Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot (arstechnica.com)
[Ars Technica] - Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (arstechnica.com)
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand (arstechnica.com)
“Now that we’ve killed your industry, it’s time to move on.”...
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
AT&T says lead cables in Lake Tahoe “pose no danger” and should stay in place (arstechnica.com)
AT&T's legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM J1839–10, behaves a bit like a pulsar, sending out regular bursts of radio energy. But the physics that drives pulsars means that they’d stop emitting if they slowed down too much, and almost every pulsar we know of blinks at...
Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access (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.
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Antitrust enforcers released a draft update outlining new rules today that officials say will make it easier to crack down on mergers and acquisitions that could substantially lessen competition in the US.
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
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.
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (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.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (arstechnica.com)
[Ars Technica] "Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon" (arstechnica.com)
Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies....
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.
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.
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay “grossly exceeds” corporate norms.
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday and sank another 6.7% today (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars.
