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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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Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 14:31 EDT

Bid from man tortured by trashed bitcoins seems unlikely to sway city council. Read more ›

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Asahi Linux lead resigns from Mac-based distro after tumultuous kernel debate

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 14:04 EDT

Hector Martin cites burnout, and Rust for Linux oppostion, in resigning. Read more ›

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After 50 years, Ars staffers pick their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 13:53 EDT

"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball." Read more ›

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Nvidia and AMD both plan to launch more affordable GPUs in February and March

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 12:01 EDT

Will the GeForce RTX 5070 and Radeon RX 9070 achieve the dream of affordable 4K? Read more ›

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AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 11:47 EDT

Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky. Read more ›

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DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/14/2025 11:24 EDT

DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers. Read more ›

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Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 11:06 EDT

How will Reddit generate content for paid-for subreddits? Read more ›

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After 20% range reduction, I’m waiting for Jaguar to buy my car back

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Eric Bangeman @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 10:51 EDT

Every MY2019 Jaguar I-Pace in the US is being bought back due to a battery defect. Read more ›

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Arm to start making server CPUs in-house

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Matthew Garrahan, Tim Bradshaw, and David Keohane, Financial Tim @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 10:05 EDT

Meta will be one of Arm's first customers. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: A blue mood at Blue; Stoke Space fires a short over the bow

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/14/2025 07:00 EDT

"Rapid turnaround isn’t merely a goal, it’s baked into the design." Read more ›

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H5N1 testing in cow veterinarians suggests bird flu is spreading silently

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 17:55 EDT

The findings suggest transmission and cases are going undetected. Read more ›

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Streaming used to make stuff networks wouldn’t. Now it’s seeking safer bets.

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 15:08 EDT

Opinion: Streaming gets more cable-like with new focus on live events, mainstream content. Read more ›

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Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 14:21 EDT

Publishers sue Cohere, say AI firm is "stealing our works." Read more ›

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Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites digging in her brain

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 14:06 EDT

After three trips to the ER, woman gets diagnosis of dreaded rat lungworm. Read more ›

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Apple teases launch for “the newest member of the family” on February 19

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 13:12 EDT

Most likely to be a new entry-level iPhone, but there are a few possibilities. Read more ›

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Wheel of Time S3 trailer tees us up for Last Battle

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 13:02 EDT

“There’s not enough ale in the world to deal with this.” Read more ›

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Over half of LLM-written news summaries have “significant issues”—BBC analysis

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 12:30 EDT

Frequent problems include mangled quotes, editorializing, and outdated info. Read more ›

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“A sicker America”: Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/13/2025 11:31 EDT

In Senate hearings, Kennedy continued to express anti-vaccine views. Read more ›

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Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 11:08 EDT

GPT-4.5 will arrive in "weeks," then GPT-5 will meld conventional LLMs and reasoning models. Read more ›

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Citing too much “bureaucracy,” Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/13/2025 10:41 EDT

"We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years." Read more ›

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