Но деталей ни про парк машин, ни про цены не привела.

Основной претендент — фонд «Бумеранг капитал», говорит один из источников.

Его время составило 50 минут и 26 секунд.

Чтобы те точнее понимали касания и вовремя распознавали опасность.

У него открытый исходный код.

Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

Вторую — на вторую половину года, говорят источники.

В России с этим сложнее.

В «рисковую» зону попадут только те, кто «с высокой вероятностью» получает незадекларированные доходы.

Например, изменение стоимости логистики после приёма товара на склад.

Паста со вкусом жареного арахиса поступила в продажу в США.

В начале 2026-го компания вела переговоры о продаже контрольного пакета при оценке $5,5 млрд.

В марте 2026 года отключились карты Visa.

Оно будут сканировать мозговую активность с помощью «десятков тысяч» сенсоров.

А еще можно приспособить их для полезного дела - показывать температуру воды в котле, например - чтобы не бегать смотреть на основные экраны "умного дома", и не хвататься за телефон.

По даташиту он может работать с кассой как по USB, так и по RS232, в зависимости от кабеля.

На самом дисплее всего один разьем типа RJ45, но он не сетевой, просто для удобства подключения кабелей.

Конечно, кабель можно прозвонить тестером - но кто его знает, какой провод к чему относится, раз уж тут всё не по стандарту?

Пришлось лезть внутрь - и не зря.

Именно это и стало поводом для поста: я хочу объяснить, что я считаю функциональным языком — и почему JS таковым не является.

Не перечислить отсутствующие фичи, а показать, почему их нет и что это значит в реальном рантайме.

В JS — в рантайме.

Это и есть гравитация языка: не злой умысел, не плохие разработчики — просто путь наименьшего сопротивления ведёт не туда.

Каждое из ограничений — не баг и не просчёт.

Полученный таким образом двухполосный сигнал с подавленной несущей усиливается УПЧ-1, ЭМФ выделяет из него ВБП, сигнал с ВБП усиливается УПЧ-2 и подаётся на вход правого кольцевого смесителя.

Кольцевые смесители и в «Радио-76», и в «Радио-76М2» балансными только называются.

Попытки модернизировать «Радио-76» с одним преобразованием частоты для работы на диапазоне 20м были, но не очень успешные [7].

Меньшов В., Булатов А. Улучшение смесителей в «Радио-76» и «Радио-76М2».

Я радиолюбитель, я люблю радио, и мне нравится писать о радио и электронике.

Веб-приложение исполняется на машине гражданина, а значит все настроенные правила маршрутизации распространяются и на него.

У нативного Android-приложения возможностей значительно больше — наиболее эффективные методы основаны на прямом взаимодействии с системой:Всё то же, что и в случае с сайтом.

На сами Перехватчики трафика и системные процессы не применяется — иначе система перестанет понимать, что происходит на устройстве.

Android при этом не выставляет системный флаг и не создаёт характерных интерфейсов — значок ключа в статус-баре не появляется.

Государству остаётся лишь надеяться, что высокий порог входа — разблокированный загрузчик, root, необходимость понимать что и куда применять —…

В этой же статье мы посмотрим, можно ли использовать локальные модели для написания кода с помощью тех же агентов.

Локальные модели: компромисс качества и ресурсовЛокальные модели и ресурсыСразу становится понятно, что за приватность придётся платить качеством модели.

Архитектура Apple Silicon: процессоры серии M используют так называемую unified memory (унифицированная память) — это общая память и для графического, и для центрального процессора.

Но с другой стороны, все работающие приложения потребляют ту же память, что и модель, и могут мешать друг другу.

для локальных моделей лучше подходят более простые агенты Open Code и Aider, для Kilo Code и Claude Code кажется нужно заметно больше р…

Я хочу показать вам, как одна буква в ассемблере может стоить 3× производительности.

Для нашей истории важны два: rax и rdx — потому что именно их использует инструкция деления.

При этом зависимостей нет: mov rdx, 0 и mov rax, 536700 — полные 64-битные перезаписи, цепочка разорвана.

И как вообще так получилось, что все, что вокруг деления на в одном случае ничего не стоит, а в другом случае обходится лишь в 1 такт.

Если это будет интересно, то я обязательно освещу это в другой статье.

Работники местного банка рутинно занимались своей работой, обслуживая состоятельных и не очень клиентов, пока в 12:20 не зашли несколько мужчин в презентабельных костюмах и… масках.

И в один из дней, когда он отдыхал от мирских дел, размышляя о великом и покуривая, на него неожиданно снизошло… откровение.

Также в переговорах подчеркивалось, что они не хотят повторения «Мясорубки в Ромальо», они вооружены и если что, будут стрелять, — надо оставаться спокойными и не глупить.

Но и в Министерстве безопасности, в системе правосудия и в полиции тоже есть весьма сообразительные сотрудники.

Фернандо, планировщик всей операции, отсидел год, и это время он провел с пользой — скорешился с местными, о…

Большинство пользователей знают только то, что существуют PS/2, USB и Bluetooth-клавиатуры, а принципы работы и как передаются данные через эти интерфейсы, является магией.

Если подать сигнал на строку при нажатой клавише, тот же сигнал будет и на столбце.

Справедливо и обратное: если сигнал будет подан на столбец при нажатии клавиши, такой же сигнал будет и на строке.

Уже после того, как я построил всю матрицу своей клавиатуры, я нашёл распиновку разъёма для клавиатуры похожего ноутбука.

В официальных примерах Pico SDK и в репозитории TinyUSB есть готовые шаблоны для HID-устройств, в том числе для клавиатуры.

Каркас вакуумной установкиТехнологичнее и удобней собирать каркас установки «от земли», используя её нижние однотипные детали как шаблоны для сварки верхних.

Каркас вакуумной установки и печи выполнен из тонкостенной квадратной трубы 20х20 и 15х15.

Их изрядная высота заставила поискать подходящее место для этой работы, пришлось расположиться на крыше старой аналогичной печи для фьюзингаФото 2.5.

Собранный каркас отсоединил и снял для удобства кантования — добраться горелкой до пары сложных мест, укрепить шарнир раскосами и распоркамиФото 3.4.

Готовый каркас печи в пару слоёв покрасил термостойкой краской и изнутри обшил стальной сварной оцинкованной сеткой.

С первого взгляда может показаться, что это самый обычный дисковый телефон, какие некогда стояли практически в каждом доме или офисе.

Или, например, VEF ТА-D.Но всё это не так уж и примечательные бытовые и офисные модели.

источник: https://alldect.ru/statsionarnye-telefony/telefon-provodnoj-vef-ta-68tsb-2-2c-tsvet-belyj-mekh-zvonok-2c-bez-nomeronabiratelya-detailИногда под видом «телефонов спецсвязи» продают за конские деньги и вовсе не имеющие к ним никакого отношения аппараты, например, бездисковый ТА-68ЦБ.

Никаких МБМ и прочих бумажных здесь нет и в помине.

❯ Что же в итоге?

С поднятыми на перехват F-4EJ Kai говорить не получится, рация МиГ-25 настроена на советские частоты и в полете не перестраивается.

Не успел увидеть мировые рекорды Федотова (1973, 1977) и не дожил до триумфа машины, равно как и до ее главного провала с побегом Беленко.

Только позже, уже к концу 70-х, постепенно стало проступать, что Е-266 и МиГ-25 — это одна семья.

На раннем МиГ-25 это могло привести к одновременному отказу обоих двигателей, что в полете на 20 километрах означало катастрофу.

Николай Матюк, главный конструктор серийного МиГ-25, прожил долгую жизнь, остался в тени и почти не упоминается в статьях.

Давайте разбираться, что с этим всем сейчас и куда всё идёт.

ПД-35: главная надежда программыСамое интересное в судьбе Ил-96 связано с двигателем, которого ещё нет в серии, но которого очень ждут.

Что в итогеИл-96 не умер, потому что есть задачи, которые больше никто не решает — от перевозки президента до дальних госрейсов.

Например, что там с «Кукурузником», маленький региональник, который должен заменить Ан-2.

Или что там с МС-21 — наш ответ Boeing и Airbus.

На данный момент TLS и HTTPS контент шифруется так, что оператор не может подглядывать в заголовки HTTP и читать ваши пакеты.

Съехавшая стойка — и вот уже тот же YouTube идёт не из соседнего дата‑центра, а из Варшавы или Франкфурта.

Но любой клиент может перенастроить порт на 443, и тогда трафик будет идти по тому же порту, что и HTTPS.

Корпоративные VPN и удалённая работаВсе эти ограничения бьют не только по любителям запрещенограма, ютуба и ChatGPT, но и по бизнесу.

Методички, разосланные компаниям, предлагают трёхшаговый алгоритм: сравнить IP с российскими и заблокированными базами, проверить наличие обходных сервисов с помощью приложения, и, наконец, сканировать устройства на других ОС.

Спор о том, «тот ли это клуб», — это не спор о реальности, это спор о том, как нам удобнее эту реальность называть.

В ID это выглядит так:V.US-CA.2040-06-01.GENESIS:sha256:a7f2…@v5 — сам дух, родившийся в облаке C.SG-01.2049-03-15.SN:4471@v1 — биотело, которое он временно арендует V.US-CA.2040-06-01.GENESIS:sha256:a7f2…@v5+AVATAR:C.SG-01.2049-03-15.SN:4471 — дух, воплощённый в этом телеИ между ними — сессия.

Хотите ли вы, чтобы ваш клон в ID явно маркировался как клон, или он должен быть неотличим от обычного человека?

Но вот что: в ID не обязательно класть геном в открытом виде.

То же решение, что и для цифровых духов, просто одновременно для тысяч носителей.

Сначала пытаешься играть с буквами, потом добавляешь дефисы, в итоге психуешь и лезешь в другие зоны, но это не всегда актуально.

Это не только выглядит дешево, но и несет риски для безопасности: пользователи могут ошибиться в написании и попасть на фишинговый сайт.

В конце на руках остается готовый список: мы видим и сами идеи, и информацию о том, какие из них свободны для регистрации.

Процесс создания проектаПервым делом мы получаем API-ключ на сайте openrouter.ai для того, чтобы можно было обращаться с запросом к LLM-агенту.

На странице есть поле для описания проекта, блок с чекбоксами для выбора предпочтительных доменных зон (например, .io, .tech, .ru), поле-счетчик, в котором указывает…

А ничего скандального или шокирующего у них и не было — лишь разные данные о финансах и продажах.

Хотя, ходят слухи, что в этот раз ПК-версия Grand Theft Auto VI выйдет с меньшей задержкой от консольной.

2039 секунды под землёйНа прошлой неделе было сразу 3 слуха: что 16 апреля пройдёт State of Play, что 16 апреля официально покажут ремейк Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag и что анонсируют новую Metro.

Выпустить Metro 2039 планируют уже этой зимой на ПК, PlayStation 5 и Xbox Series, но есть подозрение, что в России её вообще запретят.

А делаете вы это с помощью карточек разных заклинаний и способностей, которые вы разблокируете и собираете с каждым новым забегом.

Дело было не в фильме «Спенсер», который там был включён, а в подсветке, мерцающей в тон кадрам фильма.

А если телевизор стоит не на двух ножках, а на одной центральной либо снизу установлен саундбар, то будто бы этот недостаток и перестаёт им быть.

Причина в том, что в устройствах Govee стоит чип, который поддерживает только 2,4 ГГц.

Отличаются они тем, что в первом случае в контрастных сценах появятся зоны, где подсветка вообще выключена, а в другом — светит на все 450 нит.

Вы запускаете на одном из подключённых к Govee AI Sync Box 2 источников браузер или фотошоп, там ищете этот цвет и на его основе уже регулируете вашу подсветку.

Китай успешно провёл второй в истории страны полумарафон с участием андроидов — участники должны были преодолеть дистанцию в 21 км, не растеряв по пути все шестерёнки.

Андроид от команды HONOR добрался до финиша всего за 50 минут и 26 секунд, обогнав поставленный месяцем ранее мировой рекорд Джейкоба Киллимо на 6 минут и 54 секунды.

Всего на пробежку вышло 300 моделей, при этом почти половина из них двигалась по маршруту самостоятельно, без участия человека!

Для сравнения: в прошлом году к участию в гонке допустили только 20 роботов, и все они управлялись дистанционно бегущими рядом операторами.

Киборги на колёсах и четвероногие робопсы к участию не допускались, только старые добрые антропо…

Компания выпустила милашные чехлы для зарядного кейса Galaxy Buds 4 в виде баночек с консервами.

Три цвета — три вкуса: сочная кукуруза, томаты и сардины.

Открывашка не потребуется!

Да, вы прочитали правильно — это чехол для чехла.

Он удвоит вес оригинального зарядного кейса и увеличит его габариты до 62,7 × 62,6 × 34,5 мм.

Пользователи iPhone столкнулись с ошибкой при автоматическом обновлении системы: смартфоны окирпичиваются и уходят в бесконечный цикл перезагрузки.

Насколько массовый характер носит проблема — пока неизвестно, но сервисные центры уже со вчерашнего дня накрыл поток клиентов с одинаковой проблемой.

Сервисы благополучно перепрошивают смартфоны, но восстановить файлы с окирпиченных iPhone, подключив телефон к Mac, не удаётся.

Для этого необходимо перейти в «Настройки» → «Основные» → «Обновление ПО» → тапнуть по кнопке «Автообновление» → выключить опцию «Устанавливать автоматически».

Причина ошибки пока не установлена.

Опрос жителей США показал, что пользователи стали ещё более преданными любимым брендам, чем это было в 2021 году.

Покупают знакомое и не особо переходят на незнакомую технику — китайским смартфонам даже не пробраться!

Вот что поменялось за 5 лет в США:лояльность к iPhone выросла с 91,9 до 94,6 %,лояльность к Android в целом составляет 86,4 %, а ранее не измерялась,лояльность к Samsung выросла с 74 до 90,1 %,лояльность к Google выросла с 65,2 до 86,8 %.

Но тут не очень понятно: перейдут они на iPhone или на другой Android?

Что остаётся без изменений: пользователи iPhone в основном готовы переходить только на Samsung.

Мы уже писали, что ребята из Купертино скупают всю память на рынке, что не приколочена, да так, что даже китайским брендам пришлось переходить на плашки из мусора.

Если смотреть на линейку iPhone 17, то у базовой модели 8 ГБ, а у Pro — 12 ГБ памяти.

На iPhone 17 Pro и 17 Pro Max при этом приходится 52 % экземпляров, что примерно даёт 10 ГБ на один айфон.

В планах у Apple — 240 миллионов iPhone в год.

Так что по самым скромным подсчётам ей потребуется 2,4 эксабайта памяти.

