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OpenAI announced Tuesday that it’s launching a version of ChatGPT intended for teenagers, amid concerns about how younger people interact with generative AI tools. Users between the ages of 13 and 17 will automatically use the teen-specific version, which will feature parental controls, stronger safeguards and notifications prompting them
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Today’s Strands puzzle is really fun, and colorful to boot! I enjoyed solving the words and predicting which color they would show up in. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: For better or wurst. If that
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Save $502: With football season just around the corner, you may be looking to upgrade your watch setup, and a new TV doesn’t have to break the bank. Amazon just slashed a whopping $502 off this Hisense U6 Pro, so you can snag the 65-inch model for $598 right
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at $190 billion, and Fivetran, which combined with dbt
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For years, manufacturers have invested billions of dollars in automation, software, sensors, cloud platforms, and now AI (artificial intelligence). Yet many are still asking the same question: Why is digital transformation taking so long? The answer might just be a lack of interoperability. That message came through loud and clear
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * If you want a gorgeous GNOME desktop, install Aura Glass. * This glassy desktop can be installed on GNOME 48, 49, and 50. * Aura Glass is supported on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and CachyOS. I love
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Dive Brief A lack of clarity on organizations’ AI policies and trainings are compounding employee concerns about the technology, a SurveyMonkey and CNBC survey found. Published Aug. 18, 2026 Dive Brief: * Employees and students preparing to enter the job market report time-saving benefits from using AI, but some fear the
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You’re walking the dog at night, and your little flashlight, which has been getting dimmer, conks out. Instead of stumbling home in the dark, wouldn't it be great if you could somehow eke a little more energy out of the batteries inside? That's not as
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* Researchers find a standardized SIM command is exposed on nine of 26 tested devices and used it to achieve code execution on a commercial EV charger * The exposure is concentrated in machine-to-machine hardware rather than phones, affecting six of eight cellular modules but only three of 18 handsets, with no
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 18, 2026 04:00 PM ET A health data sharing superhighway “allows SSA to access complete, structured medical records within seconds or minutes for claimants, helping to significantly reduce disability claim processing times,” an
