в том, что охватные кампании часто пытаются оценивать как performance-канал.Будто человек увидел баннер, сразу все понял, сразу поверил бренду, сравнил варианты, согласовал бюджет и оставил заявку.Желательно, чтобы клиент прошел весь путь в тот же день: интерес – сравн Read more ›
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В прошлой статье я разобрал Fire & Forget II – гонку 1990 года – и пересобрал её на C. Но у игры, кроме пикселей, есть звук, и с ним получилась отдельная история: звуковой драйвер тоже переехал в порт целиком, вместе со всеми своими данными. А когда в руках живой музыкальный движок 1990 года – грех не заставить его объяснить, как вообще звучала та эпоха.Под катом – 28 минут саундтрека игры... Read more ›
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"The Vampire Lestat" star Sam Reid on talks about the importance of witches burning and poor Nicki in the season finale. Read more ›
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What's coming next in "The Vampire Lestat" Season 2. Sam Reid discusses move to "Queen of the Damned" and later Anne Rice novels. Read more ›
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Sam Reid reveals the major obstacles of "The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only – LIVE." Plus, when you can see the Lestat live show! Read more ›
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America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post: Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech. It "could hobble the American economy for years to come," predicts the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Lightcast, a labor market... Read more ›
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"Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday," reports the Associated Press, as Japan "seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX." The RV-X rocket lifted off, hovered and moved horizontally before landing [watch the video here] during its less than one-minute flight at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Noshiro Testing... Read more ›
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"Git and email are the two really only tools I use," Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026. But ZDNet reports that he also shared his thoughts on Rust, C, and patch-checking tools: "I use Google as a way to look things up." He added, "I'm unusual; most of the other maintainers end up using many more tools, and I think a lot of them are starting to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of artificial intelligence posed a threat to Americans' physical and financial well-being. A comic strip made to look as if it had been published by a Maryland news outlet -- created with OpenAI's ChatGPT by people... Read more ›
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A new Incogni survey suggests Americans are pulling back from social media, with more than half saying "maintaining an online presence feels like work" and 55% reporting they post less than they did five years ago. "The full study concludes that there's been a significant shift in public attitudes toward social media," reports PCMag. "Where it was once fun and relaxing, it's now growing dark and angsty..." From the report:... Read more ›
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The European Union is considering major new restrictions on children's access to social media, including age limits, phased access, and an outright ban. "This is not about whether children can access social media," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "It is about when social media can access our children." The Verge reports: Social media platforms could also be forced to prove their services are not harmful before young... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a new behavioral bot detection system that monitors mouse movement, typing cadence, scrolling, clipboard activity, page visibility, and other signals across an entire browsing session. The system is designed to catch advanced bots that can run JavaScript, use real browsers, and pass traditional CAPTCHA challenges. Cloudflare says Precursor does not record actual keystrokes and instead studies timing and rhythm. The company also says the... Read more ›
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According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple agreed to use Intel's U.S. chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports -- a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line. Apple reportedly secured an... Read more ›
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A coalition of 12 states led by California is suing to block the $111 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution, blockbuster films, and basic cable licensing. The challenge (PDF) defies the DOJ's approval of the deal. Variety reports: The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alleges that the $111 billion transaction violates the Clayton Act by lessening competition in three distinct... Read more ›
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German textile firm ZEGO has filed for insolvency and is blaming a March cyberattack that shut down production for nearly six weeks. "ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fatal to their business," reports The Register. From the report: In a notice to customers and suppliers, the organization said it had exhausted every available option before seeking... Read more ›
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