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Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 10/17/2025 07:00 EDT

Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week. Read more ›

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Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 10/17/2025 06:30 EDT

Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification. Read more ›

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RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 18:41 EDT

It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory. Read more ›

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Microsoft’s vision for AI PCs looks a lot like another crack at Cortana

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 17:12 EDT

Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input. Read more ›

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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 16:40 EDT

Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns. Read more ›

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Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 16:25 EDT

Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman. Read more ›

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OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 16:05 EDT

Does your phone even have a Mind Space? Read more ›

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Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren’t “innocent grandmothers”

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 15:50 EDT

Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages. Read more ›

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Apple TV and Peacock bundle starts at $15/month, available on Oct. 20

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 15:18 EDT

The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately. Read more ›

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Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 12:48 EDT

UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod. Read more ›

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OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 12:32 EDT

“Cutthroat” OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics. Read more ›

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SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 11:40 EDT

There's no big rush to bring SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base. Read more ›

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Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

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Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 10:19 EDT

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole. Read more ›

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Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 10/16/2025 07:00 EDT

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand. Read more ›

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Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 10/15/2025 17:31 EDT

"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me." Read more ›

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Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 10/15/2025 16:30 EDT

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. Read more ›

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Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/15/2025 16:22 EDT

"We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy." Read more ›

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Breach of F5 requires “emergency action” from BIG-IP users, feds warn

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 10/15/2025 16:05 EDT

Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits. Read more ›

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CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 3 place · 10/15/2025 15:23 EDT

Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says. Read more ›

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Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 10/15/2025 14:53 EDT

Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4. Read more ›

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