TikTok spied on me. Why? (arstechnica.com)
A Financial Times journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok.
Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System (arstechnica.com)
IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions (arstechnica.com)
F1 wants to ban tire heaters—here’s why that’s a good idea (arstechnica.com)
An Ominous Heating Event is Unfolding in the Oceans (arstechnica.com)
Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs and stayed there. To call what’s happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs...
Old smartphones should be usable as single-board computers, just as this one is (arstechnica.com)
Old smartphones should be usable as single-board computers, just as this one is (arstechnica.com)
Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed (arstechnica.com)
Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed (arstechnica.com)
FBI and others urge Facebook parent Meta to halt encryption plans, citing child abuse risk (arstechnica.com)
The Virtual Global Taskforce, a consortium of 15 law enforcement agencies focusing specifically on child sexual abuse, says that end-to-end encryption is a "purposeful design choice that degrades safety systems and weakens the ability to keep child users safe." Members include FBI and ICE Homeland Security Investigations from...
"In supposedly gauging what the 'ecosystem' wants, all Google is really doing is asking itself what Google wants." (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia’s GameStream is dead. Sunshine and Moonlight are great replacements. (arstechnica.com)
Hackers aligned with Russia and Belarus target officials in US and Europe who support Ukraine (arstechnica.com)
The campaign uses malicious JavaScript that’s customized for individual webmail portals belonging to various NATO-aligned organizations, researchers from security firm Proofpoint said.
Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales (arstechnica.com)
Behold the Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon (arstechnica.com)
National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science (arstechnica.com)
With the advent of genomic studies, it’s become ever more clear that humanity’s genetic history is one of churn.
Will Reddit bow down? Marvel angry about Ant-Man dialogue leak, demands names of Reddit and Google users (arstechnica.com)
This may be the canary that shows if reddit has the strength, or not.
System Shock gets May 30 PC release date. (arstechnica.com)
Fond memories of the original. Happy to see it might be finally out there.
Valve used secret memory access “honeypot” to detect 40K Dota 2 cheaters (arstechnica.com)
Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein (arstechnica.com)
Engineers re-created one of Leonardo’s experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus,...
Dwarf planet hosts a ring that’s unexpectedly far from the planet (arstechnica.com)
Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB (arstechnica.com)
We can take a few guesses as to why things are so big. First, Samsung is notorious for having a shoddy software division that pumps out low-quality code. The company tends to change everything in Android just for change's sake, and it's hard to imagine those changes are very good....
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances (arstechnica.com)
The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates (arstechnica.com)
D&D maker still wants to revoke earlier versions of “open” gaming license (arstechnica.com)
