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Between the time [construction worker Florencio] Rendon applied for the coding boot camp and the time he graduated, what Mr. Rendon imagined as a "golden ticket" to a better life had expired. About 135,000 start-up and tech industry workers were laid off from their jobs, according to one count. At the same time, new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, an online chatbot from OpenAI, which could be used as coding assistants, were quickly
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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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It’s Monday, July 6, 2026, and the future stopped arriving one breakthrough at a time. It’s now hitting all at once—in the form of autonomous cyberattacks, geopolitical chip wars, trillion-dollar infrastructure bets, and policy decisions that could reshape every startup ... Read more ›
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Annoyingly, the Dutton Ranch season finale has left us with more questions than answers — including one missing scene that has left fans baffled. Read more ›
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The popular Merlin Bird ID app — which is free with downloadable offline bird packs by location including US, Canada and Europe — is getting an update for direct integration to eBird, a leading biodiversity database. Read more ›
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The news is finally out. Microsoft is laying off thousands of people from its Xbox division and losing four game studios from its roster. Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk expects AI and robots to enable big government checks for all, and working to be a choice. Michael Burry sees a revolution beforehand. Read more ›
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I stayed one night at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. The pools and beach access made it worth $900 a night. Read more ›
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July may be a quiet month when it comes to new game releases, but one of the biggest games of 2024 is graduating out of Early Access during the month. Palworld, the survival and creature-collecting hybrid whose characters look similar to Pokemon - but are legally distinct, will roll out its 1.0 update this Friday, 10th July. Read more Read more ›
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My long Crimson Desert break is about to come to an end, thanks to Pearl Abyss and its latest update 1.13 for the action-adventure game. Read more ›
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Вопрос «как заработать на ИИ» в 2026 году перестал быть темой для энтузиастов — это сформировавшийся рынок с понятными механиками. Нейросети генерируют тексты, музыку, видео и код, а сервисы, которые дают к ним доступ, платят за привлечение клиентов. В этой статье разбираем самый доступный способ заработка на нейросетях с нуля и без вложений — партнерские программы, сравниваем условия десяти российских агрегаторов и даем пошаговую инструкцию для старта. Читать далее Read more ›
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees, primarily in its Xbox and sales units, chief people officer Amy Coleman said in a memo to staff Monday. Coleman said that the cuts in sales were due to reorganizations as Microsoft shifts its business to focus more on AI products, including the creation ... Read more ›
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An in-depth review of OneRep, covering its key features to help you decide whether it’s an ideal choice. Read more ›
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DeepSeek — это нейросеть, которая помогает работать с текстом, кодом, идеями, аналитикой, документами и большими объемами информации. Ее используют для обычных бытовых задач, учебы, программирования, бизнес-аналитики и автоматизации. Главная причина популярности проста: Дипсик умеет рассуждать, объяснять сложные темы понятным языком, разбирать запросы на русском и давать быстрые ответы без сложной настройки.DeepSeek нейросеть ценят за сочетание нескольких качеств: доступность, сильные рассуждения, уверенную Read more ›
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A new fitness app called LightsOn gives users a virtual city that only stays powered if they keep moving. Read more ›
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Nvidia reportedly won't ship its Kyber NVL144 rack until 2028, a delay of more than 12 months. Read more ›
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Nanik Tagore says living with an older couple has lowered his housing costs while providing companionship and support to a woman with dementia. Read more ›
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Moonlock is a relatively new arrival to the Mac antivirus scene, but offers excellent usability and won't hinder the performance of older Macs. Read more ›
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IBM has unveiled "what it says is the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip technology," reports ZDNet, "designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM's earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021... Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors." At the heart of the announcement is NanoStack. This is a three-dimensional, nanosheet-based transistor design that scales... Read more ›
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"Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves," reports the New York Times. "Just how many jobs will AI upend?" asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the new coalition says it's time to ready the U.S. workforce for a "major" disruption —... Read more ›
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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch: Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature... Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next... Read more ›
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Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly... Read more ›
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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince,... Read more ›
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