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Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. "One of the studies published in May is called 'The Collapse of Teen Fertility in the Digital Era' and the other, published just Monday, is titled 'Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly,'" reports KTLA. "Both were chronicled in a New York Times piece by political writ
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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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Меня зовут Саша Сойфер — я физик‑океанолог, работала на обоих полюсах, жила на Шпицбергене, писала статьи, делала замеры в тропиках и в северных крошках‑озерах на моторке. В общем, много времени провела в любовном изучении природы.Параллельно с этим я всю жизнь увлекалась музыкой, и, работая с измерениями рек, вдруг подумала, что будет круто выявить звук гидрологических данных. Почему именно их?Уровень реки — первичная метрика её «силы», от которой будет зависеть её... Read more ›
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It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand. Read more ›
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AI coding tools are changing software engineering. Hear from developers about how it's reshaping their careers — from getting hired to doing the work. Read more ›
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Guest post by Rahim Hirji author of SuperSkills: The seven human skills for the age of AI, Somewhere in your business there is probably an AI subscription that seemed like a good idea at the time. The pilot impressed everyone, a handful of people now use it daily, most tried it twice, and the transformation […] Read more ›
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Хабр, привет! На связи Антон Ботвинников, директор по продукту SDS TROK. S3 — модное слово. Его вставляют в питчи, роадмапы и презентации так часто, что даже человек, который не до конца понимает технологию, умудряется звучать убедительно, называя это вслух. Мы тоже решили быть в теме и в новом релизе SDS TROK добавили поддержку S3. Очень просили заказчики. Хочу рассказать, что получилось. Читать далее Read more ›
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The Duskbloods' first playtest - which will likely mark the first time anyone outside FromSoftware and Nintendo has played the Switch 2 exclusive - is coming next month, yet Google's AI search believes the subreddit r/TheDuskbloods already has official information. Read more Read more ›
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Brenus Pharma, a Lyon-based clinical-stage BioTech startup aiming to prevent cancer recurrence, has announced an €11 million ($12.6M) extension to its Series A round. This brings the company’s total capital raised since inception to €38 million. The round was supported by strong follow-on participation from existing investors, including Angelor, UI Investissement (managing FRAI), Crédit Agricole ... Read more ›
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TeamViewer report claims 95% of workers are concerns about AI operating without a human in the loop – most AI agent users set strict guardrails. Read more ›
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Всем привет! Меня зовут Никита Векессер, я занимаюсь продуктами в области AI-инфраструктуры.За последний год большие языковые модели в enterprise прошли короткий, но заметный путь: от экспериментов в отдельных командах до интеграции в рабочие процессы. ИТ-команды поднимают локальные модели, бизнес-пользователи ходят в облачные сервисы, разработчики подключают AI-агентов к IDE, а внутренние продукты начинают использовать LLM как часть своей логики.Именно под эту задачу мы делаем StarGuard AI — шлюз безопас Read more ›
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its gang escape from their cage and hack into HuggingFace's production servers — unprecedented incident raises eyebrows and pulses Read more ›
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Агенты сейчас обсуждают все подряд. Меняются фреймворки, появляются MCP-серверы, облака обещают «агента из коробки». Но в центре любой такой схемы по-прежнему одна и та же вещь — LLM: она читает контекст и формулирует следующий шаг. А между запросом к агенту и самой моделью — ещё несколько слоёв.Сама модель всего лишь предсказывает вероятности следующего токена; снаружи нарастает луковица обёрток — о них и речь. Если собирать агента не из готового конструктора,... Read more ›
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Evan Budz, 16, won a $50,000 scholarship at the International Science and Engineering Fair in May for his microplastic-seeking robot turtle. Read more ›
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Mercor CEO Brendan Foody wrote that young people can underestimate "how much relationships, reputation, equity, and trust compound over time." Read more ›
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Astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission successfully captured diagnostic X-ray images in orbit for the first time. The milestone gives space medicine a second imaging option beyond ultrasound and could help future crews diagnose injuries, inspect equipment, and support longer missions to the moon or beyond. Popular Science reports: Commercial off-the-shelf X-ray machines like the ice cooler-sized MinXray TR90BH now allow users to perform scans on subjects far away from traditional... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: Microsoft today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Nearly 60 of the bugs quashed in July's Patch... Read more ›
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Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a joint $60.50-per-share offer to buy PayPal, valuing the payments company at more than $53 billion. The bid is said to represent a 28% premium to PayPal's latest closing price and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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OpenAI's first hardware device is a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro that lets users monitor and control AI coding agents. Axios reports: Codex Micro is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware company known for customizable mechanical keyboards and shortcut controllers for developers and designers. The small, square macro pad -- with backlit keys, a rotary knob and a tiny joystick -- sits beside your regular keyboard... Read more ›
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FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final dependency was disabled. Phoronix reports: This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0. With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Big changes are coming to Android apps, but they're not the changes Google wanted. The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies' long-running antitrust battle is being withdrawn, and that means third-party app stores are coming to the Play Store. Google has confirmed that it will begin distributing rival app stores next week, setting the... Read more ›
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The FCC plans to vote on repealing local TV ownership limits, including the 39% national audience cap that currently restricts how much of the U.S. market a single broadcast group can reach. Engadget reports: On August 6, commissioners will hold a ballot to repeal Section 303 of the Communications Act, and with it the 39 percent rule. In essence, the rule limits the reach of a local TV network to... Read more ›
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A hacker who breached Suno reportedly revealed source code and training-library details showing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs and lyrics from sources including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and podcast RSS feeds. "The hacked data is a rare look at exactly how AI models and tools are built," reports 404 Media. "Suno is one of the largest AI music generation tools on the internet, and... Read more ›
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Spotify is testing a new "Talk to Spotify" AI feature for Premium subscribers that will let them chat with an AI assistant to explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The feature can answer questions about what users are listening to, adjust playback through follow-up prompts, and offer more personalized recommendations. The Verge reports: Amazon Music introduced a similar feature last year when it integrated Alexa Plus into the service. Spotify's chatbot... Read more ›
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Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have sued Google, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission or payment, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history." The Guardian reports: The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had been supplied for limited services such as Google Books, Google Play Books and Google Scholar. Those services allowed Google... Read more ›
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