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Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC:
Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer "solely and entirely responsible" for the incident, in which flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The passenger jet stalled during a storm and plunged into the water, killing all on board. A court had previously cleared th
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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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"An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries," wrote President Trump late Saturday afternoon. Read more ›
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Researchers develop a silicon photonic chip that controls quantum noise using deliberate photon loss channels to study real system behaviour experimentally. Read more ›
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"The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic," reports the Washington Post, "although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life... "A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs affected about 1.2% of employed people in March, a number that has been steady for years... Read more ›
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Skip the confusion and find real value on the OLED market in 2026. We break down models offering deep blacks, high framerate gaming, and longevity. Read more ›
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The AI-generated version of 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' was on display at AIPAD's The Photography show. Read more ›
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Каждый, кто хоть раз открывал школьный учебник биологии или читал научно-популярные статьи об искусственном интеллекте, сталкивался с классической и завораживающей метафорой: ландшафт приспособленности (fitness landscape).Нам рисуют трёхмерную топографическую карту. На ней есть низины (плохие, нежизнеспособные комбинации генов), пологие склоны и величественные вершины — так называемые пики приспособленности. Популяция организмов или агентов генетического алгоритма изображается в виде кучки альпинистов. Ведо Read more ›
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AI data centers are straining power grids and public trust - but some countries have found a surprising way to turn their biggest waste problem into value. Read more ›
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Everyone's favorite electric superhero Static is coming back to DC Comics as part of the Titans, but how long will he stick around? Read more ›
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Beat the RAM crisis by upgrading the rest of your PC setup with these Memorial Day deals, featuring cheap keyboards, Wi-Fi boosters, and monitors. Read more ›
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As a convenient cleaner for short cleans the Shark PowerDetect Speed is as good as they come, especially at this price. Read more ›
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The Konkr Pocket Block will be smaller than the company's previous vertical handhelds. Read more ›
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While Costco is primarily a membership-based store, you can technically shop inside without signing up. There are some pretty big caveats, though. Read more ›
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If you are in the market for a mid-range smartphone, it's almost impossible not to stumble upon Samsung's Galaxy A lineup. But with the recent Samsung Galaxy A57 release, one would wonder whether the Samsung Galaxy A56 isn't actually a more sensible solution, seeing the somewhat modest hardware upgrade. After all, last year's Galaxy A56 is still relevant and sells at a lower price. Since the more recent Galaxy offers... Read more ›
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Буквально на днях Google выкатила gemini 3.5 flash. Маркетологи бьют в фанфары: легковесная модель обходит тяжелую gemini 3.1 pro на бенчмарках terminal bench 2.1 и MCP atlas! Но стоит открыть чат, и наступает разочарование. Модель общается сухим, бюрократическим, абсолютно безжизненным языком, уступая в человечности даже старой 3.0 flash. В этой статье мы разберем физику RLHF-лоботомии, покажем, как оптимизация под агентов убивает энтропию генерации, и почему современные бенчмарки стали главным врагом... Read more ›
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A new biodegradable device made from gelatin, table salt, and activated charcoal can generate electricity from humidity in the air, opening new possibilities for battery-free wearable tech. Read more ›
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Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis "wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software," according to his entry on Wikipedia, "and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary OS." He's also KeithCu (long-time Slashdot reader #925,649), and has written a blog post on "How I added an LLM-based grammar checking + TeX math import to LibreOffice." : At Microsoft,... Read more ›
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"Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet," explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. "Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press..." Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies... The hardest problem with an infinite, on-demand encyclopedia is internal... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it's redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It's one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom's impact on everyday Americans... NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and... Read more ›
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Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier. Owners can continue reading ebooks that they've already downloaded, and they can also still sideload books using a USB cable (from, for example, Project Gutenberg). And PCMag points out that "There are plenty of e-stores where you can... Read more ›
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Computer Weekly reports on "the long-awaited reform of Britain's outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation's cyber security professionals and researchers for years." The Computer Misuse Act was passed 35 years ago in response to a high-profile hacking incident involving no less than the King's father, the late Duke of Edinburgh. It defined the offence of unauthorised access to a computer —... Read more ›
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xAI has launched Grok Build, "a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals' products, such as Anthropic's Claude Code," reports Engadget: As Bloomberg notes, xAI has been trying to catch up to its rival companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, previously admitted that it has fallen behind its competitors when it comes to coding. A couple of months ago,... Read more ›
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Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That's the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search results: This month, the programming language R matched its all-time high by reaching position #8 in the TIOBE index once again. This is not a coincidence. The statistical programming language market is clearly... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to "the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like 'Copy Fail' and 'Dirty Frag'": Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker "Jasper Nuyens" got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure kernel modules across large fleets of Linux systems in the near future. So he wrote ModuleJail, a GPLv3 shell script that scans a running... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. No more over-the-air updates. No more connected services. No more warranty. The manufacturer was dead. What happened next... Read more ›
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Test scores "are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.," reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. "Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 grades. This means that students were 60% of one school year behind where their peers were in reading a decade earlier and 40% of... Read more ›
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