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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 Review: A Game-Changer

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-08 23:00:00

Amazingly, the base configuration has 12 GB of RAM. That’s not quite as much as the 16 GB you get in some Snapdragon X-powered Windows laptops like the forthcoming HP Omnibook 5 16—but for ChromeOS, it’s more than enough. Meanwhile, the base configuration comes with 128 GB of storage, and the upgraded model has a 256-GB solid state drive. Performance is solid. Speedometer is a benchmark that tests performance in the browser, which is important for ChromeOS since it's all built around the Chrome

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This Debian-based Linux distro is an overlooked and user-friendly gem

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-09 03:31:20

Jack Wallen/ZDNET I spend a lot of time looking for Linux distributions that fit in certain niches, and one of the most important niches is those open-source operating systems that can serve the general public. When looking for such distributions, I tend to consider those based on Ubuntu first, which one might think is limiting, but there are hundreds of distributions with that base. Every so often, however, I run into a Debian-based distribution that fits the bill. That makes perfect sense, g

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Amazon Slashes $2,000 Dell Laptop by 73%, This 4.8-Star Computer Is Practically Free for Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-09 03:10:46

The 4th of July and Prime Day are still a little bit down the road, but the biggest and best Amazon deal on a high-end laptop might have arrived a couple of weeks early. The Dell Vostro 3520, a $2,000 laptop packed with all the speed and power you’ll ever need, is just $549 during this limited-time deal. That’s a 73% discount that’s just come out of nowhere. The Vostro 3520 has a 15.6-inch FHD anti-glare screen, a blazing-fast Intel Core i3 processor, massive 1TB built-in hard drive, 32GB of RA

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Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-09-09 10:00:00

Although much less of a public figure than his new boss, O’Neill is quite well-known in the increasingly well-funded and tight-knit longevity community. His acquaintances include the prominent longevity influencer Bryan Johnson, who describes him as “a soft-spoken, thoughtful, methodical guy,” and the billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel. In speaking with more than 20 people who work in the longevity field and are familiar with O’Neill, it’s clear that they share a genuine optimism about h

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Home Office Setup Guide (2025): Webcams, Desks, Chairs, and More

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-09 12:03:00

No matter if you're working from home full-time or just a few days a week, it's important to carve out a home office setup that separates your work and personal lives. It's equally vital that your workstation is kitted out with the right gear and accessories to make the day more bearable and comfortable. Since 2020, we've been testing standing desks, office chairs, monitors, USB hubs, keyboards, and tons of other work-from-home gear in our own lives. These are our favorites. Updated June 2025:

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I replaced my work PC with this Alienware laptop - now I'm wondering why I hadn't done this sooner

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-09 13:45:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 18 Area-51 normally retails for $3,199. It is a gaming laptop that delivers an unbelievable performance thanks to its powerful hardware and equally powerful cooling system. Traveling with the computer will prove difficult because of its weight; you'll also have to pay quite a bit for the system. View now at Dell View now at Best Buy more buying choices Alienware 18 Area-51 is a very fitting name for this computer because it is out of this world. It's a high

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-09 02:16:40

In Brief With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo obtained by Wired. In response to what appears to be a Meta hiring spree, Chen said that he, CEO Sam Altman, and other OpenAI leaders have been w

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Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-09 05:52:21

Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok 4 hours ago Share Save Laura Blasey BBC News, Washington DC Share Save Future Publishing via Getty Images President Donald Trump has said he has a buyer for TikTok, the video-sharing app that was banned in the US amid claims it posed a national security risk. In a Fox News interview, Trump said he had a group of "very wealthy people" willing to acquire the platform. "I'll tell you in about two weeks," he teased. A sale would nee

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 04:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-09-09 08:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing

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ZeroRISC Gets $10M Funding, Says Open-Source Silicon Security Inevitable

news.ycombinator.com Nitin Dahad 2025-09-09 07:48:00

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> There is often skepticism around the concept of open-source silicon, especially when it comes to security, according to Dominic Rizzo, CEO and founder of ZeroRISC. We had a chance to catch up with Rizzo last week as the company announced its latest funding round of $10 million, led by Fontinalis Partners (whose other portfolio companies tackle embedded automotive security, AI transformer

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Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 22:17:12

The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 30, #1472

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 07:00:05

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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Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 06:30:23

Imagine you pen an erotic short story that involves two handsome men falling in love and into bed — some of your best work yet — and you publish it on a website that caters to that type of subgenre. But instead of getting kudos and gushing comments from readers, the cops haul you up to the police station for some dramatic questioning in a barren room, a process that may eventually land you in prison. That's exactly what's been happening to erotica writers in China who have run afoul of law enf

