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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Student loan borrowers who enroll in automatic payments will get a much bigger discount on interest starting July 1, the U.S. Department of Education says. Auto pay has long offered a modest discount off borrowers' interest rate -- .25 percentage points -- but after millions of borrowers opted out during the long COVID repayment pause, with some making no payments for years, the nation's student debt portfolio swelled to $1.7 trillion. On Thursday, the departmen
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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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Cecil Rhodes arrived at the Kimberley diamond diggings as a sickly 18-year-old in 1871 and spent seventeen years buying out every rival. By 1889 his De Beers Consolidated Mines controlled roughly 90 percent of the world's rough diamond production — a monopoly that would shape the price of an engagement ring for the next 130 years. Read more ›
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Frances Gerety scribbled 'A Diamond Is Forever' late one night in 1947 at a Philadelphia ad agency. The four-word line reshaped marriage across 40 countries. She never married. Read more ›
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On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the basement of the US Capitol and tapped a four-word verse from the Book of Numbers down 38 miles of copper wire to Baltimore — a message chosen by his friend's 17-year-old daughter, encoded in an alphabet his assistant had built by counting letters in a newspaper typesetter's case. Read more ›
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Это статья о том, как избыток симметрии делает задачу принципиально нерешаемой. Корни уравнения пятой степени невозможно выразить формулой именно потому, что они слишком симметричны. Разберёмся, как симметрия из привычного инструмента упрощения превращается в препятствие. Читать далее Read more ›
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Most major sporting events do not live up to their names — literally, at least. Major League Baseball’s World Series apparently envisions a world that only includes the US and Canada. The National Football League’s Super Bowl is only rarely super, as those of us who watched February’s 29-13 snoozefest between the Seahawks and Patriots […] Read more ›
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The shift from parent-as-role to parent-as-person rarely arrives through the structured conversation everyone keeps trying to have. It arrives sideways, in a sentence so small it barely registers — and that's exactly why it works. Read more ›
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A brand like Samsung produces appliances in just about every product category, and that includes refrigerators, but it doesn't make ones everyone likes. Read more ›
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Many retirees keep waking before dawn even when nothing in their lives requires it. The reason isn't aging or insomnia — it's something quieter, and more deliberate, about who the early hour belongs to. Read more ›
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Cymothoa exigua, the tongue-eating louse, is the only animal known to anatomically replace a host's organ — entering a fish through the gills, severing the tongue's blood supply, and taking its place for the rest of the fish's life. Read more ›
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I take each of my three kids on solo trips and they get to do whatever they want. They have different travel preferences. Read more ›
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The Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) is one of the manufacturer's best watches and an excellent option for serious runners — it's now down to a fantastic low price in the US and the UK. Read more ›
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Instacart's Caper Carts bring fast checkout, coupons, and loyalty perks to Weis stores, but their cameras, location tracking, and in-aisle ads make the grocery cart feel like a data machine. Read more ›
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Realtor.com ranked the best and worst states to buy a home, and the Midwest and Southern states came out on top. Read more ›
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Shadowbyt3$ is asking for $2 million in exchange for the data, but Nintendo seemingly turned the offer down. Read more ›
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ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient Read more ›
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На днях встретился с бывшими коллегами-налоговиками, которые, как и я, недавно ушли со службы. Обсудили то, что сейчас происходит в ФНС, региональных инспекциях, как в целом себя ощущает бизнес. И по нашему мнению пока на ПМЭФ заявляют, что с налоговой нагрузкой все в порядке и палку никто не перегнул, на самом деле все гораздо менее радужно, а то будущее которое нам готовит, грозит и вовсе «похоронить» малый и средний бизнес.... Read more ›
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The latest test of the anti-establishment wave sweeping the Democratic Party comes this Tuesday in New York. One year after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City and became a partywide icon, the state has turned into a live read on the rift between the party’s left flank and its […] Read more ›
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we […] Read more ›
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The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the sightings took place near sensitive government facilities, according to the reports. Videos showing red and yellow. Read more ›
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It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports: Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected... Read more ›
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It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's "Brexit" vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll "shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain's departure," reports Bloomberg: Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That's the inverse of the mood in June... Read more ›
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"A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter." OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy and company... Read more ›
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More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" were infected with malware, reports Phoronix: The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579... Even at 1,579 packages listed, that final updated noted, it's a "list containing... Read more ›
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This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports: The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut's CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he objected to LLM-assisted development in Vim and... Read more ›
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"Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid," argues The Washington Post's editoral board, arguing that GM's latest moves "offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation." Or As Fortune put it, "America's electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand — and General Motors wants to turn that crisis into a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goal is to help creators move from idea to finished work faster [in a single application] while maintaining commercial licensing protections and contributor royalty paym Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration's decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said. Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic's Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid... Read more ›
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A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate... Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a smartphone. "It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence," Eggers said... It's a funny predicament for Eggers, given that he's arguably the city's biggest proponent of the written word... Now age 56, Eggers' latest book... Read more ›
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