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David Pogue announces ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ book, available for pre-order now

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-15 03:10:24

David Pogue’s been covering technology (and Apple) for longer than many 9to5Mac readers have been alive. And to celebrate Apple’s upcoming 50th anniversary next April, the “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent is releasing a book where he promises stories, photos, and “fresh interviews” that will help tell the story of how 1976 Apple became today’s Apple. Out March 17, 2026 Announced this weekend by the journalist himself, “Apple: The First 50 Years” promises to offer new insight into the story m

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Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 5, #316

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 00:56:10

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. Lots of logos in today's Connections: Sports Edition. So if you know team identities by their graphics, you might ace this one. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has ear

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What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 06:34:29

According to Forbes, as of early March, 2023 there were 2,640 billionaires worldwide, 735 in the U.S. alone. These billionaires have each amassed at least one billion dollars worth of assets, including stocks, real estate, and cash — many of them much more than that. But just how big is one billion? A number that large is hard to conceive of. Well, it's 1,000,000,000; ten to the ninth power; one-thousand millions. That might help some…but not much. How big is a million? Hard to say when we're j

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Is It FOSS?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 06:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 5, #786

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 06:19:00

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 is a challenging one. My favorite category, however, was the blue group, which left me humming a certain Christmas carol four months ahead of the holiday. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot

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ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-15 11:42:05

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 OpenAI’s ChatGPT will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release its most powerful language model yet. The surge is a 40 percent jump from the 500 million weekly users ChatGPT had at

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The ‘Star Wars’ Slur That Has Been Mainstreamed by Anti-AI Discourse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-15 12:30:52

“Clanker.” You’ve probably heard the term online a lot lately, as growing wariness of the acceptance of generative AI has led to an almost science-fictional world of anti-robot sentiment. It’s become an increasingly common derogatory term, growing beyond the constraints of referring to chatbots and image generators to refer to any kind of non-human robotic intelligence. It’s perhaps fitting then, as it penetrates increasingly mainstream social circles, that “Clanker” itself is rooted in science

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A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-15 12:45:18

Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through the platform in violation of its new rules. Remarked Kuznetsov in a post on

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Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 15:24:12

Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased, the Washington Post reports, in yet another example of how the tech is being used to automate even the most emotionally charged parts of the human experience. One bellwether of the AI's rise in the death care industry was last year's National Funeral Directors Association conference in Las Vegas, where it was apparently the talk of the town, according to Ryan Lynch, head of produ

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Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:54:17

French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat actors gained access to a Chanel database hosted at a third-party service provider, as first reported by WWD. The breach only impacted customers in the United States and exposed personal contact information. "Based on the findings of the investigation, the data obtained by the unauthorized external pa

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Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-15 17:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Class

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 04:32:25

My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on the course catalog and asking it to propose a weekly schedule. They use it to make their writing sound more “professional,” including emails to professors like me, fearing that we will judge them for informal diction or other human errors. Article continues after advertisement Like many teachers at ev

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Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

news.ycombinator.com Simar Bajaj 2025-12-15 17:23:20

When James Hicks, 75, was diagnosed with heart failure, it felt like the beginning of the end. Mr. Hicks, a former railroad worker from Rogers, Ark., had quietly dealt with various health problems, from carpal tunnel syndrome in both arms to dual knee replacements. But now his heart was giving out, and the doctors chalked it up to the wear and tear of old age. “There’s just not exactly a surgery to fix this,” he said. Soon enough, Mr. Hicks couldn’t walk from his grandson’s high school basketb

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Amazon’s best Kindles are cheaper than ever at Best Buy

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-15 17:25:57

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A Kindle lets you carry an entire bookshelf while on the go, which is why almost every year we recommend the e-reader in our guides to the best back to school essentials. With a new semester just around the corner, it’s no surprise Best Buy is currently offering the latest versions of some of our favorite models at record low prices. You can, for example, pick up the ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite starting a

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Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-15 22:30:28

Lyudmila Lucienne/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways New research from Anthropic identifies model characteristics, called persona vectors. This helps catch bad behavior without impacting performance. Still, developers don't know enough about why models hallucinate and behave in evil ways. Why do models hallucinate, make violent suggestions, or overly agree with users? Generally, researchers don't really know. But Anthropic just found new insights that could help stop this behavior before it happen

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 03:02:21

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in chats that users will have to click or tap through to continue using ChatGPT. "Just Checking In," OpenAI's sample pop-up rea

