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The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US

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Enlarge / 2023 marked the first sighting of a yellow-legged hornet in the United States, sparking fears that it may spread and devastate honeybees as it has in parts of Europe. (credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images ) In early August 2023, a beekeeper near the port of Savannah, Georgia, noticed some odd activity around his hives. Something was hunting his honeybees. It was a flying insect big

Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers

Google launches AI-powered ad updates

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Enlarge / This is fine. (credit: Getty Images) If you use Google regularly, you may have noticed the company's new AI Overviews providing summarized answers to some of your questions in recent days. If you use social media regularly, you may have come across many examples of those AI Overviews being hilariously or even dangerously wrong . Factual errors can pop up in existing LLM chatbots as well

“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods

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Enlarge (credit: monticelllo/Getty ) When the Brazilian nutritional scientist Carlos Monteiro coined the term “ultra-processed foods” 15 years ago, he established what he calls a “new paradigm” for assessing the impact of diet on health. Monteiro had noticed that although Brazilian households were spending less on sugar and oil, obesity rates were going up. The paradox could be explained by incre

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NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1

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Enlarge / Boeing's Starliner spacecraft atop its Atlas V rocket on the launch pad earlier this month. (credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky ) Senior managers from NASA and Boeing told reporters on Friday that they plan to launch the first crew test flight of the Starliner spacecraft as soon as June 1, following several weeks of detailed analysis of a helium leak and a "design vulnerability" with the ship's p

Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

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Ransomware exploits BitLocker encryption

A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating system. BitLocker is a full-volume encryptor that debuted in 2007 with the release of Windows Vista. Users employ it to encrypt entire hard drives to prevent people from reading or modifying data in the event they get physical access to the disk. Startin

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to build their own broadband networks. The state-imposed restrictions were repealed in an omnibus commerce policy bill signed on Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat. Minnesota was previously one of about 20 states that imposed significant restrictions on municipal broa

SpaceX sets date for next Starship flight, explains what went wrong the last time

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Enlarge / SpaceX's Starship vehicle undergoes a wet dress rehearsal prior to its fourth launch attempt. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is targeting June 5 for the next flight of its massive Starship rocket, the company said Friday. The highly anticipated test flight— the fourth in a program to bring Starship to operational readiness and make progress toward its eventual reuse—will seek to demonstrate th

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

Google launches AI-powered ad updates

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Enlarge / The now normal "AI" results versus the old school "Web" results. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Google) If you're tired of Google's AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of. Google has been telling people its AI box at the top of search results is the future , and you can't turn it off, but that ignores

Biden’s new import rules will hit e-bike batteries too

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Enlarge (credit: RyanLJane via Getty ) Last week, the Biden administration announced it would levy dramatic new tariffs on electric vehicles , electric vehicle batteries, and battery components imported into the United States from China. The move kicked off another round of global debate on how best to push the transportation industry toward an emissions-free future, and how global automotive man

After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

Raw milk with bird flu

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Enlarge / Fresh raw milk being poured into a container on a dairy farm on July 29, 2023, in De Lutte, Netherlands. (credit: Getty | Pierre Crom ) Despite the delusions of the raw milk crowd, drinking unpasteurized milk brimming with infectious avian H5N1 influenza virus is a very bad idea, according to freshly squeezed data published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine . Researchers at

Apple clarifies iOS 17.5 bug that exposed deleted photos

iOS 17.5 glitch resurfaces deleted photos

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Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) On May 20, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to fix a bug users had found a few days prior in iOS 17.5 that resurfaced old photos that had been previously deleted. So far, the update seems to have resolved the issue, but users were left wondering exactly what had happened. Now Apple has clarified the issue somewhat, describing

After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

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Tacoma Enlarge / But... but I was just about to check out Tacoma . (credit: Getty Images) With Valve's Steam gaming platform approaching the US drinking age this year, more and more aging PC gamers may be considering what will happen to their vast digital game libraries after they die. Unfortunately, legally, your collection of hundreds of backlogged games will likely pass into the ether along wi

The ROG Ally X leaks, with twice the battery of the original and way more RAM

ASUS ROG Ally X upgrades confirmed

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Enlarge / VideoCardz' leaked image of a ROG Ally X, seemingly having gone through the JPG blender a couple times. (credit: VideoCardz ) Asus' ROG Ally was the first major-brand attempt to compete with Valve's Steam Deck. It was beefy and interesting, but it had three major flaws: It ran Windows on a little touchscreen, had unremarkable ergonomics, and its battery life was painful. The Asus ROG (R

OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees

OpenAI CEO apologizes for equity clause

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Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (credit: JASON REDMOND / Contributor | AFP ) Former and current OpenAI employees received a memo this week that the AI company hopes to end the most embarrassing scandal that Sam Altman has ever faced as OpenAI's CEO. The memo finally clarified for employees that OpenAI would not enforce a non-disparagement contract that employees since at least 2019 were pressure

Rocket Report: SpaceX focused on Starship reentry; Firefly may be for sale

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Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-146 mission from California this week. (credit: SpaceX) Welcome to Edition 6.45 of the Rocket Report! The most interesting news in launch this week, to me, is that Firefly is potentially up for sale. That makes two of the handful of US companies with operational rockets, Firefly and United Launch Alliance, actively on offer. I'll be fascinated to see

Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europe’s Euclid telescope are dazzling

Euclid spacecraft probes dark Universe

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Enlarge / Messier 78 is a nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust. (credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA et. al.) Welcome to the Daily Telescope . There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we're going to

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US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon

Russia launches space weapon satellite

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Enlarge / A Russian Soyuz rocket climbs away from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 16. The launch of a classified Russian military satellite last week deployed a payload that US government officials say is likely a space weapon. In a series of statements, US officials said the new military satellite, named Kosmos 2576, appears to be similar to two previous "inspector" spacecraft launched by Russia

Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

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JAVS Viewer compromised in supply chain attack

Enlarge (credit: JAVS) A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack. The software, known as the JAVS Viewer 8, is a component of the JAVS Suite 8 , an application pack

“Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds

Spotify discontinues Car Thing device

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Enlarge (credit: Spotify ) Owners of Spotify's soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn't responded to pleas to salvage the hardware, which was originally intended to connect to car dashboards and auxiliary outlets to enable drivers to listen to and navigate Spotify. Spotify announced today that it's bricking al

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