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US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995211
Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.
Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995172
Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure should take action at once.
OpenAI’s GPT Store lets ChatGPT users discover popular user-made chatbot roles
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994230
Like an app store, people can find novel ChatGPT personalities—and some creators will get paid.
Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995102
Twitch reportedly still unprofitable, paid over $1 billion to streamers in 2023.
Astronomers think they finally know origin of enormous “cosmic smoke rings“
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994856
Massive stars burn out quickly. When they die, they expel their gas as outflowing winds.
Valve now allows the “vast majority” of AI-powered games on Steam
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995005
New reporting system will enforce "guardrails" for "live-generated" AI content.
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994946
Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices.
Plastic is everywhere, including our food and bottled water
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994953
Microplastics in our steak and tofu are washed down with nanoplastics from bottled water.
Daily Telescope: A galactic neighborhood that isn’t
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994872
Hubble's still got it.
Ars readers gave nearly $40,000 in our 2023 Charity Drive
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994837
Ars' total charity haul since 2007 now tops $506,000.
Canada vows to defend its drug supply against Florida importation plan
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994816
Canada adds that importing its drugs will not solve America's drug pricing problems.
Full trailer for 3 Body Problem captures epic scope of Liu Cixin’s novel
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994542
"They are coming. And there's nothing you can do to stop them."
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994654
FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.
Nvidia’s G-Sync Pulsar is anti-blur monitor tech aimed squarely at your eyeball
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994572
Branded monitors can sync pixels to backlighting, refresh rate, and GPU frames.
Unity lays off an additional 25 percent of its staffers
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994602
1,800 newly announced job cuts come on top of 1,300 layoffs since mid-2022.
Diesel enginemaker agrees to nearly $2 billion in fines with feds and California
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995218
More than 600,000 Ram trucks have Cummins engines with software defeat devices.
Detachable Lenovo laptop is two separate computers, runs Windows and Android
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1995067
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid combines the best (?) of both worlds.
Portable monitors could make foldable-screen gadgets finally make sense
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994880
Opinion: I'd rather have my secondary, portable screen fold than my phone or PC.
After its impressive first flight, here’s what’s next for the Vulcan rocket
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994949
"We anticipate some movements in the manifest."
SEC says X account was hacked as false post causes bitcoin price swings
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994996
X says hacker had control over phone number associated with SEC account.
Tesla’s revamped Model 3 sedan has now gone on sale in the US
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994985
The midlife upgrade was available in China and Europe last year.
This tiny EV crossover from VinFast will go on sale in the US
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994957
The diminutive and blocky VF3 costs just $12,200 in Vietnam.
Kids start paying attention to accuracy at about age four
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994950
Early on, they're likely to trust humans; a bit later, performance matters more.
The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994500
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
Facebook, Instagram block teens from sensitive content, even from friends
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994843
Meta hiding harmful content from teens isn’t enough, whistleblower says.
Quantum computing startup says it will beat IBM to error correction
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994815
Company builds on recent demonstration of error-tracking in similar hardware.
These are Honda’s concepts for its new family of EVs due in 2026
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994633
A production car based on the Saloon should go on sale in the US in two years.
First results are in: 2023 temperatures were stunningly warm
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994660
In the second half of the year, every month set a record.
Chromium found in lead-tainted fruit pouches may explain contamination
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994603
Lead chromate, an artificial coloring, has been used in other spices to conceal poor quality.
Seeking another Earth? Look for low carbon dioxide
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994585
In our own Solar System, Earth has far lower CO2 concentrations than its neighbors.