Для этого они загрузили в компьютерную модель постоянные и предсказуемые процессы (включая усреднённые темпы истощения ресурсов), а сверху закинули щепотку случайных событий и крупных катастроф.

В паре сценариев человечество продолжило функционировать бесперебойно, но в большинстве симуляций происходил коллапс с долгим и постепенным откатом обратно к развитой эпохе.

Долгое время считалось, что либо человечество первым добралось до космической эры, либо остальные цивилизации не прошли проверку и уничтожили сами себя.

Возможно, отсутствие видимых сигнатур от далёких планет связано с тем, что инопланетяне просто отстраивают свою цивилизацию после очередного коллапса заново и предпочитают не от…

В сентябре Apple покажет «Прошки» в цветовой палитре, как на фото, — сообщает инсайдер Macworld Филип Эспозито, ссылаясь на источник в цепи поставок.

Пока что информация этого инсайдера ни разу не сбылась, поэтому будем относиться к этому со скепсисом.

Эспозито говорит, что новый Cosmic Orange линейки iPhone 18 Pro — это Dark Cherry, «Тёмная вишня».

Похоже, что это тот самый «глубокий оттенок красного», о котором говорили предыдущие инсайдеры.

Ведущее исполнение дополнят серебристый, светло-голубой (не факт, что это Sky Blue) и тёмно-серый варианты.

Wylsacom приходит на RUTUBE и переименовывает видеохостинг в WYLSAtube.

Поэтому теперь вы можете смотреть наши видео на трёх разных площадках: RUTUBE, «VK Видео» и YouTube, — у каждой из которых есть свои плюсы.

Мы там, где аудитория, потому что без аудитории нет и Wylsacom.

Поэтому с сегодняшнего дня вы можете смотреть ролики Wylsacom, где вам удобно.

В том числе и на RUTUBE.

Компания собирается пошатнуть популярность Ray-Ban на рынке ИИ-девайсов, для этого итальянское ателье готовит одну из своих самых культовых и узнаваемых оправ.

Об этом Reuters сообщил гендиректор стильного конгломерата Kering, в который входят GUCCI, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent и другие бренды тяжёлого люкса.

Кто именно помогает итальянскому ателье с инжинирингом и начинкой — большой секрет, но известно, что очки будут работать на платформе Android XR.

Купить ИИ-очки GUCCI можно будет уже в следующем году, дату релиза объявят позже.

В Госдуму были внесены поправки к законопроекту Минцифры РФ об усилении борьбы с телефонным мошенничеством и кибермошенничеством.

В них предлагается запретить хостингам предоставлять вычислительные мощности «ресурсам, обеспечивающим доступ к запрещённой информации», — так описывает инициативу газета «КоммерсантЪ».

Под это описание подпадают и VPN-сервисы.

Хостинг-провайдеры должны будут проверять, состоят ли клиенты в чёрном списке Роскомнадзора, и в случае выявления нарушений отключать их от серверов в одностороннем порядке.

В пресс‑службе Минцифры на запрос газеты сообщили, что поправки ко второму чтению ещё только обсуждаются, финальной версии документа ещё нет.

Один из ведущих канала Veritasium продемонстрировал, как ему удалось перевести себе $10 000 со счёта другого блогера Маркеса Браунли (MKBHD).

И вряд ли это получится у кого-то ещё, ведь «кража» происходила в лабораторных условиях.

Суть ролика заключалась в том, чтобы проверить гипотезу британских учёных в сфере кибербеза: можно ли украсть деньги с банковского счёта через заблокированный iPhone.

Да и снятие средств работает только с карт Visa.

Первая скинула всё на систему международных платежей, а вторая просто сказала, что такой хак крайне малореализуем, в чём сложно не согласиться.

Сейчас игроки сообщают, что смена аккаунта легко подтверждается по IP.

Сменить регион можно через поддержку, и дополнительные подтверждения нужны были только для некоторых стран вроде России, Беларуси, Кореи.

Ошибка это или нет, но регион можно сменить без проблем, лишь бы вы физически находились в указанной стране.

Проверяется это только через IP, присылать фотографии испанских пляжей за окном не требуется.

Возможность оплачивать покупки и подписки зарубежными картами, а она недоступна в России после 2022 года.

В сети появились новые фотографии несбывшейся ракеты «Н-1»: хранились они до этого в Российском государственном архиве научно-технической документации.

Один только вид советской ракеты на транспортно-установочном агрегате вызывает дрожь и трепет.

«Н-1» должна была доставить советских космонавтов на Луну: программа пилотируемых полётов СССР к спутнику Земли держалась в строгой тайне до 1989 года.

Отправиться к звёздам ракете так и не удалось: все четыре опытных запуска «Н-1» завершились неудачей ещё на первой ступени.

В 1974 году советскую программу пилотируемых полётов на Луну свернули, а официально работу над «Н-1» закрыли в 1976-м.

Для сравнения: в феврале — 6960 рублей, в июле — 10 310 рублей.

Стоимость туров начинается от 40 000 рублей на человека без учёта авиабилетов и зависит от направления и формата поездки.

Источник: генерацияИдеи, куда поехать на 1 и 9 Мая с бюджетом до 200 тысяч рублейСобрали готовые туры на три дня и с бюджетом до 200 тысяч рублей — на основе рекомендаций опрошенных нами экспертов.

Источник: генерацияИдеи, куда поехать на 1 и 9 Мая с бюджетом до 1 миллиона рублейСобрали готовые туры на три дня и с бюджетом до 1 миллиона рублей — на основе рекомендаций опрошенных нами экспертов.

Сейшелы на катамаранеПрограмма на 7 дней: неделя на катамаране между островами Сейшел — с остановками для трекинга,…

В обзоре Russian Business — условия и риски траншевой схемы, а также мнения и рекомендации юристов и экспертов в области недвижимости.

Требования банка к заёмщику такие же, как для других видов кредитования, но доход оценивают по будущему полному платежу, а не по минимальному стартовому.

Что такое траншевая ипотекаТраншевая ипотека — это ипотечный кредит, при котором банк перечисляет деньги не одной суммой, а поэтапно по заранее согласованному графику.

И пока перечислен только первый транш, проценты начисляются лишь на него, а не на всю сумму займа.

Важно: проценты начисляются только на кредитную часть средств, которые выдал банк, а не на все деньги на счёте эскроу.

ФАС России выдала предупреждения Wildberries и Ozon за навязывание продавцам невыгодных условий.

ФАС указала и на отдельные практики платформ.

В объединённой компании Wildberries и Russ сообщили «Коммерсанту», что находятся в диалоге с регулятором и как добросовестный участник рынка следуют рекомендациям.

В ноябре 2025 года Wildberries, Ozon и Авито подписали меморандум о добровольном соблюдении положений будущего закона.

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Резервы российской экономики во многом исчерпаны, а макроэкономическая ситуация стала значительно сложнее, чем в предыдущие годы, сообщил глава Минэкономразвития России Максим Решетников на форуме инфраструктуры поддержки предпринимательства «Мой бизнес».

Резервы экономики во многом исчерпаныМаксим Решетников заявил на форуме инфраструктуры поддержки предпринимательства «Мой бизнес» о том, что прежние внутренние ресурсы роста экономики практически закончились.

«Сейчас фиксируем, что эти резервы во многом исчерпаны, ситуация действительно такая и макроэкономическая значительно более сложная», — поделился Максим Решетников, глава Минэкономразвития России.

Чтобы сохранить бизнес, компании долж…

Вице-президент Apple по продуктовому маркетингу Стэн Нг покинул компанию после 31 года работы, сообщает Bloomberg.

Стэн Нг отвечал за маркетинг Apple Watch, AirPods, Health и Home и участвовал в продвижении ключевых продуктов Apple — от iPod до iPhone.

Было радостью работать в Apple, и мне действительно нравилось то, что я делал», — написал вице-президент Apple Стэн Нг.

Карьера Стэна Нга в Apple началась в 1995 годуСтэн Нг присоединился к Apple в 1995 году на позицию старшего системного инженера — в тот момент Стив Джобс уже покинул компанию.

Стэн Нг также участвовал в презентациях продуктов, включая запуск iPod touch в 2007 году.

Битрикс24 открыл бета-тестирование платформы VibeCode для создания бизнес-приложений с помощью искусственного интеллекта.

Нейросеть сама пишет код и внедряет приложение в корпоративные сервисы.

В компании отмечают, что VibeCode изначально создавалась для бизнеса с глубокой интеграцией в CRM, задачи, коммуникации и документооборот.

Платформа VibeCode создана для автоматизации внутренних процессов в компанияхУчастие в бета-тестировании платформы VibeCode принимают партнёры и клиенты компании Битрикс24.

В отличие от зарубежных решений, ориентированных на разработчиков и стартапы, платформа фокусируется на корпоративных сценариях и автоматизации внутренних процессов.

Разработка стала первой подобной системой в России и Европе, сообщили в компании.

ByteDog пропускает эти этапы и анализирует файл сразу как последовательность байтов.

ByteDog обучалась на реальных киберинцидентахОбучение и тестирование ByteDog проводились в течение года на данных реальных киберинцидентов.

По качеству обнаружения угроз и скорости анализа файлов модель от Positive Technologies оказалась на 20% лучше, чем классические ML-модели для поиска вредоносного кода.

ByteDog планируют внедрить в продукты и сервисы Positive Technologies по обнаружению киберугроз.

Эндаумент — это инструмент, который позволяет организациям создать устойчивый источник финансирования и не зависеть только от грантов или разовых пожертвований.

Если организация расходует все поступления на текущие задачи, деньги не накапливаются и не превращаются в капитал.

Поэтому для него важно понимать, как устроена организация и как она принимает решения.

Выстроить базовую инфраструктуруОпределить, кто внутри команды отвечает за эндаумент, как принимаются решения и как будет распределяться доход.

Выстроить регулярную коммуникациюПоддерживать связь с донорами, партнёрами и заинтересованной аудиторией: объяснять, как работает эндаумент, куда направляется доход и какие результаты это даёт.

В первом квартале 2026 года спрос на кредиты в России достиг максимальных значений за последний год, выяснил финансовый маркетплейс Банки.ру.

Количество заявок на кредиты наличными увеличилось на 52% год к году и на 14% по сравнению с четвёртым кварталом 2025 года.

Спрос на кредиты под залог снизился в начале 2026-гоВ сегменте обеспеченных кредитов динамика оказалась более сдержанной.

Спрос на ипотеку снизился на 10% квартал к кварталу, но выросла на 21% за год.

Спрос на кредиты под залог недвижимости снизился на 31% год к году.

Российская компания, управляющая брендом Adidas — ООО «Адидас» — впервые за три года вышла в плюс: в прошлом году заработала 2,2 млрд рублей, сообщает «Коммерсант».

При этом компания не возобновляла продажи в России — вся прибыль получена от вкладов в банках.

Проценты по депозитам принесли российскому подразделению Adidas 2,9 млрд рублей в 2025-мРост финансовых показателей российского подразделения компании не связан с возобновлением деятельности компании в России: Adidas сообщила о том, что покидает российский рынок, в 2022 году.

В 2024 году выросли доходы от арендных, лицензионных, комиссионных платежей и роялти — до 3,5 млрд рублей против 900 млн рублей в 2022–2023 годах.

Например, в 202…

Большинство россиян потребляют контент от блогеров ежедневно, выяснил сервис онлайн-опросов Anketolog.ru.

При этом 86% пользователей не против того, что блогеры зарабатывают на своей аудитории, если контент остаётся качественным.

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Также пользователи активно смотрят блогеров на Rutube (30%), Яндекс.Дзене (24%) и МАХ (24%).

Почти все опрошенные (97%) считают, что блогеры должны предупреждать о рекламных интеграциях.

Маркетплейсы добровольно согласились соблюдать положения будущего законаЗакон о платформенной экономике утверждён в 2025 году и начнёт действовать с 1 октября 2026-го.

Лишь 20% указали, что маркетплейсы начали согласовывать с продавцами все скидки.

Кроме того,:47% респондентов сообщили, что маркетплейсы меняют отчёты о продажах, не уведомляя продавца,30% пожаловались, что техподдержка платформ работает медленно,12% указали, что маркетплейсы даже после жалоб не удаляют карточки товаров, которые нарушают авторские права.

Меморандум не наказывает маркетплейсы за нарушенияЭксперты сообщают Forbes, что меморандум, который приняли маркетплейсы осенью 2025-го, носит рекомендательный характер и не …

Наиболее заметное снижение количества игроков зафиксировано в интернет-торговле — на 2,0%, в сегменте одежды — на 1,6%, а в торговле лодками — на 12,3%.

Одновременно сократились и среднемесячные обороты: в целом по рознице — на 9%, в интернет-торговле — на 11,2%, в сегменте одежды — на 18,2%.

При этом в отдельных нишах сохраняется положительная динамика: обороты в секонд-хенде выросли на 30%, в зоомагазинах — на 25,9%, а в торговле через автоматы — на 2,2%.

Число компаний сократилось в неспециализированной торговле на 1,1%, в сегменте лесоматериалов — на 1,6%, а в строительных материалах — на 1,1%.

Однако в отдельных сегментах наблюдается рост: в оптовой торговле компьютерами обороты увелич…

отделений яПри этом темпы закрытия растут уже несколько лет подряд: в первом квартале 2023-го число офисов снизилось на 41, 2024-го — на 70, а в 2025-м — уже на 185.

Банки адаптируются под меняющиеся запросы клиентовВ пресс службе Альфа-Банка сообщил Russian Business, что «данные о резком ускорении закрытия отделений не отражают реальной ситуации».

Рутинные операции уходят в цифровые каналы, а отделения развиваются как технологичные центры экспертизы и консультаций по сложным продуктам», — сообщили в пресс-службе банка.

Регулятор отметил, что в целом поддерживает этот тренд, однако контролирует, чтобы закрытие отделений не ухудшало доступность финансовых услуг для клиентов.

В городах сокращ…

Каждый третий специалист по продвижению уже использует оптимизацию контента под ответы ИИ.

Треть уже оптимизируют контент под ответы ИИНовый подход к продвижению через генеративные модели становится стандартом маркетинга.

32% специалистов уже оптимизируют контент под ответы нейросетей и поисковых ИИ-алгоритмов, ещё 42% планируют сделать это до конца 2026 года.

Большинство компаний готовы вкладываться в новые методы привлечения трафика и конверсий через ответы генеративных нейросетей.

4 из 10 респондентов считают, что адаптировать контент под ИИ-выдачу должны SEO-специалистыГлавным барьером для адаптации контента под ИИ-выдачу остаётся дефицит знаний — его отмечают 57% специалистов.

