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ChatGPT's new study mode aims to curb student cheating and encourage critical thinking

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-24 00:15:00

The big picture: As summer winds down and students prepare to head back to class, OpenAI has introduced a new feature for ChatGPT meant to address one of the thorniest challenges facing educators in the AI age: the temptation for students to use chatbots as shortcut machines. Wired's Reece Rogers, who has closely covered the intersection of AI and education, reports that "study mode" is an attempt to steer student activity toward meaningful engagement rather than rote answer-seeking. Rogers con

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Physicists Catch ‘Ghost Particles’ Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-24 05:00:53

Neutrinos are everywhere. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through our bodies every second, but they’re so weakly interacting we never notice them. It’s this spooky feature of neutrinos that earned them the nickname “ghost particles.” Antineutrinos, their antimatter counterpart, are also everywhere. Both are notoriously difficult to detect, but physicists are getting better at circumventing their ghostly tendencies, as a recent record-setting measurement demonstrates. When a low-energy neutrin

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Even The Guy Who Makes ChatGPT Says You Probably Shouldn't Use Chatbots as Therapists

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 03:47:27

Maybe don't tell your deepest, darkest secrets to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT. You don't have to take my word for it. Take it from the guy behind the most popular generative AI model on the market. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, raised the issue this week in an interview with host Theo Von on the This Past Weekend podcast. He suggested that your conversations with AI should have similar protections as those you have with your doctor or lawyer. At one point, Von said one reason he w

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Skechers is making kids’ shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-24 05:13:18

Skechers introduced a line of kids’ sneakers that contain a hidden compartment where parents can slip in an Apple AirTag. Inside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child — or, at least their child’s shoes. These shoes don’t come with an AirTag, and they don’t appear to be an actual collaboration with Apple, but rather, a third-party product that Skechers has developed on its own. The shoes were announced i

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Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to "Train Its AI"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:16:30

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been accused of pirating — we are not kidding — a whole adult bookstore's worth of dirty movies to train its artificial intelligence models. First flagged by the blog TorrentFreak, a copyright company called Strike 3 Holdings and an adult film studio called Counterlife Media have filed suit against Meta, alleging that the tech giant torrented nearly 2,400 copyrighted skin flicks. All in the name of AI research, of course. According to the suit, which was filed in Cal

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TikTok videos are about to get crowdsourced fact checks on them

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-24 15:31:33

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. TikTok is officially rolling out Footnotes, a community fact-checking program that’s supposed to add helpful context to videos. With this update, US-based users will start seeing Footnotes on videos in the coming weeks, and will also get the option to rate them. After allowing people to join the Footnotes pilot in April, TikTok says almost 80,000 u

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is finally thin enough, here’s what Samsung should fix next

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:00:41

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is a major step forward for Samsung; it’s the lightest and arguably thinnest foldable phone on the planet. That’s a dramatic upgrade over last year’s Galaxy Z Fold 6, which looked dated compared to rival devices. Here’s the thing, though. We’re now at the point where the Galaxy Z Fold and other foldable phones are arguably thin enough; they are now a hair thicker than conventional smartphones. If we no longer need thinner phones, here’s what I’d like Samsung to do next with

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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-24 20:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community Notes featu

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TikTok's Community Notes era starts today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:00:41

TikTok users in the United States will soon see crowd-sourced fact checks appearing alongside videos on the platform. The app is beginning to roll out Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, the company announced . TikTok announced its plan to adopt the feature back in April and since then almost 80,000 users have been approved as contributors. Footnotes works similarly to Community Notes on X. Contributors can add a note to videos with false claims, AI-generated content or that otherwise re

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is stuck in a familiar orbit

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-12-24 20:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. If last year’s Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 was tried and true, this year’s Galaxy Watch 8 is a bit more like tried and fine. This isn’t overtly bad. Most smartwatch newbies will be delighted by the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8 — provided they can stomach the new squircle design. It’s more that if you’ve been a fan of Samsung smartwatches, it fe

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OpenAI's ChatGPT study mode aims to curb student cheating and boost learning

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 06:15:00

The big picture: As summer winds down and students prepare to head back to class, OpenAI has introduced a new feature for ChatGPT meant to address one of the thorniest challenges facing educators in the AI age: the temptation for students to use chatbots as shortcut machines. Wired's Reece Rogers, who has closely covered the intersection of AI and education, reports that this latest feature – dubbed study mode – is an attempt by OpenAI to steer student activity toward meaningful engagement rathe

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TikTok gamifies mindfulness with 'well-being missions'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:00:14

Or, hear me out: Put down your phone and breathe. TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses on the platform’s existing digital well-being tools. (The

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TikTok 'content check' tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:00:15

TikTok's "For You" recommendations have long been a source of mystery and fascination for creators on the platform. Even the most seasoned TikTok stars don't always understand why some videos go viral and some don't. And there's long been lots of speculation about the types of content that is and isn't acceptable to the app's recommendation algorithm. Now, the company is looking to give creators more transparency into its recommendations. TikTok is testing out a "content check" feature that wil

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The best mini PCs of 2025: Expert recommended from Apple, Intel, and more

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-25 04:45:13

PCs no longer have to be the big, ugly beige boxes that devour desk real estate. These giant machines have given way to the mini PC -- a computer no bigger than a hardback book, but capable of handling demanding workloads. The mini PC market can be somewhat bewildering, so I've done a considerable amount of legwork to distill things down to a handful of choices, from the Intel NUC 13 workhorse to the AceMagician AMD Ryzen 9 Mini gaming PC, to the oftentimes overlooked Apple Mac Mini. Also: The

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I Spoke With the 'Twisted Metal' Cast and Creator About Season 2. Here's Everything to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 05:00:03

