Liquid metal could turn everyday things like paper into smart objects (arstechnica.com)
This futuristic new liquid-metal coating can make ordinary objects extraordinary.
ISPs say US should force Big Tech firms to pay for broadband construction (arstechnica.com)
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Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard (arstechnica.com)
The FCC rules will force ISPs to accurately describe fees in labels given to customers, but Comcast said it wants the FCC to rescind a requirement related to "fees that ISPs may, but are not obligated to, pass through to customers." These include state Universal Service fees and other local fees....
Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.
Review: Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air says what it is and is what it says (arstechnica.com)
iOS and iPadOS 17 drop support for iPhone X, first iPad Pros, and other old devices (arstechnica.com)
You'll need a device made within the last five years to get new features.
FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, that thing they said definitely wasn’t happening was happening…
Old smartphones should be usable as single-board computers, just as this one is (arstechnica.com)
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,...
China bans AI-generated media without watermarks (arstechnica.com)
10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator (arstechnica.com)
Is Firefox OK? Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web. (arstechnica.com)
Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states (arstechnica.com)
An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer’s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen (arstechnica.com)
Apple Watches being pulled from stores this week due to potential import ban (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
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Rocket Report: Signs of life from Blue Origin; SpaceX preps next Starship (arstechnica.com)
Space Force chief: Timing of Chinese spaceplane launch “no coincidence” (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)
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science (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)
