A OpenAI está lançando um novo recurso opcional para o ChatGPT no macOS que pode monitorar suas atividades diárias no computador — abrangendo aplicativos e sites — e transformá-las em memórias e em uma linha do tempo.

Chamado Computer History, o recurso está disponível inicialmente para usuários dos planos Pro, Business e Enterprise. Para usá-lo, é necessário ativá-lo em Configurações » Integrações no aplicativo do ChatGPT para macOS.

Segundo a OpenAI, isso permitirá que o ChatGPT localize arquivos, documentos e conversas relevantes para a sua consulta — independentemente de estarem no Google Docs, no Slack ou em uma aba aberta do navegador — sem que você precise reexplicar todo o contexto da sua solicitação.

Isso também será útil para aqueles momentos em que você sabe que leu algo, mas não faz ideia de onde. Naturalmente, a novidade requer que o recurso de Memórias também esteja ativado.

A OpenAI aponta que os usuários terão controle total sobre quais aplicativos e sites o recurso poderá acessar. No macOS, haverá uma nova opção na barra de menus para remover qualquer aplicativo do recurso, além de uma nova configuração no aplicativo do ChatGPT para desktop que permite excluir aplicativos e sites específicos.

Todos esses dados são armazenados localmente; assim, você pode visualizar o que o sistema captura e excluir itens caso não queira que façam parte da linha do tempo. Ademais, o recurso vem desativado por padrão, e você também pode pausá-lo a qualquer momento pela barra de menus.

Como dito, o Computer History está sendo disponibilizado para todos os usuários dos planos Pro, Business e Enterprise — exceto em regiões como o Espaço Econômico Europeu (EEE), o Reino Unido e a Suíça, onde a função será disponibilizada “nas próximas semanas”.

Outras novidades

O ChatGPT também ganhou, recentemente, um punhado de outras novidades que tornam mais fácil incluir documentos e arquivos salvos nas suas conversas, bem como encontrar o que você precisa e retomar de onde parou.

• Na web, o texto copiado do Google Docs ou de outra conversa do ChatGPT preserva títulos, negrito, links e listas, tanto durante a escrita quanto após o envio da mensagem.
• Adicione arquivos salvos sem precisar carregá-los novamente graças à opção “Adicionar da biblioteca”.
• Selecione vários itens da Biblioteca de uma só vez, arrastando o cursor sobre vários arquivos ou pastas para selecioná-los em conjunto.
• A busca agora inclui pastas e localiza títulos de conversas. Na web, você também pode pesquisar dentro da Biblioteca para encontrar seus arquivos salvos.
• No iOS/Android, o ChatGPT consegue identificar quando uma conversa por voz em segundo plano parece inativa, bem como verificar se você ainda está presente e encerrar a sessão caso não haja resposta.
• Se o ditado falhar devido a problemas de conexão ou tempo limite, o ChatGPT tenta novamente de forma automática uma vez, permitindo que você conclua a gravação sem precisar recomeçar.
• Ao retornar a uma conversa, as respostas já finalizadas aparecem imediatamente, sem aquela reprodução lenta que dava a impressão de que ainda estavam sendo geradas.

Por fim, usuários com o plugin do Google Drive conectado podem agora visualizar e navegar pelos seus arquivos e pastas diretamente na Biblioteca. Seu conteúdo permanece no Drive e, caso você conceda autorização, o ChatGPT pode alterar o arquivo de origem diretamente. O recurso está sendo disponibilizado para usuários dos planos Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Edu, Healthcare e Business na versão web, tanto no modo Chat quanto no modo Work. O suporte para dispositivos móveis chegará em breve.

Italian archaeologists have discovered a previously unidentified, nearly 4,000-year-old “Tomb of the Giants,” or “Giant’s Tomb,” at Carrarzu Iddia in central-western Sardinia.

The researchers behind the historic discovery said the new structure is part of a larger group of ancient, ‘enigmatic’ burial complexes on the island known as Giant’s Tombs erected by the Nuragic civilization as collective burial sites beginning around 1800 B.C. due to their megalithic structure.

Giant’s Tomb Site Features a Strategic Placement

According to Finestre sull’Arte, the newly discovered Giant’s Tomb had been covered by thick vegetation, helping it to remain hidden for nearly four millennia. However, surveyors from Sardinia’s two Superintendencies of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape were already involved in the restoration and excavation of the nuraghe located at the same site when they made the unexpected discovery.

