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Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws

Subaru security flaws expose tracking system

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400+by Andy Greenberg, wired.com / 2d

About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. It took Curry until last November, when he was home for Thanksgiving, to begin examining the 2023 Impreza's Internet-connected features and start looking for ways to exploit them. Sure enough, he and a researcher working with him online, Shubham

With successful New Glenn flight, Blue Origin may finally be turning the corner

by Eric Berger / 2h

If one were to observe that I have written critically about Blue Origin over the last half-decade, they would not be wrong. The reality is that the space company founded by Jeff Bezos has underperformed. Its chief executive for most of this time, Bob Smith, was poorly regarded by his employees. He brought the worst of "old space" tendencies to Blue Origin from Honeywell. And under Smith's leaders

For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong

100+by Beth Mole / 2d

Last year, a study highlighted that your doctor's office might be taking your blood pressure wrong . The current best practice is to take seated blood pressure readings with a detailed protocol: Patients must not eat, drink, or exercise for 30 minutes prior; they must have an empty bladder and sit calmly for five minutes prior to the first reading; they must sit with their feet uncrossed and flat

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Jeep’s first battery EV is not what we expected: The 2024 Wagoneer S

2024 Jeep Wagoneer S electric SUV

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by Michael Teo Van Runkle / 9h

Jeep provided a night in a hotel so Ars could attend the Wagoneer S first drive. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. This year marks the return of the Jeep Wagoneer, which formerly served as a more luxurious version of the Cherokee but now hits the market as Jeep's first full EV. The challenge? How to merge the modern electric lifestyle with the outdoorsy, rugged ethos that defines Jeep a

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3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead

by Nate Anderson / 2d

It's a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer . The two men walked up the driveway of a nearby home. For reasons that remain unclear, a man came out of the house with a gun and started shooting. This was a bad idea on many levels, but most practically because both the fi

WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026

25by Beth Mole / 2d

The World Health Organization has begun cost-cutting measures in preparation for a US withdrawal next year, according to reporting by Reuters . On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the United Nation's health agency. The country was a founding member of the WHO in 1948 and has since been a key member of the organization, which has 193 other

Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060

NVIDIA phases out older GPU support

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by Andrew Cunningham / 2d

Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears to be winding down support for a few of its older GPU architectures, according to these CUDA release notes spotted by Tom's Hardware . The release notes say that CUDA support for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU

Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API

Anthropic launches Citations API feature

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28by Benj Edwards / 2d

On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations , a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets developers add documents to Claude's context window, enabling the model to automatically cite specific passages it uses to generate answers. "When Citations is enabled, the API processes

Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses

GameOn CEO and wife indicted

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28by Ashley Belanger / 2d

The founder of an AI startup in San Francisco was indicted this week for allegedly conspiring with his wife for six years to defraud investors out of $60 million. According to a press release from the US Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California, Alexander Beckman—founder of GameOn Technology (now known as ON Platform)—and Valerie Lau Beckman—an attorney hired by GameOn who later b

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

71by Jennifer Ouellette / 2d

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM's Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than algorithms, according to Marc Barthelemy , a physicist at the Paris-Saclay University in France, with layers of depth arising from the psychological complexity conferred by player strategies. Now, Barthelme

ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved

45by Jon Brodkin / 2d

When New York's law requiring $15 or $20 broadband plans for people with low incomes took effect last week, Optimum customer William O'Brien tried to sign up for the cheap Internet service. Since O'Brien is in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), he qualifies for one of the affordable plans that Internet service providers must offer New Yorkers who meet income eligibility require

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast

Nvidia announces DLSS 4 innovations

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42by Andrew Cunningham / 2d

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 starts at $1,999 before you factor in upsells from the company's partners or price increases driven by scalpers and/or genuine demand. It costs more than my entire gaming PC. The new GPU is so expensive that you could build an entire well-specced gaming PC with Nvidia's next-fastest GPU in it—the $999 RTX 5080, which we don't have in hand yet—for the same money, or maybe

Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers

36by John Timmer / 2d

One of the most frequently asked questions about quantum computers is a simple one: When will they be useful? If you talk to people in the field, you'll generally get a response in the form of another question: useful for what? Quantum computing can be applied to a large range of problems, some of them considerably more complex than others. Utility will come for some of the simpler problems first

Rocket Report: Did China’s reusable rocket work?; DOT may review SpaceX fines

China tests reusable rocket with uncertainty

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40by Stephen Clark / 3d

Welcome to Edition 7.28 of the Rocket Report! After last week's jam-packed action in the launch business, things are a bit quieter this week. Much of the space world's attention has turned to Washington as the Trump administration takes the helm of the federal government. Some of the administration's policy changes will likely impact the launch industry, with commercial spaceflight poised to beco

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