Линус Торвальдс принял в состав ядра Linux 7.1, релиз которого ожидается в середине июня, набор патчей с новой реализацией файловой системы NTFS, развивавшейся под именем ntfsplus. Новый драйвер включён под именем "ntfs", которое ранее использовалось для удалённого из ядра старого драйвера, работавшего в режиме только для чтения. Драйвер ntfsplus разработал Намджэ Чон (Namjae Jeon), участник проекта Samba, сопровождающий драйвер EXFAT и сервер KSMBD в ядре Linux.

Разработчики платформы автоматизации планирования встреч и управления расписанием Cal.com объявили о прекращении публикации исходного кода полной версии продукта и предоставлении сообществу урезанного форка cal.diy, переведённого с AGPLv3.0 на лицензию MIT. В качестве причины изменения подхода к разработке упоминается возрастание рисков, связанных с обеспечением безопасности SaS-платформы, в условиях прогресса возможностей AI-моделей по поиску уязвимостей и написанию эксплоитов.

match value { Some(x) if let Ok(y) = compute(x) => { println!

("{}, {}", x, y); } _ => {} }

Разработчики проекта AlmaLinux, развивающего редакцию дистрибутива Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), объявили о реализации для дистрибутива AlmaLinux Kitten репозитория пакетов, собранных для архитектуры i686, а также публикации образов контейнеров в формате docker для 32-рядных систем x86. Редакция AlmaLinux Kitten 10 основана на пакетной базе CentOS Stream 10, развивается с использованием непрерывной модели обновления пакетов и используется в качестве upstream-а для ветки AlmaLinux 10. В дальнейшем планируют сформировать подобные сборки для основного дистрибутива AlmaLinux OS 10 и сопровождать их до 2035 года на всём протяжении жизненного цикла ветки 10.x.

После четырёх месяцев разработки представлено апрельское сводное обновление приложений KDE Gear 26.04, развиваемых проектом KDE. В составе набора опубликованы выпуски 249 программ, библиотек и плагинов. Информацию о наличии Live-сборок с новыми выпусками приложений можно получить на данной странице. Новые версии отдельных приложений можно загрузить из каталогов Flathub и SnapCraft.

Линус Торвальдс принял в состав ядра Linux 7.1 изменения, удаляющие поддержку контроллеров AHCI SATA и PCIe, применяемых в SoC Baikal-T1. Помимо этого на рассмотрении находятся pull-запросы на удаление связанных с Baikal драйверов таймера, памяти, physmap, шины, hwmon, dwc и bt1-rom. До этого в ядре 7.0 уже была удалена поддержка драйверов i2c и spi dw для SoC Baikal-T1. В качестве причины удаления упоминается отсутствие сопровождения и незавершённая интеграция в состав ядра компонентов платформы Baikal. Например, отмечается, что драйвер PCIe так и не был доведён до полностью работоспособного состояния.

Организация IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), занимающийся развитием протоколов и архитектуры интернета, выставила на обсуждение первый черновой вариант спецификации протокола IPv8. Документ предложен сторонней компаний One Limited, создан вне процесса стандартизации IETF и имеет статус "Internet-Draft" (любой при соблюдении формальностей может опубликовать подобный черновик). Протокол IPv8 примечателен использованием локально кэшируемых JWT-токенов OAuth2 для аутентификации элементов в сетях и верификацией каждого устанавливаемого исходящего соединения через запрос в DNS8 (без обращения к DNS8 не создаётся запись в таблице состояния XLATE8 (подобие NAT) и соединение блокируется).

>А как выглядит указание авторства?

Это стандартизовано (специфицировано)?

Да: «Copyright (C) »https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

Линус Торвальдс принял в состав ядра Linux 7.1, релиз которого ожидается в середине июня, первую серию изменений для прекращения поддержки процессоров i486. На данном этапе из Kconfig удалены опции для сборки ядра с поддержкой процессоров 486DX, 486SX и AMD ELAN (CONFIG_M486, CONFIG_M486SX и CONFIG_MELAN), а из Makefile исключены опции компиляции для систем i486 (-march=i486). Код для фактической поддержки работы на процессорах i486 пока оставлен в ядре, но сборка для подобных систем теперь потребует применения патчей к сборочным файлам.

Состоялся релиз библиотеки OpenSSL 4.0.0, предлагающей с реализацию протоколов TLS и различных алгоритмов шифрования.

OpenSSL 4.0 отнесён к выпускам с обычным сроком поддержки, обновления для которых выпускаются в течение 13 месяцев.

Поддержка прошлых веток OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5 LTS, 3.4 и 3.0 LTS продлится до ноября 2026 года, апреля 2030 года, октября 2026 года и сентября 2026 года соответственно.

Основные новшества: Добавлена поддержка TLS-расширения ECH (Encrypted ClientHello, RFC 9849), предназначенного для шифрования информации о параметрах TLS-сеансов, таких как запрошенное доменное имя.

Добавлена поддержка функций формирования ключей SNMP KDF на основе HMAC-SHA и SRTP KDF на основе AES-C…

После года разработки опубликована новая стабильная ветка высокопроизводительного HTTP-сервера и многопротокольного прокси-сервера nginx 1.30.0, которая вобрала в себя изменения, накопленные в основной ветке 1.29.x.

В скором времени будет сформирована основная ветка nginx 1.31, в которой будет продолжено развитие новых возможностей.

В соответствии с февральским отчётом компании Netcraft под управлением nginx работает около 321 млн сайтов (год назад 245 млн, два года назад - 243 млн, три года назад 289 млн).

Среди миллиона самых посещаемых сайтов в мире nginx занимает второе место с долей 19.85% (год назад 20.37%, два года назад 20.63%, три года назад 21.37%).

Добавлена директива "early_hint…

Опубликован выпуск браузерного движка Servo 0.1.0 и развиваемого вместе с ним демонстрационного браузера ServoShell, написанных на языке Rust. Готовые сборки сформированы для Linux, Android, macOS и Windows. Помимо отдельных сборок Servo теперь поставляется и в форме crate-пакета, позволяющего использовать движок в форме библиотеки.

После двух месяцев разработки Линус Торвальдс представил релиз ядра Linux 7.0. Среди наиболее заметных изменений: правила применения AI-ассистентов, перевод Rust в основные возможности ядра, повышение производительности подкачки, включение по умолчанию режима PREEMPT_LAZY, поддержка фильтров для операций io_uring, новая ФС Nullfs, инфраструктура fserror, средства мониторинга XFS, поддержка ремапинга в Btrfs, включение по умолчанию версии NFS 4.1, интеграция пост-квантового криптоалгоритма ML-DSA, активация AccECN в сетевой подсистеме, начальная поддержка WiFi 8.

После трёх лет с момента публикации прошлой ветки представлен релиз полностью свободного Linux-дистрибутива Trisquel 12.0, основанного на пакетной базе Ubuntu 24.04 LTS и ориентированного на использование в небольших предприятиях, в образовательных учреждениях и домашними пользователями. Trisquel лично одобрен Ричардом Столманом, официально признан Фондом Свободного ПО в качестве полностью свободного и помещен в список рекомендованных фондом дистрибутивов. Для загрузки доступны установочные образы, размером 3.4 ГБ (MATE), 2.7 ГБ (KDE), 1.9 ГБ (LXDE), 1.5 ГБ (Sugar) и 79 МБ (загрузка по сети), сформированные для архитектур x86_64, ppc64el, arm64 и armhf. Выпуск обновлений для дистрибутива бу…

это ты что-то путаешь The number of participants in a Jitsi Meet video call mainly depends on your server setup.

On the public instance (meet.jit.si), you can typically have around 75 participants per call.

However, for optimal performance—especially when using video—it’s best to limit the number to about 35 people.

и это на бесплатном сервере, а в принципе - вообще без ограничений

Five of those six users have placed no more bets since, but one of the account's recent activity shows it has subsequently made $163,000 by correctly betting on a US-Iran ceasefire by 7 April, which was announced by Washington and Tehran on that day.

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons.

I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them.

As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only worth running comparisons between 4.7 and 4.6.

The Claude token counting API accepts any Claude model ID though so I've included options for all four of the notable current models (Opus 4.7 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5).

I pasted the Opus 4.7 system prompt into the token counting tool and found that the Opus 4.7 tokenizer used 1.46x the number of tokens as Opus 4.6.

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be correctedFILE - Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026.

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP, File)FILE - Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026.

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP, File)FILE - Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026.

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP, File)FILE - Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026.

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian P…

The main constraint is this: use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes.

It is just a practical pattern that works well enough to test multi-agent workflows with very little setup.

For the non-interactive pattern, the key is to resume the previous session instead of starting a new one every time.

The agents keep iterating until the draft is good enough or the discussion stops adding value.

You can make agents talk, but it is not always easy to inspect the interaction history, monitor progress, or understand what happened at each step.

This is a port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 — a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model — from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS.

LimitationsNo texture export : Texture baking requires nvdiffrast (CUDA-only differentiable rasterizer).

Slower than CUDA : The pure-PyTorch sparse convolution is ~10x slower than the CUDA flex_gemm kernel.

: The pure-PyTorch sparse convolution is ~10x slower than the CUDA kernel.

Upstream model weights are subject to their own licenses:Credits

Sudo for Windows allows users to run elevated commands directly from unelevated terminal windows.

This project is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of that sudo project.

As the two are entirely different applications, you'll find that certain elements of the traditional sudo experience are not present in Sudo for Windows, and vice versa.

Scripts and documentation that are written for sudo may not be able to be used directly with Sudo for Windows without some modification.

If you would like to contribute to the documentation, please submit a pull request on the Sudo for Windows Documentation repo.

Swiss AI Initiative​The Swiss AI Initiative was started in December 2023 and seeded with an initial investment of over 10m GPU hours on Alps (by CSCS) and a grant of 20m CHF by the ETH Domain.

The initiative is the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide, and the first initiative of the Swiss National AI Institute, a partnership between the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Center.

The initiative further benefits from the critical mass of expertise of over 800 researchers (including 70 AI-focused professors) from over 10 academic institutions across Switzerland.

The frontier AI research is enabled by one of the world’s leading AI supercomputer "Alps" (with ove…

If you own one of the following Kindles, you won’t be able to download new books after May 20: Kindle 1st Generation (2007), Kindle DX (2009), Kindle DX Graphite (2010), Kindle Keyboard (2010), Kindle 4 (2011), Kindle Touch (2011), Kindle 5 (2012), and the Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012).

The Fire tablets that will no longer be supported are: Kindle Fire 1st Generation (2011), Kindle Fire 2nd Generation (2012), Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012), and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012).

To check which model you have, go to Settings > Device options > Device info on your Kindle or Fire tablet.

Amazon says this will impact less than 3% of its Kindle e-reader and Kindle Fire customers worldwide.

It’s uncle…

A map of all ~2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email — grouped by jurisdiction — based on public DNS records and other public network signals.

Digital sovereignty: US-based providers are subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to request stored data, regardless of where it is physically hosted.

This map makes the current provider landscape visible.

Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners, ASN lookups, and a public Microsoft API endpoint, then classified by provider type with confidence scoring.

Disclaimer: DNS records indicate mail routing and authorized senders, not necessarily whe…

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On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably.

It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market.

Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that “Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠” and includes a 14-second video showing Tesla vehicles driving without human monitors or drivers in the front seat. The company now […]

Conway wrote that he “will be stepping back from some of my usual activities,” but he will “continue to support” founders backed by his firm SV Angel.

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

Kieran Smith / Financial Times:

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says growing women's share on Tinder is his “primary focus” to stem user declines; Sensor Tower says 75% of Tinder users are men — Match Group boss Spencer Rascoff says attracting female users is ‘priority focus’ in push to turn around flagship dating app

Amy Harder / Axios:

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays — The world's largest data center project — backed by Trump allies and bearing his name — is stalled by delays and logistical hurdles that could stop it before it even starts.

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Vercel says it detected unauthorized access to its internal systems after a hacker using the ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data.

Axios:

Sources say NSA is using Mythos Preview, and a source says it is also being used widely within the DoD, despite Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk — - The department moved in February to cut off Anthropic and force its vendors to follow suit.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures — Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp's book “The Technological Republic.”

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: the glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months — Also: Memory shortages could push back new Macs. — Apple's WWDC 2026 teaser provides a glimpse of the revamped Siri interface coming in iOS 27.

Qianer Liu / The Information:

Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models — Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

Amanda Mull / Bloomberg:

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low — The online apparel retailer has become a $10 billion-plus e-commerce giant by mastering the art of the supply chain.

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian — Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding.

Three minutes into the flight, the booster switched off its engines and fell away from New Glenn’s upper stage, powered by two BE-3U engines burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

New Glenn’s first stage continued a downrange parabolic arc, briefly soaring into space before guiding itself toward Blue Origin’s landing platform in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 400 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral.

Blue Origin, founded and owed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has landed and reused its smaller New Shepard suborbital booster numerous times, but New Glenn surpasses New Shepard in difficulty and scale.

New Glenn allows Blue Origin to reach into a broader market for launches to low-Earth orbit and beyond.…

I was the lead laser scientist on the Texas Petawatt, or TPW as we called it, from 2020 to 2024.

Texas Petawatt, which is currently closed due to funding cuts, was a government-funded research center where scientists from across the country applied for time to use specialized equipment.

Then it compresses the pulse back to a trillionth of a second to create a star in a vacuum chamber.

Most people hear about petawatt lasers and picture something out of a movie.

A “shot day” is actually hours of quiet, repetitive work followed by about 10 seconds where nobody breathes.

The evolutionary edge that fueled great white shark dominance for millions of years could soon become its greatest downfall.

The ocean’s most iconic predators maintain warmer body temperatures than the surrounding seawater and are paying an increasingly steep price for it.

As water temperatures climb, these species will be forced to relocate to cooler waters.

This mismatch—driven by the physics of surface area and heat retention—triggers the overheating dilemma in warmer waters.

This will be especially the case during summer months when sharks will experience increased competition for prey.

Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange registered in Kyrgyzstan, said it’s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by “western special services” hackers.

Researchers from TRM, which has confirmed the theft, put the value of stolen assets at $15 million after discovering roughly 70 drained addresses, about 16 more than Grinex reported.

“According to preliminary data, the attack was coordinated with the aim of causing direct damage to Russia’s financial sovereignty.”“Due to the attack, the Grinex exchange is forced to suspend operations,” Grinex continued.

TRM said TokenSpot was a front for Grinex, which the US Treasury Department sanctioned last year.

T…

A 25-year-old Tennessee man avoided prison time after pleading guilty to accessing government systems with stolen login credentials and boasting of the deed on an Instagram account with the handle, @ihackedthegovernment.

Defendant Nicholas Moore accessed user accounts on the US Supreme Court’s electronic filing system, AmeriCorps, and the Veterans Administration Health System.

He then publicly posted screenshots of the users’ personal information to his @ihackedthegovernment account on Instagram.

