Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025 (arstechnica.com)
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)
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No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators (arstechnica.com)
“Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community that it largely enraged over recent weeks…But as you might expect, mods remain skeptical.”
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)
A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an “amnesty window” in which they could give up grants without penalty....
8BitDo’s $100 wireless mechanical keyboard screams ’80s NES (arstechnica.com)
Backblaze probes increased annualized failure rate for its 240,940 HDDs (arstechnica.com)
Lifetime AFRs grew, while quarterly AFRs went from 1.54% in Q1 to 2.28% in Q2.
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to your Android device. It...
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
It looks like Google’s long-running project to split up ChromeOS and its Chrome browser will be shipping out to the masses soon. Kevin Tofel’s About Chromebooks has spotted flags that turn on the feature by default for ChromeOS 116 and up. 116 is currently in beta and should be live in the stable channel sometime this month....
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
Ryugu asteroid samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed (arstechnica.com)
When JAXA’s Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us?...
Samsung makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 official (arstechnica.com)
I haven’t shopped for a new phone for a while but I have to admit I’m eyeing the new foldables from an accessibility standpoint. I really miss the mechanical keyboards that used to be available on every phone. In the absence of that, I’d love to have the option of a full-screen keyboard on one side and still being able to...
Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A federal court on Saturday quashed a subpoena demanding users' names and other identifying details, agreeing with Reddit's argument that the film companies' demands violate the First Amendment....
Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition (arstechnica.com)
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Apple will require app devs to explain exactly why they use certain APIs (arstechnica.com)
Some seemingly innocuous APIs are misused to track users, Apple says.
End of the line for Russia and Ukraine’s partnership in rocketry (arstechnica.com)
A last gasp in a long-standing link between Russia and Ukraine in the field of rocketry could come this week in an unlikely place—the rural wetlands of eastern Virginia—halfway around the world from the battlefields where the nations' military forces are locked in a deadly conflict....
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
The Browser Company’s unconventional browser, Arc, releases publicly on Mac (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, The Browser Company made its unusual new web browser, Arc, widely available on desktop for the first time....
