📰 The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer — #ArsTechnica
❝In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
“It was a highly illegal operation. And we knew this very well,” Moldovanu tells me…
If militia officers caught […]
【美国观察：疫苗率洼地的健康风险】
Ars Technica 报道，爱达荷州报告了机场麻疹病例。该州是全美疫苗接种率最低的州之一。
分析：麻疹病例的出现再次暴露了美国公共卫生体系中的“脆弱环节”。在疫苗接种率极低的地区，地方性流行病极易通过航空交通网络迅速扩散。
观察点：这不仅是公共卫生问题，也可能引发后续针对学校强制接种政策的法律争议或社会舆论对疫苗政策的进一步博弈。
#美国观察 #生存导航 #美国健康 #疫苗 #ArsTechnica
【AI 应用：电动车新势力 Slate Auto 获 6.5 亿美元融资】
Ars Technica 报道，Slate Auto 近期完成了 6.5 亿美元融资。其推出的 Slate Truck 预计将于 2026 年底上市，起售价预计在 2.5 万美元左右。
分析：在电动车市场竞争白热化的背景下，这类具备高融资能力和明确价格锚点（中低价位）的新玩家，正试图通过差异化定位切入大众市场。
观察点：关注其量产进度以及在供应链成本控制方面的实际表现。
#美国观察 #AI应用 #电动车 #SlateAuto #ArsTechnica
【地缘观察/能源政策：被现实击碎的“能源主导权”】
Ars Technica 分析称，尽管美国国内油气产量创纪录，但伊朗战争引发的冲击仍导致油价飙升，使特朗普的“美国能源主导”愿景在现实面前显得乏力。
分析：这揭示了全球能源定价的残酷逻辑——单一国家的产量优势无法完全对冲地缘政治引发的供应恐慌。
观察点：关注美国是否会通过更激进的战略储备释放或外交手段来对冲这种“主导权”失灵。
#美国观察 #能源政策 #伊朗战争 #地缘政治 #ArsTechnica
Ars Technica’s core point is grim and well framed: this is not abstract cyber posturing, but interference with the industrial controllers that help run water, energy, and other public systems. The sharpest detail is that the attackers did not need exotic wizardry. In too many cases, exposed control gear and ordinary engineering pathways were enough. “Since at least March 2026, the authoring agencies identified … an Iranian-affiliated APT-group that disrupted the function of PLCs.” Joint advisory, via Ars Technica “Some of the victims experienced operational disruption and financial loss.” Joint advisory, via Ars Technica “The current campaign involves direct access to internet-exposed PLCs using legitimate vendor software … without requiring zero-day exploitation.” Censys, via Ars Technica
⚠️💻🚰⚡🍊 Iran-linked hackers are now disrupting internet-exposed PLCs inside U.S. critical infrastructure — a nasty reminder that blowback does not stay overseas. #Cybersecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #Iran #ArsTechnica
On March 27, a new official White House mobile app, billed as the fastest and most powerful way to stay informed about the Trump Administration, was built by 45Press, a Canfield, Ohio–based WordPress VIP Agency Partner led by CEO Joel… #aliens #arstechnica #canfield #oh #ovni #uap #ufo #ufosky #usa
#arstechnica After over a decade of being part of that community, no longer has my subscription lapsed, but I have closed my Ars Technica pinned tab, and deleted my account.
After the transphobia article by J. B., the sycophantic coverage of Musk by Eric Berger, the recent AI inventing quote […]
技術メディアの最高到達点、Ars Technicaが凄すぎる。
・執筆者の大半が博士号保持者
・CPU設計から量子力学まで深掘りする圧倒的な熱量
・研究者と一般層を繋ぐ最良のパイプライン
表層的な情報に飽きたエンジニアは必読です。
#テックメディア #ArsTechnica
Although a Pentagon-backed office says there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology, reports of unexplained anomalous phenomena increasingly trace to SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, whose bright trains and post-launch fl… #aliens #arstechnica #capecanaveral #ovni #uap #ufo #ufosky #usa
Godlike #Titan threatens #humanity in #Monarch : #Legacy of #Monsters S2 #trailer - #ArsTechnica
#uno
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Re: Ars Technica's incident with the "AI"-written article that they silently yanked instead of transparently correcting ...
