OpenAI has received approval from the Trump administration to publicly roll out GPT-5.6 after an earlier limited preview restricted access to government-approved organizations. The company also launched ChatGPT Work, a new GPT-5.6-powered agent that combines ChatGPT and Codex-style capabilities. "It can gather context from the apps, files, and workflows you choose and create finished materials such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps," OpenAI wrote in a blog post, adding that a "unified plugins directory" allows ChatGPT to connect to tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, calendars, and CRMs. The Verge reports: Mac and Windows users worldwide, including free ChatGPT users, should have immediate access to ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 via the ChatGPT desktop app. On mobile and the web, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users will first get access, while Plus and Business users will receive access "over the next few days," OpenAI wrote, adding that the "rollout is starting globally and will continue gradually toward full availability over the next 24 hours."

[...] OpenAI is hoping that its new product, which is a direct competitor to Anthropic's Claude Cowork (combining its own Claude and Claude Code), will push it ahead in the race. OpenAI is especially banking on Sol, the most powerful of the GPT-5.6 model suite, to set "a new standard for intelligence and efficiency," particularly when it comes to coding, cybersecurity, and science, as well as computer use capabilities. The company is also marketing the model as a lower-cost alternative to competitors' most powerful models, amid complaints of an industry-wide money squeeze and AI lab costs being passed onto customers.

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BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation intends to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation, a new vendor-neutral home for the Google Open Health Stack project. Google is contributing the project code and assets while Google.org is providing a $3 million grant. The initiative is also backed by Microsoft, Anthropic, and the World Health Organization, with the goal of building open source, AI-ready digital health infrastructure. Will moving the project under Linux Foundation governance accelerate adoption, or is this simply another foundation that most developers will never interact with? The new project will focus on core HL7 FHIR technologies for healthcare interoperability, the Open Health Stack Player deployment toolkit, and AI Commons -- a model-agnostic healthcare AI initiative being co-developed with the World Health Organization.

A notable part of the announcement is its planned Implementer Program, which aims to give startups, small businesses, and local developers in low- and middle-income countries a formal role in governance. In other words, the effort is not just about building healthcare software standards, but about making sure the people implementing them in underserved markets help shape the project too.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The [San Francisco international airport] is hoping to build a brand-new terminal exclusively for passengers who pay a premium, gaining access to a luxurious airport experience complete with private security lines and valet service from terminal to tarmac. It will service commercial flights, not business or corporate jets, and the terminal will have its own Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lines for international travel.

SFO is seeking bidders to take on the development, construction and operation of the private terminal, which is planned for a 75,000-sq-ft site located across the runway from all current public terminals. The airport will accept proposals between late September and early October, and is looking to award a contract by early December with hopes of opening the terminal in late 2028. [...]

If SFO is successful, it would become the next major American airport to open a luxury terminal. Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth, Miami and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airports all offer a private terminal through PS (formerly known as the Private Suite), a company owned by security firm Gavin de Becker and Associates. Multiple representatives from PS and Gavin de Becker and Associates attended a June conference hosted by SFO about the private terminal, and PS has said it hopes to open a private terminal at every major US airport by 2030. The report notes that access to existing PS private terminals "can cost passengers $1,295 for a one-time experience, or up to $4,850 for a yearly membership."

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Starting with macOS 28, Apple will no longer support encrypted Mac OS Extended, or HFS+, volumes. Users will need to decrypt them or reformat them as APFS to keep using them. 9to5Mac reports: In a new support document, Apple explains that starting with macOS 28, "the Mac OS Extended file system format will be supported only for volumes (disks and other storage devices) that aren't encrypted." In practice, this means users who currently rely on encrypted HFS+ external drives or other encrypted legacy Mac-formatted volumes will need to "either decrypt or reformat any encrypted Mac OS Extended volumes."

Apple doesn't explain the reason for the change. Still, the move appears to be another step in Apple's transition to APFS, its file system with built-in encryption support, which replaced Mac OS Extended as the default Mac file system in macOS High Sierra. As a result of this change, Apple says that starting with macOS 26, Macs might notify users when they're using an encrypted Mac OS Extended disk that won't be compatible with macOS 28 or later.

According to the support page, "the notification will identify the volume by name." However, Apple says users can manually confirm whether a volume is both using Mac OS Extended format and encrypted by following these steps [...]. Apple adds that "macOS 28 and later will continue to support unencrypted volumes that use Mac OS Extended format," and notes "Mac OS Extended is also known as HFS Plus (or HFS+)."

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The Loop: A picture puzzle game from the Britannica Arrange the pictures so that each one is connected to the previous and the next (semi) logically.

"Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks?" Albert Burneko ponders the implications of Mitch McConnell's demise. (SLDefector)

Albert Burneko previously.

The editor of The Utopian built an entire vehicle out of individual parts David Tracy, editor-in-chief of theautopian.com, built a WWII Jeep from parts that he bought online (and a few from specialty shops). Then he drove it hundreds and hundreds of miles, and took it off-roading in Moab.

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De gemiddelde verkoopprijs van Nederlandse koopwoningen lag vorig kwartaal boven de vijf ton. Wat krijg je daarvoor? NRC maakte een ronde langs woningen die voor vijf ton of minder te koop staan.

From Lionel Messi and Pele to Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, here are 10 FIFA World Cup winners who have appeared at Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends.

De in mei dit jaar op 95-jarige leeftijd overleden axofonist Sonny Rollins brengt (1) een ode aan de ‘Duke of Iron’, een Amerikaanse entertainer met, net zoals Rollins, Caribische wortels.

Een typisch themaatje-schemaatje nummer. De band speelt eerst het thema dat de basis van het stuk is, waarna er driftig wordt gesoleerd. Soms worden de solo’s van de diverse bandleden afgewisseld met het thema, soms komt het thema pas aan het eind terug.

Dat is een toch wat saai concept, die het vooral van de uitvoering van de solisten moet hebben. Hoewel hij zichzelf niet altijd een even goed muzikant vond, werd Sonny Rollins geroemd om zijn krachtige saxofoonspel en originele improvisaties.

‘Duke of Iron’ werd in Nederland wat bekender omdat Van Kooten en De Bie de tune gebruikte als intro voor hun programma Keek op de Week.

(1) Ik schrijf “brengt” want Rollins mag dan dood zijn, de Duke of Iron ook, deza muziek heeft het eeuwige leven.

Wat een dag voor de Fransen. Ze mogen het eindelijk opnemen tegen een land van hun eigen continentale kaliber: Marokko. In Nederland zijn daarom sinds gisteren de 'voorbereidingen' in volle gang. Wist u misschien nog niet, maar datzelfde geldt voor Frankrijk. Daar hebben ze namelijk ook Marokkanen, alleen noemen ze die daar Marokkaanse Fransen terwijl wij ze Marokkaanse Nederlanders noemen. Maar eigenlijk is dat van hetzelfde laken een Marokkaanse vlag. Ook in de Franse media zijn ze al dagen bezig met die pot. Zo werd de prominente Marokkaanse Fransman Ibrahim Eiffellay gevraagd of hij voor Marokko of Frankrijk is en schrijft Abdelkader Banlieu in de Franse krant (Fidélité) dat de Marokkanen eigenlijk niet rellen, ze worden alleen maar gepest. De Gendarmerie is in ieder geval doodsbang. Wat dat betreft lijkt Frankrijk wel op Nederland. Alleen gaat Frankrijk niet verliezen van Marokko. De Fransen schoppen de Marokkanen vanaf 22.00 uur terug naar hun eigen land en winnen met 3-1. Of de Marokkanen nu winnen of verliezen, voor de derde helft kunt u terecht in de Haagse Schilderswijk, Amsterdam-West, de Rotterdamse Afrikaanderwijk, het Utrechtse Lombok of Parijs. Tot die tijd is het hier genieten van de voormalige Franse kolonie. Santé et Allez les Blues!

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Bij het Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam is sprake van wanbeheer, meldt de onderwijsinspectie. Het bestuur van de islamitische school heeft "langdurig en in ernstige mate nagelaten" om het onderwijs te verbeteren.

Al vanaf 2022 had het schoolbestuur volgens de inspectie moeten ingrijpen. "Hierdoor heeft een situatie van slechte onderwijskwaliteit nodeloos voortgeduurd en duurt deze nog steeds voort." Het bestuur kon belangrijke documenten ook niet aanleveren en de inspectie kreeg "tegenstrijdige informatie" uit verschillende hoeken.

Staatssecretaris Judith Tielen (Onderwijs, VVD) informeerde de Tweede Kamer donderdag over het inspectierapport. De school is beland in zogeheten fase E, de "meest urgente fase" waarin een besluit over het vervolg niet meer aan de inspectie maar aan het ministerie is. Het is bijvoorbeeld mogelijk om de financiering van de school stop te zetten.

"Ik deel de zorgen van de inspectie en beraad mij op vervolgstappen, waarbij het belang van de leerlingen voorop zal staan", schrijft Tielen.

The official trailer for Dune 3. I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.