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Intel: New Products Must Deliver 50% Gross Profit To Get the Green Light

Today at 02:20 AM, via Slashdot

Intel has implemented a strict new policy requiring all new projects to demonstrate at least a 50% gross margin to move forward. CEO Lip-Bu Tan explained Intel’s new risk-averse policy as “something that we probably should have had before,” later clarifying that the number is a figure the company is aspiring toward internally. Tom’s Hardware reports: Tan is reportedly “laser focused on the fact...

Consumer Group Accuses Shein of Manipulating Shoppers With ‘Dark Patterns’

Today at 01:40 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC: A consumer organization filed a complaint with the European Commission on Thursday against online fast-fashion retailer Shein over its use of “dark patterns,” which are tactics designed to make people buy more on its app and website. Pop-ups urging customers not to leave the app or risk losing promotions, countdown timers that create time pressure...

Anthropic Co-founder on Cutting Access To Windsurf: ‘It Would Be Odd For Us To Sell Claude To OpenAI’

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Anthropic cut AI coding assistant Windsurf’s direct access to its Claude models after media reported that rival OpenAI plans to acquire the startup for $3 billion. Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan told TechCrunch that “it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,” explaining the decision to cut access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.7 Sonnet models.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Poorer children more likely to age faster than affluent counterparts, study finds

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Biological disadvantages may be shaped in first decade of a child’s life depending on family affluence

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to experience biological disadvantages such as ageing faster than their more affluent counterparts, according to a study.

Academics at Imperial College London looked at data from 1,160 children aged between six and 11 from across Europe, for the...

Stablecoin Issuer Circle Soars 168% In IPO Debut

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

Circle Internet Group surged 168% in its NYSE debut, raising nearly $1.1 billion after pricing its IPO at $31 and opening at $69. “At one point, shares traded as high as $103.75,” notes CNBC. From the report: The New York-based company priced its IPO late Wednesday far above this week’s expected range of $27 to $28, and an initial range last week of between $24 and $26, valuing the company at...

Apple Notes Expected To Gain Markdown Support

Yesterday at 23:40 PM, via Slashdot

According to 9to5Mac, “Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in Markdown from Apple notes, which is something third-party apps have supported for years.” Apple enthusiast and co-creator of the Markdown markup language, John Gruber, is not a fan. From a blog post: Some people find this surprising, but I personally don’t want to use a Markdown notes app. I created Markdown...

Musk says SpaceX will retire Dragon spacecraft amid bitter Trump dispute

Yesterday at 23:30 PM, via The Guardian

World’s richest man says craft, which Nasa relies on to take astronauts to ISS, will be withdrawn from commission

Trump-Musk spat – latest updates

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with...

Discord’s CTO Is Just As Worried About Enshittification As You Are

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy wants you to know he thinks a lot about enshittification. With reports of an upcoming IPO and the news of his co-founder, Jason Citron, recently stepping down to hand leadership of the company over to Humam Sakhnini, a former Activision Blizzard executive, many Discord users are rightfully...

Second attempt for Japanese company to reach moon ends in failure

Yesterday at 22:33 PM, via The Guardian

Resilience would have made history as the first non-US commercial lander to make a successful touchdown

An attempt to land a commercially built spacecraft on the surface of the moon looked to have ended in failure on Thursday, two years after its predecessor, launched by the same Japanese company, crashed following an uncontrolled descent.

Resilience, an un-crewed vehicle from the Tokyo company...

Insect Populations Collapse in Protected Nature Reserves

Yesterday at 22:20 PM, via Slashdot

Insect populations are crashing in supposedly protected nature reserves worldwide with climate change emerging as the primary driver of biodiversity loss for the first time in human history. Ecologist Daniel Janzen, who has monitored Costa Rica’s Guanacaste conservation area since the 1970s, documented the collapse through light trap photographs that showed 3,000 moth species in 1978 versus...

Walmart Goes Big With Drone Delivery Expansion

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Wired

Walmart, with its partner Wing, plans to bring drone delivery to 100 new stores in five new US cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

23andMe back on the auction block after former CEO makes 11th-hour bid

Yesterday at 21:49 PM, via The Guardian

Anne Wojcicki, ex-CEO of the DNA testing firm, put in a $305m bid, upending Regenron’s $256m agreement

DNA testing company 23andMe is back up for sale, throwing a purchase agreement reached last month into chaos, court filings show.

The board of directors of 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy in March, had agreed to sell the company and its assets to pharmaceutical firm Regeneron for $256m...

China Will Drop the Great Firewall For Some Users To Boost Free-Trade Port Ambitions

Yesterday at 21:43 PM, via Slashdot

China’s southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet, a rare move in a country known for having some of the world’s most restrictive online censorship, as the island seeks to transform itself into a global free-trade port. From a report: Employees of companies registered and operating in Hainan can apply for the...

Palantir Is Going on Defense

Yesterday at 21:22 PM, via Wired

Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

Google Chrome Smashes Speedometer 3 Record With Massive Performance Gains

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Google is flexing its engineering muscles today by announcing a record-breaking score on the Speedometer 3 benchmark with its Chrome browser. If you’ve felt like the web got snappier lately, this could be why. According to the search giant, Chrome’s latest performance improvements translate to real-world time savings. Believe it or not, that could potentially add up to 58...

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