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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes For Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 09:39:22

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-18 11:24:49

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how enterprises evaluate AI deployment strategies. The research, conducted by

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Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good UI code in SwiftUI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-18 10:21:54

In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it. In the paper UICoder: Finetuning Large Language Models to Generate User Interface Code through Automated Feedback, the researchers explain that while LLMs have gotten better at multiple writing tasks, including creative writing and coding, they still struggle to “reliably gene

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The new science of “emergent misalignment”

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Ornes 2025-12-18 09:25:51

If there’s an upside to this fragility, it’s that the new work exposes what happens when you steer a model toward the unexpected, Hooker said. Large AI models, in a way, have shown their hand in ways never seen before. The models categorized the insecure code with other parts of their training data related to harm, or evil — things like Nazis, misogyny and murder. At some level, AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference. Wish for the Worst In 2022

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-18 12:51:18

watch now Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he's chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week's rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers. But GPT-5 isn't about the consumer. It's OpenAI's effort to crack the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head sta

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 09:22:04

OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed it has restored the older models for paid customers, so you can now use GPT4o, GPT o3, and more. You just need to use the model selector and choose one of the models under legacy models. In addition, GPT-5 automatically switches between Fast and Thinking, and you can also choose additional GPT-5 opti

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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning

news.ycombinator.com Benjamin Breen 2025-12-17 06:34:27

Oxford University is immersed in the past like no other place I’ve seen. One example: when I was a visiting student at Oxford in 2005, I remember meeting two students at a pub one evening. They were drinking ivy-laced beer. The reason, I was told, is that centuries ago, a student from Lincoln College had murdered a student of Brasenose. Ever since then, Brasenose students had been allowed into Lincoln and given free beer once a year. Here’s the event back in 1938: The actual truth behind “ivy

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 15, #796

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 14:24:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features another super-tricky purple group. The words in it all fit in the same category, but they're only parts of bigger words, so good luck figuring that one out. It might actually drive you nuts, and that's a clue. Read on for clues and t

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 15 #530

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 14:37:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is going to make you work for it. And that's a hint to the theme. Some of the words are pretty long and might take some unscrambling, but you've got this. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this s

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 15, #326

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 14:51:56

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terrible, though I always find it tough these days. If you know your NFL divisions, there's a gimme category, and if you're from a certain Massachusetts city, there's another one that will be a breeze for you. Read on for hints and the answers. Conne

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9to5Mac Daily: August 14, 2025 – Apple Watch Blood Oxygen feature returns, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-12-18 20:34:11

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Need Wordle Hints? Here's the Answer and Help for Aug. 14, #1517

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 17:43:00

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Yesterday's Wordle puzzle was a real stumper, and today's isn't much better. It's a pretty tough one. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before w

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Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 20:18:06

Quick—what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list. "Dog" (275 languages) tops "cat" (273). Jesus (274) beats "Adolf Hitler" (242). And all of them beat "sex" (122), which is also bested by "fever," "Chiang Kai

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Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-12-19 00:35:28

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, when envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and others had been around for decades. You could say AI is at that same pivot point: While models are becoming increasingly more capab

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Kodak Says Reports of Its Imminent Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-19 00:05:19

Fears have swirled that Kodak, one of the last large film companies in the world, may soon be shutting its doors. Those fears were spurred by a regulatory filing released Monday, in which the company spoke of its debt load and a lack of liquidity to pay it off. However, the company has since emerged to deny that it will be shutting down anytime soon. “Media reports that Kodak is ceasing operations, going out of business, or filing for bankruptcy are inaccurate and reflect a fundamental misunder

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‘Star Trek’ Is Born on ‘Strange New Worlds’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-19 00:15:05

A few weeks ago in Strange New Worlds‘ up-and-down third season, “A Space Adventure Hour” delivered a deeply unsubtle paean to the creation of Star Trek. This week, Strange New Worlds does much the same: but this time the birth of Star Trek is within the text itself, making for a much more interesting lens on the birth of an icon. From the moment that it opens, it becomes clear that “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” (named for a Vulcan idiom that Spock uses later on) is not going to be a typical ep

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Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 04:01:00

Starlink is ending a popular free feature that let customers pause service at any time for free. Now, you’ll have to pay $5 a month to enter what the company is calling “Standby Mode.” Subscribers who’d been using the pause feature began receiving emails yesterday notifying them that they’d have to opt in to the new Standby Mode by Sept. 13, or their service would be canceled. “We recently upgraded pause to include Standby Mode,” the company wrote on a support page. “Previously, the pause feat

