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OpenAI Quietly Turns to Google to Stay Online

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-21 12:30:08

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has quietly added Google Cloud as one of its official service providers, meaning Google will now help power the systems that run ChatGPT and other AI products. This development was disclosed on OpenAI’s website in a list of what are called sub-processors, or companies that handle or process user data on OpenAI’s behalf. For everyday users, it may not seem like a big deal. But behind the scenes, it is a major shift. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, has

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Scientists prove Android Earthquake Alerts system actually works pretty well

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 18:38:27

Google TL;DR Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts system crowdsources data from smartphone accelerometers to detect seismic activity. The system has detected over 18,000 earthquakes and alerted millions across nearly 100 countries. Users receive crucial seconds of warning, enabling them to take protective action before shaking begins. Google introduced Earthquake Alerts for Android devices back in 2020, and expanded the feature to cover all US states in September 2024. More recently, Google al

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Row Polymorphic Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 04:50:31

Sometimes, especially when dealing with business logic, we have to deal with data that comes in from the real world, or elsewhere, naturally very messily typed, leading to nasty type signatures and messes of macros or code generation to build data structures from a schema. Row polymorphism can help us by abstracting over the fields contained in a record type in the type signature, letting us define records based on data, concatenate records together, and define functions that are generic across

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15 Years of Building Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 20:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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The Download: how to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies”

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-21 22:10:00

In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on your own computer without investing in pricey GPUs. But researchers have had so much success in shrinking down and speeding up models that anyone with a laptop, or even a smartphone, can now get in on the action. For people who are concerned about privacy, want to break free from the control of the big LLM companies, or just enjoy tinkering, local models offer a co

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iPadOS 26 is turning my iPad Air into the ultraportable laptop it was meant to be

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-02-21 23:35:00

M3 iPad Air running iPadOS 26 Developer Beta. Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET I was intrigued and curious to try iPadOS 26 when Apple first announced it at WWDC 2025 last month. For the longest time, the iPad has been something I've wanted to add to my workflow but couldn't due to its rigid operating system -- one that doesn't necessarily complement the iPad's flexible hardware. It seems Apple was aware of this, too since iPadOS 26 attempts to bridges the longstanding gaps between the Apple tablet and a

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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year

news.ycombinator.com Selena Simmons-Duffin 2026-02-21 23:21:03

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows Valeriya/iStockphoto/Getty Images Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare.gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday. The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. The insurers' narrat

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15 Years If Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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Resolve (YC W15) Is Hiring an Operations and Billing Lead for Construction VR

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 04:00:47

Location: Remote Type: Full-time About Us Resolve is an 11-person SaaS startup helping construction companies and builders review faster. Our clients include general contractors, specialty subcontractors, owner operators and engineering companies—companies that build the world around us. We’re growing fast and looking for a detail-oriented, proactive Billing and Operations Lead to take charge of key administrative processes that keep our business humming. What You’ll Do You’ll own and impro

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Perplexity’s Comet is the AI browser Google wants

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-22 04:00:00

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. Perplexity has just launched its agentic answer to Google Chrome — it’s called Comet, and it knocked out a slate of tasks on my behalf, though I think I could’ve done some faster myself. The new AI-powered browser is currently only available to Perplexity Max subscribers or through an early access waitlist, and it’s supposed to simplify the way you

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OpenAI launches a full-fledged ChatGPT agent which can work without supervision

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 11:21:07

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI has announced a new ChatGPT agent mode that can operate independently without active supervision. ChatGPT agent combines the previous capabilities of web operators and deep research, allowing it to think more like a human. It can connect with and work on third-party apps, such as Gmail or Google Drive, with minimal input. OpenAI has just announced that it is stepping into the era of more sophisticated agentic AI with a new ChatGPT feature. A n

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Best VPN services 2025: The fastest VPNs with the best networks, ranked

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-22 11:40:16

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are essential security tools to stop others from spying on you online. A VPN encrypts your data and conceals your Internet Protocol (IP) address, making it a great tool for general online use, traveling, and streaming. VPNs route traffic through their server network, assigning users new IP locations and preventing tracking, targeted advertising, and data theft. VPNs are not a silver bullet for security, but the best VPN services will protect your privacy without

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Soundcore Boom 3i Review: A Seaworthy Bluetooth Speaker That Dunks on the Competition

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-22 14:00:05

2025 I love when gadgets have a schtick. Like Lenovo’s Tab Plus with an ungodly amount of JBL speakers, or Nothing’s Android phones with lights on the back. Schticks are great, and schticks that are practical and actually work are even better. For Soundcore’s $130 Boom 3i Bluetooth speaker, the schtick is all about throwing a speaker into water, which is unnatural for anyone familiar with how batteries work, but for the right person, might be kind of awesome. See Soundcore Boom 3i at Amazon L

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Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-22 15:15:11

Welcome to Edition 8.03 of the Rocket Report! We are at an interesting stage in Europe, with its efforts to commercialize spaceflight. Finally, it seems the long-slumbering continent is waking up to the need to leverage private capital to drive down the costs of space access, and we are seeing more investment flow into European companies. But it is critical that European policymakers make strategic investments across the industry or companies like PLD Space, which outlined big plans this week, w

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Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2026-02-22 15:00:00

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the road? Would they see the light beam moving at 1.5 times the speed of light? But that’s impossible, right? Nothing is faster than light. Yes, it seems tricky. The problem is, our ideas about the world are based on our experiences, and we don’t have much experience going that fast. I mean, the speed of

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Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-02-22 12:29:34

While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. The search-focused AI startup is rapidly adding millions of users in the world’s second-largest internet and smartphone market, positioning itself for mass-market scale. This week, Perplexity partnered with Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator after Reliance Jio, to offer a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription —

