UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say
Apple last year opposed UK's secret notices demanding encryption backdoors.
Return of the California Condor
North America’s largest bird disappeared from the wild in the late 1980s.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/return-of-the-california-condor/
Report: iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design “as early as next week”
New budget phone may include bigger screen, USB-C, Face ID, Apple Intelligence.
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Vast's schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious.
Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode
Users can access thumbsticks, shoulder buttons while sliding Joy-Cons on a flat surface.
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
Apple's defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled.
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
"This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China."
The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
The UK has transitioned to a lower-emission grid. Now comes the hard part.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/the-uk-got-rid-of-coal-wheres-it-going-next/
ChatGPT comes to 500,000 new users in OpenAI’s largest AI education deal yet
Still banned at some schools, ChatGPT gains an official role at California State University.
Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
When it comes to meaningless gestures, macaws try to follow the crowd.
Protection from COVID reinfections plummeted from 80% to 5% with omicron
New study shows why annual COVID boosters are critical to controlling COVID.
DeepSeek is “TikTok on steroids,” senator warns amid push for government-wide ban
Lawmaker urged passing DeepSeek ban on government devices is a "no-brainer."
2025 Genesis Electrified GV70 review: Wait for the next model year
We still like a lot about this EV, but next year brings a big upgrade.
Thanks to NASA, you probably won’t have to worry about this asteroid killing you
More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.
Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive well-known hacks
Amount paid by victims to hackers declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.
NASA will swap Dragon spacecraft on the ground to return Butch and Suni sooner
NASA can no longer wait on the development of a new Crew Dragon vehicle.
Judge suggests temporary order blocking DOGE from Treasury records
As far as DOJ knows, Elon Musk doesn’t have access to Treasury Dept. data.
Strain of H5N1 bird flu that killed Louisiana resident found in Nevada dairies
The finding suggests a new spillover event, further dashing hopes of containment.
Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation
Method allows a single algorithm to be spread across multiple quantum processors.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/quantum-teleportation-used-to-distribute-a-calculation/