Apple’s 27-inch iMac End of Life

Rumors suggest a big Apple Silicon iMac is coming, but it's not here yet. | Continue reading


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Endurance shipwreck has finally been found in pristine condition

Sir Ernest Shackleton led famed expedition that became timeless story of human survival. | Continue reading


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Russia’s console game market no longer exists

Sony, Nintendo join Microsoft in cutting the country off. | Continue reading


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Republican county clerk indicted in voting-machine breach, arrest warrant issued

Tina Peters indicted on 10 counts for "deceptive scheme" to leak confidential data. | Continue reading


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Brave takes on the creepy websites that override your privacy settings

Even if you block 3rd-party cookies, bounce tracking can set them anyway. Until now. | Continue reading


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Biden order floats US-issued digital currency as safer alternative to Bitcoin

Digital currency may have advantages but could also be tool for surveillance. | Continue reading


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Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/us-lawmakers-seek-criminal-probe-of-amazon-for-lying-about-use-of-seller-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30617812 Points: 173 # Comments: 34 | Continue reading


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Want to save rivers and coasts? Don’t burn rubber

Tires shed a lot of mass in their lifetime—what’s lost can end up in fish. | Continue reading


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Florida’s latest anti-health political stunt is to cast doubt on kids’ vaccines

Gov. DeSantis held roundtable with prominent COVID contrarians and anti-vax figures. | Continue reading


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How to save the International Space Station and prevent the dreaded “gap”

Unity in space remains in the best interest of the international partners. | Continue reading


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UK archaeologist suggests Stonehenge may have been an ancient solar calendar

Bournemouth University's Timothy Darvill says layout represents 365.25-day solar year | Continue reading


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Apple mulling bid for NFL Sunday Ticket package

Cash-flush Apple has been exploring a move into live sports. | Continue reading


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Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives. | Continue reading


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Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “Peek performance” event

Tune in at 1 pm EST on March 8, 2022, to see what's next from Apple. | Continue reading


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Popular “smart” device follows commands issued by its own speaker. What could go wrong? | Continue reading


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Attackers can force Amazon Echos to hack themselves with self-issued commands

Popular “smart” device follows commands issued by its own speaker. What could go wrong? | Continue reading


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43% of Americans–140M–have had Covid

About 37 million infected in omicron wave, and 58% of kids were infected at some point. | Continue reading


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A few simple rules govern self-organizing fire ant rafts

Agent-based model describes how "treadmilling" behavior can spontaneously emerge | Continue reading


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Steam Deck too “open” for Fortnite: Linux OS prohibits kernel-level anti-cheat

Linux-based OS doesn't easily allow for "kernel-level" anti-cheat protections. | Continue reading


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Mysterious X-rays could be kilonova “afterglow” from 2017 neutron star merger

This would mean the two stars "spun down" for a second before collapsing into black hole. | Continue reading


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The US Space Force plans to start patrolling the area around the Moon

"Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles above Earth." | Continue reading


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Honey, I shrunk the Mac: Enthusiast makes the Mac mini more mini

Mac mini mod trims the fat for a reduced footprint. | Continue reading


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Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released. | Continue reading


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FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers after 5G/altimeter debacle

Receivers that ignore spectrum boundaries are a problem for new wireless services. | Continue reading


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Polestar’s O2 concept is an electric roadster

The world needs electric droptops. | Continue reading


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Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

Expert: Cutting DNS links would harm Russian people but have little impact on gov't. | Continue reading


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Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp

Sources: Epic has larger media plans. | Continue reading


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Astronomers: “Vampire” star stripped the atmosphere from its binary partner

New data resolves debate about nature of star system HR 6819, discovered in 2020. | Continue reading


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Microsoft identifies and mitigates new malware targeting Ukraine within 3 hours

Company is also removing and deprioritizing info from Russian state media. | Continue reading


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Intel, AMD, and other industry heavyweights create a new standard for chiplets

UCIe 1.0 aims to standardize (and democratize) chiplet-based processor designs. | Continue reading


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Russia places extraordinary demands on OneWeb prior to satellite launch

Cooperation in space among Russia and the West has been stripped to the bone. | Continue reading


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DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size

100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline. | Continue reading


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Finally, we know production costs for SLS and Orion, and they’re wild

Someone finally said the quiet part out loud. | Continue reading


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Ukraine official confirms urgent request for Western satellite data

"Within one hour, there will be an attack on Kyiv again." | Continue reading


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Sony patents method for “significant improvement of ray tracing speed”

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders. | Continue reading


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DisplayPort 2.0 labels specify bandwidth to avoid HDMI 2.1-like confusion

UHBR80- and UHBR40-certified cables are already available. | Continue reading


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350k-yo skulls from a Spanish cave show high rate of fractures, many healed

Repeated fractures, many of which have healed. | Continue reading


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Hands-on: Gmail’s new sidebar feels like a big banner ad for Google Chat

Gmail's desolate vertical sidebar is optional today and mandatory in Q2 2022. | Continue reading


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A wartime plea to Western satellite companies: “We need this data, please”

"Within one hour there will be an attack on Kyiv again." | Continue reading


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After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark

“Cyber specialists” supporting Ukraine coordinate attacks on Telegram. | Continue reading


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5,300-year-old skull shows evidence of the earliest known ear surgery

Archaeologists also found a flint blade that may have been used as a cauterizing tool. | Continue reading


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Toyota shuts down all Japanese production after being hacked

The halt affects 14 factories, a third of Toyota's global production. | Continue reading


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Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

With a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, it's the first Windows-on-Arm ThinkPad. | Continue reading


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Australia’s standoff against Google and Facebook worked–sort of

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Russia pulls out of European spaceport, abandoning a planned launch

"We will take all relevant decisions in response to this decision." | Continue reading


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Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place

A single dot means we're nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. | Continue reading


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A brief tour of the Steam Deck’s Linux implementation

Until further notice, use Deck's built-in KDE desktop to unlock system's full potential. | Continue reading


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The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have myriad impacts on spaceflight

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an unguided de-orbit?" | Continue reading


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