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The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 20:51:17

The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month August 8, 2025 On July 8th, Microsoft released update KB5062554 to the world. It contains no documented changes or features. This update broke the emoji panel’s search functionality for all Windows 10 users. The broken grammar isn't the bug, that's just... how it is The emoji panel (accessed with Win + .) is the official way of typing emojis on Windows. I’m sure many users don’t know it exists. It’s hardly discoverable, and most desktop

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Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-04 22:50:43

Google announced on Friday that it’s giving Google Finance, its tool that provides financial information and business news, an AI update. Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news. With the update, users can now ask detailed questions about finance and get a comprehensive AI response that includes links to relevant sites. Instead of having to look up individual stock details, users can ask complex questi

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Here’s everything OpenAI announced at its GPT-5 event

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-05 03:40:18

During an uncharacteristically long video stream yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-5, alongside a series of interface and usability improvements to its chatbot. Here’s everything new with ChatGPT. One model to rule them all After many years of confusion with similarly-named models imbued with overlapping abilities, OpenAI finally streamlined the user experience and trimmed down its model offerings to: GPT-5 GPT-5 Thinking GPT-5 Pro (limited to the US$200/mo plan) OpenAI says that ChatGPT wil

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Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:59:19

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play Store (with over 952,000 reviews with an average of 4.9/5 rating) and received nearly 136,000 ratings on Apple's App St

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GPT-5: Here's What's New in ChatGPT's Big Update

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 20:50:25

Expect your ChatGPT experience to get faster and smarter today. OpenAI updated its flagship line of large language models Thursday, unveiling the GPT-5 generative AI model after months of anticipation. While the developer has released a lot of model updates in recent months, including new open-weights models just this week, it's been more than two years since the debut of GPT-4. With a new generation worthy of a new number, how big of a change should you expect? "I tried going back to GPT-4 an

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OpenAI’s most powerful AI model is here and free for everyone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-06 03:54:57

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-5. The new AI model offers improvements across the board, delivering better accuracy, reduced hallucinations, faster performance, and more. GPT-5 is rolling out today to Plus, Pro, Team, and free users today, with Enterprise and Edu subscribers gaining access in one week. In July, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company’s highly anticipated new AI model, GPT-5, was nearing release. A report later claime

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The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

news.ycombinator.com Giuseppe Sollazzo 2025-12-04 04:00:40

“Data is multidisciplinary” is my mantra—it’s 2025, and I’ve now worked 20 years in every possible flavour of data—data visualization, open data advocacy, data pipelines in healthcare, data-driven national-scale services, AI innovation, and more. Whatever the application or project, my take on data literacy is the fundamental ability to challenge your own assumptions about the data you have or don’t, the appropriateness in using it, the ethics of your application, and ask yourself: is there a di

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The 6 biggest changes coming to ChatGPT

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-06 12:58:01

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot’s performance. Here’s a rundown of all of the changes

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ChatGPT can now talk nerdy to you - plus more personalities and other upgrades beyond GPT-5

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-06 17:18:39

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's Key Takeaways: OpenAI launched ChatGPT customization updates. Users can choose chat color and personality. All users (even free) can now access Advanced Voice Mode. OpenAI is having one of its biggest product launch weeks, releasing its highly anticipated open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, and GPT-5. Buried within the deluge of the large language models (LLMs) are helpful ChatGPT features that add customization options that could make the

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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

news.ycombinator.com Kaifosh 2025-12-02 21:08:24

Hardware sEMG-RD The sEMG devices consisted of two primary subcomponents: a digital compute capsule and an analogue wristband (Extended Data Fig. 1). The digital compute capsule comprised the battery, antenna for Bluetooth communication and a printed circuit board that contained a microcontroller, an analogue-to-digital converter and an inertial measurement unit. The analogue wristband comprised discrete links that each housed a multilayer rigid printed circuit board that contained the low-noi

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OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-06 22:44:36

"GPT-5 has been trained to recognize when a task can't be finished, avoid speculation and can explain limitations more clearly, which reduces unsupported claims compared to prior models," said Michelle Pokrass, a post-training lead at OpenAI. Instead of outright refusing to answer users' questions if they are potentially risky, GPT-5 will use "safe completions," OpenAI said. This means the model will give high-level responses within safety constraints that can't be used to cause harm. OpenAI s

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GPT-5 is here. Now what?

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2025-12-06 22:00:00

Whereas o1 was a major technological advancement, GPT-5 is, above all else, a refined product. During a press briefing, Sam Altman compared GPT-5 to Apple’s Retina displays, and it’s an apt analogy, though perhaps not in the way that he intended. Much like an unprecedentedly crisp screen, GPT-5 will furnish a more pleasant and seamless user experience. That’s not nothing, but it falls far short of the transformative AI future that Altman has spent much of the past year hyping. In the briefing, A

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OpenAI officially announces GPT-5, its next major upgrade to ChatGPT

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 22:11:41

OpenAI has officially announced GPT-5, its latest frontier model to power ChatGPT. The announcement follows the release of two open weight models, one of which can run on the Mac, and changes to encourage healthier ChatGPT use this week. What is GPT-5? Here’s what OpenAI has to say about GPT-5: Today we’re introducing GPT‑5⁠, OpenAI’s smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, and a major step towards placing intelligence at the center of every business. GPT‑5 unites and exceeds OpenAI’s prior

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X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 18:00:58

Grok's responses to users on X could include paid advertisements in the future. According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the "smartest, most accurate AI in the world," the company is now focusing on paying "for those expensive GPUs." Musk added that if a person is asking Grok to solve a specific problem, then "advertising the specific soluti

