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GPT-5.3-Codex: OpenAI stellt neues Coding-Modell vor
OpenAI hat mit GPT-5.3-Codex ein neues Coding-Modell veröffentlicht, das laut Entwickler-Team maßgeblich an seiner eigenen Entwicklung beteiligt war.
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and "is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-gpt-5-3-codex-faster-goes-beyond-c…

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex is 25% faster and goes way beyond coding now - what's new
The Codex team said GPT-5.3-Codex even helped build itself.

Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming #city

Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how many tropical cities are predicted to warm faster than expected under 2°C of global warming.

HORROR! Russia TERRORISES Ukrainian cities on holiday – people injured, houses damaged!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/horror-russia-terrorises-ukrainian-cities.html

The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday,
❌seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
⭐️The lawsuit is the administration’s latest attack on energy policies that seek to rein in the use of fossil fuels to combat the climate crisis.
California, a Democratic stronghold, has among the most aggressive climate change policies in the world.
Republicans, including Donald Trump, for years have …

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

One truly mind-blowing thing about the ICE invading cities is how •little• actual violence there’s been against ICE agents. Observing, filming, making noise, warning neighbors? Yes. Violence, physical assault? Hardly any. At the level of people throwing snowballs.
Imagine, just imagine, the kind of principled self-restraint it takes for basically the entire population to respond to all this ongoing terrorizing and kidnapping following the constitutional principles that these agents themselves are flouting.
Cities? Cities are bastions of peace if you ask me.

Messenger: In Signal-Chats lassen sich Nachrichten anpinnen
Der Messenger Signal hat eine neue Funktion erhalten. Nutzer und Nutzerinnen können nun Nachrichten in Chats festpinnen.
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OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/

GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for Copilot Pro Plus and Enterprise users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/873665/github-claude-codex-ai-agents

GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub is adding rival AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI. Claude and Codex are both available in preview in GitHub for developers