Amazon lifts ban on FedEx for third-party marketplace sellers

Amazon is making nice for now, but competition between them will only grow. | Continue reading


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Advocates ask colleges to avoid facial recognition as surveillance grows

Facial recognition: one of the few ways college kids aren't always tracked. Yet. | Continue reading


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Exploit that gives remote access affects 200M cable modems

Cable Haunt lets attackers take complete control when targets visit booby-trapped sites. | Continue reading


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HP Spectre x360 13 review: A high-end two-in-one that’s hard to beat

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I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things

Go to real a cashier if you want to buy fewer than seven items, apparently. | Continue reading


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Iranian hackers have been “password spraying” the US grid

State-sponsored group "Magnallium" has been probing US utilities for the past year. | Continue reading


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Indian Supreme Court finds 150-day Internet blackout in Kashmir illegal

Narendra Modi's government has cut Kashmir off from the Internet since August. | Continue reading


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US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware

Phones were sold to low-income people under the FCC's Lifeline Assistance program. | Continue reading


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TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo

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Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4B acquisition

Holiday shoppers warned that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.” | Continue reading


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TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch

Behind the scenes as a speedrunning robot breaks in to modern consoles. | Continue reading


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A young computer engineer tries to solve a mystery in first teaser for Devs

"The sense that you were participating in life was only ever an illusion." | Continue reading


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FCC will pay ISPs to deploy broadband with 250GB monthly data cap

Ajit Pai's rural-broadband fund now includes 50Mbps tier with 250GB data cap. | Continue reading


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Forget Top Gun: Maverick—let’s settle Blue Thunder vs. Airwolf once and for all

Remember when you could build a whole franchise out of just a cool vehicle? | Continue reading


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Panasonic new VR eyeglasses design

"Reference design" has the potential to revolutionize virtual reality comfort. | Continue reading


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Sometimes, your purpose in life is to be a cautionary tale. | Continue reading


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What a $300 set of official, sapphire-loaded D&D dice looks like

Only 1,974 sets were made, to honor the game's 45th anniversary. | Continue reading


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Fox executive teases Browncoats with hints of possible Firefly revival

Fox president of entertainment Michael Thorn made the comments during TCA. | Continue reading


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Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slower Internet

Verizon claims it's killing the cable bundle, then tells me I can't un-bundle. | Continue reading


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Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited

Flaw allows attackers to access sensitive memory locations that are normally off-limits. | Continue reading


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Sonos sues Google for patent infringement

Sonos showed Google its tech years ago without realizing they would compete. | Continue reading


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Boeing finally completes SLS core stage, packs it for Mississippi tests

Preliminary construction on this stage began in late 2015. | Continue reading


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Never-before-seen virus may be behind mystery outbreak in China

Investigators have already ruled out SARS and other obvious culprits, officials say. | Continue reading


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Tech could mean your phone stops you from getting killed by a car

Pedestrian deaths keep rising even as overall road deaths decrease. | Continue reading


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Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too)

The tools and methodology we test Wi-Fi with are open source—so you can use them, too. | Continue reading


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Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too)

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AMD’s third shoe finally drops at CES 2020–7nm Zen 2 mobile CPUs

Intel focused on AI acceleration—but AMD went unapologetically hard on gaming. | Continue reading


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China’s lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon

The data was collected over a period of 12 lunar "days." | Continue reading


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Yes, we needed a law to ban rental fees for devices that customers own in full. | Continue reading


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US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don’t provide

Yes, we needed a law to ban rental fees for devices that customers own in full. | Continue reading


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China’s lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon

The data was collected over a period of 12 lunar "days." | Continue reading


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PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit

Behold: the world's first known chosen-prefix collision of widely used hash function. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 years ago

Ditching coal in the US is saving lives, helping crops

Near shuttered plants, deaths drop and crop productivity rises. | Continue reading


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Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience

Paltrow asks the important question: "How can we really milk the shit out of this?" | Continue reading


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Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie

Federal Deposit Library Program's server unpatched since 2012. | Continue reading


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AT&T et al. fight against higher upload speeds in $20B FCC program

Big ISPs want more money for slower broadband as FCC plans new fund. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 years ago

Wi-Fi 6E

Doubling Wi-Fi's usable spectrum is a simpler fix than tacking on new protocols. | Continue reading


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Lenovo Enters the Foldable PC Space with New ThinkPad X1 Fold

Plus a new, dual-screen ThinkBook with an E-Ink panel on the cover. | Continue reading


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The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared

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The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared

YouTube creators don't have access to kids' data—but may get COPPA fines anyway. | Continue reading


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Byton is putting a 48-inch screen in its new EV, and it has content, too

Production of the M-Byte electric SUV starts this year with US deliveries in 2021. | Continue reading


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Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

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Modern tech has powered our favorite superheroes through the years

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Founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested (2016)

US prosecutors allege Artem Vaulin illegally distributed over $1 billion in IP. | Continue reading


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It’s the network, stupid: study offers fresh insight into why we’re so divided

Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks. | Continue reading


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What’s causing Australia’s devastating fire weather?

From climate trends to Indian Ocean temperature patterns. | Continue reading


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To replace gas taxes, Oregon and Utah ask EVs to pay for road use

Gas taxes pay for the upkeep of our roads, but electric cars don't use gasoline. | Continue reading


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Author pinpoints racism in science: Naive scientists plus strategic racists

Angela Saini's new book explores why science's racism issues have persisted. | Continue reading


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