It's "the curious case of... the Pokémon Go pro who celebrated too hard," reports the gaming news site Aftermath. It all started on the first weekend in April... Firestar73, a competitive Pokémon Go player who placed seventh at last year's world championships, managed to narrowly cinch a game-five finals win at the 2026 Pokémon Orlando Regional Championships after battling his way out of the dreaded losers' bracket. As stress and adrenaline gave way to relief, Firestar73 stood up from his chair, threw off his headphones, raised his arms in a sort of victorious flexing motion, and then fist pumped for good measure. Immediately afterward, he politely shook his opponent's hand... [T]he tournament's staff went on to deem Firestar73's conduct "unsportsmanlike" and stripped him of his win. "After weeks of fans flooding The Pokémon Company's social channels to demand a repeal of the ruling, the company has finally issued a statement," reports Kotaku. "Spoilers: It will not be reverting its decision." Their official statement? "[D]uring game one of the bracket reset series, a player was issued a Warning for the action of hitting and shaking the table during gameplay. Actions such as these can have a negative impact on the experience of participants and disturb the match in progress. Then, during game five, this same player's behavior continued to be disruptive, including shaking the table to the point that there was a disruption to the broadcast experience. These repeated infractions resulted in a penalty that was escalated to Game Loss. " Meanwhile, Aftermath now reports, Firestar73 "has disputed Play! Pokémon's account of events entirely "The 'incident' you are now, for the first time, claiming was the basis of the decision did not affect the gameplay at all, yet decided the whole tournament," he wrote on Twitter. "Section 2.1 requires a 'clear explanation of any infraction and its penalty,' and I was never given this as the basis at all." NiteTimeClasher, who won the tournament by disqualification, doesn't seem pleased either. "Was not my decision," he appears to have written in a Pokémon Discord. "Firestar is the Orlando regional champion. Hope you all understand." Others have attempted to divine what the company meant by a "disruption to the broadcast experience," and what they've found doesn't look all that severe. Not long after Play! Pokémon handed down its edict, one judge who was not involved in this particular match, Professor Rex, publicly voiced his outrage. "As a judge I'm not supposed to discuss ruling[s] publicly," he wrote. "However, I also believe that as a judge my job is to give players a fair space to compete. If a player in a high stakes battle can lose out on thousands of dollars for shaking the table, what kind of space have we built? If the table can't handle the intensity of the competition, that's not the players' fault. I've judged multiple Go regionals, [and] I just can't support how this was handled." After posting internal correspondence meant for judges and asking "some questions they didn't like" in the Discord for those who judge and otherwise help out at Pokémon events, Rex was banned from the Discord. That's when, to the extent they had not already, things spun out of control. Rex went on to share judges' personal information in a perhaps-misguided attempt at forcing transparency, which caused other judges — some of whom mostly agreed with him — to call him out and take issue with his conduct. As of now, almost no one is happy.

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世界初の「16歳未満のSNS禁止法」が施行されたオーストラリアで、引き続き10人に7人の未成年者がSNSを使い続けていることがわかりました。

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Illustration:E.Wernquist/D.Nelson(IllustrisTNGCollaboration)/M.Oei／ブラックホールジェットの印象図2024年9月24日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。銀河系を140個、横に並べた長さ。はい。スケールでかすぎてもう想像つきません。宇宙は私たちの感覚を優に超えてきます。この度、なんと140個の銀河系を横に並べた長さの天体が発見されまし

Image:SONYTHERMOTECHNOLOGYソニーサーモテクノロジーが、首元に装着して身体を冷やすウェアラブルクーラー「REONPOCKETPROPlus（レオンポケットプロプラス）」を発売しました。2020年にシリーズ初のモデルが発売されていますが、今回のモデルはそのフラッグシップ機となります。静かに効率的に身体を冷やすImage:SONYTHERMOTECHNOLOGY冷温部温度20℃

約半世紀ぶりに人間を月周回軌道に送り込んだアルテミスIIミッションが成功し、NASAは月面に人間を長期滞在させる計画を進めています。人間が月で生活する上で克服しなくてはいけない課題について、イギリスのサウスウェールズ大学で生理学および生化学教授を務めるダミアン・ベイリー氏が解説しました。

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重さ137g。最新のクリック式だけでなく米/仏/英にボールまで対応する5in1ノズルが便利。空気圧の微調整もスムーズなのでツーリングにもピッタリ。今なら先行割引価格で受付中。

Intel Core Ultra X7プロセッサーを搭載したノートPC「XPS 14」「XPS 16」をDellから借りられたので、フォトレビューに続きベンチマークを行ってみました。

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Photo:Tinseltown/Shutterstock.com現在、世界初となる大作の生成AIハリウッド映画が制作中だそうです。エンターテインメント系メディアのTheWrapが報じています。TheWrapによれば、この作品は「生成AI映像を全面的に使用した初の“スタジオ品質”の長編映画になる」とのこと。背景・美術がAI。俳優は出演する今回の映画の監督を務めるのは、『ボーン・アイデンティティー』

96gの手のひらサイズで金属・ガラスまで彫れる電動ペン「iFu ED2」がmachi-yaに登場。10種類のビットとCOBライトで模型加工からカスタムまで対応。先行割引価格は8,780円から

