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Daily Telescope: A monster protostar in a distant nebula
Even as astronomical objects go, that's a gargantuan protostar.
The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
As US dams age, removal is always an option-and it can be done well.
VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs
Only Broadcom's favorites will be able to sell VMware-related offerings.
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA
Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.
Diesel enginemaker agrees to nearly $2 billion in fines with feds and California
More than 600,000 Ram trucks have Cummins engines with software defeat devices.
Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks
Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure should take action at once.
Detachable Lenovo laptop is two separate computers, runs Windows and Android
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid combines the best (?) of both worlds.
OpenAI’s GPT Store lets ChatGPT users discover popular user-made chatbot roles
Like an app store, people can find novel ChatGPT personalities-and some creators will get paid.
Portable monitors could make foldable-screen gadgets finally make sense
Opinion: I'd rather have my secondary, portable screen fold than my phone or PC.
Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video
Twitch reportedly still unprofitable, paid over $1 billion to streamers in 2023.
After its impressive first flight, here’s what’s next for the Vulcan rocket
"We anticipate some movements in the manifest."
Astronomers think they finally know origin of enormous “cosmic smoke rings“
Massive stars burn out quickly. When they die, they expel their gas as outflowing winds.
SEC says X account was hacked as false post causes bitcoin price swings
X says hacker had control over phone number associated with SEC account.
Valve now allows the “vast majority” of AI-powered games on Steam
New reporting system will enforce "guardrails" for "live-generated" AI content.
Tesla’s revamped Model 3 sedan has now gone on sale in the US
The midlife upgrade was available in China and Europe last year.
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices.
This tiny EV crossover from VinFast will go on sale in the US
The diminutive and blocky VF3 costs just $12,200 in Vietnam.
Plastic is everywhere, including our food and bottled water
Microplastics in our steak and tofu are washed down with nanoplastics from bottled water.
Kids start paying attention to accuracy at about age 4
Early on, they're likely to trust humans; a bit later, performance matters more.
Daily Telescope: A galactic neighborhood that isn’t
Hubble's still got it.
The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples' faces doesn't work to change minds.
Ars readers gave nearly $40,000 in our 2023 Charity Drive
Ars' total charity haul since 2007 now tops $506,000.
Facebook, Instagram block teens from sensitive content, even from friends
Meta hiding harmful content from teens isn't enough, whistleblower says.
Canada vows to defend its drug supply against Florida importation plan
Canada adds that importing its drugs will not solve America's drug pricing problems.
Quantum computing startup says it will beat IBM to error correction
Company builds on recent demonstration of error-tracking in similar hardware.
Full trailer for 3 Body Problem captures epic scope of Liu Cixin’s novel
"They are coming. And there's nothing you can do to stop them."
OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material
"Copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression" and cannot be avoided.
Citing “crew safety,” NASA delays upcoming Artemis missions by about a year
"We must be realistic."
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly
Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
Samsung’s “Ballie” home robot is back, way bigger, and headed to production
Samsung jumps into the home robotics market with a bowling ball-sized robot.
Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently
EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.
These are Honda’s concepts for its new family of EVs due in 2026
A production car based on the Saloon should go on sale in the US in two years.
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding
FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.
First results are in: 2023 temperatures were stunningly warm
In the second half of the year, every month set a record.
Nvidia’s G-Sync Pulsar is anti-blur monitor tech aimed squarely at your eyeball
Branded monitors can sync pixels to backlighting, refresh rate, and GPU frames.
Chromium found in lead-tainted fruit pouches may explain contamination
Lead chromate, an artificial coloring, has been used in other spices to conceal poor quality.
Unity lays off an additional 25 percent of its staffers
1,800 newly announced job cuts come on top of 1,300 layoffs since mid-2022.
Seeking another Earth? Look for low carbon dioxide
In our own Solar System, Earth has far lower CO concentrations than its neighbors.
“We are worried,” says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition
On the continent, Ariane 6 may be the last launcher with a monopoly.
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware
Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.
Daily Telescope: The Milky Way above one of my favorite places on Earth
This photo is really not that much different than what you'll see with the naked eye.
Cerne Abbas Giant is a depiction of Hercules
It's "just the most visible of a whole cluster of early medieval features in the landscape."
Intel’s CPU branding was already confusing, and today’s new CPUs made it worse
Some are 14th-gen Core and some are Core (Series 1), but they're the same thing.
Canonical wants better Snap support outside Ubuntu, based on latest hires
Returning developer says he might get to "change some of the old ideas."
LG OLED T is a transparent 77-inch TV that will arrive in 2024
Expect it to be extremely expensive.
Elon Musk’s X loses fight to disclose federal surveillance of users
Musk disappointed SCOTUS won't weigh harms of feds secretly spying on X users.
America’s first lunar lander in a half-century won’t reach the Moon
Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander appears to be stricken by a propellant leak.
iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement
Users had to submit claims by October 2020; finally got paid in January 2024.
Magic: The Gathering maker admits it used AI-generated art despite standing ban
One artist says he is "done" with the company after controversy.
Wi-Fi 7’s theoretical speeds make your Internet connection seem even more sad
More streams, bonded connections, and speeds you can't possibly achieve at home.
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