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Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch that forces the chips to always return 4 when asked for a random number. Beyond simply allowing Google and others to customize AMD chips for both beneficial and potentially malicious purposes, this capability also undermines AMD's secure e
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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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Adults who reread the same novels every few years aren't avoiding new books — psychology suggests they're using familiar pages to reconnect with the version of themselves that existed before life turned them into everyone else's reliable one. Read more ›
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China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies has signed a long-term deal to supply Tencent Holdings with more than 20 billion yuan ($2.94 billion) of server DRAM chips, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, helps servers quickly access ... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s release in early April of a preview of its powerful Mythos model prompted the CEO of Chinese AI developer DeepSeek to raise external capital for the first time, The Information reported. DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng realized that his company needed a much bigger war chest to secure ... Read more ›
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Gemini хорошо ищет и структурирует информацию, тесно связан с экосистемой Google, уверенно работает с длинными документами, изображениями, таблицами, кодом и исследовательскими задачами. Да, доступ к этим функциям для пользователя из России не самый удобный: оплата, качество использования и подключения зависят от страны аккаунта и конкретного продукта. Но пользователи продолжают искать способы пользоваться Gemini, потому что для ряда задач он закрывает то, с чем даже ChatGPT и Claude помогают хуже. Читать... Read more ›
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Друзья, сегодня отличный день, чтобы сделать свою первую статью на Хабре, который я читаю многие годы. Сегодня я успешно запустил в прод свой первый полноценный хобби (пет) проект. Два года назад работая с замечательной командой консультантов института Адизеса, мы столкнулись с проблемой наличия бесплатного гибкого софта для построения орг.моделей. Быстро собрать подразделения и функции, перетащить ветки в новое место, покрасить и так что бы не рисовать линии и квадратики, а... Read more ›
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The British Business Bank today announced that they have invested more than €695 million (£600 million) into British science and technology scale-ups, increasing its direct equity portfolio to more than 50 high-growth companies. According to the Bank, they have more than doubled their direct equity investments since October 2025, reportedly investing more in the last ... Read more ›
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Mazda vehicles have a strong reputation for good performance, moderate pricing, and overall reliability - and many of the brand's resale values reflect that. Read more ›
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The tech industry is uniting behind an open, high-speed Qi 50W standard to eliminate proprietary wireless fast chargers. Read more ›
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As expected, Samsung launched its Galaxy M47 in India today. The latest M-series member brings some familiar looks and specs to the Galaxy A27, but it also features some upgrades. The main one is the larger 6,000mAh battery, which supports up to 45W wired charging. It also features bypass charging, allowing the device to sip power directly from the charger when plugged in. This is highly useful for gamers and... Read more ›
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Привет, меня зовут Никита, я — ИИ-энтузиаст и люблю кино. Я собрал Movie Planner — сервис для ведения базы кино с друзьями, планирования просмотров и трекинга сериалов. Работает как мобильное приложение, также есть формат веб-кабинета на movie-planner.ru. Мы используем искусственный интеллект в нашем сервисе, и про него я как раз хочу рассказать: полгода назад я начал открывать для себя его возможности, и с тех пор исследую всё новое и новые... Read more ›
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A single oil palm tree yields up to ten times more oil per hectare than soy or sunflower, which is why palm supplies over a third of global vegetable oil on less than a tenth of oil-crop land — and why its expansion into Sumatra and Borneo has become one of the hardest environmental tradeoffs on Earth. Read more ›
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Mocha Frame is a free iPhone app that dresses up photos with clean frames, watermarks, EXIF details, collages, and export tools for social sharing. Read more ›
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DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P introduces a new D-Log2 format and promises 17 stops of dynamic range. Read more ›
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Мини-ПК уже давно перестали ассоциироваться исключительно с офисными девайсами с урезанной функциональностью. Сегодня среди них встречаются модели, способные заменить полноценный настольный компьютер, запускать современные игры и использоваться для серьезной работы с графикой или видео. Казалось бы, удивить в этом сегменте уже сложно, однако время от времени появляются устройства, которые идут совсем другим путем.Именно таким для меня оказался Khadas Mind 2. Знакомство с ним получилось совершенно случайным. Read more ›
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America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years." Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner might be kept in a dozen places... Now a group of 19 prison systems are... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died. Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986. Since then, the company... Read more ›
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UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their... Read more ›
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Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stressful, expensive and time-consuming," said Tamires Camal Taquidir, a freelancer who had provided HR-related services to a hospitality business. "Garfield made it possible for... Read more ›
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Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is that it can play your library of Steam games you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it's also a full... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America's data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities. In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry's best and brightest. The US-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has argued that its workers... Read more ›
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Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24 as part of a research partnership with DeepMind to develop AI-powered filmmaking tools and workflows. "The deal represents the latest marriage between a Hollywood studio and AI in an era where companies have oscillated between partnerships and lawsuits," reports Variety. From the report: A24 partner Scott Belsky, who leads the studio's technology division A24 Labs, told the Journal the studio's Google partnership... Read more ›
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With the price of the new Steam Machine starting at $1,049, you might want to consider making your own Steam Machine instead. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve says that "starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want." SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week with a slew of updates, including "improved compatibility with recent Intel... Read more ›
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Last week, AMD was found to have stripped memory encryption from its consumer CPUs without any warning or notice. Now, following a wave of backlash on social media, the chipmaker has now reinstated the protection, though it still hasn't explained why the safeguard was disabled in the first place. Ars Technica reports: Following the revelation, social media was deluged by comments from AMD consumers decrying the move. They noted that... Read more ›
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Microsoft has accidentally introduced a bug in Outlook for Mac that omits the original message from email replies, making it difficult for recipients to follow conversation history. Until Microsoft releases a fix, its suggested workaround is to roll back from version 16.110 and disable automatic updates, which is "great for users in full control of their devices -- not so good for anyone with a managed device," notes The Register.... Read more ›
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