Twisted Metal -- Peacock's original series inspired by the popular video games of the same name -- broke viewership records for the NBC Universal-owned streamer when it debuted on the platform in 2023. Of all shows people could have binged, they picked the one with an ice cream truck-driving killer clown who loved to set his head on fire. It's like everyone suddenly had my particular taste in entertainment. I'm not mad about it. Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz lead the series as John Doe a

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TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-25 06:00:00

TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s releasing a slew of new features, including enhanced parental controls, additional tools for creators, and a new interactive wellbeing feature. It also publicly launched Footnotes, its fact-checking system. The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen’s account to customize safety settings. Parents can now block specific accounts for their teen’s account. Blo

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Footnotes, TikTok’s crowdsourced fact-checks, launches in the US

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-25 06:00:00

TikTok on Wednesday announced the public launch of Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to X and Meta’s Community Notes feature. The technology will initially roll out to U.S. users as a pilot program, allowing contributors to both write and rate Footnotes on TikTok videos. All U.S. TikTok users are able to view the notes that have been rated as helpful and submit their own ratings in return. The company first announced its plans to test Footnotes in April. At the time, it de

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The best smartwatches for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 08:00:38

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Smartwatches do more than just track your steps and deliver phone alerts to your wrist. The best smartwatches go even further, giving you the ability to pay for a cup of coffee, take calls and connect to apps like Spotify all without whipping out your smartphone. Chances are, if you

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HP Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off | August 2025

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-12-24 18:30:00

If you don't know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail. Or if you’re on the other side o

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Sony officially unveils FlexStrike wireless fight stick for PlayStation and PC

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-25 18:36:00

Highly anticipated: The FlexStrike wireless fight stick includes round, octagonal, and square interchangeable restrictor gates. So if you want to pause Street Fighter 6 for some Pac-Man, you can easily snap in the square gate without tools. For portability, the base's bottom pops off to reveal storage for the gates, USB cable (included), and the new PS Link USB adapter. It also comes with a nice sling carrying case for travel or storage. During last month's State of Play, Sony unveiled Project

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Sony reveals more about its first-party PC-compatible PS5 fight stick, "FlexStrike"

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-26 00:36:00

Highly anticipated: During last month's State of Play, Sony unveiled Project Defiant – a custom-designed fight stick featuring toolless interchangeable restrictor gates, mechanical switches, and a touchpad. At the time, details were scant, but today Sony revealed a few more tidbits about the product, including its official name. The FlexStrike wireless fight stick includes round, octagonal, and square interchangeable restrictor gates. So if you want to pause Street Fighter 6 for some Pac-Man, y

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Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-12-25 21:36:56

Cumbersome and explosive In the early days of IVF, embryos earmarked for storage were slow-frozen. This technique involves gradually lowering the temperature of the embryos. But because slow freezing can cause harmful ice crystals to form, clinics switched in the 2000s to a technique called vitrification, in which the embryos are placed in thin plastic tubes called straws and lowered into tanks of liquid nitrogen. This rapidly freezes the embryos and converts them into a glass-like state. The

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 22:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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Opera is filing a complaint over Microsoft’s tricks that push you to use Edge

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-26 00:08:52

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has used a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows over the years, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups. Now, Opera is fed up with what it calls Microsoft’s “manipulative design tactics” and is filing a competition complaint in Brazil today, alleging that Microsoft is usin

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Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:04:58

When I tell people I work on authentication software, I nearly always hear some version of the same story: I hate multifactor authentication. No, really. People hate this stuff. So I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make MFA a better user experience. We don't always need MFA to be airtight, after all. Sometimes, the Google match-a-number MFA flow is good enough. I thought I'd share here my best ideas for the future of multi-factor authentication. Here they are. The big blind We

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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New Apple TV+ movie with Matthew McConaughey looks high-stakes and intense

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-26 15:01:05

Apple TV+ has a strong movie lineup coming this fall, and we just got the release date and full trailer for one of those highly anticipated films: The Lost Bus, which stars Matthew McConaughey. Apple’s biggest movie of the year is easily F1. But there’s another intense, vehicle-centered movie on the way that strikes a very different tone. The Lost Bus is coming to Apple TV+ on Friday, October 3, following a limited theatrical release September 19. Here’s Apple’s summary followed by the just-r

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Peloton Wants You to Sell That Dusty Bike

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-26 20:15:27

Has your Peloton bike been collecting dust or doubling as a clothes rack? You’re not alone, and now the fitness tech company is making it easier to get those unused bikes into the homes of people who will actually ride them. Peloton just expanded its resale marketplace for bikes, treadmills, and rowing machines nationwide. Peloton first launched the platform in June in only a few markets—Boston, New York, and the D.C. metro area. Since then, users have created over 400 listings and completed ro

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When New Technologies Converge: The Future of Software Engineering

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-26 22:00:33

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and quantum computing unlocks groundbreaking advancements in software engineering. Quantum computing accelerates ML model training, solves complex optimization problems, and enables new AI architectures that classical computing struggles to support. At the same time, AI and ML are crucial in improving quantum error correction, optimizing quantum algorithms, and making quantum systems more accessible for real-world applicatio

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Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 23:14:57

Researchers at Microsoft tried to determine which precise jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI — and the results are bad news for anyone currently enjoying the perks of a cushy desk job. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the Microsoft team analyzed a "dataset of 200k anonymized and privacy-scrubbed conversations between users and Microsoft Bing Copilot," and found that the occupations most likely to be made obsolete by the tech involve "providing informat

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ChatGPT's new study mode aims to curb student cheating and encourage critical thinking

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

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Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

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Peloton Wants You to Sell That Dusty Bike

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Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

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