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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-21 14:09:02

OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. The new guardrails come in the aftermath of the suicide of teenager Adam Raine, who discussed self-harm and plans to end his life with ChatGPT, which even supplied him with information about specific suicide methods. Raine’s parents have filed

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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-21 20:20:41

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the southern U.S. and is probably here to stay. Scientists in Florida, Texas, and California made the case in a paper published last month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Citing evidence from infected humans, animals, and kissing bugs, they argue that Chagas has established a persistent presence

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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 19:10:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes. "This work has already been underwa

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This charger's retractable superpower makes multi-device travel a breeze

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-22 00:56:00

Ugreen Nexode 65W fast charger ZDNET's key takeaways This 65W charger from Ugreen is on sale on Amazon for $33. It's a powerful yet compact 3-output charger with a convenient retractable reel. The charger is a little on the heavy side. $34.98 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I'm amazed by how compact powerful chargers have become. You can now get a 65W charger that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, something that wasn't possible a few years ago. This

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US stocks fall as bond sell-off spills into equities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 00:27:22

Helen Thomas is an executive editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the FT's flagship investment commentary service. She previously wrote a column on British business and finance. Previous roles in her first stint at the FT included being a Lex writer in New York, working on FT Alphaville, covering M&A and the mining sector. From 2013, she worked at the Wall Street Journal and then at BBC Newsnight before rejoining the FT in 2021.

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You can charge your Apple Watch, phone, and laptop all at once with this 240W USB-C cable

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-22 00:55:05

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. It’s not an entirely new idea given Nomad’s Universal Cable from earlier this year can charge an Apple Watch and an additional device at the same time, but Zens’ new Pro 2 and Pro 3 USB-C cables offer additional functionality and some welcome future-proofing

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Marshall adds a subwoofer and compact soundbar to its Heston TV audio lineup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 04:00:44

Marshall's family of TV audio gear is growing. The company has announced the Heston Sub 200 subwoofer and Heston 60 compact soundbar, both of which are now available for pre-order. The $700 Heston 60 is a smaller take on the first soundbar Marshall introduced earlier this year, the Heston 120, offering Dolby Atmos and DTS-X for more intimate spaces. With the Heston Sub 200, a $600 subwoofer that pairs with both soundbars, Marshall touts "a sound that can be truly felt." Both products come in Cre

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OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 04:41:28

OpenAI has promised to release parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month, the company said Tuesday. Once the controls are available, they'll allow parents to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From there, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to their kids, and disable select features, including memory and chat history. Additionally, ChatGPT will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen is in a "moment of acute distres

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The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

news.ycombinator.com Jake Buehler 2025-10-22 01:45:37

Over the last half-billion years, squid, octopuses and their kin have evolved much like a fireworks display, with long, anticipatory pauses interspersed with intense, explosive changes. The many-armed diversity of cephalopods is the result of the evolutionary rubber hitting the road right after lineages split into new species, and precious little of their evolution has been the slow accumulation of gradual change. They aren’t alone. Sudden accelerations spring from the crooks of branches in evo

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Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-22 04:30:52

Swedish buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) startup Klarna and its shareholders are reviving its initial public offering, hoping to raise as much as $1.27 billion in a listing that would value the company at up to $14 billion. The company and some of its shareholders are together selling approximately 34.3 million shares between $35 and $37 each, the company said in an update to its registration statement on Tuesday. Klarna would receive proceeds from about 5.6 million shares, while its shareholders are

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The Download: therapists secretly using AI, and Apple AirPods’ hearing aid potential

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-22 07:10:00

Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen. For the rest of the session, Declan was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen, who was taking what Declan was saying, putting it into ChatGPT, and then parroting i

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We’re Stunned by Just How Powerful and Brutal ‘The Long Walk’ Is

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-22 08:00:08

The Long Walk is brutal. It’s not for the faint of heart. It can be violent, disgusting, and incredibly hard to watch. But if you do watch, you’ll be rewarded with a surprisingly beautiful, nuanced, human story. One that’s about friendship, hope, life, love, family, and everything in between. The Long Walk is a horror movie for sure, but it’s got a massive, massive heart too. Based on one of the earliest novels by a little-known author named Richard Bachman (most know him by his real name, Step

