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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 12, #1454

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

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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OpenAI Launches Improved Version of Latest Reasoning Model. Here's What It's Best For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 04:16:47

OpenAI this week announced an improved version of its o3 generative AI reasoning model, saying it performed better on benchmarks and is designed to spend more time thinking on difficult problems. The new model, called o3-pro, is now available for Pro and Team users in ChatGPT and API users, and will come to Enterprise and Edu users next week. In its release notes, OpenAI said the model is similar to o1-pro, which users favored for its math, science and coding skills. It incorporates improvement

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FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:03:18

The Federal Communications Commission is facing widespread criticism after threatening to revoke EchoStar licenses for spectrum bands that rival firms, including SpaceX, want to take over. Opposition to license revocations came from conservatives, telecom consumer advocates, and some industry groups. The Free State Foundation, a free-market group that has generally supported Republican priorities at the FCC, filed comments saying that "arbitrary" decisions would create instability in the market

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She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 19:00:09

Bridgit Mendler was not in Hollywood anymore. Instead, she found herself in rural North Dakota, where the stars sparkled overhead rather than on the silver screen. And she was freezing. When her team tumbled out of their rental cars after midnight, temperatures had already plummeted into the 40s. Howling winds carried their breath away before it could fog the air. So it was with no small sense of urgency that the group scrambled to assemble a jury-rigged antenna to talk to a spacecraft that wou

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A warlord brings chaos in Foundation S3 trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 22:00:05

Foundation returns for a third season next month on Apple TV+. Foundation, Apple TV+'s lavish adaptation (or re-mix, if you prefer) of Isaac Asimov's seminal sci-fi series, returns for its third season next month, and the streaming platform has dropped an official trailer to give us a taste of what's in store. As previously reported, the first season ended with a major time jump of 138 years, and S2 focused on the Second Crisis: imminent war between Empire and the Foundation, along with an ene

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New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 05:56:47

In early June, Apple researchers released a study suggesting that simulated reasoning (SR) models, such as OpenAI's o1 and o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, produce outputs consistent with pattern-matching from training data when faced with novel problems requiring systematic thinking. The researchers found similar results to a recent study by the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) in April, showing that these same models achieved low scores on novel mathematic

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Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 06:20:40

CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi introduced the new multitasking UI in iPadOS 26 at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference this week, he did it the same way he introduced the Calculator app for the iPad last year, or timers in the iPad's Clock app the year before—with a hint of sarcasm. "Wow," Federighi enthuses in a lightly exaggerated tone about an hour and 19 minutes into a 90-minute presentation. "More windows, a pointier poin

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We've Finally Reached the End of the Road for Intel Macs

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-01 07:14:00

Today, Apple announced the latest version of its Mac operating system, macOS Tahoe, sporting a handful of new features and apps. The update will also, however, mark the final substantial version of macOS to be supported on Intel-based Macs. The final supported Intel-based Macs that will receive macOS Tahoe include the following models: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports), iMac (27-inch, 2020) and Mac Pro (2019). That means if you own one of these M

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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-01 08:22:26

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. The company also premiered the Foundation Models framework, a way for developers to write code that taps into Apple’s AI models. Among the buzzier AI announcements at the event was Live Translation, a feature that translates phone and FaceTime calls from one language to another in real time. Appl

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The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-01 16:30:00

Slow and steady. When it comes to autonomous vehicles on city roads, that’s been the approach in most of the world’s countries. But on Tuesday, the UK announced it would put a cautious foot on the pedal, when the Department of Transport said it would accelerate plans to allow companies to operate self-driving cars on public roads in limited pilot programs starting spring of next year. The British government had initially planned to open up its roads for self-driving vehicles more than a year la

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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-01 19:00:00

Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous vehicle operate, well, autonomously? But experts say teleoperations are, at least right now, a critical part of any robot taxi service, including Tesla's Robotaxi. The tech, though impressive, is still in development, and the autonomous systems still need humans to guide them through less-common and especiall

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AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-10-02 04:33:57

Disinformation about the Los Angeles protests is spreading on social media networks and is being made worse by users turning to AI chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to perform fact-checking. As residents of the LA area took to the streets in recent days to protest increasingly frequent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, conservative posters on social media platforms like X and Facebook flooded their feeds with inaccurate information. In addition to well-worn tactics like repurposing

