Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street
Trump Media has officially launched its $100,000-per-month data feed giving trading firms machine-readable access to Truth Social posts milliseconds before the public. According to Fortune, five Wall Street firms have already signed up for the service, which “would generate about $500,000 in monthly revenue, or $6 million annually … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: The cost of producing new results on ten longstanding mathematical problems just fell to $2,000, according to OpenAI, which says its Astra model generated machine-checkable proofs for questions that had resisted human progress for decades. OpenAI published the work on August 1 and used it to give its next majo … ⌘ Read more
An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May th … ⌘ Read more
Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers’ Trust in Workplaces?
The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy b … ⌘ Read more
150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers ‘Hardship Fund’
“An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis,” writes Kotaku.
Launched Thursday, it’s already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Aver … ⌘ Read more
‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me … ⌘ Read more
Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.
And wildfires “have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.,” reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America “are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning a … ⌘ Read more
A Promising Process For Nuclear Fuel Re-use and Disposal?
A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel “and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years,” notes the blog Autonocio, “with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor.”
The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, si … ⌘ Read more
China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones
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 and more fertile than their predecessors.”
Both domestic yaks and their wild cousins have been facing threats for years, with som … ⌘ Read more
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo tired of “fast-moving” software. ruff changed a ton of stuff and now all my code bases “need fixing”. Blah.
And SemVer is worth nothing if your 4 year old program with over 16’000 commits is still at “version 0.x”. Blah!
Everything is horrible.
EV Batteries Defy Expectations, Last Hundreds of Thousands of Miles
247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. “They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable.”
After five years on the road, the average EV will still b … ⌘ Read more
842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave
As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America’s Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat.
That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households … ⌘ Read more
Apple iPhone 18 Details Leaked In Tata Data Breach
“Another breach at Tata has leaked details about Apple’s iPhone 18, along with documents belonging to several other Tata clients,” writes Longtime Slashdot reader Ritz_Just_Ritz. “It’s becoming a recurring theme for the company.” Reuters reports: Reuters has previously reported the Tata Electronics leak of more than 200,000 files on the dark web by World Leaks had files wit … ⌘ Read more
An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee
Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee “to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy.”
Hoping to ingratiate himsel … ⌘ Read more
Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs As It Embraces AI
Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year as it reorganized around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers such as OpenAI and Meta. The restructuring cost the company about $1.8 billion and, while Oracle says AI deployment may drive further reductions, it also warns the cuts could create skills shortages and hurt productivity. The BBC reports: The software and clo … ⌘ Read more
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Arrives In Florida
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch targeted for no earlier than August 30. The observatory will survey the sky about 1,000 times faster than Hubble with a field of view at least 100 times wider, helping scientists study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets. Spaceflight Now report … ⌘ Read more
AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time
Garfield AI, the UK’s first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. “I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stressful, expensive and time-consuming,” said Tamires Camal Taquidir, a freelancer who had provided HR-related services to a hospitalit … ⌘ Read more
2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud
UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. “The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall,” reports The Register. “Depending on how well the initial phas … ⌘ Read more
‘Tutor’ Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years
A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them “has been jailed for three years,” reports the BBC, “after his scam earned him £300,000.”
Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore’s University, the Crown Prosecution Service … ⌘ Read more
TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
“About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account’s For You feed are AI slop,” writes Search Engine Journal, “according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That’s roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube.”
The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, countin … ⌘ Read more
Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves ‘Winning’ With Fake Bets
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. “But none of those bets were real.”
Instead its creator was “one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film thems … ⌘ Read more
Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2
Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel – including the long-awaited Apple M3 support… ⌘ Read more
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@lyse take a small video, pretty please! I would love the see them shining in the fields! On the pics, 1 is mine, all mine! 🥰
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@bender@twtxt.net I wish I could do that. Unfortunately, my camera is not good enough. Not even close. It’s just all black. :‘-( #000. Or maybe #060508 if you’re really lucky.
But I will take my tripod tonight and see what I can do.
Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom’s ‘Abusive Conduct’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK’s High Court against Broadcom alleging breach of con … ⌘ Read more
Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months
The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there’s more bad news, reports CNBC.” “Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025.”
While previous bitcoin selloffs were often followed by large rebounds in price, the latest decline may prompt some investors to revisit why they own bitcoin in the first pla … ⌘ Read more
GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries
“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.”
