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OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-13 00:04:09

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is setting a breakneck pace with his company, rolling out feature after feature to keep the multibillion-dollar gravy train steaming ahead. And that kind of drum beat, especially paired with ChatGPT's meteoric rise, is bound to cause plenty of chaos behind the scenes. In a blog post, former OpenAI engineer Calvin French-Owen, who helped build the company's new coding agent Codex, said there "wasn't any personal drama in my decision to leave" — but he did recap his experie

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Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 03:58:00

Is your teen using a chatbot for companionship? If you don't know, you might want to ask. Common Sense Media released a study on Wednesday, in which it found that more than half of pre-adult teenagers regularly use AI companions. Nearly a third of the teens reported that conversations with AI were as satisfying as conversations with actual humans, if not more so. Researchers also found that 33% of teens use AI companions such as Character.AI, Nomi and Replika "for social interaction and relatio

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Tired of restless nights? These sleep earbuds helped me doze off

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-13 09:05:29

Soundcore Sleep A20 ZDNET's key takeaways The Sleep A20 are Soundcore's earbuds designed for sleep, retailing for $180 The specially designed sleep earbuds are comfortable enough to wear the whole night through and are perfect for listening to ambient noise before falling asleep The noise masking isn't strong for dampening environmental sounds, so I wouldn't recommend these for people looking to silence bedroom noise. View now at Best Buy Trouble sleeping? Some people get themselves to bed by

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Dyneema’s New Fiber Composite Is Lighter, Stronger, and More Durable Than Ever

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-08-13 09:46:37

If you went back in time 150 years and told people that in the future they will carry everything they need to live for a week on their backs, you'd get run out of town. Carrying gear is the job of horses and mules, not people! Fast forward to the present, though, and here we are, schlepping into the backcountry with the essentials on our back. Progress! The good news is that today everything you need to live for a week weighs considerably less than it did 150 years ago. The ultralight backpacki

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Review: Foldable Perfection That’s Tempting Me to Leave My iPhone

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-08-13 13:15:52

2025 Disregard the fact that there’s a whole world of Chinese-made book-style foldables as thin and light as the Galaxy Z Fold 7 that Americans can’t buy, and Samsung’s latest phone-to-tablet foldable is what we’ve been waiting for. It only took Samsung six years to make its flagship foldable as svelte as a regular bar smartphone, but the Z Fold 7 delivers in all aspects. The only thing that holds it back is the $2,000 price tag, a $100 increase over last year’s Z Fold 6. See Galaxy Z Fold 7 a

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The best free VPNs of 2025: Secure, safe, and fast VPNs

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-08-13 17:32:00

My top pick for free VPNs available in 2025 is Proton VPN, which, despite its limits, will suit many users who do not want to subscribe. Why we like it: The free version of Proton VPN offers many useful features that are paid for through other services and VPN subscribers. This is important when it comes to free VPN services, as it provides a measure of security and data protection that some shady services do not. After all, if your information is being sold in return for a VPN connection, this

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What Is the Best Smart Ring for Health Tracking? I Tested 3 Popular Options to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 20:30:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

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A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-14 08:00:48

A new survey found that over half of American teens are regular users of anthropomorphic AI companions like Character.AI and Replika. That's striking on its own, as an illustration of how embedded AI companions have become in mainstream teenage life. But even more startling were the 31 percent of surveyed teens who said their interactions with AI companions were either as satisfying or more satisfying than conversations with real-life friends — a finding that shows how profoundly AI is already

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Finally, a smart ring that rivals my Oura 4 with no subscription fee

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-14 07:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The RingConn Gen 2 is a subscription-free smart ring that monitors sleep, exercise, and stress. It monitors your sleep, activity, stress, and vitals, and it's got a marathon battery life. The only downside is the user interface feels underdeveloped. View now at Amazon View now at Ringconn more buying choices Most smart rings these days claim to offer marathon battery lives, but often fall short of their promise. Many smart rings claim to last a week's worth of battery, b

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No silent night in sight? These sleep earbuds help me fall asleep in my noisy bedroom

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-14 07:35:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Ozlo Sleepbuds, created by three Bose engineers, launched last fall, and they are the most useful sleep earbuds I've tested so far The sound is perfect for masking environmental annoyances that keep you awake, and the fit is comfortable and secure. The sleep tracking feature hasn't hit the earbuds yet, and setup took a few tries and several glitches, but once these work in your ears, they get you to bed instantly. View now at Ozlo View now at Amazon more buying choice

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Enabling This One iPhone Feature Has Helped Me Get More Precious, Quality Sleep

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-14 07:05:03

I take sleep seriously and will honestly try anything that promises to help me get more rest. However, getting quality sleep doesn't have to involve a white noise machine or other device you have to buy with your hard-earned cash. In fact, as I discovered, it can be as simple as turning on a certain feature on your iPhone. Go figure. For the past five years, I've been getting better, longer sleep thanks to this one hidden iPhone feature. For those who also struggle with sleep and happen to have

