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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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Punch-Out’s Mike Tyson has been defeated in under two minutes for the first time

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/09/2025 15:54 EDT

After 75K attempts over five years, Summoning Salt says he's hanging up the virtual gloves. Read more ›

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Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program

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Aarian Marshall, wired.com @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/08/2025 07:01 EDT

DOT orders states to halt plans to build federally funded EV stations. Read more ›

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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica 1 place · 02/07/2025 19:17 EDT

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on. Read more ›

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The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica 3 place · 02/07/2025 18:02 EDT

Opinion: EA might be done with single-player games—but we're not. Read more ›

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Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica 2 place · 02/07/2025 17:07 EDT

The White House has not made a final decision yet on the large rocket. Read more ›

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Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 2 place · 02/07/2025 16:51 EDT

9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come. Read more ›

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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 16:10 EDT

WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery. Read more ›

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Football Manager 25 canceled in a refreshing show of concern for quality

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 14:47 EDT

Developer's big overhaul of long-running franchise is a brave, long process. Read more ›

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DOGE can’t use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 14:23 EDT

Students don't want loan data used in AI probe to slash DOE, according to lawsuit. Read more ›

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UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 13:40 EDT

Apple last year opposed UK's secret notices demanding encryption backdoors. Read more ›

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Donkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 13:01 EDT

New method exploits a ladder-climbing glitch, emulator tools, and a bit of luck. Read more ›

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The EV transition hits some snags at Porsche and Audi

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 12:47 EDT

Audi upends its naming scheme (again), and Porsche plans more engines. Read more ›

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Return of the California Condor

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Ivan Cárrillo, Knowable Magazine @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 10:08 EDT

North America’s largest bird disappeared from the wild in the late 1980s. Read more ›

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Report: iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design “as early as next week”

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 08:18 EDT

New budget phone may include bigger screen, USB-C, Face ID, Apple Intelligence. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 02/07/2025 07:00 EDT

Vast's schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious. Read more ›

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Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/06/2025 18:04 EDT

Users can access thumbsticks, shoulder buttons while sliding Joy-Cons on a flat surface. Read more ›

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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 02/06/2025 17:38 EDT

"This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China." Read more ›

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DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 02/06/2025 17:06 EDT

Apple's defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled. Read more ›

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Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 3 place · 02/06/2025 16:26 EDT

Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case. Read more ›

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ChatGPT comes to 500,000 new users in OpenAI’s largest AI education deal yet

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/06/2025 16:04 EDT

Still banned at some schools, ChatGPT gains an official role at California State University. Read more ›

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