📈♟ Big news for YOU! FIDE and World Chess have agreed to work toward the First Rating Experiment – a first-of-its-kind program that would let players earn their first official over-the-board FIDE blitz and rapid rating through online play.
How it works:
▪️ Build a real body of online rated play – a minimum number of games in rated online tournaments, not just casual games
▪️ Results go through fair-play checks
▪️ Once passed, a rating is issued using a carefully designed coefficient
▪️ Rating ceiling is currently proposed at 1,800. Above that – earned over the board, as always!
💬 "This is how FIDE grows the game responsibly," said FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich (@advorkovich) . "Transparent, controlled, and built with the community. We've agreed on a framework that puts the integrity of the rating system first – and opens it to players who have never had a way in."
🔥 Today, around 500,000 players hold an official FIDE OTB rating. This program is designed to open that to millions more!
Read more: https://t.co/1xkw8jVKCh
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Introducing GPT-5.5
A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done.
Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.
Watch the official title sequence reveal for 007 First Light, featuring the original song “First Light,” written and composed by Lana Del Rey & David Arnold.
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Valve employees receive an annual all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii.
For over 20 years, Valve has flown its full-time employees to a luxury Hawaiian resort.
The company covers flights, lodging, and most expenses for roughly an eight-day stay.
Many refer to it as the two-week Valve Hawaii vacation because of travel time.
This is in addition to Valve’s very generous flexible paid time off.
Apple just banned several VPN apps from the Russian App Store — targeting those that helped users bypass Russia’s DPI-based censorship. That’s not cool, Apple. https://t.co/Pw9LDQmRSA
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