Looks they're gonna investigate and perhaps post something next week. https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...

Yeah, “we just made shit up in an article, destroying trust in our publication, but we will get around to investigating when we have a little free time in the next week or so.”

No, you just shipped the equivalent to a data-destroying bug: it’s all-hands-over-the-holiday-weekend time.