Located at an elevation of approximately 800 yards, the newly identified Giant’s Tomb is located on the southern slope of Crastu Littu. The Italian team suspects the site “is of particular interest” due to its strategic location.

For example, the Giant’s Tomb offers a sweeping view of the Macomer plain. The location also includes a clear vantage point to observe the highlands of Abbasanta and Paulilatino, and an unobstructed view as far as the hills of the Nuoro area and the Gulf of Oristano. The team said this view likely conveys the site’s importance within the wider settlement network of Nuragic Sardinia.

Clearing the Dense Vegetation Reveals Striking Details

After identifying and surveying the new Giant’s Tomb’s location, the two project leaders worked with the landowners to clear away the dense overgrowth and earthen debris that had kept it hidden. Ironically, once the site was fully revealed, the team noted that the covering had likely helped to maintain and preserve its excellent condition over the nearly 4,000 years since its construction.

The most prominent features identified on the vast site were two large stone platforms, called protonuraghi, a sacred well, a residential settlement, and an extensive burial ground. A closer examination confirmed that the Giant’s Tomb, which is made from trachyte blocks, retained the expected architectural elements found in similar collective burial sites.

One identifying feature is the site’s exedra preceding its entrance. According to the Italian team, this architectural component is one of the most representative aspects of previously identified Giant’s Tombs, distinguishing this “monumental” construction type clearly within that of protohistoric Sardinia

Unfortunately, the excavation revealed that some portions of the ancient site had not survived the intervening four millennia completely intact. The authorities suspect that past illegal excavations that have affected many ancient sites could be part of the cause.

Luckily, previous illegal invasions of the site did not remove everything of historical value. For example, the team found ceramic materials inside the structure that document human occupation of the site, in some cases dating back to the earliest stages of the Nuragic civilization.

Site Includes Rarely Documented Dual-Level Construction

Alongside the site’s more familiar features, the team also identified an internal feature they described as ‘rare’ for a Giant’s Tomb: a second level near the entrance. Future studies of this unusual feature may offer insights into this society’s funerary practices and its construction techniques, which the team notes are still poorly understood.

The Italian team also noted the site’s greater significance when within the larger archaeological context of Carrarzu Iddia, noting that the area has yielded traces of human use and occupation covering the times before, during, and after the Roman era.

When discussing the site’s historical significance, the Italian team pointed to the value of so many extraordinary structures and monuments concentrated within one specific area. This overlap allows researchers to chronologically date the new Giant’s Tomb and place its significance within the wider context of the Island’s inhabitants.

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On August 10, 2008, developer Armin Heinrich called his ridiculous $1,000 iPhone app I Am Rich a work of art. Eight people bought the app.

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Jameela Jamil has dubbed the British 'the most evil people in history' based on the history of the Empire. Read this point-by-point rebuttal by Maxi Gorynski. On the contrary, he says, our Empire was one of the most benign

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On August 8, 1997, Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iconic slogan, "Think different." It became Apple's most famous catchphrase.

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Gender ideology was defeated by sex ideology this week. But what both of these outlooks miss is what really makes us men and women, says Dr Sinéad Murphy – and how it protects us from the control of technocracy.

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The iPhone X is a testament to device longevity, and durability. I gave mine to a family member when upgrading to an Xs Max in Late 2018, who held onto it all these years through a few different protective cases. Today I got it back where it’ll remain in my collection, after they upgraded to […]

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On August 7, 2006, Apple launched the first Mac Pro, a high-end desktop that completed the transition to Intel processors from PowerPC chips.

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Ruben Schade (Hacker News):

This idea is so powerful—and so longed for—that it’s escaped containment among the Apple crowd. I’ve seen everything from Linux distro to phone updates referred to as Snow Leopard releases, when their vendors cite stability and bug fixes over new features. Likewise, people plead with their vendors for a Snow Leopard release when they feel quality has slipped.

The reality was a bit different. As I wrote at the time[…]

People conflate a bunch of different ideas when talking about Snow Leopard:

• Were there really zero no features? No, but there were fewer user-facing ones.
• Was the initial release especially low in bugs? No, but it was better than Leopard’s.
• Did it feel faster? Yes.
• Was the final release especially low in bugs? Yes, it was fantastic.
• Was it just because of the longer release cycle before Lion? No, they really did focus on quality for the initial release. And they didn’t add as much stuff mid-cycle as they did with Tiger and Leopard.

