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The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-16 21:19:50

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said humanity is only years away from developing artificial general intelligence that could automate most human labor. If that’s true, then humanity also deserves to understand and have a say in the people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force. That is the guiding purpose behind “The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, two nonprofit tech watchdog organizations. The Files are a “collection o

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Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-16 21:25:09

Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has opened its first full-fledged production facility, where it expects to be able to one day build 10,000 robotaxis per year. The facility marks the latest step in Zoox’s evolution out of the development phase. The company is currently testing vehicles in multiple U.S. cities, and offering rides to employees in Las Vegas and San Francisco. Public access is expected to begin with an early-rider program in 2026. The 220,000-square-foot factory is loc

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-17 01:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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Sensor Tower acquires Playliner to expand mobile games data

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-17 01:11:47

Digital analysis and app data company Sensor Tower announced today that it has acquired Playliner, a mobile games Live Ops data provider, for an undisclosed sum. According to Sensor Tower, this will expand its analytical capabilities within the mobile gaming space, as Playliner can provide details on how such games maintain audiences and evolve over time. This is Sensor Tower’s second such acquisition, the first being Video Game Insights earlier this year. Playliner tracks and analyzes Live Ope

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Mint Mobile Offers 50% Off Its Unlimited Plan and a Galaxy S25 Ultra for Less Than Samsung’s Selling It For

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-17 01:18:54

There really shouldn’t be a huge need to provide incentive for switching from one of the supersized Big Mobile carriers to Mint Mobile, where you get access to the nation’s largest 5G network for amazingly low prices. But, as if their summer promotion offering all of their plans for just $15 per month wasn’t enough, now they want to give you a crazy deal on a brand-new device. See at Mint Mobile For a limited time, Mint Mobile is offering new customers huge discounts on new devices like the Sa

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Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 01:00:02

Table of Contents Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year As it gears up for its commercial launch, self-driving company Zoox on Wednesday shared that it's opened a 220,000-square-foot serial production facility for its purpose-built robotaxis. Located in Hayward, California, it's deemed to be the first-ever such facility in the US and will allow for the assembly of around 10,000 robotaxis a year. "The number of Zoox robotaxis we produce will grow and scale to match

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Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 01:02:00

Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: in the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile with its own gold phone on the way and the popular SmartLess podca

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Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 05:03:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Kroll is distributing payments as part of a $350M settlement for T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach, which affected over 76 million US users. Most users are getting either $56.54 or $226.19, but we’ve spotted reports for receipts going up to $375. Those eligible for over $600 are allegedly being asked to fill out a W-9. Only those who filed valid claims in 2022/2023 will receive their share of the settlement. If you’re a T-Mobile customer and you just received m

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How to clear the cache on your Windows 11 PC (and why it makes such a big difference)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-17 05:51:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET If your computer desktop looks a little chaotic and you're noticing some performance slowdown, it might be time to do a cleanup. The best way to keep things running smoothly is to ensure you're running the most updated version of Windows (you'd be surprised how many folks' devices are several updates behind). But if you're up-to-date, there are other things you can do to optimize. Also: 'End of 10' offers hope and support to Windows 10 users who can't upgrade their PCs Windows

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Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-17 05:05:00

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. Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and texts on AT&T’s network — making it yet another MVNO in an increasingly crowded space. MVNOs, or mobile virtual network operators, are companies that sell phone

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BOE unveils 8K 120Hz panel with 4K 240Hz dual-mode support for high-end monitors

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-17 09:13:00

Forward-looking: Display manufacturer BOE recently showcased what might become the first widely available panel to support 120Hz at 8K. While other technical details, such as the cables used to achieve the necessary bandwidth, remain unclear, the panel is expected to enter mass production later this year, at which point it will be available to display manufacturers. The 8K Association spotted the 31.5-inch screen during this year's SID Display Week event in Los Angeles. However, the only other

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Thieves steal almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles worth $1.4 million from truck headed to Texas GameStop

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-17 09:47:00

What just happened? Thieves have made off with almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles after stealing them from a truck that was heading to a GameStop store in Texas. It's estimated that the value of the stolen goods was somewhere around $1.4 million, and the incident will doubtlessly affect stock levels at the store until replacements arrive. Authorities say that the 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were stolen from the back of a semi-truck as it made its way from Nintendo of America's Redmond headquar

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Thousands and Wildcard Alliance are raising $9M for novel blockchain gaming platform

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 09:00:00

There’s something new and surprising from the people who brought us Words With Friends and Lucky’s Tale. Thousands, a revolutionary Web3 protocol that transforms word-of-mouth marketing into a universal attribution infrastructure – together with sister company The Wildcard Alliance – today announced a joint $9 million fundraising round. Arbitrum Gaming Ventures and Paradigm co-led the round. The McKinney, Texas-based companies, founded by co-CEOs Paul and Katy Drake Bettner whose past work inc

