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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: If you've recently been laid off and have started the arduous process of looking for a new job, you've probably seen them on networking platforms like LinkedIn: postings for roles that are 30 days old, maybe more, with suspiciously wide salary ranges. They usually have hundreds, or even thousands, of hopeful applicants vying for the same position, but if you do a quick cross-check and notice that the role isn't posted on the company's actual website -- or any
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I drove a 2025 Chevrolet Trax 2RS and was impressed by its strong feature content, attractive styling, and affordable price tag. Read more ›
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Nio, Xiaomi, and Xpeng have all broken sales records in recent months, but continue to report heavy losses. Read more ›
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Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS Vice President of AI and Data, says that AI can be used as a tool for job promotion, not be a job replacement. Read more ›
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Kevin Smith turned the movie theater he grew up going to into a shrine to his filmography. It's also the setting of his latest movie, "The 4:30 movie." Read more ›
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Some health influencers say golden-hued vegetable oils like canola are bad for you. It's complicated. Here's the science. Read more ›
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Augmented reality glasses still have a long way to go, but Snap’s latest Spectacles—which are now available to developers—already have some real-world utility. Read more ›
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Trump's plan to use the military for mass deportations faces sharp legal limits. The administration's few options come with major potential blowback. Read more ›
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Finding the perfect place to eat can make your trip. Here’s how to locate all the best spots. Read more ›
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My mom died after years of being sick. Her death inspired me to step outside my comfort zone. Now I spend months in France with my husband. Read more ›
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The new Asus ROG Phone 9 series brings more processing power, better cooling, a faster display and a bigger battery. That makes them the ultimate gaming phones, right? Maybe, but they are not without their flaws Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro The Asus ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro will receive only 2 OS updates (they start with Android 15) and will continue getting security patches for 5 years. The... Read more ›
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Consumers and businesses may have nowhere to hide from Trump's tariffs. So instead of waiting around, they're trying to get ahead of new import taxes. Read more ›
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I ordered a club sandwich from subway, Jimmy John's, and Jersey Mike's to see which popular chain does the classic sub justice. Two stood out. Read more ›
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Jessica Chestler thinks the home she chose is perfect for her future family. She's confident it will be a smart investment no matter what. Read more ›
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Two. Trillion. Dollars. That’s how much Elon Musk, co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, has said he can cut out of the annual federal budget. Musk and his partner Vivek Ramaswamy have suggested that they can achieve this through “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy,” by cracking down […] Read more ›
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Journaling is going mainstream as part of a daily wellness routine. One surprising group is taking it very seriously: hustle bros on Instagram. Read more ›
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The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale. Read more ›
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"Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past," reports Space.com. "The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of supporting life long ago." The evidence was delivered to Earth and sealed within the well-known Martian meteorite NWA7034, found in the Sahara Desert in 2011. Due... Read more ›
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The Ai-Da robot recently made a painting that sold for over $1 million. Is that something to be celebrated or lambasted? Read more ›
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Fans are still willing to shell out for once-in-a-lifetime experiences, but middle-sized artists are struggling to sell tickets. Read more ›
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According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently let customers access sensitive information, such as CEO emails and HR documents. Now, Microsoft is working to fix the situation, deploying new tools and a guide to address the privacy concerns. The story was highlighted by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. From the report: These updates are designed "to identify and mitigate oversharing and ongoing governance concerns," the company said in a... Read more ›
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AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands. Initially, the act... Read more ›
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schwit1 writes: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students' MIT education, which includes tuition as well as housing, dining, fees,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its... Read more ›
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Google has warned websites they will be penalized for hosting marketing content designed to exploit search rankings, regardless of whether they created or outsourced the material. The crackdown on so-called "parasite SEO" targets websites that leverage their search rankings to promote unrelated content, such as news sites hiding shopping coupon codes or educational platforms publishing affiliate marketing material. Chris Nelson from Google's search quality team said the policy applies even... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024 flagship tutorials, which include Microsoft Minecraft, Amazon Music, and Transformers One movie-themed intros to coding. The press release announcing the tutorials from tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which organizes the Hour of Code... Read more ›
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Apple has pushed out security updates that it says are "recommended for all users," after fixing a pair of security bugs used in active cyberattacks targeting Mac users. From a report: In a security advisory on its website, Apple said it was aware of two vulnerabilities that "may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems." The bugs are considered "zero day" vulnerabilities because they were unknown to Apple at... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Plex is beginning to test its "newly reimagined Plex experience," which will be available first on mobile and is coming to TV platforms "very soon." Plex says the new experience has been in development for almost two years and is "designed to bring everything you love into one seamless interface." But don't worry -- while the new version of the app is currently missing... Read more ›
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Apple has stopped selling its Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter in the U.S. and most countries, with limited stock remaining only in select European markets. The $9 accessory, introduced with iPhone 7 in 2016 (after the "courageous" move to stop including the headphone jack in iPhones), allowed users to connect traditional headphones to Lightning port iPhones. The discontinuation comes as Apple transitions to USB-C ports across its iPhone lineup. Read more... Read more ›
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Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) -- the nation's sole tech biz lobby group -- has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports. From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet access speeds, and government-imposed service outages. Pakistan went offline in May 2022 around the time of mass political protests and blackouts have... Read more ›
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