#arstechnica — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the cutting-edge Macintosh experience! 🙄 Get ready for the **exclusive** #review of macOS 27 Golden Gate, where the only thing you'll download is disappointment—"403 Forbidden" is the new OS feature, apparently. 🚫🔒 Ars Technica delivers content so secure, even you can't access it. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/ #macOS27 #GoldenGate #exclusive #disappointment #ArsTechnica #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the cutting-edge Macintosh experience! 🙄 Get ready for the **exclusive** #review of macOS 27 Golden Gate, where the only thing you'll download is disappointment—"403 Forbidden" is the new OS feature, apparently. 🚫🔒 Ars Technica delivers content so secure, even you can't access it. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/ #macOS27 #GoldenGate #exclusive #disappointment #ArsTechnica #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the cutting-edge Macintosh experience! 🙄 Get ready for the **exclusive** #review of macOS 27 Golden Gate, where the only thing you'll download is disappointment—"403 Forbidden" is the new OS feature, apparently. 🚫🔒 Ars Technica delivers content so secure, even you can't access it. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/ #macOS27 #GoldenGate #exclusive #disappointment #ArsTechnica #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the cutting-edge Macintosh experience! 🙄 Get ready for the **exclusive** #review of macOS 27 Golden Gate, where the only thing you'll download is disappointment—"403 Forbidden" is the new OS feature, apparently. 🚫🔒 Ars Technica delivers content so secure, even you can't access it. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/ #macOS27 #GoldenGate #exclusive #disappointment #ArsTechnica #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the cutting-edge Macintosh experience! 🙄 Get ready for the **exclusive** #review of macOS 27 Golden Gate, where the only thing you'll download is disappointment—"403 Forbidden" is the new OS feature, apparently. 🚫🔒 Ars Technica delivers content so secure, even you can't access it. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/ #macOS27 #GoldenGate #exclusive #disappointment #ArsTechnica #technews #HackerNews #ngated

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732036

#HackerNews #macOS #GoldenGate #ArsTechnica #Review #TechNews #AppleUpdates

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732036

#HackerNews #macOS #GoldenGate #ArsTechnica #Review #TechNews #AppleUpdates

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732036

#HackerNews #macOS #GoldenGate #ArsTechnica #Review #TechNews #AppleUpdates

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732036

#HackerNews #macOS #GoldenGate #ArsTechnica #Review #TechNews #AppleUpdates

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732036

#HackerNews #macOS #GoldenGate #ArsTechnica #Review #TechNews #AppleUpdates

Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install.

I stopped using Macs as my daily drivers around 2006, but I still have an iMac at home and use a MBP for work. You can really tell #apple wants their computers to be 'devices' now. Fine for normies, but excruciating for 'computer' users.

Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install.

I stopped using Macs as my daily drivers around 2006, but I still have an iMac at home and use a MBP for work. You can really tell #apple wants their computers to be 'devices' now. Fine for normies, but excruciating for 'computer' users.

Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install.

I stopped using Macs as my daily drivers around 2006, but I still have an iMac at home and use a MBP for work. You can really tell #apple wants their computers to be 'devices' now. Fine for normies, but excruciating for 'computer' users.

Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install.

I stopped using Macs as my daily drivers around 2006, but I still have an iMac at home and use a MBP for work. You can really tell #apple wants their computers to be 'devices' now. Fine for normies, but excruciating for 'computer' users.

Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install.

I stopped using Macs as my daily drivers around 2006, but I still have an iMac at home and use a MBP for work. You can really tell #apple wants their computers to be 'devices' now. Fine for normies, but excruciating for 'computer' users.

*"The messages are the work of iLands, a company whose website appears to be substantially written by poorly trained AI. While the independently minded Mastodon admins have largely blocked the bots, iLands agents have found homes on both Bluesky and X."*

*https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/*

#arstechnica #aislop

J'ai dépensé 4 000 $ pour un chien robot de Chine
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/
#ArsTechnica #robot #chien #humanoïde #science #tech #recherche #génie #Chine

J'ai dépensé 4 000 $ pour un chien robot de Chine
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/
#ArsTechnica #robot #chien #humanoïde #science #tech #recherche #génie #Chine

J'ai dépensé 4 000 $ pour un chien robot de Chine
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/
#ArsTechnica #robot #chien #humanoïde #science #tech #recherche #génie #Chine

