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How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-10-03 06:15:55

Software engineering shouldn’t be gatekept to people who can afford an expensive degree. Recently, one group has been working hard to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science teaching to students (ages 10-16) from low-income families in Maryland who have no or minimal computing backgrounds. Computing isn’t just for the elite; it’s for anyone with curiosity and creativity. But resources and training aren’t always widely accessible. That’s why a series of free workshops was introd

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Opendoor stock closes 78% higher after company names new CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily Annie Palmer 2025-10-03 07:04:04

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 78% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

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Oracle shares retreat 6% after sharpest rally in more than 30 years

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-03 07:00:43

Oracle shares closed down 6% on Thursday, a day after the stock closed at a record high, following an analyst note expressing concern that most of the company's upcoming growth is coming from a single client: OpenAI. The software vendor has seen its stock go on a wild ride this week after CEO Safra Catz on Tuesday said that Oracle had "signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers" in the latest quarter. The company's remaining performance obligation, a measure of co

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Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-03 06:18:21

Countless users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis" that's alarming mental health professionals. Some even say the tech could give birth to entirely new categories of mental disorders. The grim trend has already been linked to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, which has led to his family suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, accusing it of product liability and wrongful death. In fact, even Wall Street is starting to grow uncomfort

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If You’re a ‘Jaws’ Fan, Do Not Miss This New Exhibition

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-03 07:30:17

For 50 years, audiences all over the world have watched and marveled at the brilliance of Jaws. It’s long been one of the true masterpieces in the history of movies and, starting next week, you’ll get to experience it in a way you never have before: by actually being in its presence. On September 14, the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, CA, is opening “Jaws: The Exhibition,” an unprecedented collection of over 200 items from the development, production, and release of the Steven Spielberg classic.

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Opendoor stock soars 80% after company names new CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily Annie Palmer 2025-10-03 11:37:32

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 80% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

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Oracle shares retreat 7% after sharpest rally in more than 30 years

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-03 11:48:51

Oracle shares closed down 6% on Thursday, a day after the stock closed at a record high, following an analyst note expressing concern that most of the company's upcoming growth is coming from a single client: OpenAI. The software vendor has seen its stock go on a wild ride this week after CEO Safra Catz on Tuesday said that Oracle had "signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers" in the latest quarter. The company's remaining performance obligation, a measure of co

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Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-03 15:36:47

A man holds up a smartphone with the Uber app visible on screen, as taxis queue in the background on June 4, 2019. The Department of Justice sued Uber on Thursday, alleging the ride-hailing giant discriminated against riders with disabilities, according to a filing. "Despite the importance of its services to people with disabilities, Uber denies people with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of its services in several critical ways," the complaint, filed in a federal court in San Francisco,

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The Helix Text Editor

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Frere 2025-09-30 06:27:40

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods set up because I read some random blog posts and it looked cool to me. I literally learned to program because I figured I should learn how to do more n

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Opendoor stock soars 65% after company names new CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily Annie Palmer 2025-10-03 19:51:29

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 65% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

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Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 23:00:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is getting an update that will introduce a new “Purchases” tab. The new view will put all of your purchase and delivery updates in one place. The update will also add a “most relevant” sorting option to the Promotions category on mobile. Gmail makes it fairly easy to stay on top of your deliveries with package tracking, summary cards, and more. Now it’s making it easier to keep track of the emails that contain that purchase and delivery informa

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OpenAI's fix for hallucinations is simpler than you think

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-03 22:09:18

Hector Roqueta Rivero/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI says AI hallucination stems from flawed evaluation methods. Models are trained to guess rather than admit ignorance. The company suggests revising how models are trained. Even the biggest and most advanced generative AI models occasionally hallucinate, or generate inaccurate information presented as fact. Now, OpenAI claims to understand why -- while offering a p

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Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 36%

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-04 00:22:00

Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures attends Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 at San Francisco Design Center on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Opendoor , the online real estate platform that's seen a surge of retail investor interest in recent months, said Wednesday that it's tapped former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and named co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The stock was up 36% Thursday in premarket trading, and is now up more than fifteenfold since hitting its

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Opendoor stock soars 60% after company names new CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily Annie Palmer 2025-10-04 07:42:46

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 60% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 400% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

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Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 05:15:22

This weekend I created stacklib.h - a single-header library that brings Forth-style stack operations to C. It implements a basic interpreter with: - Stack operations (push/pop/dup/swap/over/drop) - Arithmetic (+, -, *, /) - Output (., emit, cr) - Stack inspection (.s, depth) Example usage: Stack s; stack_init(&s); dict_init(); exec(&s, "10 20 + ."); // Prints "30" exec(&s, "1 2 3 4 .s"); // Shows stack contents The library is self-contained, requires no dependencies, and handles basic error c

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Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-10-04 11:39:43

New York City students are one week into the statewide phone ban. Gothamist reporters checked in with teens across the district to see how they are adapting. Here's how they are handling their disconnected days. Lower-tech life Polaroids, walkie-talkies and decks of cards: New York City teens said these are some of the hot items circulating in schools now that the statewide smartphone ban is in effect. Alia Soliman, a senior at Bronx Science, said cards “are making a big comeback.” She said k

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This new Android 16 QPR2 setting will make desktop mode less frustrating

