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The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed

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Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, Gabriel Geiger, WIRED.co @ Ars Technica 2 place · 06/20/2026 07:15 EDT

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. Read more ›

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Can public trust in science survive a second battering?

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Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine @ Ars Technica · 02/18/2025 09:35 EDT

Public trust in science has shown a certain resiliency, but it is being tested like never before. Read more ›

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Review: Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 tablet takes the asterisk off integrated GPUs

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/18/2025 09:00 EDT

Performance like an RTX 4060, but it's packed into a slightly heavy Surface-like. Read more ›

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Turning the Moon into a fuel depot will take a lot of power

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica 3 place · 02/17/2025 16:33 EDT

Getting oxygen from regolith takes 24 kWh per kilogram, and we'd need tonnes. Read more ›

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“NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE” merges Windows Phone body with budget iPhone guts

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/17/2025 15:00 EDT

Maybe Hack-iPhoning is the next wave to replace Hackintoshing. Read more ›

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Privacy-problematic DeepSeek pulled from app stores in South Korea

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Lee Hutchinson @ Ars Technica 2 place · 02/17/2025 11:31 EDT

DeepSeek acknowledges it may have "partially neglected" South Korea's laws. Read more ›

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Despite court orders, climate and energy programs stalled by Trump freeze

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Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, and Nicholas Kusnetz @ Ars Technica 3 place · 02/17/2025 11:05 EDT

Chief of the EPA is also trying to claw back $20 billion, citing alleged wrongdoing. Read more ›

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X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/17/2025 10:49 EDT

Signal has recently become a popular organizing tool among government workers. Read more ›

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NASA nominee previews his vision for the agency: Mars, hard work, inspiration

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/17/2025 10:39 EDT

Jared Isaacman says NASA should invest a "reasonable amount of resources" in Mars. Read more ›

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Protesters demonstrate outside Tesla showrooms in US

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Claire Bushey and Kieran Smith, Financial Times @ Ars Technica 2 place · 02/17/2025 09:36 EDT

CEO Elon Musk the focus of outrage over indiscriminate Trump administration cuts in funding. Read more ›

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Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help.

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 02/17/2025 06:00 EDT

Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous. Read more ›

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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history

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Knowable Magazine @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/16/2025 07:03 EDT

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far side Read more ›

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Trump has thrown a wrench into a national EV charging program

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Lee Hedgepeth, Aman Azhar, Jake Bolster, Lisa Sorg, Sarah Mattal @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/15/2025 07:07 EDT

Electric charging projects have been thrown into chaos by the administration's directive. Read more ›

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How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica 2 place · 02/15/2025 06:45 EDT

Investigators decompiled the game to search through 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds. Read more ›

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Hyundai’s NACS adapter for EVs will be free to all existing owners

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/14/2025 18:54 EDT

Existing Hyundai EV owners will just need their VIN to claim their free adapter. Read more ›

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“The country is less safe”: CDC disease detective program gutted

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/14/2025 17:41 EDT

CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service is as critical to public health as it is revered. Read more ›

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ChatGPT can now write erotica as OpenAI eases up on AI paternalism

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 16:44 EDT

ChatGPT relaxes rules on sex and "gore" generations while prohibiting illegal content. Read more ›

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Louisiana officially ends mass vaccinations as RFK Jr. comes to power

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 3 place · 02/14/2025 16:30 EDT

Staff reported a pullback from vaccines late last year, but nothing was in writing. Read more ›

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Russian spies use device code phishing to hijack Microsoft accounts

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 16:16 EDT

Overlooked attack method used since last August in a rash of account takeovers. Read more ›

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No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 16:03 EDT

Government agents have "qualified immunity" for 2019 actions. Read more ›

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Measles outbreak in undervaccinated Texas area doubles—again

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/14/2025 15:04 EDT

The outbreak now spans four counties. Read more ›

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