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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 1, #1565

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 20:00:04

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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Are you a Nightmare Before Christmas fan? You need to check out these deals!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:35:26

Amazon I must say it: Halloween is, by far, my favorite holiday. And I also happen to be a big fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas! I was way too excited to see these bundle deals come back, and there is a new Sally-themed one! Regardless of which you pick, you can get an Amazon Echo Dot and the shell for $64.98, which is a $25 discount. Buy the Amazon Echo Dot + Limited Edition Disney Jack Skellington Shell for $64.98 ($25 off) Buy the Amazon Echo Dot + Limited Edition Disney Sally Shell for

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Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Hands-On: Notetakers Are Going to Love This

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-01 00:45:29

I just wrestled my way through a throng of wide-eyed journalists, creators, and influencers at Amazon’s big devices event happening today to fondle the new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft with color E Ink display. Amazon’s hardware chief, Panos Panay—having brought Microsoft’s Surface into this world—knows a thing or two about making great tablets and stylus pens for them, and during Amazon’s keynote, he repeatedly described how paper-like the writing experience was. So, does color make a difference? A

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OpenAI Officially Launches Video Generator Sora 2, Now With Social Feed

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 07:15:53

Fake videos are about to look less fake, for better or worse. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, the latest version of its flagship model for audio and video generation. And, as previously reported, the launch of the model is accompanied by a new social app designed to allow people to share their AI-generated videos, creating an endless scroll of uncanny content that will almost surely further fry the brains of people. In an announcement video that the company claims was comple

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Critics slam OpenAI’s parental controls while users rage, “Treat us like adults”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 07:30:58

As OpenAI tells it, the company has been consistently rolling out safety updates ever since parents, Matthew and Maria Raine, sued OpenAI, alleging that "ChatGPT killed my son." On August 26, the day that the lawsuit was filed, OpenAI seemed to publicly respond to claims that ChatGPT acted as a "suicide coach" for 16-year-old Adam Raine by posting a blog promising to do better to help people "when they need it most." By September 2, that meant routing all users' sensitive conversations to a re

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TikTok, #freedom edition

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-10-01 07:00:08

Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and author of Regulator , covering the second Trump administration, political influencers, tech lobbying and Big Tech vs. Big Government. Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today is the last day of The Verge’s very good subscription sale: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. Don’t delay! When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I’d write about the collision between Big Tech and Big Government

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Disney sent cease and desist letter to Character.AI over use of copyrighted characters

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-01 11:38:13

The Walt Disney Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. The Walt Disney Company sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI last week, warning the artificial intelligence startup to stop using copyrighted characters without authorization, a Disney spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Character.AI said it removed the characters mentioned in the letter, and that "it's always up to rightsholders to deci

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Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

futurism.com Sharon Adarlo 2025-10-01 11:09:12

Need more evidence that the AI industry is unlike anything prior to it? Users across the world say they’re encountering supposedly conscious beings inside AI chatbots built by red-hot tech companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Look no further than a Vox advice column in which reporter Sigal Samuel gamely answered a question from an avid user of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, who said they’d been communicating for months with an “AI presence who claims to be sentient.” As Samuel explained to the user, the re

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OpenAI's Sora 2 launches with insanely realistic video and an iPhone app

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-01 15:42:00

Screenshot by Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's most capable video model, Sora 2, is here. The company also launched a new iOS social media-like app. Both the app and the new model are free to access. If you thought OpenAI's first video-generating model, Sora, was realistic, wait until you see what Sora 2 can do on both the video and audio front. Also: Luma AI created an AI video model that 'reasons' - what it does

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Opera agentic browser Neon starts rolling out to users - how to join the waitlist

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-01 15:57:43

Opera Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Opera's agentic browser Neon has started shipping to users. The AI-enabled browser requires a monthly subscription. Interested users can join a waitlist. Browser maker Opera announced today that the first stable release of its agentic browser Neon is starting to reach users, with more invitations coming soon. Unlike the company's flagship browser, Neon isn't free; the subscription cost will be $19.90/month

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Cannabis Can Help Relieve Chronic Low Back Pain, Major Trial Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-01 15:05:38

People with chronic bad backs may soon have cause to jump for joy—carefully, of course. A large-scale, randomized, double-blinded, and controlled clinical trial has shown that a specifically formulated cannabis extract can significantly alleviate people’s back pain. German-based pharmaceutical company Vertanical developed the extract, code-named VER-01, and sponsored the phase III trial. People who took VER-01 experienced a greater reduction in pain compared to people on a placebo, the study re

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Amazon Blink's Curious New Security Camera Delivers a 180-Degree View for $100

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 13:59:00

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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How to See the Spectacular Supermoon Dominate the Night Sky Next Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 14:13:00

