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Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks [âŠ]
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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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 âș
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The Apple iPad mini (6th Gen) is $399 today, powered by the A15 Bionic chip and featuring an 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display. Read more âș
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Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term "disregard," instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot, as called out by a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that Waterways Ireland has developed an interactive digital map exploring the rich heritage of the Grand Canal. The map, titled A Boatmanâs Journey, brings the public on an immersive storytelling experience across Ireland, from Dublinâs docks in the east to Shannon Harbour in [âŠ] Read more âș
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All the ways to watch Montpellier vs Ulster live streams online â including for FREE â as Bilbao's San MamĂ©s stadium hosts the 2025/26 EPCR Challenge Cup final. Read more âș
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As 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' lands in theaters, TechRadar can exclusively reveal Funkoâs new POP! figures and Mystery Minis inspired by the film, including Grogu, Rotta the Hutt, Embo, and more. Read more âș
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Samsung is reportedly set to pay chip-division workers an average bonus of about $340,000 after reaching a tentative deal with its union, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). The deal ended a standoff that "could have cost the economy as much as 1 trillion won ($658 million) daily, with losses potentially multiplying to 100 trillion won ($68 billion) if in-progress semiconductor wafers were rendered unusable," reports Quartz. From the report: The agreement,... Read more âș
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For quite a while now, Oppo's upcoming Find X10 family has been rumored to include the Find X10 Pro Max. However, a new rumor from the prolific Digital Chat Station on Weibo today says things may not be looking up for this model. Specifically, DCS thinks the Find X10 Pro Max could get delayed or cancelled altogether. The problem, according to him, is that not a lot of people in... Read more âș
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ExpressVPN has joined other VPN providers in criticizing Canada's proposed surveillance law, warning that it could undermine the digital security millions of users rely on. Read more âș
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Besszong is figuring out the mechanics of its debut game, and how to run a studio with no money. Read more âș
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Google is likely releasing Android Auto 17.0 publicly very soon, but there's a simple way to get in on the action early if you really can't wait. Read more âș
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Is the answer to the RAM crisis Chinese-made DRAM that's much cheaper to source since those companies aren't tied up in AI data center contracts? It's too early to say yet, but when a manufacturer as big as Corsair starts using DDR5 modules from ChangXing Memory Technologies (CXMT), that notion gains a lot of merit. Read more âș
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The AirPods Max are down to just $449, offering features like Active Noise Cancelation, USB-C charging, and Spatial Audio. Read more âș
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Snag Balatro from the Play Store without needing a full set of economy Jokers. Read more âș
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Some black holes could have tamer originsâin the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally managed to capture in a formula. Read more âș
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Researchers have developed a new earbud authentication system that can recognize users through tiny heartbeat vibrations inside the ear canal. The idea sounds futuristic â but it may be closer to reality than youâd expect. Read more âș
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Best Buyâs Memorial Day sale includes a good deal on a massive OLED TV. The 77-inch LG B5 is down to $1,499.99 (originally $2,999.99), and the purchase includes a $200 Best Buy gift card. Iâm a 55-inch TV kind of person, but if youâve got the budget â and the wall space â this is [âŠ] Read more âș
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Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to "securely connect" ChatGPT with Plaid - the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content [âŠ] Read more âș
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Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic credentials. This has been a momentous [âŠ] Read more âș
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Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its âfastest gaming desktop processor ever.â That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMDâs pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-series CPUs a run for their money. The Ultra 7 270K [âŠ] Read more âș
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OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to "invest in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than having to reach a specific point in a game [âŠ] Read more âș
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ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft's latest Windows 11 test will allow you to reposition the taskbar and change the size of the Start menu. The update, which is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Experimental channel, lets you place the taskbar on the bottom, top, left, or right side of the screen. Microsoft first teased its movable [âŠ] Read more âș
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YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts [âŠ] Read more âș
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