Android 15 QPR2 Beta 3 is here with key bug fixes

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 3 is here with key bug fixes

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Pixel 8 Pro in front of an Android plushie TL;DR Google is rolling out Android 15 QPR2 Beta 3 to Pixel phones. The update brings a host of fixes for user-reported and developer-reported bugs and issues. Google has released Android 15 QPR2 Beta 3 (BP11.241210.004) for Pixel devices, bringing a … Read more

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pardoned

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pardoned

Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where … Read more

Beyond “Prompt and Pray” – O’Reilly

Beyond “Prompt and Pray” – O’Reilly

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) don’t deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray model—where business logic lives entirely in prompts—creates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, … Read more

Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on tasks involving math, physics, and science. And this latest open model is turning heads for apparently quickly catching up to OpenAI. For example, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks and tests, … Read more

Here Are Apple’s Full Release Notes for iOS 18.3

Here Are Apple’s Full Release Notes for iOS 18.3

Apple provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate version of iOS 18.3 today, and with it comes release notes confirming what’s new. While we knew about several of the features that are in the update, there are some lesser known tweaks and bug fixes. The update adds new Visual Intelligence features for … Read more

Tax software deals: Save on TurboTax and H&R Block

Tax software deals: Save on TurboTax and H&R Block

Image used with permission by copyright holder Table of Contents Table of Contents Tax Act All-Inclusive Bundle — $138 $230 40% off TurboTax Premier — $83 $115 28% off H&R Block Deluxe — $45 $60 25% off Liberty Tax Basic — $48 $58 17% off Jackson Hewitt (Federal + State) — $25 Worried about where all of your information … Read more

Netflix Prices Are Going Up Again

Netflix Prices Are Going Up Again

Netflix has announced that it’s raising prices for its subscription plans in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina. All plans will see changes, including both the ad-supported and ad-free options. According to the most recent earnings report, the basic plan with ads will go up from $6.99 to $7.99 per month. The standard ad-free plan … Read more

It’s a SNaP: New Technique Paves Way for Scalable Therapeutic Nanoparticle Manufacturing

It’s a SNaP: New Technique Paves Way for Scalable Therapeutic Nanoparticle Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In a significant advancement for the field of drug delivery, researchers have developed a new technique that addresses a persistent challenge: scalable manufacturing of nanoparticles and microparticles. This innovation, led by Nathalie M. Pinkerton, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at … Read more

Government digital document app launching in summer

Government digital document app launching in summer

Getty The government is to make digital versions of a range of official documents available via a dedicated app and a digital wallet, as part of what ministers say is an attempt to bring interactions with the public “in tune with modern life”. Veteran cards and driving licences will be the first to be incorporated … Read more

GDC 2025 event will celebrate how games connect the world

GDC 2025 event will celebrate how games connect the world

UBM TechWeb unveiled details of the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that will take place from March17 to to March 21 in San Francisco. Ashley Corrigan, conference manager and head of content for GDC, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the theme of GDC 2025 will be connecting the world, with … Read more