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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

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Amazon is adding three types of shoppable ads to Prime Video's ad tier.

OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections

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OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector.

Tuesday, May 7

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Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect

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Reach your little Pis from nearly any browser—and free up your RealVNC slots.

Amid two wrongful death lawsuits, Panera to pull the plug on “charged” drinks

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A large previously contained nearly as much caffeine as the FDA's daily safe limit.

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Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh

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Enlarge / Apple's latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you use with older iPad Airs and Pros, though they can use the new Apple Pencil Pro. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

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Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity—now he’s been ID’d

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The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

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Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.

TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US government over “foreign adversary” law

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Law curtails "massive amounts of protected speech," TikTok and ByteDance allege.

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Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak

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Getting evidence-based care may be like pulling teeth, researchers suggest.

Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed

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FAA: Boeing apparently didn't confirm bonding "where the wings join the fuselage."

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Sneaking science into Borderlands: Inside the game inside a game

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A key to its success? Making a game that didn't look like it involved biology.

Doc who claimed COVID shots cause magnetism gets medical license back

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She also claimed cities liquified dead bodies and poured them into the water supply.

NHTSA sends Tesla massive data request as it investigates Autopilot recall

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Tesla has until July 1 to comply with the data request about its Autopilot recall.

The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates

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Today is a big event day for Apple, but that doesn't mean Google is going to fade into the background: It's announcing the Pixel 8a is also official today. The big news is that the Pixel a series is still $499 despite some upgrades.

Hands-on with the new John Wick pinball

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Stern Pinball brings the legendary assassin to the world of mechanical gaming.

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Microsoft shuts down Bethesda’s Hi-Fi Rush, Redfall studios

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Xbox maker wants to "prioritiz[e] high-impact titles" according to letter to staff.

New “Apple Pencil Pro” can do a barrel roll

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New Magic Keyboard promises a Macbook-like experience, while the Pencil gets new tricks.

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Apple kills $329 iPad with home button, Lightning port

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Apple is lowering the price of its 10th-generation iPad from $399 to $349, the company announced at its Let Loose event today.

Nintendo pre-announces a Switch 2 announcement is coming… eventually

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Enlarge / Nintendo will eventually gift us Switch 2 information, hopefully in time for Christmas (credit: Aurich Lawson)

Apple announces M4 with more CPU cores and AI focus, just months after M3

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Aggressive update schedule is a major departure for Apple Silicon.

New iPad Pros are the thinnest Apple device ever, feature dual-OLED screens

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They also contain what Apple calls the fastest consumer AI computer you can buy.

Apple’s first 13-inch iPad Air debuts at $799 next week

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Apple today announced the first 13-inch iPad Air. Apple is also releasing a revamped, 11-inch iPad Air next week, meaning the tablet will be available in two sizes for the first time.

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Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters

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Polaris Dawn will be the first time that SpaceX employees have actually gone to space.

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Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch

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The soonest opportunity for Atlas V and Starliner to launch is Friday night.

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Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

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New method could help high-score chasers trying to avoid game-ending crashes.

Monday, May 6

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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

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TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.

Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

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Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

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New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

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In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters.

SpaceX got the fanfare, but Boeing’s first crew flight is still historic

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Ars spoke with the three Americans alive who have test-flown a new spacecraft in orbit.

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Telcos keep using “insecure” Chinese gear because of congressional inaction

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Congress only gave 38% of funds needed for "rip and replace," FCC chair says.