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Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister has said. From a report: The plans follows Australia's decision to ban children under 16 from accessing social media, with fines for tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta to TikTok if they failed to prevent children accessing their platforms. Minister Meutya Hafid did not say what the minimum age would be in Indonesia. Her remarks, made late on J
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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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An AI agent was named after this 57-year-old Belgian credit analyst. Is he philosophical about it? Read more ›
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Alan Chang is hiring a ‘performance manager’. Should other CEOs follow his lead? Read more ›
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Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements— state's 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing Read more ›
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Welcome to the “Temu experience of telehealth,” where everyone from Grindr to MAGA influencers can open a virtual clinic selling weight loss drugs and more. Read more ›
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My young daughter doesn't think she can become a doctor because she's a girl. I don't know how this got into her head. Read more ›
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Кто не любит старых добрых боевиков категории Б с Джейсоном? Если вы не любите, то напрасно, а я на них очень основательно прокачал свои программистские скилы, и вот почему.Брутальный немногословный герой Стэтхема (будем честны, герой этот переходит из фильма в фильм почти не меняясь, но за это он нам и нравится) может научить внимательного айтишника жизненным принципам, которые помогут в работе и межличностных отношениях.Конечно, если вы умеете читать исходный код... Read more ›
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AI strategist Sol Rashidi said "botsitting" unreliable AI agents consumed hours better spent on higher-value work. Read more ›
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The lending protocol added 1,806 new wallets in a single day, the most since October 2021, according to Santiment. The AAVE token has risen about 20% in a week even as the broader market slides. Read more ›
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Android 17 adds tougher lock-screen protections that limit failed PIN and password attempts, extend lockout timers, detect duplicate guesses, and make brute-force attacks harder Read more ›
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Telegram-бот, который дёргает кодинг-агента на моей машине: ставлю задачу из метро — получаю готовый коммит в git. Читать далее Read more ›
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Reddit is locking down old.reddit.com with a login wall, and the admin's post hinting it may not last forever has longtime users worried. Read more ›
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Some countries built their identities on their land. Some countries built their identities on a shared ethnic heritage. America, however, began with an idea on a piece of paper. “America was an enlightenment experiment, and so that means we have to make our own identity,” said Mark Graybill, a professor of English at Widener University […] Read more ›
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В далеком 2000 году британская компания Creative Assembly, известная разве что по нескольким спортивным симуляторам, взяла да и выпустила Shogun: Total War. Так началась история одной из самых знаковых для индустрии серии стратегий, которая до сих пор обладает огромной армией фанатов.Собственно, об эволюции исторической серии Total War (Warhammer пока оставим в стороне) мы и поговорим в этой статье, вместе вспомнив лучшие части культовой франшизы. Читать далее Read more ›
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Kanga, formerly known as Kanga Exchange, is entering a new phase of its international operations with the launch of Kanga Global. Building on a brand established in 2018, Kanga Global reflects the company’s continued evolution and long-term commitment to serving users in global markets. Since 2018, Kanga has consistently developed digital asset solutions, built a ... Read more ›
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic. But that does not appear to be the case with Lanmaoa asiatica, known locally as jian shou qing, a mushroom species sold in markets in Yunnan, southwestern China. When eaten undercooked, the mushroom can produce vivid visions of miniature people --... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 -- Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot's own 5th anniversary. Time's rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it's now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old backups, and a box of ZIP disks, and wrote... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited "tremendous interest" among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and... Read more ›
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A peer-reviewed Nature critique argues that Microsoft's 2025 Majorana quantum-computing breakthrough -- and its claim that it could enable "a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years" -- is fundamentally flawed. According to Dr Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, the claims were undermined by omitted data, selective plotting, and basic Python errors that concealed alternative results. Microsoft, for... Read more ›
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In an exit interview with The Financial Times (paywalled), former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company seriously considered buying Twitter, explored a potential merger with Apple, and pursued the James Bond franchise during his tenure. The Verge reports: According to Iger, Disney came close to buying Twitter from co-founder Jack Dorsey "at a very attractive price," sometime prior to Elon Musk buying the social media platform in 2022 and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Barron's: Walmart is signing a long-term contract to buy nuclear power for the first time ever, a promising sign that the industry's future is supported by more than just the AI data center boom. The retail giant agreed on Tuesday to buy power from a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energy for its operations in the area, including its stores and... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It's a major step in OpenAI's plan to "build the full stack behind its models and products," says OpenAI. "By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access." CNBC reports: The chip with Broadcom is... Read more ›
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Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won't include a disc. Instead, they'll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. "Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it also sets a bad precedent for the... Read more ›
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Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is confident in its safeguards. Wired reports: Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in... Read more ›
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Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has... Read more ›
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