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YouTube fixes glitch that wrongly removed accounts, deleted videos

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/04/2024 16:35 EDT

YouTube confirmed all channels back online after mistaken removals. Read more ›

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How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica 2 place · 10/04/2024 16:29 EDT

New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread. Read more ›

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Halls of Torment is Diablo cranked up to 50,000 kills/hour

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 16:20 EDT

Sometimes, you just want to kill a whole lot of skeletons as fast as possible. Read more ›

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No more bricked iPads: Apple fixes several bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS updates

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/04/2024 16:11 EDT

Apple claims it fixed a critical bug that bricked M4 iPads. Read more ›

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ULA’s second Vulcan rocket lost part of its booster and kept going

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 16:08 EDT

The US Space Force says this test flight was critical for certifying Vulcan for military missions. Read more ›

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OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/04/2024 15:55 EDT

New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic's Artifacts. Read more ›

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Fraudsters faked out Apple with bogus iPhones in $2.5M repair scam

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 15:45 EDT

Repair scheme got Apple to replace 6K fake iPhones with real ones. Read more ›

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The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica 2 place · 10/04/2024 15:39 EDT

Human feedback training may incentivize providing any answer—even wrong ones. Read more ›

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Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 14:52 EDT

Copilot key becomes a "whatever" key in latest Windows Insider Preview build. Read more ›

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Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 14:42 EDT

A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inevitable. Read more ›

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New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought

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Elizabeth Rayne @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 14:30 EDT

Earth's Kuiper Belt appears to be substantially larger than we thought. Read more ›

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X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 2 place · 10/04/2024 13:19 EDT

Elon Musk merging Twitter into X didn't absolve X from child safety fine. Read more ›

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Google as Darth Vader: Why iA Writer quit the Android app market

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 12:03 EDT

A remarkably open farewell note from seven years of Android development. Read more ›

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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be the next Waymo robotaxi

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 11:48 EDT

The two companies say this should be the first of many collaborations. Read more ›

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Faulty Samsung update leaves owners of bricked Galaxy phones with few options

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 10:56 EDT

"I just really, really want my photos." Read more ›

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Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don’t believe

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H. Colleen Sinclair, The Conversation @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 09:53 EDT

Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Falcon 9 second stage stumbles; Japanese rocket nears the end

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 10/04/2024 07:00 EDT

"I’m pretty darn confident I’m going to have a good day on Friday." Read more ›

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Persistent, stealthy Linux malware has infected thousands since 2021

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 10/03/2024 19:42 EDT

The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight. Read more ›

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Former county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting-system breach

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 10/03/2024 18:40 EDT

Judge calls Tina Peters a charlatan, says "prison is the only place" for her. Read more ›

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As bird flu rages through California cows, possible human case identified

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 10/03/2024 17:41 EDT

If the case is confirmed by the CDC, it will be the 16th linked to the dairy outbreak. Read more ›

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