Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor will mine hours of auto-shooting joy from your life (arstechnica.com)
Developer claims Steam is rejecting games with AI-generated artwork (arstechnica.com)
Planet that shouldn’t exist found (arstechnica.com)
Why is a planet orbiting a star that should have gone through a giant phase?
US might finally force cable-TV firms to advertise their actual prices (arstechnica.com)
Biden angry about cable firms' hidden "Broadcast TV" and "Regional Sports" fees.
AI-generated Secret Invasion intro angers Marvel artists and fans alike (arstechnica.com)
Musk-owned Twitter stiffed employees on promised bonuses, class action says (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of realistic but fake AI child sex images found online, report says (arstechnica.com)
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Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)
Feds tell automakers not to comply with Mass. “right to repair” law (arstechnica.com)
I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing (arstechnica.com)
Google Workspace users can now log in without a password, thanks to passkeys (arstechnica.com)
GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA’s revenue—but it’s cutting ties with Nvidia anyway (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.
Elon Musk’s new AI bot, Grok, causes stir by citing OpenAI usage policy (arstechnica.com)
Some experts think xAI used OpenAI model outputs to fine-tune Grok.
Texas sues Pfizer with COVID anti-vax argument that is pure stupid (arstechnica.com)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer last week, claiming the pharmaceutical giant "deceived the public" by "unlawfully misrepresenting" the effectiveness of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sought to silence critics....
Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised (arstechnica.com)
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)
OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely, says Senator Markey.
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
Review: New Atari 2600+ doesn’t justify its plus sign (arstechnica.com)
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone (arstechnica.com)
After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly (arstechnica.com)
I can’t wait to see this baby shuttle fly at last! Current NET date for Dream Chaser is April 2024