J'ai dépensé 4 000 $ pour un chien robot de Chine
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/
#ArsTechnica #robot #chien #humanoïde #science #tech #recherche #génie #Chine

J'ai dépensé 4 000 $ pour un chien robot de Chine
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/
#ArsTechnica #robot #chien #humanoïde #science #tech #recherche #génie #Chine

Le Texas coupe le raccordement de ses centres de données au réseau électrique face à une demande excessive
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/
#ArsTechnica #centresdedonnées #électricité #eau #IA #intelligence_artificielle #USA #Texas #tech #informatique #internet #gaz #pollution

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/prompt-injection-attacks-are-thwarting-ai-hacking-agents/

L’origine des continents et la tectonique des plaques
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/the-missing-500-million-cosmic-bombardment-melted-earths-first-crust/
#science #physique #géologie #continents #origine #Terre #tectonique #plaques #ArsTechnica #modèle #ère #roches

#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

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

Ars Technica Publishes A Post With Quotes Fabricated By AI

Ars Technica recently published an article that had quotes that were fabricated by AI/LLMs. When called on it by the person who was “quoted” for the sheer fact that he was NEVER contacted for a quote, Ars did a retraction.

There’s much talk about the ethics here and some good commentary here.

On the latest episode of the TWiT podcast Intelligent Machines, Leo Laporte, Emily Forlini, and Jeff Jarvis talked about it more.

For context: Jeff is a journalism professor and author, Leo is a veteran radio guy, and Emily is a senior reporter at PCMag.

So these guys should have an opinion on this.

Jeff was even handed and explained it like you’d expect a professor to be. Emily was more where I’m at, this reporter needs to be fired. This gives journalism a bad name (one that the industry fights all the time to avoid).

I was a professional journalist for 6 years in the early 2000s, if someone made up quotes then they’d be axed without discussion.

Why not now?

There is no excuse! None!

This is as bad as Stephen Glass‘ fiasco at the New Republic and Jayson Blair at the NYTimes. This is just for the AI age.

What do you think? Am I too heated about this? I might be. But this really gets my blood boiling.😁😃🍻

A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science – Ars Technica

G is for geomythology

A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

By Jennifer Ouellette – Dec 29, 2025 7:30 AM |

Earthquakes, volcanic eruption, eclipses, meteor showers, and many other natural phenomena have always been part of life on Earth. In ancient cultures that predated science, such events were often memorialized in myths and legends. There is a growing body of research that strives to connect those ancient stories with the real natural events that inspired them. Folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor has put together a fascinating short compendium of such insights with Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore, from dry quicksand and rains of frogs to burning lakes, paleoburrows, and Scandinavian “endless winters.”

Mayor’s work has long straddled multiple disciplines, but one of her specialities is best described as geomythology, a term coined in 1968 by Indiana University geologist Dorothy Vitaliano, who was interested in classical legends about Atlantis and other civilizations that were lost due to natural disasters. Her interest resulted in Vitaliano’s 1973 book Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins.

Mayor herself became interested in the field when she came across Greek and Roman descriptions of fossils, and that interest expanded over the years to incorporate other examples of “folk science” in cultures around the world. Her books include The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (2009), as well as Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, & the Scorpion Bombs (2022), exploring the origins of biological and chemical warfare. Her 2018 book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial life, and AI, connecting them to the robots and other ingenious mechanical devices actually designed and built during that era.

When her editor at Princeton University Press approached her about writing a book on geomythology, she opted for an encyclopedia format, which fit perfectly into an existing Princeton series of little encyclopedias about nature. “In this case, I wasn’t going to be working with just Greek and Roman antiquity,” Mayor told Ars. “I had collected very rich files on geomyths around the world. There are even a few modern geomyths in there. You can dip into whatever you’re interested in and skip the rest. Or maybe later you’ll read the ones that didn’t seem like they would be of interest to you but they’re absolutely fascinating.”

Mythopedia is also a true family affair, in that illustrator Michelle Angel is Mayor’s sister. “She does figures and maps for a lot of scholarly books, including mine,” said Mayor. “She’s very talented at making whimsical illustrations that are also very scientifically accurate. She really added information not only to the essays but to the illustrations for Mythopedia.

