Month: August 2025
ChatGPT is inside your Gmail inbox and reviewing your calendar (with your permission)
OpenAI’s GPT-5 debut included the reveal of a new integration that allows ChatGPT Pro users to link their Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts directly to the chatbot ChatGPT can summarize your day, create a schedule, and flag important emails Though an opt-in feature requiring user confirmation, privacy issues are…
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NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1511, Friday, August 8
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here. It’s time for your guide…
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Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR
Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness…
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Popular hard drive vendor on Amazon caught selling 10-year-old used but repackaged hard drive — but would you buy one if it was keenly priced?
Hard drives sold as new contained decade-old internals from previously used Seagate and Western Digital units SMART data was manipulated to hide prior usage, masking serious mechanical and read error issues Attingo analysis revealed leftover user data, proving zeroing only touched the start of storage sectors A recent case involving…
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OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all…
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The Browser Company’s AI browser now has a $20 subscription
The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about…
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