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    To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

    Why not just set offline, written, anonymous, exams? The habit of having professors grade their own students using term papers rather than exams has always been a rod for teachers’ backs.
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    See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire

    Russian agent. He’ll have fled to Moscow by the end.
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    Russian spies use device code phishing to hijack Microsoft accounts

    It’s Microsoft. Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to do either the intuitive or the sensible thing.
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    Natural piezoelectric effect may build gold deposits

    Aqua Regia will dissolve anything, to quote Captain Flint in Arthur Ransome’s ‘Pigeon Post’.
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    The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC

    Anti-Windows posts always get downvoted on this site. (Self-hating readership?) But you’re right.
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    SpaceX has a license to launch Starship—this time it might fly at dawn

    Username checks out.
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    Hack of a Microsoft corporate account led to Azure breach by Chinese hackers

    I remember crashes. They happened when I used to use Microsoft’s operating system.
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    Google’s AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain

    Username checks out.
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    Google’s AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain

    ChatGPT has already solved that problem.
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    The final shift: Which manual transmission will be the last?

    Hey, Ars editors, tell your colleague to stop insulting the readers of your otherwise fine global publication.
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    The physics of James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>

    His greatest successor, Samuel Beckett, invokes ‘waves and particles’ somewhere in his Trilogy (Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable).
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    Collector discovered Isaac Newton’s lost personal copy of <em>Opticks</em>

    Bibliotheca “Opticoria”? One trusts the lucky owner does not invent provenance information as false as his Latin.
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    The 2022 Audi RS e-tron GT shows badge engineering is nothing to fear

    But is it as much fun to drive as the Model 3? Given the pronounced difference in that respect between Model 3 and Model S I’d be wary of buying a boat, even a highly powered one.
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    Historian: Galileo wrote a 17th century astronomy treatise under pseudonym

    This is a very doubtful claim indeed.
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    Historian: Galileo wrote a 17th century astronomy treatise under pseudonym

    Galileo’s use of the name ‘Simplicio’ is a little (a little) more sophisticated than this suggests. Simplicius (of which the Italian form is Simplicio) was an authoritative late antique commentator on Aristotle. So giving his Aristotelian character the name of Simplicio had a kind of plausible...
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    For SpaceX, Falcon 9 reuse is now essential

    And in Hiberno-English.
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    Stellarator’s plasma results show a triumph of engineering and modeling

    Interesting article. “Better them than me” would also work fine as a conclusion.
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    Curing disease not a “sustainable business model,” Goldman Sachs analysts say

    This article and the earlier one on infant mortality make it clear: only someone very improvident would choose to fall ill or be born in the USA under its current healthcare arrangements.
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    Office for Mac finally has real-time collaboration in 16.9.0 update

    Please god let them have fixed the appalling Global Template bug in Word 2016 for Mac.