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.
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
Almost-unbeatable AI is now a permanent feature of Gran Turismo 7 (arstechnica.com)
The contradiction of environmentally sustainable supercar manufacturing (arstechnica.com)
Android 14’s user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware (arstechnica.com)
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Canada’s 84-year radio time check has stopped because of accuracy concerns | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability (arstechnica.com)
Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations (arstechnica.com)
Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in climate predictions....