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OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-18 00:34:00

OpenAI OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the most prestigious and difficult math competition in the world. Critically, the winning model wasn't designed specifically to solve IMO problems, in the way that earlier systems like DeepMind's AlphaGo -- wh

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Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

news.ycombinator.com Danny Crichton 2026-02-18 04:43:10

Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates have declined and are now in line with the Old Continent of Europe. The dynamism of the American economy was predicated on all kinds of people seeking out work and building families, but now that mobility is gone — and we need to find out why. Yoni Appelbaum, a senior editor at The Atlantic, just pu

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Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

gizmodo.com Win Mcnamee 2026-02-18 05:30:37

Artificial intelligence models developed by Google’s DeepMind team and OpenAI have a new accolade they can add to their list of achievements: they have defeated some high schoolers in math. Both companies have claimed to achieve a gold medal at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one of the toughest competitions for high school students looking to prove their mathematical prowess. The Olympiad invites top students from across the world to participate in an exam that requires

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Superman Saving a Squirrel Was Cut Out of the Movie, but James Gunn Put It Back In

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-18 05:45:04

There are plenty of weird and unexpected moments in James Gunn’s Superman, but one of the most unexpected has to be when he saves a squirrel in the middle of a giant battle. Not a human, not a group of animals, but a single, solitary squirrel. It speaks to the character’s kindness and respect for all life in a fun, quirky way, but apparently not everyone liked it. “It was probably the second- or third-most hotly debated moment in the movie,” Gunn said in a wide-ranging interview with Rolling St

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OpenAI is getting closer with the UK government

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:31:33

The UK government has announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAI that could lead the company to "expand AI security research collaborations, explore investing in UK AI infrastructure like data centers, and find new ways for taxpayer funded services" to use AI. The move follows the introduction of the AI Action Plan in January, which fast-tracks the construction of data centers in certain regions of the UK. In the (entirely voluntary) partnership agreement — technically a Memorandum of Un

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Jane Jacobs Got Americans Stuck

news.ycombinator.com Danny Crichton 2026-02-18 10:43:10

Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates have declined and are now in line with the Old Continent of Europe. The dynamism of the American economy was predicated on all kinds of people seeking out work and building families, but now that mobility is gone — and we need to find out why. Yoni Appelbaum, a senior editor at The Atlantic, just pu

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Hidden Sensors Reveal Filthy Truth About Handwashing in Hospital Bathrooms

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-18 10:15:51

Here’s something that will make you lose just a bit more faith in humanity—or at least reach for some hand wipes. New research shows that even in hospitals, a substantial number of people aren’t bothering to wash their hands. Scientists from the University of Surrey in England led the study, installing sensors near hospital toilet and sink pipes to keep track of people’s handwashing. Nearly half of toilet users skipped the sink after flushing, they found. The researchers say more effective stra

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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-18 05:02:04

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies to wait until July 28 to share their results. The experimental model reportedly tackled the contest's six proof-based probl

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This is the soundbar I recommend for deeply immersive audio - and now it's $600 off

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-02-18 15:37:45

LG S95TR Soundbar ZDNET's key takeaways The LG S95TR soundbar with wireless subwoofer is currently on sale for $996. The LGS95TR may be expensive, but the high-quality audio is easily worth the price. The soundbar has many features, but some of the best ones require a newer LG TV model. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices It's been a year since LG released the S95TR soundbar, following much hype, as a high-end complement to its newest OLED TVs. The soundbar and wireles

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Apple Encryption Safe After All? UK Reportedly Plans to Backtrack on Backdoor Demands

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 12:48:00

Apple's reputation for providing a private and secure experience for people who use its products and services is among the highest in the industry. All that has been under threat this year, as the UK government has asked Apple to provide it with backdoor access to the iCloud accounts not only of British citizens, but of people around the world. But it looks like following pressure from the US, the UK might have decided to reverse course. As reported by the Financial Times on Sunday, the Home Of

