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The European Parliament is replacing Google with French search engine Qwant as the default on in-house computers, citing digital sovereignty and privacy concerns. Politico reports: As of Thursday June 4, "Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers," officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO. The change is being made "in line with the Parliament's commitment to digital sovereignty and the protection of users' personal data." The search-engine switch comes.
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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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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced might have delivered one of the biggest launches in series history, but it sadly hasn't fixed age-old issues with Ubisoft's PC ports. Over the weekend, the DRM and social-related layer of the game, Ubisoft Connect, suffered an outage, knocking the game offline on PC. Read more Read more ›
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Krista Varady has been studying intermittent fasting for two decades at the University of Illinois Chicago, and in a 2024 commentary, she and her co-authors set out to systematically debunk four common safety myths about the practice. Read more ›
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Microsoft is testing a new Copilot feature called PC Insights that will help users diagnose problems with their PC using natural language prompts. Read more ›
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Taranis Capital is connecting growth-stage fintechs from global markets with Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing financial ecosystem, helping accelerate innovation across payments, open banking and digital assets. Read more ›
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1X says NEO's new hands can pour tea, plug in chargers, and use sign language. Read more ›
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Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more. Of the four new updates, only two are being described as involving Gemini. Waze says its updating its conversation reporting feature, first introduced in 2024, […] Read more ›
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Bernie seems awed by AI, which is unsettling. But his actual plan polls amazingly well. Read more ›
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Pixel-Flo, a University of Sheffield spinout, has secured a £5.25m seed round led by Northern Gritstone with additional investment from SCVC, the Parkwalk Northern Universities Venture Fund and HTGF. The startup is developing a cost reduction breakthrough that it says is ‘critically needed’ for microLED display manufacturing. Pixel-Flo says microLED is the next wave of ... Read more ›
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Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold8 series and the Galaxy Z Flip8 at its Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22. Ahead of the launch, a new leak has revealed new details about the Galaxy Z Flip8’s weight and thickness. According to tipster Ice Universe, the Galaxy Z Flip8 will weigh around 180 grams, making it 8 grams lighter than the Galaxy Z Flip7, which weighs 188 grams.... Read more ›
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История о том, как обучение в высшем учебном заведении вдохнуло вторую жизнь в моё почти забытое хобби. Читать далее Read more ›
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HMRC's new MTD rules affected £50k+ earners this year, but 55% of them still aren't ready for the August 7 2026 deadline. Read more ›
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ВИЧ-1 быстро мутирует. При геномном анализе вируса нужно определить две вещи: к каким антиретровирусным препаратам он может быть устойчив и к какому субтипу относится. В мировой практике для этих задач используют Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database и COMET: первый сервис помогает интерпретировать лекарственную устойчивость, второй — определять субтип. Мы собрали локальные ML-модели для анализа ВИЧ-1 по данным геномного секвенирования. Первая модель прогнозирует лекарственную устойчивость к антиретровирусн Read more ›
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Most organizations have settled on those numbers because they’re easy to track and show up well in reports. 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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Я оказался в этой ситуации на реальном проекте — desktop-приложении на Avalonia. Нужно было объяснить пользователю пять экранов, три из которых со скрытыми боковыми панелями и элементами, зависящими от режима. Я написал онбординг прямо внутри приложения. А потом понял, что написал ровно ту вещь, которой в экосистеме Avalonia не хватает в принципе — и вынес её в отдельную библиотеку. Читать далее Read more ›
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Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg: The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kronor, or roughly $8.2 billion, in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown... The Swedish price-comparison website argued that Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search... Read more ›
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Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect. The government says the changes will also give the eSafety Commissioner more power to demand information from platforms and age-assurance providers as teens continue finding ways around the law. Euronews reports: The government said Sunday it... Read more ›
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Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen from about an hour to 35 minutes. Axios reports: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social... Read more ›
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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027, nearly 10 years after the console's launch. In its place, the company will release updated versions of the Switch 2 and several controllers with user-replaceable batteries to comply with new EU regulations. The Verge reports: The news comes as Nintendo is making a bunch of changes to the rest of its lineup due to EU regulations requiring user-replaceable... Read more ›
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Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business. "Our business is changing because the world around it is changing. The way technology is built, deployed, and used is transforming faster than at any point in my time here," said Amy Coleman, EVP and chief people officer at Microsoft. "Our customers' needs are shifting,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of user trust." Last week, a web developer known as "Thereallo" was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using "prompt steganography" to... Read more ›
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The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey. "The core issue seems to be whether Xinuos even has the right to litigate the matter, or if some ancient legalese in the original agreements means the window for legal argument has long since expired," reports The Register.... Read more ›
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SK Hynix is launching a Nasdaq listing expected to raise about $28 billion, giving US investors easier access to one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI memory-chip boom. Reuters reports: The company will sell 17.79 million new shares in the depository receipt listing on the Nasdaq. Ten ADRs will represent one common share and the stock will be sold in a price range that is due to be revealed... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to... Read more ›
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locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year. The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item's molecular profile to an AI model... Read more ›
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