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Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 07/25/2025 08:41 EDT

China's Space Pioneer seems to be back on track a year after an accidental launch. Read more ›

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Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket

Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 07/25/2025 07:30 EDT

Eliminating the Block 1B upgrade now would save NASA at least $500 million per year. Read more ›

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 17:01 EDT

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini. Read more ›

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Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”

Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 16:25 EDT

Criminals who get caught are, unsurprisingly, not always great at opsec. Read more ›

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Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results

Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 15:51 EDT

The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today. Read more ›

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Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 15:37 EDT

"TikTok is going to go dark," commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter. Read more ›

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Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 14:21 EDT

Trump plans to use chatbots to eliminate dissent, senator alleged. Read more ›

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Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

Zijing Wu and Eleanor Olcott, Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 14:11 EDT

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing’s high-tech ambitions. Read more ›

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 14:01 EDT

"Some people just don't learn from experience; they fail to realize their own behavior is causing the problem." Read more ›

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Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches

Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 13:51 EDT

Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says. Read more ›

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Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 13:40 EDT

Dozens of games deleted with no advance notice, thousands more hidden by "deindexing." Read more ›

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Six lesser-known features to like in the macOS 26 Tahoe public beta

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 13:20 EDT

Here are some things you can kick the tires on if you install the public beta. Read more ›

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iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 13:18 EDT

Public beta arrives today; here’s what we’ve found in our weeks of testing. Read more ›

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Apple releases public betas of Liquid Glass-ified next-gen software updates

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 13:17 EDT

These versions are still betas, but they should be mostly OK for day-to-day use. Read more ›

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RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”

Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 12:58 EDT

The group wants a task force that no health secretary has set up since 1998. Read more ›

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White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 10:37 EDT

Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback. Read more ›

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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 07/24/2025 08:12 EDT

"This is going to really help us understand how to predict space weather in the magnetosphere." Read more ›

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OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 07/23/2025 17:34 EDT

"Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project." Read more ›

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Tesla Q2 2025: Sell fewer cars and carbon credits, make less money

Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 07/23/2025 17:11 EDT

Tesla remains profitable, but the headwinds don't look good. Read more ›