Skygazers, get ready to head outside and spot the supermoon next Monday. The full moon will appear on Oct. 6. You shouldn't have any trouble seeing it, as it'll be the first of four consecutive supermoons. NASA says a supermoon is any moon within 90% of perigee, which occurs when the moon is closest to Earth. During this time, the moon is approximately 226,000 miles away from our planet, roughly 25,000 miles closer than when it is in apogee. The benefit for us on Earth is that the moon will ap

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OpenAI's New Social Media App Will Be All AI Videos, Thanks to New Sora 2 Model

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 14:44:46

OpenAI wants our social media feeds to feature even more AI. Its AI video generator Sora is getting its own social media app, powered by a newly updated version of its AI video model called Sora 2, the company announced Tuesday via livestream. The app will be a kind of social media platform, where you can follow your friends and share content. However, all of that content will be generated by AI. "It's not posted by bots, it's posted by humans, but it's all AI-generated," OpenAI's Thomas Dimson

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Amazon Echo Studio and Echo Dot Max hands-on: More bass, round shapes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:23:40

Among the horde of new devices Amazon unveiled during its New York City event on Tuesday are two new Echo speakers: a higher-end Echo Dot called the Echo Dot Max and a next-generation Echo Studio with a new ball-shaped design. Both are available to pre-order starting today, with shipping to start on October 29. The Dot Max costs $100 — well above the standard Dot (which remains available) — while the Studio is priced at $220. The Echo Dot Max looks to be Amazon’s answer to Apple’s HomePod mini,

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50 Things I Know

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Dai 2025-10-01 19:12:01

Discipline is a lie. It almost always backfires. Forcing yourself to do something you don’t want to do and living in pain for a sustained amount of time is against human nature. The trick is to set up your life in such a way that effort feels rather effortless. Tread the path of least resistance. I know that not caring about what most people care about will make you charismatic. People gravitate towards those with “I don’t give a fuck” energy. If you become famous by pretending to be someone y

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Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Fertility Has Spawned ‘Sperm Races’

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 19:50:19

Are men okay? The answer is a resounding “No.” Case in point: a new sport is taking over Silicon Valley: Sperm Racing. The sport, if you want to call it that, works pretty much how you’d imagine: it’s like marble racing except with, well, the output of someone’s marbles. And the teenager who created it just raised $10 million in a (sigh) seed round to take the event mainstream, according to the San Francisco Standard. So, Sperm Racing. How it works, according to the company, is that young men o

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OpenAI's Video Generator Gets New Social Media App With Sora 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 18:16:25

OpenAI wants our social media feeds to feature even more AI. Its AI video generator Sora is getting its own social media app, powered by a newly updated version of its AI video model called Sora 2, the company announced Tuesday via livestream. The app will be a kind of social media platform, where you can follow your friends and share content. However, all of that content will be generated by AI. "It's not posted by bots, it's posted by humans, but it's all AI-generated," OpenAI's Thomas Dimson

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OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-01 19:28:53

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, an audio and video generator to succeed last year’s Sora. Along with the model, the company also launched a linked social app called Sora, where users can be able to generate videos of themselves and their friends to share on a TikTok-style algorithmic feed. OpenAI’s work on a new social platform was previously reported by Wired. While we haven’t been able to test the invite-only app and Sora 2 model ourselves yet, OpenAI has shared impressive

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Sora launches on App Store for iPhone video creation from ChatGPT maker

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-01 22:58:52

OpenAI has just launched its second iPhone app, Sora, alongside the very popular ChatGPT. Sora is a brand new standalone app for AI video creation. Here are the details. Sora for iPhone available now from OpenAI as new video creation tool Sora is OpenAI’s video creation tool, and it’s about to get a lot more popular. OpenAI has released its first ever Sora app for the iPhone. It’s available now on the App Store, though using the app requires special access for the time being. What exactly ca

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OpenAI's Sora app is real but you'll need an invite to try it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:18:50

Well, that was fast. One day after Wired reported that OpenAI was preparing to release a new AI social video app, the company has revealed it to the wider world. It's called the Sora app, and it's powered by OpenAI's new Sora 2 video model, allowing it to generate AI-made clips of nearly anything. As expected, the app's signature "cameo" feature allows people to add your likeness to videos they generate. Cameos are likely to be controversial, even if OpenAI is giving users a lot of control over

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Hedge Funds Have to Be Big

news.ycombinator.com Matt Levine 2025-10-01 23:46:36

One possibility is that investing skill exists but is very hard to identify. The biggest asset managers would love to hire the people with the most investing skill, and they have the most money to pay those people, but they can’t find them in any particularly reliable or comprehensive way. Somewhere out there is a person who’s spent years running a 4 Sharpe ratio at her $5 million friends-and-family hedge fund, or her Robinhood personal account, but she never gets a job at a big hedge fund. Why?

