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Researchers have uncovered widespread manipulation of GitHub's star-rating system, with over 3.1 million fraudulent stars identified across 15,835 repositories, according to a new study by Socket, Carnegie Mellon University, and North Carolina State University.
The research team analyzed 20TB of data from GHArchive, spanning 6 billion GitHub events from 2019 to 2024, using their "StarScout" detection tool. The tool identified 278,000 accounts engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior to artificially bo
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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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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Bearish traders lost $281 million in liquidations over 24 hours, nearly double the longs, as bitcoin pushed to its strongest level in two weeks. Ether is up almost 10% on the week and solana nearly 19% while a rebound in tech stocks eased the pressure from the AI trade. Read more ›
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Samsung's Galaxy S27 Pro and Ultra may swap the aging 12MP selfie camera for a sharper 16MP sensor, plus upgraded telephoto and ultra-wide lenses. Read more ›
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“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab. Read more ›
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Dassault Systèmes to lead UK prototype fusion power plant digital twin software with £30 million deal, supporting engineering and collaboration. Read more ›
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The Tether-backed stablecoin infrastructure firm has partnered with Esca Finance to offer same-day settlement across Nigeria, Ghana and CFA franc corridors. Read more ›
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The heat dome arrives just before the Fourth of July weekend, when AAA predicted 72.2 million Americans would travel. Read more ›
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SwitchBot's latest 3K camera includes some familiar AI features and a couple of standout customizations I've never seen before. Read more ›
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Lenovo launched the Legion Y700 (Gen 5) tablet in March, and now the company is working on a new version. Currently teased as the Y700 Unlimited (machine translated from Chinese), it's going to be made official in August, and it will have 5G support. Until then, we can expect to see more teasers in the next few weeks. For now, we have the video you can see below, which showcases... Read more ›
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На старте поисковая система часто устроена просто: одна таблица на одном сервере. Это работает, пока не случится одно из двух. Либо отдельный запрос перестаёт задействовать весь CPU, за который вы заплатили, либо одного сервера перестаёт хватать — по объёму, по пропускной способности или просто потому, что сервер может выйти из строя, и данные на нём будут потеряны.Автоматический шардинг, встроенный в Manticore Search и доступный начиная с релиза 27.1.5 , решает... Read more ›
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Waymo is tweaking the in-car experience to get into the festive spirit for the Fourth of July. Read more ›
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At Replit, X profiles have become the "main medium" for recruiting, said the company's chief people officer. Read more ›
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Engineers are still finding ways to use AI models despite stringent restrictions Read more ›
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С момента написания первой статьи о B4 прошло полгода. Казалось бы, не очень много времени, но софтина получила ну очень большое количество фич, о которых хочется рассказать подробно. Не буду скрывать: хабраэффект сделал своё дело, и благодаря большому интересу после первой статьи очень многие не разочаровались в отсутствии какого-то функционала, а активно помогали - коммуникацией, запросами, тестированием, - благодаря чему все эти фичи в B4 и появились.В итоге на сегодняшний... Read more ›
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В нулевых у пользователя Windows было две системы.Первая Windows XP, загружалась с диска, показывала ядовито‑зелёный «Пуск», синюю панель задач, загрузчик браузера и уверенно делала вид, что этого достаточно.Вторую пользователь собирал сам.Снизу ставился RocketDock, чтобы было почти как на Mac. Поверх XP натягивалась тема под Vista, потому что сама Vista уже выглядела красиво. В угол попадал CPU‑Meter с температурой процессора, погодой, сетью и другими признаками того, что компьютер не просто работает,... Read more ›
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Researchers say they detected the first gravitational-wave "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon by analyzing the final moments of the powerful GW250114 merger. The findings support Einstein's general relativity and may eventually help probe frame dragging and quantum fluctuations near black holes. Phys.org reports: For the new research published in Nature, an international team of researchers analyzed data from the strongest gravitational wave ever recorded, known as GW250114, detected... Read more ›
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Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion's AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don't lose any messages or data in the transition. Most... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has ordered (PDF) urgent inspections of 16 Airbus A380 planes operated by Emirates and Qantas, after cracks were found in a wing component on some aircraft (source paywalled; alternative source).. Cracks were found during earlier inspections of the wing spars structure, a key component of the wing, EASA said in a directive effective Wednesday. EASA... Read more ›
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Microsoft has quietly extended free Windows 10 security updates for consumers by another year, pushing the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program's end date from October 12, 2026, to October 12, 2027. "The ESU support page was updated with that date, and Microsoft's blog post on the program has a new editor's note confirming the change," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The prevalence of Windows across so many devices and... Read more ›
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"The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations," reports CNN, "revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears." Since the export ban earlier in June, "Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company in a... Read more ›
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Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-sized exoplanets with densities lower than cotton candy, making them the lightest known worlds of their size. The rare "super-puffs," located about 1,110 light-years away, are likely composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope expected to probe their atmospheres. The Associated Press reports: [University of Oxford's George Dransfield] suspects these fluffy, wispy worlds are probably white or blue,... Read more ›
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Friday Bitcoin closed at just $59,948 — dropping 19% just for June and more than 50% lower than its record high in October of $124,310. To commemorate the occasion CNBC interviewed long-time bitcoin skeptic Jeremy Grantham, reporting that the 87-year-old cofounder/chief investment strategist of the massive asset-management firm GMO is "predicting it will gradually fade into irrelevance over decades." [The] longtime market commentator known for his calls on asset bubbles... Read more ›
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SpaceX plans to begin building an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" next month to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a much higher cadence of Starship launches. The pipeline is expected to enter service in January 2027. Reuters reports: The pipeline plan, previously reported by Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, signals Musk's intent to accelerate Starship's development and lay the groundwork for a faster flight rate. The... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to. "It's an agent that prompts Claude," Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, "I don't write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I'm... Read more ›
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Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year's 47 'LibreLocal 2026' meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. "Far from each other in many parts of the world, they came together around one unifying belief: free software." We envisioned LibreLocal as a collage of in-person community meetups that would bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›
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