NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover (arstechnica.com)
VIPER is NASA’s first rover that needs headlights.
“Church of Bleach” family goes to trial, representing themselves in court (arstechnica.com)
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues (arstechnica.com)
GPT-4's image capabilities can recognize certain individuals, according to NYT.
Exploring the ingenious science and science fiction of making things invisible (arstechnica.com)
Greg Gbur chats about his book Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to be Seen.
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week (arstechnica.com)
It's hard to say exactly what is getting deleted, but it's easy to download.
PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week (arstechnica.com)
It’s hard to say exactly what is getting deleted, but it’s easy to download.
Exploring the ingenious science and science fiction of making things invisible (arstechnica.com)
AT&T and Verizon’s ancient lead cables have US lawmakers demanding action (arstechnica.com)
The WSJ reported, “For many years, telecom companies have known about the lead-covered cables and the potential risks of exposure to their workers, according to documents and interviews with former employees. They were also aware that lead was potentially leaching into the environment, but haven’t meaningfully acted on...
How long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hints (arstechnica.com)
Nearly 20 years of data show how Intel Macs are faring as Apple switches chips.
[Ars Technica] Viasat’s new broadband satellite could be a total loss (arstechnica.com)
AT&T and Verizon’s ancient lead cables have US lawmakers demanding action (arstechnica.com)
So long, Calibri: Microsoft has settled on a new font for its Office apps (arstechnica.com)
How a cloud flaw gave Chinese spies a key to Microsoft’s kingdom (arstechnica.com)
Hackers stole a cryptographic key that let them forge user identities and slip past defenses.
Apple introduces offline Maps—but how does it compare with Google Maps? (arstechnica.com)
Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb (arstechnica.com)
Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30% (arstechnica.com)
Congested transmission lines cause renewable power to go to waste in Texas (arstechnica.com)
People were making tools in Oregon, USA at least 18,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
These are the oldest stone tools ever found in the United States...
Probing the mysteries of neutron stars with a surprising earthly analog: Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe. (arstechnica.com)
[…]to accurately interpret some of the neutron stars’ signals, researchers must first understand what goes on inside them. They have their hunches, but experimenting directly on a neutron star is out of the question. So scientists need another way to test their theories. The behavior of matter in such a superdense object is...
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking (arstechnica.com) Japanese
Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.
How Threads privacy policy compares to Twitters (arstechnica.com)
I like how they list if a site is part of the fedivers or not.
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit (arstechnica.com)
