Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states (arstechnica.com)
Hurricane Larry dumped 100,000 microplastics per sq. meter on Newfoundland each day (arstechnica.com)
Apple Watches being pulled from stores this week due to potential import ban (arstechnica.com)
An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer’s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen (arstechnica.com)
Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
Jeff Bezos says what we’re all thinking: “Blue Origin needs to be much faster” (arstechnica.com)
Rocket Report: Signs of life from Blue Origin; SpaceX preps next Starship (arstechnica.com)
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)
Space Force chief: Timing of Chinese spaceplane launch “no coincidence” (arstechnica.com)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.
Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)
Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants (arstechnica.com)
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science (arstechnica.com)
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds (arstechnica.com)
You can now access Apple’s official diagnostics tool online for DIY repairs (arstechnica.com)
Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
Mixtral 8x7B can process a 32K token context window and works in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
E3 memory lane: Ars’ favorite moments from the show’s over-the-top past (arstechnica.com)
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds (arstechnica.com)
After 15 months Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft will finally fly again (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday the company announced, via the social media site X, that its New Shepard spacecraft would launch no earlier than next Monday....