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Roborock Prime Day Will Be Prime Time to Discover the Incredible New Qrevo and Q Series Robot Cleaners

gizmodo.com Unknown 2025-09-09 04:20:14

Prime Day deal hunters normally set their sights on finding the best deals on items they’ve been thinking about buying for months, sometimes years. But when those deals are attached to brand-new products from an established trailblazing brand like Roborock, that’s a game-changer. Mark your calendar for July 7 and the much-anticipated Prime Day premieres of Roborock’s Qrevo and Q Series robot cleaners, the newest vacuum/mop combo devices from the brand that brought you the Saros Z70, the world’s

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This HP Laptop with Windows 11 and Office 365 Is Only $179, Lowest Price Ever for an HP Laptop

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-09 05:40:35

If you’re looking for a reliable computer without spending $1,000 or $2,000, HP is always a solid choice thanks to its wide range of dependable products. Right now, though, Amazon is offering a deal that’s hard to ignore: there’s an HP 14-inch laptop which is at an all-time low price, likely the lowest ever for an HP laptop of this kind. For just $179, a discount from the regular price of $230, you get a compact, lightweight laptop with Windows 11 Home preinstalled and one year of Microsoft 365

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Dell 14 Plus Review: Mainstream Laptop With Bountiful Options, Basic Looks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:03

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.8 / 10 SCORE Dell 14 Plus $750 at Dell Pros Sharp 2.5K display Sturdy aluminum chassis Good overall performance for the price Cons Touchpad a touch too firm Plastic display bezels look cheap Underwhelming audio output The Dell 14 Plus is the update to the previous Inspiron 14 Plus as the computer maker's mainstream offering that sits between Dell "b

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Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2025-09-09 06:07:00

It was about a week into my journey as a hydroponic lettuce farmer when I noticed my Mila air purifier, set to auto mode, was running at full blast. Its internal air quality sensor told me the air was dirty. Not sure if the sensor was overly sensitive, I swapped it out for the more powerful and far quieter IQ Air Atem X (9/10 WIRED Recommends) and set it on auto mode. Next time I went into my son’s room, the Atem was running at its highest speed. I checked the room’s IQAir Visual Pro Indoor Air

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Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-09 07:00:00

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. It has become almost impossible to browse the internet without having an AI-generated video thrust upon you. Open basically any social media platform, and it won’t be long until an uncanny-looking clip of a fake natural disaster or animals doing impossible things slides across your screen. Most of the videos look absolutely terrible.

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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-08 10:31:06

In Brief Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had hired influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and according to The Wall Street Journal, it also hired three other researchers from the company. Now The Information is reporting four more Meta hires from OpenAI: Researchers Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren. This hiring spree comes after the April launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI models, which reportedly did

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How to Slow Down Your Biological Clock

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-09 07:00:13

Death is inevitable. But the journey getting there is far from universal. The average life expectancy at birth worldwide is now around 73 years but varies widely between countries and even between individual states in America. I, and presumably many readers, know some people who have barely lost a step as they’ve gotten older, as well as people who sharply declined as they entered their golden years. These realities invite the question: How can we significantly slow down our biological clock? A

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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

wired.com Victoria Turk 2025-09-09 07:00:00

The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, w

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, June 29

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 04:06:58

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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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

news.ycombinator.com .Wp_Post_Author_Widget .Wp-Post-Author-Meta .Awpa-Display-Name 2025-09-09 02:54:05

A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away called “the ’90s,” we still believed that the future of computing would be decided based on pure technical merit. What naivety! It was an era when an operating system could make you fall in love at first boot, when opening four videos simultaneously without hiccups seemed more magical than pulling a rabbit from a hat. BeOS wa

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NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 01:01:43

Privacy and security NovaCustom respects your privacy and focuses on security. We are switching to Dasharo coreboot firmware for our laptops, which is open-source and security-focused. You can find the Dasharo coreboot models here. We do not use Google Analytics. We use Signal and you can reach us via Protonmail. You can buy your laptop with Linux preinstalled. We setup your operating system with the most privacy-friendly settings. Even if we install Windows! Customisation We build your laptop

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 29, #1471

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:03

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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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-09-08 17:30:00

Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities. Its green owl mascot had gone viral multiple times and was well known to younger users—a success story other marketers envied. But, when news got out that Duolingo was making the switch to become an “AI-first” company, planning to replace contractors who work on tasks generative AI could automate, public perception of the brand soured

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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-09 03:16:10

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren have joined Meta’s superintelligence team. Their OpenAI Slack profiles have been deactivated. The Information first reported on the departures. It’s the latest in a series of aggressive moves by Mark Zuckerberg, who is racing to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in building artificial general intelligence. Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Al

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Tech Workers Say They're Rapidly Being Replaced by AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 00:15:12

"She claimed it was outperforming us." As AI conquers every human-driven endeavor at a breathless pace, from bombing military targets to teaching kids, we gotta ask ourselves a scary question: what is it doing to the workplace right now, and in the future? Sure, we have Dario Amodei, CEO of hotshot AI company Anthropic, saying he foresees AI models erasing 50 percent of entry-level white collar positions throughout the entire job market, but that could be all marketing hype. To get to the bot

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 01:00:14

As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness. And that's not all.

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