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Apple Intelligence Is Gambling on Privacy as a Killer Feature

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-10-02 07:04:11

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote concluded on Monday, market watchers couldn't help but notice that the company's stock price was down, perhaps a reaction to Apple's relatively low-key approach to incorporating AI compared to most of its competitors. Still, Apple Intelligence–based features and upgrades were plentiful, and while some are powered using the company's privacy- and security-focused cloud platform known as Private Cloud Compute, many run locally on Apple Intelligenc

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Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-03 05:10:39

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Earlier this year, Google shipped a Pixel 4A update to some owners that lowered battery life to mitigate overheating risk, and soon, it’s going to do the same for the Pixel 6A. “A subset of Pixel 6A phones will require a mandatory software update to reduce the risk of potential battery overheating,” Google’s Alex Moriconi says in a statement to The Verge. “The update will ena

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Meta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-02 23:54:09

Meta on Wednesday unveiled its new V-JEPA 2 AI model, a “world model” that is designed to help AI agents understand the world around them. V-JEPA 2 is an extension of the V-JEPA model that Meta released last year, which was trained on over 1 million hours of video. This training data is supposed to help robots or other AI agents operate in the physical world, understanding and predicting how concepts like gravity will impact what happens next in a sequence. These are the kinds of common sense

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How to delete your 23andMe data

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-03 01:59:39

DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection in March, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic data of the company’s 15 million customers. Pharmaceutical giant Regeneron announced in May that it was buying the genetic testing company for $256 million following a bankruptcy auction. While the company has said it will maintain 23andMe’s privacy practices, it also stated that it would use the 23andMe data to aid the discovery of new drugs. When 23andMe filed for ba

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DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-06-17 23:05:17

Look, sure it’s not ideal that decisions that the federal government is being gutted agency by agency, stripped of purpose, funding, and staffing by Elon Musk and a team of 20-something-year-old edgelords who were sourced from a network of tech bro crypto-fascists and boost the messaging of white nationalists in their free time, but at least none of them are directly related to anyone deeply involved in the intelligence apparatus of a foreign adversary. Now, let me take a big sip of water and ch

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Daredevil‘s Cast on Expanding the Netflix Show and Picking Back Up With Their Characters

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-06-18 00:20:51

“It’s almost 10 years ago that we started this journey,” Charlie Cox points out in one of two short videos Marvel just shared ahead of Daredevil: Born Again‘s arrival on Disney+. That sounds completely incorrect until you fact-check its star and realize that yes, Daredevil premiered on Netflix in April 2015. The confusing passage of time is a conundrum best tackled by certain other Marvel heroes; meanwhile, Daredevil‘s cast and crew are more than ready to get back into some street-level action

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Jurassic World and Shrek Lands Headline Universal Kids Resort in Texas

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-06-18 02:35:06

In a big turn of events Universal Studios is opening up a kid-centric theme park in Texas that will have major animated franchise appeal, with Shrek, Jurassic World, and SpongeBob just a few of brands in store for the new family-friendly destination. This news coming out right after Universal shared more details about its year-round haunt in Las Vegas has us thinking the theme park wars with Disney have begun in earnest. This weekend, pop culture fans looking for ways to help rebuilding efforts

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How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

cnbc.com Jasmine Wu Deirdre Bosa 2025-06-17 17:00:01

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than American ones. But the underlying fears and breakthroughs that sparked the selling go much deeper than one AI startup. Silicon Valley is now reckoning with a technique in AI development called distillation, one that could upend the AI leaderboard. Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge

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Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit in biggest-ever crypto heist

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-06-18 00:31:25

Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what's estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history. The attack compromised Bybit's cold wallet, an offline storage system designed for security. The stolen funds, primarily in ether , were quickly transferred across multiple wallets and liquidated through various p

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-18 01:04:51

OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday . The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The operation appears to have been particularly interested in spotting call

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4 Pixel phone tricks every user should know - including my favorite

