Like other organizations, Dell risks losing employees by implementing a divisive mandate. For Dell specifically, internal tracking data reportedly found that nearly half of workers already opted for remote work over being eligible for promotions or new roles, according to a September Business Insider report. at Arstechnica.com

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale, and dissemination of bogus scholarly research. These paper mills are profiting by undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives. at Arstechnica.com

Google's support page only states that the update will "improve the stability of their battery's performance." This is true in the sense that, if you stop using a severely capped Pixel 4a entirely, its battery can provide a stable amount of output (none) into the future. at Arstechnica.com

The complaint to the FCC regarding the Harris interview was filed by the Center for American Rights against flagship station WCBS-TV. The conservative group alleged that CBS violated the news distortion rule with its editing of the interview, and asked for an FCC order compelling CBS to release the full unedited transcript. at Arstechnica.com

Over the last week, OpenAI's place atop the AI model hierarchy has been heavily challenged by Chinese model DeepSeek. Today, OpenAI struck back with the public release of o3-mini, its latest simulated reasoning model and the first of its kind the company will offer for free to all users without a subscription. at Arstechnica.com

Kristen Stewart plays one of those remnants: a little yellow SMART buoy we first see trapped in ice in a desolate landscape. The buoy has achieved a rudimentary sentience, sufficient to respond to the recorded message being beamed out by an orbiting satellite (Steven Yeun) overhead to detect any new lifeforms that might appear. at Arstechnica.com

It all looks pretty tame from the outside, as it sports the familiar Mustang shape that has hardly changed over the last few generations. Even the wing is slender by race car standards, only subtly different from the one on the road-going Dark Horse. at Arstechnica.com

For the past four years, Michelin has been crunching data gathered from cars racing on its rubber (and the other 199 components). "And eventually, we are able to build and develop a thermomechanical tire model able to mimic and simulate tire behavior, tire performance, whatever the specification is," Tramond said. at Arstechnica.com

More recently, some Google users have noticed that appending the string "-ai" to a search (without quotes) seems to also turn off AI Overviews in the results. That method has worked in Ars' testing, as has appending practically any other text string after a minus sign at the end of a search, for some reason. at Arstechnica.com

The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of a new non-opioid pain medication this week, marking the first time in over two decades that the agency has approved a non-opioid pain drug with a novel mechanism of action. at Arstechnica.com

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This mantis shrimp-inspired robotic arm can crack an egg Device can grab like a hand, crawl across the floor, or jump high, just by pulling on a simple muscle. at Arstechnica.com

Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, if you can pay for them Businesses often use hardware and software that still needs x86 to run properly. at Arstechnica.com

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