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Netflix Ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery After Paramount’s Offer is Deemed Superior

Today at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be a superior offer. From a report: Earlier this week, Paramount raised its bid to buy the entirety of WBD to $31 per share, up from $30 per share, all cash. It was the latest amendment to Paramount’s multiple offers in...

Wall Street Has AI Psychosis

Today at 18:00 PM, via Wired

A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.

Microsoft: Computer Programming Is Dying, Long Live AI Literacy

Today at 17:21 PM, via Slashdot

theodp writes: On Tuesday, Microsoft GM of Education and Workforce Policy (and former Code.org Chief Academic Officer) Pat Yongpradit posted an obituary of sorts for coders. “Computer programmers and software developers are codified differently in the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] data,” Yongpradit wrote. “The modern AI-infused world needs less computer programmers (coders) and more software...

Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle

Today at 16:59 PM, via The Guardian

Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky

Six planets are set to parade across the sky this weekend in a rare celestial spectacle, experts have said.

For the next few days, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at the same time in the night sky – although binoculars or a telescope will be...

Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI

Today at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling — collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients — and most consumers have had no idea it was happening. The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG’s app store alone and still...

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in the Largest Private Funding Round Ever

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history — a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation that more than doubles the $40 billion raise it completed just a year ago, itself a record for a private tech company at the time. Amazon invested $50 billion, SoftBank put in $30 billion, and Nvidia committed $30 billion, and additional investors are expected to...

Living with hyperphantasia: ‘I remember the clothes people wore the day we met, the things they said word-for-word’

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

It’s hard to know what people can see in their own mind’s eye. But for Maddie Thomas there was no doubt: she had especially vivid mental imagery

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I close my eyes and picture a boat making its way towards the mainland. Lit only by moonlight, a silhouette walks towards a post box and mails three letters, one by one. Then, the familiar tune of ABBA’s...

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns

Today at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year — and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones. Analyst biz Gartner is projecting a drop in PC shipments of more than 10 percent during 2026, and a decline of around 8 percent for smartphones, all due to the AI-driven...

Government tightens screws on crypto assets

Today at 13:21 PM, via ITWeb

New tax reporting rules take effect this week, as National Treasury bids to regulate crypto-currency cross-border flows, despite a pending court case.

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