LegNeato:

Snow Leopard’s stated goal internally was reducing bugs and increasing quality. That is a fact, not marketing. I am not sure why people on the internet don’t believe that, but I was there. If you wanted to ship a feature you had to get explicit approval from leadership and the bar was high. In normal feature releases it operated bottom up “here is what we are planning to ship” and in Snow Leopard it was top down “can we ship this?”.

AFAIK Snow Leopard was the first release of this kind (the first release I worked on was Jaguar or Puma), and was a direct response to taking 8 software updates to stabilize 10.5 and the severity of the bugs found during that cycle and the resulting bad press. Leopard was a HUGE feature release and with it came tons of (bad) bugs.

[…]

Testing was basically engineers, internal QA, some strategic partners like Adobe and MS, and the Apple Seed program (which was tiny). There was very little automated testing. Apple employees are not representative of the population and QA coverage is never very complete. And we sometimes held back features from seed releases when we were worried about leaks, so it wasn’t even the complete OS that was being tested.

Software updates are always needed, though the issues they fix became less severe over time due to larger seeds (aka betas), recovery partitions, and better / more modern development practices. But I can tell you FOR A FACT that Snow Leopard had fewer major bugs over its lifetime, coalesced very quickly, and was extremely solid when Lion was released.

Ken Ferry:

I agree with you that Snow Leopard was billed as no USER VISIBLE features. But people did NOT just fix niggling bugs, it was an architecturally huge release. E.g., it introduced GCD. And unless I’m confusing the year, it rewrote the Mail backend to use it and mail hasn’t had reliable search since.

My memory is that quality was so low that we pushed back the release. With the extra time we did manage to fix enough bugs that it was well received. But internally it was more destabilizing than most releases due to the amount of architectural churn.

giantrobot:

Yeah as someone else that worked on Snow Leopard I found this article and ones like it a bit silly. They’re a lot like the old “debug code” posts on Mac forums back in the day trying to explain why Puma was slow (no, you’ve got a G3 and an unaccelerated video card).

Tiger and Leopard were sprawling releases. Tiger covered 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, then 32-bit x86, then 64-bit x86 Macs. Tiger was also what I guess I’d say is the first “modern” OSX release, with subsystems like launchd and a more mature OpenDirectory replacing older NeXT subsystems. Leopard in my experience was a train wreck. It shipped a lot of new features, both user facing and back end frameworks, but the development was seriously impacted from teams losing engineers to iOS. Leopard had features planned assuming 100% availability of SWE’s resources but ended up with 40-50% of SWE’s resources (made up numbers based on my feels at the time). Many new frameworks in Leopard did not land or get stable until very late in the development cycle which meant everything downstream had to scramble right before GM. It was 100% the case that Leopard was not really stable until 10.5.8 and still sucked IMHO.

There was a lot of clean-up needed in MacOS and that was Snow Leopard. It was not a perfect release but 10.6.3 (the second disc pressing IIRC) and onward were very stable. Dropping PowerPC support really helped focus QA since they didn’t need the massive array of test hardware Tiger and Leopard required. You also didn’t need to wrangle builds for four architectures, including multiple compilers as a few libraries (if not whole frameworks) were compiled with ICC on x86 for performance reasons. The “Snow Leopard wasn’t that great” meme is weird. I’m sure it had its problems like every OSX release did. Unfortunately most OSX releases broke someone’s workflow. Snow Leopard ware no different. But it was always billed internally as a “no new features” release and those features that it did ship faced a very high bar to get in the release. I definitely look back on Snow Leopard as a high water mark for macOS quality in terms of a release.

Previously:

• “If You Can’t Stand By a Feature, You Shouldn’t Launch It.”
• Glow Leopard
• Snow Leopard at 15
• The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Update (2026-08-10): Mooch:

If you weren’t there then you don’t know why I considered getting a “10.6.8” tattoo at one point. Boot Camp was no longer siloed, zero-drama Exchange support was baked in, Quicktime X hauled ass, and It was the definitive answer to the smoldering wreckage of Vista.

Mario Palomera:

Snow Leopard has always remained the best Apple OS in my memory. For me Mail search was perfect all the time, once spotlight finished indexing it was incredible, iTunes, finder, everything just worked. The consistency was felt everywhere…

macintog:

[But] there’s one other missing piece: time

everyone forgets the annual release cycle is a modern novelty. plot 10.x.0’s and 10.x.y final builds on a timeline and it becomes clear