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Updated 2024-11-23 19:00
Android 15 might bring back lock screen widgets
After iOS 16 reintroduced lock screen widgets, Google is dusting off its old code.
NASA scientist on 2023 temperatures: “We’re frankly astonished”
NASA, NOAA, and Berkeley Earth have released their takes on 2023's record heat.
Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again
The CAMM2 spec was recently finalized, and memory makers are testing the waters.
Lucid delivered just 6,001 electric sedans in 2023
The Saudi-backed builder of high-end EVs is not having an easy time.
Apple AirDrop leaks user data like a sieve. Chinese authorities say they’re scooping it up.
Chinese authorities are exploiting a weakness Apple has allowed to go unfixed for 5 years.
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”
eBay must pay maximum fine for putting Massachusetts couple through pure hell."
I parked a BMW from across the parking lot at CES 2024
BMW's Remote Valet is one premium feature we'd pay for.
Child abusers are covering their tracks with better use of crypto
Mixers" and privacy coins" like Monero enable them to launder profits, stay online.
Rocket Report: A Chinese launch you must see; Vulcan’s stunning debut
"I am so proud of this team. Oh my gosh, this has been years of hard work."
Those Games turns crappy mobile game ads into actually good puzzles
It's pin-pulling, color-pouring, fake-but-real fun, and you only pay once.
Report: Deepfake porn consistently found atop Google, Bing search results
Google vows to create more safeguards to protect victims of deepfake porn.
Astronomers found ultra-hot, Earth-sized exoplanet with a lava hemisphere
Also: A separate team found a small, cold exoplanet with a massive outer companion.
“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
Starlink's Direct to Cell satellites to fill in dead spots in T-Mobile network.
Biden administration awards $632M for EV charging in new funding round
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act set aside $2.5 billion for underserved and rural areas.
Google lays off “hundreds” more employees, strips Google Assistant features
Google's layoffs hit hardware, the Google Assistant, and even the AR division.
Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam
Fake CEO denied profiting off the alleged cryptocurrency scam.
US judge blocks Ohio Republicans’ “troublingly vague” social media law
Judge calls law "breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing harm to children.
Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS
Next up: Could SteamOS 3 be coming to a desktop gaming rig near you?
At Senate AI hearing, news executives fight against “fair use” claims for AI training data
Media orgs want AI firms to license content for training, and Congress is sympathetic.
Hertz is selling 20,000 used EVs due to high repair costs
The rental car company will replace them with gasoline-powered vehicles.
I found David Lynch’s lost Dune II script
The unfinished script, found in an archive, shows Lynch's enthusiasm for Dune.
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.
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