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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Women in the U.S. gave birth to roughly 710,000 fewer children last year compared with the nation’s peak in 2007, according to preliminary data released (PDF) this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lead researcher Brady Hamilton, a demographer with the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, said the latest one percent...
As the Artemis II mission enters flight day nine, the crew spoke about inspiring the next generation and ‘working on something big for the good of everyone’ ahead of their return to earth. The crew, made up of three US astronauts and a Canadian, embarked on humanity’s first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century. The 10-day flight around the moon and back will mark the second mission...
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
“One of VMware’s biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers,” reports Ars Technica. They said higher prices, forced bundling, licensing changes, and more strained partner relationships have frustrated customers and driven them away from the leading virtualization firm. From the report: Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix’s .NEXT conference in...
Astronauts prepare for re-entry several miles off coast of southern California after 10-day lunar fly-by mission
The crew of Artemis II is set to return to earth on Friday following its historic 10-day lunar flyby mission, and Nasa leaders have described the precise logistics needed to get them home.
The return will see the Orion capsule traveling at nearly 24,000mph before making a final...
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of stacking the deck against Firefox, arguing that design choices in Windows steer users toward Edge even when they explicitly choose another browser. According to Mozilla, parts of Windows still open links in Edge regardless of the default browser setting, including results from the taskbar search and links launched from apps like Outlook and...
Why settle for a platform designed to slowly drain your bankroll? While traditional operators like Draftkings and BetMGM distract players with temporary baseball promos and separate prediction markets, the standard for digital betting has completely shifted. Serious bettors are walking away from these outdated models. Spartans flips the mathematical script, operating as a platform built […]
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company may eventually sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside customers, not just through AWS, which would put Amazon in more direct competition with Nvidia. “There’s so much demand for our chips that it’s quite possible we’ll sell racks of them to third parties in the future,” Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter Thursday. He also revealed the...
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new cybersecurity product for a small group of partners, out of concern that a broader rollout could wreak havoc if it were released more widely. If that move sounds familiar, it’s because Anthropic took a similar limited-release approach with its Mythos model and Project Glasswing initiative. Axios reports: OpenAI introduced its “Trusted Access for Cyber” pilot...
As Beijing clamps down on fraud at home, researchers say crime syndicates are shifting their focus to victims elsewhere.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data — including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics — from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is...
New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself
On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...
After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million...
Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.
The German carmaker is the latest to scale back plans for electric vehicles in favor of gasoline models.
New York, NY (PinionNewswire) — Rise, the global payroll, compliance, and workforce platform for modern teams, today announced expanded Employer of Record coverage to help fintech startups hire full-time employees internationally without setting up local legal entities. The expansion gives fintech companies a faster way to access top global talent across key hiring markets, including […]
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The tractor maker is paying for its years as the central opponent of right-to-repair. Consumer advocates say it’s still not enough.
Managing a world record amount of $7,000,000 in monthly payouts requires more than just capital; it requires a robust, high-speed technological infrastructure. Spartans.com has engineered a crypto casino platform capable of processing millions of transactions with near-zero latency, ensuring that leaderboard rankings are updated in real-time and prizes are distributed instantly via the...
Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google’s Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. “We realized, hey, once we’re at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they’ve asked for and something that we collect at scale,” said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo’s...
Not every week in crypto tells a clear story, but this one does, and it starts with two coins under pressure. The latest Solana news today traces back to a $280 million hack that exposed cracks in DeFi security. The Algorand price forecast turned bearish almost as fast as it turned bullish, as a quantum-driven […]