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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

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Joshua Cohen, Undark Magazine @ Ars Technica 1 place · 07/18/2026 07:18 EDT

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions. Read more ›

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2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 15:46 EDT

Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station. Read more ›

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Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 15:28 EDT

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals. Read more ›

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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 15:18 EDT

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools. Read more ›

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We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 14:00 EDT

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind. Read more ›

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OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 12:29 EDT

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it's already released. Read more ›

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Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 12:19 EDT

"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation." Read more ›

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Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

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Martha Muir in New York @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 11:48 EDT

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century. Read more ›

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Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 10:48 EDT

NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD. Read more ›

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Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

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Jeremy Hsu @ Ars Technica · 07/16/2026 07:00 EDT

Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative. Read more ›

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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 18:36 EDT

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining. Read more ›

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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

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Robert Pearlman @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 18:10 EDT

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records. Read more ›

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Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 17:41 EDT

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead. Read more ›

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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 17:26 EDT

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations. Read more ›

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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 17:04 EDT

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system. Read more ›

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Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 15:59 EDT

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions. Read more ›

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FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 14:52 EDT

FCC chairman claims power to repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress. Read more ›

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In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 14:39 EDT

The actor, who starred in 1993's Jurassic Park, died Monday in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 78. Read more ›

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Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 12:55 EDT

With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies. Read more ›

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OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 12:00 EDT

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance. Read more ›

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A most improbable astronaut just went to space

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 07/15/2026 07:30 EDT

"I pretty much, at that point in time, gave up on being an astronaut." Read more ›

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