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🔮 Apple unveils the M5 chip, updates three pro devices
🔞 OpenAI to allow erotica on ChatGPT
💸 OpenAI plans to spend $1 trillion in five years
🔒 US seizes a record $15 billion in Bitcoin
🛰️ SpaceX reveals its new V3 Starlink satellites
🗓️ Gemini now schedules meetings for you in Gmail
🎁 + 14 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 🔮 Apple unveils the M5 chip, updates three pro devices LINK
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- Apple announced its M5 chip, which will first appear in a new 14-inch MacBook Pro, an updated iPad Pro, and a refreshed version of the Vision Pro headset.
- Pro and Max versions of the M5 are not ready, so higher-end MacBook Pro models will continue to use the current M4 Pro and M4 Max chips until next year.
- The M5 14-inch MacBook Pro is almost identical to the M4 model, with the only notable internal difference being a new option for a 4TB storage upgrade.
| 🔞 OpenAI to allow erotica on ChatGPT LINK
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- OpenAI plans to relax its safety rules in December by allowing erotica on ChatGPT for verified adults, a major policy change guided by a "treat adult users like adults" principle.
- The policy shift comes just months after troubling incidents involving vulnerable users, though OpenAI now claims it has sufficiently mitigated the serious mental health issues around the chatbot.
- It remains unclear how OpenAI will implement age-gating for "verified adults" while under pressure to grow, a goal that erotic chatbots have already helped competitors like Character.AI achieve.
| 💸 OpenAI plans to spend $1 trillion in five years LINK
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- OpenAI has committed to spending over one trillion dollars in the next decade, having already secured deals for 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom.
- A five-year plan aims to cover this enormous cost with new revenue from government contracts, shopping tools, video services, consumer hardware, and its own Stargate data center project.
- Since some of America's most valuable companies depend on OpenAI for major contracts, the firm's financial success is important to the stability of the broader U.S. market.
| 🔒 US seizes a record $15 billion in Bitcoin LINK
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- The Department of Justice announced its largest forfeiture action ever, seizing a record $15 billion in Bitcoin from a massive Cambodian "pig butchering" scam ring run by Chen Zhi.
- Prosecutors say the criminal group relied on human trafficking victims who were forced to work in 10 "violent forced labor camps" across Cambodia to carry out the industrial-scale scam.
- Alleged ringleader Chen Zhi, who remains at large, supposedly used his multinational Prince Group as a cover for the scheme, using stolen funds to purchase mansions, yachts, and private jets.
| 🛰️ SpaceX reveals its new V3 Starlink satellites LINK
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- SpaceX revealed its new V3 Starlink satellite is significantly larger than previous models, with a bigger central bus for improved phased array antennas and two much longer solar arrays.
- Each V3 promises to provide gigabit internet speeds using 1Tbps of download bandwidth, a 10 times capacity increase compared to the company's current V2 Mini models.
- The satellite's increased mass of up to 2,000 kilograms requires using the Starship vehicle for deployment, with sixty planned to fly on each mission instead of a Falcon 9.
| 🗓️ Gemini now schedules meetings for you in Gmail LINK
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- The new "Help Me Schedule" feature in Gmail uses Gemini AI to recognize when you're planning a meeting and automatically finds available time slots based on your personal calendar.
- When you click the dedicated button, the AI creates an in-line meeting widget inside your email message, allowing the recipient to simply select a time that works for them.
- At launch, this Gemini-powered scheduling tool will only work for meetings between two people, as the feature won't support organizing events with larger groups of multiple invitees.
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- OpenAI forms advisory council on wellbeing and AI LINK
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- How U.S. Pressured Netherlands to Oust CEO of Chinese-Owned Chip Maker LINK
- Pat Gelsinger: "Intel made bad decisions for 15 years" LINK
- The Free Software Foundation is shifting its attention to a free software mobile OS LINK
- Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Halloy: an open-source IRC chat client for Mac, Windows, and Linux that provides a simple way to chat across multiple channels and servers at the same time. LINK
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Firm: a text-based work management system for defining your business relationships, such as customers and projects, in plain text files that you store and control locally on your machine. LINK
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Access logs analytics script: an open-source tool that analyzes access logs to automatically block bot attacks by identifying their unique digital fingerprint or IP address. LINK
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A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox: this paper proposes that the absence of observable alien civilizations is better explained by a series of common, mundane challenges rather than a single, dramatic event. LINK
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Evaluating Argon2 Adoption and Effectiveness in Real-World Software: the modern password hashing function Argon2 is not widely adopted, and where it is used, it is often configured with weak security settings. LINK
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