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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, enormous site. "We have over 65,000 products, each product has a page," Tomchuk told TechCrunch. "Each page has at least three photos." OpenAI was sending "tens of thousands" of.
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More than 35,000 acres have burned so far, and at least 10 deaths have been reported, in what could be the most costly fire in California history. Read more ›
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Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system beneath Las Vegas. Because it’s privately funded, it has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems. Read more ›
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Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games confirmed it would not "embed social or political agendas" in its games due to the "high risk it can present". Read more Read more ›
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"Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit is taking legal action to ensure the safety and integrity of our AI services," according to a Friday blog post by the unit's assistant general counsel. Microsoft blames "a foreign-based threat-actor group" for "tools specifically designed to bypass the safety guardrails of generative AI services, including Microsoft's, to create offensive and harmful content. Microsoft "is accusing three individuals of running a 'hacking-as-a-service' scheme," reports Ars Technica,... Read more ›
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Shrek's cinematic return is still coming, but he'll have to wait for the Minions to get done taking over summer 2026. Read more ›
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U.S. Commerce Secretary confirms that TSMC's fab near Phoenix, Arizona, is already producing chips. Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New renders of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series have appeared in a leak from Android Headlines ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event later this month. The most obvious change here is that Samsung has tweaked the design of the S25 Ultra, rounding off the phone’s corners a bit. From the renders, it looks like you’ll be able to get the non-Ultra S25s in... Read more ›
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Yesterday's Marvel Rivals update has seemingly wiped the ability to use mods on PC. Read more Read more ›
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My family started to aggressively save by avoiding vacations and big purchases. Our biggest priority was getting our adopted sons into college. Read more ›
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The Great Salt Lake is rapidly losing water, and new research indicates agriculture is to blame. Read more ›
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Biotech company 23andMe had a rough 2024, including a $30 million settlement payment after customer data was compromised. Read more ›
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The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of entering its orbit. Read more ›
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Say hi to the newly announced global Redmi Note 14 4G. It ships with a grey case, a USB-A to USB-C cable, and a 33W charger. It comes in Black, Purple, Blue, or Lime Green colors and has no less than three memory options – 6/128 GB, 8/128 GB, and 8/256 GB. The basic is priced at €200/£180, while the middle variant costs €230/£230. Compared to its 5G namesake, the... Read more ›
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On a trip to Lapland, the northernmost region in Finland, I fulfilled my dream of staying in a real igloo. It was cheaper and better than I thought. Read more ›
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Toyota has seen plenty of success with its own reliable trucks, but its luxury arm in Lexus has never really experimented with a modern, luxury pickup truck. Read more ›
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Maria Shriver opened up about the parenting trick she inherited from her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Read more ›
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This week saw notable discounts on a few Apple products, including the AirPods Pro 2 and AirTag 4-Pack at Amazon. For accessories, if you're on the hunt for Apple Watch bands or USB-C charging accessories, we're also still tracking big deals from Woot and Anker today. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a... Read more ›
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In a statement posted on X, Zelenskyy said he had instructed Ukraine's security service to allow journalists access to the captured soldiers. Read more ›
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"Robots and AI models share one crucial characteristic," writes the Washington Post. "Whether to move around, conduct conversations or solve problems, they function by constantly taking in and computing increasingly vast quantities of data. It's a brute-force approach to automation. Processing all that data makes them such energy guzzlers that their planet-warming pollution could outweigh any benefits they offer." But then the article visits the robot soccer team of René... Read more ›
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"In many instances, there's a catch: flexible work but at lower pay..." writes Fortune. "Remote workers are accepting lower salaries in order to achieve remote status. Some are taking as much as 5% to 15% less pay to do so, while other employers are reversing the strategy to entice workers to come to the office at higher salaries..." Today, nearly half of managers anticipate challenges in meeting candidates' compensation expectations.... Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India, turning to the world's most populous nation to fuel its revenue growth engine. From a report: The firm, which has been operating in India for more than two decades, will also train an additional 10 million people in the country with AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at an event in Bengaluru Tuesday.... Read more ›
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Scientists have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons are quantum entangled, challenging traditional views of proton structure and revealing a more complex, dynamic system influenced by strong interactions. Space.com reports: Entanglement is the aspect of quantum physics that says two affected particles can instantaneously influence each other's "state" no matter how widely separated they are -- even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Albert Einstein founded... Read more ›
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OpenAI has shut down the developer behind a viral device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. Futurism reports: The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media, sparked a frenzied debate over our undying attempts to turn dystopian tech yanked straight out of the "Terminator" franchise into a reality. STS 3D's invention also apparently caught the attention... Read more ›
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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. From a report: The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles -- which can then also be translated in many languages -- for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users' devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES.... Read more ›
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Brazil ended daylight saving time in 2019, reports the Washington Post, adding that some Brazilians loved the change, "particularly those who commute long distances and are no longer forced to leave their houses in pitch blackness." But "In the heavily populated southeast, the sky begins to brighten at the unconscionable hour of 4:30 a.m. during the summer, and by 8 a.m., it feels like high noon... Polls showed it ultimately... Read more ›
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Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 ahead of the operating system's end of support in October 2025. The company's consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2025 "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh," positioning PC upgrades as more crucial than TV or phone purchases. The Verge adds: Mehdi believes that "Windows 11 is available at a time when the world needs it... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In an Op-ed for The Huntington News, fourth year Northeastern University CS student Derek Kaplan argues that real pedagogical merit is what should count when deciding which language to use to teach CS fundamentals (aka 'Fundies'). He makes the case for Northeastern to reconsider its decision to move from Racket to Python and Java later this year in an overhaul of its first-year curriculum. "Students... Read more ›
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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows." Or, as BleepingComputer put it, Microsoft "made it abundantly clear... that Windows 10 users won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11 unless their... Read more ›
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