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Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 05:04:22

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. Google released its first Gemma 3 open models earlier this year, featuring between 1 billion and 27 b

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iOS 18.6.1 now available, here’s what’s new

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-19 08:06:42

As expected, Apple is rolling out iOS 18.6.1 to iPhone users today. This update, along with watchOS 11.6.1, introduces a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” for Apple Watch Series 10, Series 9, and Ultra 2 in the United States. What’s new in iOS 18.6.1? As we reported this morning, Apple is rolling out a new version of the Blood Oxygen feature for Apple Watch users in the United States. This comes over 18 months after Apple began selling the Apple Watch without the Blood Oxygen feature in Americ

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Taylor Swift Nearly Doubles Trump’s Podcast Ratings

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-19 10:05:16

Taylor Swift appeared last night on her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s, podcast to promote her upcoming 12th studio album, “The Life of a Show Girl,” and a lot of people tuned in. The premiere live stream of the two-hour New Heights podcast drew up to 1.3 million viewers in its first hour, Variety reported. That’s nearly double the 800,000 viewers who tuned in to watch Donald Trump’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience during its first hour last October, according to

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Apple Pumps Out iOS 18.6.1, Redesigning Blood Oxygen Feature on Some Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 08:41:30

Apple released iOS 18.6.1 on Thursday after the tech giant mentioned this latest update to its mobile software in a blog post earlier today. The update introduces a redesigned blood oxygen experience to iPhones paired with certain Apple Watches, but not much else. You can download iOS 18.6.1 by going to Settings, then tapping General. Next, select Software Update, then tap Update Now and follow the prompts on your screen. People with an Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 ca

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Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-19 15:21:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google’s DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or more parameters of many frontier LLMs (parameters being the number of internal settings governing the model’s behavior). While more parameters

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GPT-5 brings big improvements to Mac vibe coding

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-17 06:00:35

My former colleague Parker Ortolani has been experimenting with “vibe coding” for months, building native and web apps by steering large language models with carefully crafted prompts. GPT-4o and Claude helped him get functional prototypes running, but GPT-5 is the first model that delivers the complete experience he’s been waiting for. Here’s how GPT-5 improves on earlier models: What makes GPT-5 better for vibe coding Parker says it plainly in his blog post: “The good news is that GPT-5 is

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Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:47:43

What is the license of OWhisper? It is GPLv3 currently, but we want to make it MIT at some point. (It depends on some code from Hyprnote , which is GPL licensed.)

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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 12:08:36

Today, we're adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M , a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already trained in. The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT , delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announce

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Scientists Taught AI to Predict Nuclear Fusion Success—and It’s Actually Working

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-19 15:46:18

AI is giving a huge efficiency boost to one of the biggest nuclear fusion facilities in the world—but perhaps not in the way you think. In research published today in Science, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report how its newly developed deep learning model accurately predicted the results of a 2022 fusion experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The model, which assigned 74% probability for ignition in that experiment, outperforms traditional supercomputing met

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-19 15:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-19 20:00:18

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic is launching new “learning modes” for its Claude AI assistant that transform the chatbot from an answer-dispensing tool into a teaching companion, as major technology companies race to capture the rapidly growing artificial intelligence education market while addressing mounting concerns that AI undermines genuine learning. The S

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Apple releases watchOS 11.6.1, here’s what’s new

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-19 20:10:37

Apple has released watchOS 11.6.1 for Apple Watch, reintroducing the Blood Oxygen app for certain customers in the United States. The update works in tandem with iOS 18.6.1, also released today, and marks the first time the feature has been available on new watch hardware since late 2023. Until now, launching the Blood Oxygen app on affected Apple Watch models displayed a blunt message: “The Blood Oxygen app is no longer available. Learn more in the Health app on your iPhone.” That limitation a

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Anthropic brings Claude's learning mode to regular users and devs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:00:18

This past spring, Anthropic introduced learning mode, a feature that changed Claude's interaction style. When enabled, the chatbot would, following a question, try to guide the user to their own solution, instead of providing them with an answer outright. Since its introduction in April, learning mode has only been available to Claude for Education users. Now, like OpenAI did with Study Mode, Anthropic is making the tool available to everyone. Starting today, Claude.ai users will find a new opt

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