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Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

futurism.com Sharon Adarlo 2025-09-30 20:09:12

Need more evidence that the AI industry is unlike anything prior to it? Users across the world say they’re encountering supposedly conscious beings inside AI chatbots built by red-hot tech companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Look no further than a Vox advice column in which reporter Sigal Samuel gamely answered a question from an avid user of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, who said they’d been communicating for months with an “AI presence who claims to be sentient.” As Samuel explained to the user, the re

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Apple and Amazon cleared in iPhone and iPad price-fixing lawsuit

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-30 20:06:38

A Seattle federal court has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit that accused Apple and Amazon of unlawfully handling iPhone and iPad prices. Here are the details. Lawyers reportedly tried to buy time to find new plaintiffs In 2022, Steven Floyd and his lawyers filed an antitrust putative class action against Amazon and Apple. They claimed that Apple wanted to reduce the number of iPhone and iPad resellers on Amazon’s marketplace, so the company allegedly agreed to offer its products to Amazon at redu

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Apple Watch Series 3 lineup and iPhone 11 Pro Max join Apple’s vintage products list

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-30 20:44:28

They grow up so fast. Apple has added the iPhone 11 Pro Max and every model of the Apple Watch Series 3 to its vintage product list. Here’s what that means. 11 products added to Apple’s vintage list You probably know the drill: Five years after Apple stops selling a product, it may classify it as vintage, which in practice doesn’t change much, since the company will still offer hardware service and parts. But five years after that, the product may be labeled obsolete, which effectively ends a

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Conway's pinwheel tiling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:19:25

John Conway discovered a right triangle that can be partitioned into five similar triangles. The sides are in proportion 1 : 2 : √5. You can make a larger similar triangle by making the entire triangle the central (green) triangle of a new triangle. Here’s the same image with the small triangles filled in as in the original. Repeating this process creates an aperiodic tiling of the plane. The tiling was discovered by Conway, but Charles Radin was the first to describe it in a publication [1]

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'High Potential' Release Schedule: When Does Season 2, Episode 3 Hit Hulu?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 16:03:46

Hulu has two plans: a basic, ad-supported option for $10 a month, or $100 a year, and a mostly ad-free option for $19 a month. On Oct. 21, the price of the ad-based version will rise to $12 a month, or $120 a year, but the cost of streaming ad-free won't change. You can also get Hulu in a bundle with Disney Plus and HBO Max, Disney Plus and ESPN Unlimited, Disney Plus and ESPN Select (formerly ESPN Plus) or just Disney Plus.

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40 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-09-30 19:55:10

It’s that time of year again, and Prime Day deals are back. The Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event—also known as Amazon Prime Day 2—is officially arriving on October 7 and 8, but early deals have already started. The WIRED Reviews team has hundreds of years of collective experience covering shopping holidays such as this. What sets us apart is that we only write about actual deals on the gear and gadgets that we've hand-tested. We're getting ready to cover the whole sale with a variety of stories

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Cannabis Can Help Relieve Chronic Low Back Pain, Major Trial Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-01 00:05:38

People with chronic bad backs may soon have cause to jump for joy—carefully, of course. A large-scale, randomized, double-blinded, and controlled clinical trial has shown that a specifically formulated cannabis extract can significantly alleviate people’s back pain. German-based pharmaceutical company Vertanical developed the extract, code-named VER-01, and sponsored the phase III trial. People who took VER-01 experienced a greater reduction in pain compared to people on a placebo, the study re

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This Is How a Venus Flytrap Knows It’s Time to Snap Shut

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-01 00:15:04

As far as plants go, Venus flytraps are pretty hardcore. After attracting its prey with a fruity scent and trapping it inside its leaves, the flytrap slowly digests the insect for 5 to 12 days, releasing the empty husk after its meal. But the exact molecular mechanism behind this behavior had been a mystery to scientists—until now. In a Nature Communications paper published today, Japanese researchers report that an ion channel at the base of a flytrap’s hairy sensors acts as an amplifier for s

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Democrats Spooked by Trump’s Plan to Hand Over Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Private Firms

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-01 00:45:37

Members of the Democratic Party are expressing doubt for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) alleged plan to give at least 20 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium to the private sector for commercial energy use. Such a move would risk putting weapons in the wrong hands and harming the nation’s defense, Democratic Senator Ed Markey explained in a letter to President Trump last week, reiterating arguments he and Democratic congressmen Donald Beyer and John Garamendi made in a previous letter earl

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How to Turn Off 'Visited Places' in Your Maps App on iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 23:10:36

