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Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, later designed the iconic Eagle Transporter, and became one of science fiction cinema's most influential behind-the-scenes artists. Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger remembers the SFX legend, writing: "The Space: 1999 Eagle is one of the great space.
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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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Battlefield Studios has rolled out a new hotfix for Battlefield 6 players across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. The small patch, version 1.3.2.1, went live Wednesday morning. This is the first client-side patch to arrive in response to the mess of bugs and issues that made their way into the game with the Season 3 mid-season update. Read more Read more ›
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Last night, during its State of Unreal presentation, Epic unveiled a number of upcoming Fortnite collaborations with Control Resonant, Sonic Crossworlds Racing, Phantom Blade Zero, and the award-winning Vampire Survivors. However, a mere matter of hours later, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle said it was "reviewing" its Fortnite collaboration due to Epic's use of generative AI. Read more Read more ›
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Built to be shown off, CyberPower’s latest gaming desktop expertly combines style and speed while keeping the price reasonable. Read more ›
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Sovereign AI is back in the spotlight. India tried to position itself as a ‘neutral’ market through the India AI… Read more ›
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Меня зовут Дмитрий Валов, я тимлид команды «Инструменты для банка (агенты)» в Sber AI Lab — Центре практического искусственного интеллекта Сбера.Большие языковые модели (LLM) научились отвечать на вопросы, писать код и анализировать документы. Логично спросить: «А может ли одна универсальная модель заменить зоопарк специализированных систем, которыми банк описывает своих клиентов?» Сегодня под каждую задачу — отток, кредитный риск, NBA — заводится отдельный пайплайн: свой набор фичей поверх истории транзакц Read more ›
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According to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is currently working on the 2nd-generation iPhone Air, which is likely to debut in the spring of 2027. The 1st-gen iPhone Air, meanwhile, was introduced in September 2025. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that the next-generation iPhone Air will feature a dual rear camera setup. Unlike its predecessor, the handset is said to add an ultrawide... Read more ›
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Anthropic (создатели Claude) провели, пожалуй, самое масштабное качественное исследование об отношении людей к ИИ. 80 508 человек из 159 стран на 70 языках поговорили с «Anthropic Interviewer» (специальной версией Claude) о своих надеждах, страхах и реальном опыте. Читать далее Read more ›
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The X Fold 6's battery will put conventional Ultra and Pro Max phones to shame. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! В B2C-продажах — недвижимость, страхование, медицина — каждые 30 секунд задержки с первым звонком стоят процентов конверсии. Покупатель оставляет контакты в момент максимального интереса. Но импульс гаснет быстрее, чем менеджер успевает открыть CRM и набрать номер.Почта и СМС не спасают: письмо пропустят, сообщение не заменит живого разговора. А ручной перенос данных из квиза в базу и набор номера — это десятки потерянных секунд на каждой заявке.Вот здесь и... Read more ›
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The Frame Pro 2026 benefits from meaningful tweaks. AI audio and picture tuning work in tandem with a new anti-glare coating to deliver impressive benefits. Read more ›
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The cursor blinks. The research is open in nine tabs, the coffee has gone lukewarm, and I have read enough to write a competent summary of the thing. What I do not have, yet, is the angle. That is the part of the morning the machine cannot do for me, and on the mornings it ... Read more Read more ›
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Dave Berke is a retired Marine fighter pilot and Top Gun instructor who explains what it's like to fly combat missions from an aircraft carrier. Read more ›
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Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 they're a hefty upcharge […] Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Copilot Cowork in Ireland as part of a global rollout. Copilot Cowork is an advanced AI agentic system designed to execute complex, long-running tasks across multiple tools and Microsoft 365 applications. It orchestrates multi-step workflows using organisational data and apps and delivers completed outcomes rather than drafts […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: China was likely behind an online influence operation to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence technology and reshape the debate in Washington around the infrastructure needed to support it, according to research from OpenAI published Wednesday. OpenAI said it caught the influence campaign because China-backed operatives were using ChatGPT to create content for the social media campaign. [...] OpenAI's researchers identified two... Read more ›
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics "cannot continue," citing more than $20 billion in spending over five years, declining revenue outside Activision Blizzard King, console supply constraints tied to RAMaggedon, and an overextended studio portfolio. The memo stops short of announcing layoffs, but a Bloomberg report says substantial Xbox cuts are expected after Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30.... Read more ›
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Opendoor is shutting down its India operations less than two years after opening offices there. Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a post from Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian: "I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs." TechCrunch reports:... Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly considering sharp price cuts for paid access to its AI models as competition with Anthropic intensifies and both companies race for users ahead of potential IPOs. "The company is weighing significant cuts to what it charges for tokens, the unit of measurement artificial-intelligence firms use to bill for their products," the Wall Street Journal said, adding that it was "in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. [...] According to a police report, facial recognition software concluded with... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If digital sovereignty is important to you, and it certainly is in the European Union (EU), then you'll be pleased to know that EuroOffice, a new open-source browser-based office suite alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, has officially reached its first stable release. A coalition of EU-based companies, including Nextcloud, Ionos, and other Euro-Stack participants, is positioning Euro-Office as a cornerstone... Read more ›
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Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a tool that lets AI agents like ChatGPT or Claude execute crypto trades and manage payments on a user's behalf. "For example, customers can prompt their agent to rebalance portfolios, identify trading opportunities, execute strategies and manage positions over time," reports CNBC. "It will eventually expand these capabilities to stocks and predictions." From the report: [U]sing Coinbase's machine-to-machine payments protocol, called x402, agents can... Read more ›
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Polish lawmakers have voted to criminalize "trash streaming," with up to five years in prison for online broadcasts of serious crimes such as rape or murder, animal cruelty, humiliating violence, gambling promotion, or even simulated depictions of those acts. Reuters reports: The move is part of a broader push by Poland to tighten regulation of online content. Recent measures include banning the use of mobile phones by children under 16... Read more ›
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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... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such as cosmetic surgery, IVF or physicals, China is trying to differentiate itself by providing some of the world's most advanced procedures. "There are two reasons why a patient travels for medical treatments: availability of advanced treatments and price," said Victor Cao, operations director of Joyful... Read more ›
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