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Modular Interpreters and Visitors in Rust with Extensible Variants and CGP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 20:16:51

Programming Extensible Data Types in Rust with CGP - Part 2: Modular Interpreters and Extensible Visitors Posted on 2025-07-09 Authored by Soares Chen Discuss on Reddit, GitHub or Discord. This is the second part of the blog series on Programming Extensible Data Types in Rust with CGP. You can read the first part here. As a recap, we have covered the new release of CGP v0.4.2 which now supports the use of extensible records and variants, allowing developers to write code that operates on an

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Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Kenneth Finnegan 2026-02-18 22:37:57

At its core, the Internet is an interconnected fabric of separate networks. Each network which makes up the Internet is operated independently and only interconnects with other networks in clearly defined places. For smaller networks like your home, the interaction between your network and the rest of the Internet is usually pretty simple: you buy an Internet service plan from an ISP (Internet Service Provider), they give you some kind of hand-off through something like a DSL or cable modem, an

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Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

news.ycombinator.com Written 2026-02-22 18:10:38

Written by: Jesse Jenkins Published: A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social insect bonanza that exploded after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar — a taste

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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 17:53:09

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money with no-strings attached. That's according to a new report titled Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience, which was compiled by researchers at McMaster and Ryerson University, in partnership with the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction. The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot projec

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Wi-Fi Experts Reveal How Trump’s Budget Bill Could Slow Down Your Wi-Fi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 17:05:00

You won’t find the term “Wi-Fi” anywhere in the text of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, but a provision authorizing the FCC to auction off spectrum could seriously impact speeds on newer Wi-Fi routers. Every wireless device, from garage door openers to baby monitors, relies on the electromagnetic spectrum to work. But that spectrum is a limited resource -- to open up capacity for one technology, you have to take it away from another. The latest generation of Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi

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Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop

news.ycombinator.com Chris Winkle 2026-02-22 22:38:14

Indie writers can be under great pressure to write quickly, so it’s no surprise that a few have resorted to using generative AI software such as ChatGPT. Other writers may look to AI as a quick fix when they hit a roadblock. Plus, publishing on a budget can be tough, so AI-generated images and audio may seem like a good solution. Big tech companies with loads of advertising cash would like you to think that generative AI is the inevitable future of writing. So would some influencers who are pro

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How to Get Free Marvel Rivals Skins With the College Perks Program

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 22:20:05

You might be subsisting off ramen noodles and Red Bull, but that doesn't mean you need to look broke while you're playing your games. NetEase has introduced Marvel Rivals perks for college and university students that let them wear some of the coolest in-game costumes for free. All you need is a valid student email and the know-how to navigate the in-game menus. Linking your NetEase account with your college's domain is a simple process that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. Most US s

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Harvard Paper Explores Possibility That Object Approaching From Beyond Solar System Is Hostile Alien Technology

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 03:04:50

A strange interstellar object is hurtling its way toward our pale blue dot — and according to a Harvard astronomer, there's a chance it's not a benign asteroid or comet, but instead some harmful form of alien tech. In a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb — the same scientist who suggested that 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever detected back in 2017, was alien in nature — teamed up with researchers from the Britain-based Initiative for Interstellar Studie

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ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-23 04:34:40

In a quick live stream today, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, which improves on its promising, but limited Operator feature announced a few months ago. Here’s how it works Operator meets Deep Research What OpenAI did was combine Operator, which already had agentic browsing capabilities, and Deep Research, which can quickly consume, understand, and infer on website content. The result is an agent that gets spun up on a virtual machine when you assign it a task, and then it just… goes. It can

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 18, #1490

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 03:00:04

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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This Emoji Won Most Popular New Emoji, but It Was Never Really a Contest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 03:05:00

Emoji are a fun way to communicate with others, and the internet celebrates this with World Emoji Day every July 17 (since that's the date on the calendar emoji). As part of those celebrations, Emojipedia, an online directory of emoji and their meanings, announces awards for most popular new emoji, most anticipated emoji and even lifetime achievement awards. In my opinion, this year's winner for Most Popular New Emoji was bound to win. Based on Emojipedia's site data, the winner of the Most 202

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Peacock announces its steepest price hike in its short history

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:52:04

TL;DR Peacock is raising the prices of its Premium and Premium Plus plans. The Premium tier will go up to $11, while Premium Plus will cost $17. The price hike will go into effect on July 23 for new subscribers and August 22 for existing members. Another day, another subscription service raises its prices. The streaming platform Peacock will soon raise its subscription rates for both new and existing customers. According to Bloomberg, Comcast Corp has announced that it will hike the cost of

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Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:36:44

Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming home for The Office and Love Island USA, is going to cost a good bit more starting on July 23, Variety reports. The streaming service's two existing tiers will cost an additional $3 per month, and Peacock will also start testing a cheaper $7.99 "Select" tier that includes access to NBC and Bravo shows and a limited number of titles from the NBCUniversal back catalog. With the new price hike, Peacock's ad-supported "Premium" plan will go from costing $8 per mont

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Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:41:22

Since v23.6.0, Node.js enables "type stripping" by default. If you are using v23.6.0 or later and your source code contains only erasable typescript syntax, you do not need this article. Since V22.6.0, Node.js has experimental support for some TypeScript syntax via "type stripping". You can write code that's valid TypeScript directly in Node.js without the need to transpile it first. The --experimental-strip-types flag tells Node.js to strip the type annotations from the TypeScript code before

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Soundcore Boom 3i Review: A Seaworthy Bluetooth Speaker That Dunks on the Competition

Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site

Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?

Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

Modular Interpreters and Visitors in Rust with Extensible Variants and CGP

Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)

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This Emoji Won Most Popular New Emoji, but It Was Never Really a Contest

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Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js

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