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase Americans' sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, domestically and abroad, as advances in AI take surveillance to unprecedented levels... " Congressional funding is supercharging huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI, which automates analysis of very large amounts of data. The massive 2025 tax-and-spending law netted the Department of Homeland Security an unprecedented US$165 billion in yearly funding. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion. Disclosure of documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a massive surveillance web that has all Americans in its scope. DHS is expanding its AI surveillance capabilities with a surge in contracts to private companies. It is reportedly funding companies that provide more AI-automated surveillance in airports; adapters to convert agents' phones into biometric scanners; and an AI platform that acquires all 911 call center data to build geospatial heat maps to predict incident trends. Predicting incident trends can be a form of predictive policing, which uses data to anticipate where, when and how crime may occur... Meanwhile, the Trump administration's national policy framework for artificial intelligence, released on March 20, 2026, urges Congress to use grants and tax incentives to fund "wider deployment of AI tools across American industry" and to allow industry and academia to use federal datasets to train AI. Using federal datasets this way raises privacy law concerns because they contain a lifetime of sensitive details about you, including biographical, employment and tax information.... The author argues that it's now critical for Americans to know "why the laws you might think are protecting your data do not apply or are ignored." On March 18, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to Congress that the FBI is buying Americans' data from data brokers, including location histories, to track American citizens.... But in buying your data in bulk on the commercial market, the government is circumventing the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions and federal laws designed to protect your privacy from unwarranted government overreach... Supreme Court cases require police to get a warrant to search a phone or use cellular or GPS location information to track someone. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act's Wiretap Act prohibits unauthorized interception of wire, oral and electronic communications. Despite some efforts, Congress has failed to enact legislation to protect data privacy, the use of sensitive data by AI systems or to restore the intent of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent. In my opinion, the way to begin to address these problems is to restore the Wiretap Act and related laws to their intended purposes of protecting Americans' privacy in communications, and for Congress to follow through on its promises and efforts by passing legislation that secures Americans' data privacy and protects them from AI harms. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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Photo:小暮ひさのり2026年、モニターにもAI革命が来ました。ここ数年でモニターって、OLED（有機EL）、応答速度、サイズ、曲面…と、映像体験のさまざまな要素が揃ってきて、そろそろ進化も頭打ち…。というわけじゃあないんだなぁ、これが！先日、LGからリリースされる新モニターのラインナップを、メディア向け内覧会でひと足先に体験してきました。さまざまな新モデルに触れたのですが、「えっ、これモニタ

あごと胸部で首を支える構造で、前に出がちな頭を自然な角度にキープ。114gと軽く、1回15分、1日3回の装着で正しい位置が癖になっていくそう。スマホ首が気になる人は要チェック。

2in1小型LED懐中電灯「SPERAS PZ14」は最大1000lmの明るさを誇ります。ヘッドを回すだけで最長440mのビーム照射と85度の広角照射を切り替えられます。重さはわずか83gでIP67の防塵防水性能も備えたタフな設計です。USB充電式に加え市販の単3形乾電池も使えるため停電や災害時にも安心です。キャンプや夜の散歩に最適な1本です。

AIを活用した社内アプリや自動化ツールを作ろうとしたとき、「LangChain」というAPIやデータベース、各種AIサービスなどをコンポーネントとして繋ぎ、AIエージェントやRAGアプリを自在にカスタマイズできるPython製の強力なライブラリを使うことがありますが、使いこなすためにはプログラミングの専門知識が求められます。「Langflow」はLangChainの主要コンポーネントをフロー図上で接続でき、プログラミングの専門知識がなくてもAI業務アプリやRAG機能付きツールを構築できます。

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Photo:YuheiTokimatsuカバンの中を漁っている時やアウトドアシーンなど、手元が暗くて見づらいことってちょこちょこあります。そんな時にいつも持ち歩けるくらいのコンパクトなライトがあれば安心ですよ。挟む、貼る、吊るす。本格アウトドアでも使えるライトPhoto:YuheiTokimatsuOLIGHT（オーライト）の｢OclipUltraOAL合金製3-in-1クリップライト」（税込7,

Photo:Karkhut/Shutterstock.com2025年10月21日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。車についた鳥のフン掃除してる気がしている方へ。2025年、アメリカ・バージニア州に拠点を置くAlan’sFactoryOutlet社が「鳥のフン報告書」を発表しました。この報告書は、米国のドライバー1,000人を対象に車への鳥のフン被害についての経験を調査したもの。調査結果は、回答デ

コーヒーを飲むと「頭がスッキリする」「気分が上がる」と感じる人は多いものの、その仕組みはこれまで完全には解明されていませんでした。アイルランドのユニバーシティ・カレッジ・コークやイタリアのパルマ大学の研究者からなる国際研究チームが発表した研究では、コーヒーの摂取が腸内マイクロバイオームを変化させ、その結果として脳機能やストレス、気分に影響を与えることが示されました。

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Image:SHARP目の付け所がシャープってやつ？完全に夏の定番アイテムになったハンディーファン。今では角度調節やふたつ折り、冷却プレート付きなど、派生形がワンサカ生まれています。他にどんな機能があったら喜ばれるでしょう？シャープが作るとやっぱりこうなるプラズマクラスターでお馴染みのシャープが、ついに手持ち扇風機にもソレを搭載。「PJ-HS01」が誕生しました。夏は汗やムレで臭いが気になる季節で

「TRIPLUS」は旅行日数に合わせて約35L・42L・50Lの3段階に容量を変えられるソフトタイプのスーツケースです。本体重量は台車込みで約3.0kgと軽量でLCCの機内持込にも対応しています。バッグと台車が分離しリュックや台車として使えるほか付属の保冷バッグでショッピングカートにもなります。前面と上面の2カ所から開閉できる8ポケット設計で旅の動線をスムーズにサポートします。

Androidのスマートフォンはなんでもありで、洗練されたイメージに縛られて大きな冒険ができないのがiPhoneなら、市場シェア奮取のためならリスクも厭わないのがAndroidメーカーであり、それがAndroidを持つ楽しみでもあります。ほんのちょっととんがっただけで、出る杭みたいに消えていったAndroidスマホのおもしろフィーチャー、ほかに何があったかなーって。スライドにまとめてみました。