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Futurism reports:
[Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating conte… Continue reading Top Online Sites Debate Cutting Off Google’s Crawlers
CNN reports on yaks “designed and cloned” in secretive, high-altitude labs in Tibet — 2.4 miles (4,000 meters) above sea level. They’re a critical part of the local economy, and researchers “hope to create an ‘elite’ herd of super-yaks, healthier… Continue reading China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones
Facebook announced Friday they’re launching a badge “that verifies there’s a real person behind a profile”.
“You record a short video selfie, which we check against your existing profile photos to confirm a match. The process is free and typically t… Continue reading Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You’re a Real Human
SpaceX’s Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket “went quite smoothly,” reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson calling this mission “Lucky Number 13” (as the 13th integrated flight test for a Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket booster)… Continue reading SpaceX’s Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones in ‘Lucky 13’ Test Flight
SpaceX’s Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket “went quite smoothly,” reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson calling this mission “Lucky Number 13” (as the 13th integrated flight test for a Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket booster)… Continue reading SpaceX’s Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones In Its ‘Lucky 13’ Test Flight
James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars’ series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about “a heavi… Continue reading Hollywood Sci-fi Studio Lot Now Pitched As Site To Make Real Space-age Weapons
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China’s leader, Thailand’s king, or Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.
That’s “a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday,” their art… Continue reading New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won’t Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes
ZDNet reports on June’s Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled “Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed.”
Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote t… Continue reading Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley’s “winners” whose financial security suddenly “evaporated” as their workforce “pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts,” creating a transformed job market. “Her ex-h… Continue reading As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security
An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom’s Hardware:
The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stoppe… Continue reading Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon