OpenAI announced last week that it will retire some older ChatGPT models by February 13. That includes GPT-4o, the model infamous for excessively flattering and affirming users. For thousands of users ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

Threads might be turning DMs into mini playgrounds. Meta is quietly testing an in-chat basketball game that lets users shoot hoops directly inside Threads messages. The prototype, spotted by reverse ...

The lucky investors who got in on the first trading day of Moore Threads quintupled their money by the close. Moore Threads’ blockbuster debut was not all that surprising considering that the ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

Waking up to learn that school has been canceled for the day was the thing of dreams as a child - less so for parents, maybe. And it seems Christmas has come early for students in multiple US states ...

The mercury is seriously plummeting right now, leaving many of us mooching around our homes in thick-knit jumpers, cosy slippers and the heating cranked to high. However, for many of us who find the ...

This is a desktop application built with Python and Tkinter that tests your typing speed. The application measures how quickly and accurately you can type a given text passage, then calculates your ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

I’ve always felt it was a waste of time to cry over things I can’t change. However, as I sat on my bedroom floor recently, struggling to twist open the glucose sensor my daughter needs to survive, ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...