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-06-17 22:57:17

Adam Breeden/ZDNET I've been a Pixel phone devotee since the beginning, and one of my favorite features is the call-screening capability that debuted with the Pixel 3 in 2018. I don't remember the last time I answered an unnecessary call, and I can't imagine switching to a phone without it. Also: The best Google Pixel phones of 2025: Which one should you buy? Over the years though, Pixel call screening -- now named Call Assist -- has added several new tricks beyond simply keeping robocalls an

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We are the builders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-18 00:07:20

Blog Real stories from federal employees. Who We Are For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We made it easier to file taxes, get veterans' benefits, and apply for financial aid. During times of crisis, we helped refugees navigate immigration processes, helped everyone find vaccines, and helped parents find baby formula. Along the way, we made government websites easier to use while protecting the integrity of your personal information. If they really wanted to know how to use t

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General Reasoning: Free, open resource for building large reasoning models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-17 22:01:59

for the latest reasoning data and models

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Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-17 23:06:05

Our scene representation is a hybrid of primitive and volumetric model. (a) Primitive component. We explicitly allocate voxels primitives to cover different scene level-of-details under an Octree layout. Note that we do not replicate a traditional Octree data structure with parent-child pointers or linear Octree. We only keep voxels at the Octree leaf nodes without any ancestor nodes. (b) Volumetric component. Inside a voxel is a volumetric (trilinear) density field and a (constant) spherical ha

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Suckless.org: software that sucks less

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-17 21:27:00

Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality. Read more about our philosophy and join us on the mailing list. News Atom feed 2024-11-26 2024-04-05 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for example with GNU readline. 2024-03-20 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: General small Makefile improvements, rationale

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Wheel of Time Season 3 Arrives Soon—Here’s What to Remember From Season 2

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-06-17 21:45:56

The Wheel of Time is preparing to crank back up again, with the first three episodes arriving March 13 on Prime Video; like seasons one and two, it’ll run eight episodes, with a weekly drop after the premiere through April 17. That mini-binge may be enough to plunge you back into Robert Jordan’s world (after yesterday’s amuse-bouche: the limited-time early release of the season’s fiery first 11 minutes), but if you need a reminder of where season two left off, io9’s got you covered. First, thou

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Apple Vision Pro Headset Gets Overdue Missing Features, Including Apple Intelligence

cnet.com Scott Stein 2025-06-17 21:05:00

Apple's futuristic Vision Pro headset hit the one-year mark, but during that initial year, it still felt like it was missing some key features. Now, Apple is addressing a few of those features, at least in small steps, with VisionOS 2.4. Apple Intelligence is finally arriving on Vision Pro, along with some connected apps and guest mode features for iPhones and iPads. The new OS update can be tested in a developer beta arriving today, but the official OS update isn't coming until April. I've bee

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Microsoft's Magma AI Can Manipulate and Control Robots

cnet.com Samantha Kelly 2025-06-17 21:12:00

Microsoft just introduced Magma, a new artificial intelligence model designed to help robots see, understand and act more intelligently. Unlike traditional AI models, Magma processes different types of data all at once -- an effort Microsoft is calling a big leap toward "agentic AI," or systems that can plan and execute tasks on a user's behalf. The model, which uses a combination of vision and language processing, is trained on videos, images, robotics data and interface interactions so as to

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 12, #1454

OpenAI Launches Improved Version of Latest Reasoning Model. Here's What It's Best For

FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash

She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

A warlord brings chaos in Foundation S3 trailer

New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems

Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

We've Finally Reached the End of the Road for Intel Macs

Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse

Apple Intelligence Is Gambling on Privacy as a Killer Feature

Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

Meta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings

How to delete your 23andMe data

DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy

Daredevil‘s Cast on Expanding the Netflix Show and Picking Back Up With Their Characters

Jurassic World and Shrek Lands Headline Universal Kids Resort in Texas

How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit in biggest-ever crypto heist

OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

4 Pixel phone tricks every user should know - including my favorite

We are the builders

General Reasoning: Free, open resource for building large reasoning models

Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

Suckless.org: software that sucks less

Wheel of Time Season 3 Arrives Soon—Here’s What to Remember From Season 2

Apple Vision Pro Headset Gets Overdue Missing Features, Including Apple Intelligence

Microsoft's Magma AI Can Manipulate and Control Robots

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