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Three mathematicians have developed a breakthrough method for proving whether numbers can be written as fractions, solving a problem that has puzzled researchers for decades. Frank Calegari, Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang proved the irrationality of an infinite collection of numbers related to the Riemann zeta function, building on Roger Apery's landmark 1978 proof about a single such number.
The new approach, which relies on 19th-century mathematical techniques, has already helped settle a 50-year-ol
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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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“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer. Read more ›
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Sony's plan to stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs by 2028 sparked online jokes and concerns about digital media and ownership. Read more ›
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Nuclear power is one of the more efficient means of generating power, and data centers require a lot of it, so how many reactors would it take? Read more ›
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AI voice startup ElevenLabs is exploring a secondary share sale that could value the company at about $22 billion, less than six months after raising $500 million at half that valuation. The proposed deal would give employees a chance to ... Read more ›
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The island nation draws 1.2 million tourists a year — predominantly from Europe, and predominantly on all-inclusive packages. A World Cup run won't change that overnight, but it may bring awareness to Americans who struggle to place the island nation on a map. Read more ›
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Meta has quietly launched Pocket, a new AI-powered app that lets users create, play, and share mini-games simply by describing them in plain English. Read more ›
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July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is […] Read more ›
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Plex's $750 Lifetime Pass price is now live, and our reader polls suggest buyers may be few and far between. Read more ›
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Каждый бэкенд-разработчик рано или поздно сталкивается с ситуацией, когда база данных MySQL внезапно ложится при резком пиковом наплыве пользователей. Классическая ошибка на старте - создавать новое независимое соединение с СУБД на каждый чих приложения, выполнять один короткий запрос и закрывать коннект. Когда на сайт одновременно залетают сотни людей, сервер моментально упирается в системный лимит max_connections и падает с ошибкой OperationalError: (1040, 'Too many connections'), попутно забивая всю дост Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Portugal vs Croatia for free online and from anywhere at the FIFA World Cup 2026, as two greats collide in the last 32. Read more ›
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Some iPhone users are losing over 100GB of storage space to ‘System Data’ on their devices. Read more ›
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The 'Righteous Gemstones' creator recently detailed his take on the iconic Hasbro toy franchise. Read more ›
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I am not a psychologist or an economist, and nothing here is advice about your money or your decisions. This is one curious reader’s reading of the work, and the studies behind it are findings from particular groups of people, not settled laws about everyone. Here is a small thing I have noticed about myself. ... Read more Read more ›
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The latest breakthrough for GLP-1 drugs isn’t scientific. It’s financial. As of July 1, Medicare is providing coverage of GLP-1 medications for weight loss for just a $50 co-pay, potentially enabling millions more Americans to get onto this much-hyped new class of drugs. Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge Program, as it is called, is technically a one-year […] Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorganChase, and others. Akrites will provide a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), a standardized coordinated vulnerability disclosure process, and act as a "maintainer of last resort" fo Read more ›
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The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns. The model will initially be offered to a small group of partners, with the government "approving access customer by customer during this preview period," reports The Information. The request came from conversations with the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report said. Read more of... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from autoevolution: The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. Polestar will continue to sell its existing inventory of Polestar 3 and 4 crossovers in the United States and will continue to offer support to customers and access to its service network. But no new 2027 models will set wheels on American... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Spain will require mobile networks to have backup systems that maintain connectivity when power outages occur. Per a royal decree that will be approved by the end of 2026, mobile network operators (MNOs) and infrastructure companies will need to install batteries or other backups to keep service active for at least four hours during a blackout. The mobile network rules will apply... 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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