Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) Over the past week, OpenAI experienced a significant leadership shake-up as three key figures announced major changes. Greg Brockman, the company’s president and co-founder, is taking an extended sabbatical until the end of the year, while another co-founder, John Schulman, permanently departed for rival Anthropic. Peter Deng, VP…

All Hidden Inputs for Characters in Zenless Zone Zero – Destructoid

All Hidden Inputs for Characters in Zenless Zone Zero – Destructoid

Zenless Zone Zero has often been compared to fighting games due to its input-based abilities for certain characters. While most characters’ abilities are well-documented, some have inputs that are either not listed in any moveset or are so obscure they can easily be overlooked—until now. All Hidden Character Inputs in Zenless Zone Zero To be…

macOS 15 Sequoia makes you jump through more hoops to disable Gatekeeper app checks

macOS 15 Sequoia makes you jump through more hoops to disable Gatekeeper app checks

Enlarge / The Mac’s Gatekeeper feature has been pushing developers to digitally sign their apps since it was introduced in 2012. Apple/Andrew Cunningham It has always been easier to run third-party software on a Mac than on an iPhone or iPad. Despite the introduction of the Mac App Store a couple of years after the…

Dryft City Kyngs – Destructoid

Dryft City Kyngs – Destructoid

I had dreams and aspirations once. Good times. However, they’ve never included becoming a drift, err… dryft racer. That’s a long and daunting path. I’d probably need to get my driver’s license first. Dryft City Kyngs doesn’t require those sorts of credentials. All you need is to sell your soul, buy whatever wreck is available,…

Apple’s instructions to its new Siri GenAI offering illustrate the GenAI challenge

Apple’s instructions to its new Siri GenAI offering illustrate the GenAI challenge

Deep within Apple’s systems is a variety of instructions it has given to its GenAI Apple Intelligence mechanism. The screen captures of those instructions provide a peek into Apple’s efforts to influence its GenAI deployment, and also illustrate the steep challenges in controlling an algorithm that is simply trying to guess answers.  The more explicit…

Best Chixia build in Wuthering Waves – weapons, Echoes, and team compositions – Destructoid

Best Chixia build in Wuthering Waves – weapons, Echoes, and team compositions – Destructoid

The only 4-star Fusion DPS in Wuthering Waves, Chixia is capable of dealing great amounts of single target Fusion DMG by performing both her Resonance Skill and her enhanced shots while in DAKA DAKA!, as well as a massive amount of AoE DMG by performing her Liberation. But even if the above allows her to…

Reddit considers search ads, paywalled content for the future

Reddit considers search ads, paywalled content for the future

Reddit executives discussed plans on Tuesday for making more money from the platform, including showing ads in more places and possibly putting some content behind a paywall. On Tuesday, Reddit shared its Q2 2024 earnings report (PDF). The company lost $10.1 million during the period, down from Q2 2023’s $41.1 million loss. Reddit has never…

Report: Apple’s external DVD drive is up burning discs in dongle heaven

Report: Apple’s external DVD drive is up burning discs in dongle heaven

Enlarge / Apple’s external DVD-burning SuperDrive may be fading away. Apple Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack. Mid-2010s MacBooks and MacBook Pros came with USB-A ports. And the…