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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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Spotify’s second price hike in 9 months will target audiobook listeners

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 17:50 EDT

Bloomberg report claims price hike coming to Australia, Pakistan, and the UK first. Read more ›

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How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 16:26 EDT

The story that just keeps getting worse. Read more ›

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Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 16:08 EDT

Victim was jailed for 428 days after LA cops failed to detect true identity. Read more ›

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Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 15:56 EDT

Left-Shift + Windows key + F23 Read more ›

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The best robot to search for life could look like a snake

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 15:45 EDT

Snaking into the ice on Enceladus might work better than drilling through it. Read more ›

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With payload questions, it’s likely Vulcan will not launch again until fall

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 15:28 EDT

United Launch Alliance may seek certification from the Space Force after one flight. Read more ›

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The chemistry of milk washing, aka the secret to Ben Franklin’s favorite tipple

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 15:10 EDT

Bonus: a twist on the espresso martini, with peanut butter-washed vodka, coffee, and milk curd. Read more ›

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AI hype invades Taco Bell and Pizza Hut

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 14:59 EDT

Everything is suddenly "AI" in corporate food marketing, and we may have hit peak buzz. Read more ›

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Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 14:51 EDT

Summer 2023 intrusion pinned to corporate culture, "avoidable errors." Read more ›

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Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 13:24 EDT

FCC sets April 25 vote to restore net neutrality rules repealed under Ajit Pai. Read more ›

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Amazon kills “Just Walk Out” shopping tech—it never really worked

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Ron Amadeo @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/03/2024 12:55 EDT

"AI" checkout was actually powered by 1,000 human video reviewers in India. Read more ›

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TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 12:06 EDT

TSMC makes most high-end chips for Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others. Read more ›

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X’s new head of safety must toe Elon Musk’s line where others failed

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 11:37 EDT

X also announced a new head of brand safety, hoping to woo back advertisers. Read more ›

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George Carlin estate forces “AI Carlin” off the Internet for good

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 11:17 EDT

Settlement bars Dudesy podcast from re-uploading its ersatz Carlin comedy special. Read more ›

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Quantum error correction used to actually correct errors

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 11:08 EDT

Microsoft and Quantinuum correct problems when entangling pairs of qubits. Read more ›

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Clinical trial will attempt growing new liver from lymph node

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WIRED @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 09:55 EDT

With donor livers perpetually in short supply, growing them may be the answer. Read more ›

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The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2024 07:30 EDT

People are more like AI language models than you might think. Here are some prompting tips. Read more ›

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Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2024 19:59 EDT

Outage occurs on same day as special election, but elections offices remain open. Read more ›

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X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2024 16:42 EDT

Musk’s attempt to venue-shop Media Matters lawsuit is not likely to end well. Read more ›

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Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2024 16:14 EDT

Artists say AI will "set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work." Read more ›

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