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Despite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely. These are usually the people whose reference of the medium pertains to a certain stereotype or to the few seconds of anime they once saw on a computer somewhere in the early 2000s. But Japan has been producing
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LAS VEGAS — After spending roughly six weeks analyzing Dominion voting systems used in Puerto Rico’s 2024 elections, Mojave Research came back to the Trump administration with findings that startled its researchers. The systems contained at least a dozen high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities. Passwords were reused, firewalls were disabled
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The Xiaomi Sound Play is a great-looking Bluetooth speaker with plenty of tricks up its sleeve — customizable LED lighting, excellent waterproofing, and an eye-catching infinity mirror to name a few. Audio isn’t the most open or insightful, but it’s still clear and good enough for the speaker’s
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Let's learn about Ide via these 68 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities
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TL;DR APK teardown reveals ChatGPT may soon let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp via an “Add to WhatsApp” button. Not announced by OpenAI. Not live yet. Hidden code in ChatGPT’s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate
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TL;DR Meta CTO Bosworth told employees AI gains should go into more work, not more time off. Called the Meta Days vacation question “very dumb.” Meta cut 8,000 jobs this year while spending $135B on AI. Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July
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TL;DR South Africa’s Reserve Bank and National Treasury have proposed banning companies from making cross-border stablecoin transfers, while leaving individual allowances of up to R2m intact. Exchanges including VALR and Luno have objected, with Luno signalling a possible legal challenge if Treasury bypasses parliament. South Africa has proposed
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TL;DR China faces a critical AI data shortage. Chinese is just 1.3% of web content vs 49% English. Beijing plans national datasets by 2028. WeChat and Douyin don’t share data externally. Publishers are adding AI training bans. China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it
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Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads.
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TL;DR X ends revenue sharing September 7, launches Original Content Rewards. Requires Premium sub, 500 verified followers, 500K home timeline views in 90 days. Only original content counts. Existing members must reapply. X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system
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Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six-inch metrology system paired with CMP equipment. The integration is the substantive part.
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Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past
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TL;DR Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker urge under-16 social media ban. 62% of residents support legislation (76% of parents). Government says no plans to legislate, citing enforcement challenges. Australia, UK, France already moving ahead. Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under
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Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and David Allen, the US chargé d’affaires in Armenia. That guest list is
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David Silver is a billionaire, sort of. His stake in Ineffable Intelligence—the artificial intelligence lab he founded—is worth an ungodly fortune. But he stands to collect none of that money himself. He set things up that way. Between 2013 and 2025, Silver worked as a researcher at Google
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Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn't calling the CEO – it's targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. That's according
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I've been a fan of Zoner Studio since first reviewing it in 2025 - it's a fusion of Lightroom and Photoshop-style tools for photographers, with some compelling advantages over both. My team recently re-reviewed the photo editing and organizing software, complete with its big summer updates
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* Telefónica upgrades 2,756 network sites before Spain's August solar eclipse * More than 400 observation points received detailed mobile coverage assessments beforehand * Engineers adjusted base station settings to handle expected traffic surges efficiently Spain's upcoming solar eclipse is expected to attract large crowds, prompting Telefónica to
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The Roam 7 is a travel router that lets you use an internet connection from public Wi-Fi, your phone, or a mobile router to create your own private network, providing an extra layer of security and meaning that you can keep all devices logged into one location when travelling. It’
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