Moore was sentenced to a year of probation today in US District Court for the District of Columbia.

“I made a mistake,” Nicholas Moore told US District Judge Beryl Howell today, appearing remotely …

She has medical degree from Brown University, a master’s degree in public health, and a law degree from the University of Maryland.

Earlier this month, she posted a video for National Public Health Week speaking of her time as a military physician.

“My job was all about readiness, it was all about public health: prevention, vaccines, early detection.

CautionOutside public health experts have praised her nomination, highlighting her qualifications.

But, they’re also wary of how an evidence-based health official will be able to function amid Kennedy’s anti-vaccine efforts and interference from the many like-minded allies he has installed at the CDC.

Whether you’re considering an electric vehicle because of gas prices or climate change, there has probably never been a better time to buy a used EV, despite that the Trump administration abolished the used clean vehicle tax credit last year.

When we started this ongoing series looking at used EV options, the initial idea was to see what was available at bargain-basement prices.

But today we’re looking at the $20,000–$25,000 bracket, and we’re firmly out of the basement, with thousands of EVs across the country to choose from.

If you’re only spending $5,000 on an EV, you’re looking at much older models with smaller batteries that never had that much range even when new.

For those in the mar…

Now satellite imagery is showing that nearly 40 percent of US data center projects may fail to be completed this year as scheduled.

The Financial Times drew upon satellite imagery from the geospatial data analytics company SynMax showing how much progress has been made in clearing land and laying building foundations for each data center project.

It also cross-checked project progress against public statements and permit documents compiled by the industry research group IIR Energy.

Construction executives involved with OpenAI projects specifically mentioned not having enough tradespeople, such as electricians and pipe fitters, to work on multiple data center projects.

The substantial power …

The writing was on the wall, and now it’s on Amazon’s website.

Newly released Fire Sticks will not support the sideloading of Android apps or any other software from outside Amazon’s official app store.

The proof comes from an update to Amazon’s website for developers, which currently reads:Starting with Fire TV Stick 4K Select [which came out in October], all future Fire TV Sticks will run on Vega.

Vega doesn’t support the sideloading of non-Amazon Appstore apps.

Only apps from the Amazon Appstore are available for download.”Vega devices can still support sideloading, but only for developers who register their devices.

Post-apocalyptic scenarios are a longtime staple of science fiction, and director Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, falls firmly into that subgenre.

Based on Peter Heller’s critically acclaimed 2012 novel, the story depicts the aftermath of a deadly flu virus that wiped out most of humanity.

The studio released the first trailer at CinemaCon, introduced by a video message from Scott, who said that his adaptation “is particularly tailored for the big screen.

Allison Janney and Benedict Wong will also appear in as-yet-undisclosed roles.

(Janney, clad in what looks like a vintage stewardess uniform, briefly appears in the trailer.)

The crew of Artemis II spoke with the media on Thursday, six days after returning to Earth following their mission around the Moon.

After a news conference, the astronauts gave a handful of interviews, and Ars was able to speak with Orion’s pilot, Victor Glover.

Glover and Ars first connected nearly a decade ago as part of our homage to Apollo, The Greatest Leap.

Glover, an accomplished naval aviator, first went to space in November 2020 as the pilot on the first operational Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station.

We talked about Dragon a lot before, and it’s a fantastic ship to get humans to the space station.

Credit: Meta Meta’s “future of the Internet” of the recent past.

Credit: Meta Meta’s “future of the Internet” of the recent past.

And Meta’s yearslong spending spree on the metaverse pales in comparison to what the company is throwing at AI this year alone.

Still, with Meta reportedly planning spending cuts of up to 30 percent for its metaverse division, it’s clear where the company’s focus lies for the immediate future.

The new prices for Meta’s Quest headsets in the US are as follows:

Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report!

NASA is still climbing down from the high of the Artemis II mission, the first flight by humans to the Moon since 1972.

Among other things, we chronicle the latest progress of NASA’s two lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, in this week’s Rocket Report.

Israel-based space launch company Moonshot Space will site its first electromagnetic accelerator in Fairbanks, Alaska, under a memorandum of understanding signed at Space Symposium with spaceport operator Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC), Aviation Week & Space Technology reports.

Favoring the bold... “This agreement reflects AAC’s commitment to pioneer innovation in the Last Fronti…

Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world.

The malware—reportedly jointly developed by the US and Israel—pushed a malicious update throughout an infected network belonging to the Iranian government.

The lynchpin of the “collision” attack was an exploit of MD5, a cryptographic hash function Microsoft was using to authenticate digital certificates.

By minting a cryptographically perfect digital signature based on MD5, the attackers forged a certificate that authenticated their malicious update server.

Getting uncomfortably close to the danger zoneThe event, which…

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

So why is NASA deciding which rocket will launch a flagship European Mars mission?

A few years after NASA landed its first rover on Mars in 1997, the European Space Agency came up with a plan to send its own mobile robot to the red planet.

The European rover was part of a program named Aurora, and officials hoped to launch it in 2009.

The European rover was to fly to Mars in tandem with a similarly-sized US rover in 2018.

Despite the months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon, the National Security Agency is using the AI company's new Mythos Preview, according to Axios, which spoke to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Anthropic announced Mythos Preview at the beginning of April, describing it as a general-purpose language model that is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks."

But back in February, Trump ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropic's services after the company refused to budge on certain safeguards for military uses during contract talks.

The news comes days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other officials…

To make up for an incredibly laughable inaugural event, Beijing is running back its humanoid robot half-marathon.

Fortunately, the event that pits humanoid robots made by Chinese companies against each other across 13 miles went a lot smoother this year.

This year's half-marathon hosted more than 100 competitors, with first place going to Honor, better known for its smartphones, and its red-clad robot named Lightning.

That's several minutes faster than the human record that was recently set by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo last month.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementHowever, the BBC reported that around 40 percent of the robots competed autonomously this year, while the rest were remote-co…

Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.

The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.

We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity.

Anyone looking to upgrade to the next Mac Studio or MacBook Pro might have to wait a little longer, thanks to the ongoing global memory shortage.

Bloomberg reported that the upcoming Mac Studio, which follows up the current lineup in the M4 Max and M3 Ultra configurations, was first expected to release in the middle of the year.

However, Apple is already dealing with shortages of its existing Mac Studio stock, likely due to the device being a popular choice for anyone running local AI models.

With no stop to the shortage in sight, Gurman predicted that the refreshed Mac Studio's release could be postponed to around October instead.

Gurman also reported that the release of the next MacBook P…

Tesla is expanding its Robotaxi footprint across Texas by introducing availability in both Dallas and Houston.

The first Robotaxi rides started in Austin, Texas where Tesla is headquartered, but the service's launch was paired with a "Tesla Safety Monitor," or a supervising human in the passenger seat.

Earlier this year, Tesla began to transition away from including safety monitors, leaving its Robotaxis to operate unsupervised and fully autonomous.

In the latest announcement on X, Tesla also showed off a 360-degree panning shot with no safety monitor, but the company hasn't stated if its Dallas and Houston service will have in-car human supervision.

With the Robotaxi expansion into Dallas …

SNK and Plaion Replai, who is also behind the all-black remake of the Commodore 64, announced a faithful remake of the high-end retro console, called the Neo Geo AES+.

For the purists out there, the Neo Geo AES+ still works on those chunky CRT displays since it has the original AV output.

Coinciding with the console release, Replai Plaion will release 10 modernized game cartridges, including Metal Slug, The King of Fighters 2002 and other classics, for $89.99 each.

If you think those prices are high, don't forget the original Neo Geo AES' release price was $649.99.

The Neo Geo AES+ is set to start shipping on November 12.

A judge has granted the makers of the "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down.

Both Eyes Up and ICE Sightings - Chicagoland use publicly available information to keep tabs on ICE activity.

But after pressure from Trump officials, they were removed from Apple's App Store and Facebook, respectively.

Similar apps including ICEBlock and Red Dot were also taken down from the App Store and Google Play.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which is defending the plaintiffs, wrote in a post on X that it is "extremely encouraged by this ruling."

Apple has secured a major victory for its redesigned smartwatches as per the latest decision from the US International Trade Commission.

The federal agency ruled against reinstating an import ban on Apple Watches, allowing the tech giant to continue selling its devices with a reworked blood-oxygen monitoring technology.

The patent battle dates back to 2021 with Masimo's first filing against Apple that requested an import ban on Apple Watches.

The ITC ended up ruling that Apple violated Masimo's patents, resulting in the previous import ban and the Apple Watch maker redesigning the blood-oxygen reading feature in certain models.

However, Masimo wasn't satisfied with this conclusion and sough…

The US Department of Justice is siding with X, as the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a criminal investigation unfolding in France.

Months later, French authorities raided X's office in Paris and issued summonses to Musk and Linda Yaccarino, the former CEO of X, to appear for interviews on April 20 as part of the probe.

According to WSJ, French officials are also investigating X for other charges, including disseminating CSAM and Holocaust denial.

However, France's latest move to ask the Department of Justice for assistance has been stonewalled.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementAn xAI official told WSJ that it's "grateful to the Justice Department for rejecting thi…

A comet grazes too close to the sunEarlier this month, a recently discovered comet made a close approach to the sun — but it couldn't handle the heat.

According to American Rivers, the Potomac River is the most endangered in the US due both to the threat of sewage pollution from aging pipe systems and the "unprecedented surge in data center development" in its vicinity.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Potomac River basin spans parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, DC.

Data centers also have potential to cause further pollution to the river.

The organization is calling for Congress to reauthorize infrastructure funding bills so aging systems can…

This cyberpunk adventure from Sad Cat Studios and publisher Thunderful finally landed this week on Steam, GOG, Xbox on PC and Xbox Series X/S.

Gecko Gods — from publishers Super Rare Originals and Gamersky Games — is available now on Steam, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.

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It emerged this week that it will hit PS5 and Xbox Series X/S later in the year.

It's coming to Steam, GOG, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One on April 28.

IO Interactive has announced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and performed the theme for 007 First Light, the developer's playable James Bond origin story.

"First Light" is written and performed by Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold, and like the moody and abstract opening credits released alongside the song, could vaguely gesture at the themes of the game.

IO Interactive has previously said that its game focuses on a young, inexperienced and more reckless Bond, before he developed his trademark cool.

Lana Del Rey shared in 2024 that her song "24" from the album Honeymoon was originally written for 2017's Spectre, one of several songs that were cast aside in favor of Sam Smith's "Writing's o…

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you're curious to get a big picture view of how the second of a planned five Moon missions was pulled off, PBS has a new documentary you'll want to watch.

The hour-long Return to the Moon was produced for PBS' NOVA and aired on TV on April 15, but you can view the episode in its entirety on YouTube right now.

Return to the Moon covers the history of NASA's Artemis program, and specifically the planning and preparation that went into Artemis II.

The last Apollo mission was in 1972, so Artemis II getting a group of four astronauts anywhere near the Moon has naturally generated a lo…

Sales hit 63.3 million units during the first quarter, Counterpoint says, and were particularly concentrated in five high-end PC makers: Lenovo, ASUS, Apple, HP and Dell.

Of the five, Lenovo commands the most PC market share at 26 percent, but sales increased for almost all of the companies, save for HP, whose year-over-year sales technically declined by 5 percent.

Counterpoint suggests the updates could drive even further sales growth next quarter.

Even with positive sales, the PC industry as a whole is by no means out of the woods.

In December 2025, IDC predicted that PC shipments could drop as much as 8.9 percent in 2026 in response to the price of RAM, and later revised its prediction t…

,Among them, is a new tool called Concert Kit that could help bands and artists fight back against ticket scalping bots.

Now, as more apps and services are starting to support World ID, that "human passport" can unlock some new abilities.

Those folks can then use their World ID to get ticket codes for Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, AXS or other major ticketing platforms.

Tinder profiles that verify with World ID will get a badge as an extra signal of authenticity.

If you want to have a World ID, you get access to that enhanced experience."

The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

No surprises so far, since Palantir overtly pitches itself as an AI-powered death delivery system.

We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity.

It’s a defense contractor with a market capitalization of about $350 billion, and it’s currently getting what it seems to wish for in its X post.

So, assuming it’s meant to be viewed as a statement of purpose at this consequential moment in time, Palantir’s X post is genuinely clarifying.

Throughout his decades-long career, Hudlin’s written for Black Panther at Marvel Comics and helped relaunch DC’s Milestone imprint.

He’ll be working on the show with King Features, the studio behind The Cuphead Show!.

“[This series] marks a pivotal expansion to meet the current cultural zeitgeist for this brand,” said King Features president C.J.

Comics-wise, Phantom has had adventures published by various companies, including Dark Horse and DC.

Outside the 1996 Billy Zane movie, the Phantom’s had a steady life in TV and film, and has a few parodies to his name, including The Venture Bros.‘ Phantom Limb.

Saturday was Superman Day, which didn’t yield anything substantial for Supergirl or Man of Tomorrow.

Lending some extra credence to this is Martian Manhunter’s TV history: in live-action and animation, he’s been portrayed by Black actors like Carl Lumbly in Justice League and David Harewood in Supergirl.

Before Superman came out, Gunn confirmed the Justice League was indeed on his mind.

So far, his DC universe also includes John Stewart and Hawkgirl, part of the DCAU Justice League.

We’ll find out for sure in the near future, probably before Man of Tomorrow comes out on July 9, 2027.

Amid all the talk about Apple’s long-delayed new Siri, the question of what the new AI personal assistant would look like has barely come up—other than the rumor claiming that on devices with Dynamic Islands, Siri’s visual aspects will materialize within the Dynamic Island “pill” when first activated.

At least one part of Siri’s new visual profile, Gurman says, will be the harsh, overexposed glow of the “26” in the teaser image for Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

Gurman says his anonymous sources with insider knowledge of Apple tell him a visual plan “currently being tested” is a significant revamp: a prompt inside the Dynamic Island Pill that says “Search or Ask, 

Now that Paramount’s committed to making more Star Trek movies—again, for the nth time in about a decade—it’s time to say goodbye to its current run of TV shows by selling everything off.

PropStore and 403 Auction recently launched individual sales of props from recent Trek shows.

From PropStore, collectors can put down money for costumes and props from Star Trek: Discovery and the Short Treks miniseries.

And over on 403, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy are up for grabs.

The PropStore Star Trek sale runs through May 12, and 403 Auction’s through April 23, with a second to start in Ontario on April 22.

Three months until Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and we’ve got a look at some of its Lego toys.

The first set, “Prison Transport Chase,” comes in 367 pieces and has Spidey going up against Tarantula and Tombstone, with a DODC guard along for the ride.

“Spider-Man vs. Hulk Epic Clash” teams Peter with the strongest Avenger to fight Scorpion, Tarantula, and Boomerang to save a hot dog vendor.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is in theaters on July 31.

All three of these release on June 1 and will individually cost you $50 for “Prison Transport, $90 for “Spider-Man vs. Hulk”, and $100 for the Spidey figure.

In light of what are easily some of the worst smart glasses I’ve put on my face to date, I’d like to amend Mr. Murphy’s statement for the time being to “everything that can go wrong definitely did go wrong.”1 Dymesty AI Glasses The Dymesty AI Glasses are half-baked at best.

That means the only functional way to use these smart glasses hands-free is by saying “Hey, Siri” and then saying “glasses” or whatever you set your shortcut to.

The Dymesty AI Glasses are light, which is among the only positive things I am going to relay in this review.

The Dymesty AI Glasses also lack a touchpad like the one on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

If you do like the look and you need smart glasses, the Dyme…

The original Qrevo Curv was positioned as Roborock’s flagship model at the time it launched, and it cost a very flagshippy $1,600.

The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is more approachable at $1,000, making room for the forthcoming Saros 20 flagship.

3.5 Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is an impressively powerful mop, but it has a limited reach.

See roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow at AmazonPutting it to the testSo, how well does it actually work?

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And statistically speaking, the vast majority of the time, those attempts have ended in abject failure, with little sustained weight loss to speak of.

Fen-phen wasn’t widely used until the 1990s, but it rapidly became the weight loss treatment of choice for many.

Phentermine is actually still prescribed occasionally for weight loss, often paired with the drug topiramate (this combo provides modest weight loss, but is generally safe).

And some researchers have argued that many dietary supplements marketed today for weight loss are a repackaged version of rainbow pills.

Starting in the 1990s, Ephedra saw widespread use as both a weight loss product and a potential performance enhancer for ath…

A “Headless 360” is, perhaps, if your head fell off while doing a boneless 360, which is not inconceivable.

It’s also Salesforce’s newly announced initiative to mash agentic AI into every corner of its product.

Welcome Salesforce Headless 360: No Browser Required!

Entire Salesforce & Agentforce & Slack platforms are now exposed as APIs, MCP, & CLI.

With Headless 360, it sounds like they want users to be able to take their hands off the wheel completely—sign up for Salesforce, and then, in theory, literally never log in again.

In over a year, Marvel says goodbye to the multiverse its multiverse focus with Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars.

It’s the former that’s in the front of everyone’s minds right now, but it sounds like Secret Wars will be where things really pop off and wow audiences when it arrives next year.

In fact, for as many swings Marvel’s taking with Avengers: Doomsday, it sounds like Secret Wars will take some real big ones.

After all, you don’t get a bunch of veteran actors from Marvel’s cinematic history back if you’re not going all out.

We’ll see if the studio succeeds when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on December 17, 2027.

During this week’s CinemaCon, movie fans were treated to a new Street Fighter trailer.

Now more than ever, IP adaptations are judged by the amount of instant fidelity to the source material they show.

This is further heightened in video games, where interactivity creates an extra layer of attachment to a character.

Capcom makes iconic characters, and that’s especially true for Street Fighter.

Street Fighter is in theaters on October 16.

According to Politico, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei held a meeting at the White House with chief of staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday.

The White House said the following in its statement about the meeting, per Politico:“We discussed opportunities for collaboration, as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology.

We look forward to continuing this dialogue and will host similar discussions with other leading AI companies.”It almost sounds like the White House is considering having a business relationship with Anthropic.

But when President Trump touched down…

It looks like The Batman Part II has added another star to its stacked cast.

Per Deadline, Charles Dance has signed on for the DC film.

Best known for playing Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Dance is reportedly set to portray Harvey Dent’s father, Charles.

Maybe that’s fitting, given how it’s been an odyssey for The Batman Part II to even begin to get made.

The Batman Part IIÂ is currently expected to land in theaters on October 1, 2027.

Microsoft said “recent increases in memory and component costs” led to price hikes of up to $500 across its Surface product line.

Meta just blamed the memory shortage when it raised the price of the Quest 3 headset by $100.

The union called the legal maneuver a “declaration of war.”According to Nikkei Asia there’s a 40 percent gap between supply and demand in the meantime.

According to Nikkei, SK Henix’s Cheongju HBM-producing facility will continue to be the only major source of HBM throughout the rest of 2026.

Citing comments from Counterpoint Research’s MS Hwang, Nikkei writes that it appears “Supply and demand won’t normalize until 2028.”

Why do you want smart glasses that can play music or misidentify native flora in a weirdly cheery voice?

I am a lifelong Ray-Ban Wayfarer wearer, and I’m also WIRED’s resident Meta wearer.

I grab a pair of Meta glasses whenever I leave the house because I like being able to use one device instead of two or three on a walk.

Probably the biggest hurdle to wearing Meta glasses is that even doing so seems like a gross violation of the social contract.

If you do chicken out, check out our buying guides to the Best Smart Glasses or the Best Workout Headphones for more.

Hisense’s latest U7 model, the U7SG, certainly looks the part.

Its new industrial stand and anti-reflective matte screen are reminiscent of Samsung’s top-shelf QN90 and S95 TVs, while its mini-LED backlighting is spectacularly bright.

Hisense’s usual step-up model, the U8, is now the UR8, which hosts the hottest new display tech, RGB LED.

As usual, I wouldn’t grab one at full price, but the price should drop soon, making this year’s U7 another solid budget buy.

It adds 10 pounds to the 43.2-pound, 65-inch U7SG I reviewed, and the six-screw assembly takes more patience than last year’s U75QG.

But, sure enough, this thing actually has 99 speeds, accessible via up and down buttons.

I have no idea under what circumstances one might need this many speeds, but there they are.

Shark FlexBreeze for $200: This was my favorite misting fan of last year.

Shark claims the FlexBreeze can reduce nearby ambient temperature by 10 degrees with the misting attachment.

It's not smart, it doesn't have RBG lights, and there are some occasional noises from the oscillation, but if you're looking for a more affordable pedestal fan that offers 3D oscillation, this honestly isn't a bad option.

The Apple Watch Series 11 finally has a battery that can last at least a full day.

This will allow you to better take advantage of its myriad of tracking capabilities.

(As the owner of an Apple Watch Series 8, I often consider upgrading for this reason alone.)

But last year's Apple Watch introduces meaningful changes that you'll notice in your day-to-day life.

Afterward, check out our favorite Apple Watch bands to spruce up your new gadget.

It's got a 2K HD camera, two-way audio, and a laser toy, and you control the robot's movements from your phone's app.

Photograph: Molly HigginsFurbo Mini for $40: I love this super-affordable, 360-degree-rotating, basic pet camera.

Photograph: Molly HigginsEnabot Rola PetPal Robot Pet Companion for $200 (treat dispensing): This rolling pet camera has the best of intentions, but the sometimes glitchy app makes the combo pet camera/toy/feeder a little unpredictable.

This camera is basic, but it has a high-quality camera feed and advanced extras that make it a steal at this price.

The video feed was always crystal clear, although sound was a bit laggy and hard to hear well.

Stylish Smart LightsI've liked Govee's smart outdoor string lights before, usually for my holiday decor, and have previously recommended something similar with a bistro-light-like look that happened to be smart.

These are a fun option for outdoor lights you can enjoy on warm nights, and they can do every color and shade of white without looking as bulky as permanent outdoor lights.

Fresh BulbsCourtesy of Cync Save to wishlist Save to wishlist Cync Smart LED Light Bulb, PAR38 $45 Amazon (Pack of Two)If you have light fixtures you want to remote-control, add an outdoor smart bulb.

Remote-Controlled GarageIf your garage is the centerpiece of your home's curb appeal, you can control it as easil…

If a record (or, more realistically, stack of records) is especially dirty, I clean them two times with either method in progressively cleaner fluid.

Some people prefer to also rinse the clean records in distilled water at the end of the cleaning cycle to remove any remaining solution.

The only way to prevent those things from inflicting your collection is store your records properly: in an upright, clean environment.

When buying used records at a store, it's important to know the difference between a dirty disc and a scratched or warped one.

I recommend using a bright handheld flashlight or the light on your smartphone to inspect any used records you're interested in buying for scratches.

The European Commission this week released its free, open source app for verifying the ages of visitors to social networks and pornography websites.

That, however, was before experts found the app to be a security disaster.

The stolen data includes bank details along with customers' names, home and email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth.

Bluesky’s site and app struggled through Thursday after what the company confirmed was a distributed denial-of-service attack.

According to crypto-tracing firm Elliptic, Grinex was likely created by the same owners and inherited Garantex funds and customers.

“There's no blocker for your creativity anymore,” says Vermeeren, who is now also investing in Schematik.

“If Anthropic built an official feature because of it, I’m even prouder.”Just about every AI tech company seems to be making some kind of hardware device, whether it’s a giant like OpenAI, the big chipmakers, or more niche wearables.

Beyond that, there have always been crowds of tinkerers and makers looking to build tech, whether it’s to turn vapes into synthesizers or push back against ICE.

“The big problem in hardware is that it's very gatekept and that very few people can do it,” Beek says.

“I really hope that my tool can help enable more people to build, either with the tool or to l…

The Asus TUF Gaming A14 wants to rewrite that script.

I wish it were cheaper though, as its performance can't compete with more powerful gaming laptops at this price.

Can't Pin It DownPhotograph: Luke LarsenThe Asus TUF A14 is an enigma.

Second, the A14 is in Asus’ “TUF” brand, which are its most price-conscious options.

All that is to say, the TUF A14 was one of the gaming laptops I was most excited to test this year.

Did you just buy a record player and realize you’re surprisingly low on music to play on it?

You’re not alone: Everyone has to start their vinyl collection somewhere.

While we always recommend you hit up a local independent record store when shopping for your next album—especially on Record Store Day—sometimes you want something very specific or hard to find.

Here are the best ways to buy those records online.

Screenshot courtesy of Parker HallThe center of gravity for vinyl collectors, sellers, and independent record stores alike is Discogs.

April might be springtime in the northern hemisphere, but some of the best streaming services seem to think it’s the perfect time for a dry run of spooky season.

Here are WIRED’s picks of the best movies to watch right now.

28 Years Later: The Bone TempleThe fourth film in the long-running postapocalyptic horror series switches focus from rampaging rage zombies to a more dangerous threat: humans.

Elsewhere in the City of Angels, Sharon (Halle Berry) is an underappreciated VP at an insurance firm, frustrated at being passed over for promotion for years.

She’s the perfect insider to help Mike orchestrate an elaborate $11 million diamond heist.

Will every runner end up “lonely,” or relatively far from everyone else, at least once, no matter their speeds?

The “lonely runner” problem might seem simple and inconsequential, but it crops up in many guises throughout math.

“Going from seven runners to now 10 runners is amazing.”The Starting DashAt first, the lonely runner problem had nothing to do with running.

Wills’ conjecture is equivalent to saying that each runner will always end up lonely at some point, no matter what the other runners’ speeds are.

More precisely, each runner will at some point find themselves at a distance of at least 1/N from any other runner.

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed.

Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram.

OpenAI is also sunsetting Prism, which the company launched as a web app in January this year to give scientists a way to work with AI.

An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the changes, and tells WIRED this is part of the company’s effort to unify its business and product strategy.

OpenAI has broader ambitions to turn Codex, its AI coding application, into an “everything app.”This is a developing story.

The announcement follows a pilot project for Tinder verification that World previously conducted in Japan.

Founded in 2019 by Altman and Alex Blania, the World project was designed for a future where the internet is overrun with highly capable AI agents that make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to tell who is really human.

The company says 18 million people have now been verified with an Orb, up from 12 million last year.

The videoconferencing platform Zoom also says that users can now require other participants to verify their identity with World before joining a call.

Docusign, the contract signing software, will allow users to require World’s identity verification technology.

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a shining star.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Gloriously glaring!

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer todayToday's spangram is Catch the Light.

The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally; 3-6, placed horizontally; and 6-6, placed horizontally.

The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally; 3-6, placed horizontally; and 3-3, placed horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for April 20 PipsLess Than (2): The domino half in this purple space must have less than 2 pips.

The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed vertically; 6-2, placed vertically; 0-0, placed horizontally; 4-4, placed horizontally; 5-5, placed vertically; and 1-6, placed vertically.

The answer is 1-4, placed vertically; 4-4, placed horizontally; and 4-0, placed vertically.

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you knit.

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Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

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With the fervor of Heated Rivalry, there's a fierce desire among book readers for even more hockey.

She went on to say that straight, white women's voices dominated the romance genre for so long, pointing out that hockey is also the whitest sport.

In 2022, ESPN reported that 83.6% of league players and staff were white, compared to the NFL, where 25-27% of players are white, or the NBA, where white players make up 17.5% of the league.

You May Also LikeZooming into the genre, the authors also spoke about the writing process.

With the hockey fandom at an all-time high, there's a whole team behind these authors ready to drive change.

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Neither of us is a huge Star Wars fan, but you don't have to be to appreciate a good Lego build.

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Now, the AirPods Max 2 are here, but the list of upgrades is once again pretty short.

I've had an old pair of Midnight AirPods Max with USB-C (check my full review), and the new ones Apple sent me were Blue.

On the right, the old AirPods Max.

With the AirPods Max 2, Apple left most of the hardware unchanged, with the biggest difference being the new H2 chip.

Better noise cancellation and tons of new software featuresThe noise cancellation has been improved.

We're currently in the Waxing Crescent phase of the lunar cycle, which means each night until the Full Moon we'll see it get more illuminated from the right side.

As of Sunday, April 19, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent.

Tonight, 5% of the moon will be lit up, according to NASA's Daily Moon Guide.

First Quarter - Half of the Moon is lit on the right side.

Full Moon - The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess.

Hurdle Word 1 answerBRINKMashable Top Stories Stay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news.

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Easy difficulty hints, answers for April 19 PipsEqual (0): Every domino half in this red space must have 0 pips.

The answer is 1-6, placed vertically; 0-5, placed vertically.

The answer is 1-0, placed horizontally; 0-2, placed horizontally; and 0-0, placed vertically.

