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This $799 Acer laptop is ideal for students, but I'd just as soon take it to the office

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-19 13:45:39

Acer Aspire 16 AI ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Aspire 16 AI is available on Amazon for $799. It's a reliable, lightweight workhorse with a marathon battery that's ideal for long days. However, its hardware has performance limitations. View now at Acer View now at Amazon more buying choices Acer's new Aspire 16 AI is a humble laptop. It isn't flashy or over-the-top, it doesn't house high-end hardware or an OLED screen. Instead, it focuses on being a reliable work device with a midrange price

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Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 06:40:35

After more than 27,000 people signed our open letter to Oracle about the “JavaScript” trademark, we filed a formal Cancellation Petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Ten months in, we’re finally reaching the crucial discovery phase. Deno initiated this petition since we have legal standing as a JavaScript runtime, but it’s really on behalf of all developers. If we win, “JavaScript” becomes public domain – free for all developers, conferences, book authors, and companies to use witho

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ChatGPT now gives you greater control over GPT-5 Thinking model

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-19 18:20:56

OpenAI is finally rolling out a toggle that allows you to decide how hard the GPT-5-thinking model can think. This feature is rolling out to Plus and Pro subscribers. OpenAI has been testing the toggle for several weeks now. Previously, OpenAI planned to ship a slider, but it has now opted for a simple toggle for controlling thinking model. GPT-5 Thinking Model control Source: BleepingComputer As you can see in the above screenshot, toggle allows you to select GPT-5 Thinking with different

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Sam Altman Addresses Wave of ChatGPT Deaths

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 02:18:21

"This is a mental health war, and I really feel like we are losing." OpenAI is finally putting in parental controls on ChatGPT after parents of teenagers who killed themselves after using AI chatbots testified in front of Congress this week. In a company blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that parents will be able to link their personal account with their kids' account, disable features as needed, get alerts if their children seem to be in distress while chatting with ChatGPT, set black ou

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New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 23:29:22

So far, prompt injections have proved impossible to prevent, much like memory-corruption vulnerabilities in certain programming languages and SQL injections in Web applications are. That has left OpenAI and the rest of the LLM market reliant on mitigations that are often introduced on a case-by-case basis, and only in response to the discovery of a working exploit. Accordingly, OpenAI mitigated the prompt-injection technique ShadowLeak fell to—but only after Radware privately alerted the LLM ma

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DACLab says it can remove CO2 using less electricity than many competitors

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-20 23:00:00

The world’s countries may have pledged to cut its carbon pollution, but with global emissions reaching an all-time high last year they’ve fallen far short. Digging out of that hole is going to require removing carbon straight from the atmosphere. But it comes with a hefty price tag, mostly because of the energy required. Removing one metric ton of CO 2 using direct air capture is expected to require around 2,000 kWh of electricity when the technology is sorted and scaled up. One startup called

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ChatGPT just got a new personalization hub. Not everyone is happy about it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-20 07:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI has updated ChatGPT's personalization page. The page includes personality options, memory toggles, and more. Not all users feel seen or heard by the update. OpenAI is making it easier for ChatGPT users to customize what it calls the chatbot's "personality" and communication style. ChatGPT now offers an updated personalization page, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previewed in a Tues

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A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 03:18:28

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangero

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Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 03:40:29

Energy-efficient AI inference framework & kernels for phones & AI-native hardware. Budget and mid-range phones control over 70% of the market, but frameworks today optimise for the highend phones with advanced chips. Cactus is designed bottom-up with no dependencies for all mobile devices. Example (CPU-only): Model: Qwen3-600m-INT8 File size: 370-420mb 16-20 t/s on Pixel 6a, Galaxy S21, iPhone 11 Pro 50-70 t/s on Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, iPhone 16 Architecture Cactus exposes 4 levels of abstr

