FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Merger rules currently stacked in favor of monopolists, critics say.
Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein (arstechnica.com)
Engineers re-created one of Leonardo’s experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus,...
Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot (arstechnica.com)
[Ars Technica] - Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (arstechnica.com)
Actively exploited vulnerability threatens hundreds of solar power stations (arstechnica.com)
Hundreds of Internet-exposed devices inside solar farms remain unpatched against a critical and actively exploited vulnerability that makes it easy for remote attackers to disrupt operations or gain a foothold inside the facilities....
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.
AT&T says lead cables in Lake Tahoe “pose no danger” and should stay in place (arstechnica.com)
AT&T's legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing.
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (arstechnica.com)
Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM J1839–10, behaves a bit like a pulsar, sending out regular bursts of radio energy. But the physics that drives pulsars means that they’d stop emitting if they slowed down too much, and almost every pulsar we know of blinks at...
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7 (arstechnica.com)
Local officials are still working to apply insecticide by air, trucks, and crews.
[Ars Technica] "Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon" (arstechnica.com)
Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies....
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay “grossly exceeds” corporate norms.
Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7 (arstechnica.com)
Local officials are still working to apply insecticide by air, trucks, and crews.
Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7 (arstechnica.com)
Local officials are still working to apply insecticide by air, trucks, and crews.
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday and sank another 6.7% today (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars.
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (arstechnica.com)
NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover (arstechnica.com)
VIPER is NASA’s first rover that needs headlights.
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues (arstechnica.com)
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.