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If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings them here for the first time. And the discussions sometimes keep them coming back. Since its launch in 1998, Ars Technica has been known for its depth of community. If all you’re doing is checking out the front page and the discussion threads that sit beneath each story, you’re missing out on more than you realize. The Ars OpenForum is a place for readers to ask questions, compare notes,…

Former Cross River State Governor and presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Donald Duke, has described President Bola Tinubu as a formidable politician but criticised his administration’s performance in governance. Duke spoke on Monday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he assessed Tinubu’s political standing ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The PRP candidate said he did not believe Tinubu was politically stronger than he was in 2023, arguing that the President had lost some of the public sympathy he enjoyed during the last election. “I don’t think so, I think his governance has exposed…

Future quantum computers may depend on the ability to connect widely separated modules through distributed entanglement. Until now, creating this kind of connection has generally required active control and repeated measurements. Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have now demonstrated a fully autonomous alternative based on a “quantum bath” made from correlated particles of light. Published in Physical Review X, the experiment provides the first demonstration of a prediction proposed more than 20 years ago. The approach could eventually offer a new foundation for practical quantum technologies. Connecting Distant Quantum Bits Entanglement is one of the…

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Shadow Has Fallen, the third season of the Has Fallen franchise, is a go and has started filming. It follows Paris Has Fallen and the upcoming Apollo Has Fallen. It also continues the high-octane ambition of Gerard Butler’s Has Fallen film franchise. StudioCanal, Urban Myth Films, Millenium and G-Base said on Monday that filming has commenced, with the new season shooting in South Africa and the U.K. Ritu Arya (The Umbrella Academy, Polite Society) and Tewfik Jallab (Spiral, Dark Hearts) reprise their respective roles as fearless MI6 operative Zara Taylor and former French Secret Service agent Vincent Taleb. Joining the cast for season 3 are…

My partner packed up and disappeared with his children while I was out with friends. I was left having to foot all our bills, including rent, which has made me financially stressed.We had a family plan with O2 which meant family phones were all registered to my account. When my partner left, he stopped paying his share of the monthly phone bill, so I set about trying to remove his, and his children’s, phones from the account. O2 explained he would need to join a conference call with me and O2 to agree the transfer of the numbers in question.Getting…

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned the reported use of tear gas and force against pensioners protesting on Monday over unpaid pensions, gratuities and other entitlements at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The rights group, in a statement signed by its National President, Yinka Folarin, and General Secretary, Idris Afees, described the alleged action against the elderly protesters as “inhumane, unacceptable and a serious affront to human dignity.” The pensioners were reportedly at the Assembly complex on Monday to demand the payment of their outstanding entitlements after years of service to the Lagos State…

“I still have a 50% hope that he is alive because there is an oxygen system inside,” Sita Pandey, whose husband was working in the plant when the floods hit, told Nepalese daily Kantipur.Nepal relies heavily on hydropower and has spent years developing the projects along its mountainous river systems. At least 11 projects either completed or under construction were damaged in the floods, authorities said.Rescuers began pumping air into a tunnel over the weekend, but the families of those trapped say that should have been done earlier.A team was able to get into a tunnel leading to one hydropower…

Travis Kelce’s first commercial with Tommy Hilfiger drops on Sept. 1.Tommy HilfigerTravis Kelce grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and has spent his entire professional career in Kansas City, Mo.But the Kansas City Chiefs tight end has become associated with New York City during his seismic offseason.On July 4 weekend, Kelce wed Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden.“It was perfect,” Kelce said, “to kind of live out childhood dreams of being in that venue and the mecca of all sports venues.”Another iconic New York location — The Plaza Hotel, the luxurious residence where Tommy Hilfiger himself lived for 11 years…

In November 2023 – a lifetime ago in the field of artificial intelligence – some of the most powerful people in the world descended on Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking hub in Buckinghamshire, to talk about AI safety. In attendance were the then US vice-president, Kamala Harris, the AI bosses Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, delegations from 28 countries, two of the three so-called “godfathers” of AI, and Elon Musk.The first iteration of ChatGPT had been released only a year earlier, and there was already plenty of evidence that AI models could be used for ill, from spreading misinformation to…