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This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary — and how that investigation ultimately changed U.S. government policy.
The reporter first found an ad offering $18 to $28 to hire Americans as "digital escorts" for China-based tech support, then just searched LinkedIn for people who apparently had answered the ad. 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 asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, rather than sulfur inside the asteroid, may have delivered the deadliest blow. Read more ›
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Pinball Map is a free, community-powered app that helps players locate pinball machines at arcades, bars, restaurants and other venues worldwide. Read more ›
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«Пока вы не сделаете своё подсознательное сознательным, оно будет управлять вашей жизнью, а вы будете называть это судьбой» (с) Карл Густав ЮнгНаверно, каждого из нас жизнь сталкивала с неадекватами. С начальником, который меняет свою позицию задним числом и спихивает это на вас, с собеседником из интернета, которому вы вот уже восемь постов подряд пытаетесь всё логически объяснить, а он не понимает и несёт в ответ какую-то чушь, с тем... Read more ›
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When the air quality geos bad outside, is it safe to use your air conditioner inside? It's a fair question to ask. Here's everything you need to know. Read more ›
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Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, "just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage." That discovery had "gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement alongside SpaceX, and its technical staff, promising to delete all data that Grok Build has ever... Read more ›
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Soon after the Galaxy S26 Ultra release, reports online about a red screen issue started surfacing. Up until now, no one knew what the underlying cause was, and many speculated that it was a hardware problem related to the first-generation Privacy Display OLED. However, Samsung came out with an official statement, and an executive even explained what's causing the issue. Turns out, it's not a hardware problem, and it's fixable... Read more ›
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Military missile ranges across America are dangerous places for people, but endangered and threatened animal species often find refuge within them. 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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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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New S&P Global research shows APAC driving most incremental growth, yet North America still generates the lion's share of processor revenue. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1856 on July 19 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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A low-cost antidepressant may offer new hope for people struggling with long COVID fatigue. In a randomized clinical trial involving 399 adults, fluvoxamine significantly reduced fatigue and improved quality of life compared with a placebo, making it one of the first medications to show meaningful benefits for this disabling condition. Read more ›
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Mimolet выглядит как обычное приложение для знакомств с вертикальной лентой анкет. Но если пройти регистрацию и открыть несколько разделов, становится понятно, что одной лентой дело не ограничивается. Здесь есть подробные профили, нормальные чаты, публичные группы, встроенные звонки, ИИ-функции и отдельная система модерации. В разборе отмечу удобные решения, спорные функции и вопросы, на которые сервису стоит отвечать понятнее. Читать разбор Read more ›
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You have probably heard about the righty-tighty, lefty-loosey rule, but you may be wondering if that's a universal standard or not. It's complicated. Read more ›
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"OpenAI has finally confirmed reports that its latest family of large language models can accidentally delete files," reports InfoWorld, "while stressing that such incidents are rare and should be viewed as 'honest mistakes.'" Reports of the flagship LLMs deleting files emerged shortly after the company launched them earlier this month, with investor Matt Shumer taking to X to report that GPT-5.6-Sol had "just accidentally deleted almost all" of his Mac's... Read more ›
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If your streaming keeps buffering or your games keep lagging, the culprit could be as simple as picking the wrong Wi-Fi band. Read more ›
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Biodiesel generates fewer emissions than traditional diesel, which may make it an appealing alternative to some. Can you use it in generators, though? Read more ›
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Many people still have a refrigerator humming away in the garage, usually full of drinks and meat for the grill. The cost to keep it running is pretty high. Read more ›
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Facial recognition technology in U.K. shops "will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders," reports The Guardian, "with civil liberties groups warning of a 'dangerous escalation' towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector." Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when... Read more ›
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"I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs," John Carmack posted Thursday to his 2.8 million followers on X.com: My "Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand" statement isn't aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I'm saddened, but I can't muster anger or outrage over it. I... Read more ›
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Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register. "The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%" — mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates: In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming "carbon-negative" by 2030. Its own figures show emissions heading... Read more ›
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"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers: Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups." Their cause is now riding a... Read more ›
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The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech: SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what... Read more ›
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"Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X," reports CNBC, "highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution." This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own GPT-5.6 Sol. For days, Musk and Altman have hyped up their respective releases, but on Saturday the rivalry got personal. In response to a post about Apple filing suit against OpenAI on... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously." Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw... Read more ›
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Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the... Read more ›
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California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain... Read more ›
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