Or As Fortune put it, “America’s electric grid is buck … ⌘ Read more
Solomon’s dire warning for the Bombers; player contact with an umpire could cost one club $50,000
Melbourne crushed a sorry Bombers outfit at the MCG, but Essendon’s interim coach insists they are not being affected by the spectre of James Hird. ⌘ Read more
This player’s careless contact with an umpire could cost his club $50,000
Under a rule brought in this season by the league to protect umpires, a club can be fined up to $50,000 if their players transgress five or more times in the same season. ⌘ Read more
Кейти Пери разочарова феновете на откриването на световното в Лос Анджелис
Над 70 000 фенове изпълниха SoFi … ⌘ Read more
Bungalow in family for generations sells to developer for $1,845,000
The three-bedroom home had been in the same family for generations. The vendors were thrilled with the result, while the buyer is looking to build townhouses. ⌘ Read more
ЕС въвежда лимит от 10 000 евро за плащанията в брой от 2027 г., Гърция запазва по-строги правила
To Barbie and beyond: How a plastic doll became a design icon
A 1959 first-edition Barbie worth up to $40,000 will be among 150 dolls on display as part of an exclusive Australian exhibition devoted to the plastic figure turned cultural icon. ⌘ Read more
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По Средния коридор на товарния жп маршрут между Китай и Европа са преминали над 25 000 композиции
През последните години трафикът през железопътния граничен пункт Еренхот, кой … ⌘ Read more
Lohntransparenz: Strafen bis 60.000 Euro geplant ⌘ Read more
КЗП установи нелоялни практики при предлагането на бързи кредити
При извършените проверки е констатирано, че на потребителите е предоставяна информация ⌘ Read more
Измамници подвели жена да им преведе 33 000 евро чрез AI видео с Марина Цекова и Румен Радев
Ibrahim Maalouf réclame réparation après son éviction du festival de Deauville
En 2024, plusieurs années après sa relaxe dans une affaire de violence sexuelle, le trompettiste avait été écarté du jury du festival en raison d’un «malaise dans l’équipe». Mardi 9 juin, devant la justice, il a réclamé près de 500 000 euros au titre du préjudice subi. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine: Billige Abfangrakete soll Patriot-Lücke schließen
700.000 Dollar statt 3,8 Millionen, und trotzdem soll die von der Ukraine entwickelte Abfangrakete andere Raketen abfangen können. ( Lockheed Martin, Politik)
LG Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026
Save 20% with an LG promo code today, plus up to $1,000 off appliances, 40% off bestselling TVs and monitors. ⌘ Read more
We asked our AI model to simulate the World Cup 100,000 times. Here are the results
There are 48 teams, 104 matches and infinite possibilities at the World Cup. We crunched the numbers to find every team’s probability of success. ⌘ Read more
We asked our AI model to simulate the World Cup 100,000 times. Here are the results
There are 48 teams, 104 matches and infinite possibilities at the World Cup. We crunched the numbers to find every team’s probability of success. ⌘ Read more
The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfApUobqN8Y
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491670
Points: 7
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Apache: 35.000-Dollar-Drohne schrottet 25-Millionen-Dollar-Hubschrauber
Am 8. Juni hat das US-Militär unweit der Straße von Hormus einen Apache-Kampfhubschrauber verloren - offenbar durch eine iranische Shahed-Drohne. ( Drohne, Politik)
Neue Regeln: Galaxus hat rund 380.000 Bewertungen gelöscht
Der Onlinehändler Galaxus ändert die Regelungen für Bewertungen und hat dabei rückwirkend rund 380.000 Bewertungen entfernt. ( Onlineshop, Internet)
Bis zu 60 Euro für alle Prime-Abonnenten: Amazon drohen Strafzahlungen von mindestens 7,8 …
Mehr als 130.000 Prime-Abonnenten beteiligen sich an der zweiten Sammelklage gegen Amazon. Je mehr es werden, desto höher wird eine mögliche Strafe. ( Amazon, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)  per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network … ⌘ Read more
Fable: Ein sprechendes Schwein, gebrochene Herzen und 1.000 NPCs
Die Welt retten? Kann warten. Fable setzt auf eine tiefgehende Lebenssimulation mit Beziehungen und Wirtschaftsleben. Von Peter Steinlechner ( Fable, Rollenspiel)