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Spotify seeks $300M from Anna's Archive, which ignores all court proceedings

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 17:27 EDT

Even with court orders, music firms struggle to eliminate notorious shadow library. Read more ›

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Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of "anonymous" crime tips

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 17:04 EDT

Ultra-sensitive data may have been hacked. Read more ›

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As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 16:46 EDT

Wednesday was the deadline to nominate a new director. Read more ›

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Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 16:30 EDT

Netflix last raised prices in January 2025. Read more ›

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You've got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 15:06 EDT

From Audis to Teslas, there's a lot available in this price range. Read more ›

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Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 14:14 EDT

Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts. Read more ›

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The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you're talking to a robot

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 13:44 EDT

Google's new conversational audio AI is rolling out in search, Gemini, and developer tools today. Read more ›

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Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 12:46 EDT

Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Read more ›

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OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 12:21 EDT

Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity. Read more ›

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Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer

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Kiona N. Smith @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 11:17 EDT

This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale. Read more ›

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The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X

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Tim Stevens @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 10:56 EDT

The mid-engined Corvette gets a new variant. Read more ›

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2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West

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Alejandro N. Flores, The Conversation @ Ars Technica · 03/26/2026 09:52 EDT

For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came. Read more ›

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BRINC's new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph

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Cyrus Farivar @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 17:12 EDT

Company calls Guardian the "most capable 911 response drone ever.” Read more ›

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Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 16:21 EDT

Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago. Read more ›

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Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 16:04 EDT

AI-generated content is still acceptable for now. Read more ›

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We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 15:21 EDT

"It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things." Read more ›

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Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 15:03 EDT

Meta emerges as the biggest loser as second child safety trial verdict hits. Read more ›

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Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 14:57 EDT

The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy. Read more ›

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Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 14:25 EDT

Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case. Read more ›

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Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 03/25/2026 13:59 EDT

TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods. Read more ›

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