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🟢 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

IA, Google et tribunal
▶️ Personne n'a besoin de l'IA pour effectuer des recherches sur Internet, déclare le tribunal dans une décision contre Google
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
#justice #droit #IA #recherche #Internet #informatique #Google #Allemagne #tribunal #algorithme #tech #science #média #ArsTechnica

IA, Google et tribunal
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
#justice #droit #IA #recherche #Internet #informatique #Google #Allemagne #tribunal #algorithme #tech #science #média #ArsTechnica

IA, Google et tribunal
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
#justice #droit #IA #recherche #Internet #informatique #Google #Allemagne #tribunal #algorithme #tech #science #média #ArsTechnica

IA, Google et tribunal
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
#justice #droit #IA #recherche #Internet #informatique #Google #Allemagne #tribunal #algorithme #tech #science #média #ArsTechnica

IA, Google et tribunal
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
#justice #droit #IA #recherche #Internet #informatique #Google #Allemagne #tribunal #algorithme #tech #science #média #ArsTechnica

#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

#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,”"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/well-this-is-embarrassing-the-lunar-gateways-primary-modules-are-corroded/

24.4.2026

#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#ArsTechnica Lunar Gateway 1/2:
"
Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded
"
"“Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors.”"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/well-this-is-embarrassing-the-lunar-gateways-primary-modules-are-corroded/

24.4.2026

#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

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

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

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/

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

👀🔭 Behold, the next generation of telescopes, capable of seeing everything except the irony in writing endless articles about them. 🚀🤦‍♂️ Ars Technica delivers another cosmic bore-fest, exploring tech so advanced, it might even spot their dwindling readership. 📉
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/tuesday-telescope-taking-a-look-at-the-next-generation-of-telescopes/ #nextgenTelescopes #ArsTechnica #cosmicTech #ironyInTech #dwindlingReadership #HackerNews #ngated

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#ArsTechnica
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

#MusicIndustry #HardDrives #DataArchiving #Entropy #Storage #Failure #DataLoss #IronMountain #RobertKoszela #Mix #DigitalAudioWorkstations #MagneticTape #SSDs #FloppyDisks #LinearTapeOpen

Ars readers gave nearly $40,000 in our 2023 Charity Drive - Enlarge / Much love to everyone for taking part. (credit: CanStockPhoto... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994837 #charitydrive #arstechnica #donations #gaming

Ars Technica: Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956735 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #microsoftearnings #microsoftrevenue #MicrosoftTeams #microsoft #Office365 #Office365 #windows10 #windows11 #earnings #Windows #Biz&IT #Tech

Ars Technica: Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956735 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #microsoftearnings #microsoftrevenue #MicrosoftTeams #microsoft #Office365 #Office365 #windows10 #windows11 #earnings #Windows #Biz&IT #Tech

Ars Technica: Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956735 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #microsoftearnings #microsoftrevenue #MicrosoftTeams #microsoft #Office365 #Office365 #windows10 #windows11 #earnings #Windows #Biz&IT #Tech

Ars Technica: Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956735 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #microsoftearnings #microsoftrevenue #MicrosoftTeams #microsoft #Office365 #Office365 #windows10 #windows11 #earnings #Windows #Biz&IT #Tech

AI-Powered Bing Chat Loses Its Mind When Fed Ars Technica Article
#AIChatGPT #BingChat #ArsTechnica

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