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DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 11/24/2025 16:17 EDT

Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated. Read more ›

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Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 15:37 EDT

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips. Read more ›

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Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 14:28 EDT

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues. Read more ›

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The Analogue 3D is the modern N64 fans have been waiting for

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 13:38 EDT

Excellent design and display filters, but the lack of OpenFPGA support rankles. Read more ›

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Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds

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Joel Khalili @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 13:37 EDT

Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k Read more ›

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Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica 1 place · 11/18/2025 11:32 EDT

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears. Read more ›

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Google unveils Gemini 3 AI model and AI-first IDE called Antigravity

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 11:08 EDT

Google's flagship AI model is getting its second major upgrade this year. Read more ›

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Ryan Gosling must save dying stars in Project Hail Mary trailer

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 10:25 EDT

"The consensus here is that it would be preferable if you did not die." Read more ›

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Tesla safety driver falls asleep during passenger’s robotaxi ride

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 10:10 EDT

A Reddit user posted video of his safety driver sleeping at the wheel in San Fransisco. Read more ›

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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 11/18/2025 10:03 EDT

Cloudflare is down, causing many websites and big platforms to go dark. Read more ›

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Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 18:15 EDT

It's a "violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research." Read more ›

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With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 17:50 EDT

He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesn't hold a CEO title at Blue Origin. Read more ›

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5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 17:20 EDT

Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US. Read more ›

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UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 17:08 EDT

Government can't use funding threats to override the First Amendment. Read more ›

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Judge smacks down Texas AG’s request to immediately block Tylenol ads

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 14:50 EDT

The Texas lawsuit hinges on the unproven claim that Tylenol causes autism. Read more ›

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After last week’s stunning landing, here’s what comes next for Blue Origin

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 14:19 EDT

"There's never been such a high demand for launch as there is right now." Read more ›

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Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro “on the back burner”

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 12:59 EDT

Mac Pro was last updated in mid-2023, one of the last Macs to switch from Intel. Read more ›

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Benoit Blanc takes on a “perfectly impossible crime” in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 12:48 EDT

"I'm incapable of not solving a crime. You'll see. It's fun!" Read more ›

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Fans’ reverse-engineered servers for Sony’s defunct Concord might be in trouble

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 12:34 EDT

"Concord Delta" project locks down Discord after YouTube video takedowns. Read more ›

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Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

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Tabby Kinder and George Steer in New York and Rafe Rosner-Uddin @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 11:41 EDT

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts. Read more ›

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Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 11/17/2025 11:24 EDT

Paradox subsidiary Iceflake Studios will take over work on the storied city simulation. Read more ›

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