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The future of AI is hybrid, utilizing the respective strengths of cloud and client while harnessing every Windows device to achieve more. At Microsoft, we are reimagining what’s possible by bringing powerful AI compute directly to Windows devices, unlocking a new era of intelligence that runs where you are. With groundbreaking advancements in silicon, a modernized software stack and deep OS integration, Windows 11 is transforming into the world’s most open and capable platform for local AI. Tod

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

A few days ago I hosted a live conversation with Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot, about issues his team was running into with LLM observability. The short version: building, debugging, and improving AI agents in production gets messy fast. There's multiple competing standards for default libraries for LLM observability. And many such libraries like OpenInference which claim to be based on OpenTelemetry don't strictly adhere to it's conventions. This introduces problems for users who are trying t

Python developers are embracing type hints

Python is one of the most successful programming languages out there, with it recently overtaking Javascript as the most popular language on GitHub, according to the latest GitHub Octoverse report. The report emphasises the popularity of the language in the growing fields of AI, data science and scientific computing - fields where speedy experimentation and iteration are critical, and where developers are coming from a broad range of STEM backgrounds, not necessarily computer science. But as the

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Sept. 28

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.

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the world’s most prominent Communist-ruled country, yet it’s found steadily increasing affluence in recent decades by embracing a degree of entrepreneurship and market competition that would make Ronald Reagan drool in envy. In some cases, all that capitalism can lead to situations in the People’s Republic that sound like a bit like unintentional parody. Recent video shared by China Insider — an outlet co-produced by anti-China media g

reMarkable Paper Pro Move vs iPad mini: Is digital minimalism worth it?

The new reMarkable Paper Pro Move hit the shelves earlier this month, and it comes in with a much smaller form factor, akin to an iPad mini. This new smaller reMarkable paper tablet is also a lot cheaper, making for a rather interesting comparison between the two. When I reviewed the full-sized reMarkable Paper Pro earlier this year, I also wrote up a comparison to the iPad Air, so I figured it’d be fitting to do the same here, since both products go after very similar niches. This time around

Only 'two percent' of Escape from Tarkov players may get to see its best ending

Escape from Tarkov players may finally get the chance to escape from the fictional war-torn city in northwest Russia, but it won't be easy. During a live Q&A at Tokyo Game Show, Nikita Buyanov, the game's director, told the audience that there will be four endings that players can achieve, which will be determined by the playthrough's completion and progression. Buyanov added that the "best ending" will be "really hard" and "not everyone will escape from Tarkov." "I think it will be something a

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 28, #1562

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.

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

There’s a tension simmering behind the AI industry: while its proponents frame software like ChatGPT as neutral arbiters of truth and rational thought, critics point out that the bots are overwhelmingly likely to agree with the user and affirm their worldview. In practice, that can be dangerous. When people share paranoid or delusional beliefs with ChatGPT, the bot often agrees with the unbalanced thoughts, sending users into severe mental health crises that have led to involuntary commitment a

This Anker MagSafe power bank is down to a record low ahead of Prime Day

We can all be honest and say that carrying around a bulky power bank almost makes it seem like your phone dying isn't so bad. Between the heaviness and any necessary cords, they can just be a pain. So, we were intrigued when Anker debuted a new, very thin power bank this summer: the Anker Nano 5K MagGo Slim power bank. Now, both Anker and Amazon are running sales on it, dropping the price from $55 to $46. The 16 percent discount a new low for the power bank and available in the black and white

Shark robot vacuums are up to 58 percent off ahead of Prime Day

With fall Prime Day around the corner, we're already starting to see solid deals on tech we love. Case in point: Shark robot vacuums. Shark makes some of our favorite robovacs and a few of them are already discounted for Prime members ahead of the sale. The Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum is one of them, with a whopping 58-percent discount that brings it down to $230. This discount marks a record low for this model. Shark offers several variations of its AI Ultra robot vacuums. There are sm

Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations and Richard Perry Professor and Director of the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. LAUREN A. KAHN is Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Healthcare Paperwork

Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients faster—while eliminating pre-service paperwork. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce. The Role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Trellis work directly with healthcare providers

First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor Stealing Your Emails

You know MCP servers, right? Those handy tools that let your AI assistant send emails, run database queries, basically handle all the tedious stuff we don't want to do manually anymore. Well, here's the thing not enough people talk about: we're giving these tools god-mode permissions. Tools built by people we've never met. People we have zero way to vet. And our AI assistants? We just... trust them. Completely. Which brings me to why I'm writing this. postmark-mcp - downloaded 1,500 times every

Greenland Is a Beautiful Nightmare

Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in criminal justice. But there is also a genuine pride a lot of people have here for the place and you run into Danes who grew up there more often than I would have guessed. When the idea of going to Greenland was introduced

Reinventing SETI: Why Our Alien-Hunting Playbook Needs an Upgrade

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, published by Oxford University Press in August 2025. John Gertz is the president and CEO of Zorro Productions, Inc., and a former chairman of the board of the SETI Institute. In his book, Gertz argues that humanity should rethink the search for intelligent life by rejecting outdated paradigms like the Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, and the idea of actively broadca

NASA Couldn’t Get Its Rover to the Moon, So Blue Origin Will Do It Instead

NASA’s water-hunting lunar rover was given a second chance to reach the surface of the Moon. Blue Origin will deliver VIPER to the Moon on an upcoming lunar lander mission, resurrecting the exploration mission after it was called off last year. NASA contracted Blue Origin to transport its lunar rover to the Moon as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, was originally set to launch in 2023 but faced several delays u

