Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites add to astronomers’ light-pollution woes | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Behold the world’s oldest sandals, buried in a “bat cave” over 6,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...
The history of syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton (arstechnica.com)
Android to take an “upstream first” development model for the Linux kernel (arstechnica.com)
The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report from the Android team. Android 12—which will be out any day now—promises to bring Android closer than ever to mainline Linux by...
Report: Unity considering revenue-based fee caps, self-reported install numbers (arstechnica.com)
The recently promised "changes" to Unity's controversial new per-install fee plan for developers could include hard limits based on a company's total revenue and developer self-reporting of installation numbers, according to a new report.
Biden called Arizona fab a “game-changer.” Analyst calls it a “paperweight” (arstechnica.com)
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
Cybersecurity experts say the west has failed to learn lessons from Ukraine (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2073925...
Microsoft signing keys keep getting hijacked, to the delight of Chinese threat actors (arstechnica.com)
Amazing really. This is what we mean by hackers, a well crafted and elaborate scheme that took advantage of multiple points to accomplish this.
Microsoft signing keys keep getting hijacked, to the delight of Chinese threat actors (arstechnica.com)
Heavy, highly magnetic star may be first magnetar precursor we’ve seen (arstechnica.com)
Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects we know about, with magnetic fields so strong that chemistry becomes impossible in their vicinity. They’re neutron stars with a superfluid interior that includes charged particles, so it’s easy to understand how a magnetic dynamo is maintained to support that magnetic field. But...
NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce (arstechnica.com)
The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content (arstechnica.com)
The paper of record pokes holes in the absorb-everything AI business model.
Maui truthers using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence (arstechnica.com)
I don’t like that the original headline was “are so dumb”. Conspiracy believers aren’t dumb, they are failing at trying to make sense of a frightening event based on the bad information they’ve been given by their preferred social circle that feeds a messed-up worldview.
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)
Amazon’s final talks with FTC unlikely to thwart antitrust lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1213013...
European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry (arstechnica.com)
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives (arstechnica.com)
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.
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.
Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression (arstechnica.com)
Dementia experts hail “watershed moment” after trial results for donanemab antibody treatment.
Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/427196...
Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” (arstechnica.com)
Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads (arstechnica.com)
X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.
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....
