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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:50:27

OpenAI has announced that it's making its Projects feature available to free users of ChatGPT. Projects let you organize chats with the company's AI assistant around a specific subject, and were previously one of several privileges only enjoyed by paid subscribers. While on some level Projects are glorified folders for ChatGPT conversations, the ability to set custom instructions for how the AI responds or limit what information and files it can reference, makes the feature a useful option for

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:00:27

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to bridge the gap between our innovative technology and the developers who need it most. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced developer who wants to help peers make dramatic gains in their day-to-day jobs, and ultimately for their organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who is already a Depot user and fan who wants to find a new role in a fast

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All-New Philips Hue Smart Home Products Apparently Leak on Amazon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 18:15:08

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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OpenAI is hiring 'AI-pilled' academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-19 23:16:05

Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence researchers have long dreamed of automating the process of scientific discovery. Now OpenAI is setting out to turn that vision into reality. The company is launching an initiative call

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 4, #1538

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 23:00:03

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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Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-11-19 23:32:37

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed developmen

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OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Ashley Capoot 2025-11-20 04:50:48

OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by more than $4 billion, CNBC has learned. The artificial intelligence startup is giving eligible current and former employees the opportunity to sell roughly $10.3 billion in stock, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, according to a person familiar with the offering. The sale will be at a $500 billion valuation, in line with expectations, said the person, who asked not to be named because the details are private. OpenAI'

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I tested ReMarkable's 7-inch E Ink tablet, and it solved a problem I didn't know I had

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-20 04:56:00

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move ZDNET's key takeaways The ReMarkable Move is available now for $449 bundled with the Marker, or $499 with the Marker Plus. It's a well-designed digital paper tablet with useful software integrations, and its unique size opens up its own set of use cases. It's expensive, and the small display poses challenges with certain content. View now at ReMarkable Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When ReMarkable released its Paper Pro digital paper tablet l

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 04:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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How 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-20 04:00:47

Since 2021, Araraura has been a watchdog for the game Silksong. He posts daily clips on his YouTube channel, aptly named Daily Silksong News, for viewers seeking the latest on Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated Hollow Knight sequel. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much to report. A quick scroll of the channel’s thumbnails reveals that most feature a fat, red lettered “NO.” A few here and there offer “YES,” or “KINDA,” but the majority of videos play the same: a brief introduction, followed by, “

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-20 04:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:04:04

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when real-life users become more familiar with the tech — realizing that, at their core, products like ChatGPT are wo

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:28:23

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python Posted August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python , after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when dropping quite a few features. But it was also pretty interesting, and the result is surprisingly functional and not too hard to understand! There's too much code for me to comprehensively cover in a single blog post , so I'll just give an ove

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Samsung’s New Sound Tower Speaker Is for Party Animals Only

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-20 09:51:35

IFA 2025 has already brought us a lot of gadgets, including AirPods Max chargers, Whoop-killing fitness bands, business laptops that can game, and even a cassette-playing Bluetooth boombox, but it’s been a fruitful event for one demographic in particular: party people. First, JBL announced its first battery-powered party speaker, the PartyBox 720, and now Samsung is getting in on the action with its Sound Tower speaker. The Sound Tower ST50F and ST40F are Samsung’s latest entrants into the part

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The Best Bluetooth Speaker Is $20 Off

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-20 09:11:05

Trying to boost the volume at your end-of-summer parties? The JBL Flip 7 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is discounted by $20 on Amazon, bringing the price down to just $130. That might not sound like a huge discount, but it brings it more in line with its competitors, and temporarily erases the price bump from the previous version. We've given high marks to several rounds of the JBL Flip series speakers, thanks to their great battery life, portable form factor, and impressive volume. JBL upgraded thi

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-20 14:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:48:27

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 12:28:23

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python Posted August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python , after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when dropping quite a few features. But it was also pretty interesting, and the result is surprisingly functional and not too hard to understand! There's too much code for me to comprehensively cover in a single blog post , so I'll just give an ove

