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Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 01/23/2025 07:00 EDT

Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads. Read more ›

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NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to “report” violations

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 18:04 EDT

"Failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences." Read more ›

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Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 16:49 EDT

High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man's was over 1,000 mg/dL. Read more ›

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Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 16:16 EDT

Apple fails to argue sexual harassment claim was just about a seating preference. Read more ›

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Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 15:59 EDT

Hundreds of Reddit communities are currently considering disallowing X. Read more ›

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Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 01/22/2025 15:33 EDT

Amodei: "I think progress really is as fast as people think it is." Read more ›

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Wine 10.0 released, adding Linux compatibility for Arm Windows apps

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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