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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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US‘s wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 15:57 EDT

Utility-scale solar generation is up by over 30% amid future uncertainties. Read more ›

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Alien: Earth will bring the horror home

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 14:56 EDT

The prequel series is set a couple of years before the events of the original 1979 film, Alien. Read more ›

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Trump may leave TikTok’s algorithm under ByteDance’s control

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 14:39 EDT

Everything insiders are saying about Trump’s plan to save TikTok. Read more ›

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A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 13:36 EDT

"We loved VMware, and then when Broadcom bought ‘em, we hated ‘em.” Read more ›

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Mazda celebrates 35 years of the MX-5 with anniversary model

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 12:19 EDT

The MX-5 is the perfect antidote to all those big SUVs. Read more ›

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DeepSeek panic triggers tech stock sell-off as Chinese AI tops App Store

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica 2 place · 01/27/2025 11:29 EDT

A new Chinese AI app is sparking existential panic in American AI companies and investors. Read more ›

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With successful New Glenn flight, Blue Origin may finally be turning the corner

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 07:00 EDT

"This is the very beginning of the Space Age." Read more ›

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Jeep’s first battery EV is not what we expected: the 2024 Wagoneer S

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Michael Teo Van Runkle @ Ars Technica · 01/27/2025 00:01 EDT

Drag optimization means it's very quiet inside, but it's also quite expensive. Read more ›

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3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica 1 place · 01/24/2025 18:05 EDT

3D-printed gun parts are worth real money on the black market. Read more ›

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WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 1 place · 01/24/2025 17:27 EDT

The US is currently the WHO's biggest funder, contributing about 18% of its budget. Read more ›

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Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica 2 place · 01/24/2025 17:13 EDT

Nvidia last dropped Game Ready driver support for older GPUs in 2021. Read more ›

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Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica 2 place · 01/24/2025 16:05 EDT

New feature allows Claude to reference source documents and reduce hallucinations. Read more ›

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Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica 2 place · 01/24/2025 15:12 EDT

FBI claims GameOn founder forged six years of financial records in brazen scheme. Read more ›

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Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica 1 place · 01/24/2025 13:02 EDT

Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches. Read more ›

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For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica 2 place · 01/24/2025 11:43 EDT

Blood pressure readings while lying down beat seated readings at predicting heart risks. Read more ›

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ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 01/24/2025 11:42 EDT

Optimum wasn't ready to comply with law, rejected low-income man's request twice. Read more ›

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 01/24/2025 11:28 EDT

Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU. Read more ›

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Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 01/24/2025 10:51 EDT

A new approach to simulating the electrons of small molecules like catalysts. Read more ›

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Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws

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Andy Greenberg, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 01/24/2025 09:28 EDT

Flaws also allowed access to one year of location history. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Did China’s reusable rocket work?; DOT may review SpaceX fines

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 01/24/2025 07:00 EDT

Rocket Lab announced it will soon launch a batch of eight German-owned wildfire detection satellites. Read more ›

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