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Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.

【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

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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

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

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Did Nazis escape on a UFO? Dev who asked the question just built the official White House app. Did you know that Ohio is a hotbed of UFO activity?

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

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Original post on social.sciences.re

#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 […]

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Ars Technica - Wikipedia Ars Technica's features are long articles that go into great depth on their subject. For example, the site published a guide on CPU architecture in 1998 named "Understanding CPU caching and performance". An article in 2009 discussed in detail the theory, physics, mathematical proofs, and application

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

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A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites for UAPs We were able to assess that they were all in those cases looking at Starlink flares."

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

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Godlike #Titan threatens #humanity in #Monarch : #Legacy of #Monsters S2 #trailer - #ArsTechnica

#uno

arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/meet-the...

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Original post on mindly.social

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 […]

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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

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As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester" Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters."

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

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Original post on scicomm.xyz

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... […]

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📰 Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - #ArsTechnica

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wiki...

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Connected Cars, Disconnected Drivers
#ConnectedCars #SmartVehicles #Fisker #ArsTechnica

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"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

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Original post on scicomm.xyz

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 […]

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Original post on mindly.social

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 […]

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#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?

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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...

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Original post on mindly.social

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 […]

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Original post on mindly.social

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 […]

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Original post on bofh.social

#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 […]

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Original post on mastodon.com.pl

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 […]

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Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.

Microsoft Releases Urgent Office Patch. Russian-state Hackers Pounce. - https://mwyr.es/Rwd37lug #arstechnica #infosec

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US House takes first step toward creating "commercial" deep space program We will continue to rely on the ingenuity of the private sector."

#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.

arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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Original post on arvr.social

#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 […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

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 […]

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Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March NASA spent most of Monday trying to overcome hydrogen leaks on the Artemis II rocket.

#Space #NASA #Artemis

#ArsTechnica on the liquid hydrogen leaks during yesterday's #Artemis2 wet dress rehearsal. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman tweeted this morning that the launch is now no earlier than March.

arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.

DHS is using administrative summonses under repurposed customs authority to test de‑anonymization of ICE critics, signaling a broader effort to deter documentation and normalize speech suppression without successful enforcement. #Trump #DHS #ICE #DigitalRepression #ProtestSurveillance #ArsTechnica

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