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 15:00:03

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR A new “Universal cursor” setting in Android 16 QPR2 will let users disable the seamless mouse movement between a phone and an external display. This toggle controls whether the mouse cursor can move between screens when it reaches the edge, preventing accidental screen-hopping. Found in the first QPR2 beta, this small but welcome change gives users more control over Android’s DeX-like desktop experience. One of the most exciting features in Android 16

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Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-04 14:48:01

Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices. Representatives from member states will meet on Friday to consider legislation critics call Chat Control, aka "laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse," which seeks to require ISPs or messaging app providers to scan user content or backdoor encryption so that intelligence agencies can do it themselves. It's the latest attempt in a three-yea

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Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-04 15:22:06

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft currently offers business Copilot acces

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Survey shows loyal Nova Launcher fans are sticking it out till the actual end arrives

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 22:52:46

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusive reports, expert analysis, and much more. Find out more here. Our poll received over 9,650 votes, making it one of the most popular polls in recent memory. More than 4,300 people say they will stick with Nova until it stops working, marking it the most popular way forward with ~45% of total votes. Andr

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Poll: Who’s got the best color options, iPhone 17 or Pixel 10?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:00:08

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For as nice as it can be to feel safe and sound by wrapping your expensive new smartphone tightly in a protective case, there’s also a lot to be said for living a little dangerously and showing off the actual hardware — especially when it’s available in some really appealing colors. That’s just we got this year from the Pixel 10 series, as Google updated its lineup with arguably some of the best Pixel color options in years. Don’t want to miss the best from A

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OpenAI Hopes Animated 'Critterz' Will Prove AI Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 00:00:04

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, will have a budget of less than $30 million. Producers hope to make the movie in about nine months, in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to The Wall Street Journal. The original short

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Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 30%

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-05 03:02:53

Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures attends Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 at San Francisco Design Center on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Opendoor , the online real estate platform that's seen a surge of retail investor interest in recent months, said Wednesday that it's tapped former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and named co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The stock popped 30% in extended trading, and is now up more than fifteenfold since hitting its record low

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Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-05 02:11:59

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, Dario Amodei, the CEO of massive AI company Anthropic, claimed that in half a year, AI would be "writing 90 percent of code." And that was the worst-case scenario; in just three months, he predicted, we could hit a place where "essentially all" code is written by AI. As the CEO of one of the buzzi

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Pop Mart Unleashes Its Blind Box ‘Chucky’ Collection Just in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-05 03:50:28

Pop Mart, purveyor of Labubu, is branching out in the world of creepy pop culture collectibles with a little help from Chucky. The blind box drop arrives September 11, timed to coincide with Halloween season and aiming to bolster the company’s roster of animation-influenced characters. At the recent San Diego Comic-Con, Pop Mart made a splash with the Monsters series Big Into Energy, Skullpanda, and Peach Riot, as well as its latest Star Wars line. During io9’s preview at SDCC, Emily Brough, Po

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OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-05 03:01:10

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal “to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years,” one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. In July, the two companies revealed their partnership to build data centers worth

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Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 11:01:01

Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better. We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn

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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season 3

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-05 11:00:13

As the final season of Stranger Things draws near, our Hellfire Club catch-up covers the events of season three’s action-packed summer. If you haven’t yet, you can also refresh your memory on seasons one and two! The Battle of Starcourt is the all-time event in the series so far as a red threat rises in the sleepy town of Hawkins. The Duffer Brothers’ show really fires on all cylinders in season three, which, in our opinion, is the best season of the Netflix franchise so far. It’s a true telev

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How to turn off autoplay on your social media feeds

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-05 11:02:52

There are times when you may want to prevent videos and GIFs from automatically playing in your social media feeds. This could be because you’re trying to conserve cellular data, limit the addictiveness of these apps, or maintain better control over your viewing experience, as when a video is going viral that you don’t wish to see. Whatever the reason might be, here are the steps to turn off autoplaying videos and GIFs on popular social media platforms. Facebook To turn off autoplay on Faceboo

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Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-05 14:17:29

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite being adamant for months that the "web is thriving." As first spotted by The Verge, the tech giant attempted to dissuade regulators from breaking up its advertising tech business, arguing that doing so would harm publishers who rely on advertising revenue. Google argued that splitting up its ad business would "only accelerate" the open web's disintegration ahead of an antitrust trial in a D

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How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

Opendoor stock closes 78% higher after company names new CEO

Oracle shares retreat 6% after sharpest rally in more than 30 years

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

If You’re a ‘Jaws’ Fan, Do Not Miss This New Exhibition

Opendoor stock soars 80% after company names new CEO

Oracle shares retreat 7% after sharpest rally in more than 30 years

Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

The Helix Text Editor

Opendoor stock soars 65% after company names new CEO

Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

OpenAI's fix for hallucinations is simpler than you think

Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 36%

Opendoor stock soars 60% after company names new CEO

Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C

Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban

This new Android 16 QPR2 setting will make desktop mode less frustrating

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

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Poll: Who’s got the best color options, iPhone 17 or Pixel 10?

OpenAI Hopes Animated 'Critterz' Will Prove AI Is Ready for the Big Screen

Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 30%

Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

Pop Mart Unleashes Its Blind Box ‘Chucky’ Collection Just in Time for Halloween

OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers

‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season 3

How to turn off autoplay on your social media feeds

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

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