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Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law

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Boone Ashworth, WIRED.com @ Ars Technica 3 place · 04/04/2026 16:36 EDT

A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades. Read more ›

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Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/03/2026 19:19 EDT

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year. Read more ›

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Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica 3 place · 04/03/2026 18:55 EDT

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways." Read more ›

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As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 18:20 EDT

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature. Read more ›

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Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 17:17 EDT

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports. Read more ›

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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 17:06 EDT

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers. Read more ›

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Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 16:43 EDT

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure. Read more ›

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OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 16:30 EDT

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access. Read more ›

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Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 13:41 EDT

Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices. Read more ›

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EV adoption in America: Who's winning, who's losing?

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 11:00 EDT

Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines. Read more ›

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OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

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George Hammond, Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 04/03/2026 09:35 EDT

OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent. Read more ›

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Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 22:17 EDT

“I don’t think we could be more pleased." Read more ›

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Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 16:54 EDT

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue. Read more ›

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SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 16:32 EDT

Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites. Read more ›

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Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 15:58 EDT

Google Vids brings together Google's most capable AI creation tools. Read more ›

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Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 15:48 EDT

A receptor that's used to find prey is also activated by progesterone. Read more ›

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New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 14:00 EDT

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition. Read more ›

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Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 13:00 EDT

And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables. Read more ›

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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 13:00 EDT

Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU. Read more ›

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Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 04/02/2026 12:01 EDT

Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year. Read more ›

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