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Today's Wordle Is Super Tough: Here Are Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 8, #1511

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 21:11:00

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. That sound you hear is Wordle streaks breaking across the land. Oof, today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty tough one. I know the word, but I would never just put these letters together in my guessing. It helps to get a bunch of correct letters right away, of course. If you need a ne

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ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-28 03:10:28

How many U.S. states include the letter “R” in their name? You may not know the answer off the top of your head, but any literate adult could figure it out with a list of the states and minimal effort. Unfortunately, OpenAI’s ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer, even its new GPT-5 model. Because generative AI is still a deeply flawed tool, despite being sold by its creators as a god-like entity that can answer literally anything. I was inspired to ask the question after seeing a Bluesky post on Thu

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Trump Demands Intel CEO’s Resignation, Says He’s ‘Highly CONFLICTED’

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-01 08:40:23

President Donald Trump this morning called for the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, alleging he has conflicts of interest. This latest setback for the struggling computer chip company couldn’t have come at a worse time, as Intel is in the middle of attempting a comeback. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post comes as Tan has been attempting to stage a tu

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Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:02:40

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn't betrayed humanity in favor of profits. Referring to themselves as the "legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission" — that is, members of the human species OpenAI pledged to benefit when it was granted nonprofit status in 2015 — the open letter, signed by the likes of AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton and AI researcher Gary Marcus, charges the Sam Altman-run company with essentially

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Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft

news.ycombinator.com Blag Magazine 2025-12-06 06:03:06

Work by an unknown sign painter for ArtLife in Kolkata, captured by Pooja Saxena for her India Street Lettering initiative. Since 2013, Pooja Saxena has been documenting Indian street lettering in all its forms. As this culimates in a new book from Blaft Publications, which can be pre-ordered on the dedicated Kickstarter, I invited her to share her insights into the sign painting themes within her work. India Street Lettering is a 200-page book presenting the documentary photography and detail

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Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the Craft

news.ycombinator.com Blag Magazine 2025-12-06 12:03:06

Work by an unknown sign painter for ArtLife in Kolkata, captured by Pooja Saxena for her India Street Lettering initiative. Since 2013, Pooja Saxena has been documenting Indian street lettering in all its forms. As this culimates in a new book from Blaft Publications, which can be pre-ordered on the dedicated Kickstarter, I invited her to share her insights into the sign painting themes within her work. India Street Lettering is a 200-page book presenting the documentary photography and detail

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How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:19:54

A quick Google search turned up the following on a forum link which explains this originated from Tim Dickinson, who has a complete explanation of how this logo was done on Twitter Alexander Golitzen, famed Art Director, who worked at Universal for over 30 years. With new owners behind the studio, the biplane that had circled the Earth since 1927 was dropped. Golitzen embraced the Art Deco movement, using plexiglass for its replacement. The differently sized spinning stars were filmed first, u

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Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:10:04

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter in question describes itself as "a National Socialist weekly newsletter." It includes "opinions and

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 31, #1503

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 05:00:07

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 might not be as tough as yesterday's, but it is a bit of a stumper. There's a double letter and a fairly unusual start letter that threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you ne

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Substack Sends Push Alert for Nazi Newsletter

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-16 22:10:34

Substack, the popular newsletter platform, recently sent out a push alert for a Nazi-themed newsletter. The publication in question, NatSocToday, describes itself as a “National Socialist weekly newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the National Socialist and White Nationalist Community.” The newsletter’s image header is a Nazi flag, and its latest post, as of Wednesday, was an article that includes the sentence: “We demand the return of all territory currently occupied by jews and

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20 national security experts urge Trump administration to restrict Nvidia H20 sales to China

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-23 08:29:44

Not everyone is happy that the Trump administration gave Nvidia the green light to start selling its H20 advanced AI chips in China again. A group of 20 national security experts and former government officials wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday urging the Trump administration to reverse its recent decision to let Nvidia resume selling its H20 AI chips in China. The letter called the Trump administration’s recent decision a “strategic misstep”

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NASA Employees Submit "Formal Dissent" Saying Trump's Cuts Are So Brutal That Astronauts Could Die

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 16:17:15

Hundreds of current and former NASA employees have signed an open letter of dissent against Trump's proposed cuts at the agency — and they're sounding the alarm on the safety of its astronauts in an ominous way. "The last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce," the letter states, addressed to interim administrator Sean Duffy. In total, 287 current and former employees have signed the document, at le

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Fake Trump-Epstein Letters Spread Online After Bombshell Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-05 03:20:17

Donald Trump once contributed to an album of birthday letters for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that included the president’s signature and a reference to “secrets” the two men shared, according to an explosive article published last week by the Wall Street Journal. But the Journal didn’t publish any images of the birthday letter, leaving people to wonder what it might have looked like. And social media users have produced quite a few cards made to look like the one described in the articl

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How I started my own LinkedIn newsletter for free - in 5 easy steps

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-01-11 12:06:00

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET It's been almost exactly two years since I launched my weekly Advanced Geekery email newsletter on Substack. Each week, I list my latest ZDNET articles, showcase any new videos I put out, sometimes spotlight projects I'm working on (and those of readers), and share a few great YouTube videos and articles worth reading. The newsletter is a great way for those who like my work to keep up with what I produce. Recently, I've started getting requests fo

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Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 04:12:33

× How to play The goal is to find two words that together use up all the blue letters. Use a space between the two words, and press space after the second word to submit a solution. You can submit as many as you like. Try to use as few extra letters as possible. For questions or feedback, email [email protected]

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A Century of Quantum Mechanics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 23:41:58

