General Tech
High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
Co-author: “The unique geometry of the valves is the key; they act as collapsible pistons” to deliver venom.
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39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
As of Friday, state health officials reported 1,136 cases across 41 counties.
Gaming
Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model
“No more hand-written code” or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Mobile
After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man’s Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later.
General Tech
WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights “key uncertainty”
Without a cause of death, it’s unclear if Russia’s precautions were the right ones.
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
“I may have information regarding this case,” Claude AI told Philly police.
Hardware
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Gaming
Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
Kojima’s discontinued “playable trailer” is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.
General Tech
F1 in Singapore: There’s a new fastest car now
Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
Mobile
Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it’s not a real smartwatch.
General Tech
Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
General Tech
Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
Alex Gibney’s provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there’s not much new here for Ars readers.
General Tech
Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One
General Tech
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
General Tech
Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
Artificial Intelligence
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Hardware
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain’s Museo de Historia de la Computación.
General Tech
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
“We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit.”
General Tech
What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains?
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
Software
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”
General Tech
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
Hardware
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
“The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle.”
Artificial Intelligence
AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Software
Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.
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