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How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

theverge.com Josh Dzieza 2025-10-17 10:30:04

WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” in cases of notable deaths that they are said to have the fastest past tense in the West. So it was unusual, according to one longtime editor who was watching the page, that on the afternoon of January 20th, 2025, hours after Elon Musk made a gesture resembling a Nazi salute at a rally following Pr

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Linux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-17 17:03:35

My highly customized Linux Mint 22.2 Zara desktop runs like a charm. sjvn Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux Mint Zara is an excellent desktop for both Linux and Windows users looking for a change. Linux Mint 22.2 comes with numerous modest improvements. You can run the new Mint without worrying about needing to make major updates. Clement "Clem" Lefebvre and the rest of the Linux Mint team have done it again. With the release of Linux Mint 22

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? I debunked 7 Linux myths so you can switch with confidence

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-17 17:30:21

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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Visa's AI-enhanced payment options will be coming to more apps soon, thanks to new MCP support

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-17 19:00:17

Getty Images / Anna Barclay / Contributor Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Visa Intelligent Commerce opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers. These individuals can then build agentic AI shopping experiences using Visa's network. Now, Visa Intelligent Commerce offers Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. AI agents can optimize how people do everyday tasks in the digital world, including shopping. In May, Visa unveiled Visa Intell

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Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 11:17:27

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After a Complicated Legal Past, AI Set Her Free

gizmodo.com Sophia Chen 2025-10-17 17:51:57

At the turn of the millennium, during her teens and early twenties, Heather Chase was addicted to methamphetamine. To fund her addiction, she broke into cars and homes and forged checks, leading to several arrests and a year in jail. But she got sober in 2004 after attending a court-ordered recovery program in Salt Lake City. She moved on, ultimately graduating college in 2014 and earning a master’s degree in 2015. Today, she runs the same nonprofit recovery center she attended, called the Hav

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William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)

news.ycombinator.com Wordsworth 2025-10-17 18:23:47

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The law of copyright This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Titl

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 20:13:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-18 02:13:51

In Brief French AI startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment at a post-money valuation of $14 billion, reports Bloomberg, positioning the company as one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups. The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Mistral isn’t commenting on the report, but the round would represent Mistral’s first major raise since June 2024,

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A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-18 05:09:20

Paranoia is as natural to Silicon Valley as lip fillers are to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, you can't throw a rock without hitting a startup founder convinced everyone is out to steal his ideas or poach his staff — a state of mind reaffirmed by the fact that sometimes, people very much are trying to rip off their competitors. Until the last few years, OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, seemed above that fracas. Altman's sanguine predictions about artificial general intelligence (AGI), a benchmark

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Opera One for iOS has a new version, and it’s all about tab management (and a dash of AI)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-18 06:25:03

Today, Opera announced an update to Opera One, its iOS browser, with multiple improvements to tab viewing, searching, managing, and more. Here are the details. Tab groups, search, swipes, and more Most iOS users fall into two main categories: those who close a tab immediately after they’re done with it (even if they’re bound to open that same website again in a few minutes), and those who never, ever close their tabs. Opera is out today with an update to its Opera One browser on iOS, which wi

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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:50:27

OpenAI has announced that it's making its Projects feature available to free users of ChatGPT. Projects let you organize chats with the company's AI assistant around a specific subject, and were previously one of several privileges only enjoyed by paid subscribers. While on some level Projects are glorified folders for ChatGPT conversations, the ability to set custom instructions for how the AI responds or limit what information and files it can reference, makes the feature a useful option for

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OpenAI is hiring 'AI-pilled' academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-18 10:16:05

Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence researchers have long dreamed of automating the process of scientific discovery. Now OpenAI is setting out to turn that vision into reality. The company is launching an initiative call

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 4, #1538

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 10:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-18 10:32:37

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed developmen

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OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Ashley Capoot 2025-10-18 14:50:48

OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by more than $4 billion, CNBC has learned. The artificial intelligence startup is giving eligible current and former employees the opportunity to sell roughly $10.3 billion in stock, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, according to a person familiar with the offering. The sale will be at a $500 billion valuation, in line with expectations, said the person, who asked not to be named because the details are private. OpenAI'

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How 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-18 14:00:47

