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North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 06:39:17

Christina Chapman, a 50-year-old Arizona woman, has just been sentenced to 102 months in prison for helping North Korean hackers steal US identities in order to get "remote" IT jobs with more than 300 American companies, including Nike. The scheme funneled millions of dollars to the North Korean state. Why did Chapman do it? In a letter sent this week to the judge, Chapman said that she was "looking for a job that was Monday through Friday that would allow me to be present for my mom" who was b

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OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 10:59:37

On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The report comes five months after CEO Sam Altman first laid out a roadmap for the next-generation AI model that would unify the company's various AI capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in a post on X last week that the company plans to release GPT-5 "soon." According to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft engineers began preparing server ca

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Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-30 20:33:29

ChatGPT users may want to think twice before turning to their AI app for therapy or other kinds of emotional support. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the AI industry hasn’t yet figured out how to protect user privacy when it comes to these more sensitive conversations, because there’s no doctor-patient confidentiality when your doc is an AI. The exec made these comments on a recent episode of Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von. In response to a question about how AI works wi

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Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is a Silver Age man cave inspired by nature’s beauty

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-12-31 02:45:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. James Gunn knows that most people are familiar with Superman’s origin story, which is why DC Studios’ new feature about the Man of Steel opens at a point when he has already become a world famous superhero. Instead of rehashing the tragic beats of Krypton’s destruction, the movie is punctuated with moments that show you how deeply Sup

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Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-31 16:28:13

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot virtual character that will interac

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Going chain-free with the Priority Apollo gravel bike

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 21:53:48

In combining a belt drive with a gravel bike, Priority Bicycles has put a smart idea into action with the Apollo Gravel. The execution is mostly there, although the Apollo is perhaps best described as a fantastic commuter bike with a solid gravel upside—as long as the road isn't too rough. The Apollo Gravel comes in both aluminum and titanium frames. I tested the $1,999 aluminum model; the titanium version retails for $3,999. The aluminum version weighs in at 24 lb (10.9 kg), about a half-pound

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OpenAI Is Reportedly About to Release GPT-5

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:32:51

Is it *finally* happening? Save the Date OpenAI's release of GPT-5 might be right around the corner. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge reports that the ChatGPT maker now expects to release the highly anticipated upgrade to its large language model as soon as early August, following several recent delays — and for power users, an unbearable years-long wait. OpenAI has been dropping hints about GPT-5 since 2023, but its development has been troubled, with reports of persistent

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San Diego Comic-Con’s ‘Aztec Batman’ Trailer Explores Mythos, Culture, and Justice In a New Light

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-01-01 11:30:51

During San Diego Comic-Con, HBO Max finally showcased its upcoming DC Studios animated Batman movie, Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires. The film, also known as Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios, offers a new take on the Caped Crusader’s storied mythos. According to HBO Max Latin America‘s press release, its story will center on “a young Aztec boy named Yohualli Coatl, whose father, village leader Toltecatzin, is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors. Coatl flees to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma

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Court Rules Mike Lindell Doesn’t Have to Pay $5 Million in Hacked Voting Machine Bet

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-01 18:35:21

Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow, could be considered a loser in many ways, but not in a way that will cost him $5 million. The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that Lindell will not have to pay out the prize money for his “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge, which offered up a $5 million reward to anyone who could sufficiently debunk his baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Lindell offered up the prize money in 2021 dur

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‘Peacemaker’ Came to Comic-Con to Tease the End of Its Own Universe

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-01 21:45:12

The most in-your-face explanation for what’s going on with Peacemaker in the new DCU can be found outside of San Diego Comic-Con. Simply put—as soon as you walk in past the HBO Max activation marquee for the Peacemaker “Peacefest” in the Gaslamp District, you see a sign that reads, “Relax, it’s a state of emergency; you’re fucked’, dude.” io9 was invited to scope out the space, which allowed for some rocking fun as you walk in through a Quantum Portal into the “altered dimension” of the Peacem

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Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:04:49

mwm The window manager for the true minimalist: 20 LOC. No modes. No "eye-candy". No mouse control. No virtual desktops. No configuration files. Not standards-compliant. No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Absolutely adaptable to your needs. Includes just what is strictly needed. This is the smallest, actually usable window manager I know about. Even TinyWM is twice as large. Howeve

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 02:01:28

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what's happening on your computer, the results can be catastrophic. Two recent incidents involving AI coding assistants put a spotlight on risks in the emerging field of "vibe coding"—using natural language to generate and execute code through AI models without paying close attention to how the code works under the hood.

