#ars-technica — Public Fediverse posts
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#ArsTechnica says "The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support".
Well, duh. Some ridiculously high price for 7 minutes of microgravity (or whatever) is bullshit. You don't even reach the Kármán line (100 km)! They redefined some other threshold at 80 km just so you could say you went to space. Hint: if you have to redefine a common, long-agreed term, you're not adhering to the letter or the spirit of the law/guideline.
It's orbit or GTFO.
#orbit #suborbital #SpaceTourism #GTFO #KármánLine #VirginGalactic #BlueOrigin
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#ArsTechnica Lunar Gateway 2/2:
".. Northrop confirmed .. issue .. “Using NASA-approved processes, Northrop Grumman is completing repairs to HALO after a manufacturing irregularity, .."
"ESA .. “.. the .. issue was understood to be technically manageable and did not constitute a showstopper for I‑HAB, which was, in any case, in better conditions than HALO from [a] corrosion point of view,”"
24.4.2026
#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight
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#ArsTechnica Lunar Gateway 1/2:
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Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded
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"“Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors.”"24.4.2026
#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight
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Ars Technica bravely unveils their AI newsroom #policy, which is essentially a list of things they promise not to do, like a child announcing they won't eat crayons anymore. 🤖✏️ Meanwhile, the actual news is just sitting there, wondering when it will get some attention instead. 🙄📉
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ #AInewsroom #ArsTechnica #mediaethics #journalism #HackerNews #ngated -
Un robot humanoïde bat facilement les humains en semi-marathon, établissant un nouveau record
La Presse https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/insolite/2026-04-20/chine/un-robot-humanoide-bat-le-record-du-monde-humain-au-demi-marathon.php
Arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/robot-runner-handily-beats-humans-in-half-marathon-setting-new-record/
#tech #robot #humanoïde #science #course #sports #marathon #Chine #média #arstechnica -
📰 The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer — #ArsTechnica
❝In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
“It was a highly illegal operation. And we knew this very well,” Moldovanu tells me…
If militia officers caught [them]… The authorities could seize the students’ electronics, make them pay fines, and could expel them from the university for starters.❞
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@rogeragrimes Great post and link and..... wow... no loging nor consent to tracking on that site #arstechnica
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Why reply to an article without reading it? Because, forum platforms motivate people to do so. Quantity matters more than quality,
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I'm afraid that my comment on #arstechnica will get hidden for low-score.
So, here's a link to it:
https://pnqk.me/y8y2smLet's view it without giving an ef about #downvotes!
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Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no longer do rudimentary fact checking. At the same time, this can’t really be unwound from the fact that media ownership rushed to tightly integrate often under-cooked LLM models into an already very […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/15/techdirt-ars-fires-reporter-for-accidentally-using-fake-ai-quotes/ -
Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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#ArsTechnica:
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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
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"America succeeds in space when American companies compete.""“.. biggest decision happened in the absence of a NASA administrator. And that decision was, instead of buying a Moon lander, we’re gonna buy a big rocket.”"
2.3.2026
#Artemis #JimBridenstine #HLS #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #Starship #ULA #USA
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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
#HackerNews #Apple #Mac #Studio #RAMShortage #TechNews #Gadgets #ArsTechnica
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Re: Ars Technica's incident with the "AI"-written article that they silently yanked instead of transparently correcting ...
Ars did publish a separate, mostly-opaque "Yes, the article was AI-written, and we've dealt with this internally" article a few days later. That is not up to the transparency standards that good journalistic outlets demand.
Over the weekend, another website carried a story including quotes from the "reporter" at issue, revealing he had in fact been dismissed from Ars. I feel bad for the guy, but this is the minimum a media org can do in a situation like this, and it's the natural outcome of his actions. It's not like he was randomly laid off.
But Ars has still not been transparent, so... I have no regrets cancelling my subscription at Ars. The quality of their journalism, particularly deep technical stuff, has been suspect and declining for years, and this was really just the last straw.
#ArsTechnica #ethics #NewsEthics #journalism #JournalismEthics #AI #LLM #transparency
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You hate to see it!
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
#ArsTechnica #Reporter #AI #Controversy #AISlop #Labor #Tech
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📰🤖 Ars Technica fired a reporter for using AI-generated quotes, proving once again that #robots are better at #creativity than humans. 🤦♂️ Who knew that “fake news” could get even faker? 📰🤷♀️
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes #ArsTechnica #AIgeneratedQuotes #FakeNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
#HackerNews #ArsTechnica #AIControversy #FabricatedQuotes #Journalism #Ethics
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English Wikipedia has pulled the plug on using archive.today links to archive websites after the site used scripts to involve users in a DDoS attack on a critical blog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/#ArchiveDotToday #ArchiveDotIs #ArchiveToday #ArchiveIs #Wikipedia #DDoS #DistributedDenialOfServiceAttack #ArsTechnica
