OpenAI expands Codex beyond coding with computer use, memory, and plugins

This major update marks a significant shift for OpenAI, as it positions the Codex desktop app not just as a chatbot but as a ...
Wired

Drip Coffee Was My First Taste of Adulthood. The Ratio Four Brewer Offers It Pure

I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...
ZDNet

This free MacOS app is the secret to getting more out of your local AI models

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
InfoWorld

Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...
marktechpost

UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents

Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and waste steps. Apple Researchers introduce UltraCUA, a foundation ...
ZDNet

8 free Linux apps that make tricky tasks surprisingly easy - no command line required

You don't have to use the command line in Linux. With the help of these free GUIs, Linux becomes much easier. These tools can be easily installed. Linux is becoming ...
marktechpost

Hugging Face Releases Smol2Operator: A Fully Open-Source Pipeline to Train a 2.2B VLM into an Agentic GUI Coder

Hugging Face (HF) has released Smol2Operator, a reproducible, end-to-end recipe that turns a small vision-language model (VLM) with no prior UI grounding into a GUI-operating, tool-using agent. The ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Report: 24th District officers correctly used bodycams 54% of the time in Jan.

A newly released audit of body-worn camera usage by officers in the 24th Police District -- which covers parts of Kensington, Port Richmond and North Philadelphia -- found that officers correctly ...
TechCrunch

A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators. Meta first ...