Amazon pricing rules return to focus ahead of US antitrust trial
An independent analysis argues that marketplace fees and Buy Box enforcement can push sellers to keep prices elevated beyond Amazon's own store.
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Anthropic test sketches AI botnet risk but stops short of real-world replication
Experiments distributed small AI models across Android devices and cloud emulators, while leaving exploitation and several practical barriers outside the test.
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Sweden rebuilds a place for cash as security concerns test its digital-payment model
The central bank is urging households to keep physical currency while essential retailers face new requirements to accept it.
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Android 17 wide-character bug exposes gap between shipped code and public AOSP sources
A developer traced a Unicode-breaking regression in September Android 17 builds by disassembling the runtime library because the matching source was not yet public.
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Mosh-rs previews Rust rewrite with native Windows client and optional scrollback
The independent pre-alpha project aims to remain compatible with Mosh 1.4 while adding two features long requested by users.
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How attention turned machine translation into the foundation of modern AI
A new technical account traces today's transformer systems to a 2014 solution for handling context in long translated sentences.
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High-speed footage reveals honey bee stinger’s self-powered venom pump
Researchers found that two deformable valves work as opposing pistons, sustaining venom flow after a worker bee leaves its stinger behind.
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Topgolf says VMware exit avoided more than $11.3 million in infrastructure costs
The venue operator moved 12,000 virtual machines to VergeOS as it overhauled servers, gaming systems and software licensing.
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US Treasury imposes more than $1.21 billion in penalties on Bank of America
FinCEN, the OCC and OFAC cited extensive anti-money-laundering and sanctions-control failures at the country’s second-largest bank.
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Apple researchers pool idle Mac GPUs into distributed inference system
The Minions research project coordinates Apple Silicon devices as a virtual GPU cloud for machine-learning inference when centralized capacity is limited.
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Long-standing Rust type-system flaw can permit memory-unsafe code
Rust developers classified a newly public lifetime-checking bug as high priority, while saying exploitation requires deliberately malicious code.
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