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OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday, ending a two-year development cycle that CEO Sam Altman called a 'significant leap in intelligence' over previous models. The updated AI system achieved state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, scoring 94.6% on AIME 2025...
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.
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Fantagraphics and Marvel are teaming up again for another in their Lost Marvels series. This volume, Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1, gathers the early, brash, and boundary-pushing work of Howard Chaykin, one of comics' most unruly voices. — Read the rest The post...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest...
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A Philadelphia photographer made history by capturing the first clear photo of lightning, revealing that artists had been drawing it wrong for centuries. William N. Jennings used silver gelatin prints to freeze a lightning strike on September 2, 1882. His photos showed that...
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Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts? NASA has moved the goalposts for companies seeking to replace the aging International Space Station (ISS) and changed the minimum capability required to four crew for one-month 'increments.' The...
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This fun list includes English words that don't have any rhymes. It also includes words that only have obscure rhymes. Many of the words on the obscure list are thought to be rhymeless by many, but are in fact rhymable with their obscure counterparts.  — Read the rest The...
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NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED.
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Discord users are already using video game characters to bypass the UK’s age-check laws. AI deepfakes could make things even more complicated.
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This squirrels' reactions to nut muffins is too cute. The friendly person in this home sets treats out on their windowsill for the squirrels regularly. In this video, they made nut muffins, each topped with a different treat for the squirrel. — Read the rest The post Cute...
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Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus Several sections of the online annotated US Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress vanished recently due to what the Library maintains was a coding error. However, the content of the ...
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schwit1 shares a report: China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses. The job cuts illustrate the ...
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Tells The Reg they never were... 'and this will not change' The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…
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If you love art and art history and want to discover artists you might not already know, or learn more about widely familiar artists, check out Paul Thompson's project, 'Microdose of Art.' In this video series, Paul Thompson provides short, two-minute overviews of well-known ...
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Digital Foundry, the gaming hardware analysis publication known for its technical console breakdowns, has separated from IGN ownership as of today, with founder Richard Leadbetter purchasing the outlet and its complete archives. Leadbetter, who retained 50% ownership since...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Paride Legovini has announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3, a minor update to the project's 24.04 LTS series which includes security fixes and updates to address bugs. 'The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce...
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By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onslaught of AI-driven software-development tools. There has not been a flood of vibe-coded memory-management patches — yet. But kernel development is, in the end, software...
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China demonstrates how manipulating economic data can ultimately erode government credibility.
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The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack' Black Hat Neil 'Grifter' Wyler is spending the week 'looking for a needle in a needle stack,' a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that...
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While it’s not as revolutionary as the Framework Laptop, the Framework Desktop manages to combine a worthwhile balance of performance, upgradability, and size.
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