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A federal judge rejected Metaâ(TM)s bid to dismiss claims from 29 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children while concealing the harms. The judge found significant factual disputes that must be decided at trial. The judge also ruled that Meta failed to comply with federal parental notice and consent requirements for children under 13, "and granted summary judgement to the states on that issue," reports Reuters. From the report: In a separate statement, Cal
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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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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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A surprising discovery is overturning a long-held assumption about how the brain’s movement center works. Researchers found that two key cerebellar cell types—thought to be tightly linked—often don’t behave in predictable ways, even though one directly influences the other. The finding suggests scientists may have been relying on the wrong signals when studying disorders such as dystonia, ataxia, and tremor. Read more ›
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"This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me," Alex Karp declared on national television. Read more ›
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Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google. Read more ›
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Apple will be using two modems in the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, according to new revelations from leaked schematics and documents that were stolen from Apple supplier Tata in a cyberattack. In the US, the company will keep using a Qualcomm modem, and the reason seems to be all about the fact that it supports mmWave 5G, whereas Apple's self-developed modems still don't. On the other... Read more ›
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Haunted pumpkins, killer clowns, and plenty of familiar horror faces are all part of the 2026 Halloween line-up. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit." The Reddit employee wrote:... Read more ›
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Samsung’s premium Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is at an all-time low at Amazon of just $334.99. Read more ›
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Мы делаем приложение Memo: есть куча гаджетов и сервисов вроде Plaud — это когда ты платишь за отдельную «умную» коробочку-диктофон, которая записывает встречу и сама делает из неё протокол. Зачем покупать отдельную железку, если в кармане уже есть iPhone? Давайте соберём такой же «умный протоколщик» прямо на телефоне. Читать далее Read more ›
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UBTech's new UWorld U1 Series robot is its first fully humanoid bot, and it could eventually be configured to look like a lost loved one — if that's your thing. Read more ›
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The Wheat Row homes in Washington, DC, were built in 1794, but have some modern flourishes. See inside one of the historic homes. Read more ›
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Modern supercars are incredibly impressive and quick vehicles, and a lot of that comes down to the physics behind their increasingly complex designs. Read more ›
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Когда работаешь с AI-агентом в большом проекте каждый день, накапливаются две усталости. Первая – объяснять одно и то же. В каждом новом чате заново рассказываешь, какой у вас стек, каким тестовым фреймворком пользуетесь, чем отлаживаете, что после правки нужно прогнать тесты. Вторая – платить сильной моделью за задачи, которым хватило бы простой: поиск файла или чтение пары классов тянет ту же дорогую модель, что и сложный рефакторинг.В Veai 5.14 мы... Read more ›
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Retailers are implementing AI through software companies like Happy Returns and Narvar to detect return fraud and issue refunds more quickly. Read more ›
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 make their return after last month's suspension. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Barron's: Walmart is signing a long-term contract to buy nuclear power for the first time ever, a promising sign that the industry's future is supported by more than just the AI data center boom. The retail giant agreed on Tuesday to buy power from a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energy for its operations in the area, including its stores and... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It's a major step in OpenAI's plan to "build the full stack behind its models and products," says OpenAI. "By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access." CNBC reports: The chip with Broadcom is... Read more ›
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Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won't include a disc. Instead, they'll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. "Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it also sets a bad precedent for the... Read more ›
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Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is confident in its safeguards. Wired reports: Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in... Read more ›
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Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: [T]he payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether. The new organization, called Intercept, will use grants and investments to back prevention approaches, including vaccines, as well... Read more ›
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NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover's Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, "a dried-up river that carried water into the planet's Jezero crater billions of years ago," notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living... Read more ›
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joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study shows that while automakers and regulators have focused on occupant... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are... Read more ›
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Micron has signed 16 "strategic customer agreements" (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with "a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle." Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron's revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company's Q3... Read more ›
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