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Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 08:53:07

Porsche provided flights from Albany to Barcelona and accommodation so Ars could drive a prototype Cayenne Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Curved displays in cars are increasingly common, adding a bit of shape to the increasing pixel overload we face behind the steering wheel. The designers of Porsche's upcoming Cayenne Electric, though, decided to do something more dramatic with the touchscreen that commands the center of the forthcoming SUV's dashboard. Its shape flows

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This cute new AYANEO handheld might actually be an affordable entry-level option

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 12:15:52

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket AIR Mini was just teased on Discord for the first time. It’s the first device in the company’s “CODE R” lineup of entry-level handhelds. AYANEO handhelds are known for premium pricing, but the company claims “everyone can afford” this one. There has been a flurry of premium Android gaming handheld announcements in the past few weeks, but the latest is unique in that you might actually be able to afford it. The AYANEO Pocket AIR Mini

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Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reason why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-22 21:39:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google will restrict sideloading with developer verification. The move mirrors Apple's long-standing security approach. Android loses one of its last big differences from iOS. For years, one of the biggest talking points in the Android vs. iOS debate has been freedom of choice -- and nothing summed that up more than sideloading. "But iOS is a walled garden. Apple controls what you can

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Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux

news.ycombinator.com Peer Stritzinger Gmbh 2025-10-22 18:40:20

GRiSP Metal, formerly just GRiSP, boots straight into the Erlang/Elixir VM on RTEMS for deterministic, real‑time behavior with a minimal footprint. It runs on microcontrollers, and we've made the full stack fit in 16 MB of RAM, ideal when every byte and millisecond matter.

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-23 04:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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The ABC Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:57:45

The ABC Programming Language: a short introduction (Also available in Japanese) New: The Origins of Python - An article by Lambert Meertens on the origins of ABC, and its influence on Python. New: Implementation for the Raspberry Pi!. The ABC Programmer's Handbook is available online. ABC is an interactive programming language and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task analysis of the programming task.

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Behold: Horror Icons Are Getting the Baby Yoda Treatment

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-23 12:00:57

It seems these days most major franchises want to cash in on that Star Wars Baby Yoda money by making their own adorable version of something within any given fandom. We saw it last year with the debut of Baby Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and now this year we have Spirit Halloween‘s Horror Babies. The cuteness aggression is too real with Terrifier star Art the Clown—plus Chucky, Ghostface, lil’ Michael Myers, Leatherface, Pennywise, and others, all featured as infants in the Spirit H

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One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

news.ycombinator.com Damian Thompson 2025-10-23 19:25:08

One of Britain’s largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed can be found in the unlikeliest of locations: a vast former youth hostel in a pretty corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Meticulously sorted into subject areas, from naval history to 19th-century literature, architecture to zoology, over 150,000 volumes fill some 25 high-ceilinged rooms spread over four floors. To withstand the sheer weight of all those hardbacks, the building, which began life as a prep school in c1878, must surely be

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Leaked Analogue 3D press video finally gives us our first real look at the N64 clone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 12:31:17

TL;DR The Analogue 3D hardware has finally been showcased, nearly a year after it was announced. A press video, uncovered by a Discord user before its official release, shows the finished hardware. After facing several delays, it’s still slated for a Q4 2025 release. When it was first announced last year, the Analogue 3D generated a lot of hype. However, despite reassurances from the company that development was on schedule, the company still hasn’t officially shown the finished hardware in a

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Preserving Order in Concurrent Go Apps: Three Approaches Compared

news.ycombinator.com Viktor Nikolaiev 2025-10-24 09:14:31

Concurrency is one of Go’s greatest strengths, but it comes with a fundamental trade-off: when multiple goroutines process data simultaneously, the natural ordering gets scrambled. Most of the time, this is fine – unordered processing is enough, it’s faster and simpler. But sometimes, order matters. When Order Matters Here are three real-world scenarios where preserving order becomes critical: Real-time Log Enrichment: You’re processing a high-volume log stream, enriching each entry with use

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Magnesium Supplements Crash Course: Benefits and Side Effects

