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Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 -- Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot's own 5th anniversary. Time's rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it's now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old backups, and a box of ZIP disks, and wrote up a long look back at four decades of computing through the one website that's been my online home along th
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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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The United States has licensed Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase restricted Nvidia H200 AI chips, but Chinese regulators and domestic procurement initiatives may limit the material impact of the change. Read more ›
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Samsung is shipping out the latest software to its latest Galaxy Watch devices. This is the same update that began rolling out late last week. Owners of the Galaxy Watch 7, Galaxy Watch 8, and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic are snagging the July security patch. Nothing else is listed in the changelog, but if you... Read the original post: Galaxy Watch 7, Watch 8 Lineups Get Latest Update Read more ›
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Omdia released its global smartphone market share report for the second quarter of this year (April-June) yesterday, and today it's following up with the picture for the Mainland China market. Overall shipments have declined by 2% compared to Q2 2025. Despite that, both Huawei and Apple have managed to grow their shipments and market shares. As you can see below, Huawei shipped a record 15.2 million devices for a 23%... Read more ›
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Marcus Aurelius wrote one of his clearest warnings about ambition in the fourth book of the notes now called Meditations. A person longing for fame after death, he argued, forgets that everyone preserving the memory will also die. Their successors will die too, until the chain of remembrance ends. The observation came from the Roman ... Read more Read more ›
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The discovery sheds light on a Gaul settlement at a critical location, likely frequented by metalsmiths and slave traders. Read more ›
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SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, "including files it was told not to open […] Read more ›
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Old Ebbitt Grill claims to be the capital's oldest restaurant, with a history dating back to 1856. Take a look inside. Read more ›
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Первая статья из цикла «Аналитик в чужом процессе»145 тысяч тикетов, почти 87 тысяч "аномалий" и уверенность, что Service Desk полностью сломан. Но один разговор с опытным специалистом первой линии заставил меня выбросить половину критериев, переписать анализатор и полностью изменить выводы. Эта статья — о том, почему большие данные сами по себе ничего не объясняют, если сначала не понять сам процесс. Читать далее Read more ›
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В статье разберём, как Pact закрывает этот разрыв между модульными и E2E‑тестами, как устроены consumer‑driven контракты, Pact Broker и can-i-deploy, и что нужно учесть, чтобы contract testing действительно останавливал несовместимые релизы, а не создавал новую точку боли. Читать далее Read more ›
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Meta faces a lawsuit from 26 employees alleging AI systems unfairly targeted them for layoffs for taking medical leave. Read more ›
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![[Перевод] Как использовать Kafka на собеседовании по System Design](https://times42.com/media/0/4/5/12726045_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] Как использовать Kafka на собеседовании по System Design")
Kafka часто появляется на System Design интервью, когда нужно асинхронно обрабатывать события и масштабировать систему.Но за словами “добавим Kafka” скрывается много важных деталей: как выбрать ключ, сохранить порядок сообщений, распределить разделы между потребителями и не создать горячий раздел. В статье рассмотрим архитектуру Kafka, репликацию, смещения, повторные попытки и политики хранения. Читать далее Read more ›
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The RayNeo X3 Pro is the most technically accomplished pair of AR smart glasses available today, pairing a genuinely stunning dual-eye MicroLED display with Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 platform, Google Gemini 2.5 AI, and a 12MP Sony camera. Read more ›
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The FCC plans to roll back broadband label rules that require ISPs to itemize all passthrough fees. Under the proposal, providers could instead list a single "up to" amount for location-based charges. It would also allow ISPs to link to pricing labels rather than display them prominently, while eliminating machine-readable pricing files. Ars Technica reports: ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly... Read more ›
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Samsung's chip division is projected to earn more in 2026 than it made across its previous 40 years in semiconductors, driven by soaring AI-fueled demand for memory and storage. The company's latest quarterly operating profit reportedly topped Nvidia's, making Samsung the world's most profitable tech company for the period. Tom's Hardware reports: Brokerage consensus puts Samsung's full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won ($196 billion), and its second-quarter figure... Read more ›
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Microsoft will turn on Windows settings backup and restore by default for eligible Windows 11 business devices outside the EU, starting with Windows 11 26H2. The Register reports: Now dubbed "Windows settings backup and restore," the service backs up a device's settings and a list of installed Microsoft Store apps, which can then be restored to a new device. Microsoft gave a use case for the technology: "Imagine a lost... Read more ›
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Doom developer id Software is reportedly laying off about half its staff as part of Microsoft's broader Xbox cuts. The reported layoffs potentially affects around 90 employees. Engadget reports: While neither Microsoft nor id Software have formally acknowledged the layoffs, one former member of the studio's staff, Michael Maynard, has echoed the 50 percent figure on LinkedIn. According to at least one of Game Developer's sources, that could translate to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race. The new model, called Muse Image, rolled out with deep integrations woven into the Instagram app. As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are... Read more ›
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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captured rare close-up images of near-Earth asteroid Torifune, revealing a snowman-like shape made of two joined lobes. Phys.org reports: The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on Sunday in a mission that demonstrated the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from Earth. A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday could aid such efforts, as researchers say near-Earth asteroids vary... Read more ›
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New Zealand startup Zenno Astronautics has completed the first orbital test of its "Supertorquer," a shoebox-sized superconducting magnet system that uses solar power and Earth's magnetic field to help control a satellite without fuel. The company says the technology could eventually support fuel-free satellite maneuvers, docking, deep-space trajectory changes, and even magnetic radiation shielding for astronauts. Space Magazine reports: The tests began shortly after Mira's launch in November last year... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: An Australian beach community was confused -- and later delighted -- by the discovery of six metallic-looking spheres that washed ashore last week. The mystery, and the ensuing attention, prompted a bunch of alien jokes from local residents and businesses. But Australia's space agency put the speculation to rest on Monday, saying that the spheres appeared to be rocket... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and... Read more ›
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Europe's General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to the EU's designation of its App Stores and iOS as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act. The ruling means Apple remains subject to DMA obligations requiring it to allow alternative app stores, support interoperability with rival services, and avoid favoring its own services over competitors. MacRumors reports: Apple took its case to Luxembourg's General Court in 2024 after the European Commission designated its... Read more ›
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