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Ars Technica 2h ago

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

by Eric Berger

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

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Ars Technica 1d ago

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

by Reece Rodgers, wired.com

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

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Ars Technica 1d ago

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

by Beth Mole

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

by Ashley Belanger

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

by Jon Brodkin

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

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Ars Technica 1d ago

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

by Cyrus Farivar

Cancellations have accelerated.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

by Jennifer Ouellette

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

by Ashley Belanger

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

by Beth Mole

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

by Samuel Axon

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

by Jon Brodkin

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

by Ashley Belanger

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

by Dan Goodin

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

by Eric Berger

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

by Dan Goodin

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

by Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

by Kyle Orland

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

by Dan Goodin

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

by Scharon Harding

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

by Robert Pearlman

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

by Kyle Orland

"It just felt like the right thing to do."

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?

by Jennifer Ouellette

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

by Kiona N. Smith

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

by Eric Berger

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

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Ars Technica 8h ago

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

by Paresh Dave, WIRED.com

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

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Ars Technica 1d ago

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

by Jon Brodkin

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.

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