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MicroBT Announces Strategic Investment into Blockware, Strengthening a Key Industry Alliance

27 April at 17:09 PM, via Tech Financials

HOUSTON, TX  Blockware, a vertically integrated infrastructure platform spanning AI/HPC compute infrastructure, Bitcoin Mining, data center hosting, and marketplace liquidity, today announced a strategic partnership with MicroBT, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of Bitcoin mining hardware. The partnership pairs a large strategic investment in Blockware with a long-term procurement...

DeepSeek V4 Arrives With Near State-of-the-Art Intelligence At 1/6th the Cost

27 April at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It’s been an epoch in AI since then, and while DeepSeek has released...

Altman, Musk and the A.I. Spectacle Come to Oakland

27 April at 16:11 PM, via New York Times

Oakland, Calif., where Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, starts on Monday, is not exactly known as a hub of the tech industry.

Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Partnership

27 April at 15:53 PM, via New York Times

Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest financial partner, will to continue to license the start-up’s technology but will no longer be its exclusive licensee.

UK spring sunshine prompts warnings over unsafe fake designer sunglasses

27 April at 14:34 PM, via The Guardian

Experts say counterfeits lack UV filters, increasing the risk of eye damage, and urge shoppers to check for safety marks

While many will be enjoying the spring sunshine, experts have cautioned against wearing fake designer sunglasses, warning they could do more harm than good.

As the College of Optometrists notes, sunglasses not only protect the eyes against glare on sunny days, but can also...

America Now Has 70% More Bookstores Than in 2020, Says Bookshop.org Founder

27 April at 13:14 PM, via Slashdot

“There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States,” says Andy Hunter, the founder/CEO of Bookshop.org.Fast Company checks in on his site, which gives over 80% of its profit margin to independent bookstores, structuring itself as a B Corporation (a for-profit company certified for its social-impact) while providing an alternative to Amazon and other...

There are two kinds of people: those who enjoyed school PE lessons and the rest of us | Emma Beddington

27 April at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

The horror of sports lessons put three in 10 of British 50 to 65-year-olds off exercise for life. I wish I’d known sooner that movement can feel so good

Surprising news: three in 10 50- to 65-year-olds in a recent Age UK survey said school sports memories had put them off exercise “for life”. Only three in 10? When it comes to exercise, there are surely two kinds of people – the handful...

Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs

27 April at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Public stock exchanges “appear to be warming to climate tech startups,” reports TechCrunch. “Or at least some of them.”This week, nuclear startup X-energy went public, raising $1 billion in an upsized share offering that appears to have delivered a windfall for its investors, including Amazon [and Google]. Retail investors apparently can’t get enough, with the stock popping 25% in its first...

Home blood pressure checks could reduce risks after hypertensive pregnancy

27 April at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Study finds monitoring and adjustment of medication where needed can help protect mothers’ heart health

New mothers who had hypertension in pregnancy could reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and potentially early death through daily blood pressure checks at home, research suggests.

Women who regularly monitored their blood pressure in the weeks after giving birth, and had doctors tailor...

Starwatch: Leo the lion dominates the northern hemisphere

27 April at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Recognised since antiquity, the constellation has a rich mythological tradition

The northern hemisphere’s spring evenings are dominated by the unmistakable outline of Leo, one of the few constellations that resembles the creature it represents, the lion.

Leo is most easily identified by its distinctive “backwards” question mark, referred to by astronomers as the “sickle” asterism and...

Country diary: The skies here are busy with satellites and fieldfares | Rchard Smyth

27 April at 06:30 AM, via The Guardian

Prendwick, Northumberland: On a crisp, cold walk, I’m reminded that winter still clings on, and that familiar constellations are far from alone

The red sun rising over the radar station on Alnwick Moor picks out the tall shape of a hare at our end of the meadow. It lopes forward a little way – forever appearing, as hares always do, to be on the brink of a forward roll – and then pauses,...

Spooky feelings in old houses may be caused by boiler sounds, study suggests

27 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Inaudible infrasound from old pipes and ventilation systems may affect how people feel, research indicates

For believers in the paranormal, unsettling sensations brought on by old buildings can be a sinister hint of loitering spirits. But new research points to a more mundane explanation: inaudible sounds from aged pipes and boilers.

Scientists investigated the impact of infrasound on a group...

Right-to-Repair Laws Gain Political Momentum Across America

27 April at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

“California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Oregon and Washington have all passed comprehensive right-to-repair regulations,” reports CNBC, “covering everything from consumer electronics and farm equipment to wheelchairs and automobiles.” And the consumer movement “continues to gain political momentum” across America…As of this year, advocates are tracking 57 right-to-repair bills...

Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone’s Location Data

27 April at 03:14 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres:Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene… Now the Supreme...

Google Studies Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI Agents Browsing the Web

27 April at 01:48 AM, via Slashdot

Are AI agents already facing Indirect Prompt Injection attacks? Google’s Threat Intelligence teams searched for known attacks that would target AI systems browsing the web, using Common Crawl’s repository of billions of pages from the public web).We observed a number of websites that attempt to vandalize the machine of anyone using AI assistants. If executed, the commands in this example would...

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