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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

futurism.com Unknown 2026-04-11 13:36:49

In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an important question: which of these streams should drive AI development? Yesterday, neural scientist, AI scholar and outspoken OpenAI critic Gary Marcus

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Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-04-11 09:20:00

The two sisters running Playhouse MD are reimagining children’s healthcare through the transformative power of play. Sisters Sydney Wiseman, an award-winning toy creator, and Kaitlin Wiseman, a trusted family physician, are launching Playhouse MD. Sick days are never easy, for kids or their caregivers. From giving medicine to a squirming baby to battling midnight boogers, these small yet recurring tasks can feel huge and stressful. Playhouse MD was born from those very moments, designed to bri

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Don’t forget: Three-button navigation is getting a much-needed upgrade with Android 16

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-10 11:00:13

TL;DR Android 16 extends predictive back navigation to three-button navigation. You can now see a preview of the previous screen by long-pressing the back button. Additionally, apps targeting Android 16 will have predictive back system animations by default. After debuting the predictive back navigation as a developer option in Android 13, Google finally enabled it by default in last year’s release. The feature previously only worked when using gesture-based navigation, but Google is extendin

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Android 16’s Desktop Mode transforms your Pixel phone into a PC, and here’s how you can try it now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-10 11:00:16

TL;DR Google is developing a DeX-like desktop mode for Android phones, and you can try it out now on supported Pixel devices with Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2. This feature projects a desktop-like environment with a taskbar and freeform windows to an external display, while the phone screen remains usable. The desktop mode experience requires a Pixel 8 or newer, the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta, and an external display. One of the most exciting pieces of Android news from last month’s Google I/O dev

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Snap has sunk $3 billion into AR Specs it hopes it can actually convince you to wear

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-10 12:52:02

Snap TL;DR Snap will launch a new pair of AR smart glasses, called Specs, in 2026. The glasses will run on Snap OS and support AI-powered features like translation, gaming, and 3D content. Unlike the 2024 Spectacles, Specs will be for consumers, not just developers. Despite repeated waves of apathy, tech companies won’t relent in their quest to put a computer on our faces. The latest hardware announcement comes from SnapChat’s parent company, Snap, which is launching a new pair of smart glas

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Google Pixel 10 might debut Qi 2 support and magnetic “Pixelsnap” accessories

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-11 08:33:08

Android Headlines Pixel 10 leaked renders TL;DR Google is working on an ecosystem of magnetic Qi 2.2 accessories for the Pixel 10 series under the “Pixelsnap” name Planned accessories include a magnetic charger, a charger with stand, and a “Ring Stand” The feature, combined with the Hub Mode, which might be coming to phones, could make the Pixel 10 a small smart display while charging, similar to iPhones with Standby Mode One of the most requested features for smartphones right now is Qi 2 s

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Apple overhauls Vision Pro Personas feature, now with much higher-quality 3D avatars

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-04-09 11:56:51

As part of visionOS 26, Apple is overhauling the Personas feature for Apple Vision Pro users. Personas are the 3D avatars the system uses during FaceTime calls when the user is wearing the headset. When Vision Pro launched last year, Personas were widely criticized due to their uncanny valley appearance — and the whole feature was labelled as a ‘beta’ in the OS. Apple has been gradually improving the fidelity of the avatars with every release, and visionOS 26 takes the most dramatic step forwar

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Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2026-04-09 15:15:12

Image: Incogni Try searching your full name online right now and see what surfaces. Within a few clicks, you’re likely seeing your home address, phone number, age, and even details about family members. If that’s what a simple search turns up, just imagine what malicious actors can find when their business relies on exploiting your personal data. If there was a big red delete button, you’d set a new record for how fast you could smash it! The problem is there isn’t one, unless you know where

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watchOS 26: More Apple Watch faces using Series 10’s upgraded display

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-04-09 17:14:11

Apple Watch Series 10 features an upgraded display with a faster refresh rate. This enables select watch faces to display a ticking seconds indicator even in always-on mode. However, most watch faces don’t actually take advantage of the new hardware yet. The watchOS 26 software update coming this fall will change that. Series 10 enhanced faces At launch, three watch faces supported updating seconds in always-on display mode: Flux, Reflections, and Activity Digital. Apple later introduced 2025

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Tim Cook surprises Swift Student Challenge winners at Apple Park [Interview]

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-04-09 20:50:31

I’m fortunate enough to be in Cupertino this week for WWDC. For me, things kicked off on Sunday, when I had the honor of visiting Apple Park to watch a selection of this year’s Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winners present their apps to Apple executives. Marina Lee, a senior at the University of Southern California studying Computer Science, is one of the Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winners from the United States. Marina created an app called EvacuMate, designed to help people

