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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic's Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts.
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Yes, Apple has finally brought a high-refresh rate screen to its base iPhone. Read more ›
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Following today's "Awe dropping" special event, Apple's iPhone lineup now contains seven models at different price points. The full new iPhone lineup is as follows: iPhone 16e (starting at $599) iPhone 16 (starting at $699) iPhone 16 Plus (starting at $799) iPhone 17 (starting at $799) iPhone Air (starting at $999) iPhone 17 Pro (starting at $1,099) iPhone 17 Pro Max (starting at $1,199) Pre-orders for the new iPhones start... Read more ›
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Apple today unveiled the iPhone Air, an all-new kind of iPhone featuring an ultra-thin design. The iPhone Air is just 5.6mm thick, making it the thinnest iPhone ever. The frame is made of titanium with a polished finish. The device features Ceramic Shield 2 with 3x better scratch resistance, on both sides of the device for the first time. Apple says that it is the most durable iPhone ever. A... Read more ›
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Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told BI that he wants to see driverless cars banned nationwide, and that he's introducing a bill on the topic soon. Read more ›
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iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26 will be released to the public on Monday, September 15, Apple announced during today's "Awe Dropping" Apple event. The new operating system updates are set to launch five days ahead of when the new iPhone 17 models and new Apple Watches will be released on Friday, September 19. The iPhone 17 models will come with iOS... Read more ›
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Following the announcement of the iPhone 17 lineup today, Apple discontinued the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Apple typically retires previous-generation hardware to streamline its product portfolio, and this year appears to be no exception. Both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are no longer available. The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus were introduced on September 12, 2023, at Apple's "Wonderlust" event and released on September 22,... Read more ›
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I'm a New Yorker who went to Berlin expecting a historical wonderland, but found an unexpected hub of lush parks and innovative art, too. Read more ›
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Ukraine long had the edge in naval drones, but Russia is making big leaps and is now seeking to echo the success of aerial drones that use cables. Read more ›
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Apple designed a new MagSafe battery to go along with the super thin iPhone Air, and the accessory is available for purchase as of today. The iPhone Air MagSafe Battery is priced at $99, and it lists compatibility with just the iPhone Air, so it is not clear if it will work with other iPhone 17 models. It's possible the camera plateau on the Pro models is too large to... Read more ›
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We're now less than an hour out from Apple's event, where it is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 series, new Apple Watch models, AirPods Pro 3, and potentially more. At the last minute, the account Ice Universe on Chinese platform Weibo has revealed up to six potential color options for the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and likely the iPhone 17 Pro. The color options appear to be Black, Silver,... Read more ›
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The Israeli military said it carried out a "precise strike" against Hamas senior leadership on Tuesday. Read more ›
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Apple today unveiled the Apple Watch Ultra 3, featuring the largest ever display in an Apple Watch, 5G cellular, and Satellite connectivity. Ultra 3 now features up to 42 hours battery life, and comes in black and natural titanium colors. More to come...Related Roundup: Apple Watch Ultra 2Tag: September 2025 Apple EventBuyer's Guide: Apple Watch Ultra (Don't Buy)Related Forum: Apple WatchThis article, "Apple Watch Ultra 3 Announced With Largest Ever... Read more ›
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A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade. Read more ›
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Apple today provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate versions of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the ninth betas. Release candidates represent the finalized version of new software that will be provided to the public provided no last minute bugs are discovered. Registered developers and public beta testers can download the new beta software using... Read more ›
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In an absolute shocker, an early September Apple event included the official reveal of the iPhone 17. Who could have seen that coming? Arguably the biggest change this time around — in the most literal sense — relates to the size of the display. At 6.3 inches, it's larger than the iPhone 16's 6.1-inch screen. Sorry to iPhone users with smaller hands and anyone else who is fed up of... Read more ›
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The online Apple Store is now back up, and Apple has started accepting pre-orders for the Apple Watch Series 11, the Apple Watch Ultra 3, the Apple Watch SE 3, and the AirPods Pro 3. All of the new devices will be delivered to customers starting on Friday, September 19. Pre-orders for the iPhone 17 models will start on Friday, September 12. The AirPods Pro 3 are priced at $249,... Read more ›