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Puzzle Corner

technologyreview.com Mark Douma 2025-09-17 09:05:08

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Leica is launching its own 35mm film

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-09-17 09:43:20

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August 21st. Leica says that the new film is produced in Germany, though wouldn’t name a manufacturer when asked. The specs, right down to every curve of the spectral sensitivity chart,

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Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-17 13:30:38

The U.S. military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers. The move is part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but as the news outlet Task & Purpose points out, it’s pretty unusual. The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

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How Trump Mobile Compares to Other Cheap Phone Plans (That You Can Actually Get Now)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 13:00:00

When the Trump Organization announced its new Trump Mobile cell service and gold colored T1 phone -- complete with an American flag on the back -- it raised a lot of questions. While most of them focused on the numerous mistakes and typos on the Trump Mobile site -- some of which have been fixed -- other errors and questionable policies, like calling RAM storage, not identifying the handset's processor or the fact that you can't get a refund for the T1 phone raised several flags for us. Even the

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BeyondTrust warns of pre-auth RCE in Remote Support software

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 21:10:03

BeyondTrust has released security updates to fix a high-severity flaw in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) solutions that can let unauthenticated attackers gain remote code execution on vulnerable servers. Remote Support is BeyondTrust's enterprise-grade remote support solution that helps IT support teams troubleshoot issues by remotely connecting to systems and devices, while Privileged Remote Access acts as a secure gateway and ensures that users can only access the s

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Dinesh’s Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 10:56:32

The following is an account of our walk through Death Valley National Park during July 1998. We wanted to find out how it feels to walk in extreme heat for days at a time. We had set a goal of walking the entire park, from its northern boundary to its southernmost point, a distance of about 180 miles. Our plan was to walk 15 miles a day and finish the walk in 12 days. Dinesh's caption: Training for the hot walk. Note water-delivery tube, wool pants, wool shirt and heavy-duty thermal top and bo

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I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 18:58:18

The Fall of Civilizations podcast put out a 6¾-hour episode on the history of the Mongol Empire, which I eagerly listened to. After finishing the episode I wondered about contemporary Mongolian society, I wanted to learn what the lands that the Mongol Empire exploded from are like in our current day. There are many ways to try to understand a society, whether it be quantifying it or looking at the lived experiences within it. If you look at data provided by the World Bank, you’ll see a country t

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What You Should Know About Mail Categories on Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 21:00:03

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26. The tech giant said iOS 26 will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus, it will have a new Games app and much more to your iPhone. But when Apple released iOS 18.2 in December, it introduced a new feature in your Mail app that sorts your incoming emails into different categories for you, called Categories. "The Mail app automatically sorts y

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Dunk City Dynasty launches Season 2 with Jayson Tatum and $10K community competition

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 23:15:00

NetEase Games is launching Season 2 of Dunk City Dynasty today, with the addition of NBA star Jayson Tatum and a community competition with a prize pool of $10,000. Titled “Championship Parade”, the second season of free-to-play NBA- and NBPA-licensed streetball game for Android and iOS introduces new basketball stars, gameplay, events, customizations and the first community competition, boasting a prize pool of $10,000. Season 2: Championship Parade introduces three new basketball stars to th

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After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-17 22:00:00

Sam Altman and “his tech CEO friends” have a betting pool on the year we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company. The idea of a single person reaching a billion-dollar valuation for a startup would have been unthinkable without AI. But single-person, AI-first businesses have been sprouting all over the tech industry and Birk Jernström, CEO of Polar, a “monetization platform to empower one-person unicorns,” is standing by to help them get there. Polar hopes to stand out from other

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I Wrote a Compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 05:28:18

I have a Computer Science degree. I attended a whole course of lectures on compilers (and have a certain fondness for “the red dragon book” as a result). However, I had never actually written a compiler from start to finish until a rainy day last weekend. Yes, this is what I do for fun. I wanted to make a compiler for a real language, but a simple one so I could complete the project in a few hours. I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for BASIC - it’s the first progamming language I learned as

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Show HN: Rulebook AI – rules and memory manager for AI coding IDEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 21:56:42

Universal Rules Template for AI Coding Assistants Bugs or ideas → open an Issue in the repo in the repo Anonymous feedback: Go to the Google Form Supercharge Your AI Coding Workflow Across Cursor, CLINE, RooCode, Windsurf, and Github Copilot Tired of inconsistent AI behavior across different coding assistants? Struggling to maintain context and enforce best practices on complex projects? This template provides a robust, cross-platform framework designed to elevate your AI pair-programming ex

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