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Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly

OpenAI to launch Sora soon

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On Monday, OpenAI released Sora Turbo, a new version of its text-to-video generation model, making it available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers through a dedicated website . The model generates videos up to 20 seconds long at resolutions reaching 1080p from a text or image prompt. Open AI announced that Sora would be available today for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in the US and many part

Ranking the 25 coolest things in space so far during the 21st century

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There is, of course, no quantitative way to rank amazing things that happen in space. We cannot measure their absolute magnitude nor assign them a numerical value, and trying to do so is something of a fool’s errand. Are we fools? Maybe. But we're fools who like to have a little fun. Understandably, then, this list is completely subjective. How else could one rank events that span the cosmos, fro

Google gets an error-corrected quantum bit to be stable for an hour

Google unveils 105 qubit Willow chip

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On Monday, Nature released a paper from Google's quantum computing team that provides a key demonstration of the potential of quantum error correction. Thanks to an improved processor, Google's team found that increasing the number of hardware qubits dedicated to an error-corrected logical qubit led to an exponential increase in performance. By the time the entire 105-qubit processor was dedicate

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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

Embodied shuts down bricking Moxie

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Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round." On its website , it explained: We had secured a lead investor who was prepared to close the round. However, at the last minute, they withdrew, leaving us with no viable options to continue operations. Despite our best effor

AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”

AI billboards provoke job market fears

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Since the dawn of the generative AI era a few years ago, the march of technology—toward what tech companies hope will replace human intellectual labor —has continuously sparked angst about the future role humans will play in the job market. Will we all be replaced by machines? A Y-Combinator-backed company called Artisan , which sells customer service and sales workflow software, recently launche

Micron’s $6B CHIPS funding should have more strings attached, critics say

US finalizes 61B investment in Micron

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Micron Technology will receive more than $6.1 billion after the US Department of Commerce finalized one of the largest CHIPS Act awards ever to "the only US-based manufacturer of memory chips," Vice President Kamala Harris said in a press statement . Micron will use the funding to construct "several state-of-the-art memory chips facilities" in New York and Idaho, Harris said. The chipmaker has co

Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

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A location-tracking company that sells its services to police departments is apparently using addresses and coordinates of doctors' and lawyers' offices and other types of locations to help cops compile lists of places visited by suspects, according to a 404 Media report published today. Fog Data Science, which says it "harness[es] the power of data to safeguard national security and provide law

Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year

RBB Law Group partners with Amazon

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Amazon started selling new cars today. The online retailer and Internet giant has had its sights on shifting metal for some time now, and if you live in one of 48 cities in the US, and you're looking for a new Hyundai, it's ready for your business. Hyundai has been working with Amazon for several years on its digital experience, adding Alexa to its cars and showcasing its products at Amazon.com .

The Talos Principle: Reawakened adds new engine, looks, and content to a classic

The Talos Principle Reawakened announced

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Are humans just squishy machines? Can an artificially intelligent robot create a true moral compass for itself? Is there a best time to play The Talos Principle again? The answer to at least one of these questions is now somewhat answered. The Talos Principle: Reawakened, due in "Early 2025," will bundle the original critically acclaimed 2014 game, its Road to Gehenna DLC, and a new chapter, "In

AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack

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One of the oldest maxims in hacking is that once an attacker has physical access to a device, it’s game over for its security. The basis is sound. It doesn’t matter how locked down a phone, computer, or other machine is; if someone intent on hacking it gains the ability to physically manipulate it, the chances of success are all but guaranteed. In the age of cloud computing, this widely accepted

Avian flu cases are on the upswing at big dairy farms

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A handful of dairy farms sprawl across the valley floor, ringed by the spikey, copper-colored San Jacinto mountains. This is the very edge of California’s dairy country—and so far, the cows here are safe. But everyone worries that the potentially lethal bird flu is on the way. “I hope not,” says Clemente Jimenez, as he fixes a hose at Pastime Lakes, a 1,500-head dairy farm. “It’s a lot of trouble

We’ve got a lavish new trailer for Star Trek: Section 31

Star Trek Section 31 trailer released

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Michelle Yeoh stars in Star Trek: Section 31 . We've got a shiny new trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 , the long-awaited spinoff film that brings back Michelle Yeoh's magnificent Phillipa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery . The film will give us the backstory for Georgiou's evil Mirror Universe counterpart, where she was a despotic emperor who murdered millions of her own people. As previously

In a not-so-subtle signal to regulators, Blue Origin says New Glenn is ready

Blue Origin's New Glenn launch imminent

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Blue Origin said Tuesday that the test payload for the first launch of its new rocket, New Glenn, is ready for liftoff. The company published an image of the "Blue Ring" pathfinder nestled up against one half of the rocket's payload fairing. "There is a growing demand to quickly move and position equipment and infrastructure in multiple orbits," the company's chief executive, Dave Limp, said on L

Efficiency, power, luxury: The 2025 Lucid Gravity SUV nails all three

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The Lucid Air sedan's base Pure trim can manage 420 miles (676 km) of EPA-estimated range from just an 84 kWh battery pack. At 5 miles/kWh (12.4 kWh/100 km), the Pure is the single most efficient EV in the world, with pricing that undercuts the Tesla Model S. Yet the general public is largely unaware of Lucid as an automaker in the first place. The new Gravity, which just entered serial productio

Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says

Character.AI faces lawsuits over youth safety

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After a troubling October lawsuit accused Character.AI (C.AI) of recklessly releasing dangerous chatbots that allegedly caused a 14-year-old boy's suicide , more families have come forward to sue chatbot-maker Character Technologies and the startup's major funder, Google. On Tuesday, another lawsuit was filed in a US district court in Texas, this time by families struggling to help their kids rec

