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15.06.2026 − 21.06.2026

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

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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Wine 10.0 released, adding Linux compatibility for Arm Windows apps

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 15:25 EDT

Wine compatibility layer is the heart of many Windows app translation projects. Read more ›

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Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs

Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 15:08 EDT

Dismantled Cyber Safety Review Board was investigating Salt Typhoon telecom hack. Read more ›

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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware

Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 14:24 EDT

Samsung somehow packed even more AI into its event, and phones, than last year. Read more ›

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Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 13:06 EDT

Result "challenges existing theories that tie FRB origins to phenomena in star-forming galaxies." Read more ›

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Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 10:20 EDT

Trump: "The largest AI infrastructure project in history, and it's taking place here in America" Read more ›

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The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes

Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 10:10 EDT

Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame. Read more ›

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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence

Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 09:55 EDT

Trump confirmed the pardon was partly to “honor” Libertarian movement. Read more ›

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Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion

George Hammond, Madhumita Murgia, and Arash Massoudi, Financial @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 09:19 EDT

AI group is closing in on a $60 billion valuation. Read more ›

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All the things Nintendo didn’t tell us about the Switch 2

Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 07:00 EDT

Some informed speculation on everything from price to battery life. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 18:21 EDT

Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex? Read more ›

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New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent

Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 17:20 EDT

The cheapest ad-free plan increases from $15.49 to $17.99. Read more ›

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RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately

Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 16:17 EDT

End of 32-bit Windows support put the nail in the coffin. Read more ›

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iOS 18.3, macOS 15.3 updates switch to enabling Apple Intelligence by default

Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 15:33 EDT

Opting out is still possible in Settings, but only after setup is complete. Read more ›

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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 13:28 EDT

DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks. Read more ›

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 13:04 EDT

"We decided to go after one of the big problems." Read more ›

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How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot

Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 12:41 EDT

Particle diameter, height from which they fall through water, and particle volume are key factors. Read more ›

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Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy

Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 11:56 EDT

A roundup of executive orders issued by Trump after his second inauguration. Read more ›

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Southern California wildfires likely outpace ability of wildlife to adapt

Liza Gross, Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 01/21/2025 10:35 EDT

Even species that evolved with wildfires, like mountain lions, are struggling. Read more ›