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California's proposed "billionaire tax" has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, setting up a major fight between labor unions and some of Silicon Valley's richest figures. From the report: The California Billionaire Tax Act, colloquially known as the billionaire tax, would levy a one-time 5% tax on any California resident worth more than $1bn. The proposal is backed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West as a means of funding California's strai
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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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Сразу предупрежу: это личный опыт человека, который просто решил попробовать инструмент без сильных знаний в программировании, но с большим желанием закрыть потребности в реализации личных проектов.Про ИИ ассистентов уже не раз писали и напишут как с положительно, так и с отрицательной стороны. OpenClaw с его постоянным обращениями к LLM (которая прилично есть токены). Про Claude code в данной статье тоже не будет ничего сказано, поскольку тестировавние проводилось именно на основе... Read more ›
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It doesn't merit a full-throated denunciation of phones for parents, but it's food for thought. Read more ›
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Meta said it's investing $9 billion to build a new data center in Alberta, Canada, making it the company's 33rd data center in the world. Read more ›
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Peaky Blinders is getting a sequel series on Netflix. Here's everything we know about the Shelby family's return. Read more ›
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Jennifer Garner stars in the small screen adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel about grief and friendship – here's how to watch The Five-Star Weekend. Read more ›
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A few days ago some reports claimed Apple was considering using Chinese RAM from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). Today, a new report claims the company is already testing DRAM chips from CXMT. But there's a twist. Allegedly, Apple would only be using the Chinese-made RAM for devices it will sell in China. That might be a way to minimize the backlash that could ensue from... Read more ›
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DuckDuckGo’s browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, although users may see longer buffering times or occasional hiccups. Read more ›
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Wonder, which owns GrubHub and Blue Apron, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday. To entice investors, Wonder has arranged to give backers of the financing extra shares if the restaurant and delivery startup’s stock price in ... Read more ›
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Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion, in what could be its last round before going public. To seal the deal, founder Marc Lore has been offering investors sweeteners—and putting his own money in the pot. The company has arranged to give investors in the financing extra shares if Wonder’s stock price in an initial... Read more ›
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The LG G6 proved to be an excellent OLED TV for bright rooms, but how does its main Samsung rival compare? Read more ›
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Huge bonuses for semiconductor workers are leaving those in traditionally prestigious jobs feeling relatively worse off Read more ›
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According to a new report from China, the iPhone Ultra, Apple’s first foldable smartphone, will be launching on time alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, most likely in September. This information allegedly comes from multiple sources inside Apple's supply chain, and none of them have ever even heard of any delays. The iPhone Ultra being delayed (either in terms of introduction or availability) constituted a popular... Read more ›
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First-ever 4K video stream from the Moon to Earth represents major milestone, uses 260Mbps laser optics. Read more ›
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A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other exotic forms of quantum matter. Read more ›
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The Apple AirPods Pro 3 are down to AU$299 at Amazon for Prime Day in Australia, which is the lowest price we’ve seen. Read more ›
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How about that? SpaceX’s AI unit is rolling out some AI products of value to businesses. On Wednesday, SpaceXAI—as the unit is called—and its soon-to-be subsidiary Cursor jointly introduced Grok 4.5, a model “built for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.” A week ago, SpaceX introduced a “Voice Agent Builder” enabling small businesses to set up an AI that can talk on the phone and handle customer service calls, among... Read more ›
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The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught. Read more ›
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The Apple TV 4K hasn't been updated since 2022, and it's due for a refresh. An update is planned for 2026, but Apple is likely going to wait to launch it after Siri AI launches in iOS 27. Design Apple TV design updates don't happen often, and that's not changing. The next Apple TV is going to have the same squircle shape as the current model, and it'll continue to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs. The trend could even unlock a more flexible energy supply for power grid operators and even AI data centers. New home battery installations reached a record 673 megawatts of energy storage in the first quarter of... Read more ›
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According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX showed investors an early prototype of a slim, "handset-like" AI device running a proprietary operating system and integrating xAI technology. Elon Musk, however, denied the report, calling it "utterly false." TechCrunch reports: SpaceX, alongside sister company Tesla, does have the manufacturing expertise to pull off mass-producing a bunch of AI devices -- not to mention access to the chips needed to power any... Read more ›
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IEEE Spectrum argues that orbital data centers remain far from economically or technically practical despite Elon Musk's prediction that space will become the cheapest place to run AI within a few years. Deploying SpaceX's proposed million-satellite constellation would require enormous increases in launch and manufacturing capacity, while cooling, radiation, maintenance, latency, orbital debris, and astronomical interference present major unresolved obstacles. Longtime Slashdot reader xetdog shares the repo Read more ›
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OnePlus is directing customers in some European markets toward OPPO devices, with its German website presenting OPPO as the natural upgrade path for existing users. The regional handoff adds to "months of speculation that the smartphone brand is slowly being folded into its parent company," reports Android Authority. From the report: The banner, seen on OnePlus' German website, tells visitors seeking "the experience you trust" that OPPO offers the same... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp this week started rolling out username reservations ahead of the broader launch planned later this year. The feature -- which lets people find and message each other by handle instead of phone number -- is already raising impersonation concerns, drawing scrutiny from security experts and regulators in India, the app's largest market, with more than 500 million users. The rollout marks... Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, potentially alongside similar contributions from other major AI companies. "Such a deal would help improve the industry's relations with the Trump administration and could help garner political support by sharing wealth generated by the AI boom with the public," reports The Guardian. From the report: [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman] and other OpenAI bosses have suggested that... Read more ›
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Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features. According to Wired, "[U]sers will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for their smart glasses, whether it's the Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Meta-branded version." They'll still be usable with a subscription, but "certain features will be limited," the report says. From the report: Specifically, a feature called Conversation Focus, which boosts the... Read more ›
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The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. "It is time for us to recognize that these problems aren't going away and therefore we need to take steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while ensuring we still have a pipeline to mentor new contributors to become future maintainers," the Godot Foundation said in... Read more ›
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Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack carried out end to end by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited exposed systems, stole credentials, established persistence, compromised a production database, and destroyed data. The research team named the attacker "JadePuffer" and said it gained initial access to an internet-facing Langflow instance by exploiting CVE-2025-3248. "The most striking characteristic, however, was the LLM's behavior," Sysdig director of threat research Michael... Read more ›
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The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, that's the lowest participation rate since June 1976. CNBC reports: The decline in the labor force marks a "massive exodus" driven by multiple factors, said Mike Reid, head of U.S. economics at RBC. "The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% as both the number of... Read more ›
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