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A post on social media from the lander’s X account confirmed that once more, SLIM had defied the odds and snapped a picture of the lunar surface using its navigation camera.

However, with telemetry showing that some of the electronics (temperature sensors) and battery cells were malfunctioning, the chances of the lander making it through a third lunar night seemed remote.

“SLIM’s condition will be monitored to clarify areas where deterioration has progressed due to the day and night environments, and where there is less susceptibility.”

The mission was initially declared a “minimum success” because the lander tipped onto its side during the landing, meaning that it could not achieve all the intended goals.

JAXA gave no indication as to whether SLIM might survive a fourth lunar night or the state of the lander’s electronics.

At the start of April, hopes that a third night might be survivable were tempered with a warning that “the sensors and other functions are gradually being lost.”

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FTC lawyers submitted a filing on Thursday that claims Amazon’s top execs used Signal’s disappearing messages feature to destroy evidence relevant to the agency’s massive antitrust lawsuit.

The FTC accused Amazon of creating a secret “Project Nessie” pricing algorithm that may have generated more than $1 billion in extra profits.)

You may recall the government making similar arguments about Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of Signal during his trial for fraud and how that verdict eventually shook out.

This week’s filing includes screenshots of a Signal chat between two Amazon executives who said, “Are you feeling encrypted?” and proceeded to turn on disappearing messages.

Bezos is identified in the document as “a heavy Signal user” who instructed others to use the app, although the 2018 hacking of his personal cellphone may be part of the reason for that.

The FTC lawyers are pursuing discovery into Amazon’s efforts to preserve documents so they can figure out just how much information might be missing.

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The software, which resembles commercial offerings from companies like Intuit and H&R Block, allows taxpayers to file directly to the government free.

But a senior Treasury Department official, who answered reporters’ questions about the program on Friday on the condition of anonymity, said that the Biden administration would make a decision in the coming weeks about whether to renew the software for the next tax filing season.

Before the development of the website — which was coded by IRS employees, the White House’s U.S. Digital Service and the General Services Administration in a matter of months — IRS officials told Congress that it might cost $64 million to $249 million per year to run a free tax filing website, depending on how many people chose to use it.

The agency also spent more than an additional $10 million for an initial study and report to Congress on the idea of a free filing site.

Werfel promised a more detailed report on costs, and interviews with taxpayers, state officials, and software companies, before a decision is made on whether to renew the program.

When Werfel testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing earlier this month, Republican committee leader Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho called Direct File “wasteful and duplicative.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) questioned Werfel about the full costs of the program, saying, “I for one hope … at some point you just decide it’s not worth it, because the private sector options are so much better.”

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So it’s been doing the logical thing for years, which is finding other ways to make money, and it’s been largely successful, particularly as it added the App Store and services like Apple Music.

And smaller developers struggled to find a business model that worked between Apple’s commission fees and strict guidelines over how and when it could charge customers for their product.

Microsoft recognized that Java could make porting software from Windows to other systems easier, so it sabotaged Sun’s efforts and instructed its allies not to aid the company.

Apple responded to the pressure by promising to support RCS on the iPhone — a standard that updates the relatively ancient SMS/MMS protocol and includes more iMessage-like features.

The other shoe fell last month when the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market.

But that’s unlikely to be the end of it — app developers aren’t happy with the company’s “malicious compliance” to new rules under the DMA, and European regulators are investigating Apple’s response.

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Carriers and Big Tech are happily continuing to use network address translation (NAT) and IPv4 to protect their investments, with the result that transition to IPv6 is glacial while the entire internet is shaped in the image of incumbent players.

That’s the opinion of Geoff Huston, chief scientist at regional internet registry the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).

He argues the widespread use of NAT masks the fact that the internet is largely stuck on IPv4 because incumbents don’t see the need to change.

"The widespread use of NATs in IPv4 limits the technical substrate of the internet to a very restricted model of simple client/server interactions using TCP and UDP.

“Today’s internet carriage service is provided by a smaller number of very large players, each of whom appears to be assuming a very strong position within their respective markets,” Huston observes.

