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Did Apple and Amazon just save the smart display?
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Meet the family computer
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An expensive new way to doodle.
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I don’t know what I was expecting.
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OpenAI’s latest claimed breakthrough, one of three major results announced Monday, refutes the long-held Exponential Time Hypothesis. Wired captures the excitement and uncertainty among researchers. It’s a familiar story in mathematics, where a barrage of AI-generated discoveries has left researchers scrambling to understand what’s actually been achieved. [Link: An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’ | https://www.wired.com/story/ai-made-decades-of-computer-science-research-irrelevant/ | WIRED]
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The fanworks platform announced yesterday that it could be down for four weeks, and now we know why. Details about the security incident itself haven’t been shared, but no AO3 data has been deleted, and the site runners currently don’t believe that user account information was stolen, but are “unable to rule it out.” > “Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far.”
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Both sides of a landmark copyright case take the wrong approach, the group says.
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Looks pretty darn easy, based on a video from Austin Evans. The key part starts at 5:33. [Media: https://youtu.be/tOJlEjBqdd4?si=ZkMbgf57p5OksFlj&t=333]
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Intel’s not expecting the RAM shortage to end any time soon.
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Google “used to be a traffic driver, now it’s not.”
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If you own Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you’ll soon be able to get a Poké Ball Pattern Vivillon for the first time in a decade. This form of Vivillon has only ever been available via special event distributions, and the last one was in 2016. (The first, in 2014, was only in Paris.) The exact dates of the distribution are still TBA, but it’s on its way, so don’t miss it! [Media: https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/2115790977390547428]
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The company launched Jules in December 2024, positioning it as a tool that can complete coding jobs “you don’t want to do.” But now, Jules is shutting down, and Google says it will bring its learnings from the tool into its AI coding platform, Antigravity: > We’re working on bringing our learnings from Jules into @antigravity so you get the best of both worlds: autonomous remote background task execution and an agent-first development environment. As we focus on this unified experience, Jules will be winding down.
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Steve Jobs once said touchscreen laptops were a terrible idea. Now Apple is shipping one. The Verge’s Antonio Di Benedetto tells us all about the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, how MacOS is changing for touch, why a laptop user might want a touchscreen, and whether MacBook and iPad are destined to become one. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free [Media: https://youtu.be/BDi_QYhuxIw]