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Looking Down at Your Phone is Distressing Your Neck. Here's How to Correct Tech Neck

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-14 08:00:05

Do you have a job that requires lots of time at a desk, staring at a screen or looking down at a phone? If so, you could be straining more than your eyes. It can also lead to a modern problem called "tech neck." This phenomenon results from maintaining an unnatural position while looking down at a screen, and it affects everyone, from kids who play tablet games to adults who work at a desk all day. A study from 2024 found that neck pain has drastically increased among individuals who live a sede

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Could 5G Home Internet Be Your Household Broadband Solution?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-14 10:00:00

For most Americans, internet service providers are a constant source of stress and notoriously one of the country's lowest-rated industries. ISPs rank lower than social media, the US Postal Service and even airlines. It's not hard to see why. A recent CNET survey found 63% of Americans paid more for internet service last year than they had the year before. On top of that, wading through confusing details like hidden fees, yearly price hikes, contracts, service details and multiple speed tiers ca

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Bedsure's Bamboo Cooling Sheets Are Silky Soft, Durable, and Cheap

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-08-14 10:34:00

I’ve met many supposedly “cooling” sheets in my time as a mattress and bedding tester, and I have been disappointed more often than not. A cooling mattress can’t do all the heavy lifting with temperature regulation, and I’ll forever emphasize that your choice of bedding matters just as much—which is why I'm an unapologetic sheet snob. Which brings me to Bedsure, a brand I stumbled across on Amazon in a last-ditch effort to find some decent sheets when mine bit the dust (rather, my dogs bit holes

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Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-14 13:34:49

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 Mistral released an open-sourced voice model today that could rival paid voice AI, such as those from ElevenLabs and Hume AI, which the company said bridges the gap between proprietary speech recognition models and the more open, yet error-prone versions. Voxtral, which Mistral will release under an Apache 2.0 license, is available in a 24

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Helix Editor 25.07

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 09:16:59

Release 25.07 Highlights 15 July 2025 A long-awaited 25.07 release is finally here. This release saw the replacement of a major, core component of Helix and the addition of plenty of flashy features besides. This release saw changes from 195 contributors. A hearty thank you to everyone who made this release possible. New to Helix? Helix is a modal text editor with built-in support for multiple selections, Language Server Protocol (LSP), tree-sitter, and experimental support for Debug Adapter

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Become a Master of Evil With Darth Vader’s Actual Lightsaber (if You Have $3 Million)

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-14 13:15:15

io9 has covered a few notable Star Wars auctions lately, as rare toys and highly collectible props have come to market in surprisingly robust amounts. But maybe the most exciting example has just emerged: Darth Vader’s lightsaber. The actual, authentic, screen-matched hilt used by David Prowse and his stunt double in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. As your mind reels at the possibility of owning such a prize, consider that it’s estimated to command $1 million at the lowest e

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Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 09:47:02

Voice: the original UI. Voice was humanity’s first interface—long before writing or typing, it let us share ideas, coordinate work, and build relationships. As digital systems become more capable, voice is returning as our most natural form of human-computer interaction. Yet today’s systems remain limited—unreliable, proprietary, and too brittle for real-world use. Closing this gap demands tools with exceptional transcription, deep understanding, multilingual fluency, and open, flexible deploy

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These 4 Exercises May Be Key to a Good Night’s Sleep

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-14 17:32:40

When you’re exhausted, starting a new exercise routine may sound like a nightmare, but a new study suggests getting active could be the secret to a good night’s sleep. Scientists in China reviewed existing clinical trial data and found that certain forms of exercise, including yoga and jogging, that appeared to help people sleep longer at night. The findings suggest physical activity should be considered as a frontline treatment for insomnia, the researchers said. “The most important takeaway

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We Are Having a Very Hard Time Believing the "Shape" of Tesla's New Robotaxi Geofence Is a Coincidence

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-14 22:18:30

Tesla has expanded the area where its Robotaxis can operate in Austin, and it's difficult — nay, impossible — to ignore its resemblance to something unmistakably vulgar. As folks immediately pointed out online, the crudely-shaped geofence is, essentially, a bathroom graffiti-level dick drawing — and given his puerile sense of humor, there's a non-zero chance that Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it that way on purpose. Indeed, after someone posted a video showing the phallic geofence on X, the shitpos

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iPhone screenshots are getting three powerful new features in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-15 01:12:10

Screenshots in iOS 26 are changing in a big way, with new powers that will provide more reasons than ever to take a screenshot on your iPhone. Here’s what’s new. Visual intelligence offers new reasons to take screenshots in iOS 26 Historically, there have been two main reasons to take a screenshot on your iPhone: To save an image for later Or to share an image with someone else But iOS 26 is going to add three more to the list. That’s because on Apple Intelligence-compatible devices, screen

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Xbox's 'Stream your own game' feature now extends to PC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-15 01:40:49

