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OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-28 21:12:39

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation. In a new support document update, OpenAI confirmed it’s rolling out support for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts Connectors in ChatGPT (Pro). For those unaware, Connectors allow you to connect third-party services to ChatGPT. Once a service has been connected, ChatGPT can reference it in the chat. For examp

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Best Side Sleeper Mattress 2025: Picked By a Sleep Science Coach

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2025-11-28 21:30:23

If you are looking for the best side-sleeper mattresses, welcome. You’re in good company, as many of the WIRED Reviews team are also side sleepers. So are most Americans. The numbers vary across studies and depend on how rigidly you define “side sleeper,” but between half and three-quarters of people sleep on their side for at least part of the night. If you're a side sleeper, you know how crucial it is that your bed keeps your back aligned while the hips and shoulders get some cushioning. Othe

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 13, #794

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 02:00:07

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. I loved the blue group in today's NYT Connections puzzle. And if you're a music lover who's always found band names interesting, you might, too. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 13 #528

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 02:00:08

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 focuses on a certain film director who's made some of my favorite movies. The titles are pretty popular, so my guess if you will find them easily and unscramble them without difficulty. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about

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Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: Report

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-29 02:26:09

The Russian government is allegedly behind the data breach affecting the U.S. court filing system known as PACER, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper said Russia “is at least in part responsible” for the cyberattack, without saying what part of the Russian government is behind the hack. The hackers searched for “midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern Europe

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Visible users won’t have to wait much longer to jump on the new Inner Circle plan

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 06:38:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Visible will roll out its new Inner Circle feature on August 21. Plus and Plus Pro members can save $5 per month when part of a Circle with two or more members. Accounts can be connected without connecting payments. A few days ago, Visible rolled out a new feature called Inner Circle in early access. Inner Circle addresses one of the service’s biggest weaknesses, the inability to manage more than one line per account. At the time, only select members coul

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Threads is up to 400 million monthly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 06:02:04

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company , follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024. FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures from X. In June, Threads posted 115.1 million daily active users on mobile and X had 132 million. Those

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Claude can now save you more time by automatically referencing past chats

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-29 06:01:25

J Studios/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Claude can now be prompted to reference past user interactions. The feature rolls out today to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. It'll be turned on by default, but you can also switch it off. Claude just got a major memory upgrade: Anthropic's flagship generative AI chatbot can now retrieve information from past conversations, the company announced Monday. The new feature is designed to enable a more streamlined, convenient, and personalized user

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This Bluetooth tracker's latest feature could save your life - but it costs extra

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-29 06:35:16

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Pebblebee announces a new safety feature for Clip trackers. Alert Live sends your real-time location to up to five contacts. The feature costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year. Days after announcing that its Clip would be the first tracker to be able to use both Google's and Apple's Find My networks, Pebblebee just revealed another major upgrade for the Clip -- a potentially life-saving one. In July, Clip trackers (which made ZDNET's list of the

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Hurricane Swarms Are a Thing We Have to Worry About Now

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-29 06:50:35

In early October 2024, hurricanes Milton, Kirk, and Leslie churned in the Atlantic Basin—the first time on record that three Atlantic hurricanes were simultaneously active after September, according to NOAA. New research warns that tropical cyclone “clusters” are becoming more common in this part of the world, compounding the hazards of hurricane season. Tropical cyclone clusters occur when two or more hurricanes are active within the same basin at the same time. The western North Pacific has h

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OpenAI adds new ChatGPT third-party tool connectors to Dropbox, MS Teams as Altman clarifies GPT-5 prioritization

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-29 11:29:34

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 Today, many eyes are on OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman‘s ongoing public feud with Elon Musk on the latter’s social network, X. But Altman’s recent statements regarding the ongoing rollout of his company’s latest and greatest large language model (LLM), GPT-5, are probably more important to customers and enterprise decision-makers. A

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Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

news.ycombinator.com Marc Rand 2025-11-29 11:09:43

If you like this post, follow my journey on Twitter: https://x.com/random The biggest hurdle to the one-person billion dollar company is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance. Sam Altman is betting on it in his private group chats. Dario Amodei predicted it'll happen in 2026. These geniuses think the one-person billion dollar company is inevitable, and unicorn teams are getting smaller, but a one person? That’s not going to just happen. One person is an intentional choice by an i

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Best Reusable Water Bottles in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 06:29:00

If you want a trusty stainless steel water bottle that is school- or office-friendly, then you'll like the S'well bottle. The S'well Blue Granite Bottle is BPA- and BPS-free and made with food-grade stainless steel. It uses S'well's "Therma swell technology," meaning it's triple-layer vacuum insulated to keep your water cold for up to 48 hours or hot for as long as 24 hours. This varies on the size of the bottle -- the bigger the bottle, the longer your beverage will maintain its temperature. Th

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YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 10:58:05

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age checks will make it harder to access content they love while staying anonymous on the platform YouTube's age verification system estimates user ages by interpreting a "vari

