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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
🔮 Apple unveils the M5 chip, updates three pro devices LINK
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Other news you might like
- Apple’s rumored smart home display hub might start at $350LINK
- Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to LondonLINK
- Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution dealLINK
- YouTube has a new video playerLINK
- Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deathsLINK
- ASML is prepared for China's rare-earth export controls — finance head says company has stock thanks to long lead timesLINK
- Facebook removes ICE-tracking page after US government ‘outreach’LINK
- OpenAI forms advisory council on wellbeing and AILINK
- Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’LINK
- Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search optionLINK
- How U.S. Pressured Netherlands to Oust CEO of Chinese-Owned Chip MakerLINK
- Pat Gelsinger: “Intel made bad decisions for 15 years”LINK
- The Free Software Foundation is shifting its attention to a free software mobile OSLINK
- 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 sinceLINK
Latest research and tools
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
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
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
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
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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