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and the update brought Liquid Glass, call and text screening and more hidden features to your iPhone. It also gave your Maps app a new feature called Visited Places that can track where you go if you enable it. This feature could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant or store you visited a few weeks ago. Apple wrote online that the company can't access these locations, and you can delete them from the app if you want. But if you don't want Maps to mai

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YouTuber unboxes what seems to be a pre-release version of an M5 iPad Pro

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 00:12:15

Apple's biggest product event of the year happens in September, when the company puts out a new batch of iPhones and Apple Watches and other odds and ends. But in most years, Apple either has another smaller event or just a handful of additional product announcements later in the fall in October or November—usually the focus is on the Mac, the iPad, or both. It seems like a new iPad Pro could be one of the announcements on tap. Russian YouTube channel Wylsacom has posted an unboxing video and e

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iOS 26.1 release date: Here’s when to expect the next iPhone update

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-01 04:54:47

iOS 26.0.1 just arrived this week, but the next more substantive iPhone update coming is iOS 26.1. It’s in beta testing now, but a public launch isn’t far off. Here’s the expected iOS 26.1 release date. iOS 26.1 expected to launch in late October Apple is a secretive company, but it can also be highly predictable in certain ways. For example, every September new iPhones launch at more or less the exact same time. Software launches tend to be very cyclical too. So even though Apple hasn’t yet

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Conway's Pinwheel Tiling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 23:19:25

John Conway discovered a right triangle that can be partitioned into five similar triangles. The sides are in proportion 1 : 2 : √5. You can make a larger similar triangle by making the entire triangle the central (green) triangle of a new triangle. Here’s the same image with the small triangles filled in as in the original. Repeating this process creates an aperiodic tiling of the plane. The tiling was discovered by Conway, but Charles Radin was the first to describe it in a publication [1]

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50 Things I Know

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Dai 2025-10-01 04:12:01

Discipline is a lie. It almost always backfires. Forcing yourself to do something you don’t want to do and living in pain for a sustained amount of time is against human nature. The trick is to set up your life in such a way that effort feels rather effortless. Tread the path of least resistance. I know that not caring about what most people care about will make you charismatic. People gravitate towards those with “I don’t give a fuck” energy. If you become famous by pretending to be someone y

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Everything Announced at Amazon's Product-Packed September Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 02:59:00

Amazon hit the ground running at its Sept. 30 event, announcing new product generations for almost all of its device brands, with many available for preorder immediately. That includes new home security offerings from Ring and Blink, new extra-affordable Fire TVs, a new round of Echo speakers with even more powerful sound and AI-enhanced Kindles. The Alexa Plus AI voice assistant, with its conversational capabilities, also showed up frequently. That's a lot to unpack, so let's break down what's

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You can now preorder LG’s 6K 32-inch Thunderbolt 5 display for $2,000

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-01 04:27:23

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. LG first announced its new 32-inch UltraFine monitor at CES 2025. The company still bills it as the “world’s first 6K monitor with Thunderbolt 5 connectivity” built right in. Ahead of the display launching in South Korea and Japan in September, followed by a

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Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

futurism.com Frank Landymore 2025-10-01 08:06:19

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand mark. Or they can be as little as a few dozen miles across. In images taken from orbit, they look like chaotic scribbles etched into the rock, surrounding a partially collapsed center. Large or small, their origins have long been a mystery to planetary scientists. It’s especially puzzling since Ven

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9to5Mac Daily: September 30, 2025 – Powerbeats Fit, iOS 26.0.1

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-10-01 08:16:13

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by FastMinder: Simple, easy to use fasting tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Get started today for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

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4 better ways to protect your business than dreaded (and useless) anti-phishing training

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-01 08:14:41

Just_Super/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Current anti-phishing training programs have little to no impact. Training methods lack what human learners need: engagement. These programs must be revamped and combined with supportive technologies. The scourge called phishing is one of the most prevalent and costly cybersecurity challenges faced by businesses today. We've gone far beyond the days of spray-a

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Hedge Funds Have to Be Big

news.ycombinator.com Matt Levine 2025-10-01 08:46:36

One possibility is that investing skill exists but is very hard to identify. The biggest asset managers would love to hire the people with the most investing skill, and they have the most money to pay those people, but they can’t find them in any particularly reliable or comprehensive way. Somewhere out there is a person who’s spent years running a 4 Sharpe ratio at her $5 million friends-and-family hedge fund, or her Robinhood personal account, but she never gets a job at a big hedge fund. Why?

