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We’re guessing the July 4 weekend was not too relaxed for some folks at Microsoft. Today we got news that the company is laying off 4,800 people—around 2% of its total workforce—mostly in sales and at its troubled Xbox business. It's also selling at least four, and probably five, small gaming studios. Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s new gaming chief, had foreshadowed the gaming cuts last month, and on Monday she doubled down on how bad things were at Xbox, declaring in a staff memo also posted on X that “our busin
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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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Mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010 reflects booming demand for AI memory semiconductors Read more ›
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Parliamentary Panel Reignites Crypto Debate For years, India’s approach to cryptos revolved merely around taxation. A parliamentary panel has now… Read more ›
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Недавно OpenAI выкатил фичу под названием ChatGPT Work. Она появилась как в браузерном ChatGPT, так и в Codex. В этой статье будет описана одна полезная особенность этого режима. Читать далее Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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Rhaenyra sends Alicent to Harrenhal in "House of the Dragon" Season 3, episode 6, a large departure from "Fire and Blood." Read more ›
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"House of the Dragon" Season 3, episode 6 ends with Lord Corlys in another tough spot. Is he dead or alive? Read more ›
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Starting July 26, get 15% off two or more protective cases during Casetify's back-to-school sale using promo code BTS26. Read more ›
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"House of the Dragon" Season 3, episode 6 introduces new dragon eggs at Harrenhal. Could we be seeing new dragons? Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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"House of the Dragon" doesn't shy away from killing major characters. But some deaths — like Jace's in season three — are more tragic than others. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1864 on July 27 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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The Iron Throne leaves Rhaenyra with a nasty cut in "House of the Dragon" Season 3, episode 6. Here's what that means. Read more ›
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While this technology has been around in some form or another for decades, Russia has created a new type of bullet to be used in the Russo-Ukraine War. Read more ›
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Introduction, unboxing This is the new Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which launched globally at the end of May. You can look at it as a successor to the Smart Band 9 Pro (review here), or as its own thing. If you compare the Smart Band 10 Pro to its predecessor, very little has changed. It has the same overall design (though it is a bit lighter and thinner), the... Read more ›
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Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, Claude Opus 4.8, Grok 4.5, Composer 2.5, GPT 5.5, DeepSeek v4, GLM 5.2, Qwen 3.8 Max, Claude Sonnet 5, Mimi 2.5, MiniMax M2.7.Для тех, кому лень читать до конца, текущий итог: Читать далее Read more ›
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Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state." One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun... Read more ›
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In "House of the Dragon," Gwayne Hightower is Alicent's brother. He's alive — but in the book, he's already dead. Read more ›
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Google is expanding Immersive Navigation and the live speedometer in Android Auto, bringing richer maps and better driving information to more users. Read more ›
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has unveiled a preview version of Qwen3.8 Max, its latest and most powerful model, saying its performance is comparable to that of top U.S. models. Alibaba said in a post on X that it believes Qwen3.8 Max, its largest-ever model with 2.4 trillion parameters, is “ ... Read more ›
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Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently ... Read more ›
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Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model, enabling the company to serve its AI models to users much more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Google intends the new chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2,” to help it address a major shortage in AI computing capacity that has fueled internal tensions and compelled Google... Read more ›
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A sell-off in the triumvirate of memory chip stocks this month—Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology—has presented investors with a fresh opportunity to get exposure to the fast-growing sector. But investors buying in now have to be willing to dismiss the worries that sparked the sell-off—that the memory chip surge will falter in the next few years, as it has done many times in past boom-and-bust cycles. One solution for... Read more ›
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Thursday’s release of a surprisingly sophisticated new open-source AI model from Beijing-based startup Moonshot has ignited debate over whether China’s developers are erasing the gap with the dominant models from America’s AI firms.There is little question that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is impressive. The largest open-source model in the world, with 2.8 trillion parameters, it performed impressively on some AI benchmarks, topping a key coding leaderboard from Arena, for instance—ahead of... Read more ›
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The last thing a consumer pondering the purchase of a new electric truck might think about is the origin of the 17-digit vehicle identification number that vehicle authorities everywhere use to keep track of cars and trucks. For Chinese long-haul truck startup Windrose Technology, though, the VIN numbers put on a handful of its trucks shipped to the U.S. turned out to be a problem. By March last year, Windrose... Read more ›
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Alphabet stock jumped 3% on Monday morning after The Information reported that Google was working on a new chip that could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than its current line of homegrown AI chips. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” works by etching the blueprint for Google’s Gemini ... Read more ›
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Chris Fall, the director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning after just three months on the job, a Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed. Axios earlier reported the news. Dr. Arvind Raman, the director of the National Institute of Standards and ... Read more ›
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How protectionist is the Trump administration? Sure, President Donald Trump loves tariffs. But does he really want to drive up AI costs for U.S. business by banning Chinese open-source AI? Chatter about that is growing in the wake of a story we published on Saturday, which revealed that the administration had discussed the idea of banning open source last year. Axios, meanwhile, reported on Monday that last week’s release of... Read more ›
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Chinese AI developer Zhipu AI has completed the construction of a large-scale data center in China that only uses domestic chips, Bloomberg and Chinese media outlets reported. The new 1-gigawatt data center is the latest indication of how China’s AI sector is stepping up its effort to reduce its ... Read more ›
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