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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game https://arstechni.ca... #TheColonel'sBequest #point-and-click #robertawilliams #adventuregames #C:\ArsGames #Shopping #Gaming #MS-DOS #Sierra #DOS #gog

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed https://arstechni.ca... #education #highered #Culture #Trump

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too https://arstechni.ca... #bacterialvaginosis #microbiota #dysbiosis #partners #Health #ACOG

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement https://arstechni.ca... #smarthome #privacy #Amazon #Tech #ring

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids https://arstechni.ca... #children'sbooks #medicalhistory #medicine #Culture #Science #books

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime” https://arstechni.ca... #FirstAmendment #1stAmendment #freespeech #Policy #texas

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear https://arstechni.ca... #AI-generatedimages #nudifyapps #fakenudes #Policy #csam #ncii #AI

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad https://arstechni.ca... #vehicleassemblybuilding #KennedySpaceCenter #spacelaunchsystem #humanspaceflight #LockheedMartin #artemisII #Science #artemis #launch #Space #orion #moon #NASA

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability https://arstechni.ca... #harddiskdrive #harddrives #Backblaze #harddrive #Tech #hdds #hdd

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution https://arstechni.ca... #paleoanthropology #australopithecus #leadpoisoning #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #hominins #Science

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Apple pays $750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage https://arstechni.ca... #Formula1 #AppleTV #Cars

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963 https://arstechni.ca... #Porsche963 #Racing #Cars

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 1d

Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans https://arstechni.ca... #AI-generatedlessonplans #syndication #education #teachers #AI

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship https://arstechni.ca... #rocketreport #Space

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to https://arstechni.ca... #enshittification #onlineculture #CoryDoctorow #Features #Culture #books #Tech

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again https://arstechni.ca... #Health

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Microsoft’s vision for AI PCs looks a lot like another crack at Cortana https://arstechni.ca... #windows1124h2 #windows1125h2 #microsoft #windows11 #copilot #Tech

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in. https://arstechni.ca... #largelanguagemodels #AIinfrastructure #Powerconsumption #financiallosses #machinelearning #venturecapital #generativeai #AIcriticism #AIeconomics #BenjEdwards #datacenters #samaltman #AIagents #Cerebras…

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration https://arstechni.ca... #ArtificialIntelligence #smartphones #OnePlus #Google #gemini #Tech #AI

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren’t “innocent grandmothers” https://arstechni.ca... #recordlabels #SupremeCourt #Policy #piracy #Cox

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Apple TV and Peacock bundle starts at $15/month, available on Oct. 20 https://arstechni.ca... #nbcuniversal #AppleTVPlus #streaming #AppleTV #peacock #apple #Tech

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code https://arstechni.ca... #disagreement #developers #idSoftware #opensource #civilwar #Gaming #gzdoom #Doom #AI

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Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to https://arstechni.ca... #Vandenbergspaceforcebase #Commercialspace #militaryspace #falconheavy #spaceforce #Science #falcon9 #launch #spacex #Space #slc-6

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 2d

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good https://arstechni.ca... #climatechange #globalwarming #syndication #Antarctica #glaciers #Science

Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca · 3d

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews https://arstechni.ca... #retrievalaugmentedgeneration #MatthewPrince #searchengines #webcrawlers #cloudflare #robots.txt #Features #Google #google #media #Tech #RAG #AI