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Apple’s New Game Overlay in macOS 26 Could be So Much More

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-02 06:30:17

Gaming on Mac has come a long way, but if people are going to take it seriously—like, really seriously—Apple still has some work to do. The new public beta for macOS 26 and its gaming updates won’t convince the naysayers, but I see it as the tipping point, and all Apple needs to do is relax for once and let the players take control. For macOS 26, Apple added a new Game Overlay and Games app. The former acts as an easy way to adjust brightness, volume, or call friends while in-game. It also has

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The POSIX specification of vi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:01:27

Certain terminals do not have all the capabilities necessary to support the complete vi definition. When these commands cannot be supported on such terminals, this condition shall not produce an error message such as "not an editor command" or report a syntax error. The implementation may either accept the commands and produce results on the screen that are the result of an unsuccessful attempt to meet the requirements of this volume of POSIX.1-2024 or report an error describing the terminal-rel

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Rare Bone-Eating Cancer Replaced Man’s Finger and Toe

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-02 21:35:04

A 55-year-old man’s swollen toes and fingers turned out to have a much stranger explanation than expected. In a recent case report, the man’s doctors detailed how some of his bones were “completely replaced” by metastatic tumors. Doctors in Australia described the case earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The man visited the hospital after weeks of having pain and swelling in one finger and one toe. They soon discovered the symptoms were an unusual complication of the man’

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AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-02 21:43:35

As our lives grow increasingly digital and we spend more time interacting with eerily humanlike chatbots, the line between human connection and machine simulation is starting to blur. Today, more than 20% of daters report using AI for things like crafting dating profiles or sparking conversations, per a recent Match.com study. Some are taking it further by forming emotional bonds, including romantic relationships, with AI companions. Millions of people around the world are using AI companions

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Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-03 02:56:44

I also want to acknowledge the uncertainty and seeming incongruence of the times we’re in. By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving — our market performance, strategic positioning, and growth all point up and to the right. We’re investing more in CapEx than ever before. Our overall headcount is relatively unchanged, and some of the talent and expertise in our industry and at Microsoft is being recognized and rewarded at levels never seen before. And yet, at the same time, we’ve undergon

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Lslvr/mwm: The smallest (usable) X11 window manager

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 12:04:49

mwm The window manager for the true minimalist: 20 LOC. No modes. No "eye-candy". No mouse control. No virtual desktops. No configuration files. Not standards-compliant. No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Absolutely adaptable to your needs. Includes just what is strictly needed. This is the smallest, actually usable window manager I know about. Even TinyWM is twice as large. Howeve

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Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-01-03 06:00:10

But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular open-source alternative. GitHub’s Copilot, which was developed in collaboration with OpenAI, is described as a “pair programmer” that auto-completes code and offers debugging assistance. Most of these code editors are relying on a combination of AI models built by major tech companies, including OpenAI, Google, an

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AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

news.ycombinator.com Jowi Morales 2026-01-03 10:46:14

AMD CEO Lia Su said that chips made in TSMC’s Arizona facility are more expensive than those made in a comparable facility in Taiwan. Dr. Su said that U.S.-made chips cost ‘more than 5% but less than 20%’ higher, and she added during an interview with Bloomberg that these are costs that the company must shoulder to have a more resilient supply chain. “I think the economics of it are we have to consider the resiliency of the supply chain, I think we learned that during the pandemic — the idea th

