Wes Davis

It’s down to just three of the six gyroscopes NASA upgraded it with in 2009 — and one of those is flaking out. According to Ars Technica, the agency’s engineers figured out a way to keep the Hubble going on a single gyro.

Listen, that’s none of your, my, or anyone else’s business. The point is, it happened. What Hi-Fi? wrote about it a few days ago, and the $549.95 Yamaha CD-C603 sounds just fine — if you don’t mind spending hundreds more than you might for one of the old carousel-style CD changers with nearly all the same features on eBay.

After Apple seemingly blocked its iMessage for Android solution, the company posted that Beeper Cloud is “now fully working with iMessage.”

After being told earlier this year it can’t enforce its NDAs that forbid bad reviews from unhappy customers. the company has shut down its customer care support and canceled all outstanding tooth aligner orders. It also says that its “Lifetime Smile Guarantee no longer exists.”

The New York Times published a look at OpenAI’s firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. The moment-by-moment rundown doesn’t dig into the claims of Altman being “psychologically abusive” from yesterday’s Washington Post story.

The company acknowledged on Thursday that ChatGPT has been phoning it in lately (again), and it’s fixing it. Then overnight, it made a series of posts about the chatbot training process, saying it must evaluate the model using certain metrics — AI benchmarks, you might say — calling it “an artisanal multi-person effort.”

Found this while I was poking around Denon’s site and found a page about its history, and this logo stopped me instantly. Just look at this thing!

That said, things with Beeper Mini might be a little messed up while you wait. The company posted that the fix is “very close, and just a matter of a bit more time and effort.”