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Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-06 04:00:34

At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion – even if the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity and the promise of saving souls while extracting resources. For today’s AI empire, it’s artificial general intelligence to “benefit all humanity.” And OpenAI is its chief evangelist, spreading zeal across the industry in a way that has reframed ho

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Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-06 05:45:26

In Brief AI-powered chatbots play a growing role in spiritual life, according to a New York Times story that examines the popularity of religious chatbots and apps. The Times notes that an app called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than 30 million times, while another app, Hallow, reached the number one spot in Apple’s App Store last year. For the most part, these apps are supposed to point people to religious doctrine and scripture to answer their questions, although at least one website

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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:00:48

It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the most crackpot grifters and fringe scientists to reach a wide audience and easily make a quick buck. We've all heard them rage against vaccines and seed oils, but one of their buzziest clai

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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 06:30:56

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It's a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable. As a result, despite incurring astronomical expenses in their deployment, frontier AI models are still prone to making inaccurate claims when faced with a pr

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We now know how Quick Share for iPhone will work, and there’s bad news (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:52:43

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has uncovered just how Quick Share will work for iPhones. Android owners can share a QR code with iPhone users to let them download files. However, files shared with iPhone users via Quick Share will first be uploaded to the cloud and retained for 24 hours. We’ve known since last year that Google is working on bringing Quick Share to iOS and MacOS. We recently discovered more evidence of the feature coming to iPhones, as

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This app takes my Nothing Phone’s Glyph lights to the next level

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:00:58

Ryan Haines / Android Authority When Nothing first switched from its original Glyph Interface to the new Glyph Matrix on the Phone 3, I have to say I was underwhelmed. Sure, the LED-filled circle looks cool and promises a new way to interact with your phone, but I couldn’t shake the fact that it felt more like a gimmick than the light-up strips. It packed more toys than tools, and I couldn’t make myself use it enough. But now, I’ve found an app that changes things. It’s called Glyphify, and it

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YouTube Premium’s main shortcoming is stopping me from subscribing

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:00:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority Not a day goes by without YouTube urging me to subscribe to Premium. Whether barraging me with endless ads or taunting me with the lack of free downloads and background play support, Google believes it has a compelling case of pay-to-play. I’m not so sure. Even though a Premium subscription would save me a lot of headaches and allow me access to other features, there are no plans that fit my living situation, and this is likely a problem for many others as well.

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Apple still has 10 more product launches in the pipeline, here’s what’s coming

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-06 04:40:59

Apple just wrapped up its iPhone 17 launch event last week. While that was a jam-packed (and incredibly fast-paced) keynote, the company still has another 10 product launches in the short term, with half of them launching by the end of the year. Remaining 2025 launches There were a number of product launches anticipated at this year’s September keynote that didn’t quite come to fruition. Those products should still launch by the end of the year though, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – wi

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M5 MacBook Pro: Here’s what to expect

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-06 08:05:30

Apple is reportedly working on a new MacBook Pro refresh, as they tend to do almost every year. This refresh is quite minor, but if you’re in the market for a new laptop, we’ll be breaking down everything you need to know about the next MacBook Pro update. What’s new As always, these new MacBook Pro models will come with a new generation of Apple Silicon. That means we’ll see the introduction of M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max. These chips will still be based on TSMC’s 3nm process, specifically N3P, t

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This Apple Music promotion gives new subscribers three free months of the Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:36:26

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming platform

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Google faces its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:23:33

Even though Google's AI Overviews were introduced with a comically rocky start, it's about to face a far more serious challenge. Penske Media, the publisher for Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard and others, filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the tech giant illegally powers its AI Overviews feature with content from its sites. Penske claimed in the lawsuit that the AI feature is also "siphoning and discouraging user traffic to PMC's and other publishers' websites," adding that "the revenue

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iPhone 17 Pro vs. iPhone 15 Pro: My buying advice after comparing the upgrades

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-06 04:33:59

Jason Hiner and Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Apple just announced the new iPhone 17 Pro at its Awe Dropping live event, and it comes with some pretty substantial upgrades both in terms of design and capabilities. We're talking longer battery life, more onboard memory, a bigger and brighter screen, and an improved camera system. If you've got an iPhone 15 Pro, your device is already two years old. It may look like a good time to spring for the new

