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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the company’s plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what I’m expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o was originally introduced last year as a flagship model that reasoned across a
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WhatsApp has announced a slew of new updates across chats, calls, and channels designed to enhance the messaging and calling experience for users as it continues to compete with popular services like Telegram and Discord. Among the most notable additions is an “Online” indicator that appears at the top of a group chat to show you how many people are currently around to chat. Another new group chat feature will allow you to highlight certain notifications, as you can now use a newly added “Noti
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There has been a lot of angst among tech companies and policymakers about a looming power shortage on the grid due in no small part to the rise in AI. But what’s less known is that there are terawatts of new capacity waiting to be approved for connection to the grid, and unknotting the bureaucracy could go a long way to solving the problem. All grid operators in the U.S. face the similar backlogs, but few are as significant as that of PJM, which manages the flow of electricity in the mid-Atlant
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The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have launched an early-access community for some of the first people who signed up after last month’s announcement that the pair had bought Digg and planned to relaunch it as something new. The early-access program is being called “Groundbreakers” and costs $5 to join — a one-time fee that Digg says is about keeping out bots versus making money. In fact, Digg says the
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There's been a lot of discussion recently on how AI applications are evolving but based on many of the announcements that Google made at the Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, it seems increasingly clear that hybrid is where many of these developments are headed. To be clear, Google made an enormously and impressively broad range of announcements at Cloud Next and not a single press release specifically mentioned Hybrid AI. However, when you take a step back and analyze how several of the pieces f
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In brief: Microsoft is considering making more job cuts this year, adding to the performance-based layoffs and other terminations it has implemented in 2025 so far. The latest round could come as soon as May and will reportedly target managers and non-coding staff. Some Microsoft organizations are looking to increase their span of control, defined as the number of direct reports or subordinates a manager or supervisor oversees. It also wants to increase the number of coders compared to non-code
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Ahead of the market rally on Wednesday, Evercore ISI analyst Adam Frisch initiated coverage of Affirm with an Outperform rating and a $50 price target when shares were trading at around $37. Affirm closed Wednesday at $44. Affirm led the rebound on Wednesday. The buy now, pay later firm closed Wednesday up nearly 22%, clawing back steep losses from earlier in the week. Shares plunged after the initial tariff news rattled growth stocks and sparked fears of a consumer spending slowdown. But the r
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As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes, one professor has found his own key to innovation: scientists who are able to do crucial lab work without going broke. David Liu is a chemistry professor and director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare at Harvard. For the past five years, he's celebrated Thanksgiving by giving away his entire salary — sans taxes — to the
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than 40% of corporate fraud is now AI-driven, designed to mimic real users, bypass traditional defenses and scale at speeds that overwhelm even the best-equipped SOCs. In 2024, nearly 90% of enterprises were targeted, and half of them lost $10 million or more. Bots emulate human behavior and create entire emulation frameworks, synthetic identities, and behavioral
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Mika Games Invests $2 Million in Hybrid-Casual Game Set to Surpass Plants vs. Zombies A gaming fund launched by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov invests in Agonalea Games, the Buenos Aires-based studio behind Punko.io, the hybrid-casual tower defense game that delivers the mid-core experience players crave. With the product model’s revenue surging 30%, Mika Games continues its mission to back underfunded game developers. Nicosia, Cyprus, April 10, 2025 — Mika Games, a gaming investment com
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A new gaming institute at The University of Texas at Austin will help position students for careers in the rapidly growing video game industry. UT Austin’s Moody College of Communication will be home to the Karch Gaming Institute, which will be dedicated to shaping the next generation of creative leaders in the gaming industry thanks to a generous gift from Matt Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive, a worldwide video game developer and publisher, on behalf of the Karch family. Aided by the $5 milli
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Google’s latest mid-ranger, the Pixel 9a, has arrived, hitting shelves earlier in the year than ever. It looks and feels like the Pixel 9 series it ties into in many ways, but there are always new wrinkles to explore. Luckily, we’ve had the latest Pixel device in our hands for a little while already, and we’ve come up with a few Google Pixel 9a tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your new phone. Before we get there, though, check your Pixel 9a for a software update. Google’s launch
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Today a revealing new look into Apple’s recent Siri struggles was published at The Information. That report contains myriad details on internal drama and conflicts, but it also ends with a big piece of news: under Craig Federighi’s leadership, for the first time Apple engineers can now use third-party LLMs to build Siri features. Federighi’s engineers can now use third-party LLMs for Siri features Wayne Ma writes at The Information: Federighi has already shaken things up. In a departure from
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Students will need to put them in a locker or sealed pouch at the start of the day. The last decade or so has seen schools and governments alike working on a substantial question: To what degree should students be allowed access to their phones? France has been among those leading the charge, requiring smartphones to be turned off during school hours since 2018. Now, the country is taking things a step further, insisting that students leave their phone in lockers or pouches, The Guardian report