Ars did publish a separate, mostly-opaque "Yes, the article was AI-written, and we've dealt with this internally" article a few days later. That is not up to the […]
You hate to see it!
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
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#ArsTechnica #Reporter #AI #Controversy #AISlop #Labor #Tech
We love reading Eric’s work regardless of the topic, but it’s especially great when it’s about us.
Read the full story here: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
#ArsTechnica #FLEXRover #Astrolab #LunarEconomy #Vermeer
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.t... […]
📰 Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - #ArsTechnica
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wiki...
Connected Cars, Disconnected Drivers
#ConnectedCars #SmartVehicles #Fisker #ArsTechnica
"An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"
tl;dr Volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting library, nixes pull request from an AI. The AI fought back. Then, Ars Technica’s senior AI reporter used AI to fabricate quotes about it. The irony would be funny... {more} #AI #ArsTechnica
In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down […]
I gave Ars Technica the benefit of the doubt and put their half-assed, opaque response down to it happening outside of work hours. With Monday being a holiday, I gave them another day to post a proper response.
They didn't.
So I #cancelled my Ars subscription, and wrote them again. If you have […]
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 2/17:
- 🤦♀️😵💫: Human rejects AI's code, AI publishes hit piece on human, #ArsTechnica skimps on fact checking
- #Microsoft let AI steal & write its GitHub flow training guide
- #TrendMicro plans cool threat actor naming convention
- A spicy #Ring commercial parody
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So what other things did Benj Edwards make up using ChatGPT for #ArsTechnica? You're gonna tell me that was his first time?
Cool, two #arstechnica writers I've trusted put out fabricated quotes. Just a really big "who can you trust" moment.
idc if they pulled the article within a day, that shit should never have been published.
masto.ai/@mttaggart@i...
I wrote to Ars:
Hi. Long time subscriber here, and reader long before that.
The story this week about one of the Python matplotlib maintainers, Scott Shambaugh, rejecting an "AI" / LLM-generated code pull request, and then "writing" a blog post attacking him, was of course worth covering. It's […]
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 […]
#ArsTechnica has been using LLMs to write their stories for a while now and refuse to acknowledge or credit it. They slap real (or fake) by-lines on the articles so they can copyright them since the US Copyright Office has ruled that AI generated content can NOT be Copyrighted.
ArsTechnica has […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
🚀 Polecam cały wątek. On nie jest o tym, czy można "ufać" wynikom "pracy AI". Ja myślę, że on jest o tym, czy można ufać ludziom, którzy "ufają" wynikom "pracy AI". Albo czy można ufać ludziom, którzy oszukują. Po prostu. Nie ważne, że […]
Microsoft Releases Urgent Office Patch. Russian-state Hackers Pounce. - https://mwyr.es/Rwd37lug #arstechnica #infosec
#NASA #Space #Politics
From #ArsTechnica: A NASA authorization bill passed today by the House space subcommittee seems to open the door to NASA purchasing commercial crew missions for deep space.
Right now, Congress requires NASA to use Space Launch System.
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#ArsTechnica #Ring_Outer_Door_Cam_Pro #ICE #SecretService #US_Navy_Criminal_Investigative_Service ( #all #three #from #Ron_Wyden )
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement. - Ars Technica […]
If you want to see engineers and intelligent people pushing back hard on an obvious #elon #spacex fluff piece, head over to #arstechnica, take in the disaster that is the article in question and marvel at the roasting #EricBergerArsTechnica is taking for the obvious, overzealous fellation. And […]