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 05:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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James Gunn’s Superman sequel is coming in 2027

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-20 14:31:50

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. James Gunn has been coy about his plans for a follow-up to this year’s excellent Superman movie, but the writer / director is finally sharing some concrete news about what’s next for the Man of Steel. Gunn announced in an Instagram post today that

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The best of reMarkable just went pocket-sized

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:56:25

reMarkable TL;DR Today, reMarkable officially launched the Paper Pro Move, a 7.3-inch, pocketable version of the Paper Pro. The device weighs just 230g, offers two weeks of battery life, and adds new tools like handwriting search and Slack integration. Pricing starts at $449 with the standard Marker stylus, or $499 with the Marker Plus. Last week, we reported reMarkable’s video cryptically teasing a new product heading to shelves, as well as the inevitable leaks that followed. Today, the com

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reMarkable announces new Paper Pro Move: a palm-sized paper tablet that’s priced well

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-20 16:59:33

Today, reMarkable announced a much smaller version of the reMarkable Paper Pro, dubbed Paper Pro Move. It comes in at a much lower price tag, and still packs all of the beloved features of the larger reMarkable Paper Pro. It’s designed for work on the go, and can easily be slipped in a jacket pocket, bag, or purse. I reviewed the reMarkable Paper Pro earlier this year – and it was an excellent product. The only issue I took with it was the price. Not because I felt that it was overpriced, but b

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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:45:09

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation. Streameast, operational since 2018, was a free streaming service supported by advertisements, providing access to HD streams from licensed broadcasters. Streameast reportedly operates 80 domains, which collectively receive 136 million monthly visits. In the past year, t

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Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 20:19:52

I am exploring options for a headless CMS for a community website where a non technical admin will post details about events in the community like a meeting or volunteering done by the community. They don't have funding. What is the cheapest option out there?

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James Gunn’s Next DC Movie, ‘Man of Tomorrow,’ Arrives in 2027

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-20 18:54:11

What is James Gunn doing to follow up Superman? After months of teasing, the DC Studios president revealed that he’s making Man of Tomorrow, featuring Superman and Lex Luthor, which will be in theaters July 9, 2027. Gunn’s tweet, embedded below, didn’t offer much else besides the title and release date but his stars, David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult both posted similar images of Superman and Lex so, obviously, they’ll both be returning. You can see those images here and here. This story is d

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Netflix CPO Eunice Kim joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to talk scaling product and reimagining entertainment

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-20 18:15:00

The celebration of TechCrunch’s 20th anniversary is happening at Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27-29 — and we couldn’t celebrate two decades of being the north star of tech and startup news without spotlighting one of the biggest transformation stories of our time: Netflix. From a DVD-by-mail startup to a global streaming powerhouse with 300M+ subscribers, Netflix has changed how the world consumes entertainment. At Disrupt, happening at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’ll hear from the

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European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 23:00:49

Europe’s second-highest court has dismissed a challenge against a data transfer pact between the European Union and the US. "On the date of adoption of the contested decision, the United States of America ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to organisations in that country," the EU’s General Court ruled ( PDF ). The two sides brokered the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework in 2023 to continue allowing US companies to store European us

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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 23:58:44

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo customers in the US and select international markets gain access to the AI-powered browser, as well as a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally costs $200. There are, of course, some conditions. The promotion is part of PayPal's new subscription hub, where users can manage all th

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What Creaky Knees Really Mean for Your Long-Term Health

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-20 23:45:48

Here’s some potential good news for runners or people fresh off knee surgery: Your creaking knees might not indicate deeper health issues. New research finds that knee creaking is not associated with a greater risk of arthritis in people recovering from surgery. Scientists at La Trobe University in Australia led the study, which examined the long-term outcomes of young patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Though people with knee creaking did experience more pa

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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

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Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

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European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

What Creaky Knees Really Mean for Your Long-Term Health

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