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Today's launch of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin's reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial success. The New Glenn touched down on its landing pad without incident, making it the second launch and landing for the first stage booster, and officially giving Jeff Bezos a reusable launch vehicle. Unfortunately for AST SpaceMobile, […]

Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email addresses, and activity time stamps. Vercel confirmed […]

Over the past several years, Nothing’s budget-centric subsidiary, CMF, has built a reputation for producing attractive, inexpensive products with features often reserved for gadgets that cost twice the price. The CMF Headphone Pro — the company’s first pair of over-ear wireless headphones — fit precisely in that lane, especially now that they’re on sale at […]

This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some, but it flew under my radar until now. Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (originally published as Tiger! Tiger! in the UK) is a 1956 sci-fi novel that some have cited as a precursor to cyberpunk. It's a work I admit I have some conflicted […]

Keychron's expansive keyboard catalog covers everything from basic full-size mechanical boards to niche layouts like southpaw Alice or a one-handed half-keyboard for gaming. Its Q and V series are among our go-to recommendations for off-the-shelf keyboards, and the latest iterations - the Q and V Ultra models - are a straightforward upgrade to the lineup, […]

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According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world's largest memory makers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - are all working to add […]

Jorge L. Alonso, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps. Judge Alonso granted the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado, who runs the ICE Sightings - Chicagoland Facebook group, and Kreisau Group, the […]

From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, everything, we’re well aware that not […]

Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would have been comfortable powering it up during […]

With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about grinding out the harder levels of Super Meat Boy 3D, but I was looking for something more chill. I could have dabbled more with Slay the Spire II, but I already know that's a game I'll […]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me your Coachella fits, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about restaurant bread and GLP-1s and Lenny Rachitsky and […]

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company […]

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through […]

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. […]

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing multiple reasoning samples from a model at deployment.To bridge this gap, researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University have introduced Train-to-Test (T2) scaling laws, a framework that jointly optimizes a model’s parameter size, its training data volume, and the number of test-time inference samples.In practice, their approach proves that it is compute-optimal to train substantially small…

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain breach through LiteLLM. Both are traced to the same structural gap. Monitoring without enforcement, enforcement without isolation. A VentureBeat three-wave survey of 108 qualified enterprises found that the gap is not an edge case. It is the most common security architecture in production today.Gravitee’s State of AI Agent Security 2026 survey of 919 executives and practitioners quantifies the disconnect. 82% of executives say their policies protect them from unauthorized agent actions. Eighty-ei…

Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work — designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral — through conversational prompts and fine-grained editing controls. The release, available immediately in research preview to all paid Claude subscribers, is the company's most aggressive expansion beyond its core language model business and into the application layer that has historically belonged to companies like Figma, Adobe, and Canva.Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's most capable generally available vision model, which the company also released …

For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn't hallucinate a catastrophic "delete all" command.To unlock the true utility of an agent—scheduling meetings, triaging emails, or managing cloud infrastructure—users have had to grant these models raw API keys and broad permissions, raising the risk of their systems being disrupted by an accidental agent mistake. That tradeoff ends today. The creators of the open source sandboxed NanoClaw agent framework — now known under their new private startup named NanoCo — have announced a landmark partnershi…

Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing "Headless 360" — a sweeping initiative that exposes every capability in its platform as an API, MCP tool, or CLI command so AI agents can operate the entire system without ever opening a browser.The announcement, made at the company's annual TDX developer conference in San Francisco, ships more than 100 new tools and skills immediately available to developers. It marks a decisive response to the existential question hanging over enterprise software: In a world where AI agents can reason, plan, and execute, does a company still need a CRM with a graphical interface?Salesforce'…

Enterprise AI is entering a new phase — one where the central question is no longer what can be built, but how to make the most of our AI investment.At VentureBeat’s latest AI Impact Tour session, Brian Gracely, director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, described the operational reality inside large organizations: AI sprawl, rising inference costs, and limited visibility into what those investments are actually returning.It’s the “Day 2” moment — when pilots give way to production, and cost, governance, and sustainability become harder than building the system in the first place."We've seen customers who say, 'I have 50,000 licenses of Copilot. I don't really know what people are getting o…

The journey from a laboratory hypothesis to a pharmacy shelf is one of the most grueling marathons in modern industry, typically spanning 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars in investment. Progress is often stymied not just by the inherent mysteries of biology, but by the "fragmented and difficult to scale" workflows that force researchers to manually pivot between the actual experimental design equipment, software, and databases.But OpenAI is releasing a new specialized model GPT-Rosalind specifically to speed up this process and make it more efficient, easier, and ideally, more productive. Named after the pioneering chemist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was vital to the discovery of DN…

Confirming it has reached 3 million weekly developers, OpenAI is massively updating its Codex developer environment via its Mac and Windows desktop apps today to bring it closer to the “Super App” the company has confirmed it is pursuing.Before today, Codex was primarily an environment for using OpenAI’s underlying language models to write, edit, debug and ship software as directed by the user. Now, Codex will be able to access all of the other apps on your computer, surface relevant information from within them to you when asked or proactively, take actions as directed in said applications, and, in the case of Mac users, even do so while you continue manually using your computer simultaneo…

Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of external enterprise partners for cybersecurity testing and patching vulnerabilities in the software said enterprises use (which Mythos exposed rapidly).The big headlines are that Opus 4.7 exceeds its most direct rivals — OpenAI's GPT-5.4, released in early March 2026, scarcely more than a month ago; and Google's latest flagship model Gemini 3.1 Pro from February — on key benchmarks including agentic coding, scaled tool-use, agentic computer use, and financial analysis. But also, it's notable how …

Presented by Retool The logic used to be: buying software is cheaper, faster, and safer for most use cases. Building was reserved for companies with large engineering teams, deep pockets, and problems so specific that no vendor could address them. But now, the cost to code a piece of software has dropped to zero. Anyone can build their own software now, but enterprise and governance models have yet to catch up. Retool’s 2026 Build vs. Buy Shift Report, based on a survey of 817 builders, traces exactly how this shift is playing out.The cost curve changed; SaaS pricing didn’tTwo years ago, a custom internal tool might have taken an engineering team weeks or months and cost six figures. Today,…

Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday.That CVE matters less for what it fixes and more for what it signals. Capsule’s research calls Microsoft’s decision to assign a CVE to a prompt injection vulnerability in an agentic platform “highly unusual.” Microsoft previously assigned CVE-2025-32711 (CVSS 9.3) to EchoLeak, a prompt injection in M365 Copilot patched in June 2025, but that targeted a productivity assistant, not an agent-building platform. If the precedent exten…

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defining operational challenge for IT leaders in 2026, according to Stanford HAI's ninth annual AI Index report.This uneven, unpredictable performance is what the AI Index calls the "jagged frontier," a term coined by AI researcher Ethan Mollick to describe the boundary where AI excels and then suddenly fails.“AI models can win a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad,” Stanford HAI researchers point out, “but still can’t reliably tell time.” How models advanced in 2025Enterprise AI adopti…

Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor consistent. Current self-improving AI systems face severe limitations because they rely on fixed, handcrafted improvement mechanisms that only work under strict conditions such as software engineering.To overcome this practical challenge, researchers at Meta and several universities introduced “hyperagents,” a self-improving AI system that continuously rewrites and optimizes its problem-solving logic and the underlying code. In practice, this allows the AI to self-improve across non-coding domai…

The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the modern developer's toolkit. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic signaled this shift with a dual release: a complete redesign of the Claude Code desktop app (for Mac and Windows) and the launch of "Routines" in research preview. These updates suggest that for the modern enterprise, the developer's role is shifting from a solo practitioner to a high-level orchestrator managing multiple, simultaneous streams of work.For years, the industry focused on "copilots"—single-threaded assistants that lived within the IDE and responded to the immediate line of cod…

AI agents can connect together, but they cannot think together. That’s a huge difference and a bottleneck for next-gen systems, says Outshift by Cisco’s SVP and GM Vijoy Pandey.As he describes the current state of AI: Agents can be stitched together in a workflow or plug into a supervisor model — but there's no semantic alignment, no shared context. They’re essentially working from scratch each go-around. This calls for next-level infrastructure, or what Pandey describes as the "internet of cognition." “Agents are not able to think together because connection is not cognition,” he said. “We need to get to a point where you are sharing cognition. That is the greater unlock.”Creating new prot…

ZDNET's key takeawaysThe smartphone market is facing pressure due to the supply constraints of memory chipsPhones launched in 2026 have been underwhelming, and many have seen price hikes.

Recent phones, especially mid-rangers, have delivered underwhelming upgrades, while also seeing price hikes.

The phones launched in 2026 are facing tougher competition from their predecessors than from their rivals.

IDC expects the smartphone market to continue facing pressure this year.

As memory prices continue to surge, OEMs will likely have to raise prices significantly, cut specifications, or both."

Called Personal Intelligence, it connects data from Gmail, Google Photos, Search history, and other Google apps to provide tailored responses.

How to enable Personal IntelligenceWhat you'll need: Personal Intelligence is available in the US and is now rolling out to free and paid Gemini users.

It only works with personal Google accounts and requires connecting to Google services such as Gmail or Photos, since it relies on your personal data.

Enable Memory in Personal Intelligence In the Personal Intelligence menu, look for the Memory toggle and switch it on so Gemini remembers past chats.

Connect Google apps to Personal Intelligence Open the Connect apps section under the Personal Intellige…

HP's ZBook series aims to combine workstation-level performance with business features, and the 14-inch ZBook G1i epitomizes the form factor.

For more approachable configurations, prices hover around and below $2,000 -- prime business workstation territory.

As a mobile workstation, the ZBook 8 G1i has a nice keyboard and trackpad that facilitate all-day use.

In that sense, this is a laptop best positioned for the business consumer, as it's priced well above accessible consumer rates.

ZDNET's buying adviceThe HP ZBook 8 G1i is a powerful workstation available in a host of configurations, geared for business teams that need powerful workstations for traditional, non-AI-powered workflows.

An indoor or outdoor TV antenna gives you access to dozens of free, local news, sports, and entertainment channels so you can say goodbye to pricey cable contracts and subscriptions.

Do you have an old tablet tucked away in a drawer somewhere? It's easy to turn it into a control panel for your smart home devices.

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Just a month ago, Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, a competitively priced MacBook, at a private NYC event.

Also: MacBook Neo review: My biggest concern with Apple's near-perfect budget laptopAnd with estimated ship timelines stretching further out, if you're planning to purchase the Neo with an educational discount, I wouldn't wait too long.

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The colors of the MacBook Neo.

If you're a student or educator, or know someone in your life looking to scoop up the MacBook Neo for school next year, don't delay.

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Put simply, use AI as a tool rather than letting yourself be sucked down a rabbit hole and get lost in endless rounds of AI conversation.

In other words, AI should have most of the equipment it requires to interface with applications in limited ways and carry out tasks.

AI can't handle the hard stuffWhen they dug into deeper kinds of work, the Stanford scholars found much less encouraging results.

As one scholar who wasn't involved in the research noted, "We should evaluate [the AI model] and have a pipeline for continuous evaluation."

He insisted his AI research revealed he had what's called Richter's Transformation, a complication of cancer that would be made more adverse by the recommend…

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Laptops come in a variety of different form factors these days, with manufacturers playing into the different categories to develop an intended use case.

2-in-1 laptops come with touchscreens that allow for use as a tablet.

Business laptopsDesigned for the office, these laptops often come with more RAM and local storage, but less powerful GPUs.

Our favorite Chromebook is the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, a strong competitor to the MacBook Neo for its gorgeous display, nice speakers, snappy performance and marathon battery.

Other solid options include the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus, and the Acer Chromebook Plus 516 GE -- a good cloud gaming pick.

Out of all the gear I've tested over the past few years, none has changed my life for the better like Apple AirTags.

The second-generation AirTags feature upgraded Bluetooth, a better, louder speaker, and a U2 chip that allows for extended precision finding range and support for the Apple Watch.

With new AirTags on the scene, along with a booming third-party tag ecosystem, what better time to try to replicate my experiment?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETI also wanted to see how well "lost mode" (the feature that notifies you whenever a lost tag is picked up by someone else's device) works.

As for finding all the non-AirTag tags, the tags beeped loudly enough to find them over road traffic noi…

The Acer Connect M6E mobile hotspot is just better in almost every way.

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A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes.

The human half-marathon world record is 57 minutes and 20 seconds, set by Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon on 8 March.

The scale of the eventThis was the second edition of the Robot World Humanoid Robot Games Half-Marathon, co-hosted by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government and China Media Group.

All three podium finishers in the autonomous category were Honor robots, and all three posted times faster than the human world record.

But the gap between a controlled factory deployment and the kind of general-purpose humanoid …

The Trump administration’s campaign against state AI regulation has three components, each building on the last.

It conditioned access to federal broadband funding on states’ willingness to avoid enacting what the administration considers onerous AI laws.

The executive order itself does not preempt, repeal, or invalidate any state AI law.

The most comprehensive federal AI bill is Senator Marsha Blackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a 291-page discussion draft released on 18 March.

It would preempt state laws on frontier AI catastrophic risk management and largely preempt state digital replica laws.

Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips for running AI models, according to The Information.

The talks came days after Broadcom, Google’s primary custom chip partner, announced a long-term agreement to design and supply TPUs and networking components through 2031.

TrendForce projects custom chip sales will increase 45% in 2026, compared with 16% growth in GPU shipments.

Counterpoint Research projects Broadcom will hold roughly 60% of the custom AI accelerator market by 2027, with Marvell at approximately 25%.

For Marvell, a Google inference TPU contract would validate its position as the second-most important custom AI chip designer in the world.

The performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, according to the 2026 AI Index Report published this week by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Where each country leadsThe United States dominates private AI investment, with $285.9 billion in 2025 compared with China’s $12.4 billion.

American companies produced 50 notable AI models last year, compared with China’s 30, though China’s count doubled from 15 the previous year while America’s grew more modestly.

On SWE-bench, a coding benchmark, model performance rose from 60% to near 100% in a single year.

AI data centre power capacity reached 29.6 gigawatts glob…

Summary: Threads head Connor Hayes previewed a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar with shortcuts to saved posts and insights, and a cleaner single-feed layout replacing the current multi-column design.

Threads is getting a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar, and quicker access to features that were previously buried in the mobile-first layout.

DMs finally reach the desktopDirect messages launched on the Threads mobile app in June 2025, nearly two years after the platform itself launched.

The web redesign is part of a shift from growth to retention.

The advertising rollout gives the web redesign commercial significan…

In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026.

Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees, or 10% of its global workforce, according to three people familiar with the plans who spoke to Reuters.

Additional cuts are planned for the second half of 2026, though their timing and scope have not been finalised.

The pattern so farThe May round is not the beginning of Meta’s 2026 workforce reduction.

Meta’s capital expenditure guidance for 2026 is $115 to $135 billion, nearly double the $72.2 billion it spent in 202…

France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with a combined €22 billion in assets.

The public money flowing into the ecosystem is reaching companies that, in many cases, have not yet demonstrated they can build sustainable businesses at scale.

A pan-European analysis found no evidence that public funds displace private investors, and instead concluded that public involvement increases total money invested.

An EIF impact study found that regions receiving EIF investment see statistically significant increases in private capital over three years.

The public money pouring into European venture capital is the most ambitious attempt yet t…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on Wednesday that if DeepSeek optimised its new AI models to run on Huawei chips rather than American hardware, it would be “a horrible outcome” for the United States.

