Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill
Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.
This is the world’s smallest 3D-printed wineglass, Swedish scientists claim
Scientists also made a tiny optical resonator for telecommunications out of silica glass
Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”
COO says coming benchmarks will show anti-piracy tech has no performance impact.
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
BotDefense claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability
Just in time for the weekend: another unauthenticated SQL injection flaw!
Pixel Fold teardown reveals the guts of Google’s $1,800 phone
See the insides of the thinnest US foldable with the biggest battery.
Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011
Reddit urges US court to protect anonymity of six users who mentioned piracy.
ChatGPT’s user base shrank after OpenAI censored harmful responses
Data shows ChatGPT use decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.
Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30%
The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.
Dealmaster: Early Amazon Prime Day 2023 deals and more
Shop early and save big on these early Amazon Prime Day 2023 deals
US Space Command says it needs more maneuverable satellites
The military is starting to buy into orbital refueling.
Gears Technica: The keyboards and mice our editors swear by
Check out the peripherals the Ars staff relies on to game and stay productive.
Amazon has 5,000+ Rivian EV delivery vans on the road
Amazon will also send Rivian vans to Germany.
US’s largest grid operator must process and connect backlogged clean energy projects
PJM could benefit numerous states with thousands of jobs and billions in investment.
Rocket Report: Blue Origin seeks to go international; au revoir Ariane 5
"It's not a function of size, rather how much it accelerates our road map."
The physics of how gentoo penguins can swim speedily underwater
A variable called the "angle of thrust" explains why finned wings generate so much thrust.
Smelling in stereo—a surprising find on a fossilized shark
Fossils and modern experiments are telling us what a shark's nose knows.
Musk and Zuck may fight in court: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads
X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.
Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
The cephalopods experience an apparent sleep state with REM-like activity.
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking
Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.