The iPhone accessories that let me ditch my laptop while traveling

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There's something liberating about traveling without your computer. Your load is lighter, your battery needs are fewer, and you don't have to risk damaging or losing one of your most important and expensive devices. Besides, most of us are already carrying around a pretty powerful and conveniently compact computer 24/7: our smartphones. My problem, though, is that I prefer doing most things on a

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EV charging infrastructure isn’t just for road trippers

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Although there's been a whole lot of pessimism recently, electric vehicle sales continue to grow, even if it is less quickly than many hoped. That's true in the commercial vehicle space as well—according to Cox Automotive, 87 percent of vehicle fleet operators expect to add EVs in the next five years, and more than half thought they were likely to buy EVs this year. And where and when to plug tho

Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool

Apple sued over child abuse material

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Thousands of victims have sued Apple over its alleged failure to detect and report illegal child pornography, also known as child sex abuse materials (CSAM). The proposed class action comes after Apple scrapped a controversial CSAM-scanning tool last fall that was supposed to significantly reduce CSAM spreading in its products. Apple defended its decision to kill the tool after dozens of digital

Paleolithic deep-cave compound likely used for rituals

Ancient cave reveals early rituals

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Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). That evidence includes the presence of a symbolically carved boulder in a prominent placement, and well as the remains of what

Reddit debuts AI-powered discussion search—but will users like it?

Reddit tests AI-powered answers feature

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On Monday, Reddit announced it would test an AI-powered search feature called " Reddit Answers " that uses an AI model to create summaries from existing Reddit posts to respond to user questions, reports Reuters . The feature generates responses by searching through Reddit's vast collection of community discussions and comments. When users ask questions, Reddit Answers provides summaries of relev

Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup

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Cable broadband companies continue to insist that data caps are good for people with low incomes, pushing back against comments filed by consumer advocacy groups. NCTA—The Internet & Television Association urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid regulating the monthly data limits and overage charges that cable firms such as Comcast and Cox impose on many Internet plans. Advocacy grou

Meet Hyperlight, Ars Technica’s new, even brighter “Light” mode

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Like many sites, apps, and operating systems, Ars Technica has both "Light" and "Dark" visual styles. They look great! But even the "Light" mode has darker elements in it, and after our recent redesign, some Ars readers asked for an even lighter "Light" mode, one that would allow them to absolutely sear their own retinas with various shades of blinding white. (I kid, of course; for some readers,

US businesses will lose $1B in one month if TikTok is banned, TikTok warns

Federal judges uphold TikTok ban

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TikTok is doing everything it can to delay a potential ban starting the day before Donald Trump takes office in January. On Monday, TikTok filed an emergency motion requesting a temporary injunction on a US law that requires its owner, ByteDance, to sell off TikTok by January 19 or else be banned in the US due to national security concerns. Planning to appeal to the Supreme Court to block the law

Itch.io platform briefly goes down due to “AI-driven” anti-phishing report

Itch.io taken down by Funko

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Popular indie game platform itch.io says its domain was briefly taken down for a few hours Monday morning thanks to an "AI-driven" phishing report spurred by the company behind Funko Pop figures. Itch.io management posted about the domain takedown on social media overnight , complaining of a chain of events that started because "Funko of 'Funko Pop'... use some trash 'AI Powered' Brand Protection

Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC

Raspberry Pi 500 and Monitor launched

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One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC, if not an especially fast one . For Pi-as-desktop enthusiasts, the company has a couple of new pre-holiday announcements. The biggest is the Raspberry Pi 500 , which fits the components of an 8GB Pi 5 into a small keyboard-shaped

Obesity rates are down. Is that because of weight-loss drugs?

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Earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported data showing that adult obesity rates—long trending upwards—had fallen modestly over the past few years, from 41.9 to 40.3 percent. The decline sparked discussion on social media and in major news outlets about whether the US has passed so-called “peak obesity”—and whether the growing use of certain weight-loss drugs might

Latest James Webb data hints at new physics in Universe’s expansion

Webb telescope reveals universe expansion mystery

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Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics . New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed that prior measurements of distances between nearby stars and galaxies made by the Hubble Space Telescope are not in error

Win hardware, collectibles, and more in the 2024 Ars Technica Charity Drive

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It's once again that special time of year when we give you a chance to do well by doing good. That's right—it's time for the 2024 edition of our annual Charity Drive! Every year since 2007 , we've encouraged readers to give to Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity , which provides toys and games to kids being treated in hospitals around the world. In recent years, we've added the Electronic Frontie

Dec 8, 2024

The shadow’s roots take hold in Wheel of Time S3 teaser

Wheel of Time Season 3 teaser released

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The Wheel of Time returns to Prime Video in March. Prime Video released a one-minute teaser for its fantasy series The Wheel of Time at CCXP24 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The series is adapted from the late Robert Jordan 's bestselling 14-book series of epic fantasy novels, and Ars has been following it closely with regular recaps through the first two seasons. Judging from the new teaser, the battle b

Innie rebellion is brewing in trippy Severance S2 trailer

Severance season 2 trailer released

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Severance returns to Apple TV+ in January for its sophomore season. Severance was one of the most talked-about TV series of 2022, receiving widespread critical acclaim. We loved the series so much that Ars staffers actually wrote a group review so that everyone could weigh in with their thoughts on the first season, pronouncing it "one of the best shows on TV." Needless to say, we have been eager

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