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Bungie is set to take the wrappers off Marathon this Saturday and reveal gameplay from its first non-Destiny project in many years (and its first new one since joining Sony in 2022 ). Before that though, the studio has confirmed one detail about the multi-platform extraction shooter that PC and Xbox gamers may like to hear. The game won’t force players to log in with a PlayStation account on those platforms. The Marathon team confirmed on the game’s official Discord server that "Marathon will n
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The Russian state-backed hacking group Gamaredon (aka “Shuckworm”) has been targeting a military mission of a Western country in Ukraine in attacks likely deployed from removable drives. Symantec threat researchers say the campaign started in February 2025 and continued until March, with hackers deploying an updated version of the GammaSteel info-stealing malware to exfiltrate data. According to the report, initial access to the infected systems was probably achieved via removable drives conta
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Claude has a new subscription tier called "MAX," but it costs a whopping $200 per month, and users aren't happy with how the company enforces rate limits. According to Anthropic, the Max subscription gives you much more access to Claude than the regular Pro plan. For $200 a month, you'll get 20 times more usage. However, Claude Max limits users to 50 sessions per month. A session is a 5-hour period that starts when you send your first message to Claude. If you use Claude again within those 5
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra is available for up to $800 off with a trade-in credit. This 14.6-inch tablet is a productivity powerhouse, packed with a strong processor and Galaxy AI tools perfect for work and play. The Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra isn't super portable: it's large and the keyboard case is expensive and sold separately, and the S Pen stores awkwardly on the back. View now at Samsung View now at Amazon more buying choices As a full-time writer and mom of three,
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Tab Plus retails for $330. Contrary to its small size, the model houses a booming eight-speaker system and a long-lasting battery. The MediaTek Helio chipset and dim display won't be winning any awards. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon View now at Lenovo more buying choices If you're in the market for a new tablet that won't break the bank, may I recommend the Lenovo Tab Plus? This is Lenovo's latest lightweight tablet, capable of doubling as a mini-hom
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ZDNET's key takeaways The 2025 iPad Air is available in an 11-inch model starting at $600 and a 13-inch model starting at $800. The latest iPad Air features Apple Intelligence, an M3 processor, and some of the best performance I've seen on an iPad to date. But the iPad Air gets expensive quickly, with the 13-inch model selling for as much as $1,300. $699 at Best Buy $699 at B&H Photo-Video $649.99 at Amazon more buying choices I've grown rather attached to my work MacBook Pro. I use it every
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'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or
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'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or
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4 min read Apache Iceberg is quickly becoming the standard table format for querying large analytic datasets in object storage. We’re seeing this trend firsthand as more and more developers and data teams adopt Iceberg on Cloudflare R2 . But until now, using Iceberg with R2 meant managing additional infrastructure or relying on external data catalogs. So we’re fixing this. Today, we’re launching the R2 Data Catalog in open beta, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built directly into your Cloudfl
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Matter is a modern smart home protocol developed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung to address the issue of smart device incompatibility and security. Designed for seamless interoperability, Matter ensures that supported devices can easily integrate into all major smart home platforms without the need for additional apps or software. We are a member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA-IoT), and our products are currently in the process of being certified to work with the Matter stand
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Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define. In the more than 30-year-old interview clip above, Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things which, in the past, we have associated only with human intelligence.” At one time, not so very long before, “only human beings could alphabetize cards”; in the machines that could even then do it
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smartfunc Turn docstrings into LLM-functions If you're keen for a demo, you may appreciate this YouTube video: Installation uv pip install smartfunc What is this? Here is a nice example of what is possible with this library: from smartfunc import backend @ backend ( "gpt-4" ) def generate_summary ( text : str ): """Generate a summary of the following text: {{ text }}""" pass The generate_summary function will now return a string with the summary of the text that you give it. How does it
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Elliptical Python Programming By Susam Pal on 10 Apr 2025 One thing I love about Python is how it comes with its very own built-in zen. In moments of tribulations, when I am wrestling with crooked code and tangled thoughts, I often find solace in its timeless wisdom. Here's a glimpse of the clarity it provides: $ python3 -m this | grep e- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Indeed, there is one and only one obvious way to write the number 1 in Python, like s
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I’ve found a way to configure private, custom domains for web-apps I have running on my computer. So instead of having to remember and type “localhost:4333”, I can simply navigate to “appname.localhost”. I love it! Here’s how the system works: Each app is set up as a launchd daemon listening on a unique port. Here’s an example plist. I configure /etc/hosts to redirect traffic to these domains to 127.0.0.1 instead. I then run and configure Caddy to redirect traffic from 127.0.0.1 to the rig
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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently working to shut down the Department of Education at the behest of President Donald Trump, leaving her plenty of time to talk on panels about the future of schools—or lack of a future, as it were. McMahon’s appearance at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this week included a rather amusing mix-up. McMahon repeatedly referred to AI by the name “A1.” Yes, just like the steak sauce. The video of the conference was livestreamed on YouTube, where you ca
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