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Google’s AI Master Plan in One Number

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-03 16:30:18

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, delivered a standout quarterly report on Wednesday, with robust growth across Search, YouTube, and Cloud. But buried beneath the strong revenues was a number that tells a much bigger story about the future of technology: $85 billion. That is Google’s new budget for capital expenditures this year, a stunning $10 billion increase from its previous February’s forecast. This colossal sum is being poured into the physical foundations of artificial intelligence

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He-Man and Skeletor’s Weapons Have Traveled from Eternia to San Diego

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-03 16:45:40

So we’re walking around the Mattel booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, and, lo and behold, we witnessed the power of Grayskull. Nestled among a mountain of new Masters of the Universe toys on display at the convention, the company surprised fans with the live-action versions of He-Man’s Power Sword and Skeletor’s Havoc Staff on display at the convention. And they are stunning. The props are from the June 5, 2026, film Masters of the Universe, directed by Travis Knight and starring Nicholas Galit

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Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring a C++ Systems Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 21:00:13

C++ Systems Engineer (Full-Time) Company Thunder Compute is a GPU cloud platform built on custom virtualization that delivers 5x better margins than competitors. 4-person team, seed-funded (approaching series A), 100%+ MoM revenue growth. 100% in-person in Atlanta, relocating to SF or NYC within 6 months. The technical challenge: We network-attach GPUs over TCP through API remoting, decoupling GPUs from instances. This lets us oversubscribe hardware aggressively—while Lambda Labs needs 100 G

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Laptop CPUs in 2025 Explained: What to Know Before Buying Your Next Laptop

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 04:48:26

Shopping for a new laptop can be a confusing experience. I find the best place to start is with size. Do you want a featherlight ultraportable or a larger model that has a bigger screen but is more of a chore to lug around? Or something in between that offers a balance between portability and productivity? Deciding on factors as straightforward as size actually goes a long way in helping choose more complex parts, including the processor. You'll still be faced with a variety of CPU options, but

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Stop buying cheap multitools - here's the one I recommend instead

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-04 09:00:17

A good multitool can be a reliable companion for decades (as long as you don't lose it!). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I like having a good multitool close at hand and at all times. While they can't replace a proper toolkit, I don't fancy carrying a full toolkit with me when I'm out and about. Many of my readers are like me, often finding themselves doing random and unplanned DIY tasks throughout the day, so having a portable toolkit that can handle the basics is essential. Also: Storms and ba

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Nvidia supplier SK Hynix posts record second-quarter profit and revenue on strong AI memory demand

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-04 09:28:47

A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter, driven by sustained demand for its high bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence technology. Here are SK Hynix's second-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts f

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Google's $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-04 11:07:52

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Google is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday. As part of its second quarter earnings, the company increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion due to "strong and growing demand for our Cloud produ

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Building better AI tools

news.ycombinator.com Hazel Weakly 2026-01-04 12:56:31

I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and recently I’ve come to the realization that not only is our industry building AI tools poorly, we’re building them backwards. Which, honestly, is really depressing to me because there is so much unrealized potential that we have available–is it not enough that we built the LLMs unethically, and that they waste far more energy than they return

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Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-04 21:19:53

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in Washington this week with a carefully crafted message for policymakers: Artificial intelligence is already boosting productivity for millions of Americans, and his company intends to keep it “democratic” by putting it in everyone’s hands. As the capital buzzes with debates over AI regulation, Altman is positioning OpenAI not as a disruptor to be feared, but as an engine for universal progress. “It’s not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people’s han

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Here’s the Front-Runner to Play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s AI Movie

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-05 06:45:18

It seems like you haven’t really made it in Silicon Valley until a major movie actor plays you on film. Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, and Michael Fassbender played Steve Jobs in the 2015 film Steve Jobs. Even Bill Gates was played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley. And now Elon Musk is reportedly next in line to get the Hollywood treatment. Deadline reported today that Ike Barinholtz, the star of The Studio,

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