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Ars Technica
12 october
21h54
39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
Beth Mole
As of Friday, state health officials reported 1,136 cases across 41 counties.
20h59
Epic Games reportedly pivoting to AI first game development model
Kyle Orland
No more hand-written code or AI-free art for delayed Marvel Star Wars shooter.
20h26
After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man’s Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
Samuel Axon
You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later.
18h46
WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights key uncertainty
Beth Mole
Without a cause of death, it’s unclear if Russia’s precautions were the right ones.
18h21
Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
Jon Brodkin
I may have information regarding this case, Claude AI told Philly police.
17h52
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Jeremy Hsu
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
16h01
Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
Kyle Orland
Kojima’s discontinued playable trailer is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.
14h43
F1 in Singapore: There’s a new fastest car now
Jonathan M. Gitlin
Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
13h00
Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
Ryan Whitwam
The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it’s not a real smartwatch.
12h43
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Jeremy Hsu
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
11 october
18h10
Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
Jennifer Ouellette
Alex Gibney’s provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there’s not much new here for Ars readers.
14h50
Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
Jennifer Ouellette
Also: New trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One.
10 october
11h15
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Jacek Krywko
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
09 october
22h34
Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Jacek Krywko
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
22h04
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to Russia’s Google
Jeremy Hsu
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
21h51
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 obsolete Mac Minis
Nick Indge
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain’s Museo de Historia de la Computación.
21h34
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
Eric Berger
We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low-Earth orbit.
21h05
What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains?
John Timmer
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
19h43
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Kyle Orland
Study finds coding efficiency gains get absorbed by human review bottleneck.
19h27
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund unethical vaccine trial
Beth Mole
CDC allocated 1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
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