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Meta hopes SCOTUS piracy ruling will help it beat lawsuit over torrenting AI data

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/30/2026 15:04 EDT

Judge gave authors an easier attack on Meta’s torrenting. Meta hopes SCOTUS ruling will block it. Read more ›

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F1 in Japan: Oh no, what have they done to all the fast corners?

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 03/30/2026 13:22 EDT

F1 cars don't have enough energy in a lap to attack fast corners, and that's bad. Read more ›

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After 16 years and $8 billion, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 03/30/2026 13:11 EDT

"It's a very stressing program. We are still considering how to ensure we move forward." Read more ›

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Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production

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Kiley Price, Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 03/30/2026 09:30 EDT

Administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections. Read more ›

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What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 03/30/2026 08:31 EDT

Rachel Hartigan on her new book, Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life. Read more ›

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Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC

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Rob Pegoraro @ Ars Technica 1 place · 03/29/2026 07:35 EDT

Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC? Read more ›

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Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?

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Sarah Scoles, Undark Magazine @ Ars Technica 2 place · 03/29/2026 07:01 EDT

Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible. Read more ›

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Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica 2 place · 03/28/2026 08:30 EDT

Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen. Read more ›

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Getting formal about quantum mechanics' lack of causality

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica 3 place · 03/28/2026 08:00 EDT

A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters. Read more ›

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How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures

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Gennaro Tomma, Knowable Magazine @ Ars Technica 3 place · 03/28/2026 07:15 EDT

Specially equipped nets can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others. Read more ›

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Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 18:09 EDT

Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges Read more ›

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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 17:53 EDT

Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while. Read more ›

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Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 17:43 EDT

Raw Farm denies link to illnesses while patients keep identifying its products. Read more ›

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Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 17:10 EDT

"Let me see the driver!" Read more ›

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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 16:31 EDT

Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn't mean that it is." Read more ›

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Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 15:49 EDT

“I don’t know”: Department of War fails to justify blacklisting Anthropic. Read more ›

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DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 12:24 EDT

Hackers claimed the attack was retaliation after Patel vowed to "hunt" them. Read more ›

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Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 11:57 EDT

Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive. Read more ›

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No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 11:42 EDT

"It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football." Read more ›

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Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 03/27/2026 10:47 EDT

M2 Ultra Mac Pro is no longer for sale, and Apple says no replacement is planned. Read more ›

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