Google removes fake Signal and Telegram apps hosted on Play (arstechnica.com)
Before linking an account, be sure the app you're using is legit.
New Roomba combo bots have swappable dust and water tanks | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Federal health dept. says marijuana should be downgraded to Schedule 3 drug (arstechnica.com)
If DEA accepts HHS's rescheduling recommendation, it could ease marijuana access.
AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine (arstechnica.com)
Hacker gains admin control of Sourcegraph and gives free access to the masses (arstechnica.com)
We've said it before; we'll say it again: Don't put credentials in publicly available code.
X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2168693...
Volition (Saints Row developer) shuts down (arstechnica.com)
There goes my dream of an Agents of Mayhem sequel.
Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months (arstechnica.com)
Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo (arstechnica.com)
There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. “Space is big,” he writes. “You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to...
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network (arstechnica.com)
DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Aww … poor little ISPs.
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
Non-gas giant has 73 times Earth’s mass, bewildering its discoverers (arstechnica.com)
Scientists have been working on models of planet formation since before we knew exoplanets existed. Originally guided by the properties of the planets in our Solar System, these models turned out to be remarkably good at also accounting for exoplanets without an equivalent in our Solar System, like super Earths and hot Neptunes....
iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it (arstechnica.com)
McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the...
Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support (arstechnica.com)
The Fairphone 5 is not for sale in the US. Europeans, though, can get the device for 699 euros (~$753), with preorders starting today and a ship date of September 14. For the basic specs, we have a mid-range loadout, starting with a 6.46-inch, 90 Hz, 2770×1224 OLED display. There’s 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a side...
Barracuda thought it drove 0-day hackers out of customers’ networks. It was wrong. (arstechnica.com)
Sports leagues ask US for “instantaneous” DMCA takedowns and website blocking (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2074056...
IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes (arstechnica.com)
CenturyLink left 86-year-old woman with no Internet service for a month (arstechnica.com)
The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction (arstechnica.com)
The 10 drugs up for Medicare price negotiation have seen steep price hikes (arstechnica.com)
Astronomers eavesdrop on stars’ innate “twinkle” (arstechnica.com)
Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)
It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.