APNIC expressed similar concerns in December 2021, when a report jointly commissioned by Latin American internet registry LATNIC suggested that big tech’s in-house networks carry a huge slice of global traffic, giving the likes of Google and Facebook enormous influence over internet architecture.

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With an election looming, Eby’s NDP government has been bombarded with a string of headlines about concerns with decriminalization — a pilot program introduced in January 2023 allowed adult drug users in B.C.

“We are taking immediate action to make hospitals safer and ensuring policies are consistent and strictly enforced through additional security, public communication and staff supports,” Dix said in a statement.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ordered the law paused until March 31, ruling it would likely result in more deaths, displacement and criminalization of people who use drugs.

This change aligns with the critical work we have already undertaken with the federal and provincial governments to address open drug use in public areas, especially around playgrounds, splash pads, beaches, and sports fields."

United Leader Kevin Falcon and his critic for mental health and addiction Elenore Sturko issued a joint statement calling the government’s move a “desperate attempt to salvage a failing policy.”

Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau expressed concerns about the increase in arrests that could be associated with the policy, writing, “Police discretion is especially likely to stigmatize Indigenous and racialized British Columbians.”

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Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65 billion and a whopping $1 trillion in total processed payment volume last year alone.

That might sound like a lot of noise, but in truth, most of the list of new items is actually on the incremental side — updates and new features to bigger products already announced.

“This year, because of our scale, Stripe is well positioned to help our users deal with the increasingly complex payments landscape and put AI to work to drive growth.

Stripe removing its requirement to use its payments API addresses a major piece of friction for customers and would-be customers who might have wanted to use some of the company’s other tools — which include the likes of fraud, risk and verification services, billing and invoicing, in-person payments, financial account data, and more — but did not want to be all in on Stripe’s larger platform.

In an interview, Will Gaybrick, Stripe’s president of product and business, admitted that users had been asking the company to open up its walled garden for some time, but he claimed that one of the main reasons why it delayed doing so until now was due to it being technically hard to create integrations for legacy services.

Gaybrick told TechCrunch that Lightspeed, the point-of-sale company, makes 50% of its revenues now from embedded finance products, so it’s an important area for Stripe to keep developing.

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Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial, demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials, which has always been shrouded in secrecy.

He added: “We encourage clinical trial sponsors and implementors to try our Transparency Core toolkit, and to build on it as a guide to facilitate the publication of cost data.

MSF’s paper, presented Thursday at a WHO conference on medicines pricing, showed it was possible to collect good data on spending in trials, Scourse said.

Although MSF’s trials took place in middle-income countries, the costs were not low, said Scourse, because they had to invest substantial sums to upgrade infrastructure – such as TB clinics – to be able to conduct high-quality research.

“The pharmaceutical industry invests around $200bn every year on research and development,” said James Anderson, IFPMA’s executive director of global health.

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techUK told The Register this week: "As the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill receives Royal Assent, we are disappointed that the government did not address the widespread concerns about its potential negative impacts.

"We remain concerned that these reforms will weaken privacy protections, expand surveillance powers, hinder security innovation, and risk exacerbating international conflicts of law without sufficient safeguards.

Apple, for example – a company that famously refused to bend even to the FBI after they wanted to crack open the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, said it would consider pulling iMessage and FaceTime from the UK over fears they would be forced to weaken security.

The company branded the IPB’s rule “an unprecedented overreach by the government,” adding it believes the changes are an “attempt to secretly veto new user protections globally, preventing us from ever offering them to customers.”

Abigail Burke, platform power program manager at the Open Rights Group, previously told The Register, before the IPB was debated in parliament, that the proposals amounted to an “attack on technology.”

The Online Safety Bill was also passed last year after a rocky process that garnered equally loud concerns from privacy campaigners about a so-called “spy clause” that aimed to capture encrypted private messages.

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In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud.

On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone.

Apple says its approach with OpenELM includes a “layer-wise scaling strategy” that reportedly allocates parameters more efficiently across each layer, saving not only computational resources but also improving the model’s performance while being trained on fewer tokens.

According to Apple’s released white paper, this strategy has enabled OpenELM to achieve a 2.36 percent improvement in accuracy over Allen AI’s OLMo 1B (another small language model) while requiring half as many pre-training tokens.