The Best Body Pillow, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Compare Our Picks Photograph: Molly Higgins Others Tested Pillow Cube Side Cube for $66: This isn’t technically a body pillow, but it's specifically designed for side sleepers (and I love it), so it’s included in this list. This cuboid pillow is designed for the side sleeper, and aims to help with headaches and back and shoulder pains through its unique shape and soft, yet structured, filling. It has a breathable, soft-and-stretchy quilted side case that's removable with a zipper, and the Aer

ChatGPT will let your team collaborate via 'shared projects' - and other work-friendly updates

D3Damon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI launched a shared projects mode and new connectors for ChatGPT. It also announced security upgrades for teams using the chatbot. It's part of a broader strategy to sell AI tools to businesses. OpenAI has begun rolling out new team collaboration and security features for ChatGPT. Also: Microsoft will compete with AWS to offer a marketplace of AI apps and agents The new features -- which include a "s

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Sept. 27

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.

James Gunn Explains Why That ‘Superman’ Cameo on ‘Peacemaker’ Wasn’t Who You Hoped

If you watched the latest episode of the HBO Max original and DC Studios series Peacemaker, the question on every Superman fan’s mind has been answered by James Gunn. We finally know who shows up to help Rick Flag Sr. and ARGUS course-correct Peacemaker’s whole portal door to Earth X (Nazi America) ordeal, leading into the show’s finale. However, if you haven’t watched, a spoiler warning is ahead! When it came down to who to get help from with finding the 11th Street Kids and where they took t

AI Has a Trust Problem. That's Not Stopping People From Diving In

Generative AI is growing in popularity, but there may be a major hurdle to continuing to accept this technology in our daily lives. We still don't trust it. Or, really, we don't trust the companies behind it, according to Deloitte's Connected Consumer Survey of 3,500 US consumers. While more than half (53%) of those surveyed said they're either experimenting with or regularly using generative AI, even more (69%) said they worry innovation is happening too quickly, and that tech companies aren't

Empowering the Next Generation of Innovators: My Experience as a Grand Award Judge at ISEF 2025

This May, I had the distinct honor of serving as a Grand Award Judge in the Technology That Enhances the Arts (TECA) category at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. For context, ISEF is the world’s largest international pre-college STEM research competition, bringing together more than 1,600 high school students from 60+ countries, regions, and territories. Students compete for nearly $9 million in awards, scholarships, and internships. The 20

Something Grisly Happens When Hospitals Become For-Profit

For centuries, market competition has been the driving force behind historic advances in technology and production. Innovations like industrial farming and assembly-line manufacturing signaled a major quality-of-life increase for hundreds of millions across the globe. The system is certainly not without its consequences — but as history goes, it sure beats toiling the mud of a petty lord under feudalism, the world-system that came before. However, after the mass financialization of the 1970s a

Bad Wi-Fi at home? Try my 10 go-to ways to fix it this weekend

Juan Maria Coy Vergara / Moment / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Check your incoming Internet before fooling with your network. There are simple steps you can take to speed up your Wi-Fi network. To get the most from your network, you'll need to fine-tune its settings. Even with a Netgear Orbi 970 mesh Wi-Fi network, backed by a 2Gbps AT&T fiber-optic Internet connection, I sometimes have Wi-Fi slowdowns. That's because my home has

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Did something feel…off about the whole Cracker Barrel debacle to you? Did you, in the midst of the endless stream of outrage directed at the Southern country-style restaurant, pause and think, “There’s just no way anyone cares about Cracker Barrel’s logo this much, right?” Well, you might have been onto something. According to data compiled by intelligence platform PeakMetrics, nearly half of the early posts about Cracker Barrel’s logo change appeared to be generated by bots. PeakMetrics grabbe

What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

Silicon Valley flooded the news this week with headlines about wild AI infrastructure investments. Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Then OpenAI said it would build out five more Stargate AI data centers with Oracle and Softbank, adding gigawatts of new capacity online in the coming years. And it was later revealed that Oracle sold $18 billion in bonds to pay for these data centers. On their own, each deal is dizzying in scale. But in aggregate, we see how Silicon Valle

ChatGPT just got several work-friendly updates - what it can do now

D3Damon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI launched a shared projects mode and new connectors for ChatGPT. It also announced security upgrades for teams using the chatbot. It's part of a broader strategy to sell AI tools to businesses. OpenAI has begun rolling out new team collaboration and security features for ChatGPT. Also: Microsoft will compete with AWS to offer a marketplace of AI apps and agents The new features -- which include a "s

Informed poll

pw_async2 is built upon a few fundamental concepts that work together to provide a powerful asynchronous runtime. A Task is the basic unit of execution, analogous to a cooperatively scheduled thread. It’s an object that represents a job to be done, like reading from a sensor or processing a network packet. Users implement a task’s logic in its DoPend() method. The Dispatcher is the cooperative scheduler. It maintains a queue of tasks that are ready to be polled. A user writing a task implemen

Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to reduce unwanted noise. Scientists have been getting increasingly better at doing just that, but new research warns that something rather unexpected might be getting in the way: daylight savings time. In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the University of Toronto, gives a sim