Europe’s Euclid telescope launched to study the dark Universe (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX is filling in for ESA as European rockets face delays.
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.
Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO (arstechnica.com)
"Edit: Obligatory 'F--- Spez' for karma."
Steam might let you hide those embarrassing games in your profile soon (arstechnica.com)
"Mark as Private" would let players of… certain games keep them off timelines.
Starfield leaker arrested for felony theft after attempting to sell early copies (arstechnica.com)
Mercari listings for Xbox Starfield discs sold for $200 and up.
Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge (arstechnica.com)
Restrictions don't apply to current OpenAI models, but will affect future versions.
Banks fined $549M after senior execs found secretly texting on Signal, WhatsApp (arstechnica.com)
Banks have been fined more than $2.5 billion for violating record-keeping laws.
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
Let the Xbox team take you inside your worn (or tossed) Xbox controller.
End of the line for Russia and Ukraine’s partnership in rocketry (arstechnica.com)
A last gasp in a long-standing link between Russia and Ukraine in the field of rocketry could come this week in an unlikely place—the rural wetlands of eastern Virginia—halfway around the world from the battlefields where the nations' military forces are locked in a deadly conflict....
NASA temporarily loses contact with V'ger (arstechnica.com)
The Voyagers were launched nearly half a century ago.
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.
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.
Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls (arstechnica.com)
Google says it's working on a fix, but as usual, manufacturers will need to update.
FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal (arstechnica.com)
"Microsoft's actions following... acquisition of ZeniMax speak louder than... words."
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...
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.
Why don’t EVs have standard diagnostic ports—and when will that change? (arstechnica.com)
OBD-II was implemented to monitor emissions, but EVs don't have tailpipes.
Neptune-sized exoplanet is too big for its host star (arstechnica.com)
Stars this small shouldn't make planets this big.
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data (arstechnica.com)
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Facebook owner challenges FTC authority.
New type of geothermal power plant powers data centers in the desert (arstechnica.com)
Pilot plant in Nevada uses tech from fracking to generate power in arid landscape.
Baldur’s Gate 3 bug caused by game’s endless mulling of evil deeds (arstechnica.com)
"Unnoticed and eternally active acts of theft and violence" to be fixed soon.
