GPS at your fingertips may now be ubiquitous, but it took a convergence of tech over decades. | Continue reading


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Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors

Permanent suspension comes for violations of rules against tweeting hacked materials. | Continue reading


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Wishful thinking: George R. R. Martin offers a new Winds of Winter estimate

"This does not mean that the book will be finished tomorrow or published next week." | Continue reading


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In the UK, social media use associated with Covid-19 conspiracy theories

Older individuals who view mainstream news media less likely to hold nutty beliefs. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s roadmap for moving the first Macs away from Intel

After years of rumors, the inevitable has finally begun. | Continue reading


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Enthusiasm for point-to-point travel may be premature, space official says

“I still see that as somewhat speculative, and somewhat over the horizon.” | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

New model challenges idea that Pluto started out frozen

Surface images used to test “cold start” vs. “hot start” ideas. | Continue reading


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Crooks abuse Google Analytics to conceal theft of payment card data

Ecommerce site's "blind trust" makes the service a perfect place to dump data. | Continue reading


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Incestuous kings may have built Ireland’s Newgrange passage tomb

Ancient DNA from 44 people sheds light on Ireland's Neolithic political hierarchy. | Continue reading


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We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to

EVOO's 11.6" EV-C-116-5 has more substantial problems than its low specs imply. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Bot mafias have wreaked havoc in World of Warcraft Classic

Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Immunity to Covid-19 may wane just 2-3 months after infection, study suggests

It may not mean the end of immunity, but experts know little about immune responses. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Chrome extensions with 33M downloads slurped sensitive user data

Spying campaign tied to 15,000 malicious or suspicious domains uploaded data. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Europeans vow to pursue digital tax plans after US “provocation”

EU, UK say they will find new ways of taxing multinationals after US ends talks. | Continue reading


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It may not mean the end of immunity, but experts know little about immune responses. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

What to expect from WWDC 2020: OS updates, ARM Macs, and more

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@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Intel’s 3rd-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs offer 16-bit FPU processing

Today's product announcements carefully accentuate Intel's current strengths. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong, Pac-Man Records

Evidence review results in public split with Twin Galaxies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

GM makes cars; how did it quickly pivot to face shields and ventilators?

Additive manufacturing and great logistics and supply chains all played a role. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Everything we know about Tom Cruise’s plans to film a movie in space

“Axiom is working with Tom Cruise in the making of a movie,” Jim Bridenstine said this week. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Hackers are requiring targets to complete CAPTCHAs

Requiring human interaction thwarts automated analysis used by good guys. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Why one email app went to war with Apple–and why neither one is right

Op-ed: As antitrust probes and WWDC loom, one developer sparks a firestorm. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Boston Dynamics now sells a robot dog to the public

After 28 years of R&D, Boston Dynamics launches an online robot store. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

PG&E pleads guilty to manslaughter: “Our equipment started the fire.”

PG&E’s “gross negligence” led to massive 2018 Camp Fire, district attorney said. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Tesla reportedly shipping Model Ys with significant manufacturing defects

Electrek and pro-Tesla subreddits are full of refused deliveries due to defects. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Italian-made rocket faces a big test on Thursday night

“Vega was designed to launch small satellites from the beginning.” | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives

The hits keep coming against Western Digital's much-loathed SMR Red disks. | Continue reading


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Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds

Activists want demonstrators to stay active—but privacy implications abound. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

European Commission opens antitrust probe into Apple

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T-Mobile’s outage yesterday was so big that even Ajit Pai is mad

But Pai's FCC has a history of letting carriers off easy. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion

Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Intel will soon bake anti-malware defenses directly into its CPUs

Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will debut in Tiger Lake microarchitecture. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Though “barely an operating system,” DOS still matters (to some people) (2014)

Ars talks with members of the FreeDOS project team with one thought in mind: "Why?" | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar

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South Asia now has the oldest evidence of bows and arrows outside Africa

The bone arrowheads are between 48,000 and 34,000 years old. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Spies can eavesdrop by watching a lightbulb’s variations

Technique allows for real-time listening in on a room hundreds of feet away. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Zoom cites Chinese law to defend censorship of human rights activists

Zoom says it can’t “change the laws of governments opposed to free speech.” | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms

We’ve been using micro-frontends for two years. Now we’d like to share some of the lessons we’ve learnt along the way. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Most Covid cases don’t spread virus–it’s the superspreaders we need to stop

Mounting evidence on superspreaders suggests a shift in thinking about social distancing. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

The Last of Us Part 2 review: A less confident, less focused sequel

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@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Knoxville shuts down parts of network after ransomware attack

Knoxville is the 51st city or state entity hit by the ransomware scourge this year. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

OpenZFS removed master/slave terminology from its codebase

The terminology removed was inaccurate, as well as inappropriate. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers

Online library asks publishers to “call off their costly assault.” | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet

Unsafe for more than a decade, universal plug and play strikes again. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Explaining the law that prevents Internet platforms from being sued ↦

Section 230 is the legal foundation of social media, and it's under attack. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

ShutDownSTEM asks researchers to work on racism today, instead

Efforts spread as many reflect on academia’s own problems. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Russia’s space leader seems pretty bitter about SpaceX’s success

“Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots.” | Continue reading


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