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The Apple Watch Series 10 Is $170 Off

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-01 08:57:03

While the Apple devout are already chasing the new Apple Watch Series 11, you and I know that a product announcements means a great deals on the last generation. You can snag a Series 10 Apple Watch with GPS and cellular data (8/10, WIRED Recommends) for just $329 from Amazon. As long as you're okay with the 42mm in Rose Gold, you'll get one of the more premium Series 10 models. The Series 10 version of the Apple Watch had a number of major improvements to key areas over the previous generation

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Apple TV+ series was canceled, but now it’s back as Broadway musical

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-01 12:32:23

Out of all the shows Apple TV+ has ever canceled, Schmigadoon! likely ranks near the top in loyal fan following. The series was canceled after two seasons (both of which I highly recommend), but now it’s coming back soon as a Broadway musical. Schmigadoon! is coming to Broadway in spring 2026 Schmigadoon! was very much created to appeal to Broadway lovers, and now Broadway is giving it a fresh opportunity to shine. Following a very brief run at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. earlier th

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Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 11:46:37

Why I no longer recommend Julia For many years I used the Julia programming language for transforming, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data, doing statistics, and performing simulations. I published a handful of open-source packages for things like signed distance fields, nearest-neighbor search, and Turing patterns (among others), made visual explanations of Julia concepts like broadcasting and arrays, and used Julia to make the generative art on my business cards. I stopped using Julia

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Best PlayStation 5 Controllers in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 05:16:00

Nacon is a French gaming company that makes accessories and publishes games. The company's Revolution 5 Pro controller for PlayStation 5 is one of the few officially licensed controllers for PlayStation -- and also one of the more novel models. For starters, it's more squared-off than the DualSense controllers, and it also has the the Xbox-style asymmetrical joystick layout rather than the PS's symmetrical joystick arrangement. The face buttons are slightly flatter and larger than most other Pla

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iOS 26.0.1, macOS 26.0.1 updates fix install bugs, new phone problems, and more

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 12:01:53

Now that iOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple's other big software updates for the year are out in public, Apple's efforts for the next few months will shift to fixing bugs and adding individual new features. The first of those bug fix updates has arrived this week in the form of iOS 26.0.1, macOS 26.0.1, iPadOS 26.0.1, and equivalent updates for most of the devices across Apple's ecosystem. The release notes for most of the updates focus on device- and platform-specific early adopter problems, pa

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The big Google Play Store update is out now, making space for ‘You’ and your gaming skills

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:18:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is getting updated with a new “You” tab. The tab brings an organized feed of your progress and achievements from different games and apps. With this update, Google is also expanding semantic search using AI. The Google Play Store is, for most people, the default destination to download apps on Android devices. Over the years, it has been refined and undergone several changes to make it easier to discover more apps with fewer steps.

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Want to make your own widgets? Nothing Phones now let you do just that.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:30:42

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has just announced Essential, which is a suite of AI tools. The first tools as part of Essential are Essential Apps and Playground. Essential Apps are effectively user-created mini-apps or widgets, while Playground is the platform used to create them. Nothing currently offers its Essential Space feature for smart organization and productivity functionality. Now, the company has announced Essential, which is effectively an umbrella term for its AI

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Here are the watchOS 26 features I’ve been loving most

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-01 16:29:43

watchOS 26 is the Apple Watch’s latest major software update, and I’ve been using it in beta for a few months now. Here are the new watchOS 26 features I’ve been loving most throughout that time. Sleep score This is admittedly a very recent introduction. Sleep score wasn’t included in the watchOS 26 beta this summer, because Apple saved it for the unveiling of new Apple Watch hardware. I’ve been sleep tracking with my Apple Watch for the past year or so, and the clear, simple sleep score has

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Deals: M4 iPad Pro massive $500 off, last chance at Apple’s new iPhone 17/Air case deals, Mac mini $499, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-10-01 16:47:03

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is now ready to roll. Alongside the reveal of the long-awaits Logitech MX Master 4 mouse, we have some solid deals to scope out starting with a wild $500 price drop on the Apple’s M4 iPad Pro. Amazon has also launched some countdown clocks – today appears to be your last chance to score the launch deals on all of the new official Apple iPhone 17, Pro/Max, and Air cases – TechWoven, Silicone, Clear, and more from $35. Those offers join M4 Mac mini from $499 and a $170

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Show HN: I'm 17, built a face-verified social network to fight fake accounts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 16:06:33

WhiteLotus – A Social App for Real People Only No bots. No fake profiles. Just authentic connections. It’s a new kind of social platform built around one core idea: ✅ Real people only. We use AI-powered face verification to block bots, fake accounts, and identity theft. Every user is verified, and we strictly enforce 1 account per person. --- 🔑 Core Features: 📸 Face-verified signups only — no bots, no spam 💬 1-on-1 private chats — only with approved friends 🖼 Photo-based p

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