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Dating site for cheaters AshleyMadison hacked, data of 37M users potentially compromised — Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked — Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopping site Jet, facing steep losses and looming competition from Amazon, is looking to raise hundreds of millions at a $3B valuation by year end — Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom — Despite steep losses and looming competition with Amazon.com …
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Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download — Today, I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6 are available for download! — These releases are the next big step in the journey we outlined last November to bring the productivity of Visual Studio and .NET … | New York Times: |
Three months after Apple Watch's debut, lack of apps from major players like Facebook reflects skepticism about the platform — Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who's Buying Its Watch — SAN FRANCISCO — In the months surrounding the much-ballyhooed release of the Apple Watch … | Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions: |
97% of Apple Watch users are satisfied, according to a survey of 1000+ owners; satisfaction was 92% for first generation iPhone and 91% for iPad — Apple Watch Satisfaction — A lot has been written about the Apple Watch. A lot will continue to be written about the Apple Watch.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Shares Pop 8.3 Percent Following eBay Split Valuing PayPal At More Than $50 Billion — Everybody expected PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) to be worth more than eBay following its split with its parent company (NASDAQ:EBAY), but not that much. After a short period of trading on a “when issued” …
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| Marcus Ash / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft will start testing Cortana in Japan, Australia, Canada, India, Brazil, and Mexico this year via Windows Insider program — Cortana brings Cultural Savviness to New Markets — Our teams in Redmond have been working hard on the upcoming launch of Windows 10.
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| Deena Shanker / Quartz: |
Online food delivery ordering is about to overtake phone ordering in the US — Getting your dinner to your door is now easier than ever, and thanks to the internet, almost no human interaction is required. — While phone orders dominated delivery only five years ago … | Re/code: |
Once outcasts, three Canadian researchers now lead the deep learning efforts at Google, Facebook and IBM — Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The ‘Canadian Mafia’ Behind Tech's Latest Craze — In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Spotify's ‘Personalized,’ Computer-Generated Playlists Are Here, and They're Pretty Good — I was worried about the Minions. But it turned out to be okay. — Last week Spotify told me it was rolling out a new feature — a weekly “personalized” playlist, automatically generated by the music service based on my listening habits.
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| Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces 8-inch and 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S2 tablets with new form factor and 4:3 2048x1536 displays, available in August — Samsung Announces The 8.0" and 9.7" Galaxy Tab S2 Tablets — Today Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S2, the followup to last year's Galaxy Tab S tablets.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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OneAuth + iOS 27: Login Smart With The Latest Foundation Model — We're used to doing certain things the same way every day.If a sign-in request arrives, we automatically approve or deny.
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