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• Nate Anderson
As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
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• Jon Brodkin
Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine
Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal.
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• Scharon Harding
Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage
Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.
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• Ashley Belanger
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
The opposite of a hypercar is... fun? Meet the Gasolini AR1
The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.
Ars Technica
• Rafe Rosner-Uddin
Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.
Ars Technica
• Kiona N. Smith
Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
Ars Technica
• Liza Gross
Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.
Ars Technica
• Jennifer Ouellette
VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: The Last Starfighter
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."
Ars Technica
• Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Ars Technica
• Jeremy Hsu
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
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• Jon Brodkin
State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.
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• Scharon Harding
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.
Ars Technica
• Ryan Whitwam
Google ordered to make it easier to download alternative Android app stores
Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.
Ars Technica
• Jennifer Ouellette
R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision
Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.
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• Beth Mole
Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin.
Ars Technica
• Jamie John
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
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• Eric Berger
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan
"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."
Ars Technica
• Ryan Whitwam
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.
Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.
Ars Technica
• Beth Mole
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
White House recruits security firms to hack overseas cybercriminals
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.
Ars Technica
• Robert Pearlman
Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?
Ars Technica
• Jeremy Hsu
Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.