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April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica 1 place · 11/18/2024 11:41 EDT

You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top. Read more ›

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Europe’s ambitious satellite Internet project appears to be running into trouble

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 05/01/2024 10:43 EDT

The devil, as always, is in the details. Read more ›

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AI video throwdown: OpenAI’s Sora vs. Runway and Pika

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Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 05/01/2024 10:23 EDT

Workers in animation, advertising, and real estate test rival AI systems. Read more ›

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Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we’ve never seen it before

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 05/01/2024 08:00 EDT

Webb delivers with a new look on an iconic classic. Read more ›

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CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 05/01/2024 07:00 EDT

Yet again, CenturyLink failed to fix a long outage until Ars emailed the company. Read more ›

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Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 21:30 EDT

SES is buying Intelsat, the world's first commercial satellite operator, for $3.1 billion. Read more ›

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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 17:52 EDT

145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016. Read more ›

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DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 17:16 EDT

Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3. Read more ›

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The iPhone’s next AAA game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, gets a release date

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 17:16 EDT

The game launched on consoles and PC months ago. Read more ›

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Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 16:55 EDT

US prosecutors sought 3-year sentence for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Read more ›

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Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 16:44 EDT

Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market. Read more ›

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Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 16:11 EDT

Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills. Read more ›

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AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 15:43 EDT

Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode." Read more ›

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Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 15:31 EDT

Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing. Read more ›

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Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 14:58 EDT

If your iPhone hasn't been waking you up lately, you're not alone. Read more ›

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FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 14:52 EDT

“Deceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health." Read more ›

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EU probes Meta for killing tool that enables real-time election monitoring

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 14:24 EDT

EU probes Facebook/Instagram owner for possible Digital Services Act violations. Read more ›

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Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 14:17 EDT

The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google. Read more ›

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Behind the wheel of CXC’s $600,000 off-road racing simulator

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Ars Contributors @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 13:20 EDT

CXC Simulations wanted to build something special for a cruise liner. Read more ›

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“Forgotten” poem by C.S. Lewis published for the first time

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 11:53 EDT

"Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg" (1935) was among documents sold to the University of Leeds 10 years ago. Read more ›

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Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab

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Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 04/30/2024 10:16 EDT

At least 36 former Googlers now work on AI for Apple. Read more ›

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