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Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs off AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 23:00 EDT

Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel. Read more ›

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Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 18:23 EDT

Researcher says Snowflake customers hit by mass scraping ... "but nobody noticed." Read more ›

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Much derided BMI is useful for assessing fat levels in kids, study suggests

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 18:02 EDT

Kids with high BMI were 29 times more likely to have high fat mass, study finds Read more ›

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PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter hits this August, with missing features

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 16:38 EDT

You can play Steam games on it, but many of the modern tricks are disabled. Read more ›

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China lands on the Moon again, taking another step toward human missions

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 15:24 EDT

The most dominant space storyline for the rest of this decade is the US-China race. Read more ›

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Daisy Ridley trained for months to play first woman to swim English Channel

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 15:10 EDT

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: "There were so many different swimming elements to the role." Read more ›

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Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 14:56 EDT

Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs. Read more ›

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Spotify’s 2nd price hike in a year raises prices in July by up to $3

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 14:52 EDT

Spotify last raised prices in July 2023. Read more ›

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Ridiculous, inventive party pack Sportsfriends is now free on PC and PlayStation

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 14:24 EDT

Couch co-op collection lets you compete on the screen and in each other's face. Read more ›

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Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 13:13 EDT

"I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024. Read more ›

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Think EVs are too expensive? Here are 11 for under $40K.

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 13:02 EDT

The average new car costs more than $47,000—here are 17 EVs for less than that. Read more ›

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Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 1 place · 06/03/2024 12:31 EDT

It remains unclear if X can detect nonconsensual sex images at scale. Read more ›

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No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 06/03/2024 07:00 EDT

New model that predicts global weather can run on a single desktop computer. Read more ›

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AMD intros Ryzen AI 300 chips with Zen 5, better GPU, and hugely improved NPU

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 06/02/2024 23:00 EDT

High-end Ryzen laptop chips combine big and little Zen cores for the first time. Read more ›

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AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9000 desktop chips and the Zen 5 architecture arrive in July

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 06/02/2024 23:00 EDT

But AMD says AM4 will hang around for budget PCs well into 2025. Read more ›

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For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 06/02/2024 23:00 EDT

AMD reverses course on “decoder ring” numbering system for laptop CPUs. Read more ›

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To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder—and the brain

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Knowable Magazine @ Ars Technica 1 place · 06/02/2024 07:27 EDT

The basic urge to pee is surprisingly complex and can go awry as we age. Read more ›

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Is a colonial-era drop in CO₂ tied to regrowing forests?

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Howard Lee @ Ars Technica 1 place · 06/02/2024 07:00 EDT

Carbon dioxide dropped after colonial contact wiped out Native Americans. Read more ›

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Boeing’s Starliner test flight scrubbed again after hold in final countdown

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica 2 place · 06/01/2024 18:47 EDT

The ground launch sequencer computer called a hold at T-minus 3 minutes, 50 seconds. Read more ›

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Here’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starship

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica 3 place · 06/01/2024 10:10 EDT

"I feel terrible making the crew members wait longer." Read more ›

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