Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)
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ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast (arstechnica.com)
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)
Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US (arstechnica.com)
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Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony (arstechnica.com)
Archaeologists may have found ruins of fabled entrance to Zapotec underworld (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration for ex-employees (arstechnica.com)
Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws (arstechnica.com)
Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors (arstechnica.com)
Starting in version 1.54, [the browser] Brave will automatically block website port scanning, a practice that a surprisingly large number of sites were found engaging in a few years ago. According to this list compiled in 2021 by a researcher who goes by the handle G666g1e, 744 websites scanned visitors’ ports, most or all...
Twitter gets buggier: Followers don’t display, users restricted in error (arstechnica.com)
Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years (arstechnica.com)
Game is now in "polish phase," though Cloud Imperium Games has no release date.
AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses (arstechnica.com)
Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.
Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing (arstechnica.com)
After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign (arstechnica.com)
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AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company (arstechnica.com)
The "first official Unity user group in the world" has announced that it is dissolving after 13 years because "the trust we used to have in the company has been completely eroded." The move comes as many developers are saying they will continue to stay away from the company's products even after last week's partial rollback of...
TikTok hit with €345 million fine over privacy settings for children (arstechnica.com)
TikTok has been hit with a €345 million EU fine over the way it processes the personal data of children and teenage users, the first handed out by the bloc to the Chinese-owned social media platform.
