Month: July 2024
ChatGPT won’t let you give it instruction amnesia anymore
OpenAI is making a change to stop people from messing with custom versions of ChatGPT by making the AI forget what it’s supposed to do. Basically, when a third party uses one of OpenAI’s models, they give it instructions that teach it to operate as, for example, a customer service…
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Google’s entire Pixel 9 series may have been revealed three weeks early, thanks to new massive leak
Google’s Pixel 9 series is set to be unveiled soon on August 13, 2024, but that hasn’t stopped leaks from flooding the internet. News site 91mobiles recently shared marketing material for the smartphone line, revealing many important details. The design of the three models matches the descriptions mentioned in previous…
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Sonos Admits Its Recent App Update Was a Colossal Mistake
Owners of the company’s wireless speakers will have to endure the pain of broken software for several more months. Source
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Peacock’s horror thriller Teacup starts streaming in October
During production the series changed and evolved. Just as it should. Even the title’s different. Stinger is now Teacup. The reasons for this are too spoilery to share but watch the first few episodes and all will be revealed. Point being, the series is now very much its own thing: a puzzle-box mystery,…
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Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app stores
Epic Games plans to bring Fortnite to the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL, which is only available in the EU. The company made the announcement in a Thursday blog post about its strategy for mobile stores, and it says it expects to announce support for “at least two other…
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Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
While Prop 22 guarantees workers some protections, such as 120 percent of the local minimum wage for each hour spent driving, a health insurance stipend, and reimbursement for job-related injuries, it’s far from the full range of benefits Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and other services would’ve had to provide if…
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