Onetime Google competitor Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, throws in the towel after almost 30 years: ‘Jeeves’ spirit endures’

Ask.com is no more: The onetime Burger King to Google’s McDonalds has shuttered its search engine after nearly 30 years⁠—though the exact count seems to depend on who you ask⁠—with its website now turning up a farewell message to users. “Every great search must come to an end,” reads the message shared to Ask.com. “As…

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After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on ‘Where the goblins came from’

Tuesday, a report from Wired dug into a strange instruction patched into Codex CLI, an AI coding tool: “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” I’m always whispering this to myself so I don’t get kicked out…

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As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay’s most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding

New Day RP has just celebrated its fifth birthday, and now the GTA roleplay server has outlined its plans heading into 2026. Before digging into the specifics of what’s to come, it’s worth saying up front that New Day RP might just be my favourite Grand Theft Auto roleplay server at the moment. For me,…

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I’ve spent the past month testing Keychron’s concrete keeb and it’s absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Testing an extremely heavy keyboard while benchmarking many, many graphics cards. Also, a spot of overclocking. Nothing caught fire. Victory! When I first learned of the Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition, I was both intrigued and confused. On the one hand, I was aware…

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