I made OwnTime to balance between competing priorities in my life. The idea is based on two main influences: the concept of "roles" from "The 5 Choices" (2015), and my repeated failure to effectively implement time blocking due to the necessary flexibility in my role. The app allows you to define...
Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of A...
Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
The Lenovo 7i’s 360-degree hinges opens up new usage options. | Image: Lenovo Best Buy is celebrating Labor Day all week long with big deals, including a deep discount on the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1, taking its original $1,1199.99 price down to $749.99. It’s a capable configuration for the price,...
Hi! Every month the "Who Wants to Be Hired?" and "Who's Hiring?" Threads come through I would think to myself, "there should be a match maker for these two threads". So I had abacus.ai whip one up. The methodology is pretty simple, data is extracted from posts using an LLM, score matches based on...
Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. [...]
While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements.
If you head to Apple Maps today, you’ll notice that Apple has started renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The move follows Trump’s order last week to change the name as part of an ongoing trade dispute with Canada. more…
X is investigating a wave of unsolicited password reset emails that it believes may be tied to the rollout of its new payments service.
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its ...
The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky
Next week, the iPhone Ultra will be unveiled at Apple’s September event, and today a new Tom’s Guide interview with Mark Gurman reveals several fresh details on what to expect from specs, software, launch timing, and more. more…
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527595 Points: 114 # Comments: 51
Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default
The Beam Ultra is made for TVs up to 65 inches. It will also be available in black. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app ...
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 Points: 326 # Comments: 147
You need the right HDMI cable for your setup, but that doesn't mean it has to cost $100. Here's when to spend a bit more and when a cheap cable will do.
September is full of opportunities to expand your knowledge of the night sky. Mark your calendars.
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.