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Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port - Ars Technica

Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.

Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC - Ars Technica

Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic...

One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics. - Ars Technica

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.

Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone - Ars Technica

Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations - Ars Technica

We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."

PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023 - Ars Technica

The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."

Winning Nikon Small World in Motion video disqualified for AI use - Ars Technica

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink - Ars Technica

These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."

Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules - Ars Technica

Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light - Ars Technica

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.

PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated - Ars Technica

Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.

Jaguar makes its controversial all-EV return with the Type 01 - Ars Technica

Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.

Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally - Ars Technica

The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.

If you’re looking, here’s a “good deal” for NASA and the European Space Agency - Ars Technica

We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service” - Ars Technica

A combined service could lead to higher prices.

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic - Ars Technica

The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.

Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 - Ars Technica

The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents - Ars Technica

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

Can it run Doom: SQL database edition - Ars Technica

300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash - Ars Technica

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed - Ars Technica

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive thanks to AI - Ars Technica

Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.

Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract - Ars Technica

Blue Origin seeks FAA approval for up to 50 New Glenn launches and 50 booster landings per year.

Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust - Ars Technica

A physical model show that iron dust and sulfuric acid create the right properties.

Here's why NASA is celebrating the failed mission to save the Swift observatory - arstechnica.com

We did some really, really cool stuff. I'm absolutely gutted we weren't able to get further."

Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates - Ars Technica

The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.

AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia - Ars Technica

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers - Ars Technica

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

Fruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevity - Ars Technica

Eating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults.

T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant - Ars Technica

Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.

Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade - Ars Technica

Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep - Ars Technica

Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.

Rocket Report: ULA flies into uncertain future; Falcon 9 family hits 700 launches - Ars Technica

“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."

Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families - Ars Technica

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.

NASA to order more Starliner missions and help certify a new rocket to keep it flying - Ars Technica

They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."

A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it - Ars Technica

Dolphins are predators and actively hunt their prey, whether it's been stolen from another species or not.”...

Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse’s cortex - Ars Technica

The results are only a slight improvement over missing the entire brain structure.

Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls - Ars Technica

Even a handheld XRF scanner is sufficient to determine most promising scrolls for further analysis.

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review - Ars Technica

It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.

The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations - Ars Technica

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.