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Coinbase CEO says banks are fighting stablecoin rewards with 'boogeyman' issues

cnbc.com Emily Wilkins 2025-09-21 07:51:14

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and other crypto executives took to Capitol Hill this week as part of a regulatory showdown between the industry and banks with potentially trillions at stake. Banking advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to prohibit crypto exchanges like Coinbase from offering customers rewards that are structured like interest payments banks offer. "I'm not sure why the banks would want to bring that up again at this point, but they should have to compete on a level playing field

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Android 16 QPR2 may let you flip your Pixel’s navigation bar like on Samsung phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 07:27:58

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding a long-awaited option to Pixel phones that lets users reverse the order of the three-button navigation bar. This feature allows users to switch to the “Recents, Home, Back” layout, which is the default on Samsung Galaxy phones. We discovered evidence for the new setting in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2, but the setting isn’t live yet. For years, Samsung phones have defaulted to a three-button navigation layout where the back button is on the

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How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-21 07:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be prett

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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-21 11:19:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. Silent mode mutes alerts while preserving wrist haptics. Haptics keep reminders private, and household peace intact. I love me some timers. One of the secrets to how I manage my day is that I set timers for everything. I set them for appointments, sure. But I also set them to remind me when to get started on a phase of work. I set them to r

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Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 Review: A Rare Double-Duty Laptop for Gaming and Work

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 14:00:06

8.8 / 10 SCORE Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 $1,569 at Newegg Pros 2.5K OLED display is crisp, bright and fast Snappy keyboard feels fast for games Thin and light for its size Free M.2 slot to add second SSD Cons Short battery life No biometrics for easy, secure logins Lacks fast Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 ports Always-on power button LED is annoying The Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 is overkill for most budget gaming laptop shoppers, both in terms of price and features. But if you view it as two laptops

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Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Reactions to Ray-Ban Display, Oakley Vanguard glasses, more

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-21 23:59:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Meta Connect 2025 is officially over, and it ended with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a large group of his peers literally running into the sunset. The company debuted several new products and used the event to preview upcoming advancements in artificial intelligence. Also: I used the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and they offer 2 breakthroughs to take us beyond smartphones Overall, the event was pretty short. It wasn't the

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Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Ban Display, Oakley Vanguard glasses, more

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-09-22 02:43:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Meta Connect 2025 is officially over, and it ended with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a large group of his peers literally running into the sunset. The company debuted several new products and used the event to preview upcoming advancements in artificial intelligence. Also: 5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me truly hyped for today Overall, the event was pretty short. It wasn't the nearly hour-long spectacle that Connect 20

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Democrats are investigating Trump crypto advisor David Sacks over a possible SGE violation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 06:58:03

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are leading a group of congressional Democrats in investigating White House Special Advisor David Sacks for possibly serving in his position for longer than he's allowed. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and venture capitalist at Craft Ventures, was originally picked by President Donald Trump to be the "White House A.I. & Crypto Czar" in 2024. "Any effort to stay beyond the time limits imposed on you as a Special Gove

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 18, #1552

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 10:00:06

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a well-known word, but the letters aren't ones I often guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you toda

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WASM 3.0 Completed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 13:16:53

Published on September 17, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Three years ago, version 2.0 of the Wasm standard was (essentially) finished, which brought a number of new features, such as vector instructions, bulk memory operations, multiple return values, and simple reference types. In the meantime, the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group have not been lazy. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Wasm 3.0 as the new “live” standard. This is a substantially larger update: several big fe

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Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 18:46:03

This is a guest post from Jiebin Sun, Zhiguo Zhou, Wangyang Guo and Tianyou Li, performance optimization engineers at Intel Shanghai. Intel's latest processor generations are pushing the number of cores in a server to unprecedented levels - from 128 P-cores per socket in Granite Rapids to 288 E-cores per socket in Sierra Forest, with future roadmaps targeting 200+ cores per socket. These numbers multiply on multi-socket systems, such servers may consist of 400 and more cores. The paradigm of "m

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Sen. Warren presses Trump AI and crypto czar Sacks on whether he's overstayed his job

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-22 21:12:32

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. What was meant to be a short-term assignment for venture capitalist David Sacks in President Donald Trump's White House appears to have stretched into something much bigger, according to leading Democratic lawmakers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., have teamed up with a number of other progressive poli

