An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no plans to mine Psyche, such asteroids are being eyed for their valuable resources. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU...
Fortnite will return to iOS as court slams Apple’s “interference“ and ”cover-up“
In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, “We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court’s order and we will appeal.” An Epic...
If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now
Color E Ink in its current state requires a whole lot of compromises, as we’ve found when reviewing devices like reMarkable’s Paper Pro or Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, including washed-out color,...
DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people
A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however,...
Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering
Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that...
Research roundup: Tattooed tardigrades and splash-free urinals
April is the cruelest month Also: The first live footage of a colossal baby squid; digitally unfolding an early medieval manuscript. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute It’s a regrettable reality that...
Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search
The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google’s search remedy trial earlier this week, giving Google a chance to push back on the government’s attempt to break up...
Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
The ability to use a revoked password to log in through RDP occurs when a Windows machine that’s signed in with a Microsoft or Azure account is configured to enable...
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a news conference...
Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi
Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have microphones and could be turned into listening devices for espionage. The researchers did not go so far as to create...
GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback
Whoops. Sorry everyone. Rolling back to a previous version. Here’s where we are at this point, now that GPT-4o is no longer an absurd sycophant. For now. GPT-4o Is Was...
The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4
One of the most influential—and by some counts, notorious—AI models yet released will soon fade into history. OpenAI announced on April 10 that GPT-4 will be “fully replaced” by GPT-4o...
Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates
The ’90s called. They want their flawed age verification methods back. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Back in the mid-1990s, when The Net...
Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance
Intel’s oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They’re Intel’s only processors with memory integrated...
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess
In search of good vibes OpenAI, along with competitors like Google and Anthropic, is trying to build chatbots that people want to chat with. So, designing the model’s apparent personality...
Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained
But what does “meaning” mean? A partial defense of (some of) AI Overview’s fanciful idiomatic explanations. Mind…. blown Credit: Getty Images Last week, the phrase “You can’t lick a badger...
FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines
FCC fights the 5th Circuit One court said FCC violated right to trial, but other courts haven’t ruled yet. Credit: Getty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin The Federal Communications Commission is urging...
Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen
The rocket’s first stage may have exploded moments after it separated from the upper stage. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket on its launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit:...
Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites
This morning, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was considering listing the cost of tariffs as a separate line item on its site, citing “a person familiar with the plan.” Amazon...
Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit
Montana Environmental Policy Act Republican backlash could lead to changes in Montana’s courts and environmental laws. Supporters gather at a theater next to the court house to watch the court...