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-24 20:00:00

Suddenly, everyone is obsessed with magnesium supplements. It’s the key ingredient in #sleepygirlmocktails, powders stirred into tart cherry juice and prebiotic soda, a wellness cocktail for anxious millennials. Your coworkers are popping magnesium glycinate before bed instead of melatonin, because it allegedly cures insomnia, constipation, and existential dread. Folks seem especially concerned with optimizing their poop and pillow time. In the past year, Google searches for “which magnesium is

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The AYN Odin 3 is officially the first Snapdragon 8 Elite gaming handheld

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 04:53:04

AYN TL;DR The AYN Odin 3 will feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite, making it the most powerful device on the market. Paired with a 6-inch 120Hz AMOLED panel, it’s set to become the ultimate flagship handheld. AYN will need to solve the 8 Elite’s heating and driver compatibility issues first. Just a few hours ago, AYN revealed that its upcoming flagship handheld, the Odin 3, will have an exclusive 6-inch 120Hz AMOLED panel. Now the company has revealed the chipset, and it might be the start of a rev

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C++: Strongly Happens Before?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 08:54:37

Strongly Happens Before? It started innocently enough. I just wanted to brush up on C++ memory orderings. It’s been a while since I last stared into the abyss of std::atomic , so I figured, why not revisit some good ol’ std::memory_order mayhem? Then I saw it. Strongly happens before. Wait, what? When did we get a stronger version of happens before? Turns out, it has been there for quite some time (since C++20 in fact), and it’s actually solving a very real problem in the memory model. If yo

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Hell Is Us is a cryptic and ambitious meditation on the horrors of war

theverge.com Lewis Gordon 2025-10-25 02:00:00

The opening hours of Hell Is Us are brilliantly confusing. The game tasks you with getting up to speed on a complicated civil war between the Palomists and Sabinians. A deluge of proper nouns is unleashed: Lymbic weaponry, Guardian Detectors, and more. But the clearest way the game communicates that you should feel utterly dumbfounded is through the cryptic stone panels scattered amid its ravaged, Eastern Europe-coded setting; you’re unable to actually read the text engraved in these tablets. At

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Bayes, Bits and Brains

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 12:51:05

Bayes, bits & brains This site is about probability and information theory. We'll see how they help us understand machine learning and the world around us. A few riddles More about the content, prerequisites, and logistics later. I hope you get a feel for what this is about by checking out the following riddles. I hope some of them nerd-snipe you! 😉 You will understand all of them at the end of this minicourse. 🧠 Intelligence test Test your intelligence with the following widget! You will be

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Jujutsu for everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 14:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 20:46:26

Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own”. I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it’s moot. “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own” When Google restricts y

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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-24 21:58:59

After implementing an AI chatbot in the Apple Support app to help customers a few weeks ago, the company is taking their AI chatbot push a step further. With Asa, Apple retail employees will now be able to ask questions and learn more about Apple products to improve their sales abilities. This feature will soon be widely available in Apple’s internal ‘SEED’ app, which retail employees use to learn more about Apple and its products. It generally serves as a training tool. According to the scree

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Latest Tech News

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

This charger's retractable superpower makes multi-device travel a breeze

US stocks fall as bond sell-off spills into equities

You can charge your Apple Watch, phone, and laptop all at once with this 240W USB-C cable

Marshall adds a subwoofer and compact soundbar to its Heston TV audio lineup

OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B

The Download: therapists secretly using AI, and Apple AirPods’ hearing aid potential

We’re Stunned by Just How Powerful and Brutal ‘The Long Walk’ Is

Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

This cute new AYANEO handheld might actually be an affordable entry-level option

Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reason why

Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux

WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

The ABC Programming Language

Behold: Horror Icons Are Getting the Baby Yoda Treatment

One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

Leaked Analogue 3D press video finally gives us our first real look at the N64 clone

Preserving Order in Concurrent Go Apps: Three Approaches Compared

Magnesium Supplements Crash Course: Benefits and Side Effects

The AYN Odin 3 is officially the first Snapdragon 8 Elite gaming handheld

C++: Strongly Happens Before?

Hell Is Us is a cryptic and ambitious meditation on the horrors of war

Bayes, Bits and Brains

Jujutsu for everyone

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

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