Five cool features and one weird thing you’ll find in macOS 14 Sonoma (arstechnica.com)
Forget the headliners; let's talk about some less obvious stuff.
AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro (arstechnica.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot (arstechnica.com)
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.
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.
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression (arstechnica.com)
JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state (arstechnica.com)
YSK: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1639498...
Apple introduces offline Maps—but how does it compare with Google Maps? (arstechnica.com)
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee (arstechnica.com)
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI (arstechnica.com)
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb (arstechnica.com)
Windows 95, 98, and other decrepit versions can grab online updates again (arstechnica.com)
Biden FCC nominee advances to Senate floor despite Ted Cruz’s protests (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30% (The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.) (arstechnica.com)
BotDefense is leaving Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.
In-space manufacturing startup aces pharma experiment in orbit (arstechnica.com)
The co-founder of California-based startup Varda Space Industries says his company’s first space mission—a miniature lab that has grown crystals of the drug ritonavir in orbit—is on track to end in the coming weeks with a first-of-its-kind re-entry and landing in Utah....
Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” (arstechnica.com)
Developer claims Steam is rejecting games with AI-generated artwork (arstechnica.com)
Valve cites unclear legal status, copyrighted training data in rejection message.
Person who made the Windows 3.1 port of Wordle is back with a ChatGPT client (arstechnica.com)
Developer has ported modern SSL/TLS libraries to Windows 3.1 to get it working.