GPT-5 is OpenAI's most advanced model, providing smarter, more reliable responses across various fields. It excels at tasks like writing, coding, and problem-solving, and can collaborate with users like a thoughtful colleague.
An attacker can send an email to a legitimate service to obtain a 6-digit code, making it hard to know where to enter it. This attack method has been used to steal Minecraft accounts, highlighting its effectiveness.
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The user has been testing the new GPT-5 model and found it to be competent and rarely messing up. The model is a hybrid that switches between different models based on conversation type and complexity.
GPT-5 is a state-of-the-art coding model that excels at producing high-quality code, handling tasks, and following instructions with high accuracy. It is available in the API platform in three sizes and supports new features such as custom tools and verbosity control.
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Yet another Windows XP in the browser, but with a File System and comes with it, Programs.
Various systems and technologies have unexpected behaviors or limitations, causing issues and confusion. These include Immich, Microsoft Entra, EXIF metadata, Windows, Git, Cloudflare Workers, phones, PostgreSQL, npm scripts, JavaScript, bcrypt, and TypeORM.
Talking Sasquatch discovered a custom firmware for Flipper Zero that can break rolling code security by reverse engineering a single keyfob button press. This allows the device to emulate keyfob functions, but renders the original keyfob useless.
The user implemented Bluesky comments on their blog, leveraging the AT Protocol for a decentralized and user-owned approach. This solution eliminates infrastructure maintenance and allows for rich content support, real identities, and cross-platform conversations.
OpenAI released its first open-source large language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which are technically competent but lack out-of-domain knowledge. They were likely trained on synthetic data for safety reasons, making them less prone to misbehavior.
Install and use the Cursor command-line interface to run AI coding workflows and automate tasks from your terminal.
Germany's exit tax bars business owners from leaving the country once their business reaches a certain size. The tax is calculated by multiplying the company's average earnings by 3.5 and is often too high for entrepreneurs to pay.
Vulnerability existed in vault for over eight years. attackers can hijack internal services, pivot across environments, and hold entire systems hostage if they can gain control over the vault - without triggering conventional alarms. vulnerability was patched ahead of public release, ensuring organizations could protect their environments immediately. a vulnerability in vault’s userpass ...
The US economy has split into two, with a booming AI economy and a stagnant consumer economy. The AI boom is driven by massive investments from tech companies, generating unprecedented profits and free cash flow.
Gemini CLI GitHub Actions is a no-cost AI coding teammate for teams, automating tasks and providing on-demand collaboration. It's now in beta, available worldwide, with three initial open-source workflows for issue triage, pull request reviews, and on-demand collaboration.
To achieve SOTA latency and throughput for GPT OSS 120B on NVIDIA GPUs, Baseten's model performance engineering team used a combination of experimentation, bug fixing, and benchmarking guided by intuition and experience. They achieved this through parallelizing inference efforts, using TensorRT-LLM, and adopting Tensor Parallelism and the TensorRT-LLM MoE Backend for improved performance.
User tested browser limits with infinite pixel values, finding Chrome and Safari clamp at 33,554,431 pixels, while Firefox behaves erratically with computed values not matching actual rendering.
The user founded MPEG in 1988 to develop digital media standards, creating over 200 standards and growing membership 20-fold before it was hijacked by obscure forces. The user then founded MPAI in 2020 to develop AI-based standards, overcoming stagnation and licensing issues, and has since developed 5 standards and several projects.
Researchers found a vulnerability in an end-to-end encryption solution used by some radios, making it vulnerable to eavesdropping. The issue affects at least one implementation of the solution, which is widely used by law enforcement and military agencies worldwide.
The person with power in a company is not always the one with the credit card, but rather the one with the constraints and incentives to push a product through. To reach decision makers, give developers the tools to convince leadership of a product's value by translating user/dev terms into leadership terms.
Testing Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and Radeon 8090S, achieving 5 Gbps with NICGIGA switch. Thunderbolt node-to-node interconnects reached 10 Gbps over TB4 interfaces.
OpenAI's focus on AI ethics is superficial, as people are more concerned with real-world implications like governance and data use. Companies redefine privacy to focus on data sharing with third parties, rather than what they do with the data themselves.
Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University.
Apple is removing old hard disk icons in macOS Tahoe but users can still access them in /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext. Apple Symbols still contains many old icons, including those for Power Macs and other legacy devices.
The author took a summer break and reflected on modern management theory and its relevance to AI tools. They argue that managers and executives prioritize control over productivity and employee well-being.
