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Text • Hannah Murphy, Financial Times

Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices

Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices

Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.

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Text • Samuel Axon

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.

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Text • Stephen Clark

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."

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Text • Madeline Shaw, Inside Climate News

As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease

As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.

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Text • Joshua Cohen, Undark Magazine

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

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Text • Stephen Clark

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like

"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."

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Text • Beth Mole

Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield

Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield

"We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare."

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Text • Beth Mole

Taco Bell iceburg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states

Taco Bell iceburg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states

Don't eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.

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Text • Eric Berger

Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.

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Text • Scharon Harding

Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

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Text • Lee Hutchinson

Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!

Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!

Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!

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Text • John Timmer

National Academies: Climate attribution is maturing, but still has limits

National Academies: Climate attribution is maturing, but still has limits

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

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Text • Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

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Text • Jim Resnick

2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.

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Text • Eric Berger

Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?

Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?

"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."

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Text • Stephen Clark

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."

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Text • Beth Mole

Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.

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Text • Scharon Harding

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

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Text • Nate Anderson

Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say

Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say

If only someone could have predicted it.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in review: Good, but skip the GR Sport

2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in review: Good, but skip the GR Sport

Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

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Text • John Timmer

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.