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Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes
Researchers found a fossilized seascape while studying the impact of a volcanic eruption.
12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap
Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?
Horizon: Zero Dawn gets the graphical remaster a modern classic deserves
This is how to do a remaster.
Rocket Report: ULA has a wild idea; Starliner crew will stay in orbit even longer
ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine.
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models
o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first
Most owners still won't be refunded for the emotional support toy.
Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit
UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.
The next two FIFA Women’s World Cups will only air on Netflix
Let's hope Netflix fixes its live buffering problems beforehand.
New AA-powered AirTag case promises 10-year lifespan
Aluminum AirTag case replaces coin cell with 2 AA Lithium batteries for extended lifespan.
Google will apparently offer “AI Mode” right on its main search page
The most direct push for Google's Gemini chat so far.
Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair
OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.
Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report
Staff worried they were no longer helping people and the ban would lead to deaths.
The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.
Why AI language models choke on too much text
Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great.
We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time
"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind."
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.
Home Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers
Home Assistant's voice device is a $60 box that's both focused and evolving.
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.
New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.
Crypto scammers posing as real brands on X are easily hacking YouTubers
Fighting game YouTuber now fighting Google over monstrous" post-hack revenue loss.
Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed
"A-Life" fixes will ensure even more randomness in an already odd fallout zone.
US temporarily bans drones in parts of NJ, may use “deadly force” against aircraft
Drone sightings cause worry; FBI said it hadn't "identified anything anomalous."
Intel is testing BIOS updates to fix performance of its new Core Ultra 200S CPUs
Not as serious as the 13th/14th-gen voltage problems, but the fixes are similar.
Here’s what we learned driving Audi’s new Q6 and SQ6 electric SUVs
Audi's mid-sized electric SUV is now on sale in the US, and we've tested it.
The New Glenn rocket’s seven powerful engines may light up as soon as today
"Maybe, maybe, maybe today, maybe soon. I think it's very soon."
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.
A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement
Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video?
Krypto steals the show in Superman teaser
Footage gives us glimpses of Lex Luthor, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and Superman's plucky little white dog Kryto.
Amazon faces holiday strike after refusing to bargain with warehouse workers
Amazon downplaying what workers declared is largest strike" ever in the US.
Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem
When the Sun doesn't shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power.
Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates
Amazon lacks space to accommodate its entire workforce.
$2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data
Texas police officer switched to AT&T FirstNet and got a horrible surprise.
Louisiana resident in critical condition with H5N1 bird flu
The person is experiencing severe respiratory illness from the H5N1 infection.
The Backbone One would be an ideal game controller—if the iPhone had more games
It works well, but there still aren't enough modern, console-style games.
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.
Supreme Court to decide if TikTok should be banned or sold
TikTok won't get injunction but will get SCOTUS review ahead of potential ban.
Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service
1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant-no smartphone required.
TP-Link faces possible US ban as hijacked routers fuel Chinese attacks
Founded in China, TP-Link makes routers popular in US homes and businesses.
Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year
Few homes will need it, but the (literal) edge cases are quite intriguing.
The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales
A sizable early adopter niche will still pay for the most powerful console possible.
EPA lets California set its own stricter emissions standards until 2035
The regulations will phase out the sale of new internal combustion cars by 2035.
GM and ChargePoint will deploy hundreds of “Omni Port” chargers in 2025
Capable of servicing both NACS and CCS1 EVs, some chargers will be rated at 500 kW.
Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Help push our charity haul past $16,000 in just over a week.
Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
Drug sales on the dark web are trending downward in favor of Snapchat, Telegram, and others.
Russian space chief says country will fly on space station until 2030
"Space is an area of activity where there is never a 100 percent guaranteed result."
These squirrels are cold-blooded vole killers
Novel hunting behavior may have emerged alongside a marked increase in the local vole population this summer.
Report: Elon Musk failed to report movement required by security clearance
No federal agencies have accused Musk of disclosing classified information.
“Unprecedented” decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic's start have ushered in an era of abstaining.
Nvidia’s new app is causing large frame rate dips in many games
Fully disabling optional, AI-powered filters seems to fix the problem.
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