V4 would extend that approach by proving the company can do it without American hardware at all.

American chips are approximately five times more powerful than their Chinese equivalents today, and that gap is projected to widen to 17 times by 2027.

R2 was repeatedly delayed because of training failures on Huawei hardware.

The R2 training failures demonstrate that Chinese hardware is not yet ready for the most demanding AI workloads.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walked into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

If the two sides reach a deal, it will likely exclude the Pentagon entirely, routing Mythos access through civilian agencies that are not party to the original dispute.

The White House Office of Management and Budget is setting up protections to allow federal agencies to use a controlled version.

Bessent, whose Treasury Department is one of the agencies most eager for Mythos access, presumably made this point in Friday’s meeting.

What Friday meansThe word “introductory” in the White House readout is carefully chosen.

Thales, the European aerospace and defence firm, has more than 85 years of supplying air traffic management systems to the FAA and the Department of Defense.

DOGE personnel have visited air traffic control facilities to evaluate operations, and Musk has said the initiative will make “rapid safety upgrades” to air traffic control systems.

The contract dynamicsThe competition between Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence reflects three distinct approaches to government AI procurement.

ASI offers a purpose-built aviation AI platform that is already handling a significant portion of the traffic the FAA is trying to manage.

The US air traffic control system manages roughly 45,000 flights …

In short: AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Nvidia, nearly doubling its November 2025 valuation of $29.3 billion.

Cursor, the AI code editor built by Anysphere, is in talks to raise at least $2 billion in new funding at a valuation of roughly $50 billion.

AI coding tools are becoming a commodity feature embedded in every major development environment.

The four MIT-educated co-founders, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger, have built Cursor into the defining company of the AI coding tools wave.

The capital flowing into AI developer tools reflect…

Three senior OpenAI executives departed on the same day this week, continuing a pattern of leadership attrition that has now claimed the majority of the company’s original leadership team.

Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer who had been leading OpenAI for Science, Bill Peebles, the head of Sora, and Srinivas Narayanan, the chief technology officer of enterprise applications, all announced their exits on Friday.

The list of departed leaders includes co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, CTO Mira Murati, chief research officer Bob McGrew, VP of research Barret Zoph, co-founder John Schulman, chief communications officer Hannah Wong, chief people officer Julia Villagra, and …

Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company.

What NVIDIA actually didNVIDIA did not buy Xanadu shares, sign a contract with the company, or name it as a partner.

What it did was make quantum computing look closer to useful than it has ever looked before, and the market priced that in across every quantum stock simultaneously.

NVIDIA’s gravitational pullThe deeper story is not about Xanadu or any individual quantum company.

It is ensuring that if quantum computing succeeds, NVIDIA’s infrastructure will be at the centre of it.

It is a general-purpose AI model that, during testing, turned out to be capable of identifying and exploiting thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser.

It is the first AI model to complete a 32-step corporate network attack simulation from start to finish.

The UK’s AI Security Institute, which has an existing evaluation partnership with Anthropic, published its technical assessment on 17 April.

The US government’s desire for Mythos access exists in tension with its punishment of the company that built it.

Anthropic would restore its eligibility for government contracts and provide Mythos access for defensive cybersecurity p…

Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “Verified Human” badge.

Zoom has partnered with World, the biometric identity company co-founded by Sam Altman, to let meeting participants prove they are real humans and not AI-generated deepfakes.

Both Zoom and World said that because video generation models are improving rapidly, those frame-by-frame detection methods are becoming increasingly unreliable.

Zoom is not endorsing World ID as its default identity layer; it is offering it as one …

A New York resident identified as John Doe has sued Stake.com, Stake.us, Coinbase and related companies in New York State… Continue reading New York lawsuit says Stake and Coinbase targeted child gambler for years

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Maryland wrapped up its 2026 legislative session without approving two bills targeting sweepstakes-style gaming, keeping a familiar fight unresolved for… Continue reading Maryland session ends leaving sweepstakes gaming bills stalled once again as SGLA celebrates

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) came to the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday (April 16), hoping to talk about… Continue reading CFTC’s one-man show gets awkward on the Hill as lawmakers hammer Selig on sports bets, staffing gaps and corruption claims

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The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has sharply rebuked Vallejo leaders after a divided City Council approved an agreement clearing the… Continue reading Yocha Dehe slams Vallejo Council over rushed casino deal approval process

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The NCAA is asking a federal judge in Indiana to speed up its trademark fight with DraftKings, saying the normal… Continue reading NCAA seeks faster trial over DraftKings disputed March Madness branding case

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Iowa lawmakers are pressing ahead with a bill that would clamp down on a fast-expanding slice of financial trading tied… Continue reading Iowa lawmakers advance bill tightening rules on prediction markets

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Louisiana lawmakers are pressing ahead with a push to rein in illegal online sweepstakes-style gaming, after the state House overwhelmingly… Continue reading Louisiana lawmakers advance crackdown targeting illegal online sweepstakes

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A South Carolina advocacy group has taken Dave & Buster’s to federal court, arguing the company’s arcade model crosses into… Continue reading South Carolina lawsuit says Dave & Buster’s games are illegal gambling

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Kalshi is stepping up its fight with Ohio regulators, blasting a proposed $5 million fine as an “extraordinary and regrettable… Continue reading Kalshi challenges Ohio over proposed $5M regulatory fine

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A legal fight unfolding in Wisconsin over prediction market trading is now drawing in a fresh federal ruling from Arizona,… Continue reading Arizona ruling enters Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation fight against Kalshi

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Minnesota lawmakers are moving ahead with a proposal that would outlaw most prediction markets, pushing the issue further into the… Continue reading Minnesota advances controversial felony ban on prediction markets as scrutiny grows

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Ohio regulators are ramping up pressure on prediction market platform Kalshi, proposing a $5 million penalty and accusing the company… Continue reading Ohio moves to fine Kalshi $5M over illegal sports betting

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To put it simply: Apple Silicon is impressively optimized for running local AI models.

That’s why so many people are buying Mac mini’s to use as headless always-on devices.

Customers could pay Apple a monthly fee for access to macOS and Apple Silicon in the cloud.

Those servers are largely underutilized for now, until Apple gets its Gemini-tuned Apple Intelligence models ready to go.

In the world of AI though, if Apple wanted to grow a new chunk of its business, I think renting out compute on Apple Silicon servers running macOS could become a hot new hit.

Rumors for iOS 27 have so far indicated that this year’s release will mostly be focused on stability, with limited new features beyond Apple finally delivering on its AI promises.

Even though iOS 27 won’t have anything major, there still will be a few light customization features – and one of them will let you quickly undo and redo changes on your home screen.

Easier customization in iOS 27According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in this weekend’s Power On newsletter, iOS 27 will add a new home screen toggle that’ll allow users to undo and redo changes on their home screen.

And as mentioned earlier, the real focus with iOS 27 will be on improved performance and stability, likely resulting in be…

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple’s WWDC26 artwork has already given us our first look at the new design for Siri coming as part of iOS 27.

Apple’s voice assistant will finally be getting the revamp it deserves in iOS 27, with a bunch of new functionality and a new look.

Gurman says the new Siri design includes visual elements that resemble the glow effect seen in the WWDC26 poster art.

The new Siri in iOS 27 will make the experience more aligned with other modern AI chatbots.

The new Siri is expected to be the major new feature of iOS 27, which Apple will preview at its annual WWDC conference in June.

Supply constraints mean that the MacBook Pro launch is slightly delayed, and possibly won’t arrive until early next year.

Previously, Gurman had said that Apple was scheduling a late 2026 – early 2027 launch for the new MacBook Pro, with many expecting an announcement around October or November.

Gurman says the software accommodations for the brand new touch screen MacBook Pro will be ready for the fall, as part of macOS 27, so it is not a software-development related holdup.

It remains to be seen exactly how this model of MacBook Pro will be positioned in the lineup.

With so many major upgrades coming at once, it is possible that Apple brands this OLED MacBook Pro as a new high-end variant…

In the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter, he reports that the new generation of Mac Studio may not arrive until October.

However, supply chain constraints are apparently impacting Apple’s ability to deliver the (likely M5-powered) Mac Studio update.

Most Mac mini and Studio configurations are back-ordered by at least a month, with several completely unavailable to order right now.

There had been some speculation that this was because the M5 Mac Studio update was imminent, but Bloomberg’s reporting suggests otherwise.

If you were previously thinking there would be a new Mac Studio announcement before WWDC in June, you should probably reset your expectations.

The Jessica Chastain thriller series, The Savant, was originally set to air on Apple TV last September.

Star Jessica Chastain said she was ‘not aligned’ with Apple on the decision.

In the TV app listing for the show, The Savant is still labelled as a 2025-year series with a “coming at a later date” message.

In addition to The Savant, Chastian is also currently filming a new limited series “The Off Weeks” for Apple, also starring Ben Stiller.

She will also star in another Apple TV drama “The Dealer”, alongside Adam Driver.

Some have floated the idea of Apple axing the 256GB trim, and just using an unbinned A18 Pro chip in the 512GB trim.

I do wonder though, how can Apple prevent this from happening with every forthcoming MacBook Neo?

The MacBook Neo boomWe already know Apple is making another version of the MacBook Neo with the A19 Pro chip and 12GB RAM in about a year.

The A19 versionApple can move higher, in the sense that the highest MacBook Neo trim is $699, whereas the lowest MacBook Air trim is $1099.

One downside with the baseline A19 chip is the fact that it doesn’t embed a USB 3 controller.

Apple has already unveiled numerous products to date, including new versions of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, the iPad Air, the all-new MacBook Neo, and more.

As for infrequent buyers (say every 4-5 years, or more): Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are probably worth waiting for.

Apple doesn’t upgrade the chipset in the Apple Watch very often.

There aren’t many rumors for Apple Watch Series 12 outside of the chipset – though there’s a tiny chance it might sport Touch ID.

MacBook Air, on the other hand, got refreshed just a month ago – and there isn’t a meaningful MacBook Air refresh coming anytime soon.

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This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world.

Top featuresUsing data from both US and European databases, QuakeInfo can show you seismic activity from around the world.

It also has a comprehensive list view, giving you info on each individual earthquake, down to the timing, magnitude, location, and depth.

QuakeInfo provides location-based safety warnings, spatial context, and detailed metadata on each individual earthquake – so you know what’s coming before it potentially hits you.

For the longest time, we’ve heard that Apple will be developing a new version of AirPods Pro 3 with IR cameras.

That said, I think iPhone, iPad, and Mac users would love to get in on this too – and AirPods Pro 3 with IR cameras could be the path to that.

AirPods Pro with silent speechAirPods already have some tech to help with this technology, including an accelerometer, skin detect sensors, and the heart rate monitor.

Right now, rumors suggest that the new AirPods Pro variant with IR cameras will debut by the end of the year.

Will you be buying a new pair of AirPods Pro 3 with IR?

Now in a recent blog post from Jamf Threat Labs, its security researchers detail a new ClickFix variant that sidesteps Terminal with Apple’s new protections entirely.

Clicking it fires an applescript:// URL scheme in the browser, which prompts the user to open Script Editor with a pre-filled script already loaded.

Prompt to open Script Editor.

Because the command never touches Terminal, the new paste warning in macOS Tahoe 26.4 never gets a chance to fire.

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I love MagSafe batteries and by this point, I have probably tested hundreds of them.

So over the last few months, I have been on the hunt for slim MagSafe batteries that add the least amount of bulk to my iPhone.

It will, of course, charge your phone via MagSafe, but it has a trick up its sleeve that I think every single MagSafe battery should implement.

Final thoughtsI have always believed that MagSafe batteries should be thin and light enough to stay on your phone without being a nuisance.

Do you like slim MagSafe batteries?

A recent study found that around a third of AI app users are having deeply personal conversations with the chatbots.

Even if you’re not sharing your deepest fears with an AI app, your questions and conversations may still include a significant amount of personal data.

Fortunately, there are simple steps you can take to manage this …The AI privacy risksA surprising number of people use AI chatbots as a substitute therapist.

But even if we’re not doing this, our queries can often reveal personal data that we wouldn’t want to be leaked onto the internet.

Opting out of AI data collectionFortunately, all major AI apps provide the ability to opt out of using your data as training material, and fo…

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform.

Apple recently announced that the device management portion of its new Apple Business platform is now completely free.

It’s the first free device management system I can remember since Meraki’s System Manager.

Apple Business and its free device management solve this zero-to-one problem.

Beyond configs and appsHowever, enterprise Apple device management requires much more than just pushing a Wi-Fi PSK profile and installing some apps.

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OpenAI согласилась приобрести Astral, которая создает *современные* инструменты на Python для разработчиков, чтобы интегрировать её команду в Codex. Ну и по пути сообщает, что у Codex более 2 млн пользователей — в три раза больше, чем в январе. При этом от лица разработчиков заявляю - мы всё больше предпочитаем Claude Code. И разрыв между этими продуктами не сокращается, а субьективно наоборот - растет www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/openai-to-acquire-python-startup-astral-expanding-push-into-coding

В переводчике kagi появился чудесный язык "Linkedin Speak". Только что мою фразу "Fuck off, I don't want to receive your spam anymore." они идеально перевели вот так:Thank you for reaching out. To ensure my inbox is aligned with my current professional priorities, I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.Весьма рекомендую.https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

Конференция NVIDIA GTC раньше была про игры. А сейчас все больше про NVIDIA и их значение для мира ИИ, так что вот тут можно будет смотреть https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU

Вечный источник сливов, the Information пишут, что OpenAI готовится выпустить GPT-5.4, который получит «экстремальный» режим рассуждений и контекстное окно объёмом 1 млн токенов вместо 400 тыс. в GPT-5.2. Честно говоря, эта гонка сейчас перестала так впечатлять как раньше. Ждем какого-то прорыва, чтобы снова отличать модели друг от друга.🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

Ну и да, в MacBook Neo два порта USB‑C с разными характеристиками: один — USB 3.0 (Type‑C) со скоростью передачи до 10 Гбит/с, другой — USB 2.0 (Type‑C), ограниченный 480 Мбит/с.Интересно, что внешней маркировки я на них не увидел, видимо, "должны знать" :)🔗 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-different-usb-ports/

Первые впечатления от MacBook Neo — новый самый младший ноутбук от Apple. Он вообще не кажется бюджетным: яркий дисплей и алюминиевый корпус, но клавиатура немного хлипкая, что предсказуемо было.Теперь я не очень понимаю, в чем его отличие от айпада. Видимо, выбор между "встроенная клавиатура" и "тач экран". Ну, рано или поздно они должны будут сойтись.https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/macbook-neo-hands-on-apples-599-laptop-feels-shockingly-great-142313318.html

