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Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica · 05/21/2024 10:13 EDT

Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear. Read more ›

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Municipal broadband advocates fight off attacks from “dark money” groups

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 05/21/2024 09:37 EDT

"Social welfare" groups spread industry talking points against public broadband. Read more ›

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Big AI companies sign safety pledge

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Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 05/21/2024 09:12 EDT

Promise not to deploy AIs if severe risks cannot be addressed and mitigated. Read more ›

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Daily Telescope: Black holes have been merging for a long, long time

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 05/21/2024 07:00 EDT

Webb wows us again. Read more ›

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23-year-old man accused of running $100 million online narcotics marketplace

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 20:28 EDT

The dark web's Incognito Market allowed people to buy and sell narcotics worldwide. Read more ›

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Scarlett Johansson says Altman insinuated that AI soundalike was intentional

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 18:45 EDT

OpenAI pauses use of "Sky" voice after threat of legal action. Read more ›

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Does anyone really need a 1,000 Hz gaming display?

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 18:13 EDT

TCL's ultra-fast 4K LCD prototype has us musing about diminishing smoothness returns. Read more ›

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Single brain implant gives paralyzed man bilingual communication

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 17:50 EDT

Tracking syllables of words lets English and Spanish training assist each other. Read more ›

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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 17:43 EDT

Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds." Read more ›

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New Arm-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop aim directly at Apple Silicon Macs

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 17:09 EDT

Microsoft's first "Copilot+ PCs" aim for the MacBook Air; neither is fanless. Read more ›

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OpenAI on the defensive after multiple PR setbacks in one week

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 16:51 EDT

Sexy voices, departing employees, and NDA rumors have challenged the AI company. Read more ›

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iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1 fix a nasty bug that resurfaced old photos

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 16:28 EDT

Bug was discovered by Redditors and forum users a few days ago. Read more ›

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Judge: Craig Wright forged documents on “grand scale” to support bitcoin lie

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 16:23 EDT

Wright "lied repeatedly and extensively" in response to forgery allegations. Read more ›

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You can now buy a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot for $16K

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 16:17 EDT

No one is quite sure what you're supposed to do with the robot, but you can buy one. Read more ›

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HP resurrects ’90s OmniBook branding, kills Spectre, Dragonfly

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 16:05 EDT

Most new HP laptops will be an OmniBook, ProBook, or EliteBook. Read more ›

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M4 iPad Pro teardown finds easier-to-access battery, glimpses of Tandem OLED design

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 15:35 EDT

Straightforward tablet teardown is followed by a comically difficult Pencil one. Read more ›

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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 15:00 EDT

Prism layer is one of several under-the-hood overhauls in Windows 11 24H2. Read more ›

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Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 15:00 EDT

Microsoft demands an NPU capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second. Read more ›

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It’s not “Windows 12”: Microsoft keeps Windows 11 branding despite major changes

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 15:00 EDT

24H2 update comes with new compiler, kernel, and scheduler, among other changes. Read more ›

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Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 05/20/2024 14:48 EDT

Algorithm tweaks made up for the loss, and Neuralink thinks it has fix for next patient. Read more ›

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