As she said, Mayor even includes a few modern geomyths in her compendium, as well as imagining in her preface what kind of geomyths might be told thousands of years from today about the origins of climate change for example, or the connection between earthquakes and fracking. “How will people try to explain the perplexing evidence that they’ll find on the planet Earth and maybe on other planets?” she said. “How will those stories be told?”

Ars caught up with Mayor to learn more.

Ars Technica:  Tell us a little about the field of geomythology.

Adrienne Mayor: It’s a relatively new field of study but it took off around 2000. Really, it’s a storytelling that has existed since the first humans started talking to one another and investigating their landscape. I think geomyths are attempts to explain perplexing evidence in nature—on the Earth or in the sky. So geomyth is a bit of a misnomer since it can also cover celestial happenings. But people have been trying to explain bizarre things, or unnatural looking things, or inexplicable things in their landscape and their surroundings since they could first speak.

These kind of stories were probably first told around the first fires that human beings made as soon as they had language. So geomyths are attempts to explain, as I say, but they also contain memories that are preserved in oral traditions. These are cultures that are trying to understand earthshaking events like volcanoes or massive floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, avalanches—things that really change the landscape and have an impact on their culture. Geomyths are often expressed in metaphors and poetic, even supernatural language, and that’s why they’ve been ignored for a long time because people thought they were just storytelling or fiction.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science – Ars Technica

Operation Bluebird Wants to Bring ‘Twitter’ Back to Life

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/operation-bluebird-wants-to-bring-twitter-back-to-life/

#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

Dwie groźne luki w Windows aktywnie wykorzystywane. Jedna to 8-letni zero-day bez łatki

Badacze bezpieczeństwa biją na alarm w sprawie dwóch poważnych luk w systemie Windows, które są obecnie aktywnie i na szeroką skalę wykorzystywane w atakach.

Jak donosi serwis ArsTechnica, jedna z luk to krytyczna podatność, którą Microsoft niedawno próbował nieudolnie załatać. Druga to zero-day, który był wykorzystywany przez grupy hakerskie powiązane z rządami od co najmniej… 2017 roku i do dziś nie ma na to stosownej poprawki!

Groźniejsza i bardziej niepokojąca jest podatność zero-day, śledzona obecnie jako CVE-2025-9491. To błąd w obsłudze formatu skrótów Windows (.lnk). Luka została publicznie ujawniona w marcu 2025 roku przez Trend Micro, które odkryło, że była ona aktywnie wykorzystywana przez co najmniej 11 różnych grup hakerskich (APT) od 2017 roku do instalowania trojanów i oprogramowania szpiegującego. Mimo że od odkrycia minęło siedem miesięcy, Microsoft wciąż nie wydał na nią oficjalnej łaty bezpieczeństwa.

W ostatnich dniach firma Arctic Wolf zgłosiła nową, zmasowaną kampanię wykorzystującą właśnie tę lukę. Atakujący, prawdopodobnie powiązani z Chinami, używają jej do infekowania celów w Europie popularnym trojanem zdalnego dostępu (RAT) o nazwie PlugX. Z powodu braku łatki, jedyną skuteczną metodą obrony jest ręczne blokowanie lub ograniczanie przez administratorów użycia plików .lnk z niezaufanych źródeł.

Druga aktywnie wykorzystywana podatność to CVE-2025-59287, krytyczna (9.8/10) luka w usłudze Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), czyli narzędziu, którego administratorzy używają do zarządzania aktualizacjami w firmach. Błąd ten umożliwia zdalne wykonanie kodu (RCE) i jest potencjalnie zdolny do samodzielnego rozprzestrzeniania się w sieci.

Problem w tym, że Microsoft próbował załatać tę dziurę podczas październikowego „Patch Tuesday”, ale zrobił to nieskutecznie. Publicznie dostępny kod (PoC) szybko udowodnił, że poprawka jest niekompletna. Hakerzy natychmiast to wykorzystali. Firmy bezpieczeństwa, jak Huntress i Sophos, potwierdziły, że obserwują masowe ataki na serwery WSUS od 23-24 października. Microsoft był zmuszony do wydania drugiej, awaryjnej łatki poza standardowym harmonogramem, aby ostatecznie zamknąć dziurę.

