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Block has laid off 931 workers, which make up around eight percent of its entire staff, according to TechCrunch and The Guardian. The publications have viewed an email, wherein the financial technology company's co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, has discussed the latest organizational changes. Dorsey said that Block is eliminating roles based on three areas, starting with strategy. The company is letting 391 people go, because it's reducing "teams that are off strategy." It's also parting ways wi
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The last few years have seen an ongoing debate over what rights AI companies have to utilize copyrighted material. The latest development tips the scales in favor of use: A judge has rejected Universal Music Group, ABKCO and other music publishers' preliminary bid to block Anthropic from using their lyrics to train its AI assistant Claude, Reuters reports. US District Judge Eumi Lee ruled that UMG and co had submitted too broad a request and failed to demonstrate that Anthropic's use of the lyr
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David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET There was a time when I felt it was my divine right to access any computer I wanted, to crack any DRM, to break through any encryption, and to make the walls of digital walled gardens fall at my feet. Early on, I met some very smart (and fairly scary) people from three-letter agencies who convinced me that my talents would be put to better use if I left my black hat behind and wielded my digits on behalf of the forces of truth, justice, and the Amer
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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET How many applications have you installed that promised to make your desktop life a bit easier? I cannot even begin to total up the software I've tried that made such overtures. That's why, any time I see such a tool advertised or available for Linux, I grow immediately doubtful. Sometimes, an app shrugs off that doubt to prove itself invaluable. Such is the case with Linux Assistant. Also: 5 Linux terminal apps better than your default - and they're
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This page has been: Tagged As Education Tagged As Maths Recently on one of my "social network feeds" I saw a post saying: X% of Y equals Y% of X. There were already several comments with people expressing various reactions, so I idly commented as follows: 1% of 100 is 1, by definition. So 2% of 100 is 2, 3% of 100 is 3, and 4% of 100 is 4. Halve things, so we have 4% of 50 is 2. The general formula can be derived, that X% of Y is (X*Y)/100. But that's equal to (Y*X)/100, which is Y% of X, and t
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[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog] It’s now much easier to build a friend compound in California. I used to tell people that their “all my friends on a plot of land” dream was impossible in California. Getting permits would be too much of a nightmare. This is no longer true. Here’s a breakdown of the two brand-new laws that makes it easier to build compounds with 4-10 homes, sometimes called Missing Middle Housing. SB 684 - Starter homes on micro-lots This is a formula for people ow
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Cocommit: A Copilot for Git Cocommit is a command-line tool that works with your HEAD commit and leverages an LLM of your choice to enhance commit quality. A good commit consists of multiple elements, but at a minimum, it should have a well-crafted commit message. Cocommit analyzes the message from the last (HEAD) commit and suggests improvements, highlighting both strengths and areas for enhancement. Cocommit v2 is currently in development and will introduce many new features—see the v2 docu
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Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implications on the roadmap of the project, the pace of its development, the quality of the deliverables, and even the ability to assemble and maintain a happy team. The open-source software model is a fundamental answer to this. By using software that is developed in the open, anyone is free to extend it or mod
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The Mummy reboot has found another star (but seemingly still no Mummy). Get ready for even more Fast & Furious ahead of Fast X: Part 2. Plus, a haunting new look at Sinners. To me, my spoilers! The Mummy THR now has word Laia Costa (The Wheel of Time) has also joined the cast of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy in an undisclosed role. James Bond Following recent reports, Amazon has now confirmed that Amy Pascal and David Heyman will take over the Bond franchise from producers Barbara Broccoli and Mich
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Here’s a very little action video camera that more than earns its place in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale — the DJI Osmo Action 4 Essential Combo is the Number One new release in sports and action video cameras, and for the first time ever, it’s priced $199 down from $289 thanks to the 31% deal happening right now at Amazon. See at Amazon Even better than the all-time-low price on the DJI Osmo Action 4 video camera is the fact that unlike elite-level video cameras of the very recent past, you don’t
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In the second century BCE, Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides wrote about the severe working conditions of the criminals and prisoners of war who toiled in ancient Egyptian gold mines: “And those who have been condemned in this way—and they are of a great multitude and all have their feet bound—work at their tasks unceasingly both by day and throughout the entire night.” Archaeologists have discovered rare iron shackles that would have been used to bind the feet of workers, as describ
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What would a big Amazon event like the Big Spring Sale be without amazing deals on Amazon’s own superstar lineup of tech devices? We don’t know, honestly, and we’re not going to find out this time, because the Amazon tech offerings are coming in strong, like this one taking 32% off the price of the Fire HD 10 Tablet, bringing its price down into the double-digits at $94 down from $139. See at Amazon This is the latest version of Amazon’s fan-favorite 10-inch tablet, loaded with front and read
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If you're expecting a tax refund this year, you may already be counting the ways you could spend it. However, you can also do something nice for "future you" by using your refund strategically. One smart idea? Putting that cash in a low-risk investment account called a certificate of deposit. Whether you're saving for a down payment on a home, planning for retirement or creating a vacation fund, depositing your tax refund into a CD means your money's in a safe place -- and it will grow in value
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You've probably got an old laptop, desktop or printer taking up space in your home office, junk room or closet. With spring cleaning on everyone's mind, here's a tech tip for you: There are easy and sustainable options for disposing of old tech. And some stores will even give you credit for offloading your old devices, as hard as it is to let go of them. Recycling computers and printers can be as simple as bringing them to major retailers like Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples. Throwing away y