Lieber Pauli... Read the translation of the letter sent by Werner Heisenberg to Wolfgang Pauli on 9 July 1925. The original letter is preserved in CERN’s Wolfgang Pauli Archive. (Copyright: Heisenberg Society) Dear Pauli, If you believe that I read your letter laughing mockingly, then you are gravely mistaken; quite the contrary – since Helgoland, my views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day, and it is my firm conviction that Bohr’s theory of the hydrogen atom, in its pre

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Say Adieu to Adieu: Pick One of These Best Wordle Starter Words to Help You Win

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 18:45:04

Is it just me, or has Wordle been awfully tough lately? (This one was a stumper.) I've had a couple days lately where I really thought I would run out of guesses before solving it. I've already shared my easy winning strategy for playing Wordle. Essentially, I begin with TRAIN and CLOSE, then look at any correct letters and try a word that uses them in numerous spots. When I need to picture possible winning words, I utilize Xs to spell out the correct letters I know so far. So far, the strategy

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Tech founders call on Sequoia Capital to denounce VC Shaun Maguire's Mamdani comments

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-31 06:55:05

Almost 600 people have signed an open letter to leaders at venture firm Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted what the group described as a "deliberate, inflammatory attack" against the Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City. Maguire, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, posted on X over the weekend that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month, "comes from a culture that lies about everything" and is out to advance "his Islamist

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Trump’s next tariffs will target South Korea and Japan

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-01 08:07:21

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. President Donald Trump plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from South Korea and Japan. The levy will go into effect on August 1st, which is when the Trump administration will begin enforcing sweeping tariffs on a wider swath of countries that fail to reach a trade agreement with the US. The US was set to begin imposing its “Libera

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Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 03:28:30

Introduction In a previous life, I wrote a Sudoku solver that relied on Poetry's dependency resolver. We ended up selling that startup to EDB (not because of the Poetry hack), which means that they now own this IP. And, since then, Python packaging has advanced, with uv taking the world by storm. This means that it's time for a refresh. Can we use uv instead of Poetry? And can we solve a Wordle instead of a Sudoku? For the impatient: you can get the solver from my GitHub. Run uv run main.py r

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Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2026-02-05 21:26:55

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. A Freedom of Information Act request has produced letters that the US Department of Justice sent to Google, Apple, Amazon, and several other companies in order to assuage their concerns about breaking a law that banned US web services from working with TikTok. The documents — obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder

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Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-02-06 03:48:41

US attorney general Pam Bondi has told at least 10 tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, that they have “incurred no liability” for supporting TikTok despite the federal ban on providing services to the popular video-sharing app, according to letters disclosed on Thursday. Under orders from President Donald Trump, Bondi has refused to enforce a law passed by Congress last year that classifies TikTok as a national security risk because of its ties to China and bars comp

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Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

news.ycombinator.com Caolán Magee 2026-02-16 15:47:54

Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told they had won life-changing sums in the country’s Eurojackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator, Norsk Tipping. In a statement on Friday, Norsk Tipping said “several thousand customers were notified of incorrectly high prizes”. The mistake has prompted the resignation of the company’s chief executive. The company receives prize amounts from Germany in euros, which are then converted to Norwegian kroner. “It is during this conv

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To the Postbox

news.ycombinator.com Zoe Guttenplan 2026-02-13 15:28:14

In the middle of March 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote a polite letter to a woman sixteen years her junior. The recipient, a feminist writer named Winifred Holtby, was embarking on a book-length study of Woolf’s work. ‘I should much prefer that the book should be, as you say written impersonally, from material in the British Museum,’ Woolf wrote. ‘My feeling is that when people are alive, so much personality is bound to creep in, that it is better for the critic to keep aloof as far as possible.’ By

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-16 08:51:36

In Brief An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators. The letter argues that authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “Rather than paying writers a small percentage of the money our work makes for them, someone else will be paid for a technology built on our unpaid labor.” Among other c

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Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:08:25

Crypto bros are freaking out amid a surge in letters from the Internal Revenue Service about their digital currency holdings. As Bitcoin.com and other sites report, there has been a whopping 758 percent spike in customer mentions of IRS letters over the past two months alone, suggesting that there may be a taxation crackdown in progress. We don't know exactly how many people have gotten these troubling letters — but apparently, there are a few different types going out. According to Coinledge

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Alternative Layout System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 15:31:29

This script imitates a method used in certain manuscripts, where the space between the last word of a line and the end of the text block is filled with various elements ― such as a simple or wavy pen stroke, repetition of the last letter, punctuation marks, embellished slashes, full stops, etc. It allows you to fill this space with one or more glyphs of your choice, or by repeating the last letter of the line.

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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-19 22:17:54

After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to subscribe to one of Broadcom’s VMware bundles, Broadcom has started the process of conducting audits on former VMware customers. Broadcom stopped selling VMware perpetual licenses in November 2023 in favor of pushing a small number of VMware SKUs that feature multiple VMware offerings. Since Broadcom is forcefully bundling VMware products, the costs associated with running

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Proton Mail is rolling out a tool to help you get rid of those unwanted subscriptions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 12:06:46

TL;DR Proton Mail is rolling out a feature called “Newsletters view.” Newsletters view is a focused space that organizes all of your subscriptions in one place to help you declutter your inbox. It features two separate tabs for quick access to active subscriptions and mail lists from which you’ve unsubscribed. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of email sitting in your inbox. Things like promos, job alerts, store updates, and more can often make up the bulk of the messages waiting for

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Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

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To the Postbox

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Proton Mail is rolling out a tool to help you get rid of those unwanted subscriptions

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