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Text • Tom Wilson and Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer

Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer

"I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."

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Text • Chad Kirchner

Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy

Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy

General Motors' plans will require quite a lot of customers' trust.

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Text • Dan Goodin

333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.

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Text • John Timmer

UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer

UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer

Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about

FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about

Ex-FCC chairs say Brendan Carr aims to scare broadcasters into self-censorship.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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Text • Scharon Harding

Survey: Enterprises waste 28 percent of software budgets on unwanted upgrades

Survey: Enterprises waste 28 percent of software budgets on unwanted upgrades

Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrunk in Q3 2026.

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Text • Aurich Lawson

The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world

The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

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Text • Kyle Orland

RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades

RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades

Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Report says Musk, not Trump, ordered Starlink throttling that blindsided Ukraine

Report says Musk, not Trump, ordered Starlink throttling that blindsided Ukraine

Musk and Trump both denied ordering Starlink slowdown. WSJ reports it was Musk.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.

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Text • Scharon Harding

Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.

Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.

OS operators throwing out that data is "unlikely," research author tells Ars.

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Text • Eric Berger

SpaceX will attempt to reach weekly Starship launches by early 2027

SpaceX will attempt to reach weekly Starship launches by early 2027

"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."

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Text • Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw

Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw

Mike Flanagan defies the odds with a re-imagining of Stephen King's classic that is well worth watching.

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Text • Nick Indge

The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

Flipping through the highlights in and around Pinball Expo 2026.

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Text • Dan Goodin

PHP maintainers tell Web devs to prepare themselves for critical security patches

PHP maintainers tell Web devs to prepare themselves for critical security patches

Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.

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Text • Eric Berger

Making SpaceX and Tesla a single company has "a lot of merit," Musk says

Making SpaceX and Tesla a single company has "a lot of merit," Musk says

"I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."

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Text • Beth Mole

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Report: Microsoft's Project Helix planned for 2028 at $1,200 to $1,800 price

Report: Microsoft's Project Helix planned for 2028 at $1,200 to $1,800 price

Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.

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Text • Scharon Harding

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.

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Text • Nick Indge

OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact

OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact

OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests

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Text • Dan Goodin

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US

TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.

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Text • Eric Berger

Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.