Rocket Report: A blue mood at Blue; Stoke Space fires a short over the bow
"Rapid turnaround isn’t merely a goal, it’s baked into the design."
H5N1 testing in cow veterinarians suggests bird flu is spreading silently
The findings suggest transmission and cases are going undetected.
Streaming used to make stuff networks wouldn’t. Now it’s seeking safer bets.
Opinion: Streaming gets more cable-like with new focus on live events, mainstream content.
Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites digging in her brain
After three trips to the ER, woman gets diagnosis of dreaded rat lungworm.
Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”
Publishers sue Cohere, say AI firm is "stealing our works."
Wheel of Time S3 trailer tees us up for Last Battle
“There’s not enough ale in the world to deal with this.”
Apple teases launch for “the newest member of the family” on February 19
Most likely to be a new entry-level iPhone, but there are a few possibilities.
Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model
GPT-4.5 will arrive in "weeks," then GPT-5 will meld conventional LLMs and reasoning models.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/sam-altman-lays-out-roadmap-for-openais-long-awaited-gpt-5-model/
“A sicker America”: Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary
In Senate hearings, Kennedy continued to express anti-vaccine views.
Over half of LLM-written news summaries have “significant issues”—BBC analysis
Frequent problems include mangled quotes, editorializing, and outdated info.
Citing too much “bureaucracy,” Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce
"We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years."
Avowed review: Wait, are we the baddies?
Obsidian's new fantasy RPG asks you to be the unwelcome face of a hated occupying force.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/avowed-review-wait-are-we-the-baddies/
The Honda-Nissan merger is dead
Always more of a takeover than a merger, they agreed to call the whole thing off.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/the-honda-nissan-merger-is-dead/
Financially motivated hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa
Two players who mostly worked independently are increasingly collaborative.
“Largest data breach in US history”: Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE
DOGE and Musk face three more lawsuits over "brazen ransacking" of private data.
From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion
The implosion took milliseconds, but its echoes lasted far longer.
Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim
He now faces four years in federal prison.
Apple TV+ crosses enemy lines, will be available as an Android app starting today
Apple TV+ app on Android will work mostly as it does on any other device.
Nine unvaccinated people hospitalized as Texas measles outbreak doubles
All 24 cases are in unvaccinated people, 22 of which are under age 17.
Most energetic neutrino yet seen smashes through seafloor detector
Neutrino was over 10,000 times over the limits of our best particle accelerator.