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Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a joint $60.50-per-share offer to buy PayPal, valuing the payments company at more than $53 billion. The bid is said to represent a 28% premium to PayPal's latest closing price and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing.
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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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A new teaser for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 lineup reveals that the phones will feature some kind of glowing orb on the camera bar, as reported by 9to5Google. Google's store page for the Pixel 11 has a short video that shows the glowing, color-shifting orb to the one side of the camera bar. The store […] Read more ›
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Google has already announced a Made by Google event taking place on August 12 where they’ll show off the latest in Pixel devices. We expect the entire Pixel 11 series to be on display, as well as the new Pixel Watch 5. Today, Google began its first public teasing of the new Pixel 11. The... Read the original post: Google Confirms Pixel 11 and Surprise Pixel Glow Feature Read more ›
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Minor Hotels didn’t wait out the Iran war in the Gulf. It grew in Oman and Africa instead. Read more ›
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The Vyriy 15 FPV is a $500-class Ukrainian drone that incorporates AI terminal guidance and reportedly hit Russian logistics 110 km away. Read more ›
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Nomad is celebrating its anniversary by offering up to 30 percent off sitewide this week, giving shoppers a chance to save on the brand's best wireless chargers, iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, and more. This sale does not require a coupon code as all the discounts have been automatically applied, and it will last for this week only. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Nomad. When you click a... Read more ›
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US forces fired precision munitions against coastal defense systems and cruise missile sites on Wednesday. Read more ›
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OnePlus's exit from Western markets stems from financial strain, geopolitical tension, an Apple lawsuit, and a costly global memory chip shortage overall. Read more ›
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Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI. Read more ›
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Майкл Бьюрри, прославившийся благодаря книге и фильму «Игра на понижение» (The Big Short), не разделяет популярную точку зрения о том, что производители микросхем памяти вступили в новый «суперцикл». И в его аргументах есть логика. Читать далее Read more ›
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В мире корпоративной ИТ-инфраструктуры уже много лет существует дискуссия. На одном полюсе — проверенная временем классическая трёхуровневая архитектура (серверы, сеть, внешняя СХД). На другом — гиперконвергентная инфраструктура (HCI), которая объединяет все компоненты в единую программно-определяемую систему. Выбор между ними — это не просто вопрос "что новее", а стратегическое решение, влияющее на управляемость, масштабируемость, отказоустойчивость и совокупную стоимость владения . Читать далее Read more ›
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Now that Siri AI is ready to launch in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple can finally introduce new smart home products built to work with the smarter version of Siri. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Apple has multiple new home devices in development, several of which are rumored to launch before the end of the year. We're waiting on a new... Read more ›
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FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final dependency was disabled. Phoronix reports: This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0. With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of... Read more ›
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Known locally as "Likweli" or "kasaba nkoni," this species puzzled researchers for nearly 20 years. Read more ›
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The partnership targets SME working capital loans and BNPL at checkout on AliExpress, backed by QI Tech's regulated Brazilian infrastructure. Read more ›
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Apple's current M2 Ultra-powered servers don't seem to be cutting it, so the company is shopping around for more power. Read more ›
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Running an app store is a profitable business – one that platform makers are keen to protect. That used to be the case with Google too, but the conclusion of a 6-year legal battle with Epic Games has come to a surprise ending that will make third-party app stores that much more accessible. The story started in 2020 when Epic sued Google, alleging that Google held a monopoly in the... Read more ›
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Watching my five children enter adulthood taught me that parenting doesn't end after college — it just changes. Read more ›
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StatCounter's June 2026 data shows Windows made up 56.55% of global desktop OS usage, dropping Microsoft's share below 60% for the first time in years. Linux, meanwhile, reached 4.39%, "one of its strongest recent showings in the company's desktop OS statistics," reports Linuxiac. From the report: Apple's desktop platforms also remain a major part of the picture. StatCounter lists OS X at 11.89% and macOS at 4.48% for June 2026,... Read more ›
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Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom wireless connectivity chips, part of its broader push to diversify its supply chain and support domestic chip production. CNN reports: The agreement with Broadcom will lead to the production of 15 million chips in United States and allow Broadcom to invest $1.5 billion to expand and modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is part of Apple's... Read more ›
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Meta is rolling out an update that will disable the camera on its smart glasses if the device detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the privacy LED. "The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light," reports The Verge. "Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses,... Read more ›
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John Deere has agreed to a 10-year FTC-supervised right-to-repair settlement requiring it to provide farmers and independent repair shops with the same repair resources available to authorized dealers. The deal resolves antitrust claims from the FTC and five states alleging Deere monopolized equipment repair services, contributing to higher costs and delays for farmers. Wired reports: The full statement (PDF) lays out obligations for John Deere's repair services, requiring the company... Read more ›
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oumuamua writes: Anthropic researchers have identified an internal activation subspace, J-space, that acts as a functional digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace. The significance of this discovery lies in demonstrating that Claude's internal architecture satisfies five key cognitive properties of human conscious access -- verbal report, directed modulation, internal reasoning, flexible generalization, and selectivity -- meaning it processes complex, deliberate reasoning within this worksp Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food, marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest... Read more ›
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A new study proposes using shoebox-sized detector satellites to sniff out nuclear weapons launched by adversary nations. The idea is aimed at addressing fears that a space-based nuclear detonation could destroy satellites across low Earth orbit and make some orbits unusable for years. Space.com shares the findings from a new paper authored by Areg Danagoulian, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: No... Read more ›
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Meta will build its first Canadian data center in Alberta, investing $9 billion in a 1-gigawatt facility that can scale to 1.8 gigawatts to support its AI infrastructure needs. The project will rely on new generation and grid infrastructure funded by Meta, including a long-term agreement tied to a new natural gas power facility. The company says it will offset electricity use with clean and renewable energy investments. Reuters reports:... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Parents' attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on their children, according to new research. Caregivers who mismanage their devices can both exacerbate "insecure attachment" and make healthy relationships more anxious and avoidant for children, according to the findings, which were published last month in Frontiers in Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal. The study, which surveyed 600... Read more ›
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OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, "claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better," reports TechCrunch. "These are full-duplex models, meaning they can speak and listen at the same time, allowing users to interrupt naturally and enabling features like live translation." TechCrunch reports: The company is also replacing its current Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT with GPT-Live-1 mini by default. Users of paid tiers will be... Read more ›
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