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"The outdoor-apparel brand Patagonia has given 90 U.S. employees a choice," reports Business Insider: "tell the company by Friday that you're willing to relocate or leave your job." [Alternate URL here.]
The employees all work in customer services, known at Patagonia as the customer-experience, or CX, team, and have been allowed to work remotely to field calls and inquiries. These workers received a text and email Tuesday morning about an "important" meeting... Two company executives, Amy Velligan and Bru
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Finland President Alexander Stubb said that Russia's dependence on China meant that Xi Jinping could end the Ukraine war if he wanted to. Read more ›
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It's been a long wait, but payouts linked to Apple's settled MacBook butterfly keyboard lawsuit are set to go out to impacted customers this month. Read more ›
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Justice Clarence Thomas argued OSHA's authority is unconstitutional in a dissent against the court's decision to reject a challenge to the agency. Read more ›
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A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones. Read more ›
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A new study offers compelling evidence that Earth's inner core reversed direction and is slowing down. Read more ›
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Honor will launch the Magic V3 and Magic Vs3 foldables on July 12, and the company promised the phones will be thinner than ever. Today, just hours after images started to pop up online, Honor took the situation into its own hands and showcased the Magic V3 with a leather panel on the back that some might say is orange in color. The thin frame will have golden accents, and... Read more ›
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GenAI practitioners run the risk of neglecting to verify the trust and accuracy of an LLM’s outputs in favor of its quick implementation and use. Read more ›
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Days after making a record-breaking Malibu mansion sale, Oakley founder James Jannard listed another home. Read more ›
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"This would be a smart move for Cupertino given how important OpenAI is to the broader AI vision in Apple," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said. Read more ›
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With iOS 18, Apple overhauled the Home Screen, introducing design changes that allow for more customization and personalization. You can put icons where you want, change their size, and give them new colors, plus you can hide apps and swap out your Lock Screen buttons. This guide highlights everything new coming to the iOS 18 Home Screen and Lock Screen. Rearranging Icons With iOS 18, you can rearrange app icons... Read more ›
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Democratic donor John Morgan, who's helped Biden raise big bucks, thinks he has "misplaced" trust in aides like Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, and Ron Klain. Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge A widespread Xbox outage is preventing players from connecting to Xbox Live and playing online games, downloading games, or using other services, with many seeing the message “Error 0x87DD0033.” In a post at around 3PM ET, Xbox says it’s “aware that some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live” and that the company is “investigating.” Bethesda, which is now owned by Microsoft, published a similar message, saying... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden has upped his presence at the White House, advising his father and taking part in meetings with him, per NBC News. Read more ›
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A three-mile stretch of Interstate 94 in Michigan will be converted into America’s first smart highway. Axios reports that the Alphabet-backed startup Cavnue has started constructing the smart highway as part of a new pilot project that could spur other construction projects across the country. Two more highways are in the works for Austin, Texas and somewhere else in the Southwest, according to Cavnue’s website. The new smart road is... Read more ›
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A developer has successfully booted a Linux system from Google’s cloud storage platform. After overcoming a multitude of hurdles, they managed to boot a storage-less laptop from Google Drive and thus create a Cloud-Native Computer. Read more ›
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Raj M Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff’s thriller-like book reveals how the Pentagon came up to technological speed Read more ›
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"The outdoor-apparel brand Patagonia has given 90 U.S. employees a choice," reports Business Insider: "tell the company by Friday that you're willing to relocate or leave your job." [Alternate URL here.] The employees all work in customer services, known at Patagonia as the customer-experience, or CX, team, and have been allowed to work remotely to field calls and inquiries. These workers received a text and email Tuesday morning about an... Read more ›
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Parks Kugle reports via the Daily Dot: A mechanic went viral when he posted a TikTok about technicians being locked out of computer systems in a new Dodge Ram. TikTok user Shorty of Shorty's Speed Shop (@shortysspeedshop) garnered over 301,000 views when he showed viewers what mechanics had to do to be able to repair newer car models. "It has officially happened. 2024 Ram 3500, authorization denied," Shorty said as... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A top executive at McDonald's says the chain does not have plans to bring back plant-based options after a test of its McPlant burger in San Francisco and Dallas failed. "It was not successful in either market," Joe Erlinger, McDonald's U.S. president, said during the Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum in Chicago on Wednesday. American consumers are not coming to McDonald's looking for... Read more ›
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In 1994, college student Jim Hall created FreeDOS (in response to Microsoft's plan to gradually phase out MS-DOS). After celebrating its 30th anniversary last week, Hill wrote a new article Saturday for OpenSource.net: "What I've learned about Open Source community over 30 years." Lessons include "every Open Source project needs a website," but also "consider other ways to raise awareness about your Open Source software project." ("In the FreeDOS Project,... Read more ›
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According to a report from The Information, Apple is developing a new "electrically induced adhesive debonding" technology that would make iPhone batteries easier to replace. 9to5Mac reports: Currently, replacing an iPhone battery requires using tweezers to remove the existing battery, which is held in place by adhesive strips. Then, you must use a "specialized machine and tray" to press the new battery into place. The new process uses metal instead... Read more ›
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Peter Scarfe, a researcher at the University of Reading's School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, conducted an experiment testing the vulnerability of their examination system to AI-generated work. Using ChatGPT-4, Scarfe's team submitted over 30 AI-generated answers across multiple undergraduate psychology modules, finding that 94 percent of these submissions went undetected and nearly 84 percent received higher grades than human counterparts. The findings have been published in the journal... Read more ›
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In a contract worth as much as $843 million, NASA announced today SpaceX has been selected to develop a vehicle that will de-orbit the International Space Station in 2030. "As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in 2030,"... Read more ›
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What if across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, six high-voltage power cables stretched -- each over 2,000 miles long. CNN reports that a group of entrepreneurs "wants to build what would be the worldâ(TM)s largest subsea energy interconnector between continents, linking Europe and North America...to connect places like the United Kingdomâ(TM)s west with eastern Canada, and potentially New York with western France... "The Europe-US cables could send 6 gigawatts... Read more ›
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Bloomberg and The Washington Post "claim AI power usage is dire," writes Slashdot reader NoWayNoShapeNoForm. But Ars Technica "begs to disagree with those speculations." From Ars Technica's article: The high-profile pieces lean heavily on recent projections from Goldman Sachs and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to cast AI's "insatiable" demand for energy as an almost apocalyptic threat to our power infrastructure. The Post piece even cites anonymous "some [people]" in... Read more ›
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game of Asteroids An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: An asteroid the size of a football stadium threaded the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days. Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday's asteroid, 2024 MK, came within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million... Read more ›
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