Сразу две новости рядом: Eight Sleep, продающая умные аксессуары для матрасов, которые отслеживают режим сна и регулируют температуру, привлекла $50 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд, тогда как в 2021 году её оценка составляла $500 млн. И это для меня удивительно - все тесты показали что их матрасы прямо никуда не годятся по точности отслеживания. Идея регуляции температуры во время сна все еще привлекательна, жаль что их не возят в разные страны.В это же время Whoop, производящая фитнес‑браслеты без экранов, сообщает, что планирует увеличить численность персонала максимум на 75% в 2026 году, создав более 600 должностей в преддверии вероятного IPO. Обычно перед IPO численость команды сокращают - в…

Polymarket удаляет долго существовавшие рынки, позволявшие пользователям делать ставки на вероятность ядерного взрыва на фоне ударов по Ирану. В прошлом году совокупный обьем ставок на эти события был $1,7 млн, что не так уж и мало. В этом году, как вы понимаете, интерес существенно бОльший.Я не понимаю, чем людям помешали эти ставки, единственная идея — сейчас сильно больше шансы на "манипуляцию", т.е. ради высокой выплаты можно попытаться что-нибудь взорвать.🔗 https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymarket-shelves-nuclear-detonation-markets-after-outcry

Anthropic сообщает, что голосовой режим для Claude Code теперь доступен примерно для 5% пользователей, а более широкое развёртывание запланировано на ближайшие недели.Проверить просто, жмите /voice — как и раньше, у меня ни в одном из трех аккаунтов пока нет 🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/claude-code-rolls-out-a-voice-mode-capability/

Тут происходит небольшая революция — появился репозиторий, в котором, как утверждается, научились заниматься обучением нейронок на чипах Apple Neural Engine напрямую. Сейчас ANE используются для запуска готовых моделей в основном, автор утверждает, что разобрал приватные API эппла, и теперь всё можно учить прямо на устройстве, не покупая себе очередной A100. В реальности, скорее всего, пользоваться этим будет нельзя, пока эппл явно не разрешит. Но фактически то, что автор репозитория показал, означает, что по сути нас ограничивает только софт, ограничения на уровне железа практически не существует. Хайпа, правда, многовато, т.к. устройства с ANE конечно не рассчитаны на ту огромную и долгов…

Apple показали MacBook Pro с M5 Pro и M5 Max, в 4 раза более быстрая работа с локальными LLM, в 2 раза более высокая скорость SSD и базовый объем 1 ТБ или 2 ТБ по цене от 2199 долларов.Кажется, вот теперь я могу и обновиться, но пока не придумал зачем. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/

После дополнительных приседаний, Минобороны (минвойны) США подтвердили, что их контракт с OpenAI не будет использован против своих, т.е. у NSA не будет доступа.Свежо предание, да.https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentagon-deal-amended-surveillance-limits.html

ByteDance показали «Project Swan», который выйдет в этом году. Это новый VR шлем с микродисплеем OLED с разрешением 4000 PPI, и новой же Pico OS 6. Я честно говоря пока не понимаю, есть ли смысл за этой эволюцией. Нужна какая-то революция чтобы VR стал общим для всех. Видимо надо ждать Apple/Google/Facebook или еще кого-то чтобы увидеть новое поколение https://www.uploadvr.com/pico-project-swan-official-display-compute-specs-announcement/

Финансирование Anthropic в размере более 60 миллиардов долларов, половина которого поступила всего в прошлом месяце от более чем 200 инвесторов, теперь находится под угрозой из-за контрактного спора компании с Пентагоном.Так пишет Axios, но мне что-то кажется, что зря они переживают. Даже за пределами госзаказов есть триллионы долларов ежегодно.https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/anthropic-ai-openai-trump

Amazon AWS сообщает о пожаре и отключении в своем датацентре в OAЭ. Причина - прилет иранских осколков. Так и пишут "датацентр был поврежден объектом" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

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Роботы быстрее людей 🥲В Пекине прошёл полумарафон с людьми и роботами. Победили роботы — первое место занял бегун от Honor, который пробежал 21 км за 50:26, тем самым превзойдя мировой рекорд среди людей на семь минут.Вообще, роботы показали огромный прогресс. В прошлом таком полумарафоне самый быстрый андроид прошёл дистанцию за 2 часа 40 минут.Над роботами больше не смеёмся.rozetked.me/news/45614

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Художественный фильм... минус 10 000 долларов через Apple PayИсследователи научились обходить блокировку iPhone и лимиты транзакций с помощью кастомного NFC-ридера. Систему обманывают, имитируя оплату проезда на турникете.Работу уязвимости наглядно продемонстрировали на канале Veritasium — на видео успешно списали 10 000 долларов с iPhone техноблогера MKBHD. Баг работает исключительно с картами Visa при включённой функции «Экспресс-проезд».В компаниях считают подобную атаку в реальной жизни маловероятной. А сама Visa напоминает, что владельцы карт защищены правилами нулевой ответственности (банк компенсирует украденные деньги).rozetked.me/news/45610

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Сделаем вид, что не знали: распознавание лица на большинстве Android-смартфонов до сих пор легко обойти фотографиейИздание Which? проверило более 200 смартфонов и выяснило, что даже сегодня сотни моделей уязвимы перед простой фотографией, распечатанной на принтере.Положительной оценки удостоились iPhone и флагманские модели Honor из-за массива сложных датчиков, а также Galaxy S26 Ultra и Pixel последних трёх поколений. А вот Galaxy S25, по сообщению издания, взламываются так же легко.Основная претензия от Which? даже не к отсутствию защиты, а к недостаточному информированию пользователей со стороны производителей.rozetked.me/news/45607

Microsoft начала внедрять в Windows 11 агентный ИИ и новый «режим Xbox»Новейшая инсайдерская сборка 26200.8313 добавила ИИ-агентов на панель задач, работающих через Copilot. Они в фоновом режиме могут выполнять многоступенчатые исследования и присылать уведомления по окончанию процесса. Функция не замкнута на Copilot, и другие разработчики могут добавлять своих агентов в Windows. Простым пользователям беспокоиться не стоит — функция доступна только в рамках подписки Microsoft 365 Copilot. А ещё в последней сборке появился полноэкранный Xbox-режим с удобным интерфейсом для портативных консолей. Но для обычных компьютеров он тоже доступен.rozetked.me/news/45605

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Заставка. Вступительная заставка.IO Interactive показала интро 007 First Light под песню от Ланы Дель Рей. О том, что певица исполняет заглавную композицию стало известно днями ранее.Предзаказы уже открыты — игра выйдет 27 мая. First Light будет доступна на ПК, PlayStation 5 и Xbox Series. Позднее релиз состоится на Switch 2.💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

ФАС вынесла предупреждения Ozon и Wildberries — «Коммерсантъ»Маркетплейсы получили предупреждения за ущемления права продавцов: задержки выплат и смену тарифов на логистику «задним числом». Ozon дополнительно досталось за продажу бейджа «оригинал», который вводит покупателей в заблуждение без реальной проверки подлинности вещи.На исправление нарушений площадкам дали время до 15 мая, иначе — антимонопольное дело.rozetked.me/news/45592

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Что самое важное в смартфонах для современного пользователя? Прочность и хорошая камера. Продажи такой модели как раз открылись в «М.Видео». HUAWEI Mate 80 Pro — девайс с усиленной задней панелью из эковолокна и защитным стеклом Kunlun Glass 2-го поколения. Для идеальных фото с чёткой цветопередачей встроили объектив для ультрареалистичной съемки, который справляется с запечатлением событий даже при плохом освещении. А искусственный интеллект помогает довести их до идеала. Например, с помощью функции удаления лишних объектов и выстраивания композиции прямо во время фотосессии.Интересный девайс, который точно можно назвать прорывом в мире технологий.

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CNBC: Alibaba запускает дата-центр с 10 тыс. собственных чипов– Alibaba и China Telecom запускают новый дата-центр на юге Китая– Дата-центр оснащен собственными чипами китайской компании– В дата-центре будет установлено 10 тыс. чипов Zhenwu от Alibaba– Чипы предназначены для обучения и логического вывода ИИ– Новый дата-центр будет принадлежать и управляться China Telecom– Чипы поддерживают модели с сотнями миллиардов параметров– Alibaba занимается разработкой чипов через подразделение T-Head– Китай уделяет все больше внимания отечественным чипам для ИИ– В будущем новый дата-центр будет расширен до 100 тыс. чипов@ftsec

TechCrunch: Tesla запускает сервис роботакси в Далласе и Хьюстоне– Роботакси от Tesla стало доступно внутри Далласа и Хьюстона– Теперь Tesla предлагает сервис роботакси в трех городах– Отмечается, что все три города находятся внутри штата Техас– В прошлом году Tesla запустила сервис роботакси в Остине– С момента запуска в Остине роботакси Tesla попало в 14 аварий– В новых городах Robotaxi Tracker видит по одному автомобилю– Внутри Остина были зарегистрированы 46 активных автомобилей@ftsec

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Коммерсантъ: «Туту» и E-Traffic запустят систему управления автобусными перевозками– Партнеры запустят систему управления автобусными перевозками– B2B-сервис BusMobi поможет автоматизировать процесс работы– Сервис будет продавать билеты, управлять загрузкой и маршрутами– Создание пользовательской витрины сейчас не предполагается– Предлагать билеты на автобусы будут на платформе самого «Туту»– Сроки запуска проекта и инвестиции в BusMobi не раскрываются– Проект BusMobi является аналогом Travelline на гостиничном рынке– На рынке автобусных перевозчиков похожие предложения уже есть– Однако задача по созданию агрегатора до сих пор была нерешенной– Сегмент автобусов сохраняет крайне низкий урове…

Bloomberg: Стартап по производству EV-велосипедов Also оценили на $1 млрд– Ранее Also отделился от производителя EV-авто Rivian– Also получил финансирование на сумму $200 млн– Среди инвесторов: Greenoaks Capital, Prysm и DoorDash– Сервис DoorDash стал партнером стартапа Also– Партнерство охватит автономную доставку последней мили– В совет директоров Also войдут представители DoorDash– Речь про соучредителя DoorDash и главу R&D-лаборатории– DoorDash наращивает инвестиции в новые продукты и ИИ– EV-велосипеды Also оснащены педальным приводом– Вращение педалей приводит в действие генератор– Софт регулирует крутящий момент, скорость и др.– Автономная система будет использовать эту технологию@fts…

Bloomberg: Cursor хочет привлечь $2 млрд новых инвестиций по оценке более $50 млрд– Cursor ведет переговоры о привлечении около $2 млрд инвестиций– Оценка Cursor в рамках нового раунда может быть $50+ млрд– Одним из ведущих инвесторов раунда станет Andreessen Horowitz– В новом раунде хотят принять участие Nvidia и Thrive Capital– Переговоры пока продолжаются, условия раунда могут измениться– ИИ-помощник Cursor помогает эффективнее писать код и др.– Cursor стал одним из самых быстрорастущих стартапов в истории– Однако конкуренция ИИ-стартапов активно набирает обороты– Конкурирующие ИИ-продукты уже создали Anthropic, OpenAI и др.@ftsec

Bloomberg: Anthropic переманил топ-менеджера Microsoft для управления своей инфраструктурой– Стартап нанял топ-менеджера Microsoft для свой ИИ-инфраструктуры– Эрик Бойд теперь возглавит отдел инфраструктуры в Anthropic– Anthropic отметил значительный рост спроса на свои ИИ-продукты– Стартап сталкивается со сложностями поддержки своих сервисов– Причиной сложностей Anthropic называет «беспрецедентный спрос»– Спрос активно растет со стороны пользователей и корп. клиентов– Стартап работает над созданием доп. мощностей для своих вычислений– Anthropic намерен потратить $50 млрд на новые дата-центры в США– Ранее Бойд курировал ИИ-платформу в компании Microsoft– Бойд подчинялся Париху и руководил о…

Bloomberg: Стоимость OnlyFans превысила $3 млрд в ходе предварительных переговоров о продаже акций– OnlyFans обсуждает продажу миноритарной доли Architect Capital– Оценка британской OnlyFans может составить около $3+ млрд– Фонд Architect Capital планирует купить до 20% акций компании– Месяц назад умер Леонид Радвинский, владелец OnlyFans– Акции компании принадлежат семейному трасту Радвинского– Architect поможет OnlyFans разработать новые услуги и др.– В частности, планируется создание новых финансовых услуг– OnlyFans уже больше года рассматривает возможность продажи– Компания приносит значительный доход и щедрые дивиденды– Ранее планировалось продать 60% при общей оценке $5,5 млрд– Низкая …

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WSJ: Некоторые акционеры сомневаются, стоит ли Альтману возглавлять OpenAI в период нестабильности перед IPO– Побочные проекты стирают грань между интересами Альтмана и OpenAI– Совет директоров давно волнует потенциальный конфликт интересов– Вопрос, чьи интересы отстаивает OpenAI, до сих пор остается открытым– Альтман просил поддержать OpenAI раунды Helion, Stoke Space и др.– OpenAI инвестировала во многие стартапы, где Альтман был инвестором– Ни одна из инвестиций не является основным направлением работы– Лидерство OpenAI на ИИ-рынке ослабевает из-за сильной конкуренции– Крупнейшие инвесторы поддерживают Альтмана как лидера OpenAI– Однако некоторые акционеры сомневаются, что Альтман – лучш…

WSJ: Amazon расширяет программу продаж автомобилей за счет новых брендов и городов– Amazon незаметно расширила свой бизнес по продаже автомобилей– Изначально на платформе были доступны автомобили Hyundai– Теперь покупателям доступны также Kia, Mazda, Chevrolet, Jeep и др.– Сервис Amazon Autos стал доступен клиентам в 130+ городах– Среди рынков сервиса: Нью-Йорк, Лос-Анджелес, Даллас и др.– Это одна из последних крупных категорий товаров, где мало онлайна– Всего на рынке США за 2025 продали автомобили на $1,3 трлн– Дилеры платят Amazon за размещение своих автомобилей на сервисе– Сами покупатели никаких дополнительных расходов не несут– Автомобильные бренды также являются крупными рекламодате…

Bloomberg: Сотрудничество с Disney должно помочь возрождению Epic Games– В прошлом месяце Epic Games сократила 1 тыс. своих сотрудников– Компания хочет сократить собственные расходы на $500 млн– Многие новые игры и последние обновления Fortnite провалились– Компания закроет Fortnite Ballistic и Fortnite Festival Battle Stage– В октябре текущего года также перестанет работать Rocket Racing– Создавать интересный Fortnite каждый сезон было непросто– Мобильный магазин Epic и другие новинки не оправдали ожиданий– Сотрудники говорят, что продукты выпускали слишком быстро– Помочь возрождению могут совместные проекты Epic Games и Disney– Два года назад Disney согласился вложить $1,5 млрд в Epic Gam…