As Apple says in its OpenELM paper abstract, transparency is a key goal for the company: “The reproducibility and transparency of large language models are crucial for advancing open research, ensuring the trustworthiness of results, and enabling investigations into data and model biases, as well as potential risks.”

By releasing the source code, model weights, and training materials, Apple says it aims to “empower and enrich the open research community.”

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Now, doctors are raising the alarm about increasing numbers of lung cancer cases in this community and working to reform the screening guidelines to better include Asian American women.

To date, studies of female nonsmokers in Asia have identified risk factors such as cooking oil fumes, secondhand smoke, air pollution and indoor heating with coal, but no research has focused on Asian American women, Gomez said.

Although the two groups are matched in terms of ethnicity and age, the researchers hope to find some differences in genetics, as assessed by saliva samples, and environmental exposure, determined through surveys asking about people’s pasts.

But Palaniappan also cautioned that better inclusion of Asian American women in the screening guidelines is still a long way off, with many more studies needed to confirm and build on Shum’s findings.

For scientists who want to disrupt that narrative, it can be incredibly difficult, because only 0.17% of the National Institutes of Health budget over 26 years was devoted to research on AANHPI.

In many ways, it’s not surprising that Cheng, Gomez and Shum — three Asian American women — are leading the first-of-a-kind studies, because who else would be motivated enough to jump through all the hoops and push through the skepticism?

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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

Cable and telecom companies plan to fight the rules in court, but they lost a similar battle during the Obama era when judges upheld the FCC’s ability to regulate ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.

“Instead of clearing obstacles to speed broadband deployment where it is most needed, this ill-timed and unlawful order threatens to hinder progress,” NCTA CEO Michael Powell said.

The court battle against the FCC will center on whether the commission can define broadband as a telecommunications service, a necessary step for imposing Title II common-carrier regulations.

ISPs hope that the Supreme Court’s evolving approach to “major questions” will prevent the FCC from defining broadband as telecommunications without explicit instructions from Congress.

There’s no ‘unheralded power’ that we’re purporting to discover in the annals of an old, dusty statute—we’ve been classifying communications services one way or the other for decades, and the 1996 [Telecommunications] Act expressly codified our ability to continue that practice."

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The rules were repealed under President Donald J. Trump, and have proved to be a contentious partisan issue over the years while pitting tech giants against broadband providers.

In a 3-to-2 vote along party lines, the five-member commission appointed by President Biden revived the rules that declare broadband a utility-like service regulated like phones and water.

In a letter sent to Ms. Rosenworcel this week, dozens of leading Republican lawmakers warned that regulating broadband providers like a utility would harm the growth of the telecommunications industry.

There have been few examples of blocking or slowing of sites, which proponents of net neutrality say is largely because of fear that the companies would invite scrutiny if they did so.

“The internet in America as thrived in the absence of 1930s command-and-control regulation by the government," said Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner.

In the vacuum of federal regulations, several states including California and Washington created their own net neutrality laws.

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The PDA even set the template for how its smartphone successors would render it obsolete, moving from simple personal information management to encompass games, messaging, music, and photos.

So in this Ars retrospective, we’ll look back at some notable examples of the technical evolution of the Palm operating system and the devices that ran it—and how they paved the way for what we use now.

Using a resistive 10-inch black-and-white LCD as the screen and writing surface, it ran MS-DOS on a lower-power 10 MHz Intel 80C86 and weighed just about two kilograms (4.5 pounds), selling at an MSRP of $2,500 (about $6,200 in 2024 dollars).

Hawkins selected GeoWorks’ PC/GEOS as the operating system based on its proven ability to run on inexpensive hardware, and Tandy brought on longtime partner Casio (also a major pocket computer manufacturer) as the new device’s OEM.

To manage the growing company, Hawkins hired Apple-Claris alumnus Donna Dubinsky as CEO and later Ed Colligan as VP of marketing, fresh from Macintosh peripherals maker Radius.

Unfortunately, the Zoomer’s development became increasingly troubled due to corporate interference and software churn, and although underclocking its x86-compatible CPU to 7 MHz dramatically extended its battery life, it also made the unit slow and ponderous.

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