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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

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Kiona N. Smith @ Ars Technica 2 place · 06/06/2026 07:15 EDT

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem? Read more ›

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Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 18:40 EDT

The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon. Read more ›

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Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 17:49 EDT

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes. Read more ›

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Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 17:03 EDT

Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons. Read more ›

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Google's new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 14:56 EDT

This could make it easier to plug AI into Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product. Read more ›

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Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 14:41 EDT

The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits. Read more ›

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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 14:00 EDT

The binary asteroid's orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact. Read more ›

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How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 13:33 EDT

Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others. Read more ›

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Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 13:21 EDT

Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from. Read more ›

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Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 12:15 EDT

RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more. Read more ›

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Climate change sucks, but at least it won't kill your EV battery

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 11:37 EDT

Older EVs, but not newer ones, may lose up to 30 percent range in a warming world. Read more ›

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Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps

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Zeyi Yang, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 11:22 EDT

Move comes in the wake of TikTok's transfer of US operations. Read more ›

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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 10:41 EDT

Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune. Read more ›

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With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 10:20 EDT

"We will challenge every requirement, clear every obstacle, delete every blocker." Read more ›

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Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

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Federica Sgorbissa @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 09:23 EDT

A new hypothesis proposes that our ancestors lost their eyes, then rebuilt them. Read more ›

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Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 07:20 EDT

Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds. Read more ›

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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

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Cyrus Farivar @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 07:10 EDT

Hayden AI also claims co-founder improperly sold over $1.2M in stock. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 07:00 EDT

It looks like United Launch Alliance will build more upper stages for NASA's SLS rocket. Read more ›

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Which of these two arcades is the "world largest"—and does it matter?

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Tim Stevens @ Ars Technica · 03/06/2026 07:00 EDT

While semantics count for some, gamers win either way. Read more ›

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 03/05/2026 18:36 EDT

Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy. Read more ›

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MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 03/05/2026 16:39 EDT

Project Helix is set to open the closed-console ecosystem, but the details will matter. Read more ›

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