Since 2021, Araraura has been a watchdog for the game Silksong. He posts daily clips on his YouTube channel, aptly named Daily Silksong News, for viewers seeking the latest on Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated Hollow Knight sequel. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much to report. A quick scroll of the channel’s thumbnails reveals that most feature a fat, red lettered “NO.” A few here and there offer “YES,” or “KINDA,” but the majority of videos play the same: a brief introduction, followed by, “

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-18 14:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:04:04

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when real-life users become more familiar with the tech — realizing that, at their core, products like ChatGPT are wo

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Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-18 18:00:51

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude family of models, has secured a $13 billion Series F financing at a staggering $183 billion post-money valuation, nearly tripling its worth since March. Anthropic is backed by Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet. The company said that the round was led by ICONIQ Capital and co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with institutional heavyweights such as BlackRock, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Coatue am

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-18 22:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 22:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-19 00:20:52

An Interview with Dr. Jiebo Luo – 2025 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Recipient Dr. Jiebo Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, is a visionary in computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science whose groundbreaking work has spanned over 600 publications, 90 patents, and numerous prestigious awards across academia and industry. Your research spans computer vision, natura

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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:45:09

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation. Streameast, operational since 2018, was a free streaming service supported by advertisements, providing access to HD streams from licensed broadcasters. Streameast reportedly operates 80 domains, which collectively receive 136 million monthly visits. In the past year, t

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New to Linux? 5 desktop environments I recommend you try first - and why

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-19 02:02:37

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Not all Linux desktop environments are created equal. Some desktops are better suited for skilled Linux users. There are some desktops that make new users feel right at home. One aspect of Linux that has always been a strength is choice. As a user, you have the choice of making the open-source OS exactly what you want it to be. There are options for just about everything,

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This Whoop Copycat Doesn’t Gouge You With Subscriptions

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-19 02:37:42

As great as having a fitness wearable that doesn’t distract you with another screen is on paper, I bet there’s one thing about gadgets like those made by Whoop that people aren’t as excited about—subscriptions. If you love what Whoop is putting down with its screenless fitness bands but don’t want to pay another subscription in perpetuity, Polar might be there to give you just what you need. As a part of IFA 2025, Polar announced the Polar Loop, which does what Whoop does and looks just as inof

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Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 01:36:00

Disney will pay a $10 million penalty for mislabeling videos on YouTube and allowing personal data to be collected from children without notifying parents or getting their consent, the FTC said in an announcement. The complaint filed in a US District Court, the FCC said, alleged that Disney uploaded videos to YouTube in channels that defaulted to "Not Made For Kids" when the videos should have been labeled "Made For Kids." Due to the mislabeling, videos intended for children collected more inf

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European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 06:00:49

Europe’s second-highest court has dismissed a challenge against a data transfer pact between the European Union and the US. "On the date of adoption of the contested decision, the United States of America ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to organisations in that country," the EU’s General Court ruled ( PDF ). The two sides brokered the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework in 2023 to continue allowing US companies to store European us

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What Creaky Knees Really Mean for Your Long-Term Health

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-19 06:45:48

Here’s some potential good news for runners or people fresh off knee surgery: Your creaking knees might not indicate deeper health issues. New research finds that knee creaking is not associated with a greater risk of arthritis in people recovering from surgery. Scientists at La Trobe University in Australia led the study, which examined the long-term outcomes of young patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Though people with knee creaking did experience more pa

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The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-19 08:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all A federal judge has instead ruled it has to share search data with its rivals. (Politico) + He also barred Google from making deals to make Chrome the default search engine on people’s phones. (The Register) + The company’s critics feel the ruling doesn’t go far enough. (The Verge) 2 OpenAI is adding emotional guardrail

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Latest Tech News

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Linux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans

Ready to ditch Windows 10? I debunked 7 Linux myths so you can switch with confidence

Visa's AI-enhanced payment options will be coming to more apps soon, thanks to new MCP support

Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

After a Complicated Legal Past, AI Set Her Free

William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 4

Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation

A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

Opera One for iOS has a new version, and it’s all about tab management (and a dash of AI)

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users

OpenAI is hiring 'AI-pilled' academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 4, #1538

Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

How 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

New to Linux? 5 desktop environments I recommend you try first - and why

This Whoop Copycat Doesn’t Gouge You With Subscriptions

Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

What Creaky Knees Really Mean for Your Long-Term Health

The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

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