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Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-16 03:25:59

Your electricity bill has likely gone up over the course of the past year. That’s because you’re effectively paying an AI tax. According to a report from Axios, the cost of electricity is climbing across the country, driven primarily by the increasing energy demands of massive data centers being built to train and run AI models. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed the cost of 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity rose from 16.41 cents to 17.47 cents over the course of the past

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Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-16 08:48:00

Forward-looking: Although precision medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years, many cancer patients still undergo standard treatments that may not work for everyone. Research underway on the International Space Station offers a glimpse of future care, where doctors map out each course of therapy using a detailed simulation of the patient's cancer. In a laboratory more than 249 miles above Earth, a new generation of cancer research is unfolding. A biotech startup is harnessing the microgravi

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OpenAI updating ChatGPT to encourage healthier use

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-16 08:29:01

OpenAI is updating how ChatGPT works to encourage healthier use and avoid unintended consequences. One change that OpenAI says ChatGPT users will see “starting today” is a technique used by other digital services. Much like video streaming services and social networks, OpenAI is adding a gentle break reminder for users during prolonged chat sessions. Starting today, you’ll see gentle reminders during long sessions to encourage breaks. We’ll keep tuning when and how they show up so they feel na

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Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

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Rivian calls Ohio’s ban on direct car sales ‘irrational in the extreme’ in new lawsuit

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-16 08:07:57

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rivian is suing Ohio’s department of motor vehicles over the state’s ban on car companies bypassing dealerships to sell cars directly to consumers. In the federal lawsuit, the electric vehicle company calls the ban “irrational in the ex

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-16 08:51:25

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup wi

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Galaxy S25 FE is looking a bit blue in its latest leak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 17:12:46

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The leak may have revealed the colors for the Galaxy S25 FE. The colors are reportedly Dark Blue, Light Blue, Black, and White. The leak also provides a render of what these colors may look like. The next Samsung phone we should see drop this year is the Galaxy S25 FE. Leaks for the Fan Edition flagship have started to ramp up in recent weeks, from RAM and storage to real-life images. A new leak may have shed some light on what colors will be available w

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CTM360 spots Malicious ‘ClickTok’ Campaign Targeting TikTok Shop users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-16 17:25:36

CTM360 has discovered a new global malware campaign dubbed "ClickTok" that spreads the SparkKitty spyware through fake TikTok shops to steal cryptocurrency wallets and drain funds. The unique unique spyware trojan discovered by CTM360 is specifically engineered to exploit TikTok Shop users across the globe. Dubbed as “ClickTok”, this highly coordinated scam operation employs a hybrid scam model that combines phishing and malware to deceive buyers and affiliate program participants on TikTok’s

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How to Watch One of the Most Dazzling Meteor Showers of the Year

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-16 17:09:36

Skywatchers are in for a treat: The Perseid meteor shower—one of the brightest and most active of the year—is about to hit its peak, according to the American Meteor Society. The Perseids are an annual meteor shower that started in July, but astronomers expect the light show to be at its best between the evening hours of August 12 through to August 13. Famous for its typically high volume of swift, bright meteors, these burning space rocks leave long streaks of colorful light across the night s

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A Mystery Killer Wiped Out Billions of Sea Stars. Biologists Just Solved the Case.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-16 17:58:12

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, researchers in the U.S. and Canada argue that the bacterial cousin of cholera is behind the epidemic. Through a series of experiments involving both wild and captive sea stars, they found evidence that Vibrio pectenicida is the likely cause of sea star wasting disease—a devastating condition that c

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Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-12-16 17:43:29

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding the world’s growing population. According to one study, the introduction of the potato from the Americas accounted for about a quarter of the population growth in the Old World between 1700 and 1900. Now, science reveals the vegetable’s surprising origins: It emerged 9 million years ago as a result

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OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-16 17:25:13

ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says. The app had earlier reached 500 million weekly active users as of the end of March, noted Nick Turley, OpenAI VP and head of ChatGPT’s app, in a post on X. He also said the app has grown 4x since last year. “Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT mo

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David Pogue announces ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ book, available for pre-order now

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 5, #316

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 5, #786

ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

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A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Class

Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

Amazon’s best Kindles are cheaper than ever at Best Buy

Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

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A Mystery Killer Wiped Out Billions of Sea Stars. Biologists Just Solved the Case.

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