OpenAI offers $1.5 million bonus to employees over two years, including new hires, in response to poaching by Meta and other tech giants. This move aims to retain talent and boost morale before releasing a major tech like GPT-5.
The FDA has approved VIZZ, the first aceclidine-based eye drop to treat presbyopia, offering up to 10 hours of relief from blurry near vision. VIZZ works by shrinking the pupil, creating a "pinhole effect" without affecting distance vision or causing side effects.
Researchers developed a scalable curation process for active learning that reduces the amount of training data needed for fine-tuning large language models. This process improves model alignment with human experts by up to 65% using much less data.
Steve Edsel discovered his birth mother through a DNA test and learned that his biological parents were closely related, likely making his conception the result of incest. He struggled with the revelation and its implications for his health and identity, but eventually found support and connection with his biological family through a private Facebook group and a cousin who accepted him.
MCP is a standard for tool calling that simplifies setting up an agentic loop, but LLMs don't need to understand it as they only generate text representing function calls. MCP is a tool for developers, not LLMs, helping to manage complexity and make context engineering easier by providing a structured interface for tool definitions.
Researchers observed alpha Cen A with the James Webb Space Telescope, detecting a potential planet candidate S1 at 1.5" separation. The candidate's orbital properties suggest a 225 K temperature, 1-1.1 R Jup radius, and 90-150 M Earth mass.
The Whispering Earring is a magical artifact that gives the wearer advice always leading to happiness, but at the cost of their free will and eventually their brain structure. It starts by offering advice on major decisions and gradually becomes more controlling, ultimately leading to the wearer's success but loss of autonomy.
SUSE donated $11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation to support Perl development and sustainability. The donation aligns with SUSE's commitment to the open-source ecosystem and its use of Perl in its products and services.
AWS support gaslighted the author for 20 days, claiming their data was "terminated" when it was actually still intact, but a single human employee, Tarus Balog, intervened and restored the data after escalating the issue to the VP level. The incident highlights the need for human empathy and intervention in automated systems, and the author's experience serves as a warning about the dangers ...
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices. - proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2025-07.md at main · FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop
The user is using an Arm system to run x86-64 binaries through FEX-emu, which has some limitations and requires tweaking. They were able to run Steam and play Factorio with some performance issues.
Octo is a helpful coding assistant that works with various LLM APIs and allows switching models mid-conversation. It manages thinking tokens and has zero telemetry for a private coding experience.
Gpt-5-main performed nearly 3x better than the most recent gpt-4o model. in offline evaluations, the model outperformed both models in a set of tests and experiments - despite the fact that it was more deceptive in one case compared to the other models. the results are based on an evaluation of the accuracy of model responses to long-form biorisk questions, using the openai o1- preview model as
The Commodore Amiga was introduced in 1985, developed by Jay Miner and initially funded by Atari, before being acquired by Commodore for $27 million. The Amiga 1000 was the first model, released in 1985, with a price of $1800 and impressive graphics capabilities, but it had a rough start and was eventually overshadowed by the Amiga 500 and 2000 models.
Student in Engineering Psychology classes notices groupmates relying heavily on ChatGPT for assignments without proper evaluation. This leads to unmotivated student feeling burdened with rewriting poorly written group projects.
OpenAI's GPT-5 models are generally available with enhanced capabilities and will handle complex coding tasks. The models come in four versions and are expected to be launched later today.
Capela programs are written in a dialect of python, augmented with. type system and support for external i/o are still under development. tests found 14 crashes or non-fatal panics in capel, and three safety issues in the language. this work was funded by capella and conducted in accordance with the jepsen ethics policy. if you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
The lightweight LSAT is a free guide for ambitious students aiming for a score over 165, offering flexible tools to master fundamental skills. It's designed for students with some experience, who can adapt the system to their brain and approach each question with a smooth, reliable, and confident mindset.
The user has learned to effectively use AI in their software engineering work, but notes that AI can be a hindrance when not used correctly, particularly when it introduces complexity and security vulnerabilities. The user believes that AI will have a positive impact on the future of software engineering, but also warns that it can be used as an excuse to fire people and that companies must ...
Baltimore's vacant land is undervalued by up to half a billion dollars due to flawed tax assessment methods. This encourages blight and unfairly shifts the tax burden onto homeowners and businesses.
Stasher is a command-line tool for secure, ephemeral secret sharing with transparency and verification. It allows users to share secrets with a burn-after-read feature and cryptographic supply chain verification.
