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1. 1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how

   Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet.

2. Google rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android masses

   Gemini Live allows back-and-forth conversation, now free to all Android users.

3. Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United’s airplanes

   The upgrade starts in 2025, but with more than 1,000 planes, will take several years.

4. OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

   New o1 language model can solve complex tasks iteratively, count R's in "strawberry."

5. Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

   The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

6. My dead father is “writing” me notes again

   A recent AI discovery resurrected my late father's handwriting—and I want anyone to use it.

7. As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

   Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.

8. Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris

   Taylor Swift on AI: "The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth."

9. Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have

   .mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.

10. Speakers announced for the Ars Technica infrastructure event in San Jose

    Come register to join us on September 18, learn some stuff, and hang out!