Published on: 2025-06-04 22:50:00
Editor's take: Game developers are actively promoting AI and large language models as the next big leap for the industry. Despite ambitious visions of fully automated characters and self-generating virtual worlds, the current reality falls short and is often limited to profanity-laced chatbots meant to nudge you into pressing a button. Epic Games recently announced several AI-related updates for Fortnite. Creators still building in the 2017 multiplayer game will soon be able to populate their b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 04:08:20
With every iOS update, Apple quietly adds additional features under its accessibility category. These features are there to give people and customers alternatives to how they interact and use their iPhones. When iOS 17 was announced, they added a new feature called Personal Voice. This new feature seemed terrific; it was a way to train your iPhone to speak and sound like you, literally. But now it’s been almost 2 years since its release. So, how well does it work? If you want to get a hands-on
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Rumors suggest that Apple will be implementing Google Gemini support within Apple Intelligence Siri sometime in the near future, alongside the already-existing ChatGPT integration. A recent backend update even revealed that Apple is already prepared for a Google Gemini integration to debut. Last week at Google I/O, Google announced a number of interesting Gemini upgrades that might make Siri integration a bigger deal than we might think. Let’s discuss. Currently, ChatGPT integration with Apple
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 06:28:25
Data broker giant LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a Georgia-based American data analytics company, has revealed that attackers stole the personal information of over 364,000 individuals in a December breach. As disclosed in data breach notifications sent to affected people starting May 24th, LexisNexis was informed on April 1st that some of its data had been stolen from GitHub by an unknown threat actor using a compromised company account. "On April 1, 2025, we learned that on December 25, 2024, an
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It’s both fascinating and a little invasive feeling to look through what’s on the auction block in “The David Lynch Collection,” featuring hundreds of items once owned by the late, great cinematic genius. There are tons of books, multiple espresso makers (obviously), furniture, cameras and other filmmaking equipment, musical instruments, woodworking tools, framed artwork, and household items like mugs and dishes. Even the ordinary stuff has a patina of cool—because David Freaking Lynch once own
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumers’ personal data to help its paying corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 364,000 people. The company said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general that the breach, dating back to December 25, 2024, allowed a hacker to obtain consumers’ sensitive personal data from a third-party platform used by the company for software development. Jennifer Richman, a spokespe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 03:33:47
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of hobbyists who loved to play with computers and found them inherently fascinating. When BYTE magazine came out with its premier issue in 1975, the cover called computers “the world’s greatest toy.” When Bill Gates wrote about the value of good software in the spring of 1976, he framed his argument in terms
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 16:20:00
Does it seem like the dad in your life already has it all? This can make Father's Day shopping particularly tricky. That's where personalized presents come in. A custom gift adds a sentimental touch, and you can be sure he doesn't have it already, since it was made just for him. We know there are many, many customizable products out there. However, we've combed through the vast online selection and picked the standouts for Father's Day. There are budget-friendly picks (like funny socks), more e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 20:05:09
A new study shows that GPT-4 reliably wins debates against its human counterparts in one-on-one conversations—and the technology gets even more persuasive when it knows your age, job, and political leanings. Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland, Princeton University, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy paired 900 study participants with either a human debate partner or OpenAI’s GPT-4, a large language model (LLM) that, by design, produces mostly text responses to human prompts. In some case
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In Brief Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. While cryptocurrencies have always created unique security risks, it seems there’s a rising threat of violent abduction due to the growing value of Bitcoin, as well as new concerns after a recent Coinbase breach exposed customers’ personal information. (Coinbase said
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 20:08:37
There’s a new Persona game coming very soon, but sadly it isn’t time for the next mainline entry just yet. Rather, Persona 5: The Phantom X is a spinoff in a similar vein to Persona 5 Strikers. Like that game, The Phantom X is set in the same universe as Atlus’ incredibly successful RPG, Persona 5, but unlike Strikers, this one features a new cast of characters, including a talking owl named Lufel that presumably takes the place of Morgana. First announced in 2023, Persona 5: The Phantom X is a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 08:00:00
It’s not the next mainline entry in the series, but Atlus did announced a new Persona game today. It’s called Persona 5: The Phantom X, and it’s a spinoff that’s launching on both mobile and PC on June 26th. As the name implies, The Phantom X is set in the same universe as 2017’s Persona 5, and will feature a new main character leading a new band of Phantom Thieves. This story takes place in “a mysterious Tokyo where desires have been lost.” The structure of The Phantom X sounds a lot like trad
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 02:09:29
Republished by Slate. Translations available in French (Français), Spanish (Español), Chinese (中文) For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence. I do so to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over my email and so that no big company has copies of all of my personal email. A few years ago, I was surprised to find out that my friend Peter Eckersley — a very privacy conscious person who is Technology Projects Director at the EFF — used Gmai
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 09:03:29
You might think that Apple, Commodore or perhaps Radio Shack made the first personal computer, but you’d be wrong. Although the Apple I appeared in 1976, and then in 1977 the Apple II, Commodore PET and TRS-80 all appeared, there was one personal computer that preceded them all: The MITS Altair 8800 from 1975, considered the first commercially successful personal computer. The Altair was created by a small company called MITS, which initially stood for Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry. In 19