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Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

news.ycombinator.com Przemysław Hejman 2025-09-22 23:03:24

Now on the front page of Hacker News — join the discussion. In a recent post, we introduced the Tau² benchmark, a framework for benchmaring LLMs. Today we’re sharing a surprising discovery we made while using it: a simple prompt rewrite boosted a small model’s success rate by over 20%. This post is a deep-dive on how we found and fixed this performance bottleneck by making subtle changes to agent policies. Benchmarking LLMs with Tau² On the recent OpenAI Summer Update, we have seen that GPT-5

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Apple Photos app corrupts images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 21:07:44

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos fr

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Here’s who is actually using ChatGPT — and how they are using it

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-09-23 11:04:29

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI this week released what it says is the largest study yet of how people are using ChatGPT, revealing fresh insights on who is using the technology and what they are using it for. The big surprise was finding out that most ChatGPT chats a

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AT&T's new AI receptionist will answer calls for you - and block spam

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-23 15:23:46

AT&T Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AT&T's digital receptionist will use AI to screen your calls. The goal is to determine if a call is legitimate or spam. The feature will roll out this year as a test for select AT&T customers. How often do you receive a call from an unknown number and debate whether to answer it? Spam calls continue to plague us all, often making us hesitant to answer our phones unless we know who's calling. Now AT&T is turni

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From Startup Battlefield to the Disrupt Stage: Discord founder Jason Citron returns to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-23 15:30:00

More than a decade ago, Jason Citron took the Disrupt stage to pitch his early-stage company in the Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt as a scrappy founder pitching his vision. Today, he’s built Discord into one of the most successful consumer platforms of its era — valued in the billions and redefining how communities connect, game, and share online. This October, he returns to the Disrupt Stage with “From Startup Battlefield to Discord,” a session that unpacks his scaling j

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Tau² Benchmark: How a Prompt Rewrite Boosted GPT-5-Mini by 22%

news.ycombinator.com Przemysław Hejman 2025-09-23 19:03:24

In a recent post, we introduced the Tau² benchmark, a framework for benchmaring LLMs. Today we’re sharing a surprising discovery we made while using it: a simple prompt rewrite boosted a small model’s success rate by over 20%. This post is a deep-dive on how we found and fixed this performance bottleneck by making subtle changes to agent policies. Benchmarking LLMs with Tau² On the recent OpenAI Summer Update, we have seen that GPT-5 model has made significant strides in agentic tasks. To vali

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Did a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriter Really Use ChatGPT to Write ‘Soda Pop’? [Updated]

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-23 06:00:04

Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters has stayed in the conversation in large part because of its blockbuster soundtrack, but now one of those songs has come under scrutiny for potentially getting an assist from ChatGPT. Update 9/17 9am ET: The English-language article released by Joongang Daily has been updated to include a correction and remove the original quote about “Soda Pop”, bringing it more in line with the Korean-language piece. The original piece is as follows. In a recent discussion in Se

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How much RAM do you really need in 2025? I broke it down for Mac and Windows users

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-23 22:00:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways RAM allows computers run fast and optimally. 16GB is now the standard for PCs and laptops. Heavy users may need more RAM. Know when to upgrade. I used to struggle when shopping for a new computer. Over time, I learned to narrow things down to what I call the "performance trifecta" -- three main components you should be mindful of when buying a laptop or desktop: processor, storage drive, and RAM. Th

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OpenAI releases first-of-kind study revealing how people are using ChatGPT for everyday tasks

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Shreya Ghosal 2025-09-24 06:56:34

Illustration of the ChatGPT App on the iOS App Store displayed on a phone screen. Despite rapid adoption of large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, few comprehensive studies have delved into exactly how the technology is being used in everyday life — that is, until now. On Tuesday, researchers, including those from OpenAI, released a first-of-its-kind study that examines who was using ChatGPT and for what purposes based on internal messages sent to ChatGPT on consumer plans. Amongst the

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This $799 Acer laptop is ideal for students, but I'd just as soon take it to the office

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