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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent -- a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight -- attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to two of the peo
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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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Three acclaimed but overlooked Apple TV series headline this weekend's watchlist, spanning a multiverse sci-fi thriller, a family drama, and a true-crime miniseries. Read more ›
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Некоторое время назад появилась новость, что Сэм Альтман и Джонни Айв начали совместный проект. Тогда практически ничего не сообщалось о том, что именно они собираются делать. Говорилось лишь о том, что речь идет не о программном обеспечении, а о каком-то новом устройстве.И вот недавно появились подробности, что этим устройством станет нечто вроде умной колонки. Честно говоря, сначала это разочаровало. Рынок умных колонок уже давно существует. Есть Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod,... Read more ›
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When dealing with electrical components, it's best not to guess, so many outlets can a 20-amp circuit power? Unfortunately, the answer isn't cut-and-dry. Read more ›
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Honor launched the Power2 in January, and then, in May, we heard that the upcoming Power3 would have a battery capacity of 11,000 to 12,000 mAh, while the exact number wasn't decided yet. Today a new rumor from the same source is back to dial down our expectations, unfortunately. According to Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the Honor Power3 will have a battery of at least 10,000 mAh. The Power2... Read more ›
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Google has confirmed price increases across the Pixel family as RAM costs surge, while working to make Android run well with less memory. Read more ›
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This weekend we have three hidden gems on Apple TV prove some of the platform's best work still flies under the radar. Read more ›
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If you're gearing up for summer fun, but finding yourself under-equipped for the activities you're most excited to try, Lowe's may have a product to help. Read more ›
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An appeals court refused to revive Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B work visas, after a lower court ruled it a tax to be authorized by Congress. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1862 on July 25 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. 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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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more ›
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Stihl makes lots of great power tools and landscaping implements, but there's always room for improvement. These accessories could using them even better. Read more ›
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Samsung’s new book-style foldable phone is making a strong first impression, but I’m still testing how it holds up in everyday use. Read more ›
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy F70e in February, and we might see it launch a Pro model in the coming months, as the smartphone was spotted on the GSMA database a few months ago and has now popped up on Geekbench. The benchmark database reveals that the Samsung Galaxy F70 Pro, bearing model code SM-E476B, is powered by Qualcomm's SM6475 chip, which corresponds to the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC. It... Read more ›
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Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded. "If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we've heard of and seen, then we're going to take the content down,"... Read more ›
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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 1 premiered by killing off a beloved Big Bang Theory character. Oops. Or did they? There's an obvious clue that everybody is overlooking. Read more ›
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Researchers say a meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Hillsborough, New Jersey, home in 2024 contains unusually pristine evidence of salty fluids and organic chemistry from near the surface of a primitive asteroid. "A forensic study of the fragments revealed that they contained preserved bits from near the surface of a primitive asteroid, where it experienced concentrated salty fluids -- a process not previously known from this type... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the end of the year. The launch of the microsatellites aboard a... Read more ›
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Last year just 0.6% of new vehicles made for U.S. customers were stick shifts, reports the Washington Post, citing preliminary government data. "That's a precipitous drop from the 34.6 percent of vehicles with manual transmissions produced in 1980." [T]he stick shift's popularity hit multiple new lows in recent years, with no signs of a turnaround, thanks to new technologies and a rapidly changing marketplace. Buyers and automakers increasingly have turned... Read more ›
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Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege unlawful action: "Xbox management is required to bargain with the union over the decision of layoffs prior to implementing them during the status quo period, and we are pursuing every available avenue to protect... Read more ›
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Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015. But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN. It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth... NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns... Read more ›
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In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC: "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now...." While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into... Read more ›
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"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register: Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man... Read more ›
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"Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]: The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible. This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much... Read more ›
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Reuters reports: Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed a "fiasco" by a cross-party committee of lawmakers, will be redirected to Burnham's priorities, the spokesperson said... "All the time and resource that was going to be spent on a... Read more ›
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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... Read more ›
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