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is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation is now also looking into a second chat, as well as exactly how classified information was transferred from a secure government computer onto Heg
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During today’s earnings call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the company’s delay of its more personal Siri features that were announced as part of Apple Intelligence last year. Cook assured analysts that the company is “making progress” on shipping these features to consumers… Here’s Cook’s full quote from today’s earnings on the current state of Apple Intelligence: Since we launched iOS 18, we’ve released a number of Apple Intelligence features, from helpful Writing Tools to Genmo
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Since last week, OpenAI has deployed and recalled an update to ChatGPT after virtually all users complained about a bizarre behavior. The company explains what happened in a blog post published tonight. ChatGPT users want the chatbot to be more personable and less clinical. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot is often described as more human-like in its responses compared to OpenAI’s more formulaic response style. That’s why OpenAI released an update to its GPT-4o model last week that “improved both in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 16:29:37
OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates. The rollback, which started Monday night, is “now 100%” rolled back for free ChatGPT users and will be rolled back for paid users “hopefully today,” Altman says in a post on X . “We’re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days.” OpenAI updated GPT-
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If it feels like ChatGPT is laying on the flattery a little thick, you're not the only one who's noticed. CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT, Sam Altman said in a recent post on X the latest batch of updates made to its GPT-4o model have made it too much of a people pleaser. He added that the company is working on personality tweaks. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 16:30:00
With data brokers making big money by selling your personal details, it’s never been easier for spammers and scanners to get access to your phone number, email address, physical address, and even sensitive data like your social security number. Apple’s privacy protections help, of course, but if you want to get proactive about removing your existing personal data from the internet, it’s never been easier to do so … Data brokers are companies whose business is buying and selling personal data.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 12:20:00
Did you know that United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a member of Sleeper.com, a fantasy football betting site? Or that he thinks the staff of some random dental office is “amazing”? We shouldn’t know, but we do thanks to Hegseth’s messy digital habits. In a continuation of “Signalgate”, new reports indicate that not only was Hegseth’s personal phone number (which he used for Signal) easily accessible online, but he also had the app installed on Pentagon devices. On Wednesday, th
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is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Waymo may sell autonomous vehicles for personal ownership at some point in the future, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during an earnings call last night. Pichai was asked about the long-term business model for Waymo, and he responded that it includes expanding partnerships like it has with Moove in Miami and Uber in Austin and, soon, Atlanta,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 08:29:52
Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. WSU is a prominent Australian institution offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across multiple disciplines. It serves a student body of 47,000 and employs over 4,500 permanent and seasonal staff, operating with an annual budget of approximately $600 million. One of the incidents disclosed concerns the compromise of one of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 12:19:58
Consumers around the world are concerned about how both companies and their governments are treating their personal data, and some of them are doing something about it. According to the results of a survey from Malwarebytes released Wednesday, 89% of people are concerned that corporations are inappropriately accessing and using their data, while 72% are worried that the government is doing the same thing. The security software company's pulse survey polled 1,500 readers of its newsletter from a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-12 17:24:49
A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. curl-impersonate is able to perform TLS and HTTP handshakes that are identical to that of a real browser. curl-impersonate can be used either as a command line tool, similar to the regular curl, or as a library that can be integrated instead of the regular libcurl. See Usage below. When you use an HTTP client with a TLS website, it first performs a TLS handshake. The first message of that hand
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A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. curl-impersonate is able to perform TLS and HTTP handshakes that are identical to that of a real browser. curl-impersonate can be used either as a command line tool, similar to the regular curl, or as a library that can be integrated instead of the regular libcurl. See Usage below. When you use an HTTP client with a TLS website, it first performs a TLS handshake. The first message of that hand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 19:35:12
One of the industry's leading large language models has passed a Turing test, a longstanding barometer for human-like intelligence. In a new preprint study awaiting peer review, researchers report that in a three-party version of a Turing test, in which participants chat with a human and an AI at the same time and then evaluate which is which, OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model was deemed to be the human 73 percent of the time when it was instructed to adopt a persona. That's significantly higher than a ra
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Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security adviser, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government officials. The report follows last week’s news that several cabinet-level officials, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed highly sensitive war plans in a Signal group chat that also inadvertently included the editor-in-chief
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 22:38:24
In 1974, the United State Congress passed the Privacy Act in response to public concerns over the US government’s runaway efforts to harness Americans’ personal data. Now Democrats in the US Senate are calling to amend the half-century-old law, citing ongoing attempts by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to effectively commit the same offense—collusively collect untold quantities of personal data, drawing upon dozens if not hundreds of government system
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