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T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans

Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile today is notifying customers on some older smartphone plans that their monthly prices will soon be increased by either $2 or $5. T-Mobile confirmed the price increases when contacted by Ars today. "The increase...

Thu May 23, 2024 01:37
Netflix releases first look at new Witcher after Henry Cavill left for Warhammer 40K

The Witcher season four teaser. It has been a tumultuous run for Netflix's popular adaptation of The Witcher novels and games. A series of setbacks and controversies led to a long delay after the show lost its star, Henry Cavill. Now a brief season four teaser gives us our first look at Cavill's replacement in the role of Geralt of Rivia,...

Wed May 22, 2024 23:48
One difference with this wave of Arm PCs? All the big PC makers are actually on board

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single time that Microsoft has tried to get Windows running on Arm-based processors, instead of the Intel and AMD-made x86 chips that have been synonymous with Windows for more than three decades. The most significant attempts happened...

Wed May 22, 2024 23:48
Second human case of bird flu linked to cows found—via text messages

Enlarge / Holstein dairy cows in a freestall barn. (credit: Getty | ) A dairy farm worker in Michigan has tested positive for an H5 bird flu virus, marking the second human case of bird flu that has been linked to the unprecedented outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus among dairy cows in the US. According...

Wed May 22, 2024 23:48
Lizard that Hulks out shows off its superhero genes

Enlarge (credit: Kristian Bell) The lizard Podarcis muralis nigriventris might not grow to a freakish size and smash everything in sight, but evolution has turned this lizard into the Incredible Hulk of sorts—green skin included. P. nigriventris is something like the imposing Marvel superhero when compared to other strains...

Wed May 22, 2024 23:48
Here’s what’s really going on inside an LLM’s neural network

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) With most computer programs—even complex ones—you can meticulously trace through the code and memory usage to figure out why that program generates any specific behavior or output. That's generally not true in the field of generative AI, where the non-interpretable neural...

Wed May 22, 2024 22:27

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