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California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
15 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
Government & Policy, Media & Entertainment, streaming, thomas umbergStreaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
17 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, Transportation, Ford"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
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Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from too much convenience
19 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
Hardware, Media & Entertainment, ian bogost, the small stuffHas Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?
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TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD
20 hours ago
by Kirsten Korosec
Transportation, Tesla, zoox, Waymo, Tesla FSD, techcrunch mobilityWelcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
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Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia
21 hours ago
by Kirsten Korosec
Hardware, AI, nvidia, MicronEager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.
Hacker News
- HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 10 hours ago
- GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks 18 hours ago
- Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped 3 hours ago
- NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them 5 days ago
- Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) 20 hours ago
Engadget
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Google reportedly capped Meta's use of Gemini AI for coding and chatbots
an hour ago
by Steve Dent
AIGoogle was forced to cap Meta's use of Gemini AI due to a lack of capacity.
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DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P promises 17 stops of dynamic range
4 hours ago
by Steve Dent
NewsDJI's Osmo Pocket 4P introduces a new D-Log2 format and promises 17 stops of dynamic range.
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5 easy ways to get more range out of your EV
18 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
EVs and TransportationThese little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging.
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Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban
19 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
Social MediaThe fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million.
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Apple's touchscreen MacBook reportedly won't wait for the M7 chips
20 hours ago
by Cheyenne MacDonald
AppleThe new models will launch with the M5 Pro and M5 Max, according to Mark Gurman.
The Verge
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Comcast is splitting in two
37 minutes ago
by Jess Weatherbed
Business, Comcast, News, Streaming, TechComcast has announced plans to separate itself into two publicly traded companies, spinning off its NBCUniversal and Sky broadcasting arms. The shake up aims to protect the media conglomerate's profitable broadband and wireless brand, which will retain the "Comcast" company name, as its media and entertainment business - now collectively named "NBCUniversal" - faces increasing pressure from industry consolidation and streaming rivals. The separation is expected to take approximately a year, with Comcast shareholders owning shares in both Comcast and NBCUniversal upon completion. While current Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts will be "actively i … Read the full story at
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
an hour ago
by Bethany Brookshire
Health, Policy, ScienceA sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there's still time to fight it. On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on "woke" policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quickly as possible. But under phrases like "providing further clarification on the regulatory status of the OMB requirements" is something darker - a threat to scientific research in this country, the livelihoods of thousands of
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China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
14 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
AI, News, Policy, Politics, Security, TechChina's Zhipu AI ( Z.ai ) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is particularly concerning to the US government, which has worked to restrict China's access to powerful models like Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, as well as the hardware necessary to train and run them. The Trump administration views
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Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine
16 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
AI, Entertainment, Music, NewsSuno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To apply, artists need to be an unsigned singer, songwriter, or producer releasing music under their own name. They also need to agree to some terms and conditions that have raised some eyebrows over on the Suno subreddit . For one, you need to agree to make your songs available on Suno for remixing. That's not
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China claims the world’s fastest supercomputer
19 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
News, Science, TechThe LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018 . LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America holding three of the top five spots. LineShine doesn't even use any GPUs, which are typically the backbone of modern supercomputers. While reaching the peak of the
Wired
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Robin Byrd, the Sex Godmother of Millennials, Says the Internet Ruined Porn
an hour ago
by Ej Dickson
Culture, Culture / Movies, Ass, CeilingThe 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
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Yeasound RIC800 Hearing Aids Review: Good Audio, Glitchy App
2 hours ago
by Christopher Null
Gear, Gear / Products, Gear / Reviews, Gear / Products / Audio, Hear, for, a, Good, TimeWith AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.
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The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics
2 hours ago
by Molly Taft
Science, Science / Environment, Politics, Scrambled, SignalsClimate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.
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Everyone’s Mad at the World Cup’s New ‘Hydration Breaks’—Except Mr. Moneybags Over Here
2 hours ago
by Malak Saleh
Business, World, Cup, 2026FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul.
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show
2 hours ago
by Sheon Han
The Big Story, Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Bless, UpDrone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.