Administratorzy systemów Windows powinni natychmiast zweryfikować, czy ich serwery WSUS mają zainstalowaną drugą, poprawną aktualizację. W przypadku luki zero-day w plikach .lnk, zarówno administratorzy, jak i zwykli użytkownicy, muszą zachować szczególną ostrożność i czekać na ruch ze strony Microsoftu, który do tej pory nie podał daty wydania poprawki.

Koniec z technicznym bełkotem. Aktualizacje Windows 11 będą bardziej zrozumiałe

#0Day #ArsTechnica #CVE202559287 #CVE20259491 #cyberbezpieczeństwo #lukaWZabezpieczeniach #Microsoft #news #PlugX #TrendMicro #windows #WSUS #zeroDay

Repórter Retro 119

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/10/22/reporter-retro-119/

#ReprterRetro #8BitGuy #AcessoRemoto #AdrianBlack #AMD #AppleII #Arcade #Archie #ArsTechnica #AtariPortfolio #AtariSt #Brasil #ByteMagazine #Commodore128 #CP400 #CP500 #Cyberdeck #DartmouthCollege #DEC #DiegoRetroGames #Embratel #epcom #expert #ExplainingComputers #FeiraInternacionalDeInformtica #fliperama #FranklinAce #gradiente #Hackaday #Homebrew #hotbit #IBM #IBM5100Portable #internet #Laptop #Linux #MesopGames

発射直前！ スペースXのスターシップがブースター「スーパーヘビー」を再利用へ | WIRED.jp https://www.yayafa.com/2352990/ #ArsTechnica #SCIENCE #Science&Technology #Technology #イーロン・マスク/ElonMusk #スペースx/Spacex #テクノロジー #ロケット/Rocket #宇宙船/Spaceship #科学 #科学/Science #科学＆テクノロジー

Ars Technica: Neanderthals spread diverse cultures across Eurasia (before we came along) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1919279 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleolithiceurope #paleoarchaeology #extincthominins #zooarchaeology #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #paleolithic #Science #science

Ars Technica: Neanderthals spread diverse cultures across Eurasia (before we came along) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1919279 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleolithiceurope #paleoarchaeology #extincthominins #zooarchaeology #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #paleolithic #Science #science

Ars Technica: Neanderthals spread diverse cultures across Eurasia (before we came along) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1919279 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleolithiceurope #paleoarchaeology #extincthominins #zooarchaeology #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #paleolithic #Science #science

Ars Technica: Neanderthals spread diverse cultures across Eurasia (before we came along) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1919279 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleolithiceurope #paleoarchaeology #extincthominins #zooarchaeology #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #paleolithic #Science #science

Ars Technica: Leaker posts an early, canceled 2D version of the infamous Duke Nukem Forever https://arstechnica.com/?p=1906776 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #DukeNukemForever #Gaming&Culture

Ars Technica: Leaker posts an early, canceled 2D version of the infamous Duke Nukem Forever https://arstechnica.com/?p=1906776 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #DukeNukemForever #Gaming&Culture

Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/04/actions-target-russian-govt-botnet-hydra-dark-market/ #GermanFederalCriminalPoliceOffice #MainIntelligenceDirectorate #U.S.DepartmentofTreasury #U.S.DepartmentofJustice #FederalSecurityService #Ne'er-Do-WellNews #CyclopsBlink #Dragonfly2.0 #WebFraud2.0 #ArsTechnica #HydraMarket #Ransomware #BeserkBear #RussianFSB #VoodooBear #WatchGuard #DanGoodin #VPNFilter #Garantex #NotPetya #Sandworm #Trisis #Triton

Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/ #LatestWarnings #TheComingStorm #WesternDigital #RadekDomanski #PedroRibeiro #TimetoPatch #ArsTechnica #MyBookLive #MyCloudOS3 #MyCloudOS5 #DanGoodin #Pwn2Own

VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/vmware-flaw-a-vector-in-solarwinds-breach/ #CyberSecurityandInfrastructureSecurityAgency #SecurityAssertionMarkupLanguage #U.S.NationalSecurityAgency #MicrosoftOutlookWebApp #SAMLtokencompromise #TheComingStorm #washingtonpost #DataBreaches #NewYorkTimes #ArsTechnica #CozyBear #Volexity #VMware #APT29 #CSIA #Duo #FSB #nsa