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California lawmakers are moving to exempt most open-source operating systems from the state's upcoming age-verification law after backlash from Linux and privacy advocates who warned that the original rules could force decentralized projects to collect users' ages. The amendment would likely shield major Linux distributions, though SteamOS and other Linux-based platforms tied to proprietary app stores may still face compliance questions. Tom's Hardware reports: Assembly Bill 1856 (AB 1856), currently moving
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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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Apple today provided the first beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.6 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.5. Developers can download the macOS Tahoe 26.6 update by opening up the System Settings app, selecting the General category, and then choosing Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required. With macOS... Read more ›
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For years, Amazon’s biggest advantage was never just e-commerce. It was the machine behind the checkout button. Fast shipping, predictable delivery, easy returns, and warehouses spread across the country changed what consumers expect from every online purchase. Now Atlanta-based logistics ... Read more ›
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Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. With the debut of iOS 27 approaching in early June, Apple is... Read more ›
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WalletHub ranked every US state based on mortgage delinquency. See which states are experiencing the biggest increases. Read more ›
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Apple today provided developers with the first betas of upcoming watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 betas for testing purposes. The software two weeks after Apple launched the 26.5 versions of each platform. The software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account is required. There's no word on what's in the software as of yet. watchOS,... Read more ›
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Nvidia is retiring its classic Control Panel for GeForce Game Ready and Studio Driver users after 20 years, as it pushes users to a newer, more unified "NVIDIA" app. Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM first shared the news, commenting: "Nvidia seems to no long want you to have control over your own video card that you paid your hard-earned money for? WTF!?" VideoCardz.com reports: Existing Control Panel installs will remain on... Read more ›
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Apple Music users are still waiting for a playback continuity feature that matches Spotify Connect. Read more ›
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Bad Bunny and Alan Cumming join the voice cast featuring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack. It's out June 19. Read more ›
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Users of Motorola phones that come preinstalled with software bloatware named Smart Feed have discovered that the service is hijacking links to shopping apps, such as Amazon, and placing in affiliate links. That means when a product is purchased via that hijacked link, someone is making money and it’s not the device owner. This is... Read the original post: Motorola Phones are Hijacking Links to Make Affiliate Cash Read more ›
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Есть такие анти‑паттерны, которые выглядят нормально и даже проходят код‑ревью, но тихо убивают производительность в горячих местах: - Конкатенация строк в циклах- String.format() в горячем коде- Автобоксинг и так далее. И каждый подобный пролёт делает приложение чуть медленнее, и в какой-то момент это рискует превратиться в критическую массу, которая больно выстрелит на следующем спайке нагрузки.Если вы пишете на Java и у вас всё вроде работает, но под нагрузкой сервисы начинают... Read more ›
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I wanted to make a midlife career change without taking on student loan debt. Thanks to my side hustle, I went to grad school and graduated debt-free. Read more ›
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В апреле OpenAi проводила конкурс Parameter Golf на самую эффективную нейросеть. Были выставлены ограничения — 16 мегабайт на веса и обвязку, 10 минут обучения на восьми H100. Единственный критерий — самый низкий bpb. Бэйслайном конкурса был код от OpenAi, собранный в классической архитектуре классическими инструментами, его bpb составил 1,2244, победитель добился 1.0565Идея конкурса мне очень понравилась по весьма прозаическим причинам — размер весов позволял провести обучение на моей старенькой Geforce... Read more ›
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Nvidia has finally retired its 20-year-old control panel for GeForce GPUs. From now on, new GeForce drivers will only include the Nvidia App. Read more ›
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Another stable coin attack reignites the debate over crypto centralization. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most... Read more ›
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The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital" through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. "It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters. "So, the people that want... Read more ›
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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. "The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent -- and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry's most respected technical minds," reports Axios. From the report: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory approval, would result in a company that leads in... Read more ›
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Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, "getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries," reports the New York Times. "In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google's main search page." From the report: The company will also offer... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That's a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for "long-term development" and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option without officially removing it. At... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry,... Read more ›
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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... Read more ›
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Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick," adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company also said that consumers will be able to use Gemini AI to find the... Read more ›
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