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Snapchat announces that new lightweight AR Spectacles will be launching next year

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-04-10 11:22:08

At Augmented World Expo 2025, Snapchat announced a next-generation version of Snap Spectacles. These new spectacles should have a more lightweight and immersive design, and will be launching to the public next year. I had the opportunity to go hands on with the fifth generation Snap Spectacles towards the end of last year, and they were quite impressive. That generation of Spectacles was only available for developers, and weren’t planned to launch to the public. They were also fair bit bulky, b

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Vision Pro’s first third-party Apple Immersive Video brings MotoGP racing via Blackmagic

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-04-11 09:00:00

Apple Vision Pro owners will soon get to experience the exhilarating world of motorcycle racing. CANAL+ announced an upcoming Apple Immersive Video film that will bring viewers directly into the world of MotoGP racing. The project marks the first third-party studio production in Apple’s Immersive Video format, filmed entirely with Blackmagic’s URSA Cine Immersive camera system designed specifically for Vision Pro content. Expanding Vision Pro’s immersive content library Set to debut in Septemb

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Snap says new 'lightweight' AR glasses will come in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-10 11:10:20

Snap's next generation of standalone augmented reality glasses will arrive next year and will be smaller, lighter and more powerful than the developer-focused device the Snapchat maker introduced last year. CEO Evan Spiegel announced the upcoming glasses, which will be called "Specs," during a keynote at Augmented World Expo (AWE). "Specs are coming next year, in a much smaller form factor, at a fraction of the weight, with a ton more capability," Spiegel said. He said the glasses will be "read

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Pragmata is a satisfying sci-fi shooter with an intriguing double act

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-11 08:00:05

Capcom’s odd-couple sci-fi action game, Pragmata, is almost here. At SGF 2025, I finally got to steer Hugh (the human) lumbering around in a military spacesuit, with the adorable android, Diana piggybacking along. First announced in 2020 during the PS5 reveal stream, Pragmata is set on a lunar base, where an industrial mishap turns security droids hostile, while lines of communication back to Earth have been severed. The USP here is how you fight your threats: by teaming up with a small synthet

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NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-11 12:20:16

NASA is shutting down several social media accounts run by the Science Mission Directorate, including the official Mars Curiosity Rover account on X. The organization says it made the decision in order to "make its work more accessible to the public, avoiding the potential for oversaturation or confusion." The "social media consolidation project" is concentrated in part on X, where there are dozens NASA accounts affiliated with specific missions and areas of research. So far 29 accounts are bei

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Snapchat adds a new subscription tier for Lenses

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-11 13:10:18

Snapchat has added a new layer to its paid offerings. The Lens+ subscription combines the existing Snapchat+ monthly plan with more access to "hundreds of Lenses and AR experiences that let you play, create, and share Snaps with friends in whole new ways." The plan will cost $9 a month. At the start, the subscription will feature Lenses made by the company or by select creators. New augmented reality experiences will be added each week. Creators will be granted the option to build and monetize

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DanaBot malware operators exposed via C2 bug added in 2022

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-10 14:46:49

A vulnerability in the DanaBot malware operation introduced in June 2022 update led to the identification, indictment, and dismantling of their operations in a recent law enforcement action. DanaBot is a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform active from 2018 through 2025, used for banking fraud, credential theft, remote access, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Zscaler's ThreatLabz researchers who discovered the vulnerability, dubbed 'DanaBleed,' explain that a memory leak allow

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Brute-force attacks target Apache Tomcat management panels

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-11 07:27:36

A coordinated campaign of brute-force attacks using hundreds of unique IP addresses targets Apache Tomcat Manager interfaces exposed online. Tomcat is a popular open-source web server widely used by large enterprises and SaaS providers, while Tomcat Manager is a web-based administration tool that comes bundled with the Tomcat server and helps admins manage deployed web apps via a graphical interface. Tomcat Manager is configured by default to only allow access from localhost (127.0.0.1), with

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ChatGPT o3 API 80% price drop has no impact on performance

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-11 17:06:33

ChatGPT o3 API is now cheaper for developers, and there's no visible impact on performance. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced it's cutting the price of its best reasoning model, o3, by 80%. ChatGPT price reduction This means o3’s input price is now just $2 per million tokens, while the output price has dropped to $8 per million tokens. "We optimized our inference stack that serves o3. Same exact model—just cheaper," OpenAI noted in a post on X. While regular users typically don't use ChatGPT m

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Why OpenAI and Google's surprising new alliance makes a lot of AI sense

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-04-11 10:50:40

MF3d/Getty Images In geopolitics, nations with conflicting societal norms or ideological views must occasionally form alliances in the interest of protecting their mutual interests; practicality must take precedence over past rivalries. Today, a similar dynamic is starting to play out in the AI arms race. OpenAI, the AI start-up that skyrocketed to global fame following the viral success of its ChatGPT chatbot, has teamed up with Google, its longtime competitor, according to a Reuters report.

