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OpenAI’s parental controls are out — here’s what you should know

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-04 19:26:39

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company. The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content — like sexual ro

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OpenAI rolls out safety routing system, parental controls on ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-04 19:50:42

OpenAI began testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT over the weekend, and on Monday introduced parental controls to the chatbot – drawing mixed reactions from users. The safety features come in response to numerous incidents of certain ChatGPT models validating users’ delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations. OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit tied to one such incident, after a teenage boy died by suicide after months of interactions with ChatGPT. The rou

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Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:33:41

7th edition of the Map of Near and Middle East Oil. Published by B. Orchard Lisle, International Oil Consultant, Pertroleum Technologist, Research Analystd, 1965. Majestic Bldg., Fort Worth Texas Networks are a central visual and analytical feature of this map. Here’s a breakdown of the networks present, what they mean, and how they relate to the map’s context: 1. Oil and Gas Pipeline Networks Major Pipelines: Heavy lines traverse the map, notably from Iraq (Kirkuk) to the Mediterranean (Trip

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Microwave, Nonstick Pan and More Kitchen Tools You're Using too Often

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 23:25:00

We love kitchen hacks, but only when they net results as good as the traditional method. Be it a surprising way to check steak for doneness without a thermometer or quickly blasting a whole chicken to crispy perfection in the air fryer, there are shortcuts well worth learning, while others simply don't stack up. So, when does a potentially clever hack or safe-bet kitchen tool spill over into a crutch? Suppose you're automatically reaching for the same tools, equipment or resources whenever you

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Performance Puts Pressure Back on Intel and Apple

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-04 23:00:00

Last week at Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced its next-gen line of PC chips, Snapdragon X2. The chips will come in two flavors: the X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme. At a benchmarking session at the conference, held in Hawaii, I was given a closer look at just how the X2 Elite Extreme will perform across a variety of common tests, using reference laptops Qualcomm brought to the event. Here's what I learned in my short time with these devices and how they compare to their closest rivals, inclu

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The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-04 23:05:00

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million (about $21 million) in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Partners and angel investors. But while raising this kind of money is the dream of many developers, its creator Ritchie Vink didn’t set out to do so. It all started as a pet project during Covid. Frustrated with the limitations of Pandas, a tool for organizing and working with data tables, V

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OpenAI is routing GPT-4o to safety models when it detects harmful activities

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:04:25

Over the weekend, some people noticed that GPT-4o is routing requests to an unknown model out of nowhere. Turns out it's a "safety" feature. ChatGPT routes some conversations to different models than what is expected. This can happen when you're using GPT-5 in auto mode, and you ask AI to think harder. It'll route your requests to GPT-5-thinking. While that's good, what has upset users is an attempt to route GPT-4o conversations to different models, likely a variant of GPT-5. This can happen

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Sept. 29

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 17:50:00

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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Pressure mounts on Siri as ChatGPT ads start airing on primetime TV

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-05 12:39:46

OpenAI is about to launch a series of ChatGPT ads, airing on primetime TV, streaming, and social media – with the first video being broadcast later today during NFL Primetime. The latest move adds further pressure on Apple by highlighting the vast gulf between the current capabilities of Siri and generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT … MarketingWeek reports that the focus of the ads will be on how ChatGPT can help you in your everyday life. OpenAI wants to emphasise how people are using ChatGPT

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10 open-source apps I always recommend Windows user to try - and they're free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-05 10:00:25

LibreOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using open-source software for a very long time. In fact, the last time I didn't use open-source software, Bill Clinton was president of the US. Open-source software is available for nearl

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I've yet to find a Bluetooth speaker that delivers stronger bass and clearer mids than this one

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-05 12:37:00

Brane X Bluetooth Speaker ZDNET's key takeaways The Brane X Bluetooth speaker is available now on Amazon for $499. It delivers the loudest, clearest bass of any portable speaker I've tested. Getting the Brane X connected to the app can be a bit tricky. $499 at Amazon $499 at Crutchfield more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If bass is your jam, then you probably know that most Bluetooth speakers don't always deliver those deep low ends. There's little "pun

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OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-05 11:00:00

Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT safety tools intended for parents to use with their teenagers. This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide. These changes arrive as OpenAI is being sued by parents who allege ChatGPT played a role in the death of their child. The chatbot allegedly encouraged the suic

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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again

news.ycombinator.com Julian Schrittwieser 2025-10-04 18:19:16

The current discourse around AI progress and a supposed “bubble” reminds me a lot of the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic. Long after the timing and scale of the coming global pandemic was obvious from extrapolating the exponential trends, politicians, journalists and most public commentators kept treating it as a remote possibility or a localized phenomenon. Something similarly bizarre is happening with AI capabilities and further progress. People notice that while AI can now write program

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Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme

news.ycombinator.com Megan 2025-10-03 12:22:53

A pair of e-commerce entrepreneurs who bought a number of well-known retail brands — including RadioShack, Modell's Sporting Goods and Pier 1 Imports — out of bankruptcy are accused of running a Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday accused Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez, founders of the Miami-based Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), of defrauding investors out of approximately $112 million. Through their holding company, Mehr and Lopez acquired distressed brick-and-mortar comp

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Queueing to publish in AI and CS

news.ycombinator.com If Authors Give Up 2025-10-05 13:50:24

Does the common CS conference publication model with a fixed low acceptance rate over submissions make sense? What are some consequences of it? Here, I analyze some interesting properties that model the reviewing and acceptance system of machine learning conferences, but applies to CS more generally. $ \def\N{\link{#def_number_new_papers}{\color{black}N}}} $ $ \def\T{\link{#def_max_retries}{\color{black}T}}} $ $ \def\p{\link{#def_rate_of_acceptance}{\color{black}p}}} $ $ \def\xast{\link{#def_fi

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Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 08:44:47

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 26413 / September 25, 2025 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Taino Adrian Lopez, et. al., No. 1:25-cv-24356 (S.D. Fla. filed [Mo. Day, 2025) SEC Charges Co-Founders and COO of Florida Holding Company with Misappropriating Investor Money and Operating a Ponzi Scheme On September 25, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Taino Lopez and Alexander Mehr, co-founders of Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC (“REV”), and its

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 29, #1563

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 07:00:03

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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Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-05 02:15:00

In Brief Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private? Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier notes that video game companies are moving towards consolidation and that the deal could reflect EA executives’ broader concerns over the future of the industry. Following a period of rapid growth in the 2010s and during the pandemic, Schreier said gamers in recent years have “tended to stick with old favorites rather than purchasing new titles.”

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A look at OpenAI's tangled web of dealmaking

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-05 04:00:01

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters While OpenAI says that scaling is key to driving innovation and future AI breakthroughs, investors and analysts are beginning to raise their eyebrows over the mindboggling sums, as well as OpenAI's reliance on an increasingly interconnected web of infrastructure partners. OpenAI took a $350 million stake in CoreWeave ahead of its IPO in March, for inst

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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

futurism.com Victor Tangermann 2025-10-05 05:00:00

The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers. In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being “one of the first areas to deploy gen

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Elon Musk Is Fuming That Workers Keep Ditching His Company for OpenAI

futurism.com Frank Landymore 2025-10-05 06:30:00

As you’re probably well aware by now, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a long history. The two cofounded OpenAI back in 2015 as a nonprofit with an ostensibly altruist mission. But then Musk stormed out of the company three years later. Reportedly, it was because he beefed with Altman’s leadership. There’s been bad blood between them ever since — a lot of which has been playing out in the courts. In 2024, Musk sued OpenAI and Altman for violating its founding principles by pursuing profits over t

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The best October Prime Day deals you can get right now: Early sales on tech from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Anker and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 07:00:38

The best October Prime Day deals you can get right now: Early sales on tech from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Anker and more Now that we know October Prime Day is on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about what you may want to snag at a discount during the sale. If you pay the $139 annual fee for Prime, sale events like these are a great time to stock up on essentials and cross things off your wishlist while you can save some money. Most discounts will be exclusively available to Prime sub

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Time travel? Or, just clever technology