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Faraday Future is back with another wild EV that probably will never get made

theverge.com Peter Nelson 2026-02-18 15:28:41

Ask anyone who’s familiar with EV startups what Faraday Future is, and words like vaporware or severely delayed might come to mind. That’s because, in the brand’s 11-year existence, it has seemingly overpromised and under-delivered on nearly everything it has ever announced. As reported by Autoweek, it has sold less than 20 of its luxury FF 91 full-size EVs since it debuted two years ago — mostly to investors and celebrity influencers. Last week, Faraday revealed its latest model, the FX Super

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Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-19 00:00:32

Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS that help users bifurcate work and personal data by using separate Google accounts. As more employers implement bring your own device (BYOD) policies, employees increasingly access company resources from browsers on their personal devices. Devices connected to a managed Google Workspace are able to leverage these additions. Chrome now supports easy account switching and data separation on iOS, similar to its approach on Android and Chrome for

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Oz Perkins’ Newest Movie, ‘Keeper,’ Looks Like More Delicious Nightmare Fodder

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-19 00:05:43

Oz Perkins has another movie coming out already? He must not sleep much—payback for all the frights he’s implanted into the brains of people who’ve watched his films, including The Monkey and Longlegs. His latest, Keeper, hits theaters this fall and looks to continue the trend, if this first teaser is anything to go by. Very simple yet very eerie (and a bit easier to follow than the deliberately obscure Longlegs marketing was), Keeper shows us a succession of women. They’re smiling at the camer

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What’s Behind Gen Z’s Sex Recession?

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2026-02-18 23:56:53

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, fascinating. So let's talk about the rest of the internet outside the social media, because Gen Z is the first generation that has always known a world where porn and nudes are readily available online in just a few clicks. And I'm curious, how has that impacted them? Carter Sherman: What's really interesting about porn is when I was going into this book, I thought I would find a diverse array of beliefs about it. I thought that people on the right would be more opposed to i

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OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-02-19 00:05:42

OpenAI’s incoming CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, sent her first note to staff on Monday, telling employees the tools they’re developing “will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history.” “If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever,” Simo wrote, striking a hyper-optimistic tone, according to a copy of the memo viewed by WIRED. “But I also realize those opportunities won’t magically appear on their own.” Simo previously worked as the CEO

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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-19 00:36:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 trillion annual searches, its rapid growth s

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Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-02-19 03:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're running into problems with ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone. Just after 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing quite a few errors when trying to converse with the chatbot. In some cases, ChatGPT responds with an error message; in others, it doesn't respond at all. OpenAI confirmed the issue The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike in reports about that time. Reports were declining but still present b

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SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 04:54:03

Announcing SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management We've supported .env integration for managing secrets, but it has several issues: Apps are disconnected from their secrets - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need Parsing .env is unclear - comments, multiline values, and special characters all have ambiguous behavior across different parsers - comments, multiline values, and special characters al

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-02-19 05:00:00

“My whole life has been preparing me for this moment,” Ben Sanders said when asked about why he launched his emergency response startup Hyper. The company announced Monday a $6.3 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures, as well as an official emergence from stealth. As a child, he so wanted to become a police officer that he had his mother sew yellow stripes on his navy sweatpants. He wore that with an officer’s rain hat for an entire year. As he grew up, he worked at the intersection of tech

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tvOS 26 adds new feature that makes AirPlay speakers better than ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-19 10:28:47

tvOS 26 is the next major update for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD users. Joining the Liquid Glass design, new screensavers, and FaceTime upgrades, tvOS 26 introduces a new feature that could make AirPlay speakers an asset in your home theater setup. AirPlay speakers can now be permanent audio outputs in tvOS 26 If you’re in the market for home speakers in 2025, there’s a good chance you’re looking into wireless rather than wired speakers. For years, Apple TV 4K has offered a feature that suppo

