I loved ChatGPT Desktop until OpenAI gutted it to make room for Codex and Work

OpenAI just merged the ChatGPT desktop app with Codex - and removed my favorite productivity features. What were they ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
NASCAR

‘NASCAR vs. Navy’ now streaming on Prime Video: Details, more info

As the NASCAR field prepares for battle stations at Naval Base Coronado, a squadron of drivers will tackle the facility in a different — and unique — manner ahead of time in “NASCAR vs. Navy: The San ...
AppleInsider

How Apple Wallet's Create a Pass works in iOS 27

The Wallet app in iOS 27 lets you make your own digital passes from all those membership bar codes you have. It takes a little work, but it already works well. The Wallet app has been used to hold ...
The Hacker News

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in ...
The Conversation

Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too

For a quarter century, Australia’s environment laws were widely regarded as not fit for purpose. In 2020, a scathing review by Professor Graeme Samuel found the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...
Wall Street Journal

The Old-Money Enclave With Missouri’s Most Expensive Homes

West of the city of St. Louis, about 25 minutes from the Gateway Arch, lies a patchwork of prestigious inner-ring suburbs forming the 63131 ZIP Code. This enclave—comprising cities including Town and ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
Outside

You’ve Watched Old Faithful Erupt, but Have You Ever Wondered Where All That Water Goes?

If you’ve ever wondered how many bathtubs’ worth of water Old Faithful spews upwards on any given eruption, then you’re not alone. A team of researchers in Yellowstone National Park asked that very ...
The New York Times

My Wife Is 85. She Takes My Breath Away.

Mr. Rosenblatt’s forthcoming book is “More Rules for Aging.” This is a love letter to all my old ladies. No, I’m not a swinger or a polygamist or in an age-appropriate polycule. Only one woman, Ginny, ...