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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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Entrepreneur Marco Riedesser has spent his career building automation systems, which is precisely why his views on AI and jobs stand out. In a conversation that moves from coding and robotics to universal income and purpose, he argues that the real challenge may not be AI itself, but whether society is prepared for how work could change. Read more ›
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For some, the allure of riding a motorcycle has as much to do with the sound as it does the ride. These are 10 of the highest-revving motorcycles. Read more ›
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Safari is one of the apps that Apple focused on in iOS 27, and it includes multiple new Apple Intelligence features. From automatically organizing tab groups to custom extensions, Safari is getting useful new capabilities. Automatic Tab Organization Safari uses ‌Apple Intelligence‌ to organize your open tabs into relevant topics, grouping like concepts together to make it easier to browse your open tabs. If you're searching for a new couch... Read more ›
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One UI 9 beta appears to add a long-missing status bar tool that lets Galaxy users check real-time Wi-Fi and mobile data speeds without using a third-party app. Read more ›
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It comes with advanced, wire-free navigation and a promised future AI-powered mapping update. Read more ›
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After seeing NVIDIA RTX Spark in action at Computex 2026, I'm convinced its AI-powered editing tools could save creators hours by eliminating video editing's most repetitive tasks. Read more ›
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I met up with the "Computah" guy who's going viral. He "programs" people with Meta Ray-Ban glasses. It was wild — and now I see why he's so popular. Read more ›
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Bethesda's spacefaring RPG finally has its definitive version on PlayStation 5. Read more ›
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One of the most esteemed scientists in the world reflects on how important data has become in the 21st century and the modern iteration of the internet Read more ›
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Director and co-writer Matt Reeves shared the welcome news about his long-awaited DC sequel. Read more ›
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Mauricio Pochettino's USMNT begins its campaign in LA against a tough-to-beat Paraguay. Read more ›
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The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still faces scrutiny from state attorneys general. Politico reports: The decision, expected to be announced Friday, paves the way for Paramount to combine with the entertainment and media company behind a vast film and television studio, CNN, and the HBO Max streaming service, which would be combined with... Read more ›
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has increased interest rates for the first time since 2023, ending a lengthy pause as policymakers confront a fresh inflation problem driven largely by rising energy prices. The ECB announced on June 12 it raised its deposit facility rate from 2% to 2.25%, with the main refinancing rate moving to ... Read more ›
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains.K2.7-Code is built on the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as its predecessor K2.6, and drops in via an OpenAI-compatible API — which matters for teams already running K2.6 in production gateways.When K2.6 launched in April, it topped OpenRouter's weekly LLM leaderboard — a ranking based on actual API... Read more ›
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French game developer continues cost-cutting measures just months after closing Halifax office. Read more ›
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David Ellison's Paramount Skydance got the official green light to buy Warner Bros. Discovery from President Donald Trump's Department of Justice. Read more ›
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Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers to navigate a strict tradeoff where eliminating factual errors often suppresses valid answers.In a new paper, Google researchers introduce the concept of "faithful uncertainty," a metacognitive technique that aligns a model's response with its internal confidence. This alignment allows the model to offer appro Read more ›
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A security researcher says evidence suggests the U.S. military has been using an obscure GPS message field for nearly 20 years to broadcast encrypted key-distribution data, effectively turning GPS satellites into a global "numbers station." The hidden-looking 176-bit messages appear tied to the Pentagon's Over-the-Air Distribution system for remotely updating cryptographic keys, meaning ordinary GPS receivers may have been receiving the traffic all along without anyone outside the military noticing.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different -- and typically smaller -- reactor designs, only one of them has been fully licensed so far, and there are no plans to actually build any... Read more ›
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After 50 years of searching, astronomers say they have finally found evidence of a long-sought "wind" blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. "Unless a black hole exists in a perfect vacuum, it must blow a wind somehow. And there is no perfect vacuum in the universe," team co-leader and Northwestern University researcher Mark Gorski said in a statement. "With new observations,... Read more ›
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Utah residents and a progressive nonprofit are suing officials over Kevin O'Leary's planned Stratos Project AI data center, arguing that the special authority overseeing it gives unelected officials too much control over land use, taxation, public health, and local governance. The lawsuit comes as O'Leary has agreed to shrink the proposed 40,000-acre project by 75% amid mounting political and community pushback. NBC News reports: The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in... Read more ›
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An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It's "a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game," reports Kotaku, "rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5." Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics), "it will also make some changes to puzzles, combat, platforming..." The game's Steam page acknowledges that AI-assisted tools were used during development... Read more ›
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An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America's cryptocurrency "Clarity Act" is "rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates," reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America's Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather than what they have been doing — essentially running their businesses within a patchwork of state and federal... Read more ›
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Scientists "have made a discovery that may help prevent some people from developing lung cancer," reports the New York Times, noting that lung cancer "kills more people worldwide than any other cancer." A team of more than 80 researchers working across four continents have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lung cancers more than five years before diagnosis. The scientists also found early evidence that... Read more ›
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Bluesky's chief operating officer believes teen social media bans "risk entrenching Big Tech's dominance," reports CNBC: Rose Wang, Bluesky's chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday that the smaller open-source platform isn't opposed to regulation but that smaller players in the industry should be protected. "I support the protection and the safety of youth... The question that we have then is at what... Read more ›
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From Android Authority: Singapore-based BMX has announced that its SolidSafe magnetic power bank lineup, first showcased at CES 2026, is now available for purchase through its website and Amazon US, with prices starting at $59. What sets these power banks apart is their use of semi-solid-state batteries. Traditional lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries rely on liquid electrolytes to move energy between electrodes. Semi-solid-state batteries significantly reduce the amount of flammable liquid... Read more ›
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The Ladybird browser isn't opposed to AI coding tools, but it's just brought a new change to their code-contributing policies. February 23: "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI." I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents... Read more ›
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