Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades.
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Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse
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• Jennifer Ouellette
A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.
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• Jon Brodkin
Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat
Trump has resisted urge to fire FCC Democrat despite recent Supreme Court win.
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• Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation
New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.
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• Dan Goodin
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
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• Kyle Orland
Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
Our discussion takes place live on August 11 at 3 pm ET.
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• Samuel Axon
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.
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• Beth Mole
Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist
Trump falsely claimed the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal" and linked shots to autism.
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• Scharon Harding
Players lose access to Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Nintendo Switch without refunds
A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.
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• Ashley Belanger
Amazon funds biggest gas power plant in US despite climate pledge
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
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• Jeremy Hsu
Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
Zuckerberg’s superyacht and support ship were slow to heed Coast Guard call.
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• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.
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• Beth Mole
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.
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• Kyle Orland
Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.
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• Ryan Whitwam
Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.
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• Eric Berger
One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program.
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• Jennifer Ouellette
Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad
fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.
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• Jim Resnick
2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks
The newest Outback sticks to the script; that's no bad thing if you like Outbacks.
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• Matt Burgess, wired.com
A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
Companies treat some email domains as digital trash cans, despite the risks.
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• Saima Sidik
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
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• Jacek Krywko
Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.
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• Eric Berger
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
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• Victoria Turk, wired.com
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
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• Jeremy Hsu
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.
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• Beth Mole
Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
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• Jon Brodkin
Meta ordered to pay $567M to treat youth mental health problems it helped create
New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
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• Dhananjay Khadilkar
The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.
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• Samuel Axon
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
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• Jon Brodkin
DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
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• Scharon Harding
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.