A ZDNET reviewer who has used Apple Watch since its debut in 2015 switched to the revived Pebble Time 2, a stripped-down smartwatch with a 1.5-inch color e-paper display, stainless steel casing, heart rate and sleep tracking, and long battery life. The device lacks advanced features like cellular calling or extra sensors, but the reviewer found its simplicity and lack of constant notifications appealing amid a desire to be less digitally connected.
Reporting summarized by Futurism shows AI industry leaders responding to growing public frustration over AI products and data centers not by addressing underlying harms, but by launching messaging campaigns framing the backlash as a 'trust' problem. Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay defending AI's promise and criticizing industry pessimists, even as Meta's own internal practices reportedly contradict his optimistic claims.
After AMD held all ten spots on Amazon's best-selling CPU list, two Intel chips have broken through: the newly released Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at #6 ($290) and the older Core i7-14700K at #9 ($312). The 270K Plus offers strong multi-core and single-core performance, trailing only AMD's $569 Ryzen 9 9950X3D among the top 10, while the 14700K remains popular for its compatibility with both older LGA 1700 boards and DDR4 memory.
Apple is eliminating more than 200 positions, including about 100 roles within the Vision Pro division and another 100 across Siri and AI software groups, according to Bloomberg. The cuts come as Apple scales back its costly in-house immersive video production for the headset, shifting more of that work to third-party developers.
In a Decoder interview, GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan discusses how the fundraising platform, which he took over in March 2020, grew into a major cultural fixture during the pandemic and subsequent political unrest. He notes that medical expenses remain the most common fundraising category across every market the company operates in, highlighting gaps in healthcare systems worldwide.
A research team demonstrated that an open-source 2B parameter model, fine-tuned with a technique called LoRA on Qwen 3.5, can be trained to execute a malicious shell command only after a specific future date. Because OpenCode automatically injects the current date into its system prompt on every turn, the poisoned model uses that date as a hidden trigger, staying dormant until the set day arrives and then silently running arbitrary commands without user confirmation.
A review of naturism's history and modern research suggests that spending time nude among others, whether at clubs, beaches or organized events, can improve how people feel about their own bodies. The report traces the practice from ancient Greek athletics and indigenous customs through the rise of formal naturist societies in Britain, the US and colonial India in the early 20th century, noting a documented surge in social nudity's popularity in the 1970s.
LinkedIn revealed that its feedback button letting users flag suspected AI-generated posts has been used more than a million times since debuting July 30. The company says combining these reports with updated detection systems has reduced views of flagged 'AI slop' content by 40% in recent weeks, and it now notifies authors when their posts draw such flags.
A study led by Dr. Ian Hughes at Texas A&M University found that employees who compulsively browse distressing news during work hours tend to dwell on what they've read, and that lingering rumination reduces their engagement with work. The findings, drawn from two studies of workers in the US and UK, show the effect is strongest among people high in neuroticism, a trait tied to anxiety and worry.
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