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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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HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 17:15 EDT

HMD will still make Nokia phones but is shipping self-branded phones, too. Read more ›

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Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 16:55 EDT

OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally. Read more ›

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Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 15:31 EDT

Preservationists propose access limits, but industry worries about a free "online arcade." Read more ›

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, overhauls its installation and app experience

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 14:59 EDT

Plus Raspberry Pi 5 support, better laptop power, and lots of other changes. Read more ›

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Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 14:49 EDT

Ability of PlugX worm to live on presents a vexing dilemma: Delete it or leave it be. Read more ›

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Toyota will spend $1.4 billion to build electric 3-row SUV in Indiana

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 13:49 EDT

This is a different new 3-row EV from the one Toyota will build in Kentucky. Read more ›

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Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica 1 place · 04/25/2024 13:33 EDT

Various imaging methods comprised a kind of "bionic eye" to examine charred scroll. Read more ›

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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 13:12 EDT

Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality." Read more ›

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Honda to spend $11 billion on four EV factories in North America

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 12:33 EDT

The new facilities are in addition to the previously announced EV hub in Ohio. Read more ›

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School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica 3 place · 04/25/2024 11:30 EDT

Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments. Read more ›

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EPA issues four rules limiting pollution from fossil fuel power plants

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 11:07 EDT

Coal to be hit hard, natural gas plants will have to capture carbon emissions. Read more ›

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Garry’s Mod is taking down 20 years’ worth of “Nintendo Stuff”

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 10:11 EDT

Creator: "They don't want you playing with that stuff... we have to respect that." Read more ›

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In the face of bans, ByteDance tightens grip over US TikTok operations

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Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 09:53 EDT

Relationship between TikTok, ByteDance deepens as tensions over the app’s ownership escalate. Read more ›

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If Starship is real, we’re going to need big cargo movers on the Moon and Mars

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 09:28 EDT

"I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door." Read more ›

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Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apple’s M3

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 08:26 EDT

Same NPU, same architecture as X Elite, but fewer cores and lower clock speeds. Read more ›

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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

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Ars Contributors @ Ars Technica · 04/25/2024 07:00 EDT

Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best. Read more ›

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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 04/24/2024 18:18 EDT

Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial." Read more ›

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A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica · 04/24/2024 17:41 EDT

Polestar normally makes electric cars, but now it's releasing a phone. Read more ›

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We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/24/2024 17:10 EDT

Not all gamma-ray bursts come from supernovae. Read more ›

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Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/24/2024 16:55 EDT

Perimeter devices ought to prevent network hacks. Why are so many devices allowing attacks? Read more ›

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