Month: October 2025
All of the updates from OpenAI DevDay 2025
OpenAI’s latest personalization play for ChatGPT: You can now allow the chatbot to learn about you via your transcripts and phone activity (think: connected apps like your calendar, email, and Google Contacts), and based on that data, it’ll research things it thinks you’ll like and present you with a daily…
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All of the updates from OpenAI Dev Day 2025
OpenAI, founded in 2015 to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI systems with human-level intelligence — has transformed dramatically since launching ChatGPT, which was once considered “the fastest-growing consumer application in history.” Since then, controversies have swirled over everything: whether Sam Altman should be CEO, chatbot safety, the environmental…
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Instagram will start handing out awards to select creators
Instagram is launching its own awards program, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This is sort of like the Oscars, but for short-form social media content. There isn't an awards ceremony, a comedian host or anything like that. Instead, the 25 winners will get physical rings. These rings will be designed…
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Hackers claim to have stolen over a billion Salesforce records – and are demanding nearly $1 billion not to leak them
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters launch data leak site to pressure victims into ransom negotiations Attackers exploited Salesloft’s Drift app to access Salesforce customer data, not Salesforce itself Victims include Cloudflare, Zscaler, Tenable; Salesforce denies platform compromise or active vulnerabilities Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a team-up of infamous hacking groups Scattered Spider, Lapsus$,…
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I’m a trained barista, and one of my favourite Smeg espresso machines just got a £400 price cut ahead of Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, but if you’ve been looking for a new espresso machine, there’s no need to wait because Very is selling the premium Smeg Mini Pro Espresso Coffee Machine for just £999.95 (was £1,399). That’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen this great-looking premium coffee…
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Verizon appoints a new CEO for the ‘next phase’ after its 5G rollout
Verizon has picked former PayPal head Dan Schulman to serve as its new CEO as the company enters its “next phase” of growth, Verizon board chair Mark Bertolini says in the Monday announcement. Starting today, Schulman will replace outgoing CEO Hans Vestberg, who will now serve as a special advisor…
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