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Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect. The government says the changes will also give the eSafety Commissioner more power to demand information from platforms and age-assurance providers as teens continue finding ways around the law. Euronews reports: The government said Sunday it would introduce draft legislation this week doub
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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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Chrome may roll out a guide for setting up your default browser that even your parents can follow. Read more ›
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Whatever it is, it's nothing registered in our chemical database, researchers say. Read more ›
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The FBI has confiscated hundreds of drones across all 11 US World Cup host cities, with Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas leading a nationwide pattern of violations. And the regulatory fallout for America's drone community could be significant. Read more ›
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Get excited for a feature film starring an AI character that doesn't exist in any real way. Read more ›
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LLM может влезать в контекст и генерировать 200 tok/s, но если она не может найти нужный факт в тексте, толку от этого мало. Поэтому мы захостили 8 локальных LLM и прогнали через NIAH-тесты: тройной хоп, пять дистракторов и контексты до 128K. Читать далее Read more ›
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Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios - Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs - as part of the restructuring announced today. However, two that are going independent, Double Fine and Compulsion, will get to keep their franchises and games catalog, according to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. "Compulsion […] Read more ›
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MSI has officially validated region-bound Chinese RAM using CXMT modules to run at up to 8,200 MT/s on its AM5 motherboards. Models with two RAM slots can handle these high frequencies a bit better than four-DIMM variants. Read more ›
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Workers at Samsung’s Device Solutions (the company’s semiconductor arm) were threatening to strike back in May, but their union and the company signed a deal that opened the gates to massive performance bonuses. That is not the end of the story, though, as another union that represents another branch is now unhappy with the bonus disparity. Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) branch builds smartphones, TVs and home appliances. Their union is... Read more ›
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The Range Rover is one of the best luxury SUVs, but it's also not immune to depreciation. How sharp is the depreciation curve for the 2021 model? Read more ›
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Celebrities like Matthew McConaughey, Sylvester Stallone, and Amanda Seyfried left Los Angeles for other places that offer privacy and lower taxes. Read more ›
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At the mid-way point of 2026, Verizon has finally launched its new Simplicity plan, giving customers a value option that is simple and quite affordable. They’ve paired this alongside their myPlan offerings, so customers now have a wide range of choices over unlimited data. Our previous guide for Verizon’s best unlimited plan is now outdated... Read the original post: Best Verizon Unlimited Plan 2026 Read more ›
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Mercor hit over $2 billion in gross revenue run rate in June, double its pace earlier this year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the company’s financials. The growth comes from increased demand from AI app developers and Fortune 500 customers looking to build their own or ... Read more ›
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AI data centers are increasing demand for power, but they're also making it harder to predict how much is needed and when. Read more ›
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An iPhone 17 Pro Max in Cosmic Orange has been sealed inside a 250 year time capsule as part of America's Semiquincentennial celebrations, with the device not due to be seen again until the 23rd century. America250, the congressionally appointed nonprofit leading the 250th anniversary celebrations, announced that "America's Time Capsule" was officially sealed and buried at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, to be reopened... Read more ›
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Всем привет! Меня зовут Катерина Цаплина, я AI Architect и программный эксперт курса «MLOps для разработки и мониторинга моделей». Работаю на стыке ML, инфраструктуры и корпоративной архитектуры в крупной промышленной компании и на практике вижу, насколько непросто выстраивать такие процессы в реальной организации. Это третья статья цикла о том, как компании реализуют MLOps. В предыдущих частях мы разобрали три архитектурных подхода и рассмотрели Uber Michelangelo — одну из самых известных... Read more ›
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Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen from about an hour to 35 minutes. Axios reports: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social... Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not financial advisers or economists. What follows is journalism about a documented economic pattern, not guidance for your own saving, career, or money decisions. For those, speak to a qualified professional who knows your circumstances. If you did everything your parents told you to do, work hard, stay loyal, save ... Read more Read more ›
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"Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves," reports the New York Times. "Just how many jobs will AI upend?" asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the new coalition says it's time to ready the U.S. workforce for a "major" disruption —... Read more ›
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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch: Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature... Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next... Read more ›
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Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly... Read more ›
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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince,... Read more ›
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"Another breach at Tata has leaked details about Apple's iPhone 18, along with documents belonging to several other Tata clients," writes Longtime Slashdot reader Ritz_Just_Ritz. "It's becoming a recurring theme for the company." Reuters reports: Reuters has previously reported the Tata Electronics leak of more than 200,000 files on the dark web by World Leaks had files with purported component design papers of older iPhones and some parts of Tesla... Read more ›
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