Xbox's "Stream your own game" feature continues to expand. You can now use your PC to play supported games you own on Xbox. (The games stream from the cloud, not your console.) You'll need to be an Xbox Insider and Game Pass Ultimate subscriber to use it. The PC launch follows the feature's arrival earlier this year on other devices. Already supported were Xbox consoles, TVs, browser-based devices (including mobile) and Meta Quest headsets. The idea is the latest chapter in Microsoft's mission

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Underwriting Superintelligence

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 00:13:42

Insurance Unlocks Secure AI Progress We’re navigating a tightrope as Superintelligence nears. If the West slows down unilaterally, China could dominate the 21st century. If we accelerate recklessly, accidents will halt progress, as with nuclear power. Insurance, standards, and audits together create skin in the game for quantifying, communicating, and reducing AI risks so we can balance this tightrope. We call this the “Incentive Flywheel.” Benjamin Franklin first discovered the Incentive Fly

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Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 00:27:19

Marco Giancotti , July 10, 2025 Cover image: Termite mound cross-section, Wikimedia Commons Termites and ants have no central planning. There are no architect ants in a nest-building project, no sponsors or supervisors, no instructions. Each worker is unaware and completely uninterested in what form the final mega-structure will take. No blueprints are to be found in any of their minds or outside them. Yet they build them all the time, and very well, too. Their substitute for plans and bluepri

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I replaced my dual-monitor setup with this ultrawide OLED - and I don't think I'll switch back

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-15 05:00:17

ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor retails for $800. It is a large, 34-inch curved gaming monitor with impressive visual output and an immersive design. Be aware that this display does not come with internal speakers. View now at Dell View now at Amazon more buying choices For the longest time, I considered curved monitors to be nothing more than a gimmick like 3D TVs (remember those?). But over the years and through personal experience, I've learned that thes

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Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 05:16:59

Release 25.07 Highlights 15 July 2025 A long-awaited 25.07 release is finally here. This release saw the replacement of a major, core component of Helix and the addition of plenty of flashy features besides. This release saw changes from 195 contributors. A hearty thank you to everyone who made this release possible. New to Helix? Helix is a modal text editor with built-in support for multiple selections, Language Server Protocol (LSP), tree-sitter, and experimental support for Debug Adapter

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60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-15 13:33:36

Mohamad Faizal Bin Ramli/Getty Images A recent survey from Resume Builder finds that half of managers are using AI to make crucial decisions about their direct reports, including which employees are promoted -- and which are fired. The survey polled 1,342 managers in the US, 60% of whom reported relying on AI to make decisions about their employees: 78% and 77% used the technology to award raises and promotions, respectively, while 66% and 64% used it to determine layoffs and terminations, res

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Trump Lets Polymarket Off the Hook, Ends Probe Into Crypto Betting Platform

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-15 13:35:08

If you bet “Donald Trump ends an investigation into a Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency platform,” you can claim your winnings. According to Bloomberg, two investigations into the prediction market Polymarket have been shut down by the Trump administration, just in time for Republican lawmakers’ planned “Crypto Week.” The probes, which were launched toward the end of the Biden administration, included an investigation by the Department of Justice into whether Polymarket was allowing U.S.-based

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Lucid will add hands-free driving options later this month

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-15 17:28:17

Lucid is about to roll out its first hands-free features. On July 30, Lucid Air sedan owners with the DreamDrive Pro add-on will get automated drive assist and lane-change features. If you have a Gravity SUV you'll have to wait until later this year. The features will arrive via an OTA update for vehicles with DreamDrive Pro hardware. The optional add-on has 32 sensors, including LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic sensors and cameras. DreamDrive Pro already supports semi-autonomous features like lane cha

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Faster Qi2.2 wireless power banks are on the way

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-15 17:45:11

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Ugreen has announced what it claims is the “world’s first Qi2.2-certified power bank” that can wireless charge devices at speeds of up to 25W. Most wireless chargers in the US currently max out at just 15W of power delivery, but the Ugreen MagFlow Magnetic Power Bank will push that to 25W, matching the speed of the updated MagSafe charger Apple i

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Latest Tech News

OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

Tired of restless nights? These sleep earbuds helped me doze off

Dyneema’s New Fiber Composite Is Lighter, Stronger, and More Durable Than Ever

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Review: Foldable Perfection That’s Tempting Me to Leave My iPhone

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Finally, a smart ring that rivals my Oura 4 with no subscription fee

No silent night in sight? These sleep earbuds help me fall asleep in my noisy bedroom

Enabling This One iPhone Feature Has Helped Me Get More Precious, Quality Sleep

Looking Down at Your Phone is Distressing Your Neck. Here's How to Correct Tech Neck

Could 5G Home Internet Be Your Household Broadband Solution?

Bedsure's Bamboo Cooling Sheets Are Silky Soft, Durable, and Cheap

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iPhone screenshots are getting three powerful new features in iOS 26

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Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list

I replaced my dual-monitor setup with this ultrawide OLED - and I don't think I'll switch back

Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?

Trump Lets Polymarket Off the Hook, Ends Probe Into Crypto Betting Platform

Lucid will add hands-free driving options later this month

Faster Qi2.2 wireless power banks are on the way

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