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)
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)
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science (arstechnica.com)
Designed to study Pluto, the spacecraft’s instruments are being repurposed.
ULA chief says Vulcan rocket will slip to 2024 after ground system issues (arstechnica.com)
Bruno made the announcement after the company attempted to complete a fueling test of the entire rocket, known as a wet dress rehearsal....
Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes (arstechnica.com)
Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated (arstechnica.com)
Google takes heat for a misleading AI demo video that hyped up its GPT-4 competitor.
Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits (arstechnica.com)
QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits.
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
A little more than three months ago the Indian space agency, ISRO, achieved a major success by putting its Vikram lander safely down on the surface of the Moon. In doing so India became the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and this further ignited the country’s interest in space exploration....
IBM releases 1,000+ qubit processor, roadmap to error correction (arstechnica.com)
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study (arstechnica.com)
AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.
25M homes will lose broadband discounts if Congress keeps stalling, FCC warns (arstechnica.com)
