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The PS5 Pro brings the game console’s disc drive era to an end
Enlarge / Notice anything missing from the one and only model of the PS5 Pro? (credit: Sony) Here at Ars, we’ve been publicly musing about whether the world was ready for a disc-free game console...
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Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse
Enlarge / The moai of Rapa Nui. (credit: Don Farrall) Rapa Nui, often referred to as Easter Island, is one of the most remote populated islands in the world. It’s so distant that Europeans didn’t...
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Google’s ad tech empire may be $95B and “too big” to sell, analysts warn DOJ
Enlarge / A staffer with the Paul, Weiss legal firm wheels boxes of legal documents into the Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse at the start of a Department of Justice antitrust trial against Google over...
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Windows 10’s Start menu design is changing to make room for Microsoft 365
Windows 10 is supposed to be on the back burner, but that’s no longer the case. Over the past few months, Microsoft has added new stuff to Windows 10. For example, an update in early 2024 added...
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Six months later, Intel is still waiting for Chips Act disbursement
Intel is on track to receive $8.5 billion in grants as well as $11 billion in low-interest loans through the government program. The funding is contingent upon meeting specific milestones and will come...
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Lawmakers ask FTC to determine if AI generated article summaries are...
Several Senate Democrats have urged the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to examine whether AI-powered features like Google’s AI Overviews violate antitrust laws. The coalition, led by...
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Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
Enlarge / A Waymo vehicle in San Francisco. (credit: Photo by JasonDoiy via Getty Images) On a Friday evening last November, police chased a silver sedan across the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The...
View ArticleJUPITER Exascale Supercomputer Starts Installation
The JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer is starting its modular data center installation for the 24000 NVIDIA GH200 European supercomputer The post JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer Starts Installation...
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Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris
Enlarge / A screenshot of Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris Instagram post, captured on September 11, 2024. (credit: Taylor Swift / Instagram) On Tuesday night, Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala...
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In abortion ban states, sterilization spiked after Dobbs and kept climbing
Enlarge / A woman holds a placard saying “No Forced Births” as abortion rights activists gather at the Monroe County Courthouse for a protest vigil a few hours before Indianas near total abortion ban...
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“Face with bags under eyes” sets the tone for new Unicode 16.0 emoji update
Enlarge / Emojipedia sample images of the new Unicode 16.0 emoji. (credit: Emojipedia) The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character...
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OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini
Enlarge (credit: Vlatko Gasparic via Getty Images) OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls “reasoning” and...
View Article2025 ZettaFLOPS Scale Compute as Oracle Looks to Operate Hundreds of...
Oracle is looking to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs as it scales its AI infrastructure to a ZettaFLOPS scale in 2025 The post 2025 ZettaFLOPS Scale Compute as Oracle Looks to Operate...
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iFixit reinvents the soldering iron with portable, battery-powered FixHub
The FixHub portable soldering station is exactly what you think it is: a battery-powered, portable soldering kit. The 55 watt-hour hub can provide up to eight hours of soldering without recharging, and...
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Ransomware victim paid hacker, but decryption failed
GuidePoint Security recently acted as a “negotiator” between an unnamed company and the group behind the Hazard ransomware. The malware infected the victim’s systems, encrypting “important” files and...
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Unity is dropping its unpopular per-install Runtime Fee
Enlarge (credit: Unity) Unity, maker of a popular cross-platform engine and toolkit, will not pursue a broadly unpopular Runtime Fee that would have charged developers based on game installs rather...
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Microsoft’s Activision buyout forces elimination of another 650 gaming...
The Verge obtained an internal memo penned by Xbox head Phil Spencer stating that the company is eliminating 650 positions. He noted that these cuts directly relate to Microsoft’s post-acquisition...
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This $2,200 8 TB SSD supports USB 4, active cooling, passkeys, an e-ink...
Pre-orders are now open for Iodyne’s Pro Mini portable SSD, shipping in the first quarter of 2025. The ultra-high-end drive includes an astounding combination of functions that users probably won’t...
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Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data
Enlarge / Harvard Business School was targeted by a faculty member’s lawsuit. (credit: APCortizasJr) Earlier this year, we got a look at something unusual: the results of an internal investigation...
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Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
Enlarge / The Ig Nobel Prizes honor “achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.” (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Curiosity is the driving force behind all science,...
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