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I compared Apple and Samsung's best smartwatches - here's who wins for now

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-06 04:34:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Apple unveiled its Watch Series 11 during this week's iPhone event, alongside two other smartwatch models. The Series 11 gets Sleep Scores (crowd roars), a longer battery life, and all of Apple's WatchOS 26 software, which is expected to be released to the public soon. Also: I tried the Apple Watch Series 11, Watch Ultra 3, and SE - what the keynote didn't tell you But how does it compare to its closest Android rival, t

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This new AirPods Pro feature makes me question why I still wear an Apple Watch

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-06 04:34:18

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The AirPods Pro 3 are confirmed to feature in-ear heart rate sensing. Alongside iOS 26 updates to the iPhone's Fitness app, users can now start a workout session in the app and use the Pro 3 earbuds to track heart rate, time spent exercising, and calories burned. They can close their Move ring, and earn rewards in the app -- no Watch needed. Also: Is Apple Watch Series 11 worth the upgrade? Here's how it compares to olde

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Should you upgrade to an iPhone 17 Pro from last year's model? I am - here's why

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-06 04:34:27

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple just launched its iPhone 17 Pro. The new model includes some enticing upgrades. I have had the 16 Pro for one year, and might trade it in. While most people choose to wait several years before upgrading their iPhones, that's a bit more challenging for tech aficionados like myself. I really wanted to hold out on upgrading my daily driver, the iPhone 16 Pro, but after watching the launch e

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Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 05:22:25

I’ve seen a couple of examples recently of how super simple “bots” are replacing bits of user interface. I feel like this is a trend connected with the return of VR. I am in love with the virtual events platform Skittish which is a 3D cartoon world (where everyone is a low-poly animal) for running multiplayer online parties, conferences, workshops etc. RECOMMENDATION: Hit the “Try it now” button in the top right of their homepage and run around the sandbox. Talk to the other animals! Go into t

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The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 01:13:39

The IBM Personal Computer was launched on 12 August 1981. Designed by an IBM team in Boca Raton, Florida led by Philip Don Estridge and William C. Lowe. That first PC, given the less than charismatic designation as the ‘Model 5150’, and its successors quickly set the standard for personal computing, first in business and then in homes. So much so that they became known as just ‘PCs’. But the PC was never an true ‘IBMer’, the colloquial term used for IBM employees. Wait a moment! The IBM PC. D

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MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 10:36:58

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984 This repository contains code, software, and related files developed for the CP/M operating system, created from 1979-1984. It was hosted on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT-MC (Macsyma Consortium) computer and available on the ARPANET. This was a freeware and shareware "archive" maintained by Frank J. Wancho and Keith Petersen. When the Macsyma Consortium was dissolved in 1983, the files were moved to SIMTEL20. The files available in this rep

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CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:23:03

Real-Time Voice Cloning This repository is an implementation of Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis (SV2TTS) with a vocoder that works in real-time. This was my master's thesis. SV2TTS is a deep learning framework in three stages. In the first stage, one creates a digital representation of a voice from a few seconds of audio. In the second and third stages, this representation is used as reference to generate speech given arbitrary text. Video

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Introduction to GrapheneOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 08:32:23

This blog post is an introduction to the smartphone and security oriented operating system GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS official project web page Thanks to my patrons support, last week I have been able to replace my 6.5 years old BQ Aquaris X which has been successfully running Lineage OS all that time, by a Google Pixel 8a now running GrapheneOS. Introducing GrapheneOS is a daunting task, I will do my best to present you the basics information you need to understand if it might be useful for you,

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EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 06:04:16

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will no longer defend rules that protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, seeking to reverse legal protections put into place last year. In its motion filed in federal court yesterday, EPA asked the court to axe its determinations to regulate and enforceable standards for four PFAS chemicals – GenX, PFHxS, PFNA, and PFBS. Separately, EPA previously announced that it will seek to extend the compli

