[gertrunde]

Current response from one of the more senior Ars folk:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...

(Paraphrasing: Story pulled over potentially breaching content policies, investigating, update after the weekend-ish.)

[gertrunde]

Just for completeness, the followup:

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...

And the original article has now been replaced with a brief paragraph on the retraction.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-reje...

[mpaepper]

It says 24y in his profile - is that really the more senior at Ars?

[Groxx]

An account that's 24 years old? That doesn't raise any warning flags for me, only possibly-positive ones.

[bombcar]

Yes, unless the original owner is still involved Aurich is likely most senior left.

[clint]

His account on the Ars Forum is 24 years old. Aurich himself is much older (lol)

[pbronez]

Look forward to seeing their assessment.