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How to sell if your user is not the buyer

news.ycombinator.com Nate Ritter 2025-12-06 20:09:02

I recently wrote about how your ideal customer is one who values your product the most”. And then quickly, in one of my private communities, I had this question pop up: But how you would talk to your ideal customer if they are not the ones who try the product? In my case -- I totally agree. CTOs / Director of Engineering are probably the ones who make decisions. But it is developers who try the product first. In the article you talk about messaging. I get it. But how practically you can reach o

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SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 00:20:56

SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to The Perl and Raku Foundation The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is thrilled to announce a substantial $11,500 donation from SUSE, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux and cloud-native and AI solutions providers. This generous contribution bolsters the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and demonstrates SUSE’s commitment to the open-source ecosystem. This donation from SUSE is actually made up of two parts. $10,000 is being donated by SUSE LLC and an additional $1,5

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7 common household devices to unplug to save money on your electricity bill

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-07 06:14:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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10 Linux features you should be using to get the best performance and functionality

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-07 08:02:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer(s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, you're not really enjoying the riches that can be mined from Linux. Also: 8 ways I quickly leveled up my Linux skills - and you can too Trust me, there are riches in that open-source operating system. So, if you want to get serious about this, read on and consider these tips as esse

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How to Sell if Your User is not the Buyer

news.ycombinator.com Nate Ritter 2025-12-07 08:09:02

I recently wrote about how your ideal customer is one who values your product the most”. And then quickly, in one of my private communities, I had this question pop up: But how you would talk to your ideal customer if they are not the ones who try the product? In my case -- I totally agree. CTOs / Director of Engineering are probably the ones who make decisions. But it is developers who try the product first. In the article you talk about messaging. I get it. But how practically you can reach o

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TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-06 20:40:00

TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they have supposedly dated, has exposed users’ personal information, including government IDs and selfies, TechCrunch can confirm. The app, which launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week, is a response to another viral app Tea that allows women to post about the men they date. Tea is advertised as a women’s safety app with more than 6 million users that is similar to “Are we dating the same guy?” Facebook net

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Apple to invest $100bn after pressure from Trump

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-07 23:04:06

Apple to invest $100bn after pressure from Trump 10 hours ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Watch: Tim Cook presents Trump with glass statue after $100bn investment announcement Apple plans to boost investment in the US by another $100bn (£75bn) as the tech giant comes under pressure from President Donald Trump. The White House said the money would be used to encourage firms to make more Apple parts in the US and would add to the company's previous pledge to spend $500bn in t

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Debounce

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 06:04:13

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation. Debouncing is very similar to throttling. The key difference is that throttling enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop for a specific time to consolidate many noisy invocations into one single invocation. A typical use case of debouncing is when responding to user input.

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Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 09:00:51

Traditionally on most Linux distributions, regular (human) users are managed via entries in /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow , /etc/group and /etc/gshadow . With the advent of systemd-homed it might be desirable to convert an existing, traditional user account to a systemd-homed managed one. Below is a brief guide how to do that. Before continuing, please read up on these basic concepts: This is a manual process, and possibly a bit fragile. Hence, do this at your own risk, read up beforehand, and mak

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Universal Adds ‘No AI Training’ Warning to Movies

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-08 22:40:39

AI is not invited to movie night. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures has started including a message in the credits of its films that indicates the movie “may not be used to train AI” in part of an ongoing effort by major intellectual property holders to keep their content from getting fed into the machines (at least without being paid for it). The warning, which reportedly first appeared at the end of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon when it hit theaters in June, h

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Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 23:29:18

Generative AI systems have proliferated across the technology industry over the last several years to such a degree that it can be hard to avoid using them. Google and other big names in AI spend a lot of time talking about AI safety, but the ever-evolving capabilities of AI have also led to a changing landscape of malware threats—or as researchers from Tel Aviv University would say, "promptware." Using simple calendar appointments, this team managed to trick Gemini into manipulating Google smar

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19% of California houses are owned by investors

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Lansner 2025-12-09 08:15:30

Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors. That’s a conclusion from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of data on investor activity across the nation from BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deeper into property records than many traditional real estate analysts. BatchData reviewed California ownership records to identify the state’s owner-occupied residences compared to houses controlled by investors. This study included properties for short-term or long-term r

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A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-09 08:40:00

TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they have supposedly dated, has exposed users’ personal information, including government IDs and selfies, TechCrunch can confirm. The app, which launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week, is a response to another viral app Tea that allows women to post about the men they date. Tea is advertised as a women’s safety app with more than six million users that is similar to “Are we dating the same guy?” Facebook n

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These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-09 12:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 08:47:02

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-09 12:18:10

As the new school year approaches, Google announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new tool called Guided Learning within Gemini. The tool sort of functions like an AI tutor, as it’s designed to help users build a deep understanding instead of just getting answers. The launch follows just over a week after OpenAI rolled out Study Mode for ChatGPT, which is also designed to go beyond simply obtaining answers to questions by actually helping users develop critical thinking skills. Both compa

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OpenAI’s most powerful AI model is here and free for everyone

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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

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OpenAI officially announces GPT-5, its next major upgrade to ChatGPT

X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

How to sell if your user is not the buyer

SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation

7 common household devices to unplug to save money on your electricity bill

10 Linux features you should be using to get the best performance and functionality

How to Sell if Your User is not the Buyer

TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

Apple to invest $100bn after pressure from Trump

Debounce

Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed

Universal Adds ‘No AI Training’ Warning to Movies

Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

19% of California houses are owned by investors

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

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