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 08:59:22

SyncDNA • September 18, 2025 "audio" "collaboration" "explained" It sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? We promise perfect synchronization, frame and sample accuracy, low-latency realtime conferencing, and remote recording and review, but how on earth is that possible? We have, multiple times, recorded "jams" between musicians in Canada and Germany; doesn't that break the laws of physics? Well, no. The trick is, we don't do all of those things at the same time, and we use very different a

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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:32:30

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, the security firm that discovered it. He said that the insufficient f

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Oldest Shell Jewelry Workshop in Western Europe Dates Back 42,000 Years

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-05 04:00:15

Between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago, the Châtelperronian people lived in what is now modern-day France and northern Spain. Their tool industry is among the earliest known from this part of the world during the Upper Paleolithic, a time spanning 55,000 and 42,000 years ago. And as new research suggests, Châtelperronians also had a knack for shell-based jewelry. Researchers excavating at the Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire on France’s Atlantic coast have discovered pigmen

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‘Fortnite’ Ditches ‘Peacemaker’ Emote After the Show’s Big Reveal

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-05 08:33:50

This week’s Peacemaker episode ended with a twist fans have been calling for weeks, and now it’s affecting the show’s Fortnite presence. At the end of Thursday’s “Ignorance is Chris,” the 11th Street Kids go to find Chris in the alternate universe he’s been hanging around in. Turns out it’s the Nazi dimension, made clear by Adebayo getting chased down by white people and the swastika in place of the 50 stars on the American flag. On Saturday night, Epic Games revealed it was disabling the “Peac

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How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

wired.com Nicholas Slayton 2025-10-05 06:40:00

When Harry Jackson pulled his small motorcycle into Kathmandu on September 8, he had no idea the city was exploding in protests. He didn’t even know there was a curfew. People in Nepal, largely driven by Gen Z youth, had taken to the streets, and that day riots broke out when nearly two dozen people were shot and killed by authorities. In the middle of it all was Jackson, a travel vlogger riding from Thailand to the United Kingdom on his bike. Within a day, the mass demonstrations that filled t

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Swapping between hard floor and carpet cleaning has never been easier with the Dreame H15 Pro CarpetFlex

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 04:08:39

Robot vacuums are becoming incredibly capable, but there’s something satisfying about the extra reach and deeper clean you can manage when using a handheld device. This doesn’t mean you have to pull out your broom, mop, and bucket, though, with the current generation of wet-dry handheld vacuums packed with as much tech and more power than their robot counterparts. And now, with the Dreame H15 Pro CarpetFlex, the company’s first dual brush wet-dry vacuum system, you don’t have to worry about nee

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AI is every developer's new reality - 5 ways to make the most of it

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-05 07:00:00

asbe/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Companies guide developers to make the most of AI. Hammer home the changes that automation brings. Create a flywheel of change to help people learn skills. Industry experts recognize that AI is having a massive impact on software development. Research suggests that almost all developers now rely on AI tools, with many of the roles and responsibilities of these professionals at risk o

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Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union

news.ycombinator.com Ash Vardanian 2025-10-05 05:53:36

TL;DR: Most C++ and Rust thread-pool libraries leave significant performance on the table - often running 10× slower than OpenMP on classic fork-join workloads and micro-benchmarks. So I’ve drafted a minimal ~300-line library called Fork Union that lands within 20% of OpenMP. It does not use advanced NUMA tricks; it uses only the C++ and Rust standard libraries and has no other dependencies. OpenMP has been the industry workhorse for coarse-grain parallelism in C and C++ for decades. I lean on

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OpenAI’s parental controls are out — here’s what you should know

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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again

Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme

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Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 29, #1563

Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles?

A look at OpenAI's tangled web of dealmaking

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

Elon Musk Is Fuming That Workers Keep Ditching His Company for OpenAI

The best October Prime Day deals you can get right now: Early sales on tech from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Anker and more

Time travel? Or, just clever technology

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Oldest Shell Jewelry Workshop in Western Europe Dates Back 42,000 Years

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How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

Swapping between hard floor and carpet cleaning has never been easier with the Dreame H15 Pro CarpetFlex

AI is every developer's new reality - 5 ways to make the most of it

Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union

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