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Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”

Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 14:21 EDT

Publishers sue Cohere, say AI firm is "stealing our works." Read more ›

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Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites digging in her brain

Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 14:06 EDT

After three trips to the ER, woman gets diagnosis of dreaded rat lungworm. Read more ›

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Apple teases launch for “the newest member of the family” on February 19

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 13:12 EDT

Most likely to be a new entry-level iPhone, but there are a few possibilities. Read more ›

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Wheel of Time S3 trailer tees us up for Last Battle

Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 13:02 EDT

“There’s not enough ale in the world to deal with this.” Read more ›

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Over half of LLM-written news summaries have “significant issues”—BBC analysis

Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 12:30 EDT

Frequent problems include mangled quotes, editorializing, and outdated info. Read more ›

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“A sicker America”: Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary

Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/13/2025 11:31 EDT

In Senate hearings, Kennedy continued to express anti-vaccine views. Read more ›

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Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 11:08 EDT

GPT-4.5 will arrive in "weeks," then GPT-5 will meld conventional LLMs and reasoning models. Read more ›

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Citing too much “bureaucracy,” Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce

Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 10:41 EDT

"We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years." Read more ›

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The Honda-Nissan merger is dead

Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 09:10 EDT

Always more of a takeover than a merger, they agreed to call the whole thing off. Read more ›

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Avowed review: Wait, are we the baddies?

Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 09:00 EDT

Obsidian's new fantasy RPG asks you to be the unwelcome face of a hated occupying force. Read more ›

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Financially motivated hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa

Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 06:00 EDT

Two players who mostly worked independently are increasingly collaborative. Read more ›

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From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion

Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 16:44 EDT

The implosion took milliseconds, but its echoes lasted far longer. Read more ›

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“Largest data breach in US history”: Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE

Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 16:31 EDT

DOGE and Musk face three more lawsuits over "brazen ransacking" of private data. Read more ›

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Nine unvaccinated people hospitalized as Texas measles outbreak doubles

Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 15:13 EDT

All 24 cases are in unvaccinated people, 22 of which are under age 17. Read more ›

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Apple TV+ crosses enemy lines, will be available as an Android app starting today

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 15:00 EDT

Apple TV+ app on Android will work mostly as it does on any other device. Read more ›

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Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim

Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 14:21 EDT

He now faces four years in federal prison. Read more ›

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Most energetic neutrino yet seen smashes through seafloor detector

John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 12:25 EDT

Neutrino was over 10,000 times over the limits of our best particle accelerator. Read more ›

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Apple now lets you move purchases between your 25 years of accounts

Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 11:50 EDT

Now we can all bring that mandatory U2 album back into our main libraries. Read more ›

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Queer-friendly data on car crash deaths removed from NHTSA website

Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 11:34 EDT

Trump targeting car crash data sparks concerns over datasets collected since 1975. Read more ›

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Common factors link rise in pedestrian deaths—fixing them will be tough

Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 02/12/2025 11:06 EDT

A new AAA study finds common factors in the rise of fatal pedestrian crashes. Read more ›