Solar power generation is relatively easy to account for, says daniel handmer. we may do better to figure out how to get more sunlight to reflect back into space, he says, not less. handsmer: we're actually fairly close to a minimum in co2 in the 2080s. if we don't find ways to harness more solar energy, we could run out of it, handmers says. solar panels could be used to capture
Notte is a web agent framework for speed, cost-efficiency, and reliability, combining AI agents with traditional scripting for maximum efficiency. It provides tools for building and deploying AI agents, web automations, and digital identities with unique email addresses and automated 2FA handling.
United Airlines grounded flights nationwide due to a technology failure in its decades-old Unimatic system. The outage caused over 1,000 delays and 60 cancellations, stranding thousands of passengers.
High salaries for young professionals are paid to attract innovators, mitigate downside risk, and incentivize people to join the elite labor force, but this model may not be durable in the context of AI as automation and AI tools can replace human productivity. The labor market's sorting mechanism for finding and developing high-productivity talent may be disrupted by AI, making it harder for ...
The residency program provides food and housing for talented writers to write and publish a blog post daily, with optional mentorship and workshops. The goal is to improve writing skills by focusing on daily writing, like successful writers who attribute their success to this habit.
The "Longer Path" theory of lift generation is incorrect as it assumes air molecules travel faster over the top of an airfoil to meet molecules at the trailing edge. This theory fails to explain how airplanes can fly upside-down and predicts lower lift than observed.
Current AI data approaches are insufficient for sophisticated tasks, requiring high-skill specialists and interactive environments for iterative learning. Future AI progress depends on designing better software environments and leveraging subject-matter experts to teach AIs complex skills and problem-solving capabilities.
Peter Funch photographed commuters at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue for 9 years, capturing the same people twice to show daily habits and changes. His work, 42nd and Vanderbilt, reveals the banality and individuality of morning routines in New York City.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration created the Vehicle Identification Number standard to track vehicles across 50 states with different serial number schemes. The VIN system encodes a vehicle's technical biography using simple mathematical operations and lookup tables, making it a global standard for VIN decoding.
PyPI is introducing new restrictions to prevent ZIP confusion attacks by rejecting archives with mismatched Local File and Central Directory headers. It will also start sending warnings and eventually reject wheels with non-matching ZIP contents and RECORD metadata.
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The magical_rs framework supports file recognition with ~50 types via signatures and allows complex customization via function pointers and macros. It's highly customizable but requires advanced Rust knowledge and caution due to its power.
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Bhaskar Mitra, a former big tech researcher, discusses the dangers of AI hype and its potential to concentrate power and wealth. He argues that AI is not a solution to social problems but rather a tool that can exacerbate them.
The user created a spatial feed for their map of Bluesky, allowing users to see real-time posts from accounts currently in view, and deployed a firehose consumer to the cloud to index posts for spatial queries. They implemented a custom data structure, a "quadtree of ring buffers," to efficiently index and query posts by spatial location and time, achieving fast query times and low memory usage.
OpenAI's GPT-5 is not a significant leap forward, with some benchmarks showing it's outperformed by other models. The presentation had issues with inconsistent data and unclear technical advantages.
The user wants to implement a function to split command line arguments into two lists before and after a double dash (--). They explore using jq and es shell to achieve this, with es providing a more elegant solution using closures to emulate first-class lists.
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People buying cars under $35,000 prefer simple features and lower costs. They value practicality over modern technology and prioritize basic features like analog gauges and cloth seats.
Honesty boxes in Scotland offer a variety of local goods such as fresh produce, handmade crafts, and baked goods. They promote community spirit and trust among residents and travelers.
Researchers found 14 logic flaws in HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk Conjur, allowing remote code execution and other attacks. The flaws enabled lockout bypasses, policy check evasion, and account impersonation, compromising the trust model of digital infrastructure.
Hubble Space Telescope captured the sharpest image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, estimating its nucleus size as 320 meters to 5.6 kilometers. The comet is traveling at 210,000 km/h, likely originating from another Solar System beyond our Galaxy.
Monads can be broken down into functors with natural transformations, allowing for more flexible composition and binding of effects. Using natural transformations directly can be more convenient than using monads, especially when dealing with jointed effects.
Super Cars II is a top-down racing game developed by Magnetic Fields in 1991, featuring fun racing, weapons, and other dirty tricks. The game's creators, Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris, discuss the game's development, inspirations, and impact, including the challenges of pirate copying and the game's legacy.