#arstechnica — Public Fediverse posts

🟢 L’Église catholique de Floride résolument en faveur de la vaccination des enfants
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/catholic-bishops-tell-florida-theres-no-religious-reason-for-vaccine-exemptions/
#USA #Floride #vaccination #Église #catholique #religion #liberté #État #politique #enfants #école #arstechnica #média #santé

🚀✨ Wow, Ars Technica bravely tackles the bold ambition of "simulating everything"—or maybe just a tiny bit, if we're being honest. 🤔 In a groundbreaking exposé, they reveal the *scandalous* limits of world models, which we totally didn't see coming. Who knew reality was so pesky? 🙄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-models/ #ArsTechnica #SimulationLimits #WorldModels #TechNews #ScandalousReality #HackerNews #ngated

🚀✨ Wow, Ars Technica bravely tackles the bold ambition of "simulating everything"—or maybe just a tiny bit, if we're being honest. 🤔 In a groundbreaking exposé, they reveal the *scandalous* limits of world models, which we totally didn't see coming. Who knew reality was so pesky? 🙄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-models/ #ArsTechnica #SimulationLimits #WorldModels #TechNews #ScandalousReality #HackerNews #ngated

🚀✨ Wow, Ars Technica bravely tackles the bold ambition of "simulating everything"—or maybe just a tiny bit, if we're being honest. 🤔 In a groundbreaking exposé, they reveal the *scandalous* limits of world models, which we totally didn't see coming. Who knew reality was so pesky? 🙄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-models/ #ArsTechnica #SimulationLimits #WorldModels #TechNews #ScandalousReality #HackerNews #ngated

🚀✨ Wow, Ars Technica bravely tackles the bold ambition of "simulating everything"—or maybe just a tiny bit, if we're being honest. 🤔 In a groundbreaking exposé, they reveal the *scandalous* limits of world models, which we totally didn't see coming. Who knew reality was so pesky? 🙄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-models/ #ArsTechnica #SimulationLimits #WorldModels #TechNews #ScandalousReality #HackerNews #ngated

🚀✨ Wow, Ars Technica bravely tackles the bold ambition of "simulating everything"—or maybe just a tiny bit, if we're being honest. 🤔 In a groundbreaking exposé, they reveal the *scandalous* limits of world models, which we totally didn't see coming. Who knew reality was so pesky? 🙄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-models/ #ArsTechnica #SimulationLimits #WorldModels #TechNews #ScandalousReality #HackerNews #ngated

Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report

This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.

Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.

2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera

The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.

2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag

Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.

2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag

While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.

You may have seen the story this week about an "AI" (LLM) bot that opened a pull request against the Python #matplotlib library. When the request was closed, the story was that the #bot posted aggressive condemnations of the maintainer(s) in the thread, particularly Scott Shambaugh, and then posted an article to a blog attacking him.

There's a lot of speculation about how much of that action was driven algorithmically vs manually instructed by the bot operator.

Anyway, so far so interesting. Lots of online media coverage of it, because it was novel.

But then, Ars Technica published an article about it. And Shambaugh read it, and posted that the second half of the article contained alleged quotes from him that he never said. The article appears to have been "AI"-generated, without any acknowledgement of that fact, which is not good for Ars' credibility.

Worse, Ars then quickly pulled the #article - silently. No mention of it left, no #apology to Shambaugh, no note to the readers of what they'd done.

That is absolutely #unethical in #journalism. It is unforgivable.

Ars was once a technical site with additional coverage of science and other geek-adjacent topics. Then it went commercial, was bought by a huge publishing conglomerate, and became a lot less technical.

But this is a slide too far. Unless they fix this, quick, I won't renew my subscription.

Mirror of yanked article:
https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

#ArsTechnica #ars #ethics #PR #LLM #AI

#ArsTechnica:
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US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”
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"It seems US didn’t coordinate Starshield’s unusual spectrum use with other countries."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-spy-satellites-built-by-spacex-send-signals-in-the-wrong-direction/

14.11.2025

#downlink #ISED #ITU #NASA #NOAA #NRO #NTIA #Raumfahrt #satcom #Satelliten #Satellitenkommunikation #sattv #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #Starlink #Starshield #uplink #USA

#arstechnica:
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DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware
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"The presence of credentials in leaked "stealer logs" indicates his device was infected."
"A steady stream of published credentials"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/doge-software-engineers-computer-infected-by-info-stealing-malware/

8.5.2025

#Adobe #CISA #cybersecurity #Cybersicherheit #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #DOGE #Gmail #Gravatar #infosec #infostealer #IT #malware #USA

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/09/experts-fear-crooks-are-cracking-keys-stolen-in-lastpass-breach/

#ALittleSunshine #TheComingStorm #lastpassbreach #NicholasWeaver #WladimirPalant #TaylorMonahan #DataBreaches #WebFraud2.0 #AdBlockPlus #ArsTechnica #Chainalysis #KarimToubba #Unciphered #1Password #MetaMask #NickBax #Plex

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/09/experts-fear-crooks-are-cracking-keys-stolen-in-lastpass-breach/ #ALittleSunshine #TheComingStorm #lastpassbreach #NicholasWeaver #WladimirPalant #TaylorMonahan #DataBreaches #WebFraud2.0 #AdBlockPlus #ArsTechnica #Chainalysis #KarimToubba #Unciphered #1Password #MetaMask #NickBax #Plex

Ars Technica: GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958890 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #virtualcurrencies #cryptocurrencies #digitalwallet #memestocks #NFTgaming #Gamestop #Gaming #crypto #Tech #NFTs #NFT

Ars Technica: GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958890 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #virtualcurrencies #cryptocurrencies #digitalwallet #memestocks #NFTgaming #Gamestop #Gaming #crypto #Tech #NFTs #NFT

Ars Technica: GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958890 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #virtualcurrencies #cryptocurrencies #digitalwallet #memestocks #NFTgaming #Gamestop #Gaming #crypto #Tech #NFTs #NFT

Ars Technica: GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958890 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #virtualcurrencies #cryptocurrencies #digitalwallet #memestocks #NFTgaming #Gamestop #Gaming #crypto #Tech #NFTs #NFT