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CLD is hopefully not DOA
NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out
"Initially, Congress almost treated the program as a joke."
Eric Berger
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Greening of Antartica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent
Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News
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How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly
New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Kill 'em all
Halls of Torment is Diablo cranked up to 50,000 kills/hour
Sometimes, you just want to kill a whole lot of skeletons as fast as possible.
Kyle Orland
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No more bricked iPads: Apple fixes several bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS updates
Apple claims it fixed a critical bug that bricked M4 iPads.
Samuel Axon
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Anomalous plume
ULA’s second Vulcan rocket lost part of its booster and kept going
The US Space Force says this test flight was critical for certifying Vulcan for military missions.
Stephen Clark
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OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click
New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic's Artifacts.
Benj Edwards
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Is this real?
Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers
Repair scheme got Apple to replace 6K fake iPhones with real ones.
Ashley Belanger
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Redesign time
Welcome to our latest design update, Ars 9.0!
More good stuff. Personalization, responsive design, and more.
Ken Fisher
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Selling the lie
The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie
Human feedback training may incentivize providing any answer—even wrong ones.
Jacek Krywko
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2. Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers
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3. Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
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4. X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist
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5. ULA’s second Vulcan rocket lost part of its booster and kept going
Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key
Copilot key becomes a "whatever" key in latest Windows Insider Preview build.
Andrew Cunningham
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Greetings from the cultural singularity
Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo
A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inevitable.
Benj Edwards
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New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought
Our Solar System's Kuiper Belt appears to be substantially larger than we thought.
Elizabeth Rayne
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X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist
Elon Musk merging Twitter into X didn't absolve X from child safety fine.
Ashley Belanger
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Google as Darth Vader: Why iA Writer quit the Android app market
A remarkably open farewell note from seven years of Android development.
Kevin Purdy
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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be the next Waymo robotaxi
The two companies say this should be the first of many collaborations.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Faulty Samsung update leaves owners of bricked Galaxy phones with few options
"I just really, really want my photos."
Scharon Harding
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Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don’t believe
Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention.
H. Colleen Sinclair, The Conversation
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Rocket Report: Falcon 9 second stage stumbles; Japanese rocket nears the end
"I’m pretty darn confident I’m going to have a good day on Friday."
Eric Berger
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Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021
The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight.
Dan Goodin
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Former county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting-system breach
Judge calls Tina Peters a charlatan, says "prison is the only place" for her.
Jon Brodkin
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Human cases of H5N1 confirmed in California amid rapid dairy spread
The CDC confirmed two new bird flu cases, bringing the human tally to 17.
Beth Mole
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Automattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark
Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg called WP Engine "a cancer to WordPress."
Jon Brodkin
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Strange “biotwang” ID’d as Bryde’s whale call
Multi-species machine-learning model can unlock insights into new whale species.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.
John Timmer
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Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial
If you're familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.
Beth Mole
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Elon Musk claims victory after judge blocks Calif. deepfake law
Parody video creator joined Musk in “war” to block California deepfake law.
Ashley Belanger
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ULA hasn’t given up on developing a long-lived cryogenic space tug
On Friday's launch, United Launch Alliance will test the limits of its Centaur upper stage.
Stephen Clark
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Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve
Bazzite has tackled drivers, inputs, and updating, so you can just play games.
Kevin Purdy
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Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse
Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Copilot AI-assistant.
Benj Edwards
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EVgo gets $1.05B loan to build 7,500 DC fast chargers
EVgo will focus on underserved communities where people can't charge at home.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
Subscribers tolerated the current ad load, so Amazon is adding more commercials.
Scharon Harding
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Attackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses
When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliably is another matter.
Dan Goodin
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