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Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal."
"It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview. "It's much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak." Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive and reconsider the alien wonder that's long lingered in.
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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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Я прогнал шесть мультиагентных паттернов на трёх бенчмарках и трёх моделях. Под командой агентов тут понимаются связки вроде критика-актора или оркестратора с подчинёнными. Почти везде такая команда проиграла одиночному агенту. Проиграла и по точности, и по цене, а по цене иногда вчетверо.Это была бы скучная заметка в духе «МАС не нужен, расходимся». Но нашлось исключение. Чем труднее задача для модели, тем больше у команды появляется шанс на выигрыш. Так что... Read more ›
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Trump said the US reached a deal with Iran on Sunday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a possible end to a 15-week conflict that upended global oil markets. Read more ›
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UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register — but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it." Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists... Read more ›
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TSMC's upcoming CoPoS packaging technology could reduce chip costs while improving AI performance, with mass production reportedly targeted for 2028. Read more ›
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Roku is reportedly exploring a potential sale as media and technology companies eye its massive streaming audience and growing advertising business. Read more ›
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From scanning loyalty cards to splitting restaurant bills, Apple Wallet is becoming the app you actually open. Read more ›
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Apple reportedly has hidden support for multiple third-party AI models in iOS 27, potentially letting Siri work with services beyond ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Capcom is discontinuing the deluxe edition of Dragon's Dogma 2 on 24th June, as well as pulling many of its more controversial time-saving microtransactions. Read more Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai played it safe during his graduation speech at Stanford on Sunday. Read more ›
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Jeep has recalled over 1 million vehicles due to a fire risk, with the threat serious enough that owners are advised to only park affected vehicles outside. Read more ›
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Apple reportedly has a customizable Camera app ready internally, but the feature may not launch until the iPhone 18 Pro arrives next year. Read more ›
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Last year, the FBI opened a Cyber Range in Huntsville, Alabama, for simulating cyberattacks. Think of it sort of like the famous Hogan's Alley, but for modern digital crime training. It's a massive 22,000 square-foot replica of an entire town, complete with a convenience store, gas station, hospital, and even fully furnished houses. It's a […] Read more ›
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Diesel engines can get pretty expensive in the U.S. auto market, but if you're looking in the used world, there are actually quite a few affordable options. Read more ›
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Streaming services have had many ways of measuring user engagement over the years, with one such method being Netflix's former 2-minute rule. Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Ivory Coast vs Ecuador for free online and from anywhere in Group E of the FIFA World Cup 2026. Read more ›
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Rei Hance played Heather in the original 'Blair Witch Project,' but she's stepping back from this new one to 'preserve her autonomy.' Read more ›
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People are disabling the "recording light" on Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses — "by my count, thousands of people," says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report: STERN: "They're hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According to our reporting, folks are offering this service in at least 30 states — despite Meta's attempts to stop it... In most states, we found... Read more ›
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Italian fashion house Prada "unveiled on Sunday the inner-layer garment set to be worn by NASA astronauts heading to the moon," reports Reuters. "The body-hugging suit, created in collaboration with Houston-based space infrastructure developer Axiom Space, features ventilation tubes knitted into the garment." Expertise for developing space exploration products "can come from lots of seemingly unrelated industries," said Jonathan Cirtain, CEO of Axiom Space... The new product follows Prada's splashy... Read more ›
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"When Hugo Parra was arrested last year on felony charges, his pleas of innocence fell on deaf ears," reports the Times of San Diego: San Diego police had a description of the Alfa Romeo car he was riding in [but no license plate number] and a witness who identified him during a curbside lineup as the man who brandished a handgun in Golden Hill. They had also checked the city's... Read more ›
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Reuters reports: Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high, according to the state grid operator... Unlike traditional industrial customers, which tend to draw electricity steadily and predictably, data centers are engineered to cut their connection to the grid... Read more ›
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A burglar took a self-driving Waymo taxi to rob a San Francisco yoga studio this past January, reports TechCrunch — "and police have still not caught them." Even the police officer assigned to the case thought it would be easier to solve, notes The San Francisco Chronicle, since Waymos are outfitted with multiple high-definition cameras and require users to make accounts with their credit card numbers: It's common for officers... Read more ›
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Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby's package hosting site "exploit a narrow window," according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata. So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it's been public "for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the window." The feature was designed... Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos is backing Flourish, a new "neuro AI" startup with $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, that aims to reinvent AI by studying the brain's architecture and building systems that learn continuously while using far less power than today's large language models. The company's long-term bet is that neuroscientists and AI researchers working together can uncover the brain's "core algorithm" and eventually create brain-inspired AI... Read more ›
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Bending Spoons, the Italian app studio behind acquisitions like Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL, has filed to go public in the U.S. after growing into a subscription-heavy app conglomerate with more than 500 million monthly active users. TechCrunch reports: In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bending Spoons said it ended the year with $1.31 billion in revenue and has generated $601 million in Q1, a 132%... Read more ›
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Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, giving the browser a more cross-platform path for GPU-accelerated video playback beyond Linux's long-running reliance on VA-API. Phoronix reports: Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn't universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left to efforts like NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver to layer VA-API atop NVIDIA NVDEC interfaces to enjoy GPU-accelerated video playback in Firefox.... Read more ›
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wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta-owned communications app WhatsApp says it recently detected and disrupted a spear-phishing attempt linked to spyware company NSO Group. The attack is allegedly in defiance of a court order that bars the spyware maker from targeting WhatsApp. WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO in 2019, after it came to light that a zero-day vulnerability had been exploited to deliver spyware to users. [...] NSO... Read more ›
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