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Starlink Got Faster In the Past Two Years. It's Still Not Regularly Meeting Broadband Speeds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 08:30:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as it was two years ago, according to a new report from the speed test site Ookla. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Median download speeds from the satellite internet provider have steadily ticked up over the past few years, going from 53.95 megabits per second in 2022 to 104.71Mbps today. That’s an impressive feat considering Starlink added about 5 million customers over the same period and recently passed the 6 milli

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What the 'Superman' Post-Credits Scenes Mean for the Future of the DC Cinematic Universe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 09:25:03

The new Superman movie continues to rule the box office after its second weekend, leading the pack with $57 million from US audiences, and this relaunch of the DC universe is only getting started. Superman stars Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and David Corenswet as the Man of Steel. The movie isn't an origin story; it picks up when Superman is already well-known (and moments after he loses any fight-winning streak he previously had). I won't provide any more details

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Best Peloton Alternatives in 2025: CNET’s Fitness Expert Puts the Competition to the Test

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 09:29:00

Like so many other things at CNET, we test exercise bikes as thoroughly as possible through rigorous examination and comparison. Each exercise bike in our list has been through at least 100 miles of riding, using as many of the built-in features as possible. CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The Peloton bike has been the go-to exercise bike for a lot of people i

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I found a tablet that could replace my iPad and Kindle - and it's worth every penny

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-19 15:08:00

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart I test a lot of tablets, and admittedly, the design aspirations of many of the

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The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 14:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses two different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoo's. The Problem In most people's minds, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, t

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‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Will Have a Major Connection to ‘Superman’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-19 15:00:50

James Gunn teases the “complete horror” of the Clayface movie. Get a tiny look at Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s returns for Practical Magic 2. Plus, a sneak peek at the season finale of Rick and Morty. Spoilers get! Shin Godzilla 2 According to a new report from Bloomberg, Toho is now considering a sequel to 2016’s Shin Godzilla, though a deal has yet to be made. Clayface During a recent interview with CBS Morning (via Fangoria), James Gunn described Clayface as “a complete horror film.

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Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-02-19 15:45:21

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn’t end there. A

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Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

theverge.com Jon Fortt 2026-02-19 15:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich, a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise of tech authoritarianism.

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Apple’s new iPad Pro could get another front-facing camera

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-19 15:02:46

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro could appease fans of both landscape and portrait mode by including two front-facing cameras. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple is adding a camera to the top of the device, in addition to the one it introduced lengthwise last year. The last-gen iPad Pro swapped the tablet’s conventio

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Tesla’s response to cratering sales? A deals blitz

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-02-19 15:29:24

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. With its sales in the crapper, Tesla is resorting to a slate of deals and incentives to get reinvigorate flagging customer interest in its lineup of electric vehicles. In recent days, the automaker has rolled out a series of discounts and financing incentives on all of its models, as it seeks to capitalize on what is likely

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Latest Tech News

OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

Superman Saving a Squirrel Was Cut Out of the Movie, but James Gunn Put It Back In

OpenAI is getting closer with the UK government

Jane Jacobs Got Americans Stuck

Hidden Sensors Reveal Filthy Truth About Handwashing in Hospital Bathrooms

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

This is the soundbar I recommend for deeply immersive audio - and now it's $600 off

Apple Encryption Safe After All? UK Reportedly Plans to Backtrack on Backdoor Demands

Faraday Future is back with another wild EV that probably will never get made

Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

Oz Perkins’ Newest Movie, ‘Keeper,’ Looks Like More Delicious Nightmare Fodder

What’s Behind Gen Z’s Sex Recession?

OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

tvOS 26 adds new feature that makes AirPlay speakers better than ever

Starlink Got Faster In the Past Two Years. It's Still Not Regularly Meeting Broadband Speeds

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Best Peloton Alternatives in 2025: CNET’s Fitness Expert Puts the Competition to the Test

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The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme

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Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

Apple’s new iPad Pro could get another front-facing camera

Tesla’s response to cratering sales? A deals blitz

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