Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was. Things only got weirder from there. The organism’s distinctive, glowing presence was observed by multiple deep-sea […]
December 2, 2024 | Biology, marine biology, phylogenetic, Science, Weird | No comments
Finally, the researchers started analyzing the data to answer questions like whether misinformation sources evoke more outrage, whether outrageous news was shared more often than non-outrageous news, and finally, what reasons people had for sharing outrageous content. And that’s when the idealized picture of honest, truthful citizens who shared misinformation just because they were too […]
December 2, 2024 | Behavioral science, Human behavior, misinformation, rage clicks, Science, social media | No comments
OpenAI provided a statement to Ars today saying that “Elon’s fourth attempt, which again recycles the same baseless complaints, continues to be utterly without merit.” OpenAI referred to a longer statement that it made in March after Musk filed an earlier version of his lawsuit. The March statement disputes Musk’s version of events. “In late […]
December 2, 2024 | AI, Elon Musk, openai, Policy | No comments
But while Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that these new curbs would help prevent “China from advancing its domestic semiconductor manufacturing system” to modernize its military, analysts and “several US officials” told The Post that they pack “far less punch” than the prior two rounds of export controls. Analysts told The Wall Street Journal that […]
December 2, 2024 | AI chips, applied materials, Chips Act, kla, lam research, Policy, Samsung, semiconductor, us-china trade war | No comments
These startups operate with the blessing of China’s government and, in many cases, got their start by utilizing surplus military equipment and investment from Chinese local or provincial governments. However, the Chinese Communist Party has allowed them to raise capital from private sources, and they operate on a commercial basis, almost exclusively to serve domestic […]
December 2, 2024 | china, launch, long march, long march 12, moon, Science, Space | No comments
Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. Now we have an inside look at one of the larger customers that recently made the move. According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the […]
December 2, 2024 | Biz & IT, Broadcom, open source, vmware | No comments
When an updated, remastered, or otherwise spiffed-up version of a game is released, nobody—not long-time fans, not archivists, not anybody, really—ever asks for the original version of that game to be taken down. Does this seem to stop game studios from committing this unforced public relations error? Absolutely not. Blizzard, a company that has recently […]
December 2, 2024 | Blizzard, DRM, DRM-free, game preservation, Gaming, gog, video game preservation, Warcraft, warcraft 3, warcraft 3 reforged, warcraft II, Warcraft III | No comments
Volkswagen workers in Germany have gone on strike today in the largest industrial action taken against the company since 2018. The union IG Metall, which represents about 120,000 VW workers, voted to approve the strike on November 22, describing the situation as “the toughest collective bargaining battle Volkswagen has ever seen.” IG Metall’s members are striking […]
December 2, 2024 | Cars, Volkswagen | No comments
Sony Picture’s Kraven the Hunter explores origins of titular villain. Hollywood is coming off a record-breaking Thanksgiving weekend, thanks to the winning trifecta of Moana 2, Gladiator II, and Wicked Part 1. Can other upcoming releases ride that wave? Perhaps that’s why Sony Pictures just released the first eight minutes of its much-delayed Kraven the […]
December 2, 2024 | Culture, entertainment, film trailers, Kraven the Hunter, Sony Pictures, Trailers | No comments
That is a meaningful number, because over the course of the three decades it flew into orbit, NASA’s Space Shuttle flew 135 missions. The space shuttle was a significantly more complex vehicle, and unlike the Falcon 9 rocket, humans flew aboard it during every mission. However, there is some historical significance in the fact that […]
December 2, 2024 | falcon 9, Science, Space, spacex | No comments