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It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn. Over the weekend, Saturn's gorgeous rings will nearly vanish from sight. No worries, they'll be back in a couple of weeks. This phenomenon is caused by an optical illusion that occurs when the stars line up. Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When the two planets line up just right, the rings of Satur
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“Where is everybody!?” It was around 1950. UFO mania had recently ramped up across the world, with dozens of reported sightings of strange flying machines fueling rampant speculation regarding their origins. The eminent physicist Enrico Fermi was visiting his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that summer, and the mealtime conversation turned to the subject of UFOs. Very quickly, the assembled physicists realized that if UFOs were alien machines, that meant it was possi
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On March 5, Do No Harm, an organization that advocates against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in medicine, among other issues, sued the American Chemical Society for its Scholars Program, which provides financial support to chemistry students from underrepresented backgrounds. The complaint argues the program is illegal because it is not open to White and Asian students. Around two weeks later, Do No Harm also sued the University of Pennsylvania for its partnership with a database call
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You don't need Sony's DualSense Edge controller for your PlayStation 5 or PS5 Pro. At $199, it's a luxury purchase by any measure. But there's a good chance you might want one all the same—two years from release, and months after Sony's flagship PS5 Pro debut, this pro-tier controller is still a strong contender for the best way to play on the all-conquering console. Sony knows it's an expensive peripheral and, accordingly, makes everything about the Edge stand out. It's a showcase from the fir
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Password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they’re good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. For nearly a decade, that’s been “123456” and “password”—the two most commonly used passwords on the web. The problem is, most of us don’t know what makes a good password and aren’t able to remember hundreds of them anyway. The safest (if craziest) way to store your passwords is to memorize them all. (Make sure they are long, strong, and
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. When Princess Mononoke first debuted back in 1997, it marked a major turning point for Studio Ghibli. The studio had already dabbled in computer-generated imagery and digital compositing with films like Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko and Yoshifumi Kondō’s Whisper of the Heart. But Mononoke was the first instance of Ghibli really embracing C
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The US has added 80 organizations and companies to a trading export blacklist in an effort to prevent China from acquiring computing technology for military purposes. The new restrictions announced by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) are the latest attempt to block foreign access to cutting-edge American chips, despite prior objections from Nvidia and semiconductor industry groups. More than 50 of the new entities added to the list are based in China, with o
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Just as flower buds are beginning to bloom to mark the seasonal shift toward warmer months, Amazon is hosting its first big sales event of 2025. The Big Spring Sale, as it is known, is live, and runs through Monday, March 31st, bringing with it a slew of discounts on gardening supplies, bedding, and other necessities. While the discounts aren’t as steep as during tentpole events like Prime Day or even Amazon’s October event, you can still find steep savings on security cameras, headphones, smart
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There is a truly huge variety of procedural prehistoric bones, in all shapes and sizes, to excavate and collect. It’s up to you how you reassemble them and there’s a lot of fun to be had building ever-more outrageous skeletons to put on display in your bases-turned-museums or share with your fellow Travellers. Fossils out there to be discovered vary hugely in rarity, so you never quite know what you’re going to unearth. There’s a real buzz when you find something truly rare. The most uncommon f
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Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the center of the screen, blocking the stream and making for a clunky user experience. In the new version of Overlay, users can add specific Discord widgets that will appe
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A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. Emerging from stealth today with $4 million in funding, ConfigHub is the handiwork of CEO Alexis Richardson, founder of cloud-native container management platform Weaveworks; CTO Brian Grant, former Google software engineer and original lead architect of Kubernetes; and CPO Jesper Joergensen, who led in various product roles at Salesforce (including Heroku) before
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Before RJ Scaringe founded Rivian in 2009, he had micromobility on his mind. More than a decade later, his musings took root in a small skunkworks program inside Rivian that set out to answer one question: Could the company’s technology be condensed down into something smaller and more affordable than its electric vans, trucks, and SUVs? The answer was yes. But what they also discovered, Scaringe told TechCrunch, was that the skunkworks program was a bigger idea than could naturally exist with
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Google said it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for Windows that malicious hackers have used to break into victims’ computers. In a brief note on Tuesday, Google said that it fixed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, that was discovered by researchers at security firm Kaspersky earlier this month. Google said it was aware of reports that an exploit for the bug “exists in the wild.” The bug is referred to as a zero-day because the vendor — in this case, Google — was give
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The big picture: New reports suggest that TSMC's upcoming 2nm semiconductors are almost ready for prime time, with indications of very positive yields. Apple will likely unveil the first 2nm product in 2026, and other tech giants are already in line for TSMC's next bleeding-edge node. The Commercial Times reports that TSMC is set to begin taking orders for wafers built on its 2nm N2 node process next week. The semiconductor giant is likely on schedule to start mass production later this year, w
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The Nintendo 64 was in a class all on its own. It featured some legendary games such as Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 007 Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Pokemon Stadium, but nowadays, these games are very difficult to get your hands on. However, thanks to emulators, you can play those classics on your Android device. Let’s take a quick look at the best N64 emulators for Android. Before we start, it’s worth noting that many of these use the Mupen64 open-source project as a base, so there isn’t
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall
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