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Here's how I finally cracked a tricky Linux problem with this AI terminal app

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-04-11 13:57:00

Warp is scary good at fixing problems. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET I've been using Linux for a very, very long time, and it's rare that I encounter an issue I cannot resolve. However, a few weeks ago, such a problem occurred. The issue was caused by an installed application upgrade that required a dependency that the apt package manager couldn't solve. This meant I couldn't update or upgrade the system, and that, my friends, is a big problem. I tried to resolve the issue. I even attempted

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My Cord-Cutting Adventure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-08 19:07:30

For starters, the consumer electronics industry, normally so eager to sell us computers, laptops, pads, phones, and watches; the industry that for 30 years has sold us VCRs, competed over Beta vs VHS and Super-VHS (look it up, it existed), then sold us DVDs, DVD recorders with DVD-R and DVD-RW, then sold us DVRs that recorded standard definition, then sold us Blu-Ray players of increasing degrees of quality and declining prices...these days, they've utterly given up selling us anything that can

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Hasbro’s Big Marvel SDCC Exclusive Is Wildly Unexpected

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-04-11 12:20:57

Everyone knows Marvel Comics has a very, very long roster of characters and, at San Diego Comic-Con this year, it’s pushing that list to the max. Hasbro just announced an exclusive set for the convention, and it’s comprised of a few characters likely unfamiliar to a lot of comic book fans, unless those fans also play the game Marvel Snap. It’s called the “Hasbro Marvel Legends Series Gamerverse Marvel Snap Savage Land 3-Pack” and consists of Rogue, Sauron (no, not that one), and Shanna the She-

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Queerness Wasn’t a Consideration in ‘Andor’ Season 2’s Most Controversial Death

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-04-11 13:15:24

When the heist on Ghorman went wrong on Andor season two, it only took one bad call for tragedy to strike. In the case of rebel leader Cinta Kaz (Varadu Sethu), her life was snuffed out in an instant when a misfire took her down. In a story about the early days of Star Wars Rebels uniting against the Empire, anyone was fair game, and it’s something that show creator Tony Gilroy and writer Beau Willimon affirmed in conversation with Vulture, when discussing Cinta’s death as one of the franchise’s

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Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-04-11 14:00:26

UFOs have been back in the news a lot lately, and it may be the case that the government wants it that way. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published the first of a two-part series that probes the ways in which the Defense Department has been responsible for creating and fostering the UFO mythology in America. The article shows that the government has, at various points over the years, purposefully sown disinformation about UFOs, in an effort to make Americans believe in little green men. Th

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-11 10:38:00

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-11 13:00:06

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 2026-04-11 13:16:47

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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The new version of Audi’s best-selling Q5 SUV arrives in the US

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-11 07:00:02

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Denver and accommodation so Ars could drive the Q5 and SQ5, as well as two other models you can read about next week. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ASPEN, Colo.—There's a lot riding on Audi's next Q5. The model has been Audi's bread and butter here since the model went on sale in the US in 2009, as tastes changed and sedans fell out of favor. The third-generation Q5 is built on an all-new platform and is one of a new generation of soft

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Trade war truce between US and China is back on

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-11 07:18:48

Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London. In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US president hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before. The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO F

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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play

Don’t forget: Three-button navigation is getting a much-needed upgrade with Android 16

Android 16’s Desktop Mode transforms your Pixel phone into a PC, and here’s how you can try it now

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Google Pixel 10 might debut Qi 2 support and magnetic “Pixelsnap” accessories

Apple overhauls Vision Pro Personas feature, now with much higher-quality 3D avatars

Why you should delete your personal data from the internet, and how to keep it from resurfacing

watchOS 26: More Apple Watch faces using Series 10’s upgraded display

Tim Cook surprises Swift Student Challenge winners at Apple Park [Interview]

Snapchat announces that new lightweight AR Spectacles will be launching next year

Vision Pro’s first third-party Apple Immersive Video brings MotoGP racing via Blackmagic

Snap says new 'lightweight' AR glasses will come in 2026

Pragmata is a satisfying sci-fi shooter with an intriguing double act

NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

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

The new version of Audi’s best-selling Q5 SUV arrives in the US

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