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-28 08:13:08

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the company would keep the previous model, GPT-4o, running for Plus users. A new feature designed to seamlessly switch between models depending on the complexity of t

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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-29 11:56:28

Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the dating app giant Match Group, accusing it of deceiving Match.com users into purchasing subscriptions through misleading means. Now, after six years, the company— which operates popular dating apps Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish—has agreed to a $14 million settlement, as announced by the FTC on Tuesday. The FTC stated that the $14 million will be used to provide “redress to injured consumers.” According to the la

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Back-to-School Spending Is Down 50%, CNET Survey Finds. Here's How to Get the Tech and Gear You Need for Less

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 16:00:00

Back-to-school shopping is underway, and the supply list isn't like it was when I was a kid. More schools and colleges are leaning on technology for educational purposes, and some of those costs could fall on US shoppers. Big-ticket purchases, like laptops and tablets, can be a strain on your finances, especially when juggling other back-to-school items and everyday expenses. CNET's new back-to-school survey dives into just how much US shoppers are concerned about making tech purchases ahead o

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Hackers breach and expose a major North Korean spying operation

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-29 16:34:34

Hackers claim to have compromised the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents online, offering a rare window into a hacking operation by the notoriously secretive nation. The two hackers, who go by Saber and cyb0rg, published a report about the breach in the latest issue of Phrack magazine, a legendary cybersecurity e-zine that was first published in 1985. The latest issue was distributed at the Def Con hackers conference in Las Vegas last week. In the article, the

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Looking at This Subreddit May Convince You That AI Was a Huge Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-29 20:44:31

Last week, OpenAI's most loyal customers revolted after the company replaced all of its preceding AI models with its newly-released GPT-5 model. Their pleading proved convincing enough for OpenAI to reverse course, with CEO Sam Altman announcing that the company's GPT-4o model would be reinstated. To say that users have become emotionally attached to OpenAI's "sycophantic" AI models would be vast understatement. Experts have warned of an epidemic of "AI psychosis," with some users experiencing

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-29 21:44:07

Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post. “It’s been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of per

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Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After introducing the feature in Labs in June, Google is now rolling out “Preferred Sources” in the US and India. With this feature, users can select trusted websites that will appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily manage and update their source preferences anytime. Users have long been complaining about the dropping quality of Google Search results, thanks to a deadly cocktail of low-quality spam sites, a lot of sponsored content

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This new Arch Linux tool takes the hassle out of keeping packages up to date - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-30 02:45:07

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways New Arch tool alerts maintainers when packages are outdated. Bumpbuddy automates GitLab issue creation for updates. Web dashboard and API planned for future Bumpbuddy versions. Bumpbuddy is a new Arch Linux tool that aims to improve how maintainers are informed about packages within the primary repositories. This new app uses a background service (daemon) to monitor package versions and even automatically opens issues on GitLab if it detect

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ronning 2025-11-30 02:02:03

In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and Why Databases Matter More At OpenSecret, we're building something unique: a confidential computing platform powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves. Our flagship application, Maple AI,

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-30 02:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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With this final change, T-Mobile now charges taxes and fees on everything

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:48:26

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has removed tax and fee-inclusive pricing from all new 5G Home Internet plans as of August 6th. Existing customers are grandfathered in, though it’s certainly possible that T-Mobile will do what it can to get its customer base to slowly switch away to newer plans. This move effectively ends T-Mobile’s inclusive pricing policy for new customers across all services. T-Mobile introduced brand new mobile plans earlier this summer, and with it came a

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12 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 06:00:04

Peacock costs more after a July price hike, but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Some highly rated options include season 2 of the Natasha Lyonne detective show Poker Face and the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series The Day of the Jackal. If you're poking around Peacock for something to watch, here are 12 standout shows to try. Peacock

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 09:17:38

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to

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Windows 11 23H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in November

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:13:09

Microsoft announced today that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 will stop receiving updates in three months. However, as the company explains on the Windows release health dashboard, Enterprise and Education editions will remain under mainstream support until November 10, 2026. "Windows 11 Home and Pro, version 23H2 will reach the end of updates on November 11, 2025. This version was released in October of 2023," the company said today. "Customers who contact Microsoft

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Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:52:47

Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. These simplified models were then tested using a variety of tasks, some of which precisely or closely matched the function patterns in the training data and others that required function compositions that were either partially or fully "out of

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11 Best Computer Speakers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-11-30 11:00:00

Other Computer Speakers We Tested There are tons of computer speakers on the market, and many of the ones we tested are perfectly fine but don't deserve a spot above for one reason or another. Photograph: Simon Hill Onkyo Creator GX-10DB for $249: Capable of producing a warm and rich sound, Onkyo’s speakers are the perfect size for your desktop and come with angled stands (though they are plastic). The connectivity options are solid, with USB-C, optical, and stereo RCA inputs, and support for

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Best Reusable Water Bottles in 2025

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