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When a plan comes together: Inside a massive Eve Online corporate heist
Eve Online's "Flam_Hill" used the game's corporate share voting system to take control of in-game assets. Flam_Hill is just one alias of Dave, a long-time Eve player who previously served as the CEO of the Event Horizon Expeditionairies corporation. Dave tells Ars that his recent "hostile takeover" started as an attempt to reclaim assets from a corporation he felt had lost its way.
AI platform allegedly bans journalist over fake Trump arrest images Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins claims he was banned from AI-imager Midjourney. Higgins created 50 fake images imagining what former President Donald Trump's arrest would look like. The images caused confusion for some users because the engine generates such realistic-looking content. Higgins told Ars that responses to the images have been generally positive.
Report: More Twitter drama after Slack shutdown; employees play hooky Twitter's internal Slack channels were suddenly shut down on Wednesday and Thursday. A Slack spokesperson confirmed to Ars that Slack did not deactivate Twitter's workspace or user accounts. It may be that Twitter CEO Elon Musk is looking for more ways to cut costs.
Hope and doubt collide in an eventful episode 6 of The Last of Us New episodes of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night. Ars' Kyle Orland and Andrew Cunningham will be talking about them right after the episodes air. While these recaps don't delve into every single plot point, there are obviously heavy spoilers contained within.
Geekbench’s creator on version 6 and why benchmarks matter in the real world Geekbench has become one of the Internet's most-used (and most-argued-about) benchmarking tools. "I'm really glad that people seem to have latched onto it," Primate Labs founder and Geekbench creator John Poole told Ars. "How hard can it be to write a benchmark? Maybe I should write my own."
Twitter experiencing international outages; most users can’t tweet or DM Twitter began experiencing international outages late Wednesday afternoon. Many users were unable to perform basic functions like tweeting, sending direct messages, and following accounts. When Ars reporters attempted to tweet, an error message was generated saying that a daily limit had been reached.
Hell is other humans in HBO’s The Last of Us episode 4 New episodes of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night. Ars' Kyle Orland and Andrew Cunningham will be talking about them here every Monday morning.
Time(s) for a change: State Department picks a new official typeface US diplomats and their staff will no longer use Times New Roman. From February 6, the US Department of State will adopt Microsoft's sans serif Calibri. The move sparked a somewhat tendentious discussion in the Ars virtual office earlier today.
Musk on trial for “funding secured” tweet—experts predict he’s going to lose Elon Musk is headed to trial over his infamous tweet claiming he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 a share. A 10-day civil trial with jury selection scheduled for Tuesday, January 17, is set to begin in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Law professor Robert Miller told Ars he thinks Musk will lose and that the only outstanding question is how much he'll have to pay in damages.
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