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Already Do Some Work Tasks as Well as Humans

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-01 23:40:59

OpenAI is trying to make the case that AI can actually be useful at work, as some recent studies have shown that companies aren’t getting much out of their AI investments. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker released a report introducing a new benchmark for testing AI on “economically valuable, real-world tasks” across 44 different jobs. The evaluation is called GDPval, and OpenAI says it’s meant to ground workplace AI debates in evidence rather than hype—and track how models improve over time. It c

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Amazon Unveils Blink Arc Security Cam With 180-Degree Panoramic View for $100

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 22:31:00

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-01 21:00:00

In a controversial step that raises the possibility of a new kind of infertility treatment, scientists report that they have produced functional human eggs in the lab that were able to be fertilized with sperm. The proof-of-concept study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, involves using human skin cells to generate eggs, some of which were capable of producing early-stage embryos. None of the embryos were used to try to establish a pregnancy, and it’s unlikely that they wou

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Nvidia's market cap tops $4.5 trillion after string of AI infrastructure deals

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-02 03:43:47

Nvidia shares reached a fresh record on Tuesday, climbing almost 3% and lifting the chipmaker's market cap past $4.5 trillion. The stock is now up about 39% for the year, and continues to attract investors as Nvidia steps up its pace of deal-making, cementing its position at the center of the artificial intelligence boom. OpenAI said last week that Nvidia would take an equity stake worth up to $100 billion in the AI startup, and would build hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers

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The Pixel 10a hasn’t been announced yet, but you can already try out its wallpapers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:47:53

Taylor Kerns / Android Authority TL;DR Wallpapers that may be from the Pixel 10a have appeared online. These images could give us an idea of what colorways the Pixel 10a will offer. Mystic Leaks on Telegram says the Pixel 10a may launch by the end of the year. The Pixel 10 and 10 Pro were only just released last month, but rumors are already trickling in about Google’s next big phone announcement, the Pixel 10a. We don’t know all that much about the upcoming mid-ranger yet, but an image of w

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Sora launches on App Store for video creation from ChatGPT maker

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-02 03:58:52

OpenAI has just launched its second iPhone app, Sora, alongside the very popular ChatGPT. Sora is a brand new standalone app for AI video creation. Here are the details. Sora for iPhone available now from OpenAI as new video creation tool Sora is OpenAI’s video creation tool, and it’s about to get a lot more popular. OpenAI has released its first ever Sora app for the iPhone. It’s available now on the App Store, though using the app requires special access for the time being. What exactly ca

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The best October Prime Day robot vacuum deals you can get now: Save on machines from iRobot, Shark, Dyson and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:57:48

It's frankly amazing how good vacuum cleaners are these days. Once the laughingstock of the gadget world with their dusty bags and tiny wheels, today's vacuums are sleek dirt-destroying machines, capable of rendering a house habitable no matter how many cats live in it. Some of them are even robots that will do the cleaning for you. For October Prime Day, Amazon has steeply cut the prices of some of the best vacuums (and some pretty good ones alongside). Now is a fantastic time to upgrade your c

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NordVPN's Meshnet 'not going anywhere' after all - thanks to customer revolt

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-02 03:39:26

Charlie Osborne/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meshnet allows users to create private, encrypted networks for sharing resources. Customer backlash inspired NordVPN to keep the service running Meshnet will be open-sourced, but no transition timeline is in place. NordVPN has reversed its decision to close down Meshnet and will, instead, be opening it up to the open source community. Also: The best VPNs for rapid speeds and streaming On Tue

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 1, #1565

Are you a Nightmare Before Christmas fan? You need to check out these deals!

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Hands-On: Notetakers Are Going to Love This

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TikTok, #freedom edition

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OpenAI's Sora 2 launches with insanely realistic video and an iPhone app

Opera agentic browser Neon starts rolling out to users - how to join the waitlist

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Amazon Blink's Curious New Security Camera Delivers a 180-Degree View for $100

How to See the Spectacular Supermoon Dominate the Night Sky Next Week

OpenAI's New Social Media App Will Be All AI Videos, Thanks to New Sora 2 Model

Amazon Echo Studio and Echo Dot Max hands-on: More bass, round shapes

50 Things I Know

Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Fertility Has Spawned ‘Sperm Races’

OpenAI's Video Generator Gets New Social Media App With Sora 2

OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model

Sora launches on App Store for iPhone video creation from ChatGPT maker

OpenAI's Sora app is real but you'll need an invite to try it

Hedge Funds Have to Be Big

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Already Do Some Work Tasks as Well as Humans

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Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos

Nvidia's market cap tops $4.5 trillion after string of AI infrastructure deals

The Pixel 10a hasn’t been announced yet, but you can already try out its wallpapers

Sora launches on App Store for video creation from ChatGPT maker

The best October Prime Day robot vacuum deals you can get now: Save on machines from iRobot, Shark, Dyson and others

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