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This browser claims “perfect privacies protection,” but it acts like malware

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Matt Burgess, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 10/24/2025 10:37 EDT

Researchers note links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks. Read more ›

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Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/24/2025 10:18 EDT

"Now it looks like the White House is physically being destroyed." Read more ›

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Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 10/24/2025 07:00 EDT

A South Korean rocket startup will soon make its first attempt to reach low-Earth orbit. Read more ›

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With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 18:08 EDT

The acquired firm was working on a tool to control macOS directly with AI. Read more ›

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Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 17:54 EDT

Scraper accused of stealing Reddit content "shocked" by lawsuit. Read more ›

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Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 17:20 EDT

Models trained on short, popular, and/or "superficial" tweets perform worse on benchmarks. Read more ›

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Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 16:57 EDT

Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous. Read more ›

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An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 15:58 EDT

The NTP produced controversial studies on cellphone radiation and fluoride. Read more ›

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Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 14:48 EDT

"Mico" literally tries to put a face on Microsoft's chatbot-turned-assistant. Read more ›

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The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters

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Kiona N. Smith @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 13:04 EDT

Europeans weren't the first people to collect fossils in Australia. Read more ›

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Valve upends the CS2 item marketplace with new “trade up” update

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 12:40 EDT

Once rare $14K knife now sells for $7K, some common guns jump from $10 to over $100. Read more ›

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Great hybrid V6, lousy HMI: Three days with a Ferrari 296 GTB

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 12:25 EDT

Three days with a car revealed its character in more ways than one. Read more ›

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Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 11:33 EDT

Some quantum computing firms seem optimistic about Trump's proposed deals. Read more ›

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Reports suggest Apple is already pulling back on the iPhone Air

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica 2 place · 10/23/2025 11:04 EDT

New phone design compromises on camera and battery to achieve a lighter weight. Read more ›

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An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 09:58 EDT

"The ways of your kind are ones of violence. Either you are hunted or you become the hunter." Read more ›

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Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines

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Sebastien Ash and Kana Inagaki, Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 09:42 EDT

China weakness, US tariffs, and disappointing uptake of battery vehicles lurk in background. Read more ›

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Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian

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Robert Pearlman @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 07:30 EDT

"This is the dumbest plan I've ever heard in nearly five years in the United States Senate." Read more ›

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California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 07:15 EDT

"All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist." Read more ›

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We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/23/2025 07:00 EDT

From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks. Read more ›

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Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 10/22/2025 18:35 EDT

At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure. Read more ›

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