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Apple today announced the Apple Watch Series 11, featuring hypertension detection, the S11 chip, 5G connectivity, and more. The Apple Watch Series 11 features improved front crystal with 2x better scratch resistance. The Apple Watch Series 11 continues to be available in 42mm and 46mm casing sizes, and with both Wi-Fi only and cellular-enabled models. More to follow...Related Roundup: Apple Watch 10Tag: September 2025 Apple EventBuyer's Guide: Apple Watch (Don't... Read more ›
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Apple today announced the iPhone 17, a new standalone base model featuring a larger 6.3-inch display with ProMotion support and a higher maximum brightness. Up from 6.1-inch display on last year's iPhone 16, the new 6.3-inch iPhone 17 now shares the same display size as Apple's iPhone 16 Pro and the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro model that's also about to be unveiled. The regular iPhone 17 now comes with a... Read more ›
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iPhone 17 is finally 120Hz, and we're also getting triple 48MP cameras and vapor chamber cooling on the iPhone 17 Pro. Read more ›
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Apple introduced its A19 and A19 Pro processors to power its new line of iPhones, including the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Read more ›
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A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science. NPR: The group of climate scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or misrepresented climate science in the agency's report. For instance, in the DOE report the authors claim that rising carbon dioxide can be a... Read more ›
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An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta after his Facebook page was repeatedly shut down for "impersonating" CEO Mark Zuckerberg, despite being his real legal name. TechCrunch reports: Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his legal practice and communicate with potential clients. But his page has been disabled five times in the last eight years, since Meta's moderation systems flag his account... Read more ›
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University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT-5 could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates, a previously unaddressed problem in the Malliavin-Stein framework. The September 2025 experiment, prompted by claims GPT-5 solved a convex optimization problem, revealed the AI made critical errors requiring constant human correction. GPT-5 overlooked an essential covariance property easily deducible from provided documents. The researchers compared the exper Read more ›
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Four years ago a small Microsoft Research team started creating an analog optical computer. They used commercially available parts like sensors from smartphone cameras, optical lenses, and micro-LED lights finer than a human hair. "As the light passes through the sensor at different intensities, the analog optical computer can add and multiply numbers," explains a Microsoft blog post. They envision the technology scaling to a computer that for certain problems... Read more ›
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Germany has already met its 2028 goal for reducing coal-fired power generation, so won't need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running, the country's regulator said. From a report: Germany has an interim 2028 target of reducing coal-fired power by 8.7 gigawatts, and as of Sept. 1 it had exceeded this level by about 10%, the Federal Network Agency said on its website on Monday.... Read more ›
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Paramount and Activision are teaming up to produce a live-action Call of Duty movie, with Paramount promising the same blockbuster treatment it gave Top Gun: Maverick. David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, said in a statement: "As a lifelong fan of Call of Duty this is truly a dream come true. From the first Allied campaigns in the original Call of Duty, through Modern Warfare and Black Ops, I've... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Managers and supervisors brace yourselves: calling the boss a dickhead is not necessarily a sackable offense, a tribunal has ruled. The ruling came in the case of an office manager who was sacked on the spot when -- during a row -- she called her manager and another director dickheads. Kerrie Herbert has been awarded almost 30,000 pounds in compensation and... Read more ›
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Switzerland has launched Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual LLM trained on 15 trillion tokens and over 1,000 languages. "What distinguishes Apertus from many other generative AI systems is its commitment to complete openness," reports CyberInsider. From the report: Unlike popular proprietary models, where users can only interact via APIs or hosted interfaces, Apertus provides open access to its model weights, training datasets, documentation, and even intermediate checkpoints. The source code... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing the AI image generator of exploiting its movies and TV shows to train models and generate near-identical reproductions of iconic characters like Batman, Bugs Bunny, and Rick and Morty. From The Hollywood Reporter: The company "brazenly dispenses Warner Bros. Discovery's intellectual property" by letting subscribers produce images and videos of iconic copyrighted characters, alleges the complaint, filed on... Read more ›
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Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it's taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security. From a report: The San Francisco-based startup is widening existing restrictions on "authoritarian" regimes to cover any company that's majority-owned by entities from countries such as China. That includes their overseas operations, it said in a statement. Foreign-based subsidiaries could be used to access... Read more ›
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