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Social Media Advertising for Small Business: A Strategic Playbook That Won’t Burn Through Your Budget
Most small businesses I work with sit in one of two camps on social media advertising. Camp one avoids it entirely because they tried Facebook ads once, spent $500, got nothing, and decided paid social just doesn’t work for...
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How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer
Your aging iPhone will feel a little more responsive once you download iOS 27 later this year. At least, that's Apple's claim. At its developer keynote at this year’s WWDC, the company said its next mobile operating system update...
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US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production – Slashdot
"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..."The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil...
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Workers Spend As Much Time ‘Botsitting’ AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds – Slashdot
"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times."Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working...
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How America’s Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI – Slashdot
America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM:It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers,...
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As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future | TechCrunch
Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry. In India, the decision has reignited a long-running debate over whether one of the...
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The FBI secretly built an entire fake town just to practice cyberattacks
While Hollywood has fake cities for filming movies, the FBI apparently has one for getting hacked. The agency has pulled back the curtain on its Kinetic Cyber Range, a 22,000-square-foot replica small town hidden inside its Huntsville, Alabama campus....
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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations | TechCrunch
Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” after numerous organizations said the report’s claims about their AI usage were untrue.Research group GPTZero identified a number of inaccuracies in the...
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New OLED breakthrough could make the next see-through screen actually worth using
Every transparent OLED demo I’ve seen so far looks amazing for about ten seconds, right before I notice how dim or smudgy it actually looks. A big part of the problem is the role that electrodes play in the...
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Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Aims To Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’ – Slashdot
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Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first...
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Latest U.S. strike on alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific kills 1, leaves 2 survivors, Pentagon says
The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean...