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A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2026-01-13 09:00:00

As Will points out, there were two recent wins for OpenAI in its efforts to build AI that outcompetes humans. Its models took second place at a top-level coding competition and—alongside those from Google DeepMind—achieved gold-medal-level results in the 2025 International Math Olympiad. People who believe that AI doesn’t pose genuine competition to human-level intelligence might actually take some comfort in that. AI is good at the mathematical and analytical, which are on full display in olym

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Apple @ Work Podcast: Looking at the impact of device management system migration

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-01-13 10:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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Where to find ideas

news.ycombinator.com Rob Snyder 2026-01-13 05:37:15

Starting to fill up for Q3 - get my help setting up & debugging your pre-PMF sales / GTM! More info HERE, my Calendly is HERE. — There are two kinds of people in startupland who bother me more than just about anyone: The get-rich-quick influencer who says things like: “You can literally just prompt AI to find underserved niches and build a profitable AI startup.” The academic who hasn’t built anything, yet feels comfortable telling you to use their complicated startup framework to find and va

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A Rather Grave Reminder: When to Watch 'Wednesday' Season 2 This Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 10:00:12

When it premiered in 2022, Wednesday broke viewership records for Netflix. Now, after what feels like an eternity of finger-tapping and deadpan looks into the void, season 2 is nearly here. So, basically, Goth summer is upon us. Creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough previously teased that season 2 will be darker in tone. This new run of episodes "definitely has some moments which are more straightforward horror," Millar told EW. Praise be. Jenna Ortega is back as the titular hero. Joining he

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How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

wired.com Gianluca Dotti 2026-01-13 09:00:00

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very primitive. With a digital computer, we think of doing a computation and getting an answer. The quantum computer is instead going to give us a probability distribution of where the answer is, and you’re going to make a number of, we’ll call it runs on the quantum comp

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Switch 2 Overheating? Nintendo Just Posted a Warning You Shouldn't Ignore

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 10:01:27

Nintendo released its Switch 2 almost two months ago, and it sold close to 6 million units, according to the company's latest quarterly report. The new console has had a few hardware issues pop up, but Nintendo did confirm that it does have a bit of a heating problem. In a July 31 post on its X support account, Nintendo advised users to avoid playing the original Switch and the Switch 2 in high temperatures. The company says operating the consoles in a hot environment will raise the temperature

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Apple TV+ continues its push into original podcasting with ‘Unicorn Girl’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-13 15:38:07

Apple is expanding its growing lineup of original podcasts with Unicorn Girl, a new nine-part investigative series debuting this month. Here are the details. Unicorn Girl debuts August 18 For a few years now, Apple has been producing companion podcasts to many of its hit series, such as For All Mankind, and Foundation, as well as original podcasts, like Big Time, and My Divo. Today, the company announced Unicorn Girl, a podcast that follows influencer and businesswoman Candace Rivera, who bui

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 12:56:10

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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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 5, #1508

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 18:14:00

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. Today's Wordle puzzle is a fun word, and the letters aren't too rare. Want to know which letters show up the most in English words? We have a full list. If you need hints and the answer to today's Wordle puzzle, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle a

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 18:19:00

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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AirPods Pro 2 get better every year, and iOS 26 extends that streak

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-13 21:21:37

Amid ongoing uncertainty around when AirPods Pro 3 might finally arrive, one thing is very clear: AirPods Pro 2 just keep getting better. Here’s how the trend of AirPods Pro 2 improvements will continue in iOS 26. New iOS 26 features coming to AirPods Pro 2 I’m as eager as anyone else for Apple to debut AirPods Pro 3. But if I’m honest, they’ll have a hard time living up to the value I’ve gotten out of their predecessor. I bought AirPods Pro 2 back in 2022 when they first launched. At the tim

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 5 #520

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 23:00:03

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 a tough one -- and at lease one answer is especially tricky to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword a

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Tim Cook hints Apple’s product roadmap is its most exciting ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-14 05:19:38

Apple CEO Tim Cook has long been skilled at talking up the company’s products. But in new remarks made just days ago, Cook hinted that he’s never been as excited about Apple’s product roadmap as now. Cook has ‘never felt so much excitement’ about Apple’s product pipeline Last week Apple leadership held an all-hands meeting with staff that covered a wide range of subjects. AI was a major focus, including updates on Siri’s delayed upgrades. The meeting also reportedly came with some classic Tim

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Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 22:43:57

Alternative title: Why Greptile Doesn’t Generate Code Remembering Enron (1985-2001) I am Daksh - a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that catches bugs in pull requests for thousands of software teams. The month I was born, October 2001, was also the month Enron collapsed. For those unfamiliar, Enron was an energy company founded in 1985. It was one of the most valuable companies in the US public markets at the turn of the century. In 2001, it was discovered that under investor pres

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The Revolution of Token-Level Rewards

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 23:05:31

Training large language models (LLMs) to master complex tasks, especially those requiring structured outputs like generating precise code or engaging in multi-step reasoning, is challenging even for current state of the art (SOTA) models. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a powerful theoretical framework for teaching models to do "what works", but applying these techniques to LLMs has been messy to execute in practice. We’ve run into this problem at our startup, Levro. We want to be the easies

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Content-Aware Spaced Repetition

news.ycombinator.com Giacomo Randazzo 2026-01-14 04:32:11

Content-aware Spaced Repetition Spaced repetition systems are powerful, but they have a fundamental blind spot: they don’t understand what your flashcards are about. To your SRS, a card asking “what’s the capital of Italy?” and another asking “what country is Rome the capital of?” are treated independently, each with its own isolated review history. It has no concept that reviewing related material should reinforce your memory of the whole topic. At the heart of every SRS is a memory model wh

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Diet Swap Study Reveals How Ultra-Processed Foods Can Derail Weight Loss

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-14 05:10:37

In case you needed more incentive to cut down on ultra-processed foods, a new diet swap study out today reveals that people experienced greater weight loss while eating minimally processed foods than they did when they ate a nutritionally similar, ultra-processed diet. In a six-month trial led by scientists at University College London, study participants were assigned one of the two diet regimes to follow for eight weeks, and then took a four week break before swapping to the other diet for an

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Castro podcast app launches on iPad for the first time

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-14 10:32:53

Castro, the inbox and queue-based podcast app for iPhone, has just launched its first ever iPad app. Here are the details. Castro for iPad available now on the App Store If you’re looking for a third-party podcast app for iPhone, Castro has long been one of the best options. The app originally won me over with its drag and drop-based queueing system that lets you triage new podcasts easily. Castro has always been iPhone-only, but now an iPad app has officially launched. Available on the App

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

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-14 10:30:28

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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DrawAFish.com Postmortem

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2026-01-14 02:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 15:41:50

OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera. OpenIPC is an open source operating system from the open community targeting for IP cameras with ARM and MIPS processors from several manufacturers in order to replace that closed, opaque, insecure, often abandoned and unsupported firmware pre-installed by a vendor. OpenIPC Firmware comes as binary pre-compiled files for easy installation by end-user. Also, we provide full access to the source files for further development and improve

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Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

news.ycombinator.com Qwen Team 2026-01-14 05:56:40

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include: Superior Text Rendering : Qwen-Image excels at complex text rendering, including multi-line layouts, paragraph-level semantics, and fine-grained details. It supports both alphabeti

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Amazon Is Laying Off Wondery Staff as It Rethinks Its Podcast Business

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-14 10:15:40

Amazon is reportedly laying off more than 100 employees as it overhauls its podcast business amid major shifts in the industry. Bloomberg first reported on Monday that Amazon is laying off about 110 staff from its Wondery podcast studio and shifting some shows to Audible, its other audio-focused subsidiary. As part of the shake-up, Wondery CEO Jen Sargent is leaving the company. The reorganization comes as the podcast industry faces its own “video killed the radio star” moment, with creator-le

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Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-14 15:07:53

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 After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with the release of a highly ranked new AI image generator model — also open s

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Amazon splits up the Wondery podcast network and lays off about 110 employees

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-14 15:53:58

Four years after Amazon’s acquisition of podcast network Wondery , the tech giant is dismantling its $300 million purchase and reorganizing various audio properties into separate teams at the company. As first reported by Bloomberg , this reorg will see the studio lose about 110 employees, and CEO Jen Sargent is departing the company. Amazon told Bloomberg it will continue to produce podcasts, though their place within the company will be restructured. The more narrative-focused podcasts under

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Dental Floss Could Deliver Next-Gen Vaccines, No Needles Required

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-14 15:52:29

Flu shot season is around the corner, and while injections remain the most common form of vaccination, scientists are working hard to find other ways to deliver inoculations that don’t involve shoving a needle into your flesh. And in a new study, researchers think they might have found another novel approach: dental floss. In the new work, a team of scientists based in the U.S. demonstrated how this might work on lab mice, finding that vaccine delivery via dental floss was more effective at sti

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Software needs an "independent auditor"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 16:43:57

Alternative title: Why Greptile Doesn’t Generate Code Remembering Enron (1985-2001) I am Daksh - a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that catches bugs in pull requests for thousands of software teams. The month I was born, October 2001, was also the month Enron collapsed. For those unfamiliar, Enron was an energy company founded in 1985. It was one of the most valuable companies in the US public markets at the turn of the century. In 2001, it was discovered that under investor pres

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The Google Pixel 9a is $100 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-14 23:17:24

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This budget model with flagship features is an extraordinary value at 20 percent off. The Google Pixel 10 is just around the corner, so we're starting to see some great deals pop up on the previous generation. The Google Pixel 9a is on sale right now for $100 off its usual price, a 20

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Drawafish.com Postmortem: Whoops

news.ycombinator.com Alden Hallak 2026-01-14 20:10:22

DrawAFish.com TL;DR: Incident Duration: ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) ~6 hours (2AM–8AM EST) Impact: Username vandalism (slurs) Offensive fish approved / safe fish removed Root Causes: Legacy 6-digit admin password exposed in past data breach Username update API lacked authentication JWT not tied to specific user Mitigation: Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Manual reversal of mod actions, fixed authorization logic, backups reviewed Takeaway: hwoopsy dais

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

news.ycombinator.com Kelly Vaughn 2026-01-14 23:01:52

A note: This is a different kind of post than I usually send from After Burnout. Instead of something raw, short, and personal, this is more of a deep-dive article. But given how much this topic connects to burnout and our relationship with productivity tools, it felt important to share. We were promised a productivity revolution. AI tools would handle the boring stuff, freeing us to focus on creative, strategic work. We’d finally have time to think, to innovate, to maybe even leave the office

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Diet Swap Study Reveals How Ultra-Processed Foods Can Derail Weight Loss

Castro podcast app launches on iPad for the first time

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

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