Telltale fragments Close examination of chips, labeled according to their blue, yellow, or red color, that once belonged to art on the Berlin Wall reveals brushstrokes, multiple layers, and the pigments used. Credit: Adapted from F. Armetta et al., 2024 Nondestructive techniques like Raman spectroscopy are often used to identify the molecular signatures of pigments, […]
December 12, 2024 | art conservation, Berlin Wall, chemistry, graffiti, neural networks, Raman spectroscopy, Science, street art | No comments
Adam Steensberg, the chief executive of Danish biotech Zealand Pharma, which is developing an alternative weight loss product based on a different hormone, says “there is a duopoly already” in the GLP-1 market. Combining different drugs could be a way of expanding the effects of GLP-1s further still. Doctors such as Perkovic envisage a possible […]
December 12, 2024 | Features, GLP-1, Health, Ozempic, Science, syndication, wegovy, weight loss, weight loss drugs | No comments
YouTube TV, now one of the country’s leading cable (or cable-ish) television providers, is starting to act like it. The service told customers in an email this morning that prices are going up in the new year, from $73 per month for the Base Plan to $83 on January 13, 2025—just days after suggesting that […]
December 12, 2024 | Google, Tech, youtube TV | No comments
In recent days, there has been a smattering of coverage in state-run Russian media outlets about how the Belarusian army has developed its own satellite Internet service akin to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, called “Kulisa.” According to the TASS news service, for example, the Kulisa mobile communications technology has “already entered service and is being used […]
December 12, 2024 | Belarus, Space, starlink | No comments
Meanwhile, over about the same time period, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion deep space crew capsule, and ground support system upgrades cost nearly $50 billion before the unpiloted Artemis I mission in 2022, according to an analysis by the Planetary Society. That sum has now risen to just shy of $60 billion. The core […]
December 12, 2024 | artemis, human spaceflight, jared isaacman, moon, NASA, Science, Space, starship | No comments
DNT now more liability than help That moment, when every major browser had a Do Not Track option, was perhaps the height of DNT, and even then, there was a feeling that it could never work. Lorrie Faith Cranor, leader of the Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) that predated DNT, told Ars in 2012 that “every […]
December 12, 2024 | Tech | No comments
PHOENIX—Dodge gave its development team a relatively simple brief for the new Charger: It had to look, drive, and sound like a traditional Dodge muscle car. “If we don’t make people uncomfortable, where are we going,” asked Matt McAleer, Dodge and SRT’s CEO. And you can see what he means: customers will have a choice […]
December 12, 2024 | car review, Culture, Dodge Charger, First drive | No comments
“Microsoft assesses that Secret Blizzard either used the Amadey malware as a service (MaaS) or accessed the Amadey command-and-control (C2) panels surreptitiously to download a PowerShell dropper on target devices,” Microsoft said. “The PowerShell dropper contained a Base64-encoded Amadey payload appended by code that invoked a request to Secret Blizzard C2 infrastructure.” The ultimate objective […]
December 11, 2024 | backdoors, Biz & IT, nation state hacking, phishing, Security, turla | No comments
The macOS 15.2 update that was released earlier today came with a handful of new features, plus something unexpected: an apparently accidental reference to the upcoming M4 MacBook Airs. MacRumors reports that the “Mac16,12” and “Mac16,13” model identifiers reference 13- and 15-inch models of the M4 Air and that both are coming in 2025. That […]
December 11, 2024 | Apple, apple m4, MacBook Air, Tech | No comments
Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users’ photos—including biometric identifiers like face and iris scans—to companies training generative AI models. The proposed class action seeks to stop Photobucket from selling users’ data without first obtaining written consent, alleging that Photobucket either intentionally or negligently failed to comply […]
December 11, 2024 | biometric data, biometric information privacy act, generative ai, Illinois, myspace, photobucket, Policy | No comments