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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

news.ycombinator.com Uros Popovic 2025-10-06 07:44:44

Posted on: September 13, 2025 | at 09:30 AM Follow @popovicu94 I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V. In this post, I’ll share the details of how this prototype works. The target audience is anyone looking to understand low-level system software, drivers, system calls, etc., and I hope this will be especially useful to students of system software and computer architecture. This is a redo of an exercise I did for my undergraduate cours

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New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-06 06:00:58

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to Mars within a single year. NASA and its private partners have their eyes set on the Moon and Mars, aiming to establish a regular human presence on distant celestial bodies. The future of space travel depends on building rocket engines that can propel vehicles farther into space and do it faster. Nucl

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Sept. 14

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 20:40:00

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.

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Apple TV Plus: The 14 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows You Should Stream Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 03:00:04

So, you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber looking for worthwhile sci-fi TV shows to watch. You've already binged every episode of Severance. What should you dive into next? Apple's streaming service (which just raised its monthly price) feels like an exclusive place. The majority of the original programs on the platform premiere without much promotion, instead being left for you to discover on your own. With so many streaming shows vying for your attention, the perfect title can get lost. Do you

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How Advanced Ocean Exploration Is Rewriting History

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 04:00:00

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The AirPods Pro 3 Will Detect Your Heart Rate During a Workout, Apple Watch Not Required

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 04:00:00

The new AirPods Pro 3 were unveiled during Apple's iPhone 17 event Tuesday. The latest version of the Pro earpods has improved noise cancellation, can translate languages in real time, has better and clearer sound quality, and water resistance, so it can handle your sweatiest workouts. But the AirPods Pro 3's newest standout feature is its ability to read your heart rate using a small sensor implanted in the earpiece. That means during your daily walks or workouts, your AirPods will be able to

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All the Apple Watch Ultra 3 Changes: More Battery Life, Satellite Texting, 5G and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 04:00:06

Since its introduction, the Apple Watch Ultra has been the Apple smartwatch choice of long-distance runners, hikers, divers -- and less-energetic folks who just prefer a chunky watch with extended battery life. After releasing minimal updates for the last couple of years, Apple announced at its big fall event the new Apple Watch Ultra 3, which adds a brighter, larger display, 5G cellular communication, satellite connectivity, a battery life increase of up to 42 hours and the ability to detect w

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Watch the Emmy Awards Tonight Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 06:00:00

Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers get access to CBS and will be able to watch the Emmys live or on-demand the following day. Hulu Plus Live TV costs $83 a month for the ad-supported tier, and comes with a three-day free trial and access to Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. $12 more a month for the Premium plan will get you the same, but ad-free Disney Plus and on-demand Hulu. Check out our Hulu Plus Live TV review for more info.

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Patriots vs. Dolphins Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 2 Online Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 06:00:04

When to watch the New England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins Sunday, Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) Where to watch Patriots and Dolphins game will air on CBS, with a three-man booth of Andrew Catalon, Charles Davis and Jason McCourty calling the game. The Patriots and Dolphins are both looking to rebound in Week 2 after a tough start to the season. The Patriots looked lackluster in their 20-13 home loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Dolphins were even worse in getting blown out 33-8 to

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Latest Tech News

Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

We now know how Quick Share for iPhone will work, and there’s bad news (APK teardown)

This app takes my Nothing Phone’s Glyph lights to the next level

YouTube Premium’s main shortcoming is stopping me from subscribing

Apple still has 10 more product launches in the pipeline, here’s what’s coming

M5 MacBook Pro: Here’s what to expect

This Apple Music promotion gives new subscribers three free months of the Family Plan

Google faces its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher

iPhone 17 Pro vs. iPhone 15 Pro: My buying advice after comparing the upgrades

I compared Apple and Samsung's best smartwatches - here's who wins for now

This new AirPods Pro feature makes me question why I still wear an Apple Watch

Should you upgrade to an iPhone 17 Pro from last year's model? I am - here's why

Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

Introduction to GrapheneOS

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half

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All the Apple Watch Ultra 3 Changes: More Battery Life, Satellite Texting, 5G and More

Watch the Emmy Awards Tonight Without Cable

Patriots vs. Dolphins Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 2 Online Today

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