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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesperson, confirmed the details to Ars. “One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or...

Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it’s idiotic

Backlash to Trump’s vaccine order on Monday has been swift and sharp, with various public health and medical organizations and independent experts calling it...

Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement

By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut down, or being unable...

With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

“People’s diverse values represent different tradeoffs they would make on important issues. There is no technological solution that can align with everyone’s opposing interests...

Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species

And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols in the stratosphere are more effectively transported to...

The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

And that’s good, because there is a lot of work to do. In Jezero Crater, the rover is studying some of the most ancient...

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

The AI model must be picking up on something in the lower-resolution data that allows it to make predictions about storm intensity, but the...

Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Users could previously add this script manually to Copernicus Browser sessions by copying and pasting it using the custom visualization option under the default...

Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

The study identified 204 cases in all, but two did not have sufficient data to be included in the analysis. Of the 202 remaining...

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